07/01/1969 – The earth seemed to have swallowed a milk truck and its contents at 1:30 PM yesterday as the driver was inside the Cadogan Confectionery Store making a delivery. The truck was on a slight grade. Apparently the breaks let go and the truck began to move over the berm across the highway, and into a field where the Cadogan flagpole is located. The truck continued its travel across the field to the edge of the embankment where it plummeted down the hillside, crashing through brush, saplings, thickets, and tall grass. It careened down the embankment for about 200 feet and was halted by several trees as the front of the truck smashed into the tree trunks. During the wild ride down the hillside, the doors of the truck flung open and cartons of milk, lemonade, and orange drink were strewn about the landscape. Boys quickly harvested the crop of refreshments. The driver of the Otto Milk Truck, Charles Miltz, was surprised to come out of the store and find his truck missing.
07/01/1969 - H. Keith Colvin, Community Action Agency Youth Corps director, resigned his position here to become the Sheltered Workshop Administrator for the northwest section of Washington and Greene Counties, with offices in Washington, Pa.
07/01/1969 - Mrs. Lawrence Cravener of Blanket Hill, Kittanning RD 1, reported that a “radiosonde,” a U.S. Government weather-measuring device with a parachute attached, landed in her yard on Saturday afternoon.
07/01/1969 – A son, Scott James, was born to Mr. & Mrs. David Lash of Adrian on June 26… the 57th wedding anniversary of his great-grandparents - Mr. & Mrs. Ira R. McAuley. Another great-grandson, Pfc. Earl R. Shankle, spent the day with the couple. He expects an overseas assignment when he reports to Fort Dix, NJ on July 6.
07/01/1964 - An operating budget of more than $1 million was adopted last night to run Kittanning Area Secondary School System for the new fiscal year starting today.
07/01/1959 - Firemen’s Band of Kittanning took first prize in the senior band division at Sligo last night.
07/01/1959 - Armstrong County Chapter of the American Red Cross announced that it has exceeded its quota for blood collections in the past year. Total collected was 2,011 pints, against a quota of 1,694.
07/01/1959 - About 900 employes of Joseph S. Finch Company plant at Schenley went on strike last midnight. A union official said the dispute centered on the length of the agreement, working conditions and contract interpretations.
07/01/1954 - Mrs. Sarah Moyer, wife of the Rev. Warren A. Moyer of Franklin Union Baptist Church, died this morning in the church parsonage.
07/01/1954 - The Pennsylvania Game Commission eliminated a doe season for the first time in six years and decreed separate deer and bear hunting seasons.
07/01/1954 - Armstrong County officials are considering a sale of mineral rights under the rolling surface lands of the Armsdale Home.
07/01/1949 - Distillery workers at Joseph S. Finch company’s plant at Schenley worked under a new wage contract today, providing a new minimum of $1.16 an hour for women and $1.36 an hour for men.
07/01/1949 - A boardwalk float that will enclose Kittanning’s waterfront beach will be placed in the river tonight, a spokesman for Kittanning Community Beach association said.
07/01/1944 - Approximately 1500 federal tax stickers, which must be displayed on all automobiles beginning today, were sold at the window of the Kittanning post office yesterday.
07/01/1944 - Announcement was made today by Meyer Greenbaum, chairman of the Salvage Committee of Armstrong County Council of Defense, that South Bethlehem School of South Bethlehem Borough is winner of the county’s tin can salvage school championship for the 1943-44 school year.
07/01/1939 - United Press learned in a Liquor Control Board announcement at Harrisburg that 17 drinking places are operating in Kittanning.
07/01/1939 - Forty district fire companies have accepted invitations to take part in a parade to be held at Kittanning July 6, as part of Hose Company No. 6’s annual jamboree.
07/01/1939 - Four hundred eighty-three Armstrong County residents completed Red Cross first aid courses for the organization year ending yesterday, records compiled by the Armstrong County Chapter office of the American Red Cross show.
07/01/1929 - Appleby Manor Memorial Presbyterian Church was the scene of a memorial service for Mary Copley Thaw, whose many benefactions to the church and its people endeared her to the community.
07/01/1929 - The membership of Rogers Chapel Methodist Church, McVille held special services in observance of the 68th anniversary of the founding of the church.