March 26, 1977: The Western Reserve Transit Authority has a cash flow problem so severe it must

March 26, 1977: The Western Reserve Transit Authority has a cash flow problem so severe it must borrow $200,000 until the federal government comes through with the year's operating budget.
Shareholders opposed to the pullout of GF Business Equipment Inc.'s file production division say they will file suit against the company if it pursues its plan to move production south.
Two Youngstown area high school students win state championships in the annual individual events speech competition sponsored by the Ohio Speech League at Ohio University. They are Tricia Gordon of Cardinal Mooney, who own in oratorical interpretation, and Jon Capecci of Howland High in humorous interpretation.
March 26, 1962: Mahoning County's 1962 real estate and public utility valuation is slightly more than double the values in 1942 as the nation entered World War II. The tax duplicate shows $581 million in real estate and $98 million in public utility value.
Two 11-year-old Boardman boys who failed to return from a trek into the countryside are the subject of an overnight search by Chief Constable Don Robinson and others. The boys, Charles Robinson and James Burger, are found safe camping near the No. 2 Pavilion in Boardman Township Park.
A $1 billion canal linking Lake Erie and the Ohio River will mean more jobs and a brighter future for millions of people in the Pittsburgh area and an 11-state region, an engineer declares.
March 26, 1952: Bingo games are reported to be at a stand still in clubs and lodge rooms holding liquor permits, state liquor agents say. Enforcement agents who visited the Krakusy Hall on South Ave. were greeted with a "No Bingo" sign on the door.
Mahoning County's record-breaking budget of $4.9 million is signed by Commissioners Fred A. Wagner, Tom R. Bees and Tom Carney.
More than $10,000 has been contributed in the 1952 campaign of the Friends of Youngstown College Library. Since 1938, when the friends organization was founded, the university's book collection has more than doubled.
March 26, 1927: Youngstown needs 2,000 new homes to be built annually to meet its housing needs, according to a majority of 100 business and professional men meeting in a conference sponsored by the Realty Security Co. They also agree that growth points to the south and west and that first mortgage money is plentiful.
Truscon Steel Co. will build a small manufacturing plant on the Pacific Coast, Julius Kahan announces. The exact cite has not been determined and the expenditure is not expected to exceed $200,000.
The price of a quart of milk in Youngstown is dropping from 14 cents to 13 cents, says B.A. Millikin of the Youngstown Sanitary Milk Co.
March 27, 1977: Dr. W. Don McClure, a United Presbyterian missionary in the Sudan and Ethiopia for almost 50 years, who spoke regularly during summer appearances at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., is reported shot and killed by guerrillas near the Godi Project in Ethiopia. McClure had planned to retire in June and he and his wife were planning to live in Lancaster, Pa.
Members of Local 712, International Brotherhood of Electrical, Radio & amp; Machine Workers, set up picket lines at the regional jail construction site outside Mercer, Pa. The local is objecting to the use of a nonunion contractor on the job.
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case brought by a Youngstown steelworker who was refused unemployment compensation when he was laid off during a mineworkers strike. Hodory was one of 1,250 workers laid off by U.S. Steel when the company could not get coal because of a miners' strike.
A staff study shows that during his first month in office President Carter worked 75 to 80 hours a week.
March 27, 1962: The management of General Fireproofing Co. retains control of the firm by getting six of its candidates elected to the nine member board of directors. Edward A. Purnell, board chairman has resigned because of poor health. A dissident group of stockholders under the leadership of Alfons B. Landa, New York financier, wins three seats on the board.
Youngstown University trustees re-elect all officers and return 12 trustees to the board for another term at the annual meeting in the Youngstown Club. Dr. Howard W. Jones, president, reports the university has 866 more students this semester than at the same time a year earlier.
Dollar Savings & amp; Trust Co., founded to serve the area's industrial workers, marks its 75th year. The company's landmark building at Wick Ave. and Central Square was built a year after the company's founding, in 1903.
March 27, 1952: Members of the First Covenant Church will proceed with plans for a $200,000 house of worship if final approval is given on sale of the old building at 554 Market St. to United Steelworkers of America Local 1331.
Mrs. Norman White, 26, is named "Mrs. Youngstown" at the Mahoning Valley Home Show in the Idora Park Ballroom. Judging was based on sewing, cooking and parades in homemade cotton dresses and swimming suits.
In a surprise move, Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge George Birrell orders the notorious Club 44 on Rt. 422 padlocked immediately for violating a an agreement to stop gambling activities.
March 27, 1927: G.J. McMillin of Youngstown is lieutenant commander of the new U.S.S. Saratoga, and airplane carrier that is one of the largest vessels in the Navy fleet at a length of 850 feet.
Even as word is received that the surviving Americans an Nanking, China, are safe, official Washington is gripped in the fear that a storm of anti-foreign terror may be brewing in China. Another regiment of 1,500 Marines is ordered to the South Pacific.
Reorganization of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra will take place when the first rehearsal for the premier concert is held April 4. Between 60 and 75 applications have been received by J.H. Sugden who is head the reorganization.