21 WFMJ archives  / September 13, 1995 | Old or unusable holy objects were buried at Ohev Tzedek Cemetery on Tippecanoe Road 29 years ago in the Jewish ceremony of Geniza conducted by Rabbi Mitchell Kornspan.  Students from Akiva Academy participated, with Lawrence Kutler, director of the academy, standing beside Rabbi Kornspan.

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1999: A $438,000 water tower completed 18 months ago remains empty because Beloit and Sebring can’t agree on a price for bulk water.

Sharon Mayor Robert Price says the city has its first house, a two-story frame house on Bell Street donated by the owner, ready for sale to a family for $1.

Iron Mountain of Boston purchases National Underground Storage Inc., an old limestone mine in northern Butler County with 23 huge rooms where paper records are stored. The YSU Penguins hold off Indiana (Pa.) University, 13-7, before 15,022 fans at Stambaugh Stadium. 


1984: U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, R-17th, criticizes President Ronald Reagan for not imposing quotas on foreign steel imports.

Liberty Local Schools are back to normal after non-teaching employees reached a settlement ending their one-week strike.

Christina Bott, an Austintown Fitch freshman, is one of 11 national winners of a weanling quarter horse from Bob Evans Farms. She wrote an essay about her 4-H experience. 


1974: Ohio Edison Co. is granted a 15.5 percent rate increase by the Youngstown City Council for all residential and commercial customers.


Dr. Ralph Cicerone, a Michigan scientist formerly of New Castle, Pa., says the manmade gases already released by aerosol sprays will cause a marked reduction in the atmosphere's protective ozone layer by 1985 or 1990.

Torrential rains from Hurricane Fifi drenched the mountainous coast of Honduras as the big storm, with winds of 110 mph, headed for landfall in Central America.


1949: Youngstown survivors of the Noronic fire in Toronto begin arriving home with harrowing tales of their escapes and the hopeless plight of trapped passengers. The confirmed death toll stands at 121, with more expected.


Three women narrowly escape death when a large plate glass window crashes down from the fourth floor of the Callahan Building above the bus arcade in W. Federal Street. Mrs. Sam McGinnis, Mrs. Ella McGinnis, and Miss Harriet Broll are Treated for shock. 


Youngstown's first hunting fatality of the squirrel season is reported when the body of John Nevoinsky, 22, of E. Marion Avenue, is found near Andover. He accidentally shot himself while climbing over a fence.