Vindicator file photo/ Aug. 27, 1983 | Honored for years of volunteer service to McGuffey Centre during McGuffey Days in 1983 were, from left: Frances DeLoach, Theresa Graves, and Lillian Frost; Delores Ware Spires, local gospel singer, and Atty. Dorothy J. Dickerson. 
 
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1995: Mayor Patrick Ungaro and Youngstown State University President Leslie Cochran will name a 12-member commission to advance plans to stimulate development around YSU's campus.
 
Two hundred people pack the Oven restaurant to hear police Chief Randall Wellington, Mayor Patrick Ungaro, and Sheriff Edward Nemeth outline their plans to reduce crime in the Uptown area.
 
The Boardman Board of Education adopts a policy under which a student faces a year's expulsion for bringing a weapon to school. Supt. Richard Selby says the policy would have allowed expulsion of two students who threw bottle bombs onto the yard of an assistant principal and received 80-day suspensions.
 
1980: Gary Lee, a graduate of Youngstown State University, passes his 300th day of captivity in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. His wife, Pat, says she had received a nine-line note from him in which he said he was in good health and had received letters and photographs she sent to him. 
 
Nancy Graft, 17, of Canfield and Mike Janik, 17, of Salem are crowned queen and king of the Canfield Fair.
 
Miller Brewing Co. comes from a 6-1 deficit to defeat East Side Civics 8-7 and capture the Class AA League championship at Pemberton Park. The Civics team had a six-year champion streak coming into the game.
 
1970: Dr. Joseph E. Smith, 81, former dean and faculty member of YSU dating to its days as Youngstown College in 1937, dies in South Side Hospital 11 days after being struck by a motorcycle near his North Jackson home. 
 
The Mahoning-Trumbull Council of Governments adopts new rules for monitoring pollution of the Mahoning River but backs off on plans to expand its monitoring of air quality.
 
Jack Fritz Jr., 26, of New Castle, Pa., is jumped and beaten by "hippie like" people while walking with his wife near the Bell Telephone Co. building on Mercer Street. 
 
1945: "Mazie," the oldest horse in Mahoning County, will be the Canfield Fair's mascot. Mazie, a full-size modeler of harnesses that stood in front of Stambaugh Thompson Co for years, was rediscovered in a barn at 1711 Himrod Ave.
 
Sgt. Paul T. Varley, 20, of Youngstown, reported missing since Dec. 26, is confirmed dead by the War Department, which said the B-17 bomber on which he was a flight engineer crashed during a bombing run over oil fields in southern Germany. 
 
Atty. Ralph Turner and Realtor William Arkwright almost came to blows at a heated zoning hearing in Youngstown City Hall. Arkwright is one of a number of men who want to build apartment buildings on Market Street between Wilma Avenue and the city limits.