Vindicator file photo/ Sept. 15 , 1974 | Hillman Lodge 481, F&AM, celebrated its 100th anniversary with a banquet at the Sheraton Inn West in Youngstown on Sept. 14, 1974. Royal C. Scofield of Sebring, left, grand master of Masons in Ohio, was greeted by Clifford M. Powell of Youngstown, John H. Wade of Hubbard and William H. Cossler of Youngstown, general chairman of the dinner.
 
 
September 14
 
1995: WCI Steel and striking members of USW Local 1375 return to the bargaining table in an attempt to ease tensions that led to a picket being struck and injured by a van bringing replacement workers into the Warren plant.
 
Akiva Academy students participate in the burial of unusable holy materials in the Jewish ceremony of Geniza at Ohev Tzedek Cemetery in Cornersburg. The last time such a ceremony was held at the cemetery was in 1973.
 
Sharpsville Borough council agrees to sell a three-foot strip of land along Woodland Road to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, clearing the way for construction of a church on the four-acre plat the church already owned. 
 
1980: David Tod, president of Toro Enterprises, and Daniel Roth, vice president, are bullish on the Mahoning Valley as they negotiate for a lease of U.S. Steel Corp.'s McDonald Mills and give their support to Commuter Aircraft Corp.s' proposed aircraft plant at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
 
U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, tells about 100 people at a "Save Our Valley" rally on Youngstown's Federal Plaza that an unemployment rate of 12 to 14 percent in Mahoning and Trumbull counties is in the depression -- not recession -- range. 
 
Advertisement: World War II Warbird rides at Youngstown-Elser Airport. Fifteen-minute rides in a 1944 Air Force AT-6, $159; thirty minutes, $229. 
 
1970: Clyde B. Pike, 67, mayor of Lisbon, suffers a fatal heart attack while a passenger in a small plane over Salem Air Park.
 
Two buildings were destroyed, three damaged and 12 people injured in a fire that caused $400,000 damage in downtown New Castle, Pa.  
 
There are 125 chiefs of police in Youngstown for the annual convention of the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police at the Hotel Ohio. 
 
1945: Pvt. John J. Kirwan, who was stricken with infantile paralysis while stationed in Teheran, Persia, is flown to Long Island. His father, Congressman Michael J. Kirwan, had no notice of his coming.
 
Mahoning County will get about $600,000 over three years for road improvements under an accelerated federal highway program.
 
Mahoning Valley industrialists and businessmen are among the most "global-minded" he has met, says Harlan B. Clark, formerly of Brookfield and now the American consul at Aden, Arabia.