Vindicator file photo / September 11, 1982 | Plywood frames were laid 40 years ago at the downtown end of the Market Street Bridge in preparation for the pouring of the bridge’s concrete decking. Plans called for pouring concrete in the fall for as long as the weather would allow and then resuming in the spring, with the opening of the bridge projected for October 1983.
 
September 13
 
1997: Bishop Thomas Tobin of the Youngstown Catholic Diocese officiates a Mass at St. Columba Cathedral, celebrating the life of Mother Theresa. Three hundred and fifty students from 16 diocesan schools were bused to the cathedral. 
 
The Youngstown PTA Council encourages parents to send their children to school if teachers go out on strike.
 
Henry Nemenz sells the Boardman Valu King store to Giant Eagle, noting that the sale means an end to the Valu King name in the Mahoning Valley. 
 
1982: About 20 parents resume picketing the Hubbard Schools administration offices to protest cutbacks in busing. Meanwhile, Supt. James L. D'Eramo announces that 60 additional students will be dropped from the busing rolls after it's determined that they live within two miles of their schools. 
 
General Motors is considering building convertible versions of the Lordstown-built Chevrolet Cavaliers and Pontiac J-2000s. 
 
Dr. Kenneth Bailey, who has been visiting friends in New Wilmington, Pa., while enrolling his daughter at Grove City College, says he, his wife, and their son will return to Beirut, Lebanon, where he is a professor of religion at the Near East School of Theology. 
  
1972: Two armed robbers escape with an undisclosed amount of cash and jewelry in a daylight robbery at Ben Wilkoff Jewelry, 40 N. Phelps St. 
 
About 100 people, half of them students, attend the Girard Board of Education meeting to speak against the new hair and dress code, under which 80 students have been sent home this school year. Boys' hair can be no lower than the collar, and the wearing of athletic-style jerseys is prohibited, including by football players on game days. 
 
James W. Watkins, 31, principal of Canfield High School, is named Canfield superintendent, succeeding Maurice E. Jones. His salary will be $19,000 a year. 
 
1947: The Finance Committee of Youngstown City Council agrees to exempt nonprofit organizations from the 3 percent entertainment tax. 
 
John L. Lewis refuses to sign an oath that he is not a member of the Communist Party, which means the 14 million members of the AFL are denied the protections of the National Labor Relations Act. 
 
Speaking to 3,000 at a Catholic conference in Grand Rapids, Cardinal Edward Mooney of Detroit voices a plea for a  spiritual offensive to counteract  a "national group out to exterminate Christianity," an obvious reference to Russia without naming the nation.