11/2/1968 – The State Health Department identified American International Refineries Co, near Bruin, as the firm responsible for some 3,000 gallons of petroleum waste material that poured into the Allegheny River this week. Officials say that the thick, black industrial residue overflowed the white, lime covered bank into Bear Creek, then into the Allegheny River.
11/2/1968 – Frank Easley, 92, of East Market Street, Kittanning, is listed in guarded condition in the hospital after collapsing in a Kittanning restaurant this morning. Extent of his illness was not known. William Troup, 55, of Dayton RD2, was brought to the hospital emergency room at 3:40 AM with neck injuries suffered in a one-car accident in East Kittanning.
11/2/1968 – Valley Master Cable Co announced plans to move its business office to 311 Market Street. The Kittanning Telephone Company affiliate will be headquartered in retail space last occupied by Maxine’s East, a women’s apparel store. They are vacating their rented space at 117 North Jefferson Street.
11/2/1968 - The Boy Scout Troop 676 of Appleby Manor are going to celebrate their 12th year in November with a special ceremony tonight at 7PM. There will be a special charter presentation at the ceremony.
11/2/1963 - Approximately 15 residents of Apollo First Ward will receive special ballots when they visit the polls in Tuesday’s municipal election. These voters reside in the area of Kiskiminetas Twp. recently annexed to the borough. Despite annexation, they will continue to vote for township school direction.
11/2/1963 - Ford City- Professional burglars broke into the Ford City HS building sometime during the night and looted the school superintendent’s and principal’s offices of an undetermined amount of cash.
11/2/1953 - Armstrong Co. escaped without fatal accident the opening day of hunting season although 3 area hunters, Ray Rosenberger, 15, of Kittanning RD 2, Isaac Schrecengost, 35, of Kittanning RD 5, and Carl Bauwin, 21, of 1335 4th Ave., Ford City, were injured. No one was seriously hurt, but all had treatment to have pellets removed from their bodies.
11/2/1953 - A proposed union of the school districts of Ford City Borough, Ford Cliff Borough, Manor Twp., and Manorville Borough into a Union School District for Ford City School System will be voted on at tomorrow’s election.
11/2/1948 - Kittanning Town Councilmen made a new stab at finding room for all the cars and trucks on the town’s narrow streets. They designated parts of N Grant and N Water Sts. for one way traffic only.
11/2/1948 - Ford City- Ford City Town Councilmen received word from the Ford City School Board that it would have need next year of the large room now being used by the Ford City Library in the public grade school building.
11/2/1943 - Armstrong Co. voters went to polling places in disagreeable Election Day showers today, after a 24 hour period providing almost everything in the weather book. The 2nd thunderstorm within 12 hours struck the Kittanning vicinity shortly after daybreak.
11/2/1943 - A middle aged Kittanning woman, Mrs. George Moorehead of Sirwell St. was recovering from shock suffered when she was knocked unconscious by a bolt of lightning.
11/2/1938 - The 1938 hunting season claimed its first victim in the district when a 15 year old Brady’s Bend boy, Kenneth A. Hay, died in Armstrong Co. Memorial Hospital of gunshot wounds in the abdomen. He was injured when his gun discharged accidentally whilst hunting near Queenstown.
11/2/1938 - Two hundred members of the senior class of Kittanning HS are conducting their own political campaigns and election this week in sociology study classes. Committees have been named in each class period to carry on the Republican and Democratic campaigns. Members are “stumping” for their party candidates.
11/2/1933 - Freidrichshafen, Germany- The dirigible Graf Zeppelin landed at 7:15 am today, after its flight from America.
11/2/1933 - Kennedy H. Stivason, 83 year old well known former plumbing contractor of Kittanning, died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Ethel Jennings of 239 Franklin Ave.
11/2/1928 - One hundred men and women of the adult Bible classes of the community attended a tureen dinner served in the dining room of the First Presbyterian Church. The aims and objects of the Civic Education League of Armstrong County were explained in detail. The Rev. F.A. Gaupp of Worthington, as principal speaker, said it will be the mission of the league to keep people aroused and to help on matters of public importance.
11/2/1928 - A resolution passed during a dinner meeting of Ford City Kiwanis places the club back of a project to improve a section of road in the county, extending from Spring Church on Route 56 to Manor Church on Route 66.