5/23/1967 - Robert Montgomery, Joseph Cataldi, and Armstrong County Sheriff Joseph Frick were added to the membership of the East Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Department during their biweekly meeting last night in the fire hall.
5/23/1967 - Ford City Borough Council met for 80 minutes last night at the Borough Building for the third session of their regular May meeting. They met for longer than five hours on May 1, adjourned and met for more than three hours on May 9 and finished the meeting last night. The meetings centered around architect Robert Scheeren of Indiana, with plans to build a new borough building. Permission was also given to the Kittanning Telephone Company to lay underground lines this summer of the west side of Fourth Avenue from Tenth Street to Thirteenth Street. The lines will be laid under sidewalks. The program will remove unsightly wiring from above the streets and avenues.
5/23/1962 - Thirty merchants in downtown Kittanning and the Highlands are prepared to swing open their doors tomorrow for a three-day May Carnival of Values sales.
5/23/1962 - Kittanning High School seniors today saw history in the making as they visited the U.S. Supreme Court and the capitol building, toured the White House, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and watched the FBI at work.
5/23/1957 - Joe Novak of Ford City will participate in the University of Southern California’s A Capella Choir presentation of its Twelfth Annual Spring Concert at Bovard Auditorium on campus.
5/23/1957 - Archie Starr, North Grant Avenue, Kittanning, caught a 19-inch Brown Trout while fishing at Lock No. 7 in Kittanning. The big fish was taken on a night crawler.
5/23/1957 - Atmospheric conditions are being blamed for problems with reception on area televisions.
5/23/1952 - Miss Ilma E. Fox, who has presided at the organ console of Kittanning First Presbyterian Church for 50 years, will be honored at a testimonial service in the local church.
5/23/1952 - Three young fishermen were stranded in a tree in the middle of a raging stream at Crooked Creek, one mile below the Rainbow road house. The boys, aged 12, 11, and 9, were crouched in a tree when Ford City firemen arrived to rescue them. They arrived at the creek shortly before noon for a day’s fishing. They took off their shoes and waded through the water to a little rise in the middle of the stream. About noon, dam tenders at the reservoir increased the outflow of impounded water. As the water rose, the boys backed to the middle of the little island.
5/23/1947 - Arthur J. Hill, 19-year-old student pilot from Gilpin Township, was killed instantly when the plane he was flying crashed a short distance from his home on the Schenley Road.
5/23/1947 - Twenty-four students received diplomas from Reverend J. L. Brown, president of the Board of Education, at Elderton High School commencement exercises.
5/23/1942 - The Office of Defense Transportation perfected plans for nationwide gasoline rationing and a streamlined transportation policy as possible solution to the critical rubber shortage.
5/23/1942 - Kittanning High School held its first election of Student Council that will go into effect next school year. The winners were: Fred Ritchie, president; Audrey Jean King, vice-president; Jim Allison, secretary; and Jack Downs, treasurer.
5/23/1932 - Fire is believed to have originated in the kitchen shortly after Guy Heffelfinger and his family left for a visit with relatives. The frame and brick home, located 10 miles northeast of Kittanning on the road to Sherrett, was destroyed.
5/23/1927 - Mrs. Mary E. Bechtel of Johnston Avenue was killed in an automobile accident on the Kittanning-Bradys Bend Road.