Vindicator file photo/March 7, 1987 | Paul A. McCarty conducts the Pymatuning Valley High School Band during its performance at the Ohio Music Education Association District Band and Chorus Contest at Niles McKinley High School in March 1987. Twenty-three area concert and symphonic bands competed over two days.

March 6

1995: William J. Wartinbee, the engineer in charge of the redesign of the Lordstown-built Chevrolet Cavalier, says the company misjudged how changes made on the assembly line would affect roll-out of the new J-car, and only 34,000 of the 1995 models had been produced through February.

Dale E. Shaffer, a retired college professor who has written 10 books on Salem's history, says Ohio's first Women's Rights Convention held in the city in 1850 had an unforeseen impact.  A Salem teenager, John Allen Campbell, was heard the speeches at that convention and went on to be governor of Wyoming, where he signed a bill making it the first state to give women the vote. 

Amish students, who lost their 126-year-old Shepherd School House near New Wilmington to fire on Feb. 25, will start classes in a new school built on the same site in a little over a week by the Amish community.  

1980: Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Leo P. Morley orders police to return $42,000 in cash that was confiscated after police arrested three people who landed a rented plane at Lansdowne Airport in which police found the cash and $35,000 worth of marijuana. Morley said the Supreme Court has ruled that money can't be treated as contraband.

The Westminster College Choir of New Wilmington, Pa., performs at Disneyworld in Florida, under the direction of Dr. Clarence Martin.

The Rev. Charles Rawlings tells a meeting of clergymen from Canfield, Boardman and Columbiana County that "history can be made in Youngstown" if the Ecumenical Coalition's plan for worker takeover of U.S. Steel's Ohio Works and McDonald Mills is successful. 

1970: The task of selecting a new member of the Youngstown Board of Education as well as a new superintendent will fall to six board members following the unexpected resignation of Board President Abe Harshman. 

A 14-year-old Rayen High student is in satisfactory condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital from intoxication and possibly the effects of glue-sniffing. He was found in a field by a Youngstown patrolman.

Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent Gilmartin will research further, but is optimistic that part of the Tuberculosis Sanitorium can be used for treating narcotics users. 

1945: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. will call in $10.5 million worth of Series D bonds for redemption as part of the company's refinancing plan. 

Proposals to establish competing bus lines in Youngstown and use smaller, low-powered buses are challenged in city council. Youngstown Municipal Railway Co.'s Michael Malmer says the proposals would lead to poor service. 

Dad's Root Beer sweeps the Mahoning Valley Bowling League series from favorites Kubina's Royal Oaks and Roy's Amusements.