11/23/1968 – Kittanning Council in a special meeting last night unanimously turned down the proposed development project for the Kittanning Waterfront Park. The plan, presented last August by Kittanning Waterfront Corporation president Russell Haller, called for a marina for 100 boats, a swimming area in the river which would be the length of a football field, picnic area, snack shop, tot-lot, boat ramp, and gasoline facilities. The estimated cost was $294,000 not including acquisition and construction costs for parking facilities. The plan had the approval of nine other nearby municipalities. Council president Howard McCracken said the project of originally cleaning up the waterfront banks has suddenly got out of hand.
11/23/1968 – A forward observer for Bravo Battery in Vietnam commanded by Captain James Houston of Lawton, OK and his radio operator got a big surprise while on an operation. First Lt. Edward Baldwin of Amityville, NY and Specialist 4 John Kunkle of Cadogan, PA – both of the 4th Battalion, 42nd Artillery – were on an early morning cordon and search of a village with Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry. “I was having some trouble establishing radio contact with the battery,” Specialist Kunkle said. “I had to talk pretty loud. I saw this guy running at us screaming ‘don’t shoot’.” “He ran right into my arms,” said Lt. Baldwin. Their detainee turned out to be the second in command of the Viet Cong in the district.
11/23/1963 – A man stood on N McKean St. here at 2:27 pm and wept openly. His skin was black. Not far distant, in a quiet office, a woman wept too. Her skin was white. The color of the tears they shed was the same. They lived in Kittanning, a town he had visited, and now they wept because a President of America was dead. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, America’s 35th President, dead at 46. Brilliant, incredibly handsome, smiling, and vitally alive at 1:34 pm on November 22, 1963 as he rode through the streets of another city, far from Kittanning, a Texas city named Dallas.
11/23/1953 – Kittanning Lions Club will stage its annual football banquet with Kittanning HS gridders, coaches, and administration as guests. Special guests will be several members of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ professional football club.
11/23/1953 – Ford City- M.J. Glenn, who retired November 1 as postmaster here, was honored at a banquet at Kittanning Country Club by the Armstrong Co. chapter of the Postmasters Association.
11/23/1948 – One hundred and six Armstrong Co. industries reported payment of $34100000 in salaries and wages to 12300 employees during 1947, William S. Livengood Jr., secretary of the Dept. of Internal Affairs, announced.
11/23/1948 – The body of Pfc. Donald Michael McCoy Jr., who was killed in action in Segar, Italy, 16 April, 1945, has been brought to America for reburial. Friends will be received in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald McCoy of Sagamore.
11/23/1943 – A small arms firing school will be held in Kittanning again this year with National Rifle Association approval, official ones of Kittanning Rifle and Pistol Club announced.
11/23/1943 – This is Harvest Week and the annual jelly drive for Armstrong Co. Memorial Hospital is in full progress. Already the response to collections by Girl Scout troops has been generous.
11/23/1938 – Armstrong Co. held what was probably its largest barn dance ever as between 3000 and 3500 people, admitted free under auspices of county commissioners, attended the dance at the new county home barn.
11/23/1938 – Official ones of G.C. Murphy Co. announced that J.B. Moore, who has managed the Kittanning store for the past 5 years of operation and management, will be in full charge of Murphy’s new enlarged quarters which will be opened this week.
11/23/1938 – James F. Shaffer, contractor who rebuilt the West Glade Run Presbyterian Church, East Franklin Twp., following its destruction by a fire last February, will present keys to the new structure to Anthony Stewart, president of the board of trustees, in a symbolic ceremony at the outset of 3 dedicatory services.
11/23/1933 – A reorganization meeting of Ford City Boy Scouts was held in St. John’s Lutheran Church, Ford City, with Ferdinand Reisgen presiding. Mr. Reisgen’s resignation as chairman of the Ford City Boy Scout Council was made official and J. George Brown was elected to succeed him.
11/23/1933 – Bids will be opened in Harrisburg for construction of a new 4 span bridge at Parker and for approaches to the bridge. It is expected that construction will be started at once.
11/23/1928 – William Walleck was elected captain of Ford City football team for next year at a meeting of the team.
11/23/1928 – Colleen Moore in “Lilac Time” is showing at the Columbia Theatre here.