March 14, 1977: Doctors and dentist in a four-county Northeastern Ohio district are actively engaged

March 14, 1977: Doctors and dentist in a four-county Northeastern Ohio district are actively engaged in a program to discourage their patients from smoking. The Eastern Ohio Lung Association finds that more than 80 percent of health care practitioners in Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana and Portage counties restrict smoking in their offices.
Burglars enter four Youngstown public school buildings over the weekend, but losses have not been determined. The schools are Madison Elementary, South and North high schools and the Rayen School.
Jewel Ann Wooten, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Wooten and a ninth grader at East High School, wins the oratorical contest sponsored by Buckeye Elks Lodge 73 and Naomi Temple 124.
Edgar B. Speer, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp. urges the U.S. Senate to adopt a 12 percent investment tax credit to encourage capital formation and to create jobs by encouraging construction of new plants such as U.S. Steel's proposed Conneaut complex.
March 14, 1962: The first phase of Youngstown University's redevelopment program will get under way in 1963, says Dr. Howard W. Jones, president of the university. The project will extend over 10 years and cost $7 million to $8 million.
The Ohio Supreme Court rules that the city of Akron is without authority to license boats on city-owned reservoirs.
Edward M. Kennedy, youngest brother of President Kennedy, announces that he will seek election to the Senate seat from Massachusetts that his brother held before being elected president.
March 14, 1952: Staff members of the Youngstown College Library may spend part of their Christmas vacation helping to trundle 70,000 books into the institution's new library building under construction in Bryson St.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Stephen G. Begalla, pastor of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church for more than 20 years, has been named pastor of Holy Name Church.
Advertisement: Treats from McKelvey's bakery on the street floor: Orange cream layer cake, 85 cents; Cherry pie, 50 cents; Apple pie, 48 cents; Black raspberry pie, 60 cents; honey pecan rolls, 75 cents a dozen.
March 14, 1927: Alfred Finore, 3, is scalded to death when he falls into a tub of boiling water in the center of the family's kitchen at 178 Thornhill Road. In Warren, Mary Ellis, 5, dies of burns sustained when she fell into a tub of scalding water at her Depot Street home in Niles.
The prospect of a triple air race across the Atlantic for the Raymond Orteig $25,000 prize looms. Among those preparing for a nonstop flight between New York and Paris are Navy Lt. Commander Noel Davis, Commander Richard E. Byrd who flew to the North Pole and French Ace Rene Fonck.
General Fireproofing common stock is selling again at its previous high of 65 in New York, after having slumped to 60 recently. Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube preferred sells at 108
March 15, 1977: Joseph Pallone, 30, escapes death and serious injury when his car jumps a guard rail on the Mahoning Ave. ramp to Interstate 680 and plunges 125 feet into Mill Creek Park.
Youngstown City Engineer Carmen Conglose asks the Ohio or U.S. environmental protection agency to make a study to determine if city sanitation men are working to maximum efficiency.
Mahoning County commissioners enact the piggyback sales tax, a move that will subject every retail purchase in Mahoning County to a one-half percent surcharge. It is estimated the tax will produce between $1.5 and $2.5 million.
March 15, 1962: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. is cursed and an attempt made to slug him in an encounter with rowdy teen-agers at the church he attends in Arlington, Va., a police report reveals. Glenn restrained his assailant and was not injured.
President Kennedy attends Rep. Michael J. Kirwan's St. Patrick's Party at the National Press Club ballroom. It was the third time Kennedy attended the party, once as a senator and twice as president.
Five members of the Grove City College faculty resign in protest against the college's failure to renew the contract of another faculty member.
Perce M. Kelty, chief photographer for the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., wins the top award in the Professional Photographers of Ohio industrial division in Columbus. The photo shows a white-hot ingot being removed from the Campbell Works soaking pit.
March 15, 1952: Police are holding a suspect and are seeking two other men in the fatal shooting of Arthur Allen, 23, in front of a reputed gambling resort at 304 Walnut St. in Girard.
The U.S. Air Force will decide in a week on locating a $9 million air reserve training center with a staff of up to 450 at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Sheriff's deputies raid a recently opened house of prostitution at 1847 S. Main Ave. Ext. and arrest four women inmates and a woman charged with being the keeper of the house.
March 15, 1927: An 18-year-old Erie St. burglar is captured in the act of entering an A & amp;P store in Oak Hill Ave. He confessed to robbing the Bailey Meat Market on Market St. and poor boxes in a church.
Chief of Police Kedge Powell receives a letter from Mayor Schieble informing him that his resignation, effective April 4, had been received and accepted.
Completing his 10th transatlantic voyage, Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corp., expresses optimism on the outlook for the steel industry in 1927. He says Europeans "were greatly interested in the fact that we have $5 billion invested in the steel industry in the United States and were only getting 5 percent yield on our money." America, he says, will not have to worry about foreign competition in the steel industry.