21 WFMJ archives  / September 6, 1956 | Principals at a ceremony dedicating the new $150,000 Temple Emanu-El synagogue in Youngstown 68 years ago were, from left, Rabbi Benjamin D. Ruditzky, Cantor Noah Griver, Congregation president Morris Malkin, and members of the building committee, Howard Solomon, Myron Agrenowitz, Harry Post and Abe Post.

September 6


1999: Schwebel Baking Co. will donate up to $40,000 to breast cancer research and patient services by selling specially marked loaves of bread. 

Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn says Temple Beth Israel in Sharon, Pa., is building a Holocaust Memorial at the Temple. 

The Mahoning Valley Scrappers, managed by Ted Kubiak, beat Batavia at Cafaro Field to win the New York Penn League's Pinkney-Stedler Division title and a playoff berth.


1984: Youngstown police raid a suspected numbers drop at a Campbell used car lot and seized $3,500 in cash and 4,000 illegal betting slips.

LTV Steel Corp. has restarted some idle operations at its Warren Works, including its Trumbull Cliffs blast furnace, and will recall about 300 workers. 

An Ohio House subcommittee recommends that the state adopt a "comparable worth" standard in setting the wages and salaries of state employees in an effort to ensure that women are not victims of wage discrimination. 


1974: According to the FBI, the rate of increase in crime in Youngstown in 1973 was 2.7 percent, about half the national average.

The WRTA adds 25 bus drivers and 20 buses to eliminate trouble spots in its new role as a transportation provider for Youngstown City School District students. 

The Youngstown Board of Education received a check for $881,888 from the State Board of Education, which will be used to provide auxiliary services to parochial school students. 


1949: Scott B. Hamilton of New Castle, a member of an old Youngstown family who gained distinction at a young age as a cartoonist in newspapers and magazines, dies in New Castle Hospital. 


Mahoning Sheriff Paul Langley instituted a new traffic enforcement program using traffic tickets similar to those issued by Youngstown police. It's believed to be the first time a sheriff's department has used traffic tickets.