21 WFMJ archives / September 13,  1968 | Youngstown Patrolman Mike Polovischak was obviously delighted to meet U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie and get an autograph during Muskie's campaign visit to Youngstown 57 years ago.

September 14

2000: Youngstown State University plans an aggressive campaign to recruit and retain students after enrollment drops from 15,454 in 1990  to $11,787 in 2000.

A $400,000 settlement from the 1993 investment scandal involving former Treasurer Ardel Strabala is providing Columbiana County commissioners with some wiggle room in balancing the budget. 

One of the wildest games yet at Cafaro Field ends with the Scrappers' Henry Pichardo hitting a game-ending home run in the 11th inning to keep the team's playoff hopes alive. The Scrappers beat the Staten Island Yankees  9-8. 

 

1985: The Trumbull County coroner rules that Raymond Fife, the 12-year-old Boy Scout who died two days after being brutally attacked, died of strangulation. 

During a visit to Warren, Gus Hall, 74, general chairman of the Communist Party USA, says it is likely that rumors of LTV closing its Warren Works are true. Hall helped organize the United Steelworkers at the mill in 1937.

The Rev. Carole Gerthung McCartney, a graduate of Austintown Fitch High and Colgate Rochester Divinity School, is named pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church in Auburn, N.Y.  

 

1975: Philip H. Smith, chairman of Copperweld Corp, says the company is going to fight Baron Guy De Rothschild over a French offer to buy Copperweld. 

Grocery store items in Youngstown over the last year have zigged and zagged from month to month, but the net result is a 12.9 percent increase for the year. 

Opposition is growing among Pennsylvania officials over a proposed fossil-fuel/nuclear-powered energy park near Sheakleyville. 

 

1950: Youngstown's hope for a federal grant of $265,000 to cover engineering costs for a $10 million sewer project is rejected by the General Services Administration. 

Officials at a half-dozen New York hospitals are amazed that William MacLeod, a suave, mustachioed "doctor,"  could practice medicine without a license and with little formal training for five years,  delivering 475 babies. 

Lawrence County commissioners vote to turn over a farmhouse on Ellwood City Road to the Lawrence County Tuberculosis Association for use as an isolation hospital for tuberculosis patients.