4/23/1968 - The largest church merger in U.S. history became fact today, joining two denominations in the Methodist Church with the Evangelical United Brethren and creating more than 12 million members.
4/23/1968 - Shop-N-Save was selling turkeys for 29-cents per pound, chuck steaks for 49-cents per pound, and Hunt’s pork & beans for just 9-cents per can.
4/23/1963 - Kittanning St. Mary pupils won first and second places in a spelling contest conducted Sunday afternoon by Greensburg Holy Name Society District One. Jean Dunmire won the championship and a $25 United States Savings Bond while Rita Colo was second and received $10 cash.
4/23/1958 - A memorial to P. N. Marsh, former Ford City School Superintendent and Ford City Lions Club Man of the Year, was established in the form of a $500 U.S. Savings Bond presented to the Ford City Public Library Building Fund by the Ford City Lions Club.
4/23/1953 - Miss Nora Winifred Hoggs of Worthington and Thomas V. Stroup of Karns City went to New York City to make final plans for their wedding, which will take place next Tuesday on the telecast show: “The Bride and Groom.”
4/23/1953 - It was announced that Pvt. David J. Titus, son of Mrs. Bessie B. Billock of Parker RD was killed in Korea on April 16.
4/23/1943 - Two-year-old James Waldenville, son of Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Waldenville of Leechburg RD2, died in Allegheny Valley Hospital, Tarentum, as a result of a skull fracture received when he was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train.
4/23/1943 - The Navy revealed that the U.S. has occupied the largest of the Ellice Islands in the South Pacific, which had been seized by the Japanese early in the war.
4/23/1938 - Lester Hooks stepped off the mound at Avonmore High School field with a no-hit, no-run game to his credit, as Kittanning High’s baseball team won 10-0.
4/23/1938 - West Penn Power fulfilling a contract with George M. Brewster and Sons, general contractors, is stringing utility poles and hanging wires for a power line from Ford City-Leechburg Road into the area of operations on the Crooked Creek flood am at Tunnelville. Floodlights will be installed on the project site to permit 24 hour operations.
4/23/1928 - Negotiations were completed whereby Neal Heilman purchased the three-story brick McElheny building, South Jefferson Street.