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99 years ago in 1918:
• An automobile driven by David C. Bright of Hubbard ran into a rig owned by Samuel Hewitt of Newton Falls. The rig was smashed and the horse so badly injured that Deputy Sheriff Templeton had to shoot it.
It was alleged that Bright was intoxicated and driving his car carelessly. He was on his way to Hubbard from Newton Falls and with him in the machine were his parents who were going to Hubbard for a short visit.
With Hewitt in the buggy was Lester Hall, also of Newton Falls. The men had been to Leavittsburg and were driving toward Newton Falls when the accident occurred. Neither was injured.
• A local woman suggested that instead of building a memorial building for the soldier boys in the camps in France, that naturally they would seek the YMCA during their leisure away from home.
"We owe it to the boys," said Councilman George Max of the Fourth Ward, "to do whatever we can for them."
Max, who first proposed the memorial building, said he wanted to see something started.
"If the people of the city think a YMCA is the proper memorial for them they can count on me for one of their workers."
50 years ago in 1967:
• Contrary to some reports circulating in the city, Warren Board of Education members did not receive pay for their service. Ohio law provided members to be paid for each meeting, but board members "traditionally (have) waived such payment."
Under Ohio law, school board members might approve for themselves up to $20 per meeting per member for a maximum of 12 meetings a year, which equates to a yearly salary of $240. For the five members on the board, the maximum total cost would be $1,200.
The statute permitting payment of $20 per meeting became effective in Ohio Nov. 5, 1965. Before that date, the maximum pay was $3 per meeting for a maximum of 12 meetings.
• Presentation of four Community Service Awards, a review of progress made in the Warren area and a humorous and inspiring message highlighted the 62nd annual Warren Area Chamber of Commerce banquet at Packard Music Hall.
More than 600 persons attended the gala affair. Helen Hart Hurlbert, president and general manager of The Tribune, was honored by the Chamber for her participation and help in the highway program and her untiring efforts on behalf of the progress in the entire Warren area.
Three other Community Service Awards were also presented to three Warren area Chamber of Commerce past presidents: Ralph F. Mateer, president 1942 and retired president of Warren Telephone Co.; Earl R. Smith, president in 1956, retired division manager of the Ohio Edison Co.; and C.W. Holmquist, president in 1952, retired executive vice president of Copperweld Steel Co.
25 years ago in 1992:
• Two volunteers took turns ringing the familiar bell outside Bank One. A stiff wind on Market Street led them to raise their collars and put on gloves, but they said the weather was not a problem.
"Wait until it gets really cold," said Daniel Neely, 22, of Warren. "Then we will bring out the long underwear and boots."
For Neely and partner, John Rink, 18, of Cortland, it was the first time as bell ringing volunteers. They did not know when they would be needed.
"It could be two days a week or six days a week," Rink said.
The Christmas Kettle drive kicked off at a 10 a.m. ceremony at Bank One's main office on East Market Street.
Money contributed in the kettles was to be used to provide food, shelter, clothing and gifts for the hungry and homeless. In 1991, the Salvation Army assisted more that 4,000 people with $229,000 collected in the campaign.
• School board members approved a disciplinary policy that allowed students to forget photo ID badges up to 10 times before being punished. Homeroom teachers were to stamp the hands of students without their badges and keep a record of the infractions. A warning was to be sent to students and parents after the fifth offense and suspended for the day after the 10th offense.
"We think since it's a first-time effort we have to be somewhat liberal," said Superintendent Louis P. Cardamone.
Student badges were to be distributed in grades seven to 12 and designed to help students and teachers quickly recognize who didn't belong in the school.
10 years ago in 2007:
• Narcotics detective Melanie Gambill, a teacher at the police academy, said the most abused type of drug was not crack or cocaine, it was prescription medicine.
"There's more money to be made in scripts, and it's harder to fight," Gambill said.
Jeff Orr, a Trumbull sheriff's deputy that headed up a three-county Law Enforcement Task Force, said with only six TAG officers in three counties, it was tough.
Orr said the problem was the value of the pills on the street commanded a high price, so a $7 to $9 pill could yield $40 to $50 a piece.
Detectives like Tim Ladner said a new computer system launched in October 2006 was being used as a tool to curb prescription drug abuse.
"We still get tips from pharmacies and we follow up on those," Ladner said.
• A 60-year veteran skier, Ned Gold, gave thanks following a serious accident after which he was in a drug-induced coma for six weeks.
Going against one of his time-honored rules -- avoiding other sportsmen on the slopes -- Gold went for a run with another skier after a long day helping a friend. Distracted by the skier and surprised by a blind spot, he hit a field of snow mounds, cartwheeling to a stop.
With 10 broken ribs, a ruptured spleen, fractured hip socket, a punctured lung and broken shoulder blade, among other injuries, he faced months of surgery and months of treatment.
During the time following his recovery, he wrote a letter of thanks in which he said, in part, "I thank God immensely… Thanksgiving will be more special than ever this year."
Gold, an attorney and Boy Scout leader, also answered over 450 cards he received.
"It was overwhelming how many people cared about him," his wife, Debbie, said.
-- Compiled from Tribune Chronicle archives by Emily Earnhart