11/26/1968 – Work crews from Baltimore and Ohio Railroad prepare to lay new track and removed wrecked cars where a derailment took place early this morning at Stumbaugh Crossing near the point where Route 228 crosses the single track. A total of eight freight cars, two of them hauling grain, where involved in the derailment. No injuries were reported and another derailment occurred several hundred feet from this accident. Track should be in use soon.
11/26/1968 – The citizens of Tarrtown were being urged today to attend a special meeting tonight in Tarrtown Sportsmen’s Club to discuss the results of a recent well water sampling survey conducted by the PA Department of Health at the request of the residents. The water was found unfit for drinking, a Department of Health spokesman said.
11/26/1968 – Pennsylvania State Police Commander Major J. Lyle Young read a letter of commendation to Troopers Thomas R. Ager of Kittanning substation. Auger was commended for capturing and disarming Ronald Patrick Williams of McKeepsport shortly after the robbery of the Worthington branch of Merchants National Bank last June 25. Presentation took place at an inspection today in Butler.
11/26/1968 – A 15-year career soldier in the Air Force and a native of Kittanning, T-Sgt. Robert E. Cyphers was promoted to his present rank recently. Stationed at McDill Air Force Base in Florida for the past three years as a jet air mechanic, T-Sgt. Cyphers is the son of Mr. & Mrs. Harvey E. Cyphers of Kittanning MR10 (Butler Road).
11/26/1968 – Robert L. Craig, Jr., son of Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Craig of Cowansville RD1 enlisted in the United States Navy November 18. He is currently stationed at Great Lakes, IL. Craig, a 1967 graduate of East Brady High School, attended Lenape Vo-Tech School for two years. Before entering the service, he was employed at Bob Craig Sanitation.
11/26/1963 - Washington (UPI)- President Johnson began work today for the first time in the famed presidential office in the White House taking on the burdens of the world and the national problems that have befallen him.
11/26/1958 - A new electrically operated door system has been installed at Armstrong Co. jail. The system consists of individual cell doors and an inner and outer security quarter for entrance, making it impossible for a jail keeper to be rushed by prisoners. Sheriff Hutchison said that the new system, constructed at a cost of $35750, provides “the best security possible”.
11/26/1958 - Argument on the proposed annexation of Ford View to Ford City Borough was postponed at Armstrong Co. Court this morning because of the absence of Floy C. Jones Jr., Manor Twp. solicitor. Attorney Jones was at Lehigh where his son, Floy C. Jones III, a 3rd year student at Lehigh University, was hospitalized with a “slight concussion” received when bleachers on which he was sitting collapsed during a football game.
11/26/1948 - Dr. Lloyd S. Rulan, China secretary for the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions will speak at the First Presbyterian Church here.
11/26/1948 - Everyone entering the gate at the Kittanning HS football benefit on the Orr Ave. field tonight will purchase a ticket. Coaches, players, band members, and school official ones will pay for their ducats. Proceeds from the gate will be used for the injured player fund. A goal of $700 has been set by the fund committee to cover expenses for 2 injured Wildcat players.
11/26/1943 - Paul Doverspike, 23, of Mayport RD 2, who has 42 shotgun pellets in his back as the result of a Thanksgiving Day hunting accident, left today for Pittsburgh where he will begin service with the American Navy.
11/26/1943 - Annual Thanksgiving Day services, sponsored by Kittanning Ministerial Association, were held in the First Baptist Church.
11/26/1938 - With promise of little let up in sub-freezing weather that has continued over the district since the middle of the week, the weekend was expected to bring more snow flurries in the wake of the worst Thanksgiving Day snowstorm in 25 years.
11/26/1938 - Paul Hornberger of Sherrett was on his way to Worthington on a secondary road from Cowansville recently when he saw an 8 point buck deer on a bank bordering the highway. The driver stopped the truck to admire the animal momentarily, and was startled to see the deer land, in a graceful leap from the embankment, between bumper and radiator of the truck.
11/26/1928 - S.I. Montgomery Grocery on Market Street is going out of business. All fixtures, including scales, counters, a complete meat market outfit, and other articles will be offered in public auction at the store.
11/26/1928 - The H.G. Luker Company announced that it will vacate soon the 3 story Market Street building which it has occupied for many years. The company will move to a new location which will be made known later.