21 WFMJ archives  / July 14, 1999 |  Greg Moring, an art professor at Youngstown State University, held a model of the sculpture he designed to be installed 25 years ago in front of Bliss Hall. The partially completed work is visible on the left.

July 20


1999: Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Andrew Logan sentences a 40-year-old Austintown man to 8 years in prison for embezzling $3.5 million over three years from the Traical Construction Co. of Niles by issuing payments to nonexistent companies. 

City Council approved a lease agreement that will allow the Mansfield Hawks of the International Basketball Association to play at least 17 games at the South High Field House.

  
White Hat Management of Akron, which operates charter schools throughout the state, will open two charter schools in Youngstown in the fall, including a school for at-risk high school students. 


1984: The Paramount Theater in downtown Youngstown is up for sale after its owners, Richard Blackwell and William Andrews, abandon their plans to save the historic structure.

A small group of Mercer County Democrats says they are backing Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Ridge of Erie's re-election in Pennsylvania's 21st district.  

A former Youngstown city employee, Freeman Davis, 56, is shot to death in his 1977 Lincoln Continental in the driveway of an abandoned garage on Hawthorne Street. A neighbor heard one shot and saw two men run from the scene. 


1974: Actor Joe Flynn, a Youngstown native known for performing as peevish Capt. Binghamton, on "McHale's Navy," accidentally drowns in the swimming pool of his Hollywood home. 

Turkey invades Cyprus by air and sea. Fourteen Kent State University students, including Holly Morris of Warren, are on an archeological expedition in Cyprus.

The Rev. Donald William Pletcher, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Pletcher of Boardman, is ordained to the ministry in Martin Luther Lutheran Church. He will assume a pastorate in Indiana. 


1949: John Thornton, a CIO leader and member of the NAACP, resigns from the group's community relations committee after he fails to force the NAACP to be more aggressive on the issue of violence at city swimming pools. 

Rerouting U.S. Route 224 through Poland will make it a straight expressway and divide the village into two segments, opponents of the proposed change assert at a public hearing. 

The second pop concert of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra attracts 600 people to the Idora Park Pavilion. The crowd applauded the orchestra and then enjoyed a free dance.