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Years Ago | September 1st
Interesting moments in our Valley's history are revisited with this daily trip back in time.
Wednesday, August 31st 2022, 9:43 PM EDT
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Vindicator file photo / September 1, 1973 | Lt. Co. Robert Fisher administered the oath of office to three Youngstown State University ROTC cadets sworn in as lieutenants in the Army 49 years ago. From the left, Patrick J. Briceland, Robert E. Burns, and Robert Lee.
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1997: A ban on smoking in the Youngstown police station announced by Chief Randall Wellington sends desk-bound police officers outside to get a smoke.
The Warren Board of Education agrees to continue dropping students off at daycare centers at the end of the school day while studying whether the service can continue as an increasing number of parents request it.
William Holmes McGuffey's boyhood home, which sits on a 73-acre farm in Coitsville, is on the register of historic places but is in need of restoration.
1982: George Tyger, 77, proprietor of the Paint Pot at 2501 Glenwood Avenue, is in guarded condition in South Side Hospital after being shot by a robber at his shop. Tyger told police he was shot before he was given a chance to give the men the money they demanded.
Fire raced through a vacant block-long on N. Liberty St. in the Mahoningtown section of New Castle, Pa. Fourteen off-duty firemen were called out to fight the fire.
About 200 people from various area labor unions picket in support of 700 striking union members at Trumbull Memorial Hospital.
1972: Sharon Steel Corp. proudly unveils its $3.7 million "gift of cleaner air for Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania," a new emission control system for its Roemer Works basic oxygen furnace.
Brookfield Township officials announce that unlicensed motorcycles operated on public roads will be confiscated.
The kidneys of Wesley Thompson, 17, of Salem, who was killed in a traffic accident, were removed and taken to Cleveland University Hospital for transplant.
1947: Detective Ted O'Connor, head of the Youngstown police juvenile division, urges school children to obey safety patrol members, "just as if they were policemen," to avoid accidents when schools reopen.
Severe thunderstorms send 10 of Idora Park's roaming monkeys back to their cages in search of shelter. Seventeen remain at large, most of them in Mill Creek Park.
The midway will be open at Craig Beach for Labor Day fun, with the Tommy Clunen band playing for dancing, followed by fireworks.