11/21/1968 – Bishop William Connare of the Greensburg Catholic Diocese will arrive in Kittanning on November 29 to look into a dispute between Archbishop Robert Lucey and 68 dissenting priests. The priests have asked Pope Paul VI to force the 77-year-old Lucey to resign as archbishop.
11/21/1968 – Army PFC Thomas H. Wick has been assigned to Germersheim, Germany as a communications specialist. He is the son of Mr. & Mrs. Harold Wick Jr. of Manorville. He is a 1966 graduate of Ford City High School. He enlisted in the Army on March 4, 1968.
11/21/1968 – The Ladies Auxiliary of the Applewold Firemen met at the Applewold Firehall. Meeting was opened by Mrs. Richard Carli, vice-president. Hostesses for the evening were Mrs. James Feeney, Mrs. John Warcholak, and Mrs. Joseph Clark. It was announced that a set of tires would be raffled off at the December meeting.
11/21/1968 – A film on the subject “Shall I Smoke” sponsored by the American Cancer Society, was the featured program at a meeting of the Rayburn Township Parent-Teacher Association in Spaces School.
11/21/1968 – Ford City High School’s basketball team will begin the season next Tuesday at Leechburg. Coach Jack Christy introduced: Terry Sweatt, Don Rizzardo, Bob Orton, Chuck Nelson, Dennis Ortman, Mike Pivarnik, Bob Faulx, Bob Peck, Stan Suwals, Sam Panchik, Harold Altman, and Doug Charley.
11/21/1968 – Elderton’s head coach Russell Brumbaugh said the high school basketball squad is in a rebuilding year. Team includes: Chester Schall, Randy Walker, Gerry Howard, Larry Spangler, Gary Lightbody, Jerry Kimmel, Dan Peck, Rodger Cornish, Dick Mechling, Tom Spangler, and Tom Gratzmiller.
11/21/1963 – Mr. and Mrs. George Rumbaugh of Pine Springs Farms, Dayton, were among livestock exhibitors from 20 states and Canada who entered nearly 3400 head of beef cattle, sheep, and swine at last week’s PA Livestock Exposition in Harrisburg.
11/21/1958 – The new Rola Corporation plant at Hawthorne, 3rd industry to be drawn into the area by the New Bethlehem Development Co., is slated to start operations next year. The plant, constructed at a cost of one fourth million dollars, will employ from 275 to 325 women in manufacture of radio and television speakers.
11/21/1958 – A Ford City policewoman will be stationed, as a temporary measure, at the Route 66-Ford City Hill Road intersection to guide children across the highway at Pleasant View School, Ford City Borough Council decided at a special meeting.
11/21/1953 – Judge J. Frank Graff ruled that there was “not the slightest evidence of fraud” in connection with the 3 November election in Kittanning 3rd Ward. He bitterly criticized petitioners for the recount, for not acting “in good faith”.
11/21/1953 – An audience of 500 people heard a concert by the Central-Western District HS chorus of 170 students in Ford City HS. The chorus, comprising students from 6 counties, was directed by Miss Mary Muldowney of NY University Dept. of Music Education.
11/21/1953 – Soft rain falling today evidently added the clincher to a successful 2-day battle with a forest fire which scorched a 100-acre area near Cowansville and threatened nearly a dozen homes which rim the fire area.
11/21/1938 – Traffic inched along district highways and numerous accidents were reported when a heavy haze that blanketed the district during the night and early this morning cut visibility to a few feet.
11/21/1938 – A McGrann couple suffered injuries and a Kittanning man escaped unhurt when the 3 people plunged over a 15 foot stone wall near Troy Hill after the driver misjudged a sharp curve in the road during heavy haze. The 3 people, Arthur A. Smith of Neubert St., Kittanning; and his son in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Young of McGrann; were returning home after visiting friends in Troy Hill.
11/21/1933 – A 3 act comedy, “Up in the Air”, will be presented in Kittanning HS auditorium under auspices of Hose Co. #6.
11/21/1933 – Health authorities cautioned parents of schoolchildren in Armstrong Co. towns to take every care in preventing an outbreak of scarlet fever such as closed the Kittanning schools for several weeks last spring.
11/21/1933 – Archibald D. Easley, 90, one of Freeport’s oldest citizens and last resident Civil War veteran, died at his home on 5th St.
11/21/1928 – More than 100 candidates reported to the gym in response to Coach Sheridan’s call for basketball practice at Ford City High School.
11/21/1928 – Mrs. Mary Barnard, wife of John Barnard of near Dayton, died at her home on 5th Street.