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1920: Hair-pulling incident highlights fight

This week in history

99 years ago in 1920:

• A vicious hair-pulling match took place in the yard of the property located at the corner of Pine and Cedar streets in Warren when Mrs. J. Reagan refused to deliver a key that belonged to Mrs. Clark. In answer to the request Mrs. Reagan took matters into her own hands and proceeded to beat up Mrs. Clark, and pulled her hair in a violent manner.

Mrs. Clark appeared before Mayor McBride asking for an affidavit charging Mrs. Reagan with assault. When officers were sent to the house to bring Mrs. Reagan in, she informed the officers that her house was under quarantine with measles. Sanitary Biddlestone was called in by the mayor to make an investigation.

50 years ago in 1969:

• State Rep. Larry R. Nord, R-Champion, announced the State Controlling Board release of $1.93 million for construction of the new Trumbull Branch campus of Kent State University and authorized $2,125,799 in contracts for the building.

The action set the stage for the groundbreaking at the Mahoning NW site expected next month, officials said.

The release of the $1.93 million was in addition to $70,000 earlier released for initial planning.

The general contract went to W.B. Gibson Co. of Warren at a cost of $1,420,900. Other successful bidders were heating, ventilating and air conditioning, Soehnlen Piping Inc. of Louisville, $323,346; electrical, Midstates Electric Co., Sharon, Pa., $256,115; and plumbing, the J.V. Parish Co. of Youngstown, $115,722.

25 years ago in 1994:

• Most of the 250 district residents attending a Champion levy meeting were focused on upcoming teachers’ negotiations, connecting the issue to the 15 mills on the May ballot. Several residents were asking to ensure teachers would not get raises and others said the board could not make that promise.

“You are looking for the board to say, ‘There will be no raises for the teachers,’ Ed McCormick said to a crowd of about 250. “But they can’t make such a statement. The labor laws would not allow that since they are in the process of negotiations.”

“Is the real issue here to attack our teachers or to educate our children? This mess isn’t a problem caused by teachers, just as the mess in health care isn’t caused by nurses,” said Annamarie Holt, a nurse and a resident of the district.

Negotiations were scheduled to be complete before voting. The district was facing a $830,527 deficit for 1994 and had lost $600,000 from the bankruptcy of Copperweld Steel.

10 years ago in 2009:

• Cutting costs and fighting a state effort to add new business fees while dealing with declining patient numbers had become the focus of hospitals locally and nationwide. A week following a declaration of bankruptcy by Forum Health saw the increase of charity care.

“Most people who lose their jobs generally also lose their health insurance,” Walter Pishkur, chief executive officer and president of the hospital, said.

The overall economic crisis had exacerbated financial problems that already existed in the system.

The proposal, the hospital management said, discouraged charity. Pishkur noted that Forum Health would lose about $2.1. million a year under the proposed franchise plan.

— Compiled from the archives of the Tribune Chronicle by Emily Earnhart

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