11/20/1968 – Pennsylvania Department of Highways will open an office next week at Slate Lick to assist approximately 50 families to be displaced by the Allegheny Valley Expressway construction in that vicinity. Primary function of the office is to assist displaced property owners and tenants in finding new quarters. Displacement results from the need for a 300-foot wide (plus) right of way to accommodate the divided highway and 80-foot variable median.
11/20/1968 – A former Kittanning man who became an ophthalmic technician after 13 years in a metallurgical laboratory, said he expects the time to come when users of contact lenses will be able to buy a month or more supply of lenses, such as any other prescription at the drug store. Ray McKissick said the latest development in lenses is a Czechoslovakian process by which lenses the thickness of a grapeskin become 38% water when inserted into the human eye.
11/20/1968 – Dayton Lions are prepping for the opening of the 1968-69 basketball season. Head coach Bill Houch introduced the players: Ed Cain, Lynn Doverspike, Barry Keener, Dove Reed, Gary McCullough, Jim Barrett, Bill Rainey, Mike Ellenberger, Bill Aton, and Don Travis.
11/20/1963 – The Ford City HS Chapter of the Future Teachers of America held its installation meeting last night at the HS cafeteria. New officers and members were included into the organization in a candlelight ceremony attended by their parents. Mrs. Margaret Aubrey, faculty sponsor of the grou11/20/p, presented the gavel to the president, Betty Lou Charney. Mrs. Aubrey also installed the following officers- Kathy Wojton, vice president; John Sellers, secretary; Robert Walleck, treasurer; and Carol King, librarian.
11/20/1958 – Joel W. Rosenblum of Butler announced completion of arrangements to acquire Kittanning radio station WACB from Armstrong Broadcasting Corporation. Rosenblum is the owner of 2 other stations- WISR in Butler, and WTIG in Massillion, OH.
11/20/1958 – Ford City- Work on construction of a water distribution system for Manor Twp. and Ford Cliff is “on schedule” and the project is expected to be completed early next year, according to Floy C. Jones, solicitor for the Manor Twp. Joint Municipal Authority.
11/20/1953 – A former Kittanning HS basketball star, Pfc. Richard Feltenberger, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.R. Feltenberger of Reynolds Ave., Kittanning, was flown from Italy to Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington D.C., for an eye operation.
11/20/1953 – Wilmer E. Whitacre, retiring district deputy exalted ruler of the Elks South district, was honored at a testimonial banquet in the Elks home here.
11/20/1953 – Armstrong Co. school directors voted their support to educational television station WQED.
11/20/1948 – The condition of Dr. W.H. Nix, former Cadogan physician now residing in Worthington, is grave. He has been sick for a long time, having spent the past 9 months in bed.
11/20/1948 – Erie- Arnold Brauers, 46, of Ford City, was killed when he was struck by a car. Brauers, who had been staying at the Soldiers and Sailors home, walked into the path of a car.
11/20/1948 – Kittanning Borough police early this morning found an unconscious man lying in a pool of blood at the borough lockup. The man, who gave a New Hampshire address, said he “passed out” as he dressed in a call. He apparently struck the back of his head on the steel doorframe, he said.
11/20/1943 – Game protector in Armstrong and nearby counties for the past 17 years, Ray H. McKissick of North Buffalo Twp. (Kittanning RD 4) has been appointed by Judge J. Frank Graff as probation officer in Armstrong Co. McKissick succeeds B.L. Barnhart of Kaylor, who was killed 14 November when a locomotive ran into his car on a railway crossing near Kaylor.
11/20/1943 – One of the few Armstrong Co. hunters fortunate enough to shoot a bear during this year’s open season in PA was Lee Vogel of Leechburg.
11/20/1933 – Kittanning, Ford City, and Leechburg- the 3 largest boroughs of Armstrong Co.- can offer Sunday baseball and football to sports fans in their respective communities as a result of the general election vote on the Sunday sports bill.
11/20/1933 – Six people escaped death or serious injury when the car in which they were riding plunged and slid 200 feet down the hillside from a curve on the Kittanning-Ford City road near Garretts Run, to the tracks of the PA Railway. Earl Rearic was treated at Armstrong Co. Memorial Hospital for lacerations to the head and a possible fracture of the left hand. The other 5 occupants of the car were shaken but unhurt.
11/20/1928 – Wholesale prices on the market here today were eggs, 55c per dozen; potatoes, $1 per bushel; and hay, $13 a ton.
11/20/1928 – An annual cooking school is being held in the Lutheran Church parish house. Mrs. Mary Brown-Lewers is the teacher.