21 WFMJ archives / September 4,  1980 | Driver Louis Olivera oversaw children at Stambaugh Elementary School as they boarded his WRTA  bus on the second day under a new transportation setup for Youngstown city students 45 years ago.  Olivera was running only 10 minutes behind; some buses were an hour late. 

September 4

2000: The country music group Alabama headlines the Sunday night show at the Canfield Fair.

A 13-month-old boy is in critical condition in a Pittsburgh hospital after being shot during a gunfight at 764 Parkman Road in Warren. 

Youngstown State University faculty and staff garnered grants totaling $3.5 million in the 1999-2000  fiscal year. 

 

1985: Youngstown city schools open with an estimated enrollment of 15,500, about 200 fewer than a year earlier. 

General Motors officials inform the Lordstown Village Council that hazardous waste produced at the GM fabricating plant poses no environmental threat because it is either treated on-site or shipped to authorized disposal sites. 

Campbell teachers end their one-day strike, accepting a new contract that sets a starting salary of $15,537.

 

1975: Miss Ohio, Susan Kay Banks of Ravenna, wins the first of three preliminary talent contests in the Miss America pageant.

Youngstown City Council says it will investigate charges by the Fraternal Order of Police that Police Chief Donald Baker has caused a severe lack of morale in the department's ranks.

Fire of undetermined origin destroys a large warehouse at Barth Farms on E. Western Reserve Road, despite the efforts of more than 100 firefighters from five departments. There were 28,000 birds in other buildings, but no livestock was lost. 

 

1950: Two of the reasons that the Cleveland Browns have racked up four wins in their exhibition games are Otto Graham at quarterback and Forrest "Chubby" Grigg at tackle. 

Muriel L. Dunlap of Montrose, Pa., is named director of nursing at the Youngstown Hospital School of Nursing.

Burglars break into the Keystone Bakery at 33 E. Myrtle Ave., ransack the office, and escape with a 1,800-pound safe that contained $3,500 in cash and checks.