Historical Headlines - November 22

11/22/1968 – Dayton nosed out Kittanning by a single point yesterday to win first place in the senior high division of the Equations in the Academic Games intra-school tournament. The team has now earned the right to compete in the National Olympics in Fort Lauderdale, FL this spring. The idea of the game is to form mathematical equations using numbered cubes.

11/22/1968 – Shannock Valley High basketball Spartans, in a rebuilding year, are under new coach, George Wagoner. They open the 1968-69 season on November 29 hosting Redbank Valley. Team members include: Henry Rocco, Rick Maffei, Frank Brochetti, Randy Punchard, Chuck Shoop, Terry White, Bill Lazzeri, Ed Alwine, Andy Bodnar, Keith Jones, and George Smulick.

11/22/1968 – Kittanning High School Wildcats basketball squad is getting ready for new season with team members: Layne Reitler, Paul Smith, Sonny Cicero, Ed Bowser, Jim McGinley, Gary Lindsay, Gary George, Todd Glock, Tom Gammell, and Kevin Mechling.

11/22/1963 – Headlines- President Kennedy assassinated- bullet hits Kennedy in brain; shot wounds TX Governor.

11/22/1963 – Edward Golden, Kittanning attorney whose professional career ran the gamut from corporation lawyer to stormy champion of organized labor, died at his home on N McKean St. today at the age of 84.

11/22/1958 – Five members of the Robert Cullum family of Adrian RD 1 “lost everything” when flames raged thru their basement home about 11:30 am yesterday.

11/22/1958 – Ford City- Members of Ford City Post of the VFW and their guests will celebrate the 13th anniversary of the post from 8pm to midnight tomorrow at the Pattonville home.

11/22/1958 – Coach Richard Fowlkes unveiled the 1959 edition of his Kittanning HS wrestling team yesterday before an assembly audience of HS students.

11/22/1948 – Harrisburg- The State Game Commission today called for a “heavy legal kill” during the antlered deer season which opens 29 November, as the only answer to overpopulation of the herd.

11/22/1948 – Ralph Egley of Garretts Run received burns about his face whilst at work for the state highway dept. He was pouring hot tar into a crack in concrete of Route 66 when high pressure in the hose blew off the nozzle and threw hot tar into his face.

11/22/1948 – A 14 year old North Vandergrift boy, James Wilson, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon when a car overturned on the North Vandergrift-Leechburg Road.

11/22/1943 – Forty-one coin operated slot machines were seized, State Police at Kittanning substation reported today, when 11 clubs in Kittanning, Ford City, Leechburg, Apollo, and Freeport were raided simultaneously at 3:30 pm Saturday.

11/22/1943 – W. H. Kuhns of Goheenville will celebrate his 26th birthday anniversary on 23 November.

11/22/1938 – Red and green Christmas decorations, garnished with tinsel, were in place in windows of at least one Market St. business place today, as a reminder to the community at large that Christmas is not far away.

11/22/1938 – Windows in the new G.C. Murphy Co. store in the McCullough building, Market St., were trimmed for the first time Monday night. Work was being pushed in an effort to have everything completed in time for a “grand opening” on 26 November.

11/22/1933 – Before a large crowd witnessing the inaugural Sunday football game at Leechburg, the Merchants battled the strong McKeesport Olympics to a 6-6 tie.

11/22/1933 – George E. Swan, well-known bricklayer here, died at his home at 490 North Ave.

11/22/1928 – Mrs. Martha Hickman, wife of J.H. Hickman, died at the home of her son John on Johnston Avenue.

11/22/1928 – Charles A. Sowers, 36-year-old local war veteran, died yesterday in Veterans Hospital, Aspinwall.