21 WFMJ archives  / December 4, 1999 | Youngstown State University's David Vecchione upends North Carolina A&T's Jason Battle during an NCAA 1-AA  quarterfinal game before nearly 17,000 fans at Stambaugh Stadium 25 years ago.  YSU kept their playoff hopes going with a 41-3 win. 

December 5

999: William Lawson, director of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society, lists some of the most significant events of the 20th century: the 1916 Youngstown Sheet & Tube strike, the 1937 Little Steel Strike, the 1966 opening of the Lordstown General Motors plant, "Black Monday" in 1977 and the 1990s corruption probes by local and federal authorities.

Youngstown State University routs North Carolina A&T, 41-3, before 16,955 fans at Stambaugh Stadium, earning another NCAA 1-AA home playoff game against Florida A&M.

Six candidates are seeking to replace George Limbert as a Boardman Township trustee. Limbert resigned after being named magistrate for the U.S. District Court in Youngstown. 

 

1984: Petitions signed by 700 people at 11 churches are presented to Salem City Council objecting to a male striptease show held at the Hunt Club on Railroad Street on Nov. 8. The club's manager has already been charged with pandering obscenity for hosting the show, which female plainclothes members of the police auxiliary observed.

Delores J. Smith, the outspoken director of Warren-Trumbull Community Services, is named the new leader of the Warren-Trumbull Urban League. She is the first woman to hold the job.

Over 1,000 people registered at the Ohio Jobs Services office in Warren in one day on the possibility that Packard Electric may fill 385 jobs. 

 

1974: Youngstown police arrest two adults and a juvenile in a Brier Hill house and seize an assortment of rings and watches believed to have been taken from jeweler Edward Ulrich-Knobloch II, who was found shot to death in his Elm Street shop.

A new congressional study describes existing welfare programs as antiwork and antifamily and recommends replacing most of them with a federally administered program. 

 

1949: The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority will use volunteer students from Youngstown College to survey housing conditions necessary to proceed with slum clearance. 

Mrs. Charles B. Cushwa Jr. is named general chairman of a conference on the United Nations that will be held in Youngstown in May 1950 by the Diocesan Council of the National Conference of Catholic Women. 

A United Airliner on a Cleveland-Youngstown-New York flight runs over and kills an eight-point buck on the runway at Youngstown Municipal Airport. Passengers were unaware of the incident, and the plane was undamaged.