04/02/1969 – “Don’t hem me in,” cry South Buffalo Township supervisors, and they meant it. They have approved an ordinance that calls for the controlled growth of the township in anticipated growth as a result of the Allegheny Valley Expressway. Its opening could bring a migration of homeowners from Pittsburgh to the suburbs. The ordinance is designed to prevent a possible ”crowded condition”.
04/02/1969 – Two workers are in the hospital today recovering from injuries they received after falling from a scaffold yesterday at the Armstrong Power Station in Reesedale. Dale Lewis of Worthington is in fair condition with chest and nose injuries along with abrasions and lacerations. Gerald Dinger of Fairmount City RD1 injured his chest and suffered lacerations and abrasions. The men were making repairs on tubes inside the boiler when their scaffolding and safety rope broke at 11AM. The men were working on the scaffold 50 feet height
04/02/1969 – Eggs advertised at Del Farm for 49 cents a dozen.
04/02/1969 – Firemen from Ford Cliff were called when a panel truck ran off Route 66, Ford City yesterday and overturned, but did not catch fire. Large amount of gasoline spilled from vehicle, soaking driver, Malcolm Heilman, 17, of Kittanning RD1. He was hospitalized with first degree burns caused by the fuel. Keith Allen Furlong, 16, of Kittanning RD6, a passenger, suffered abrasions. State police set damage to truck at $600.
04/02/1969 – April showers forced Kittanning High to move its scheduled baseball opener with Freeport back one day to Friday, and there’s a good possibility of still another 24-hour delay.
04/02/1969 – Kittanning Suburban Joint Water Authority is preparing to sign up customers from the more than 400 potential homeowners in built-up areas of East Franklin and North Buffalo Townships. The actual signup of customers marks the culmination of at least 13 years of effort.
04/02/1964 - The Salvation Army announced today that Fred l. Bauer of the Bauer Company had accepted chairmanship of the Capital Fund Drive for the Kittanning Corps of The Salvation Army.
04/02/1964 - The family of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Simmons of Ford City RD 2 was together for the first time when sons, daughters, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and grandchildren in a total number of 48 assembled for Easter at the Simmons home.
04/02/1959 - A Ford City man, Joseph J. Knasko, has been awarded a patent on his invention for simplifying the adjustment of television sets in the home.
04/02/1959 - Few seats were empty for the opening performance of the annual Lions minstrel, last night at Kittanning Junior High School auditorium.
04/02/1959 - The Robert Gallatin Award was presented to Fred McGranahan of Ninth St. Ford City, upon his retirement from active service with the Treasury Department of the U.S. Government.
04/02/1954 - FORD CITY — Ex-Bandsmen to be Guests. Get-Together Planned Following Annual Spring Concert at School.
04/02/1954 - From the bottom of an abandoned coal strip pit in West Franklin Township, a recently formed company is now taking limestone for processing into numerous grades of construction stone.
04/02/1949 - Dr. Robert H. Yockey took over the practice here of Dr Violet Hemminger, eye, ear and nose specialist with offices at 150 N. Jefferson St.
04/02/1949 - A group of ex-servicemen met the casket of T/5 Homer Bish as it arrived on a Pennsylvania Railroad train and escorted it to the Smith Funeral Home. Technician Bish was age 22 years, six months and 19 days when death occurred in a hospital in Belgium. Dec. 19, 1944. from wounds received in the Battle of the Bulge.
04/02/1934 - The entire community has welcomed the news that the board of directors has decided to build a new hospital
04/02/1934 - The Rev. R. C. Schaub of Little Rock. III., has been extended a call by the congregations of Buffalo, Slate Lick and Worthington United Presbyterian Churches.
04/02/1934 - An Old Time Fiddlers contest will be held in the Lyceum theater. Already ten entries have been received.
04/02/1929 – Town Councilmen decided at a meeting to advertise for bids for a new pumper for Hose Company No. 6.
04/02/1929 - Sunday was one of the most pleasant Easters Kittanning has enjoyed for years. The sun shone all day and about 9,000 persons, it is estimated, attended church services