November 16, 1976: Commercial Shearing Inc. is awarded an $11.2 million contract to fabricate 11,200

November 16, 1976: Commercial Shearing Inc. is awarded an $11.2 million contract to fabricate 11,200 feet of subway tunnel lining for a portion of the Baltimore Regional Rapid Transit System.
Singer Pat Boone shows off his first grandchild in Los Angeles. The baby, Ryan Patrick Corbin, was born to Boone's daughter, Lindy Corbin, and all are reported doing well.
GF Business Equipment is buying a manufacturing facility in Tennessee and announces some production lines will be transferred there from Youngstown.
November 16, 1961: Sam Rayburn of Texas, who served longer as House speaker than any other man, dies of cancer at the age of 79.
Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown leaves with President Kennedy on a four-day political trip to three western states.
Youngstown City Council wants the area between the proposed Boardman Expressway and Poland Ave. in the Lansingville district studied as a possible urban redevelopment project.
Annexation of a large section of Liberty Township to Youngstown is proposed by 3rd Ward Councilman James A. Pastore. The 1,200 acre area would stretch from Gypsy Lane to Route 304 and Route 422 to Youngstown-Hubbard Road.
November 16, 1951: One hunter is killed by a gunshot and six are injured in the Youngstown district on the first day of rabbit and pheasant season. Throughout Ohio, four others died of heart attacks and two died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
A total of 608 Youngstown district residents volunteer to give blood for troops serving in Korea during a radio appeal sponsored by the Mahoning Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Two airlines, Capital and United, have been asked by Youngstown to pay between $5,000 and $6,000 more to the city in higher landing fees and office rent.
November 16, 1926: A three-week old baby girl is left on the doorstep at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Moriarity, 137 Shenango Ave. The child was taken to Buhl Hospital where she was found to be uninjured. Police have no clues to the child's identity.
W.L. Buchanan, chairman of the smoke committee, announces that a smoke ordinance will be introduced to Youngstown City Council within the next week or two.
Cleveland Mayor John D. Marshall threatens to evict Councilman Peter Witt from a Cleveland
City Council meeting after Witt issues a scathing denunciation of plans to warmly welcome Queen Marie of Romania on a visit to the city.
November 17, 1976: The Campbell school board will appeal an Ohio Board of Education decision that denied the transfer of a portion of Coitsville Township from Youngstown to Campbell.
The Mahoning Women's Center is seeking a hearing in U.S. District Court, Cleveland, to obtain a temporary restraining order keeping the city's ordinance regulating abortion clinics from taking effect.
A 30-foot tall blue spruce is erected for the holidays in Federal Plaza West by 15 workers and a crane. The donors of the tree are Mr. and Mrs. Martin Herrlich, 180 E. Ravenwood Ave.
November 17, 1961: Members of the Youngstown Advertising Club advocate civic pride programs to counteract recent bad national publicity about the Mahoning Valley.
The Ohio River's billion-dollar improvement program in 11 years has brought $17 billion worth of industrial development to the Ohio Valley, says Dr. Marvin J. Barloon of Western Reserve University. He conducted a four-hour workshop on Ohio Basin navigation for the League of Women Voters from a six-state area at the Mural room.
Harold A. & quot;Hal & quot; Stevens, nationally known caterer who died in New York City, will be buried in his hometown of Niles. He was 83.
November 17, 1951: Snow flurries that hit the Youngstown district overnight turn into a steady fall about 8 a.m., just in time to cause rush hour into a traffic jam.
Ray M. Welch Sr., former assistant to the president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., dies in South Side Hospital, where he had been a patient for a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 71.
Youngstown Police Chief Edward J. Allen appoints 20 cadet policemen immediately after being notified that the board of elections had certified the shorter-hours ordinance approved by city voters.
Youngstown College's determined gridders, putting on a dramatic finish, tie Mouth Union, 13-13, before 3,100 chilled by happy fans in the season's finale at Rayen Stadium.
November 17, 1926: Market Street in Youngstown will become Main Street if plans of the South Side Business Men's Association carry.
Marie K. Johnson of the Better Health Bureau of Chicago estimates that the cost of turkey and all the trimmings will average $6.40 a family this Thanksgiving.
Suspected of fleecing one man of $1,200 and another of $140 in an ancient fortune telling scheme, Mary Doe, a gypsy from a camp just west of Youngstown, is arrested by constables of Justice Hardesty's court.

November 18, 1976: The Boardman Youth Center, subject of a lengthy and hotly contested meeting earlier in the fall, officially loses its battle for survival without a whimper. The Youngstown Hospital Association announces the center's lease will be canceled in February.
Local officials from Pennsylvania ad Ohio, have decided to jointly study the impact of a new $3.25 billion steel mill that U.S. Steel corp. is contemplating in the Conneaut area.
Four plaques for new construction are awarded by the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce civic awards committee. The buildings are the Cafaro Co. headquarters improvement, Union national Bank drive-in on Commerce St., The William F. Maag Jr. Library and the College of Applied Science Technology buildings at Youngstown State University.
November 18, 1961: A lone bandit robs the General Motors Acceptance Corp. at 4495 Market St. of $2,500 while some 35 office workers were closing their desks for the weekend, unaware that the robbery was going on.
Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown files to Bonham, Texas, with President Kennedy to attend the funeral of Speaker Sam Rayburn.
Some 6,000 persons attend opening day of the Scout-O-Rama at the Idora Park Ballroom where the accomplishments and exhibits of some 4,500 scouts are on display. Admission is 50 cents; grade school children are free.
November 18, 1951: The colorful days of the Gay '90s will come to the stage of the C.J. Strouss Memorial Auditorium as the budding thespians of Youngstown College present "'Yocohooey'51." Marlene Schnaufer, the college's All-American drum major, will do baton-twirling between scenes of the variety show.
The nation's rearmament program is 16 to 24 months behind schedule, farther behind than it was one year after the nation's entry into World War II, because of a shortage of machine tools, which are turned out by one of the smallest industries in the United States.
More than 1,000 persons have now pledged to give blood to help servicemen in Korea when the Red Cross bloodmobile unit comes to Youngstown.
November 18, 1926: Mrs. Leah M. Brownlee McKelvey, widow of G.M. McKelvey and prominent among Youngstown women, dies suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage at the home of her daughter on Youngstown-Hubbard Road.
More than 300 motorists have been written up on traffic charges in less than a week as all Youngstown police officers are under orders to arrest all motorists who drive faster than 15 miles an hour in congested areas or 25 in residential areas.
Dr. Diego Delphino, Steubenville physician whose body was found in his automobile on the West Virginia Side of the Ohio River, was slain by a man who posed as patient, police declare.