3/28/1969 – The Raiders squeaked out a 3-2 decision over the Cardinals in the last Armstrong Amateur Hockey League tilt of the season last night at Bel-Mont Area.
3/28/1969 – Bid opening for construction of a senior citizen high-rise apartment building – Warren Manor – in Apollo ended on a happy note yesterday. Bids were a quarter of a million dollars less than expected. Work is expected to start this spring.
3/28/1969 – The State Highway Department said today proposed construction and widening of Old Route 28 east of east of Kittanning is projected for late 1970. The one-mile project will widen existing curves and take about 10 buildings along the right of way. Reconstruction will start at the railroad tracks on Market Street and follow existing Route 28 for one mile. The cost of the project is $800,000 and involves two lanes of 24-foot-wide roadway.
3/28/1969 – The Kittanning Free Methodist Church men’s group will be debating the concept of inhabiting the moon and the planets as a possible solution to the earth supporting its inhabitants tonight at 7:30 PM. Team participants will be the Rev. William Echman of Butler, James Klugh of Homer City, and Dale Trudgen, Eugene Waugaman, Carl Masters and Delbert Lasher.
3/28/1969 – The Rev. Robert Lash, pastor of First United Methodist Church in Kittanning, introduced a copy of the new United Methodist Church Discipline to members of the Confirmation Class that included: Pat Scanlon, Ray Johnson, Terry Smith, Jamie Ford, Bob Davis, David Cornish, and Paul Stubbs. The class members will be received into the church membership this Sunday.
3/28/1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, the victorious allied commander of World War II who went on to become America’s President for two terms in peacetime, died at 12:25 PM. He was 78.
3/28/1964 - “Anchorage, Alaska – (UPI) Fires and tidal waves ravaged Alaskan cities today in the wake of a powerful earthquake that shattered huge sections of Anchorage and injected a heavy toll of lives.
3/28/1964 – First United Methodist Church was filled to capacity yesterday for the annual community Good Friday service.
3/28/1959 – An article by Ford City Police Chief Patrick Nelson on the finger printing of school children has been published in the current issue of Finger Print and Identification magazine. The periodical is a monthly publication of the Institute of Applied Science, Chicago.
3/28/1959 – Ivan S. Fiscus Jr. of Cowansville RD 1 was among 29 men and women who completed a five-day course for dairy cattle herdsmen at Pennsylvania State University.
3/28/1959 – Daniel J. Collins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Collins of Ferne Drive, was chosen as local summer program participant by the American Field Service International Scholarship of New York, according to information received by the local AFS committee.
3/28/1949 – Worthington Deprived of Ball Field. Possibility of Enlarging Present School Athletic Field To Be Aired Tomorrow.
3/28/1949 – Armstrong County Community Concert membership enrollment for the 1949-50 season surpassed all previous years, as the result of a membership campaign which closed last week.
3/28/1944 – The Kittanning Choral Society held a final rehearsal for its presentation of the second part of Handel’s “Messiah.” The work will be sung in the First Methodist Church under direction of Lyman Almy Perkins.
3/28/1944 – Postmaster William Leslie of Parkers Landing was elected president of a newly organized Armstrong County Chapter of Postmasters at a dinner meeting in the Alexander Hotel.
3/28/1939 – Permanent repairs on a six-inch water main which “blew up” on North Avenue were expected to be completed by noon. Nearly 100 square feet of the street pavement was damaged, and water service in the North and Woodward Avenue area was affected when the main broke. Employes of the Armstrong Water Company had tested a fire hydrant in that district a little earlier.
3/28/1934 – Sale of 200 tickets for the charity ball for the benefit of Armstrong County Memorial Hospital was reported by the committee.
3/28/1934 – Kittanning businessmen voted unanimously at a meeting to close stores between noon and 3 p.m. on Good Friday.
3/28/1929 – The Kittanning Free Library was closed because of illness of the librarian, Miss Tompkins.
3/28/1929 – Officials of the Rochester-Pittsburgh Coal Company began an investigation into the death of three miners trapped in a fall of rock at No. 1 mine in McIntyre. The dead are John Jerry, 50; John Kasic, 45 and Frank Painger, 25.