March 16, 1977: Addressing the Youngstown Association of Credit Managers, Youngstown Mayor Jack C.

March 16, 1977: Addressing the Youngstown Association of Credit Managers, Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter says he believes there is a bright future for the Midwest, that he's cautiously optimistic about the future of the steel industry and he believes flight to the suburbs will taper off in 10 years.
It's official: Edward J. DeBartolo Jr. is the new owner of the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. DeBartolo beat out three other bidders, including comedian Bob Hope, paying an estimated $16.5 million for 100 percent control of the team.
Surgeons report removing a benign ovarian cyst weighing 65 pounds from a Youngstown woman whose name was not provided to reporters. She now says she was "dumb" and should have sought medical advice when she first noticed an enlargement in her abdomen in 1974.
March 16, 1962 Two new high schools, accommodating 2,600 pupils, are being planned by the Diocese of Youngstown, says the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, bishop of Youngstown. One school will be built at Central Parkway and Van Wye in Warren and named Annunciation High. The other will be built in Stark County.
Three Youngstown brothers with an unofficial championship for truancy -- one of them skipped 109 of 124 days since September -- are told by Juvenile Court Judge Harold S. Rickert if they play hooky one more time they'll be sent to the Boys Industrial School.
The chairman of Grove City College's history department, dismissed for alleged "incompetence," says he will ask the America Association of University Professors to investigate. Five faculty members who resigned in protest suggest that Dr. Larry Gara was fired because he is a conscientious objector. The college denies that charge.
March 16, 1952: Investment by the federal government in low-rent housing in Youngstown continues to pay dividends in terms of decency and self-respect for hundreds of Youngstowner living in the Westlake Housing project.
Rigid enforcement of load limits on state highways in the Petersburg area, leading to the western end of the Pennsylvania Turnpike nets $15,500 in fines in little over two months and saved thousands of dollars in road damage, say highway patrol officers from the Massillon post.
Ohio Gov. Frank J. Lausche insists that state and federal agencies report quickly on developments in the fight against anthrax, the livestock-threatening disease that has killed 104 hogs in 17 Ohio counties.
March 16, 1927: "A municipal university would save the parents of Youngstown $1 million a year and would bring into the city another million from outside students," says C.J. Colmery, secretary of the Board of Trade in an address before the New East Side Improvement Club.
Cash and pledges of $600 are secured in the opening day of a drive for funds to build a West Side branch library. The goal is $10,000.
Record crowds attend the two day exposition of food and household appliances at the Rayen-Wood Auditorium.
Benjamin Franklin Smith, last of four brothers who left South Freedom, Maine, in 1857 to seek their fortunes and help found Omaha. Is dead at the age of 96 in Boston. He was believed to be the richest man in New England, worth $50 million.
March 17, 1977: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter is asking his department heads to study the feasibility of closing City Hall on Saturdays to conserve energy. City Hall is usually open from 8 am.. to noon on Saturdays, but business is reported light.
The 7th District Court of Appeals affirms a lower court decision restoring 41 Youngstown city employees to the jobs after they had been fired in 1976 for striking in violation of the state's Ferguson Law.
A Common Pleas court in Franklin County reverses a decision by the Ohio Board of Education and ordered the transfer of 107 acres of Coitsville Township from the Youngstown to the Campbell School District.
March 17, 1962: Representative Michael J. Kirwan spends a "very pleasant" 20 minutes with President Kennedy when he calls at the White House to extend St. Patrick's Day greetings.
John N. Morgan Jr. is the "1962 Protestant Man of the Year. Morgan is president of Youngstown's Council 0f Churches and serves Pilgrim Collegiate Church as president of the board and president of the congregation.
Federal court in Youngstown will render greater service to area citizens with the addition of a deputy clerk on a permanent basis, says U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti. He names James Napoli to the post.
March 17, 1952: Two buildings, including a diner, are demolished when four cars of a Cleveland to Youngstown freight train derail at the S. Main St. crossing in Warren. The Mayflower Diner, which was closed and empty, was leveled.
Youngstown Mayor Charles Henderson and Campbell Mayor Michael J. Kovach promise to help Puerto Ricans get better housing conditions in the area at a meeting sponsored by the Spanish-American Goodwill Club. Both mayor apologize for anti-Puerto Rican remarks made by Youngstown Councilman George Stowe, who was invited to the meeting but was unable to attend.
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March 17, 1927: Major Sermento Beires, Portuguese aviator, arrives at the Island of Fernando Donorponpa off the Brazilian Coast, having flown across the Atlantic from Portuguese Guinea in approximately 16 hours, covering 1,715 miles.
The Ohio Senate passes a bill that would require three million automobile drivers in the state to take out drivers licenses by July 1. The bill goes to the House.
Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s net profit and income for 1926 amounted to $15 million, equivalent to $14.33 a share on common stock, is reported by Company President James A. Campbell.