5/1/1968 – Mr. & Mrs. John F. Stebick of 1172 Wilson Avenue in Kittanning have been notified by telegram from the Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps that their son, Lance Corporal Dennis P. Stebick, 18, was wounded April 22 in Vietnam. He received shrapnel wounds of the left leg and upper leg arm from an exploding device while on operation “Baxter Garden” in the vicinity of Thua Thien on the highway between Hue and Phu Bal. He is reported in good condition. Cpl. Stebick had only recently returned to active duty after sustaining shrapnel wounds on Feb. 23 in the same vicinity of Thua Thien. He now qualifies for a second purple heart. He is a 1967 graduate of Lenape Vocational-Technical School.
5/1/1968 – Three teenagers were arrested by Kittanning police today and charged with the theft of two parking meters on North Grant Avenue at 12:55 AM Tuesday. Charges were filed by Kittanning police chief Meldren Bowers before Kittanning Justice of the Peace Karl M. Watt. The 17-year-old youths were seen taking two meters attached to one pole out of the ground, placing the meters in a station wagon and driving away. All the boys got from the meters was a dollar in change, but they did $134 damage to the meters. Two of the youths were also arrested and fined over the weekend for loitering on Market Street.
5/1/1968 – Scaffold Steeple rises from the roof of Worthington United Presbyterian Church as workmen take advantage of nice weather in an effort to complete the structure sometime this summer. Rev. Paul R. Beatty, pastor, said it is hoped that the cornerstone will be laid for the $190,000 building within four to six weeks. Work not yet completed includes interior finishings, redwood siding, an approximate 75-car parking lot, and grading and seeding. The church will have at least 185 permanent seats with expanded capacities of handling crowds of more than 200. The church is unique in that the congregation will be seated around the center of worship. A Celtic cross has been placed atop the spotlighted steeple.
5/1/1963 – Armstrong Countians blinked in amazement at this morning’s blanket of snow on nearby emerged blossoms as the month arrived more in the fashion of March rather than May.
5/1/1958 – Law Day USA is being celebrated by members of the Armstrong County Bar Association with an “open house” at the county courthouse.
5/1/1958 – With Leo Haky going the entire distance, Shannock Valley High School downed Kittanning in a WPIAL Section 10 league game at Lemmon Field.
5/1/1953 – Thirty-two Armstrong County young men have been ordered to report for induction into military service.
5/1/1953 – Hose Co. No. 6 firemen announced plans for a $1,000 two-hour Fourth of July fireworks display.
5/1/1948 – Charles H. “Chad” Rupp delivered mail to 354 boxholders on Kittanning Rural Route One yesterday and then retired from service with the United States Post Office Department.
5/1/1948 – A newly-formed strip mining company is getting ready to load 15 to 20 railroad cars of coal daily over a tipple in Kittanning Fourth Ward. The preparation plant for cleaning and sizing the coal to to be built on part of the old Kittanning glass works tract.
5/1/1943 – Miss Ferne White, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Paul White of Southern Avenue, West Kittanning, was crowned Queen of the May in a pageant at Kittanning High School. Miss Frances Booher was the maid of honor.
5/1/1943 – Twenty-one young men residing within the area of Local Draft Board One became 18 years of age during April and registered at the board office for possible military service.
5/1/1933 – Twenty carloads of flint beer bottles have been ordered by Elk Brewing Company in Kittanning in order to have plenty of bottles on hand once the bottling of beer gets underway.
5/1/1933 – Pouring of concrete on the new routing of the Benjamin Franklin highway through West Kittanning and to the spot where the concrete begins now, will probably be started sometime next week.
5/1/1933 – Scarlet fever has broken out with renewed vigor again. Twelve new cases have been reported.
5/1/1930 - The J. F. Gault Company is having a food show today through May 3 to commemorate its 67th anniversary. It opened in Kittanning on May 1, 1864.
5/1/1928 – Twenty-nine Kittanning DeMolay members will leave Kittanning under the supervision of Dr. Russell Rudolph and Georg K. Peacock on a weekend DeMolay pilgrimage from Pittsburgh to New York City.
5/1/1928 – Kittanning High baseball team defeated Butler High 8 to 2 in an opening game.