November 14, 1976: A year after Copperweld Corp. bitterly fought -- and lost - a takeover by a

November 14, 1976: A year after Copperweld Corp. bitterly fought -- and lost - a takeover by a French holding company, its chairman Phillip H. Smith now believes its new owners were misjudged. Smith says the future of Copperweld and specifically the Warren plant has never been brighter.
Howland High School wins the sweepstakes trophy in the 8th annual Austintown Optimist All Events Tournament.
Can Youngstown - a city accused of having little pride - be sold as a great place to work and live? The Committee for Youngstown plans to spend $100,000 over three years to find out.
November 14, 1961: The Youngstown Transit Co. reports earnings of $8,071 in October, its best return of the year.
One of two gunmen who invaded the Austintown home of trucking executive Emory Sanders wore a policeman's uniform to gain entrance. The bound Sanders to a chair with adhesive tape and ransacked the house looking for a nonexistent cash payroll. They left with just $75.
Comedienne Lucille Ball, 52, whose 20-year marriage to Dezi Arnaz ended in divorce in May 1960, will marry comic Gary Morton.
November 14, 1951: Youngstown City Council gives Mayor Charles Henderson authority to hire 20 more policemen and 30 more firemen as soon as the board of elections certifies the shorter work week ordinances approved by voters Nov. 6.
Youngstown police demonstrate a radar-type precision instrument to measure the speed of moving vehicles for judges and safety directors.
Six outstanding Youngstown College Penguins complete their football careers in a game with the Mount Union Purple Raiders. They are Pete Finamore, Ralph Goldston, John Boliver, Jim Jarvis, Bob Housteau and Felix Rutecki.
November 14, 1926: Youngstown police are investigating a theory that a car found at the bottom of Lake Glacier is the one that killed Thomas Reese of Girard two days earlier and did not stop.
David Robins, manager of the Dome Theater, announces that ground will be broken within a few weeks for the new Warner Brothers theater in West Federal St. near Chestnut.
The YMCA will sponsor four Father-Son banquets in different parts of Youngstown on the same night. A record crowd of dads and sons is expected.
November 15, 1976: The Rev. J.R. Elford, D.D., 64, one of the most highly respected religious leaders in the Mahoning Valley and a senior minister at Trinity United Methodist Church for nearly 25 years, announces his plans to retire.
Youngstown police investigating a burglary in progress at Lincoln School, 1415 Charlotte Ave., capture two 15-year-old youths running from the scene.
For the second time in four years, Cardinal Mooney High School qualifies for the state class AAA football playoff, the Ohio High School Athletic Association announces. Coach Don Bucci's undefeated Cardinals will meet Cincinnati Moeller in Dayton.
November 15, 1961: Mahoning County needs & quot;stricter law enforcement and heavier penalties & quot; to change its position of having the highest insurance rates in the state, says Felix Binder, a special agent for the National Union Insurance Co. Of the 88 counties, Mahoning ranks sixth in total accidents, seventh in fatalities and ninth in total costs to motorists.
Hydrogen sulfide gas leaking from coke ovens at Republic Steel Corp. is believed to have caused & quot;black rain & quot; in the Brownlee Woods and East Side areas, says smoke control engineer Walter I. Rauh.
A 65-acre campus by 1982 with facilities for handling an enrollment of 14,000 students is outlined to the City Planning Commission by H.L. McLean, planning consultant for Youngstown University.
November 15, 1951: The Youngstown YMCA is planning a birthday celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the first & quot;Y & quot; in the United States.
More than 125 Youngstown area residents have volunteered to give blood for the men serving in Korea as the American Red Cross brings its mobile unit to the city.
Trumbull County's all-time record of 49 polio cases is reached in reports filed by the county and city health departments. There were 38 cases in 1950.
November 15, 1926: Five Youngstown firemen and two streetcar passengers are injured at Federal St. and Champion when a fire truck from the No. 1 station crashes into an eastbound Poland Ave. trolley.
Frank Corll, 78, widely known farmer of Cornersburg and uncle of Sheriff-elect Peter J. Corll, is found dead at the bottom of a 40-foot well near a cider press on his son's farm. He had been missing for 12 hours before the body was found.
Clarence J. Strouss, president and general manager of the Stouss-Hirshberg Co., declines the honor of being president of the Chamber of Commerce because of his duties connected to the opening of the company's new store.