Years Ago | September 12th

Vindicator file photo / September 12, 1957 Officers of the Youngstown Girl Scout Council were installed 65 years ago at a meeting at Camp Millwood on Gault Road. From left, seated, Mrs. Robert Brenner, vice president; Mrs. William G. McCollum, president; standing, Mrs. Raymond Lupse, vice president; Donald Lynn, treasurer, and Mrs. Dahl Creed, recording secretary. Officers not pictured were Mrs. Jerold Meyer and Mrs. Glenn Curran.
September 12
1997: Jeff Hundt, chairman of the state commission overseeing Youngstown city schools, says that if the district's 950 teachers go on strike, Youngstown police and the Mahoning County Sheriff's Department will provide security, not a Michigan company with a reputation as a strike-breaker.
Canfield's planning and zoning commission votes 4-0 against approving a variance that would have allowed drilling a mile-deep natural gas well at Hilltop School.
A ribbon cutting is held at the Ice Zone hokey and skating rink on McClurg Road in Boardman.
1982: Commuter Aircraft Corp. is looking for a temporary tenant for its rapidly rising airplane assembly plant until it is ready to use, says Ken C. Gordon, vice president of sales. CAC plans to build a 60-passenger, $5 million aircraft at the plant at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Youngstown’s North and East sides remain solidly Democratic, but some Republican candidates have developed solid support in those areas, the first returns of The Vindicator's straw poll shows.
The Rev. W. Dale Cryderman, Eastern Area Bishop for the Free Methodist Church of North America, speaks at the dedication of the new Free Methodist Church on McCarty Drive in Canfield.
1972: The Youngstown income tax division submits several hundred warrants naming alleged tax evaders for service by the police department.
The Sharon Board of Education switches the remainder of the fall football schedule from Friday nights to Saturday afternoons following a post-game incident that left four people injured.
Twelve weeks after a flood by the Susquehanna River washed away as many as 2,000 bodies from the 200-year-old Forty Fort, Pa., cemetery, people downstream are still horrified to find body parts along the shore.
1947: Four United Steelworkers Union officials are ordered to appear before Judge Erskine Maiden to show why they should not be held in contempt after violence broke out again on the picket line at Superior Industries Co.
The $1.3 million bid by Charles Shutrump and Sons for the construction of the Spring Commons Bridge in Youngstown is rejected by the state highway director as too high. The state estimated the cost at $1.1 million.
U.S. Sen. Edward Martin, R-Pa., tells the nation's steel executives that their "public be damned attitude" may lead to government policing or even nationalization of their industry. Benjamin Fairless, president of U.S. Steel, says companies are doing the best they can under tremendous demand for their products.