21 WFMJ archives / November 22, 1996 | Russ Houser steadies canned goods as Justin Parrock (not pictured) places some more sweet peas atop a pyramid the two Austintown Fitch honor students were constructing 29 years ago. The food collected by students was distributed to needy families over the holidays.

November 20

 2000: Girard Mayor James Melfi has halted the practice of allowing a Girard company to dump septic tank waste for free at the city treatment plant. The EPA fined the city $38,500 for discharging toxic waste into the Mahoning River, and a consultant says some of the toxicity may have come from septic waste. 

The 78-year-old Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Brier Hill office building on U.S. Route 422 will be razed.  

Fred Taylor of the Jacksonville Jaguars scored three running touchdowns and one passing touchdown in a 234-yard romp against the Pittsburgh Steelers, winning 34-24 at Three Rivers Stadium. Linebacker Joey Porter said it will be tough to watch film of the game.  

 

1985: Danny Lee Hill, 18,  and Timothy Combs, 17, who have been charged in the murder of 12-year-old Raymond Fife of Warren, will be tried separately, Trumbull Common Pleas Judge David F. McLain rules. 

A 17-year-old Pittsburgh youth and a 16-year-old girl have told Youngstown police that Richard Banyots, 25, of Girard, was abducted and driven to near McKeesport, Pa., where he was shot to death and his body thrown in the Clairton River. There may be a third suspect at large. 

Nick Julian of Youngstown, a 54-year-old retired railroad brakeman, is resting comfortably in Presbyterian University Hospital after getting his second heart transplant in two years. He had been told in December that his heart was failing and a second transplant would eventually be necessary. 

 

1975: The cities of Canton and Cincinnati must obey a state law that requires them to add fluoride to their water, the Ohio Supreme Court rules.

Western Europe's last surviving dictator, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, dies after an illness of 34 days, setting the stage for a power struggle between his reactionary supporters and advocates of democracy. 

The Mahoning County Joint Vocational School Board is considering drilling for natural gas on the school's 158-acre campus. 

 

1950: A Youngstown Army captain whose regiment was surrounded by Chinese Reds and almost wiped out on Nov. 2 in  Korea is reported missing. Capt. William A. McLain, 29,  is commanding officer of Co. E., Eighth Regiment, First Cavalry Division. 

Boardman Township outvoted every other subdivision in Mahoning County and gave U.S. Sen. Robert A. Taft 84 percent of its vote. Democrat Joseph Ferguson carried the cities, but the rest of Mahoning County gave Taft a 9,885-vote margin of victory. 

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. will implement a payroll deduction plan to help employees finance their Community Chest and Red Feather contributions. A large number of Sheet & Tube's 17,000 employees have already signed up.