04/03/1969 – The Apollo Plaza project will receive additional funds in order to complete the project. It will receive an additional $39,184 to be used for administrative costs. The new appropriation will bring the project total to $841,484. The plaza now just lacks a parking lot which is expected to be completed this summer. All stores there are now occupied.
04/03/1969 – Mrs. Marie J. Wilson is a candidate for North Buffalo Township tax collector on the Republican ticket.
04/03/1969 – The Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, today announced that Allegheny River Lock No. 7 at Kittanning, will be closed for repairs April 9, for approximately three weeks.
04/03/1969 – A Kittanning physician, Dr. James K. Greenbaum, was enroute to South Vietnam today for a two-month stint of volunteer medical service among the civilian population of that unhappy land. Greenbaum will join seven other American doctors working with civilians only in various province hospitals throughout South Vietnam under the American Medical Association’s contract with the U. S. Agency for International Development.
04/03/1969 – The Middle Armstrong County Chamber of Commerce announced that most Kittanning and Ford City retail stores will close Friday between noon and 3PM in observance of Good Friday. The Chamber said stores closing during the day’s church service period would be open 9AM to Noon, and reopen 3PM to 9PM. The court house will be closed all day.
04/03/1969 – Emmanual Heilman Lutheran Church were accepted into membership. They were: Howard Ross Boarts, Carmilla Louise Slagle, Susan Lee Schrecengost, Kim Ellen Rupp, John Florin Stitt, and Elizabeth Ann Klingensmith.
04/03/1969 – After two years of instruction, young people accepted into membership at Christ Rupp Lutheran Church included: Deborah Kay Elder, Babette Marie Reddinger, Betty Jean Chauvaux, Connie Ann Smith, Ruth Ann Croyle, Robert George Everhart, Thomas Charles Spencer, Larry Ray Elder, and Dale Warren Schall.
04/03/1969 – Armstrong YMCA mermaids came home from a tournament in Erie with a fourth-place victory in the 200-year junior medley relay. The team included: Alice Thurau, Sue Custred, Lisa Greenbaum, and Cheryl Hudson.
04/03/1964 - The gymnasium in Armstrong County YMCA. Kittanning. will be closed for approximately four weeks, but even the most ardent users of the facility will find it hard to complain. Richard E. George, general secretary, said workmen will install approximately 4,000 square feet of maple flooring over the existing concrete floor which has long paved a rough runway for unfortunate gymnasts and basketball players who chanced to land on it.
04/03/1959 - Officials of the United Steel Workers Union filed a complaint at Armstrong County Court to prevent the Aluminum Ladder Company from moving its equipment from Worthington to Florence. S. C.
04/03/1959 - Ronald G. Wolfe was installed as exalted ruler of Kittanning Elks Lodge at ceremonies held in the fraternity’s Water St. home.
04/03/1959 - The curtain goes up Sunday on the new Armstrong County YMCA, biggest one-shot civic production the community has ever undertaken. The climax will come with a symbolic transfer of keys of the half-million dollar structure to the Y board of directors and the citizens of the county.
04/03/1954 - Kittanning residents may start paying higher taxes soon. a school official indicated, but added that the increase will not be large. “It appears now.” Schools Superintendent Burt Dunmire said. “that for the 1954-55 school year, even though we will begin to pay for our new building, it will be necessary to raise taxes only slightly if at all.”
04/03/1954 - Gen. Vandenburg To Be Buried at Arlington.
04/03/1954 - A freak sub-zero cold wave moved on Armstrong County, bringing occasional snow flurries and threatening to plunge the mercury to as low as 14 tonight.
04/03/1939 - A mortgage which has been held against the church building for more than a decade made a warm, glowing light when the document, divided into ten scraps of paper held by presidents of the church’s organizations, was burned in a meeting of Appleby Manor Presbyterian Church.
04/03/1939 - Two copper thieves narrowly escaped death by electrocution when they cut a “hot” power line in the unused No. 10 mine of Allegheny River Mining Company, near the wagon loading tipple on the Kittanning-East Brady Road. The attempted thievery was discovered when the mining village of Furnace Run was plunged into darkness by the wire cutting.
04/03/1934 - Construction of a new loading and unloading dock at the Allegheny River Limestone Company’s location on the Allegheny River near Templeton is expected to start some time this week.
04/03/1934 - The First Presbyterian Church of Leechburg will observe the 90th anniversary of its founding this month. Committees have been appointed and plans started for a celebration on April 29.
04/03/1929 - Mrs. Clara Barbour, superintendent of Kittanning General Hospital, has tendered her resignation effective May 1.
04/03/1929 - W. C. Miller has purchased a new five-room bungalow on Wilson Avenue in Kittanning.
