12/30/1968 – Following the success of the Apollo 8 mission, astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell Jr., and William Anders were informed by telegram that Apollo, PA mayor Duane S. Guthrie, issued a proclamation making them honorary citizens. They returned from their flight to the moon on December 27.
12/30/1968 – Congressman John P. Saylor announced an award of $107,420 from the Office of Economic Opportunity to the Armstrong County Community Action Agency. The grant reflects a nationwide ten-percent cut in funding from last year and a ten-percent reduction in personnel from last year.
12/30/1963 – Unofficial low of minus 18 was reported this morning at Walk Chalk.
12/30/1963 – Kittanning residents will soon be able to skate again. Kittanning Borough employees complete excavation for an ice skating rink at Second Ward playground in the 400 block of North Jefferson Street and firemen from Hose Company #1 are expected to flood the area tonight.
12/30/1958 – George Novosel was elected president of Rayburn Township Volunteer Fire Company during a recent meeting of the firemen.
12/30/1958 – Three-year-old Frankie is very happy with his new parents, Mr. & Mrs. Roebuck of Rural Valley. The little Italian boy, adopted by the Roebucks through Catholic Charities, arrived here.
12/30/1958 – Boy Scouts, canvassing Kittanning for blood donors, were able to obtain 65 pledges, according to George Crosseti, Red Cross Bloodmobile Drive chairman.
12/30/1953 – Kittanning High School cagers came through with their first win over major opposition when they downed Vandergrift 56-52 in an exhibition tilt.
12/30/1953 – A bulldozer was cutting into the hill behind Armstrong County courthouse this morning preparatory to construction of a four-foot retaining wall designed to catch dirt and other refuse washed from the hillside.
12/30/1948 – Expansion Program of PPG Nears Completion, Ford City Plant Shares in Three-year $55,000,000 Modernization Schedule.
12/30/1948 – Armstrong County Jury Commission began selecting names to be placed in the jury “wheel” for 1949. Mrs. Eva McKenrick and T. M. Young, jury commissioners, are choosing about 350 names to replace those drawn during 1948.
12/30/1943 – The Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad Company, principal tenant of the Old Post Office Building on North McKean Street in Kittanning for the past 41 years, purchased the three-story structure for $36,000 at a public sale in the Armstrong County Courthouse.
12/30/1943 – In the nurses’ dining room at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, members of the third and fourth Red Cross training classes for Nurses’ Aides were presented with diplomas by Samuel T. Johnson, hospital superintendent.
12.30/1938 – An annual candle service will be held at St. Luke’s Reformed Church. The service has been written by the Rev. Sarkis Papajian, pastor of the church on the theme, “Let Your Light Shine.”
12/30/1938 – An event of interest in Kittanning vicinity was the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. & Mrs. George Titzell. An open house reception was held in their North McKean Street home. During the afternoon and evening, hundreds of persons stopped at the Titzell home and offered congratulations.
12/30/1933 – Opening of The People’s National Bank of Rural Valley took place this morning, marking an epoch in the life of the community. The bank was the third largest in Armstrong County in amount of deposits when it closed. Its re-opening affects many persons in the county.
12/30/1933 – A milestone in Kittanning Borough history passed with the taking of the oath of office by Burgess-elect Jacob J. Maxeiner and the completion of the last official duty of Burgess Thomas Norr.
12/30/1933 – New $20,000 gymnasium project in Ford City will be started when ground is broken for the building in the rear of the school.