12/3/1968 – School bus drivers travelling “The Narrows” between Distant and Widnoon need strong nerves when they encounter other vehicles, especially large coal or gasoline trucks. Drivers transporting some 240 school children daily fear for their safety and point to this particular area overlooking Redbank Creek 300 feet below with no protection except for a guardrail that is slipping away with the berm.
12/3/1968 – Ford City Council voted to construct a new Borough Building. At a cost of $225,000, the first floor will be constructed to house fire fighting apparatus, a hose drying room, equipment room, toilet facilities, borough offices, council chambers, police offices, jail, and mayor’s office. The second floor will contain a firemen’s social hall and kitchen, janitor’s store room and toilets. The building will be without a library as previously planned. It will be located on the site of the present borough building at the corner of 10th Street and Fourth Avenue.
12/3/1963 - Teri (Natalie Reisberg) Hope, Kittanning girl who has undertaken the long struggle towards acting stardom, is in big company in her latest screen part. Miss Hope, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Reisberg of 248 N Water St., appears as Janie Harkins in Elvis Presley’s newest starring vehicle, “Fun in Acapulco”, which starts Wednesday on the screen of the State Theatre here.
12/3/1958 - Christmas lights are glowing above the streets of the business section of Ford City as merchants herald the Yuletide season.
12/3/1958 - The Kittanning Wildcat Cagers withstood a defensive press by Gateway HS last night to emerge victorious in their opening game 50-53 on the local court. Led by junior Charles Hutchison in scoring and rebounding, the Wildcats presented a superior team.
12/3/1953 - Michael Laird Jordan, 44 year old Kittanning RD 1 merchant, was killed instantly when a new sedan he was driving overturned near DuBois. The victim and 3 companions were returning from a 2 day hunting trip into Elk County.
12/3/1953 - Six obsolete school buildings in North Buffalo Twp. will be offered to the public at a New Year’s Day auction sale. The structures, in use until this year, were replaced by a new 6 room brick structure on Route 28 near Robinson’s Grove.
12/3/1953 - Approximately 1000 students from 5 area high schools this afternoon discussed opportunities with representatives of various vocations at the annual Career Day in Kittanning HS.
12/3/1948 - Ringgold Corporation, Kittanning, made ready to get out of the household appliance and furniture business, so that its rooms can be converted into offices.
12/3/1948 - Members of the First Church of God and their friends will participate in a special service. The cornerstone of the new brick church building at Woodward and N Grant Avenues and Chestnut St. will be laid.
12/3/1943 - Installation of a modern indexing system for official records in Armstrong Co. register and recorder’s office is nearing completion.
12/3/1943 - James Baker, 42, of Kittanning was instantly killed when a gas derrick he was working on in Forward Twp., Allegheny Co., collapsed and fell on him.
12/3/1938 - The concrete inner lining of a quarter mile long tunnel which will divert water around Crooked Creek flood control dam near Tunnelville neared completion this week. George M. Brewster and Sons, Inc., of Bogota, NJ, pushed towards the “1/3 complete mark” on the $2,368,511 construction project.
12/3/1938 - Farmers in a series of meetings to be held throughout Armstrong Co. next week will elect community committeemen to carry on the 1939 Agricultural Conservation program. They will also name delegates to select the County Agricultural Conservation committee for 1939.
12/3/1928 - Taps sounded for another veteran of the Civil War after James Baker, widely known Kittanning resident, died at his home at 434 Reynolds Avenue.
12/3/1928 - A strip of land in front of First Baptist Church, N McKean Street, has been paved with brick.
12/3/1928 - Upper Furnace Run had an exciting midnight fire. So threatening did the flames become that Kittanning firemen were called upon for assistance. The blaze was in a frame double house occupied by Paul Gageine and Mike Romek, on the former one’s side.