Vindicator file photo / November 28, 1955 | Cherie Woolson of Cleveland examined a spoon-board planter, one of the many ingenious gift items made and sold by Youngstown area Junior Achievement companies. The products were on display 67 years ago at the Northeastern Ohio JA Presidents Conference at the Isaly Dairy Co. on Mahoning Avenue in Youngstown.

November 29 

1997: Youngstown's Chaney High Cowboys lose a hard-fought state championship football game to Columbus DeSales, 17-14. Several hundred fans greet the team on its arrival home 

Santa makes his annual arrival in Salem with a parade down State Street

Mahoning County Commissioners plan to have quarterly evening meetings to accommodate  residents who can't make the board's weekly meetings at 9:30 on Thursdays. 

1982: Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, still shaken by the death of his last opponent, Duk Koo Kim, says at a Wolves Club testimonial dinner that he will fight again, perhaps as early as January. 

Nancy Lynn Fleming, 18, the 1981 Homecoming Queen at Union Area High School, is killed in a one-car crash on Rt. 422 near New Castle, Pa. 

Akron's ordinance restricting abortions in the city will go before the Supreme Court of the United States. 

1972: Leon Spahr of Warren thought the young stranger who helped him drag a deer he had just bagged from a wooded area in Hartford Township was "an awful nice fellow." Then the helper turned his shotgun on Spahr and stole the eight-point buck. 

Edgar B. Speer, president of U.S. Steel Corp. since 1968, is elected  to succeed Edwin Gott as chairman and CEO. Both men got their start in the industry at the Ohio Works in Youngstown. 

The Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee approves a new death penalty bill for the state in a 7-0 vote.

1947: Milk in the Youngstown market increases a penny a quart, to 20 cents. 

Rates under the Blue Cross Plan for hospitalization in the Youngstown area increase from $1.15 a month to $1.55 for an individual and from $2.30 a month to $3.05 for the family plan. 

Youngstown Fourth Ward Democrat retains his seat by a 63-vote margin over Republican Thomas Coates in a recount of more than 7,600 votes cast in the race.