1/8/1969 – Former Kittanning residents, Senator Ernest Kline (D-Beaver) and his wife, the former Josephine Recupero, and their seven children were in Harrisburg as the senator was sworn in as minority leader of the state senate. Senator Kline was once sports announcer at Kittanning’s first, and since discontinued radio station, WKIN. His wife’s parents, Mr. & Mrs. John Recupero, still reside here at 225 Cleveland Street. The children/ages are: Patricia (19), Gus (17), Michael (13), John (10), Vincent (8), Myra (4), and Monica (3).
1/8/1969 – Approximately 500 employees at six Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company mines in Indiana and Armstrong counties returned to work today, ending a strike over a job seniority dispute. The dispute involved members of Local 1412 of the United Mine Workers.
1/8/1969 – Sixteen-year-old Bernard C. Bundy, Cherry Street, Worthington, was treated for bruises and released from Armstrong County Memorial Hospital yesterday after his car struck a telephone pole on Old U. S. Route 422, five miles west of Kittanning. Bundy lost control of his 1963 coupe after attempting to pass a stalled automobile and slid into the pole. The accident occurred at 3:40 PM.
1/8/1964 – J. F. Sherburne of RD1 Rural Valley this week succeeded Donald J. McLachlan of Rural Valley as president of Shannock Valley School Board.
1/8/1964 – Bill Hough’s foul shot with seconds left in the game here last night provided Kittanning with a 49-48 win over Arnold’s Lions in a Sec. 1-A cliff hanger.
1/8/1959 – Readers borrowed 9,809 more books at Ford City Public Library in 1959 than they did in 1957, according to a report by Mrs. Jane Sheldon, librarian.
1/8/1959 – William D. Pontius took over as president and Bernie Bowser as chief of the West Kittanning firemen at an installation at the fire hall. Burgess A. J. Kuhn presided at the swearing-in of the officers.
1/8/1954 – The Civil Service Commission announced the names of 21 applicants for first class postmaster at Ford City.
1/8/1954 – Pittsburgh Plate Glass Industries announced that a 45-acre tract in Harmar Township near Pittsburgh has been purchased as a future location for a Glass Research Laboratory.
1/8/1954 – Unofficial low bids totally $117,831 were received by the state Public School Building Authority for construction of a new elementary school for East Brady Borough School district.
1/8/1949 – Turnpike to Cross River Near Oakmont. Completion in Two Years Anticipated.
1/8/1949 – In spite of 1949 being a leap year, the marriage market in Armstrong County took a dip as compared with the 1947 matings. There were 90 fewer marriage license applications made at the courthouse last year than in the previous year.
1/8/1944 – The home front in Armstrong County is faced with the task of meeting a $2,470,000 quota in the Fourth War Loan drive, the county’s War Finance Committee announced.
1/8/1944 – Fire originating from a faulty flue in the kitchen caused relatively small damage to the manse of Slate Lick Presbyterian Church.
1/8/1934 – Armstrong County detectives are investigating an apparent plot to burn the home of Harry E. Wilkens, a general superintendent of Joseph S. Finch distillery at Schenley. The plot was foiled when Mrs. Willkens discovered the blaze soon after it broke out.
1/8/1934 – River gauges at Lock 7 on the Allegheny River recorded a rise in the river state here during the last 24 hours. Rains have raised the river to 16.0 feet in the upper pool and 18.0 in the lower pool. The river was still rising this morning despite the fact that rain had stopped after dark yesterday.
1/8/1934 – Twenty-one civil works projects have been completed in Armstrong County, statistics at the Leechburg administration office revealed.
1/8/1929 – Kittanning-Templeton Road is closed to traffic by huge cakes of ice which have been washed in from the Allegheny River.
1/8/1929 – The first showing of “talking movies” in Kittanning will take place at a midnight show in the Columbia Theater this week.