Vindicator file photo /  September  27, 1974 | The highest honor of Scottish Rite Freemasonry was conferred at the Hadden Hall Hotel in Atlanta 48 years ago during the annual meeting of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite for 15 northeastern and midwestern states.  Among the 206 who received the degree as part of the 1974 class were, from left, Clifford M. Powell and John H. Wanamaker, both of Youngstown, and William C. McCleery of Richmond, Ohio. 
 
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1997: Sixty-eight farmers ask South Pymatuning, Pa., township supervisors to support designating their land as an agricultural security area.
 
Denny Flora scores three touchdowns, including the game-winner with 5:30 remaining, to lead New Wilmington to a 33-30  victory over St. Ambrose. 
 
Struthers and Campbell city officials are leading the opposition to a Mahoning-Trumbull county tax to support Youngstown-Warren  Regional Airport. 
 
1982: St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center has increased its room rates by nearly $10 per day, to a  range of $139 to $145 per day for semi-private and $144 to $157 for private rooms. An intensive coronary care unit room will cost $326 per day. 
 
Girard Municipal Court Judge Anthony Bernard finds that Ohio's law regulating the sale of fireworks is confusing and contradictory, and he dismisses charges filed by Hubbard Township Police Chief John Karlovic against Naples Wholesale Fireworks. 
 
General Motors Chairman Roger B. Smith tells a congressional panel that the undervaluation of the Japanese yen gives Japan's automakers a growing advantage when pricing cars for sale in the United States. 
 
1972: Two of four suspected bandits in a robbery at the Hubbard branch of Mahoning National Bank are arrested by Youngstown detectives, who spotted their getaway car on Liberty Road minutes after the robbery. 
 
Expenditures to combat increasing pollution of Meander Reservoir help boost the cost of MVSD water to the highest level in its 40-year history. 
 
1947: The old Turner property at 125 E. Commerce St. has been purchased by the YMCA  for its future expansion program at a cost of $14,000.
 
Sen. Robert Taft, R-Ohio,  charges that "half" the CIO unions are "Communist-dominated."
 
Youngstown College crushes Baldwin-Wallace, 26-6, before a hometown crowd at Rayen Stadium.