1/3/1969 – The Federal Water Pollution Control Administration in Washington, DC, announced today that East Brady will receive a $9,040 grant for a new intercepting sewer, a new pumping station with force main, and a new contact stabilization secondary type sewage treatment plant.
1/3/1967 – State Police said burglars broke into the North Vandergrift Hardware and Appliance Store, along Route 66, in Parks Township during the holiday weekend and took two shotguns, .16 and .20 gauges, and two .22 caliber rifles valued at more than $1,000.
1/3/1967 – Ten juveniles have been linked by Ford City Police to a variety of crimes in the borough and at the police pistol range in North Buffalo Township. The 14-year-old youngsters are charged with damaging two automobiles at the PPG parking lot, and attempting to remove a car belonging to Melvin C. Rumbaugh of Kittanning MR10. While trying to drive the car out, they collided with another parked car belonging to Florian Puskar of Kittanning RD6. The same two and another 13-year-old boy were also charged with ransacking autos parked in the lots. They removed items from glove compartments. Two other juveniles admitted shooting air rifle pellets through four windows of the Pennsylvania Railroad Freight station on Ford Street and Third Avenue. Police in a routine check of their rifle range near the Ford City Borough Dump discovered two boys hidden inside. They had forced open the door. Three First Ward juveniles were accused of removing lights from Christmas decorations in the First Ward.
1/3/1962 – Armstrong Water Company officers today announced the promotion of Gerald Smith to another property in American Waterworks Company and the appointment of T. Wilks Coleman as manager of the Kittanning utility.
1/3/1962 – Ford City solons reorganized as they met last night at the Borough Building with the election of Zigmund Cieply as president and Victor Caruso as vice-president.
1/3/1957 – Attorney Robert E. Pryde has been named to serve as assistant district attorney in Armstrong County for this year.
1/3/1957 – Three management appointments became effective at Works Four of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Robert V. Lange was named assistant superintendent of the Grinding and Polishing Control; William R. Schwab, assistant superintendent G&P Administration; and Arthur Michaux, assistant superintendent tank.
1/3/1952 – Ford City Community Christmas tree burning will take place on January 22 at the Seventh Avenue playground, Ford City Lions Club announced.
1/3/1952 – J. W. Campbell, 506 Hawthorne Avenue, was honored by New Bethlehem Masonic lodge. He was presented with a 50-year jewel. He has held membership in the lodge since 1901.
1/3/1949 – Formal opening of an addition to Lenzi’s Modern Dry Cleaning plant, Vine Street, will be held today, A. Lenzi announced.
1/3/1947 - Kittanning Tax Collector James W. Ellermeyer reported that over $200,000 in taxes on the 1946 duplicate had been paid as of December 1.
1/3/1947 – Blaine Fennel of 1128 Fifth Avenue, Ford City, is a patient in the Armstrong County Memorial Hospital with injuries to his right leg due to being caught under a bulldozer near the William Leech home, Pittsburgh Road.
1/3/1947 – Dr. Russell Rudolph, 70, prominent Kittanning dentist and long-time church and civic leader, died after a brief illness.
1/3/1942 – A truck which left the highway to avoid striking a six-year-old boy and his toy auto, grazed one dwelling, knocked down gasoline pumps, and then crashed into the bedroom of an apartment adjoining the filling station. The accident occurred on the Kittanning-Leechburg Road at Crooked Creek Dam access road. Four or five bricks and some pipes were knocked off the dwelling of the C. W. Ashbaughs, pumps of the James Walker Service Station were knocked down and the truck went into the bedroom, braking a bed and studio couch owned by Mr. & Mrs. Philip Deemer.
1/3/1942 – Burgess Jacob J. Maxeiner was sworn into office for his third four-year term by Justice of the Peace Karl M. Watt.
1/3/1942 – Pennsylvania’s air raid warning system was bring spread to a statewide basis after Gov. Arthur H. James warned civilian defense leaders that the state, “a tempting target for enemy planes,” must be all the more alert in civilian protection.
1/3/1927 – Clarence King, 33, of Garretts Run, was seriously hurt when caught under a falling roof at Baxter mines here.
1/3/1927 – Jacob A. Dunmire, 76, died at h is home in Rayburn Township.