05/13/1969 – The administration offices of the Armstrong School District on Water Street in Manorville will be closed the next few days as staff moves the office to 410 Main Street.
05/13/1969 – M. J. Claypoole, who operates Claypoole’s Store in Troy Hill and lives alone in quarters in the rear and upstairs, was awakened at 2:30 AM today by noises on the front porch. He heard someone trying to pry open the store door. He crept to the front of the store and took a heavy hickory club he kept under the shelf. “I saw a big hairy arm reach down through the broken window to unlock the lock. I raised the club and came down hard. I have him two good whacks before he pulled his arm out. I don’t know if I broke his arm or not, but he got out of there quickly.” Claypoole said he didn’t hear a car start up, so he assumed the man left on foot. Police are looking for a man with a sore right arm!
05/13/1969 – Charles “Buzz” Ridl, Pitt’s head basketball coach, is the scheduled main speaker at the annual Mothers Athletic Club banquet May 24 for Kittanning High’s winter and spring sports teams.
05/13/1969 – Denny Crytzer ruled as king and Becky Pflugh as queen at the Junior-Senior Prom Saturday at Kittanning High School.
05/13/1969 – Angelo Sgro, proprietor of the Alexander Hotel and Restaurant, is remodeling the restaurant portion of the building, which hereafter will be a superette. It will sell cold cut meats, dairy products, packaged ice cream, fresh produce, and vegetables, frozen foods, and groceries. The store will have 1,100 square feet of shopping space. He is also expanding the bar portion of the hotel for additional restaurant space.
05/13/1969 – Wayne Van Dine, a Kittanning native now working at WSTV-TV in Steubenville, Ohio for the past 11 years, will join WIIC-TV Channel 11 News on May 19. He started his career at WACB in Kittanning before going to WEIR Radio in Weirton, WV, and then Channel 9 in Steubenville.
05/13/1969 – The highest award in scouting, the Eagle Award, was presented last night to William J. Minteer as Boy Scout Troop 661 observed Parents Night. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Minteer of Worthington.
5/13/1969 – Ford City police are looking for an eagle that once belonged to Ford City Borough and apparently became lost after the strong wind that hit the area last week. It made its home in the Ford City Borough Park for more than 15 years. On a year round basis, the eagle withstood the freeze, snow, sleet, and winds of winter, the rains, heat, thunder, and lightning of summer. It roosted on the loftiest perch in the park. The silent eagle stood its vigil during Labor Day rallies. Music failed to ruffle its feathers. The eagle stood stiffy as tributes were paid to the war dead with taps sounded and rifles saluted on Memorial Day. The only person in town who paid particular attention to the Eagle was Victor Aubrey, borough engineer, in charge of the park. He saw to it that every couple of years, the eagle was groomed with a new coat of paint for it was a metal emblem on top of the flagpole in the park.
05/13/1964 – Kittanning Demolay members, James T. Richardson and Allen G. Adams, have been elected by International Supreme Council of Demolay to be elevated to degree of Chevalier, highest honor given to active Demolay members.
05/13/1964 - For the 11th consecutive year, Armstrong County Schools will offer summer aid to county boys and girls speech and hearing difficulties.
05/13/1959 – The Kittanning Chamber of Commerce won third prize in the 1958 contest for towns of 5,000-10,000 population in the Pennsylvania Community Development Contest. The achievement was worth $1,500 to the agency - $500 from the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce, a matching $500 from West Penn Power Company and another matching $500 from Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad Company.
05/13/1959 – Nearly 300 musicians from five high school bands in Armstrong County, several floats and cars bearing Lion dignitaries and beauty queens participated in the Lions District 14-J Governor’s Rally on Kittanning streets yesterday.
05/13/1954 – William N. Waugaman, son of W. A. Waugaman of 429 E. Market St., has been elected as a student counselor at Allegheny College, Meadville, for 1954-55.
05/13/1954 – Alfred Myers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob A. Myers. Jr. of Kelly Station RD 1, earned the title of valedictorian of the 1954 graduating class of Ford City high school. Barbara Gregory, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Gregory, 932 6th Ave., Ford City, is salutatorian.
05/13/1954 – Elderton School Building Going to Bidding Stage. Architect Given “Go Ahead” Despite Reluctance of Plumcreek Directors.
05/13/1949 – Fire destroyed a $3,000 scalehouse of Mohawk Mining Company at Kittanning Highlands.
05/13/1949 – A Kittanning woman and her five small children had a new place to live today, after two nights in hotel rooms following their eviction from a Fair Street dwelling. Henry A. Hudson, executive secretary of The American Red Cross, said that the mother and family were being taken to new quarters found for them by the Red Cross at Sagamore.
05/13/1944 – Armstrong County friends received word of the death on May 10 of the Rev. William J. Hutchison, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Kittanning from 1909 to 1926. His death occurred in Vinalhaven, Maine.
05/13/1944 – Killed April 18 in the crash of a plane taking him to a foreign service post in the European area, Sgt. Melvin Kuntz, 21-year-old Kittanning youth, laid buried today at Goose Bay, Newfoundland, point of departure of the plane that carried him to his death.
05/13/1939 – The beginning of a memorial grove to honor its founder and six early teachers will be a feature of the Elders Ridge Academy centennial celebration of June 16 organizers said today.
05/13/1939 – Fifty-eight of 185 babies born at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital during the past year attended a reunion at the hospital. The even was a feature of open house ceremonies marking observance here of National Hospital Day.
05/13/1939 – Kittanning High School class of 1939 is the first ever to publish the school yearbook, “Kit-han-ne”, on a self-paying basis, it was announced this week.
05/13/1929 - H. V. Cook and Roy Heilman have taken George Crownover’s saw mill to Clearfield, where they will saw lumber for gas well rigs.
05/13/1929 – Hays Daugherty’s new motor boat was placed in the water for the first time by his brothers, George and Harry McVey. On a trial spin the craft, equipped with a 32-horsepower motor, showed a speed of 30 miles an hour and gave the occupants a real thrill.
05/13/1929 – Strike notice. Strike on at Upper Kittanning Brick Company, located at Bradys Bend. Please stay away until strike is settled. Clay Workers Organization, Thomas Hutson, vice president.