21 WFMJ archives / November 17, 1994 | Students from Rayen School and Harding Learning Center marched along Cordova near the schools 31 years ago in a parade against drugs and crime.

November 18

 2000: Paul Marcone, U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr.'s chief of staff, says Traficant will continue to call himself a Democrat and run as a Democrat, but will likely caucus with House Republicans and vote for Republican Dennis Hastert as speaker.

A book by Sherry Linkin, a Youngstown State University English teacher, "Teaching Working Class," is listed as one of the top 10 academic books of the 1990s by the national academic journal Lingua Franca. 

Sixty fifth graders at Farrell Elementary School donate books to the Farrell Elementary Library as a tribute to Superintendent John Sava, who died of a heart attack in September. 

 

1985: The Boardman Board of Education will ask the Ohio High School Athletic Association to review the athletic eligibility of Marcell Driver, a Detroit teenager allegedly recruited to play basketball for Boardman. 

Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Mitchell F. Shaker says the county should put a 0.2-mill bond issue on the ballot that would produce $4 million over 20 years for repair and maintenance of the Courthouse. 

Advertisement: The Monday Musical Club presents Gran Folklorico De Mexico, straight from Mexico City, presenting Latin rhythms and joyous sounds in a fiesta atmosphere at Stambaugh Auditorium.

 

1975: Youngstown police, summoned by an alert neighbor, arrest a youth who broke into a McCartney Road home and held two women at knifepoint. 

John C. Wilson, 54, a driver for the Salem Potato Chip Co., is in guarded condition in North Side Hospital after being pistol-whipped by two robbers.

Pupils at Jefferson School in Youngstown welcome Sir John Pitman, inventor of the Initial Teaching Alphabet, to the school. Teacher Connie Rosselli has been using Pittman's phonetic alphabet in her classroom since 1966.

 

1950: The 45,000-ton battleship New Jersey, flagship of Admiral Halsey's third fleet in the Pacific, is recommissioned after being mothballed in 1948.

Picketing by tailors and alteration workers at Strouss-Hirshberg and Charles Livingston & Son has tied up deliveries and threatens to spread to three more downtown stores.