21 WFMJ archives  / September 26, 1984 | Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro spoke to an estimated 2,500 people on Federal Plaza 40 years ago. Many waited hours in a drizzle to hear her pledge aid to the steel industry. Pictured behind her are Gov. Richard Celeste, standing far left, and Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent Gilmartin, sitting far right. 

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1999: Skater Peggy Fleming, who was diagnosed with breast cancer 30 years after winning a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics, is the featured speaker at the Humility of Mary Health Partners 21st Cancer Symposium at Stambaugh Auditorium.

A report compiled at Youngstown State University for the Ohio Steel Council says the dumping of cheap foreign steel continues to adversely affect domestic steel production.

Mahoning County Commissioners say county workers will have to carry out their own trash and get by with less clerical help after 16 of 38 employees in the courthouse, including seven janitors and seven clerks, are laid off. 

 

1984: Conrail is buying 100 enclosed two-level racks to be mounted on flat cars to haul finished cars and trucks from the Lordstown General Motors complex.

A Meadville grandmother and seven of her grandchildren between the ages of 21 months and eight years died in a fire that was sparked by a heater and swept through the house.

Former Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Frank Anzellotti, 84, dies in South Side Hospital.

 

1974: A 17-year-old youth wanted for questioning for kidnapping, rape, and robbery since his release from the Ohio Youth Commission is wounded by police as he jumped from the roof of an Oak Hill Avenue home while attempting to escape.  He is in satisfactory condition in South Side Hospital.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Sidney J. Rigelhaupt dismisses a lawsuit that asked him to determine the legality of a bingo operation in a building at 1815 Belmont Ave.

E.M. Pete Estes, the new president of General Motors Corp., is a familiar figure at Lordstown from his days as Chevrolet Division manager. He attended the Lordstown dedication on Oct. 17, 1966.

 

1949: The Youngstown district's eight major steel plants are closed by a steel strike for the third time in 12 years, idling 45,000 to 50,000 workers.

Nearly 1,000 railroad workers in the Mahoning Valley are sent home after the area's steel mills shut down.

Safecrackers escape with $1,062  from the Southern Tavern, 1508 Glenwood Avenue.