Years Ago | September 17th
Vindicator file photo / September 13, 1951 | The city of Campbell celebrated its Golden Jubilee 71 years ago with a queen, Joyce Famer, seen being crowned during an open house at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. by Mayor Michael J. Kovach. Members of her court were Mary Ann Horvath, Joann Prassinos, Sylvia Prassinos, and Mary Cibulas.
September 17
1997: Representatives from both sides of the controversy over drilling gas wells around Mosquito Lake will make presentations at a meeting of the Mahoning River Consortium.
On the third day of a strike by Youngstown's 842 teachers, only a fraction of the district's 12,000 students are crossing picket lines. Reports are mixed on how much learning is going on in schools manned by administrators, substitutes, and parent volunteers.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources releases more than 2,500 muskellunge fingerlings from 8- to 10-inches into West Branch Reservoir.
1982: For the first time since 1940, the Monday Musical Club and the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra will present a joint performance when the piano duo Ferrante and Teicher appear on Sept. 30.
Sheriff James A Traficant Jr. is traveling to Boston to meet with a representative of F. Lee Bailey to discuss whether the famous lawyer might represent the sheriff in his federal bribery case.
Customers pour into the Downtown Higbee department store on the first day of the store's going-out-of-business sale.
1972: Three men and a woman, members of a motorcycle gang, are held by Youngstown police in the fatal beating of Ralph Mengor Jr., 38, operator of Mack's Tavern on South Avenue.
Dr. Robert V.C. Carr wins the best in show award at the 26th annual Mahoning Valley Stamp Club exhibit at the Butler Institute of American Art.
1947: Frankie Sinkwich of Youngstown, the former All-American back at the University of Georgia, Heisman Trophy winner, and the National Football League's MVP at Detroit in 1944, is out for the season with the New York Yankees of the All-American Conference. He aggravated a knee injury first suffered while in the service.
"If we stop feeding Europe, we stop feeding ourselves," says Youngstown Congressman Michael J. Kirwan in arguing in support of the Marshall Plan.
