Years Ago | September 4th

21 WFMJ archives / September 8 , 1973 | Striking Youngstown City School District personnel crowded around the Mahoning County Courthouse 50 years ago while awaiting a decision by Common Pleas Judge Clyde Osborne on the board of education’s request for an injunction.
September 4
1998: An emergency room doctor at Trumbull Memorial Hospital and a Canfield couple who left two young sons are among the 229 passengers who died when Swiss Air Flight 111 crashed off Nova Scotia. Dr. Robert L. Stauter, an Iowa native, and Barry and Julie Colmery of Joyce Ann Drive were among the casualties.
Easy Street Productions, starring Todd Hancock and Maureen Collins, presents “Journey through Time," a musical review, at the Canfield Fair grandstands.
Fred Dailey, state director of agriculture, announces at the Canfield Fair that Gov. George Voinovich's capital budget will include $5 million for improvements at fairgrounds across the state.
1983: Sarah Darrow, 66, dies in a fire at 1514 Ohio Avenue, apparently while attempting to save her 20-month-old granddaughter, Kathleen, who was hospitalized in critical condition.
Disenchanted area Ohio gamblers are flocking across the state line to buy Pennsylvania lottery tickets because the stakes are higher and rules looser.
Youngstown State University instructor Maureen Mitchell returns from a 16-day trip to the Soviet Union and says the average Russian seems to share the average American's hope for peace and concern about possible nuclear war.
1973: More than 1,000 Youngstown public school teachers go on strike, setting up picket lines at 44 Youngstown City School District buildings.
State Fire Marshal M.J. Melillo attempts to determine the cause of an explosion that rocked Bloomfield Center in northern Trumbull County, disintegrating the Colonial Inn and causing $100,000 in damage.
The Canfield Fair ends a five-day run that attracted 409,880 visitors during a heat wave, about 30,000 fewer than the previous year.
1948: Two armed bandits hold up the State Line Club, a notorious gambling joint on the Ohio-Pennsylvania line in Trumbull County. They escaped with $2,000 after one of the club owners and several patrons were forced to lie on the floor.
Youngstown Police Chief Edward J. Allen suspends a jail turnkey in connection with the jailing of John McLaughlin, who spent six hours in a cell before it was found he was bleeding badly from stab wounds. He died after being taken to South Side Hospital.
S. Joseph "Sandy" Naples, who was returned to the Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary in Pittsburgh on a parole violation, has been re-paroled and told to "go to Youngstown."