5/22/1968 - The Kittanning Business Association, an arm of the Chamber of Commerce, has announced its intent to establish a $10,000 fund to promote additional downtown parking. Association Chairman Joseph Brody said the fund will be put at the disposal of the parking authority to be used to finance the survey necessary for setting up authority bond issues or for any other purpose that will expedite more parking facilities. “If we expect to retain the business we now have and bring new people into town, we must make it easy for them to park within easy walking distance to all downtown stores and offices,” Brody said. Over $30,000 has been raised toward the effort prior to solicitation of downtown businesses.
5/22/1968 - East Franklin Elementary sixth grader Janice Crosby won a creative writing contest conducted among gifted students in Armstrong County schools. Her story, “Handy Andy”, was about a talking dog and the problems a boy had to get the animal past his mother and into the bedroom for the night. Five other 6th grade students received honorable mention, including: Lorraine Cadwell (Sunnyside Elementary), Roger Johnston (Kittanning Central), Arnold McAuley (East Franklin), James Stewart (Bethel), and Beth Yedlowski (South Buffalo).
5/22/1968 - John Marcinek and Adolph Marcinek continue to hold first place in the CU Combination Tenpin Handicap Bowling Tournament underway at the CU Lanes, Ford City. They have combined score of 1,305. Don Grossman and John Patus are second with 1,291. Ed Barto and Andy Hrabovsky hold down third spot with 1,279.
5/22/1968 - The Reverend Bertrand C. Pitchford has accepted a call from the congregation of West Glade Run Presbyterian Church, Kittanning RD3, and will be installed as their pastor sometime in July.
5/22/1963 - John P. Leech of Kittanning has been appointed a certified rifle instructor by the National Rifle Association of America.
5/22/1958 - The Reverend Elmer Rice, DD, pastor of Manorville Lutheran Church, will preach his farewell sermon at the 9AM service Sunday before retiring with 45 years in the ministry.
5/22/1958 - Unemployment compensation returned more than $10,323,000 into the economy of the Kittanning-Ford City area during the past 20 years.
5/22/1958 - Two schools, East Franklin Township and North Buffalo Township, are awaiting state approval on identical expansion programs, according to board officials.
5/22/1953 - Paul Puliano, manager of Hutchinson Dry Cleaners since he came to Kittanning in 1928, died in the hospital as a result of a heart attack.
5/22/1953 - Workmen removed from the intersection of Vine Street and North Grant Avenue a railroad crossing signal which was installed as an experiment nearly 29 years ago.
5/22/1948 - Worthington Plans $20 Head Tax for Schools. Quadruple Per Capita Levy is Expected to Yield About $8,000, Board President Says.
5/22/1948 - Donald Paul Flick of Kittanning won the sectional Knights of Pythias oratorical contest at Toledo today. The victory, Flick’s fifth in a row, makes him eligible to compete in international finals at Milwaukee on August 11.
5/22/1943 - Wounded by Shrapnel in frontline action in the Tunisian campaign, Pfc. Paul W. Crispen, Kittanning solder, now home on a 15-day convalescent furlough, has been awarded the Purple Heart decoration for meritorious service.
5/22/1933 - The first contingent of Armstrong County forest workers, 75 in number, left for Pittsburgh to undergo examination at the U S Army recruiting station. They will be sent to a conditioning camp for three weeks before being assigned to forest areas.
5/22/1933 - One of the larges Saturday crowds to come to Kittanning in months was here Saturday, drawn by the magnet of an automobile parade and an array of bargains at Kittanning stores. The automobile parade was open to everyone in the county. The prizes, amounting to $111, were given by the Leader-Times for various entries and were widely scattered in their awarding by the judges. The oldest driver was M. E. Smith of Worthington, born May 26, 1860.
5/22/1928 - Mary M. Smith, widow of the Reverend E. H. Smith, died at her home in Canton, Ohio. Reverend Smith was a pastor of West Kittanning and Brush Valley Brethren Churches.