21 WFMJ archives / September 18,  1965 | The 16th annual convention of the Ohio Chapter of the NAACP was held at the Hotel Pick-Ohio in Youngstown 60 years ago.  Sen. Frank King, center, Ohio Senate Democratic leader and president of the Ohio AFL-CIO, told more than 100 delegates about new efforts to break down job discrimination in the state.  Left is Warren Pate of Columbus, chairman of the NAACP's state legislative action committee, and right is Marvin M. Young of Warren, publicity chairman for the state convention. 

September 17

2000: Federal efforts to equalize men's and women's sports teams have angered some students at Slippery Rock University. The university cannot afford to add enough women's teams to reach parity, so it is cutting programs, most notably the men's track team, which has been reduced from 70 members to 30.

Maureen Midgley, who arrived at General Motors' Lordstown Assembly Plant a year ago, is in line to replace Herman Maass, the plant manager who is two years away from retirement. 

The Youngstown State University Penguins scored their third win of the season, beating their Division I opponent, Kent State University, 26-20, before 13,600 fans at Dix Stadium. 

 

1985: Warren police arrest Danny Lee Hill, 18, on charges of aggravated murder and kidnapping in the death of Raymond Fife, 12,  on the same day that funeral services are held for Raymond at Covenant United Presbyterian Church. Members of Boy Scout Troop 5 formed an honor guard for their fellow Scout. 

Lambert C. Mims, mayor of Mobile, Ala.,  joins U.S. Rep. James Traficant  Jr. at Youngstown State University to launch a campaign for the construction of the Lake Erie-Ohio River canal. Mims said the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway was a boon to his city and others. 

The Springfield Local Board of Education hires Thomas Krispinsky as its new treasurer at a starting salary of $25,000. The former state examiner was selected from a pool of 60 applicants. 

 

1975: Inclusion of Amtrak rail passenger service between Cleveland, Youngstown, and Pittsburgh is still possible, says U.S. Sen. Robert Taft, R-Ohio. 

Contending that "it looks as though we've hit the bottom" of the economic recession, J. Maurice Struchen, Cleveland banker, tells about 250  business leaders in Youngstown that the city is "in a stronger economic situation than it has been for many years."

Fifty-one Youngstown area high school students are among 15,000 named semi-finalists in the 1976 National Merit Scholarship Program. 

 

1950: Judge Lynn B. Griffith of the 7th District Court of Appeals has planted 47,500  seedlings on his 324-acre  West Farmington farm over the last 16 years. A giant red oak, already huge when the judge was a boy, has a girth of 15 feet. 

Registration of voters in Mahoning County appears to be shooting toward an all-time high of more than 130,000.

Lt. Thomas Hess of Columbiana is awarded the Air Medal for flying supplies to American forces in Korea during the early days of the war.