12/5/1968 – Local telephone company, Mid-Continent Telephone Corp, announced today they are adding a data processing center here at their headquarters at 210 Arch Street. They expect to employee 20 people in the center.
12/5/1963 - An estimated 1000 students in 3 Apollo schools were evacuated in an orderly fashion yesterday afternoon when a male caller touched off a bomb scare. A check by police, firemen, and an Army bomb disposal unit failed to turn up any evidence of one.
12/5/1958 - Robert B. Roach, 47, owner-operator of East Brady Lumber Co., died yesterday afternoon at his East Brady home.
12/5/1958 - Howard Zerick, present policeman of Manorville, has submitted his resignation effective 8 December. Any Manorville resident may apply in writing for the position, and a replacement will be selected on 8 December.
12/5/1958 - The kill toll of Armstrong Co.’s rapidly increasing deer population mounted again today bringing the total reported to more than 90. Local hunters who less than a dozen seasons back were forced to head to the northern mountains in pursuit of the whitetails, now find the most rewarding hunting grounds almost literally in their own backyards.
12/5/1953 - Kittanning and the rest of the Allegheny Valley north of the Kiskiminetas River were faced with possible loss of the last 2 trains of a sharply curtailed passenger service. PA Railway, which in one peak era served the area with a total of 26 passenger trains daily, has made application to the state Public Utility Commission to discontinue its Pittsburgh-East Brady run.
12/5/1953 - Henry Koerner, noted American artist, will deliver a gallery talk on paintings sent here in a travelling exhibit of Midtown Galleries, NYC.
12/5/1953 - Former Ford City HS gridder, Tom Byron, elected co-captain at Wheaton College. The Ford City football star is a son of Mrs. Anne Byron of McGrann.
12/5/1938 - Armstrong Co. deer kills may reach 1000. 39 illegal kills reported to game protector in 6 day season.
12/5/1938 - Two Youngstown, OH women suffered severe lacerations about the head when their car skidded on Indiana Hill ice, a mile east of Kittanning. The car demolished a coal shed and nosed over the edge of a bank against a tree.
12/5/1933 - Lloyd B. Mohney, Kittanning druggist was elected president of the Kittanning school board at a brief session in the Central School Building office. Dr. F.C. Monks was elected vice president.
12/5/1933 - Formal repeal of prohibition made it legal to buy a drink in 19 states today.
12/5/1933 - Kittanning Borough is reported interested in the ed in the purchase of the Armstrong Water Co. plant for the establishment of a municipal water works.
12/5/1928 - Funeral services were held at Ford Memorial Methodist Church, Ford City, for Mrs. Daniel Heiner Core, who died at her home in Lenape Park.
12/5/1928 - The office building, shop, and supply house of Mohawk Mining Co., near Applewold, were destroyed by a fire with an estimated loss of $15,000-$20,000.