04/11/1969 – Ford City and Mars battled to a 75-75 deadlock in a track meet yesterday at Saber Stadium. Ford City is now 1-2-1 for the season while Mars is 1-1-1.
04/11/1969 – Armstrong County School superintendent C. N. Hanner verbally announced that he would retire at the end of this calendar year.
04/11/1969 – A Kittanning man became the boss of his wife in at least one respect last night. Fred Maize of 162 South Water Street was elected a member of the Armstrong School District board where his wife, Betty, is a home economics teacher in Kittanning Senior High School. Maize had taught in a technical school near Pittsburgh and was a veteran of World War II as a U.S. Marine. Maize was quoted as saying, “I want no cards of congratulations, just cards of sympathy.”
04/11/1969 – Thomas A. Callas, son of Mr. & Mrs. James Callas of Kittanning has been accepted at Beginners Showcase, a summer theater training program for teenagers, on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire. Tom will attend the eight-week training program with classes in acting, musical comedy, dance, makeup, TV, motion picture work, plus creating and designing sets along with experiencing a full recreation vacation program.
04/11/1964 – Bible champions asked shoppers here today to join a campaign for restoration of Bible reading in the public schools. The campaign, under the nationwide auspices of International Christian Youth, Collingswood, N. J., urges citizens to seek a constitutional amendment which would permit the practice.
04/11/1959 – Mrs. Fred S. Maize, homemaking instructor and cafeteria supervisor at Kittanning Senior High School was elected president of Central Western District, Pennsylvania School Food Service at a recent meeting. Mrs. Frank John, head of the local kitchen staff, was named to serve as secretary-treasurer.
04/11/1959 – Perry Marshall, Pittsburgh disc jockey, will provide entertainment and music for the first YMCA Swing Time Dance to be held in the new gym.
04/11/1949 – Armstrong County commissioners awarded two contracts for the painting of bridges in Armstrong County.
04/11/1949 – Jobless Pay Claims Rise Noted Here. County Total Tops 5,000 Mark, with Most of Claims Coming From Mine Workers.
04/11/1949 – William Shaffer, 32, of Sagamore, died at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital as a result of injuries received in a head-on collision. Six others were injured in the accident on Route 85, four miles east of Rural Valley.
04/11/1944 – Sixty members of the ration board set-up in Armstrong County had dinner and an evening of entertainment at the Kittanning Country Club to honor Charles Nevins, Kittanning merchant who has served as one of the unpaid members of the ration board since its inception about two years ago. Mr. Nevins expects to leave soon for Army service.
04/11/1944 – Second Lt. Robert S. McMurray, whose mother, Dorothy McMurray is a resident of 110 First St., Leechburg, and 42 other Pennsylvanians are missing in action in the Mediterranean and European areas, the War Department announced.
04/11/1939 – Preliminary arrangements to alter the J. A. Gault Company (grainery) building, N. Grant Ave., at Dewey Street into a modern 50×150 foot roller skating rink were revealed.
04/11/1939 – A 73-year-old Kittanning man Plummer A. McCormick of 1170 North Grant Ave., is a patient in Armstrong County Memorial Hospital as a result of head injuries received when he stepped over a 30-foot embankment. The accident occurred along an abandoned road near “Typewriter Works” at Edgewood.
04/11/1934 – William E. Blaney, 72, of Kittanning, died at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital. He was a Veteran of the Spanish-American War.
04/11/1934 – Voting machines to be used in the primaries were delivered at Leechburg. The machines will be set up immediately.
04/11/1934 – The first water shipment of gravel by Allegheny River Sand Company went downstream on the Allegheny River.
04/11/1929 – Miss Marion Stone and Miss Catherine Fleming have been elected to teach in Kittanning High School. Miss Helen Hilton has been elected to teach in the grade schools.