05/22/1969 – Over 1,000 are expected to be in attendance at tonight’s annual dinner for the Middle Armstrong County Chamber of Commerce. The reason for the high attendance has been attributed to the keynote speaker: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. The annual dinner has never drawn more than 500 in past years.
05/22/1969 – Democratic party leaders must select a candidate for Mayor of Kittanning Borough since their candidate, Donald Steim, died the day before the Primary. Steim still was the top vote-getter.
05/22/1969 – A class of nine will graduate from Armstrong County Memorial Hospital’s School of Radiologic Technology here on June 12 and become registered technicians.
05/22/1969 – One of the features of Armstrong County YMCA Open House on Saturday will be demonstrations of skills in the physical education department of the YMCA.
05/22/1969 – Ford City Police Chief Stanley Sadeski said bicycle licensing and inspection takes place daily at the police station. He warned owners that they must have their 1969-70 license tags on the bicycles before June 30. Bicycles without tags after that date will be confiscated.
05/22/1969 – Sgt. Ernest B. Ruth, son of Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Ruth of Kittanning RD2, is spending a 36-day leave here before beginning a tour of duty in Vietnam. A 1966 graduate of Kittanning High School and Lenape Vo-Tech, he attended Non-Commissioned Officers School at Fort Benning, GA and was recently stationed at Fort Dix, NJ.
05/22/1969 –Registered Technicians of Armstrong County Memorial Hospital’s School of Radiologic Technology will receive certificates of graduation on June 12. They include: Susan Hoganmiller, Mary Infanta, Ruth Hagofsky, Sherry Roberts, Pat Heckman, Linda Knepshield, Karen Welch, Pat Snyder, and John Olexy.
05/22/1969 – Ford City High School baseball team retained second place in WPIAL Section 9 yesterday as it blanked Elderton, 8-0 on the loser’s field.
05/22/1964 – A new business establishment has opened at Gribik Plaza, McGrann, a coin-operated “Miracle Laundry and Dry Cleaning.”
05/22/1959 – Brodhead’s Drug Store, Market at S. Jefferson St., which has been owned and operated by the Brodhead family since 1965 except for a short time when a chain operated it, has been sold to Joseph Ross of Vandergrift.
05/22/1959 – Twenty-eight members of Armstrong County Magistrates and Constables Association received certificates for completing the groups annual School of Instruction. Attorney Robert E. Pryde was instructor of the class.
05/22/1959 – Two Kittanning Presbyterian congregations, First and United, will worship together Sunday for the first time since merger of the denominations a year ago. Rev. Orville J. Fleming, pastor of United Presbyterian Church, will deliver the sermon to the combined assembly in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church.
05/22/1954 – Workmen will start construction of walls of the Ford Cliff Firemen’s proposed new building. The structure will be located behind the firemen’s present building, and is estimated to cost about $30,000.
05/22/1954 – A colorful ceremony that was world-wide in significance through use of United Nations theme, marked the coronation of Miss Faye Liebman as the 1954 Queen of May in Kittanning High School.
05/22/1954 – A Kittanning Moose Lodge spokesman said that Kittanning teen-agers could come back any time, on the basis of their behavior last night at an after-dance party at the fraternity’s S. Water St. Home.
05/22/1949 – Two Kittanning fishing enthusiasts, Ralph Hare of Woodward Avenue and Russell White of Kittanning RD 1, brought the limit of a variety of game fish on their return from a week’s fishing trip to Canada.
.05/22/1944 – Mr. and Mrs. Charles Slagle of Templeton received word from a soldier several days ago that their son, Pvt. Harry Slagle, had been wounded in the right leg but was “getting along all right.”
05/22/1944 - Another Ford City soldier is on his way home after being liberated from a German prison camp. He is Pvt. James F. McIntosh, son of Mr. and Mrs. McIntosh of 1334-4th Ave.
05/22/1944 – The pace-setting American First Army will lead the way for Yanks in Europe bound for the Pacific.
05/22/1944 - Paul E. Putny of Union Avenue, district distributor Du Pont Powder Company, expects this week to undergo an operation in St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburgh, for the grafting of flesh and a new tendon in the hand he had badly mangled May 8 by the accidental discharge of a dynamite cap.
05/22/1939 - A two-mile-long railroad spur, which has but one short stretch of straight track, leading from the main line of the Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad near Eddyville to the site of Mahoning Creek flood control dam, was one of the most popular attractions of an all-day inspection tour of flood control projects.
05/22/1939 - Persons interested in the formation of a community youth council - a movement that was launched at a recent meeting of service and civic club representatives with the Kittanning Kiwanians - were extended an invitation to attend a meeting of the group in the high school office of the principal W. Bay Irvine.
05/22/1934 - Management of Steim Hotel has been transferred to Ott Thompson, one of the main owners of the business during the past seven years.
05/22/1934 - H. Dean Reed and a group of high school assistants had scaffolding set up in Kittanning High School auditorium today for hanging new curtains and cyclorama which is arriving this week. A new front curtain of blue velour has been shipped to the high school building, as well as the grey cyclorama which was part of new stage properties authorized by the school board.
05/22/1934 - The interior of “The Gables,” Leechburg Road dine and dance spot, has been redecorated. Other improvements have been made.
05/22/1929 - W. Charles McGregor is preparing to break ground for a new home on North Water St.
05/22/1929 - A testimonial dinner in honor of Mrs. Lambert Kron, who is retiring from the teaching profession, was held at the Alexander Hotel. She has been teaching in the primary department of the public schools for the past 40 years.