4/24/1968 - The 20th Annual Lions Variety Show starts tonight through April 26 at 8PM nightly in the Kittanning Jr High School Auditorium. Proceeds of show benefit Lions Charities, wheel chairs, hospital beds, assistance to the blind, Lions Club Scholarships awarded each year. It featured Interlocutor Pete Graff and various musical numbers in the first half, and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” musical in the second half.
4/24/1968 - Chiropractor John DiMond came in third place in his run to overthrow incumbent Senator Albert R. Pechan in today’s election. William H. Claypoole won his bid for reelection with 4,296 votes. His opponent, Hamilton S. Hogg, a West Franklin Township farmer, only garnered 1,586 votes.
4/24/1968 - One of two Rural Valley 15-year-old boys is in custody of Portville Police Department in Portville, NY, on a charge of stealing an automobile. The two teenagers were being sought by Kittanning Police in connection with the theft of an automobile owned by George Waugaman of the Vernon Hotel. The second of the two boys escaped in Portville.
4/24/1968 - A teaching pro has been acquired by the Lenape Heights Golf Course to instruct golfers and to plan activities at the grounds. Lou Spagnolo of Vandergrift has assumed the duties after spending five years as the pro at Willowbrook Country Club in Apollo. He also had previously been at Green Oaks, Verona. He is a Class A member of the PGA as a teaching pro.
4/24/1963 - Kittanning Union school directors named William Decock as recreational director for a nine-week summer playground program.
4/24/ 1963 - Ford City High School track team will take a record of 11 straight victories with it Friday night when it travels to New Kensington for a dual meet.
4/24/1958 - The structural engineer planning the new YMCA swimming pool has devised a system to hold the pool down in case of high water on the Allegheny River.
4/24/1958 - A Japanese girl will come to Kittanning during the next school year as the 1958-59 foreign exchange student. She is Miss Noriko Miura of Osaka, Japan.
4/24/1958 - Mrs. Moss Clever will retire at the end of the present school term from the same school she attended as an elementary pupil after 41 years of teaching in Manorville.
4/24/1953 - An Adrian area man - E. Joseph Hepfl - was seriously burned and a piece of construction equipment damaged to the extend of $20,000 when a gas tank exploded at the Wray-Yount Company, Vandergrift.
4/24/1953 - Kittanning’s oldest woman - Miss Jennie E. Burnham of 1314 Vie Street - will enter her 100th year next Monday.
4/24/1948 - Truby Turney of Troy Hill who was injured in a two-story fall at the Linde Air Products Co plant in Applewold, was still in semi-conscious condition at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital.
4/24/1943 - American casualties in North Africa total 12,000 including 1,500 dead, according to the War Department.
4/24/1943 - Applewold is the first Armstrong County district to go over the top in the Second Warn Loan Campaign, it was announced at bond headquarters. The borough’s quota is $13,253 and sales to date are $13,372.25.
4/24/1933 - Occupancy of the various forest camps under the Roosevelt Reformation plan will be under the direction of reserve officers of the United States Army. In the list of Second Lieutenants called to duty under the order appears the name of Earl M. L. Bowser, Orr Avenue, Kittanning. He is assigned to Fort George Meade, Maryland.
4/24/1928 - Aaron Crowe, 84-year-old Civil War veteran, died at his home in Madison Township.