21 WFMJ archives  / September 20, 1957 | Fifteen Youngstown residents were among the Isaly Dairy Co. store managers and their wives and husbands who left the Greater Pittsburgh Airport 65 years ago on an Eastern Airlines Constellation for a week at the DiLido Hotel in Miami Beach. Burger Travel in Youngstown planned the trip.

September 22


1999: Wal-Mart announces building a 183,000-square-foot store at State Route 14 and Cunningham Road, just east of Salem.

The Ohio Supreme Court rules 6-1 that Warren General Hospital can be sued for breaching patient confidentiality by turning over patient records to a law firm involved in bill collection.

Classes resume at Youngstown State University for the last time on the academic quarter calendar. Next year, the university will return to semesters for the first time since 1967.


1984: The end of the autoworkers strike, and President Reagan's promise to establish a fair trade program for the American steel industry adds a new note of confidence about business and employment in the Youngstown steel district, writes Vindicator business editor George Reiss.

Suzanne Juergens, a 17-year-old Joseph Badger High School senior, is named queen of the Hartford Apple Festival.

After 40 years, Robert Leary of Jamestown, Pa., receives the Purple Heart he earned when he was wounded while fighting with the U.S. Army's 79th Division in Kutzenhausen, France. 


1974: Thanks to the Youngstown Council of Telephone Pioneers, legally blind youth in the Youngstown-Warren area play audio baseball using a beeper ball and eight radio-controlled bases.

John DeMain, a Youngstown native known to local audiences for work at the Youngstown Playhouse and Kenley Players, returns to the area to conduct the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra for the Monday Musical Club.

Robert Green, junior vice commander of the United Veterans Council, is named chairman of the Youngstown Veteran's Day Parade. 


1949: Mahoning Sheriff Paul J. Langley says deputies uncovered an escape plot involving five prisoners and the 17-year-old sweetheart of one of them.

The last two Youngstown victims of the Noronic disaster are identified: Mrs. Harriet Owens, 48, and Mrs. Ralph E. Faust, 44.


Playing at the State, an Abbott and Costello doubleheader, "Hold that Ghost" and "Hit the Ice," while at the Wellman theaters, the last Abbott and Costello film, "African Scream" opens.