04/04/1969 – Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Division of Oressler Industries, Inc., announced the appointment of Charles H. Krey as eastern district mine manager at its Mining District Office at Woodland.
04/04/1969 – Kittanning High and Freeport battled to a 0-0 tie in nine innings here at Lemmon Field yesterday in the 1969 baseball opener for the Wildcats.
04/04/1969 – Recently elected to the Pennsylvania Coal Mining Association board of directors were three Kittanning area coal operators. They are William C. Altvater of Allegheny and Eastern Sales Co., Blaney Bowser of B & G Construction Co. and Russell W. Haller of West Freedom Mining Corp.
04/04/1969 – Karen Holt, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Holt, and Janice Wilson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Wilson, all of Dayton, are members of the Penn State University Chapel Choir that will appear with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at two concerts at the Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh. The girls are sophomores at Penn State and have been members of Chapel Choir since entering the university.
04/04/1969 – First Communion was held last night at Appleby Manor Memorial Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Robert Shearer, said. New communicants included: Dwight Wolfe, Jack Birch, Keith Shaffer, Karen Riker, Grace Jackson, Thomas Benson, David Smith, Jeffry Spang, Roger Burns, Robin Swan, Jo Ann Porter, Bunny Wolfe, Hallie Rupert, Linda Smith, George Crownover, David Myers, James Wray, William Walker, and Barbara Petras.
04/04/1964 - A former Kittanning High School basketball player, now stationed with the Navy at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., is showing fellow sailors he knows how to handle himself on a basketball court. Chuck McDermott, a member of the 1950 KHS basketball team which won section honors that year, is a member of an all-star team from Patuxent River, which finished second in a recent tourney in Washington D. C.
04/04/1959 - Clarence Louden Sr., 66, long time area businessman died at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital as the result of a heart attack.
04/04/1959 - Company “C” of the National Guard located in Ford City will be converted from an infantry unit to a heavy construction engineering company, according to reorganizational plans of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.
04/04/1949 - Dynamiting Closes Rimersburg Mine. Repair of Big Shovel Will Take Two Weeks. State Police Blame UMW Pickets for $100,000 Damage: Six Pickets Arrested.
04/04/1949 - Cieply’s were crowned champions of the Armstrong County Basketball league by virtue of their 40-22 win over Eljer Company Five at the Rollercade.
04/04/1949 - Among newcomers to Kittanning are members of the Wesley P. Thornburg family, who have moved into a new home on the Indiana Pike. Thornburg is manager of Armstrong Water Company. The Thornburgs moved here from Butler.
04/04/1944 - Kittanning Town Council ordered a new 750-gallon pumper fire truck to replace a 20-odd year-old unit in use by No. 4 Hose Company.
04/04/1939 - Observance of Daylight Savings Time at Kittanning during the summer months was authorized by Town Council in a routine transaction devoid of argument.
04/04/1939 - Samuel R. Steele, one of western Pennsylvania’s last Civil War veterans, quietly celebrated his 92nd birthday in the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Ralston of Slate Lick.
04/04/1934 - The eighth birthday anniversary of the local court of Catholic Daughters of American will be celebrated with a dinner at The Gables April 17.
04/04/1934 - Claudie Ethelbert Holibaugh of Distant lost a valiant fight for life when he died in the Armstrong County Memorial Hospital. He has been blind since age six, but dispite the handicap had read his bible through many times. He was born July 20, 1876
04/04/1929 - The Henry Shaffer Lumber Company has sold ten lots at 11th Street and Third Avenue, Ford City, to the Ford City school board for a new school building.
