21 WFMJ archives / August 6,  1962 | Nearly 1,000 young people from throughout the United States were registered 63 years ago for the week-long annual missionary conference on the campus of Westminster College at New Wilmington, Pa.

August 12

2000: Pat Buchanan, a frequent visitor to the Mahoning Valley over the years, wins the Reform Party's presidential nomination and will challenge Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush. 

Ohio supporters of consumer advocate Ralph Nader, including some in the Mahoning Valley, launch a campaign to get his name on the presidential ballot in November. 

The Sandy Creek Conservancy in Stoneboro, Pa., is looking for $2.1 million for the 150-acre Sandy Lake from Lakeside Park Co. 

 

1985: Youngstown native Judge Nathanial Jones of the Sixth District U.S. Appeals Court is released without charges in Johannesburg, South Africa, two hours after he was arrested on charges of illegally entering a black township. The charge carries up to 10 years in prison. 

Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro names Atty. Edwin Romero, the city law director, demoted Law Director William Higgins to deputy. 

Dr. Andrew W. Miglets, a practicing physician in the Youngstown area for more than 50 years, dies of cancer in South Side Hospital. 

 

1975: After debating several options, the Mahoning County Welfare Advisory Board's answer to the $1.3 million deficit at the Mahoning County Nursing Home is a piggyback sales tax. 

Two suspected arsonists are in St. Elizabeth Hospital with massive burns after an explosion and fire destroyed a vacant house at 142 Kenmore Ave. in Youngstown. 

A security guard at Youngstown State University suffers a heart attack and dies while chasing a vandal across campus. William C. Comm, 41, was pronounced dead at St. Elizabeth Hospital. 

 

1950: Ethel Greenglass Rosenburg is arrested in New York in connection with a roundup of Americans suspected of aiding Russia in accessing America's nuclear secrets. 

David McClintic, a lifeguard at Lake Milton, recovered a diamond ring that fell off the finger of city finance director J. Emerson Davis into 15 feet of water during an outing at the lake. 

A powerful force of B-29s, striking within 17 miles of the Russian border, blasts the North Korean port city of Najin with 500 tons of bombs.