1/21/1969 – River authorities here said small ice dams continued to hold at bottleneck points on the upper Allegheny River today. Attendants at Lock 7 today reported shore ice still holding in the upper pool and the river running approximately one-fourth full of scattered ice floes. Otherwise, pools 7 and 8 were reported clear.
1/21/1969 – Gerald A. Bowser of Adrian RD1 has been appointed deputy sheriff, county sheriff Joseph B. Frick said. Bowser, former constable in Washington Township, replaces Mac R. Shilling, who resigned at the first of the year and is now employed at Ferguson Manufacturing Co. James Martin will reside in the deputy sheriff’s apartment formerly occupied by Shilling in the courthouse here.
1/21/1969 – With the 24 municipal justice of the peace positions eliminated and replaced with four district magisterial justices, candidates will run in the spring Primary for the party nomination and then in the General Election in November. The winners will take office on the first Monday of January, 1970. Last week, Judge J. Frank Graff signed a court order fixing the number and boundaries of the new JP districts according to a plan approved by the State Supreme Court.
1/21/1969 – It took more than a charging five-point buck deer to scare Terry Hart, 15. He is the son of Mr. & Mrs. William Hart of Sagamore, who told district game protector Charles Hertz of Marion Center that he walking his dog between Sagamore and Five Points, Indiana County, when the buck suddenly attacked the dog. The dog defended itself and the deer charged Terry. The boy, armed with a Boy Scout ax, managed to kill the animal before it could harm him. Hertz said there were strong indications that the deer had at one time been held in captivity and therefore was unafraid of humans.
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1/21/1969 – Linda Marlene Fennell, daughter of former Ford City residents Mr. & Mrs. Blair Fennell, recently carried on a family tradition by joining the Women’s Marine Corps. The Fennells have had six sons in the U.S. Marine Corps, including three who served in Vietnam. One, Blair Jr., is making a life career of the military and has served 12 years; the others have all received honorable discharges. Miss Fennell’s grandmother, Mrs. Nellie Binder, resides at 2214 Elm Drive, Ford City.
1/21/1969 – The inauguration day of President Richard Nixon was covered morning to night by the television networks. TV executives brought out the best – Chet Huntley and David Brinkley for NBC, Walter Cronkite for CBS, and Frank Reynolds and Howard K. Smith for ABC. The coverage began at 10AM and continued for seven hours straight. For those unable to watch during the day, the events were recapped and analyzed during the evening newscasts. Mr. Nixon was seen on NBC’s “Laugh-In” series with hosts Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. It was the second appearance on the most popular TV show. The first time was on the season’s premiere last September.
1/21/1964 – President Johnson today included in his budget $27 million for construction of the Kinzua Dam in Pennsylvania and New York – one of the largest public works requests in his budget.
1/21/1964 – Kittanning Union School board plans to spend $25,000 to replace windows and frames at the 61-year-old Fourth Ward School in Kittanning.
1/21/1959 – Coach John Rimmy’s Kittanning High cagers battled Butler to the wire last night but lost a close 69-66 decision. Game took place on the Butler floor where the Wildcats usually put up their best scrap of the season.
1/21/1959 – Preparations are being made by members of the Kittanning-Ford City Junior Woman’s Club for the “Mothers’ March” for this year’s March of Dimes campaign.
1/21/1959 – The condition of Dr. James E. Shirley, South Jefferson Street, is reported good at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, where he is a patient.
1/21/1954 – Damage amounting to nearly $30,000 resulted when a pre-dawn fire leveled a large barn at Worthington RD2. The fire killed 36 head of cattle and two riding horses in addition to hay and animal foodstuffs. The barn was on a 122-acre farm operated jointly by Sidney J. Hayes Jr. and attorney James G. Callas, both of Kittanning, under a lease-option arrangements with owners, Mr. & Mrs. Francis O’Donnel of Homestead.
1/21/1954 – Kittanning Telephone Company is advertising for bids for construction of a garage and warehouse on the former courthouse annex property at North Jefferson and Arch streets.
1/21/1949 – Excavation work on a $70,000 annex to Freeport Area High School building was begun this week.
1/21/1944 – Skaters drew a warning that they out to stay off the Allegheny River until more cold weather strengthens the ice. The river has been popular with skaters since the mid-December zero wave froze a lay of ice.
1/21/1944 – One year ago today, the first class of Nurses’ Aides under guidance of the American Red Cross, was started in Kittanning. In appreciation of over 9,000 hours of service contributed by the first and second classes of Nurse’s Aides to be graduated, the Board of Directors of Armstrong County Memorial Hospital entertained the Aide Corps and Nurses’ Aide Committee of the American Red Cross at a dinner in a hotel here.
1/21/1939 – Eleven persons have burned to death in Armstrong County in a little more than a year, Coroner C. M. Woodward said. Woodward was completing an investigation into the death of two truckers whose lives were snuffed out when they were trapped in the cab of a trailer-truck as it plunged over a 35-foot embankment near Kittanning and burst into flames.
1/21/1939 – Horses owned by two well-known Kittanning men, Dr. Ivan N. Boyer of 504 North McKean Street, and James T. McCullough of 200 South Water Street, were included in the list of 177 entries in the horse show at the annual Pennsylvania Farm Show at Harrisburg.
1/21/1929 – A three-year-old Rosston child was burned so badly at home that she died in the Armstrong County Memorial Hospital.
1/21/1929 – Cores of persons drove to Rosston to view high water and ice. With the receding waters, residents began to rehabilitate themselves after the frightening experiences.