21 WFMJ archives  / September 13, 1984 | Don E. Tucker, left, general campaign chairman, watched as Edmond Clarke, Community Corporation president; Rudy Gasparek, president of United Auto Workers Local 1112, and James A. Baker, chairman elected of the United Way campaign, raised the United Way Banner at the opening of a three-day United Way showcase at the Southern Park Mall 40 years ago.

September 25 

1999: Mahoning County Treasurer John Reardon says he is prepared to pull the county's money from Mahoning National Bank if a takeover by Sky Bank decimates the bank's headquarters.

About 1,300 Salem residents could share in an $18 million settlement with Reutgers-Nease Chemical Co. over the alleged pesticide contamination of Little Beaver Creek. Mahoning County commissioners say 286 county employees could be laid off in the next week.

Common Pleas Judge R. Scott Krichbaum says the proposed furlough of 20 of the court's 32  workers is "completely unacceptable."

 

1984: The Hubbard Board of Education questions a $6.7 million drop in the valuation of Valley Mould & Iron personal property valuation, which will cost the district $209,000  in revenue.

Noelle Celeste, the 14-year-old daughter of Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste, is one of eight youths who dropped off petitions at the Soviet Embassy in Washington bearing 4,400 signatures calling for a nuclear freeze.

A radio dispatcher in the East Palestine police department filed a sex discrimination complaint against the city, claiming that she was denied appointment to the auxiliary police force because she is a woman. 

 

1974: Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent Gilmartin objects strenuously to local killers and rapists being considered for shock parole from state penitentiaries after serving only months of their long sentences. 

The 1974 Catholic Charities Drive in the Youngstown Diocese falls about $73,000 short of its $418,000 goal. 

The Rev. Norman M. Parr resigns as executive director of the Mahoning Valley Association of Churches to accept a new job as special services representative of Postal Church Services Inc.

 

1949: The $314,000  Wickliffe Elementary School might well serve historians as a yardstick for measuring how far public education has come since the days of the little red schoolhouse. 

Hardware and dime stores report the strongest sales of kerosene lamps, flashlights, and candles in 20 years as Youngstown girds for a strike by Ohio Edison employees. 

American Legion Post 15 proposes a war memorial at Wick Park honoring the memory of the "Four Chaplains."