04/10/1969 – The first mine acid treatment plant will be installed in the near future by the Department of Mines and Mineral Industries on Glade Run in East Franklin Township.
04/10/1969 – For future expansion, the Armstrong County Trust Co., Market St., Kittanning purchased the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Store next door.
04/10/1969 – Miss Loretta Grace Dickman will retire as a telephone operator who went to work 45 years ago for the Kittanning Telephone Company when no number was needed and operators were expected to be fountains of information. “Although every customer had an assigned number, many people gave the names of the parties they were calling and the operator was expected to know all the numbers,” she recalled. “In addition, we were called upon to provide many other types of information such as weather forecasts, radio program schedules, time, various forms of vital statistics as births, deaths, and other data.” She was the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Dickman, graduated from East Brady High School , and worked as a typesetter for the East Brady newspaper before becoming a telephone operator.
04/10/1969 – President Fred Gardner of Armstrong Education Association said today that operating funds of Armstrong School District will be increased by an estimated $1,170,000 if the state Senate passes new teacher pay legislation.
04/10/1969 – A taxpayers’ suit forcing the delay of building a new high school is a delay tactic, said Richard Mix, president of the Armstrong County Taxpayers’ League and local attorney in the suit, Peter Calarie.
04/10/1969 – Kittanning banker George Weaver is the new president of MACADO (Middle Armstrong County Area Development Organization), succeeding T. A. Weeter. James White was elected vice-president; Edward J. Steiner, vice-president; Robert Lehner, treasurer; and James McCullough, secretary.
04/10/1964 - A Scouter for almost a half a century, the Rev. S. William Van Ryn of Ford City, received Scoutings highest award at a dinner -meeting in Ford Cliff Fire Hall, Ford Cliff.
04/10/1964 - Keystone Tall Tree Girl Scout Council, an officer announced today, will operate three resident camps this summer — Camp Curry Creek, near Brockway; Camp Trefoil, near Butler; and Camp Wil-Bea, between Franklin and Oil City.
04/10/1959 - Warren Korbel, manager of radio station WACB, was elected president of the Y’s Men’s Club at a business meeting of the group in Armstrong County YMCA.
04/10/1959 - The Rev. Myron Bellinger Jr. of Moravia, Lawrence County, will take over the pastorate of Union Presbyterian Church, Cowansville and West Glade Run Presbyterian Church on Sunday.
04/10/1954 - John H. Dodds, a Manor Twp. native is retiring after 35 years of federal service with the Corps of Engineers.
04/10/1954 - A former Kittanning businessman, Philip Pollock, died at Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh. Mr. Pollock had been owner of Pollock Candy and Cigar Company here until about five years ago.
04/10/1944 – Harrisburg: Col. Richard K. Mellon, state selective service director announced that men 26 years of age or older who are not in the armed forces by Wednesday will be reprocessed by their local draft boards.
04/10/1944 - Fracture of the skull and other injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile in Parker City, County Coroner C. M. Woodward said, caused the death of Joseph Kelly, 58-year-old Parker resident.
04/10/1939 – Ford City: More than 600 children enjoyed a roller skating party which the Leader-Times conducted by special arrangement at the armory roller rink, with E. H. Hopkins, rink manager.
04/10/1939 – Charles E. “Mo” Johnson, president of the New Kensington Fire Department for five years and who helped organize the West Kittanning fire company four years ago, will direct fire training for members of the recently organized Applewold Fire Department.
04/10/1939 – Seventy-six leghorn hens and 170 five-week old Rhode Island red chicks, owned by Pete Luketic, were destroyed when fire leveled a chicken coop on the Harry Nicholson farm near Worthington.
04/10/1934 – Deaths reported today: John M Steim of 730 N. 11th St., Apollo, and Mrs. Lyde H. Kepple of Leechburg.
04/10/1934 – John A. Mechling, assistant superintendent of schools in Armstrong County for a number of terms, was elected superintendent of schools for the four-year period beginning July 1, by school directors from the county who assembled in the courthouse. He defeated C. M. Heilman the incumbent.
04/10/1929 – Mrs. George W. Larkins, widow of Ford City postmaster George W. Larkins has been appointed acting postmaster.
04/10/1929 - A report from the recent county-wide Salvation Army home serve campaign showed donations of $3,329.05.