Five are inducted into hall of fame

The hall-of-fame display is in the commercial building.
LISBON -- Professional football is the focus of Hall of Fame Week in nearby Canton this week, but at the Columbiana County Fair the spotlight is on agriculture.
The Columbiana County Agricultural Society inducted five new members Tuesday into the county agriculture hall of fame.
The ceremony took place in the commercial building, where there is a hall-of-fame display.
Newspaper publisher
James T. Darling (1884-1958) of Salem was president of Lyle Printing and Publishing Co. and the publisher of Farm and Dairy, a news source for the region's farmers since 1921. Darling was advertising director from 1921 to 1926 and returned in 1937 to financially reorganize the newspaper to help it survive the Great Depression.
He was general manager, publisher and finally owner of Farm and Dairy during the period. Farm and Dairy is now owned by the third generation of Darlings and is the largest weekly newspaper in Ohio, with circulation in 44 states.
Darling was also one of the founders of Ruritans in Ohio, and involved in Masons, Salem Rotary, Salem Presbyterian Church, Goshen Grange and Salem Historical Society.
Landscaping
J. Paul Wilms (1911-1994) of Fairfield Township was a farmer and owner of Gwenn Gary Nursery in Columbiana from 1929 to 1985. From 1937 to 1967 he owned 150 acres on three farms and became recognized statewide for his landscaping and arboriculture knowledge.
Wilms was a past president of the Mahoning Valley Landscape and Nurserymen's Association and a member of the Ohio Nurserymen's association. He served on the boards of Citizens Bank of Columbiana, Farmers National Bank of Salem and Heritage National Bank, was a member of the Columbiana village board of education and a 32nd degree Mason affiliated with the Allen Masonic Lodge, the Scottish Rite Valley of Youngstown and Al Koran Shrine of Cleveland.
Livestock farmer, fruit grower
Charles F. Mindling (1880-1967) was a progressive livestock farmer and fruit grower in West Township. In 1902 and 1903 he completed a two-year agriculture course at The Ohio State University, and was a member of a sheep-shearing team that won first place at the 1903 World's Fair in St. Louis.
In 1927 his family moved to an 87-acre farm near Bayard where they raised Jersey dairy cattle and grew apple and plum trees. He created cold storage for his apples and plums and sold the fruit door-to-door in Canton, Alliance and Minerva.
Mindling was a member of the Bayard Grange, Wayne Township Ruritans, the Ohio Farm Bureau and earned the Seventh Degree of the Order of Patron Husbandry. He was a school board member and township trustee and participated in a program to help people displaced during World War II to settle in the United States. He helped a family from Latvia relocate.
Outstanding service
Willis J. Zimmerman (1898-1988) and Rowena Whinery Zimmerman (1898-1987) were married 68 years. Willis moved to a farm on Depot Road south of Salem at age 5 and spent the rest of his 90 years there.
They grew potatoes and raised pigs and Jersey dairy cows on their Perry Township farm. Rowena was responsible for feeding calves and tended a flock of Rhode Island Red chickens.
Willis was recognized for outstanding service to the American Jersey Cattle Club in 1970. He was an adviser of the Just Rite 4-H Club, a member of Phillips Christian Church, Country Garden Club and Salem Grange.