21 WFMJ archives  / November 15 1984 | The once-bustling McNicholas Transportation Co. terminal at 255 W. Federal Street was leased 40 years ago by Bruce J. Zoldan, who announced plans to turn the building into a plant manufacturing sparklers and employing about 100 people. 

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1999: The proposal for a new single high school near Youngstown State University supported by the Youngstown Board of Education and by Schools 2000, a community-based group, is dead, says Randall Fisher, director of the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission, and Superintendent Ben McGee.

Hill Barth & King, an accounting firm based in Boardman that is among the 50 largest in the nation, is celebrating its 50th anniversary and plans to grow even further.

The Youngstown Central Area Community Improvement Corp. is considering four proposals for reusing the old First Federal Bank Building on West Federal, including one for a Harley-Davidson-themed bar. 

1984: Two men and two women entered the Wonderland Pet Store in Liberty Plaza while the store was crowded, grabbed a green parrot valued at $100 from its cage and escape to a waiting car.

The teacher union that is suing three Southern Local School District teachers who are challenging compulsory union membership says that only 10 percent of the dues collected is spent on political activity, so the teachers must still pay the 90 percent that is spent on bargaining or other allowable expenses.

Atty. Robert P. Milich, Youngstown's assistant law director administrator of the 910th Tactical Clinic at the Air Force Reserve Base at Youngstown Municipal Airport, is elected president of the National Society of Air Force Reserve Medical Service Corps Officers.

1974: Fire destroys a third-floor storage room and a portion of the roof at the Sacred Heart Retreat House on Logan Way.

A.C. Cook Chevrolet of Canfield buys 100 Chevrolet Vegas to express confidence in the Lordstown Assembly Plant. Charles Abernathy, manager of the GM plant, delivers the keys to Cook.

Milton E. Mollenkopf, former Harding High principal for whom the stadium was named in 1964, dies in Trumbull Memorial Hospital at the age of 83.

1949: Construction of a proposed auto parking garage over the Erie Railroad tracks downtown moves closer as the Greater Youngstown Growth Foundation prepares to start two engineering studies of the unique structure. About 30,000 people cheer a gala parade welcoming Santa Claus to downtown Youngstown.

Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning of New York, who once preached a sermon criticizing King Edward VIII for abdicating the throne to marry a divorcee and who barred Elliot Roosevelt from serving as a vestryman at St. James Church in Hyde Park because he was divorced, dies at 83.