March 22, 1976:Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter takes out nominating petitions for the Republican

March 22, 1976:Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter takes out nominating petitions for the Republican candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives, 19th District, a post held by Charles J. Carney.
Singer-actress Claudine Longet is arrested in connection with the shooting death of Vladimir & quot;Spider & quot; Sabich, who dominated the world professional ski tour in the early 1970s. Sabich was shot in his Aspen home.
Niles police are investigating vandalism at the Faith Baptist Church and McKinley High School. No estimates of damage are available.
March 22, 1961: On display at the Sarasota, Fla., County Fair, an 8-week-old white Leghorn rooster that has been raised inside a five-gallon glass jug. The rooster stands as tall as the bottle.
Free parking facilities are being provided on Central Square by the Mahoning County Board of Elections for persons wishing to register for the May 2 primaries before the 9 a.m. deadline.
Low bids for construction of the new Mahoning County home total $1,628,490, about $28,000 below architect's estimates.
March 22, 1951: Willis C. Smith, Madison County superintendent of schools, is hired as Mahoning County superintendent after the county receives a letter from Carl Baden refusing the position. Baden said he could not be honorably released from his job as Drake County superintendent.
Bingo, which in grandmother's day was a polite parlor game called lotto, is as illegal in Youngstown as it is in any other Ohio city, town or hamlet, says Assistant County Prosecutor Harold H. Hull.
George T. Peterson, traffic manager of Standard Slag Co., is elected exalted ruler of Youngstown Lodge of Elks, succeeding Charles L. Donahue.
March 22, 1926: A one-day-old baby, whose decomposed body was found recently at Seceder Corners in Trumbull County, was killed by a Youngstown woman who smothered it by sitting one it. The child was born after an attempted abortion at a Youngstown home.
Fifteen hundred people greet Archbishop Edward A. Mooney at a reception honoring him at the Ursuline Academy. It was his last public appearance before leaving for Rome and then his duties in Bengalore, India.
Football rulemakers, meeting in New York, pursue rule changes, including one that would place a check on the indiscriminate use of the forward pass by imposing a five-yard penalty for the second and third incomplete passes in any series of plays. Another would eliminate the intentional safety.
March 23, 1976: Mahoning County's first half 1975 real estate tax collection is lagging $7 million behind collections at the same time a year earlier.
Cutbacks in production of the Vega/Astre models at the General Motors Lordstown plant bring the furlough of 400 employees at the adjacent Fisher Body fabricating facility. Total employment at both locations is normally 10,700, but has been reduced to 7,575 with recent furloughs.
The Ohio State auditor's office faults the Youngstown Municipal Court clerk's office for poor record keeping, with 462 of 13,710 moving violation tickers unaccounted for and unavailable. The auditor says all tickets, whether they be used, voided or mutilated, be forwarded to the clerk's office and properly recorded.
March 23, 1961: Youngstown City Council approves a $350,000 community works program to give needy family men temporary employment on street, sewer and drainage ditch improvements.
A $500,000 addition to the Kaiser Aluminum & amp; Chemical Corp.'s plant in Columbiana is finished and ready to go into service. The facility will turn out tar-bonded refractories for use in the oxygen jet steelmaking process.
Public pressure, police harassment and mutual understanding are recommended as methods of keeping utility poles free of political placards. The Youngstown Federation of Women's Clubs has organized a committee that will call candidates whose signs are seen on poles and demand their removal.
March 23, 1951: Television stations in Youngstown are still two years away, but the Federal Communications Commission announces that Youngstown is slated to get two channels in the heretofore unused ultra high frequency.
Ohio and Pennsylvania highway officials agree on a temporary way to handle traffic from the Pennsylvania Turnpike into Ohio. Included is the immediate improvement of Rt. 224 east and west of Poland Village.
A special railway car leaves the Oakland, Calif., Army Base mortuary with 74 caskets containing the first group of Korean war dead home for burial in the United States.
March 23, 1926: Industry is at a standstill in Oil City, Pa., and several hundred people have been driven from their homes by flooding caused by a 25-mile series of ice gorges in the Allegheny River. Sections of Oil City are under one foot to five feet of water.
Youngstown police arrest four women and a man in connection with the death of a baby whose decomposed body was found in Seceder Corners in Trumbull County. A 20-year-old Gibson Street woman is believed to be the mother, who allegedly underwent an abortion in a Cypress St. house.
Three youthful joy riders are accused of stealing 12 cars in Youngstown. They were apprehended by their latest victim, a Bruce St. man.
March 24, 1976: Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Britain's top field commander in World War II and considered by many the greatest British military leader since the Duke of Wellington, dies after many months of failing health. He was 88.
Any Youngstown city employee living outside the city or who moves out faces the possibility of losing his job for violating the city's residency laws, says Law Director William J. Higgins.
An impressive flag-raising ceremony opens Immaculate Conception School's Bicentennial Day observance. Many pupils are dressed in colonial costumes and all classrooms did projects reflecting some phase of early American life.
March 24, 1961: Richard Stanley, 37-year-old former Warren patrolman, is critically wounded by a gunman just 10 days before he was scheduled to testify for the state against Ronald Carabbia of Struthers and Joseph J. & quot;Fats & quot; Aiello of Youngstown.
George McCuskey, vice president-finance of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., says American industry and workers must do everything possible to improve productivity to meet rapidly rising European competition.
Youngstown's police chief and his head mechanic want only Fords in their future, even though bids for 13 new cruisers came in at $1,941 for Chevrolets, $1,952 for Dodges and $2,045 for Fords. The department has driven Fords for 10 years and the garage is best equipped to service them.
March 24, 1951: J. Detmer Roller, president of the Roller Cadillac Co., dealer of automobiles in Youngstown since 1912, dies at his Ottawa Drive home of chronic bronchitis. He was 58.
The Youngstown Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police will ask council to pass legislation cutting their work week from 48 to 40 hours at the present rate of pay.
Several hundred Youngstown recreational flyers will begin flight training to take over vital transportation jobs in case Youngstown, Cleveland, Akron or other big Ohio cities are hit by enemy raiders.
March 24, 1926: Nelson Ledges, 45 acres of enormous sandstone rocks and one of the outstanding scenic wonders of Ohio, has been purchased by the state from Edwin Secrest of Wooster for $10,000. It will be opened to the public as a free state park.
Mahoning County Commissioners meet with Architect Charles Owsley, who designed the Courthouse, to discuss the feasibility of adding two stories to the building. That plan is finding favor over the purchase of adjacent property for the construction of an annex.
Youngstown's only symphony concert for this season will be played by the Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff conductor, at the Park Theater. The concert is a presentation of the Monday Musical Club.