21 WFMJ archives  / March  6, 1976 | Two members of the Boardman High School Band, Robert Carlson, left, and Allen Meffan, were invited 49 years ago to perform in Washington, D.C., and Atlantic City as part of the National High School Honors Band. 

March 6


2000: Coach Ken Carano's Austintown Fitch speech and debate team wins the state title for the eighth time in 12 years at the Ohio High School Speech League State Tournament.

Mercer County, Pa., is celebrating its Bicentennial. The county was created by the General Assembly on March 12, 1800, and named after Hugh Mercer, a brigadier general and hero of the Revolutionary War.

The U.S. International Trade Commission rejected American steelmakers' request to impose tariffs on high-grade cold-rolled steel, saying imports from Brazil, Argentina, Japan, Russia, South Africa, and Thailand did not hurt the domestic industry. 


1985: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th,  says he will support a bill restricting the number of automobiles imported to the United States to 15 percent of total new car sales yearly. 

Trumbull County's unemployment rate fell from 12.8 percent in December to 12.4 percent in January, while Mahoning County's rose from 11.2 percent to 12 percent. Statewide, unemployment is 9 percent, and nationwide, it is 8 percent. 

Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., a black man appointed by President Reagan to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, says black leaders who promote preferential treatment for blacks are racists more intent on "peddling pain" than establishing a color-blind society. 


1975: Pittsburgh Steelers player Ernie Holmes is ordered to pay $25,000 in damages to Larry W. Myers, an Ohio Highway Patrol helicopter pilot who was shot in the leg by Holmes during a manhunt in Mahoning County in March 1973. Myers had sought $750,000.

Israeli soldiers capture an Arab terrorist and save him from an angry mob hours after he and seven accomplices blew up a Tel Aviv hotel, killing nine Israelis. 

Youngstown City Council appropriates $2,000 for the protection of witnesses, an apparent reaction to investigations of recent gangland murders.


1950: John P. Feeney of Hubbard retires as an engineer on the New York Central Railroad after 47 years without a mishap at the throttle of steam locomotives. 

Campbell Mayor Michael J. Kovach reports that his investigation of the water department has revealed that the past administration wholesale underread water meters to confer favors on political supporters. 

Youngstown's Sixth Ward Councilman George Stowe and Seventh Ward Councilman Stephen Olenick charge that coal dealers and the coal industry are trying to kill the city's proposed smoke abatement ordinance.