November 14

1999: Bruce Beeghly, chairman of the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees, says labor market statistics show growing opportunities for graduates with two-year degrees while YSU's enrollment is going in the opposite direction. Beeghly and other board members want the next president of YSU to be intensely interested in expanding two-year programs.

Coach Jim Tressel's YSU Penguins beat Villanova 28-21 in an away game to end the season with a 9-2 record and guarantee a NCAA Division 1-AA playoff game.

It doesn't appear that the multimillion-dollar cleanup of pesticides at the Nease Chemical Co. property on Benton Road in Salem will begin anytime soon. Additional reports must be completed for the EPA before work starts at the 44-acre site, which was abandoned in 1973.

1984: Youngstown State University will scale down its two-year nursing program, which will admit only 35 students this term and expand its bachelor of science in nursing degree program, says Victor Richley, dean of the  College of Applied Science and Technology.

Thomas J. Barrett, 63, a Boardman Township trustee and a vice president of Butler Wick & Co., dies of a heart attack.

A new book, "Natural Disasters: Acts of God or Acts of Man" says that disasters are killing more people each year and suggests that destruction of the environment, especially in Third World countries, is responsible. 

1974: Ten German shepherds trained as guard dogs are in the Mahoning County dog pound after being removed from their quarters in N. Meridian Road by the Humane Society, Austintown police, and dog warden Dan Pecchio.

A large group of Vienna-area residents turns out for the dedication of Booster Field, home of the Matthews High Mustangs football team. The name reflects the efforts of the Booster Club in building the field.

East Ohio Gas Co. has informed the Youngstown district's busy industrial firms, already operating with curtailed natural gas supplies, that more cuts are coming. 

1949: Three persons are killed and a fourth seriously injured when a two-door sedan they were riding in was struck by an Erie Railroad freight train at the N. Main Street crossing in Niles.

The Army-Navy Union's Ohio Department lifts a charter issued to the Halls Corners Garrison 504 that had been used to provide a liquor license to the Jungle Inn, Trumbull County's mob-run gambling den.