21 WFMJ archives / September 15, 1998 | Brothers Nick and Paul Faulk, 8 and 3 years old, of East Liverpool, watched as the 285-foot-long riverboat Delta Queen landed at the Broadway Wharf in East Liverpool 25 years ago.

September 21

1998: A Missouri man who collects Pontiacs agrees to buy and restore Donald Gilson's 1981 Grand Prix, which the Hubbard man bought new for $8,200 and drove for 324,158 miles. Gilson kept meticulous records, which show that he spent $22,680 on gasoline. 

Attorneys representing six of the prisoners who escaped from Northeast Ohio Correction Center in Youngstown say they are considering a duress defense that would claim conditions at the private prison were so bad the prisoners had no alternative but to escape. 

The superintendent and nine other administrators in Struthers schools are doubling as janitors before and after school during a strike by service workers. 

1983: The Mahoning Valley Economic Development Corp. announces plans to develop an industrial park in Warren

The Niles city swimming pool at Waddell Park, which was built as a WPA project, needs as much as $500,000 in repairs before it can open in the summer of 1984.

Welfare rolls have grown to the point where one in eight of Mahoning County's 289,629 residents is on some type of welfare assistance. If receiving food stamps was included, it would be one in 6.6.

1973: Mayor Jack C. Hunter promises that a new downtown Youngstown mall will be designed in a way that will preserve the Man on the Monument. 

NASA started studies aimed at eventually putting a woman in space. 

1948: Youngstown Mayor Charles P. Henderson suggests the Youngstown income tax be increased from 0.3 percent to 0.5 percent so that city employees could be given overdue raises of 12 percent. 

The Cleveland Indians are one game from regaining first place in the American League, and Ronald Mazur, a Cleveland businessman who ordered 50,000 championship pennants, is putting them on sale.