21 WFMJ archives / November 24, 1974 | Msgr. Donald J. Reagan, who holds a doctorate in musicology and theory, composed a Communion meditation for the Centennial Mass of Thanksgiving for the Ursuline Sisters held 49 years ago on November 24 at St. Columba Cathedral. Helping with adapting the lyrics of the "Magnificat" were Sister Cecelia, left, and Sister Germaine. Msgr. Reagan, pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church in Warren, was a student of Ursuline Sisters at St. Columba Elementary and Ursuline High School and returned to his alma mater as principal of the high school.
 
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1998: The minor league baseball team that will play in Niles will be called the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, and the motto will be "baseball with a bite."
 
Hiring by ExTerra Credit Recovery Inc., which moved into the fourth floor of the Phar-Mor Centre in downtown Youngstown, has been slower than expected, but company officials project 500 employees making $8 to $9 per hour by the end of 1999.
 
Plans for an amphitheater as the centerpiece of Warren Riverside Park get a major shot in the arm with a $40,000 pledge from the Warren Rotary Club. 
 
1983: Struthers Mayor Howard Heldman gives an interview after returning from a Florida vacation and warns that his Como Avenue home was damaged by fire while he was away in what was a warning "from people who live off of society."
 
The Mahoning County grand jury refuses to indict Dr. Ralph B. Vance of Salem on charges of practicing medicine without a license after he delivered a baby at a Sebring home in April. Dr. Vance, who has practiced in Salem for 40 years, allowed his license to expire in 1979 by failing to complete continuing education classes. He has since closed his office. 
 
Mrs. Elizabeth Columba McLaughlin, one of the founders of St. Edward Church in Youngstown, died of congestive heart failure at the age of 92. A daughter, Elizabeth, was the first child baptized at the church.
 
1973: A railroad engineer, Raymond Wilcox of Meadville, Pa., is killed and another trainman injured when half of a 28-car Erie-Lackawanna Railroad freight train derails near Windham.
 
Ross Browner of Warren, a freshman at Notre Dame, plays a defensive role in his team's 48-15 rout of Air Force. 
 
Harry Simmermon had the only service station open Thanksgiving Day on the Black Horse Pike in New Jersey, so he raised his prices for the day from 39 cents a gallon to 82 cents. Some motorists called him a crook; others were happy to find gas at any price. 
 
1948: A break in the main ammonia line caused 95 employees to flee the Hygrade Food Products Co. at 1540 South Avenue. Two women were treated at South Side Hospital after being overcome by fumes. 
 
Youngstown City Council authorizes a house-to-house survey to determine housing needs in the city. Volunteers are expected to conduct the survey. 
 
Trucks carrying the Wright Brothers plane Kitty Hawk arrive at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., where it will be displayed. The plane was returned from England.