21 WFMJ archives / September  1950 | Riders and their ponies awaited judging 50  years ago before a crowd at the Canfield Fair. 

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2000: The cost to raze seven downtown Youngstown buildings that a consultant says are past saving will be $2  million to $4 million. 

Two local attorneys who mounted a campaign to save the rights to the Packard automobile name and trademark announce they will not bid when the auction opens, as the starting bid will be $1 million. 

Warren police are holding a 16-year-old suspect in the city's latest homicide, the shooting death of John T. Williamson, 18.

 

1985: Following a stormy session called by U. S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., Jackson Township trustees agree to a plan to split tax revenue with Youngstown if the Ronneburg Brewery is built at Youngstown Commerce Park. 

Girard teachers are in the classroom after a new two-year contract brought an end to their strike.  

Keith W. Brantley, an honor graduate of Struthers High School in 1977 and Youngstown State University in 1981, received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Ohio State University. 

 

1975: Fred Sheperd of Salem and Dawn LaRue Kuhns are crowned king and queen of 4-H on the opening day of the Canfield Fair. 

A majority of Youngstown's police force is prepared to go on strike if Mayor Jack C. Hunter does not rehire a first-year patrolman with three days remaining on his probationary period. 

Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent E. Gilmartin launches an unexpected investigation into alleged sexual irregularities among prisoners at the Mahoning County Jail. 

 

1950: Three Youngstown people, two from Niles and one from Boardman, are among the 45 people injured in a Baltimore & Ohio two-train collision near Connellsville, Pa. 

A walkout by CIO workers idles the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Campbell Works during a visit by U.S. Sen. Robert Taft. 

The Poland Board of Education discusses plans for a $100,000 annex to Poland Seminary High School to handle increasing enrollment.