Years Ago | March 16th

21 WFMJ archives / March 11, 1985 | A spring-like day brought out the marchers and the crowds for the St. Patrick's Day parade in Boardman 40 years ago.
March 16
2000: Second Harvest Foodbank of Mahoning County receives a donation of refrigerators and freezers from the Ohio Association of Foodbanks.
The Sharon Board of Education expels two students accused of calling in bomb threats to Sharon Middle/High School on Feb. 17 and 18.
Acting over the objections of local outdoorsmen and U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., the Ohio Department of Natural Resources fires Dennis Malloy, the state game warden assigned to Trumbull County. Bruce Knodel, owner of All Outdoors, says Malloy was the victim of a personality conflict with higher-ups.
1985: The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which oversees insurance for deposits in savings and loans nationwide, will "expedite" its consideration of insurance applications for Ohio loan institutions.
Sharon City Council opposes asbestos being buried in nearby Hermitage.
Black community leaders are using a Community Development Agency to demand contracts for minority businesses and minority employment on three downtown redevelopment projects.
1975: Two agents from the Immigration and Naturalization Service arrive in Youngstown and Canton, checking on leads that illegal immigrants are working in the area, depriving American citizens of jobs.
Aerialist Karl Wallenda, who has made over 1,000 death-defying skywalks in a legendary circus career, will bring his heart-stopping act to the Aut Mori Grotto Circus at the Struthers Field House.
Aristotle Onassis, who parlayed $60 into a fortune of $600 million, dies in a suburban Paris hospital. His wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, was in New York.
1950: Columbus Mayor James A. Rhodes tells the Mahoning County Republican Women's Club that the leadership of Byron Wade gave the Republican Party in Youngstown some of its worst years, not much better than the Democratic political machine.
Bond Clothing Co., at 23 W. Federal Street, opens its modern new shoe department on the remodeled second floor. Harry Hamilton is the manager of the new department.
The East Palestine School District is one of 100 ineligible for state financial assistance for school buildings because of its increasing tax valuation.