It is much more dignified to say that we’re moving in cycles than running around in circles, although it comes out about the same thing.
8/20/1968 - New water and sewage rates were set last night by Ford City Borough Council. The new rates raise the water costs and lower the sewage rental for a reduction to the householder of 50-cents-a-month on a minimum bill. Rates become effective Sept. 1.
8/20/1968 - Apollo Borough Council last night passed a resolution for relocation of traffic lights in downtown to facilitate traffic at the newly constructed Apollo Plaza. The Authority is scheduled to meet tonight to determine how many meters will be needed for the new plaza parking lot.
8/20/1968 - The number of Pennsylvanians over age 21 who have not made themselves eligible to vote is increasing and this fact is alarming to the state chairmen of the respective major parties.
8/20/1968 - NASA announced that three Apollo astronauts are scheduled for a nonstop orbit around the moon this December. The Space Center in Houston said that the goal of a U.S. astronaut on the moon was “clearly possible” by next year.
8/20/1963 - Sixty-two candidates for the Kittanning Wildcat football team reported yesterday for the first day of drills in preparation for the 1963 grid campaign.
8/20/1958 -Stewardson Furnace- The 23rd annual reunion of former residents of this neighborhood was held Sunday afternoon on the grounds of what was formerly the Laughlin mansion.
8/20/1958 - Syria Temple’s clowns will give thousands of lollipops and balloons to children during Syria’s colorful parade thru the heart of Kittanning at 1:30 pm Saturday.
8/20/1958 - 37 of the 128 spring graduates of Ford City HS will enter universities, business schools, nursing schools, and other institutions of higher learning this autumn.
8/20/1953 - Groundhog Club members of this vicinity had another one of their annual feasts at the summer home of Walter Matthews along Cherry Run.
8/20/1953 - Armstrong Co. Commissioner Water H. Miller, his wife, and 2 elderly companions were injured in a reportedly “bad” car accident near Rimersburg.
8/20/1953 - Ford City- A meeting to organize a Ford City Community band will take place tonight at the Allied Service Club’s lounge in the Legion Building.
8/20/1948 - 6 teams of heavyweight horses struggled and strained in the horse pulling contest at the Dayton Fair. First honors were awarded to a team belonging to Tucker Galbreath of Goheenville.
8/20/1948 - Hubbies, fathers deferred from draft. Presidential order recreates general wartime regulations. Young farmers also to get consideration, with those ones in necessary jobs.
8/20/1943 - County has $3.5 million bond quota. 3rd war loan campaign, opening 9 Sept., seeks $15 billion.
8/20/1943 - Stories about sons and brothers of American ones captured by Axis powers in foreign lands are trickling in regularly, but a new twist was injected when a brother of Ford City residents was captured by American ones and brought to this country for internment. The prisoner, Pvt. Ross Fate, fought with the Italian Army in North Africa. He is a brother of Mrs. Mary Milito of 528 4th Ave., and Mrs. Philip Falsetti 535 4th Ave.
8/20/1928 - With a record of having engaged in the active practices of the medical profession for 54 years, all of which were spent in the same location, Dr. James A. Kelly of Whitesburg died Sunday morning at the Armstrong County Memorial Hospital.
8/20/1928 - County commissioners have decided to use stone in rebuilding the steps in front of the courthouse.