3/20/1968 - The Defense Department has called 44,000 men into the Army for May 1968. The year started with a draft of 34,000 in January, 23,300 for February. The peak since the start of the Vietnam War was 49,200 in October 1966.
3/20/1968 - Rayburn Township Justice of the Peace Dean P. Wyant ordered first-year-teacher Thomas R. Oswald of Graceton to pay costs in an assault and battery charge involving one of his students at Dayton High School. Oswald paid costs of a replacement sweatshirt that was damaged and a hospital emergency room bill. The student, Kenneth Keilen of Allegheny Avenue in Templeton, did not receive any cuts from the incident. The case was prosecuted by the boy’s father, Cloyd L. Keilen.
3/20/1968 - Kittanning supermarket ads: Stewart’s Market in West Kittanning featured their own bulk sausage for 69₵; Snyder’s Food Mart at 136 N. McKean Street in Kittanning had boneless hams for 59₵; Loblaw’s (where Ace Hardware is today) had lean ground beef ground hourly for 49₵/lb; Lurie’s (345 Chestnut Street) featured stuffed pork chops for 89₵/lb; and Eddie’s Meats (121 North McKean Street) advertised you could spend a dollar for 3 pounds of Jumbo, ground meat, hot sausage, loose sausage, or polish sausage; and A&P sold 4 loaves of Jane Parker Italian Bread for only 89₵.
3/20/1963 - A proposal for construction of a $4 million bridge over Kiskiminetas River between Westmoreland and Armstrong Counties moved one step closer to legislative approval today. The House Highways Committee reported for floor action to the measure earlier approved by Senate sponsored by Senator Albert R. Pechan (R-Armstrong)
3/20/1953 - Amid warning that the high school building program here had better get moving or face a possible slice in state reimbursement, Kittanning borough school directors agreed to borrow up to $40,000 in order to acquire lands necessary for the project.
3/20/1948 - Must have been a busy time in Worthington. They got no mail (sic) for want of parking space. Alvie Snyder, carrier on the Kittanning - Worthington - Craigsville Star Route, reported that he brought back the Worthington mail pouches to Kittanning when he could find no parking space near the Worthington post office.