21 WFMJ archives / September 12,  1984 |  These are just five of the 160 members of the Liberty High School band who were performing a high-stepping routine during a show 41 years ago. 

September 20

2000: The nation's largest producer of railroad cars announces it will not acquire YSD Industries in Austintown, but has ordered 1,400 doors for refrigerated rail cars from the company. Trinity Industries of Dallas requires doors for a contract with the Burlington Northern Railroad. 

Atty. Edward Flask, a former member of the board of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District who pleaded guilty to accepting $2 million in cash and favors from vendors doing business with the MVSD, was sentenced to 3 months in jail by U.S. District Judge Richard Markus. 

Based on expected results of the 2000 census, the village of Columbiana is preparing for its new status as a city. 

 

1985: The Trumbull County Nursing Home is rapidly running out of operating funds and slowly running out of residents as county officials debate whether it should be closed. 

The Ohio Bureau of Employment Services announces two grants totaling $546,000 to aid unemployed steel and other metal workers in Youngstown and Trumbull County.

Six people remain hospitalized after the evacuation of about 150 residents from the O'Brien Memorial Nursing Home in Brookfield, after a combination of cleaning agents being used by a custodian created chlorine gas. 

 

1975: Richard Lacovaneglo, 26-year-old coach of the Beaver Local Schools football team, is killed in a crash between two cars and a truck on state Route 154, a mile east of state Route 11. 

Dr. Charles A. Glatt, a nationally recognized desegregation expert and professor at Ohio State University, was shot and killed in a federal building in Dayton, where he was writing a desegregation proposal for Dayton city schools. 

Gov. James A. Rhodes vetoes a bill repealing the Ferguson Act, calling the public employee right-to-strike law, "a long step backward in providing efficient and uninterrupted service for people of the state."

 

1950: Developer Edward DeBartolo says he is abandoning plans to build a shopping center on Canfield Road near the Kirkmere housing development after 325 residents voice their opposition during a meeting at the Mill Creek Park Chestnut Hill pavilion. 

Pvt. Herbert McClendon, 19, of Campbell, was killed in action in Korea on Sept. 6, his parents were informed by a telegram from the Department of Defense.

Approximately one-fifth of the students enrolled in public schools are "nonacademic pupils" who will not be able to read at a sixth-grade level, says Paul Smith, principal of Hayes Junior High School, during an Optimist Club meeting.