10/23/1968 – A break-in through a trap door on the roof of the Firestone Store on South Jefferson Street at Jacob in Kittanning netted thieves an undetermined amount of tires. Store Manager Jack Dormire said the trap door was forced open.
10/23/1968 – Miss Edna Patterson was recognized as “Woman of the Year” at a dinner meeting of the Rural Valley Business and Professional Womans Club, held in the club rooms of the King Building in Rural Valley. Miss Patterson, a retired elementary school teacher, has been active both in church and civic projects.
10/23/1968 – The Armstrong County Community Action Agency has received a $5,740 grant from the Federal government for continuation of its neighborhood youth corps program. The grant will be used to aid 25 youngsters who have dropped out of school and are enrolled in the program.
10/23/1963 - HS bands from Kittanning and Elderton will participate Saturday in football game ceremonies on the campus of PA State University, University Park. Joseph Debsky, Kittanning band director, said the Kittanning HS contingent 110-strong will include band mothers and friends.
10/23/1958 - Mayor David L. Lawrence will be the principal speaker at tonight’s annual Armstrong Co. Democratic Banquet at the Marconi Club in Leechburg where places for 550 people have been reserved.
10/23/1958 - Moosedom’s highest award was conferred on a Kittanning Lodgeman during ceremonies in the local lodge on S Water St. Dean Henry, a member of Kittanning Lodge, was presented the robe and hat symbolic of the order’s highest and most coveted honor- The Pilgrim Degree of Merit.
10/23/1953 - Twenty junior and senior girls of Kittanning HS took part in a program held by the Hospital Council of Western PA. The girls, all interested in careers as nurses, were taken on a tour of 5 district hospitals where they viewed diet kitchens, operating rooms, student nurse quarters, and other departments.
10/23/1953 - Ford City- Foulis Dry Cleaning Store, Ford St., is being renovated inside and out. Work is expected to be finished at the end of this week.
10/23/1953 - Tarrtown Union Sunday School will celebrate its 36th anniversary at the village schoolhouse. Visitors will speak at the afternoon and evening programs.
10/23/1948 - Death came in Armstrong Co. Memorial Hospital to David McKinley Schreckengost. David, a 29 year old from Wayne Twp., had been a patient in the institution since 2 March. On that morning Schreckengost was building a fire in the garage of his home near Mahoning dam and poured what he thought was oil on it. It turned out, however, to be gasoline.
10/23/1948 - Bus fares will be increased on Penn Transit lines. Beginning at 6AM tomorrow, each fare will be upped 2 cents per zone, from 5 cents to 7 cents.
10/23/1943 - Once reported MIA as the result of a recent aerial mission over the European continent, T-Sgt. Joseph M. Hager is spending a 30 day furlough at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Hager of Freeport RD 1. He is not permitted to reveal the manner in which he returned to his base in England.
10/23/1943 - Pvt. Ralph R. Young, 24 year old son of Joseph Young, was killed in action 17 November, 1943, during the intensive action that accompanied the American invasion of the Italian mainland.
10/23/1933 - The American government has authorized purchase of the old gold to be used eventually for coining into new money or conversion into bullion.
10/23/1933 - A broken neck and other injuries brought instant death to Malcolm Wolfe, 20, of Reesedale. He was pinned under a car which went out of control and crashed into a tree on the secondary road from Route 268 to Adrian.
10/23/1928 - The annual institute of teachers of Armstrong County opened in the local high school with 543 teachers enrolled.
10/23/1928 - William H. Young, 51, of Wilson Avenue, died in the Armstrong County Memorial Hospital as a result of an injury to his thumb.