21 WFMJ archives  / September 13, 1974 | More than 1,200 people filled St. Columba Cathedral 50 years ago for the ordination of Msgr. William A. Hughes as a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and auxiliary to Youngtown Bishop James W. Malone. He would be installed as Bishop of Covington, Ky., five years later.

September 15

1999: The Arbys restaurant chain, founded by brothers Forrest and Leroy Raffel with store No. 1 on U.S. Route 224 near Market Street in Boardman, marked its 35th anniversary. The headquarters moved from Youngstown to Fort Lauderdale and has the chain has grown to 3,098 restaurants worldwide.

A ceremony was held in Boardman and a check for $20,000 was presented to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of the Mahoning Valley.

Youngstown School District Treasurer Carol Funk says not all proceeds from vending machines in schools have been deposited with the treasurer’s office, but policy violations are being addressed, and unsupervised petty cash funds at individual schools are being eliminated.

Boardman police report an epidemic of car stereo thefts, attributing some of the losses to the release from jail of repeat offenders. 

1984: More than 59,000 United Auto Workers union members walked off the job at 13 General Motors plants, none in Ohio. However, the Lordstown car assembly plant was shut down after not enough workers reported to run the line.

The Rev. Judith Olin, associate pastor of First United Methodist Church of Conneaut, has been named superintendent of the denomination's Youngstown District. She is the first woman to hold such a post in the Ohio East area.

The Environmental Protection Agency fines the Salem school district $12,000 for failure to contain crumbling asbestos at Reilly Elementary School and the high school.

1974: Proud owners of carefully preserved Packard automobiles converge on Warren for the 75th anniversary of the first Packard, which drove from what was later the General Electric plant in Warren on Nov. 6, 1899.

The work is slightly behind schedule, but contractors say they will complete the new Lordstown High School by the fall of 1975. The building will have features found in only a handful of schools nationwide, such as an auditorium with a revolving stage and a media center connected to 50 TV sets. 

 1949: Pope Pius XII chooses Bishop Emmet Walsh as co-adjutor bishop of the Youngstown Diocese, in line to succeed Bishop James A. McFadden.

A check of federal tax records shows the greater Cleveland area is virtually free of slot machines, but Trumbull County leads the state by far with 350 one-armed bandits registered.

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, orator, author, and educator, will return to Youngstown to open the third annual Chesterton Club lecture series.