21 WFMJ archives  / December  18, 1989 | Cardinal Mooney High School took top honors in the Boardman Rotary Invitational Speech Tournament at Boardman High School. Seated, from left, Santa (Chad Pirtie of the host school), Atty. Beth Smith, Megan Gourley, Julie Frank, Jennifer Lee, Amy Hochadel, Dan Hagg, Dan Lough, Heidi Schecodnic; back row, Boardman Rotary President Jack Russell, Mike Scarsella, Ann Moliterno, Arvind Manocha, Neil Necastro, Paul Noonan, Arlene Boyle, Brian Bodor, Kathy Wehner. 

December 18


1999: Jim Tressel's Youngstown State University Penguins are in Chattanooga, Tenn., to face Georgia Southern in the NCAA Division 1AA national championship game that ESPN will telecast.

Warren Councilman Fiore Dippolito asked questions about eight new employees in Mayor Hank Angelo's budget for the city Water Pollution Control Department.

Opponents in Columbiana County of a natural gas pipeline that would run through the county near Leetonia say they will continue their fight despite FERC support for the project. 


1984: Ohio's graduation rate for public high schools increased from 77.5 percent in 1982 to 82.2 percent in 1983, 13th in the nation and well above the national average of 73.9 percent. The state spent an average of $2,676 per pupil in 1983, the 34th highest in the nation. 

A 21-foot blue spruce donated by Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Terry of  79 Westminster Drive, Austintown, is erected and decorated in the Rotunda of the Mahoning County Courthouse. 

A consortium of Youngstown area bankers, headed by Home Savings & Loan Co., purchased the 93-acre Commuter Aircraft Corp. site and an empty 300 000 square foot plant at the Youngstown Municipal Airport for the appraised value of $4.8 million.


1974: Cleveland Browns Owner Art Modell fires head coach Nick Skorich after the Browns finish the 1974 season with a 4-10 record. 

Senior Phil Gaston and Freshman Jeff Covington pace the Youngstown State Penguins to a 79-76 victory over Mount Union before 3,680 fans at Beeghly Center. 


1949: Sam S. Keener,  president of Salem Engineering Co., completes his 45,000-mile around-the-world flight in search of new business. After a nonstop flight from Santa Barbara, Calif, his big DC-4 sets down at Akron Canton Airport. 

Vaugh Monroe, a famous bandleader and crooner who was passing through Youngstown, bought the 500,000th bangle pin in the Youngstown March of Dimes campaign.