21 WFMJ archives  / September 18, 1965 | Ralph W. Clarke of Youngstown, standing left, chairman of the Ohio NAACP Youth Work Committee, conferred with fellow delegates to the state convention in Youngstown 58 years ago. Seated from left are Miley O. Williamson, Esther Spruill, and Roland Alexander; standing are Leonard McCormick and William Huff.

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1999: Six West Parkside Drive neighbors file suit against Mill Creek Park commissioners seeking to halt a scheduled November-to-January hunt of deer in the park. The suit also seeks $25,000 in damages, citing arrows found on their properties from a previous hunt and the carcass of a dead deer with an arrow through its head in one yard.

Boardman school officials and parents of a six-year-old boy with a severe peanut allergy agreed to allow him to attend school safely without removing all peanut products from Market Street Elementary School.

Mahoning County Auditor George Tablack says that if the Western Reserve Port Authority does not accept his offer to take over accounting for the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, he will recommend that county commissioners stop funding the facility.

 

1984: The Greater Youngstown National Organization for Women will join other NOW chapters in monitoring enforcement of Gov. Richard Celeste's mandate that women fill at least 6.9 percent of the jobs at state construction sites.

Six full—and part-time parking lot cashiers employed by the city of Sharon are told their jobs will be eliminated when Parking Properties Inc. of Cleveland takes over operations. The company will decide whether to offer them new jobs. 

Advertisement: Pasta Nite at Ambrosio's, 1913 Belmont Avenue, is available every Tuesday and Thursday. The menu features spaghetti, meatballs, and salad for $2.99.

 

1974: The Western Reserve Transit Authority will hire at least 10 drivers to accommodate the large number of children using WRTA buses to get to and from school.

Hubbard City Council votes to increase the number of full-time policemen from six to nine, as requested by Mayor Art Magee. 

Youngstown State Football Coach Rey Dempsey says he's optimistic about the season and may allow quarterback Cliff Stout to throw more following the Penguins' 24-7 victory over Austin Peay in the opener.

1949: Five Youngstown residents are among the missing in a fire that raged through the Noronic, a Canadian pleasure cruiser that caught fire at a Toronto dock. The death toll could reach 200.

Gov. Frank J. Lausche was among 4,500 people who attended the dedication of Hubbard High School's $55,000 Memorial Stadium. 

The Vindicator sets a new record—one that even printing press manufacturers said couldn't be done—when pressmen couple nine printing units together and run them as one press. The unique coupling allows printing 62 news pages, including one page with a color advertisement.