12/31/1968 – Kittanning High School head basketball coach Roger L. Gourley underwent emergency surgery last night in Armstrong County Memorial Hospital for acute appendicitis. His wife said that he was taken to the hospital about midnight last night and was operate don immediately. He is listed in satisfactory condition. Gourley is in his first year at the helm of the Wildcat quintet and is expected to be out of action for about four weeks.
12/31/1968 – Two teenage boys escaped insures when their cars collided two miles north of Mahoning on December 29. One car was driven by David Freehling, 16, of Natrona Heights, and the other auto driven by Richard Fink, 17, of Templeton. The Freehling auto traveling south skidded on the roadway and struck the oncoming Fink car.
Did you ever think of how much less trouble there would be if the situation were reversed and it cost $10,000 to get married and $2 to get a divorce?
12/31/1963 – The home of Andrew Hrabovsky of 430 4th Avenue in Ford City was decloared first place winner in the Ford City Lions Club annual outdoor Christmas decoration contest.
12/31/1958 – A Kittanning High School Wildcat quintet that looked better last night that I has for several games put up a great fight before bowing to West Deer Braves 58-55 on the winner’s floor.
12/31/1958 – Annual watchnight services will be held at First Church of the Open Bible, the Rev. William Hulihan, pastor of the church, said.
12/31/1958 – Purchases of United States savings bonds in Armstrong County during November were $200,683, according to Robert E. Pryde, Chairman of the county committee.
12/31/1953 – A 49-year-old Kittanning truck driver, Harold J. Gibson, was saluted recently by his employer, The Atlantic Refining Company, for a 17-year- perfect record – with never so much as a brushed fender.
12/31/1953 – The Joseph E. Szalankiewicz home on Neal Ave, Pleasant View, won first prize in an annual outdoor Christmas Home Decorating contest sponsored by Ford City Lions Club.
12/31/1953 – Reinstatement cards have been mailed to 1,113 Armstrong County residents who have not voted in the past two years.
12/31/1948 – The Allegheny River at Lock #7 rose a fraction more than 5-1/2 feet last night.
12/31/1948 – The condition of John Benton of Colwell Street, who was struck by an automobile two months ago and who has been a patient at Mercy Hospital Pittsburgh, continues to improve.
12/31/1948 – New faces will appear in the three Armstrong County courthouse offices Monday as county officials chosen at the November general election take office and reveal their appointments. Robert H. Powers, county Republican chairman and deputy treasurer for the past four years will take the oath of office for county treasurer, succeeding John R. Wray. Register and Recorder Frank M. Rebolt will take the oath of office for a second time. Herbert G. Gates of Kittanning, former state assemblyman, took the oath of office as prothonotary this morning.
12/31/1938 – The Allegheny River remained frozen over at Kittanning for the fourth consecutive day. The thickness of the ice increased from 2.5 to 3.5 inches.
12/31/1938 – A fan, which sprayed alcohol base anti-freeze, literally bathed the late Miss Louis Eckles and her three companions with liquid fire, observers believed today. Flames which trapped the Dormont girl and seriously burned all three companions when their car overturned on the Kittanning –Leechburg Road enveloped the machine so quickly that origin must have been from alcohol rather than gasoline, investigators theorized.
12/31/1938 – Marvels effected by architects, decorators, builders, and engineers, with the ever-increasing use of glass will be shown by Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company – partly through products made at Works Four and Works Six in Ford City – at the 1938 New York World’s Fair.
12/31/1928 – Butter and eggs were selling for the same price per pound and per dozen – 35 cents on the wholesale markets in Kittanning.