Vindicator file photo/ Sept. 26, 1962 | The choir of Temple Emanu-El prepared for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in September 1962. Front row, from left, Steven Manello, Carol Katzman, Laurel Sandler, Glenn Schwartz, Mrs. Edgar Lapidus and Ben Honigman; back row, Jack Eidelman, choir director, Dennis Pearl, Robert Sandler, Cheryl Karner, Cantor Noah Griver, Mrs. Mickey Brenner, Mitchell Kornspan and Morris Bosch.  Choir members not present for the photo were Mrs. Harry Label, Carole Sniderman and Hyman Berman. 
 
 
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1995: Plans to expand Lepper Library in Lisbon and make it handicapped accessible are put on hold because the estimated cost of $1.5 million is about $1 million more than the library has. 
 
Boardman trustees say they will audit a police-car-repair account that includes spending $66 for a pair of windshield wipers and $166 for a hubcap.
 
Atty. F. Lee Bailey, a member of the "dream team" defending former football star O.J. Simpson on murder charges in California, speaks at the Trumbull Town Hall Celebrity Series in Warren. Bailey says the trial, which has gone on for eight months, should have taken no more than three months, two months in federal court, and says those who predict the jury will not reach a verdict don't know what they are talking about. 
 
1980: Public schools in Struthers, Campbell and Youngstown will be hardest hit by a reduction in taxable value for Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. property which was cut from $49 million in 1977, the year the company closed its Campbell Works, to $17.7 million. 
 
Patrick J. Donlin, Democratic candidate for Congress in the 11th District, challenges Republican incumbent J. William Stanton to a series of debates to be held in each of the six counties in the district.
 
Chip Carter, son of President Jimmy Carter, kicks of the Democratic presidential campaign in Columbiana County with an address at the Timberlanes restaurant in Salem. 
 
1970: A United Auto Workers strike against General Motors is costing the Mahoning Valley $1 million a day, with about 8,000 workers idled at Lordstown and 7,500 of 9,000 employees at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors furloughed. 
 
A Vindicator series predicts what's ahead for the Mahoning Valley in the 1970s: a shift in population from urban to suburban, and a shift in the economic base as the auto industry grows and the steel industry declines.
 
The 1970 National Parachute Club championships are held at the Miller Airport in North Benton.  
 
1945: Early risers in the Mahoning Valley witnessed a rare treat, a morning rainbow that was visible from 7:05 to 7:30 a.m.
 
The family of T/Sgt. Paul K. Nelson of Struthers eagerly awaited the arrival of the Queen Mary on which he was due to sail. It was only after the boat docked and he wasn't aboard that they learned he had been killed in a truck accident Aug. 25. 
 
The Youngstown Water Department notifies Mahoning County commissioners of a 10 percent increase in water rates for out-of-city customers and institution of a $25 charge for each fire hydrant.