07/24/1969 – A total of 75,000 special issue “moon stamps” have been cancelled in the post office of Apollo, PA with the space-age name. The flood of requests from stamp collectors continues. Postmaster Harry Brunner said he originally ordered 55,000 special stamps, but they were not enough. He then ordered another 20,000 and they ran out too. He has now ordered another 20,000 stamps. This western Pennsylvania town of 2,700 persons has the only “Apollo” post office in the nation. Residents of Mars, PA are still waiting for their day to come.
07/24/1969 - The Women of the Moose in Kittanning initiated a new member at a meeting in charge of Mrs. Roy Cravener of Kittanning, chairman of the College of Regents.
07/24/1969 – There were mixed emotions in Armstrong County during the year of 1967. The total number of marriages was 630 in 1967, compared to 602 in 1966. The total number of divorces also increased to 104 compared to 75 in 1966. For people married once, the median age at divorce was 33.4 for men and 30.0 for women. For couples married two or more times, the median age at divorce for husbands was 44.2 years and 41.4 years for wives. For all people obtaining divorces in 1967, 17.5 percent were persons in the 25-29 age group.
07/24/1969 - Miss Constance Ann Kovalovsky, daughter of Mrs. Anne Kovalovsky of 613-5th Ave., Ford City, has completed a three-year course at the Presbyterian University Hospital School of Nursing.
07/24/1969 - Relocation officials from the Armstrong County Redevelopment Authority have begun a door-to-door campaign to explain the details of relocating displaced families in the Kittanning hospital renewal area.
07/24/1964 - Four months of planning will be climaxed here Saturday evening when home association officers formally dedicate the new addition to James Arthur Ashe Veterans of Foreign Wars post home on South Water St. here.
07/24/1959 - Dilley’s Radiator Shop announced the opening of a radiator repair shop at 1509 Fourth Ave., Ford City. The new shop is equipped to test and repair radiators for all makes of cars, trucks and tractors.
07/24/1959 - Fellow workers at Allegheny River Mining Company at Cadogan worked nearly six hours last night to recover the body of 45-year-old Homer Eck, who was buried under tons of rock and earth about 5 1/2 miles underground. Superintendent Roy Schaeffer told Armstrong County Coroner James H. Brodhead that Eck was within two steps of being alive.
07/24/1954 - Margaret Louise Krizman, a 1954 graduate of Kittanning High School, left for the new Women’s Army Corps training center at Fort McClellan, Ala., where she will receive basic training.
07/24/1954 - Ford City Police Chief Patrick E. Nelson is among 400 law enforcement officials of Pennsylvania who will attend the 41st annual convention of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association at Philadelphia.
07/24/1944 - A Leechburg man, Peter G. Broda, 23, is missing following the explosion of two ammunition ships at Port Chicago, near San Francisco.
07/24/1944 - Magazines, jig-saw puzzles and wheel chairs are needed at the Veterans Hospital at Aspinwall, it was reported by a representative of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post.
07/24/1944 - County Behind $630,000 in Fifth War Loan Drive.
07/24/1939 - Acme Drilling Company employes hoped to resume a 24-hour schedule of drilling operations on Armstrong County’s first deep test gas well this week, following a forced two-week intermission while they fished up a broken casing.
07/24/1939 - A bullet fired from ambush sent Nick George, 47-year-old watchman at West Leechburg plant of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation to Allegheny Valley Hospital, Natrona Heights.
07/24/1939 - Knocked off the running board on which he was standing as a car and truck passed in opposite directions on a curve, 14-year-old Luther Rupp of Putneyville was killed near Putneyville. His companion, Clair Milliron, 20, likewise was brushed off the car by the truck bed.
07/24/1934 - Ford City tennis club stars dropped their A-K League match to Leechburg by a 6-0 score.
07/24/1934 - Construction was started at Rural Valley on a roof over the recently completed water reservoir. The reservoir will be used as a storage unit in the community’s municipal water supply.
07/24/1934 - Manorville men planned a swimming party in the Allegheny River there this evening.
07/24/1929 - The Presbyterian Church at Freeport has extended a call to the Rev. Paul Gerard of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio.
07/24/1929 - Paul Shaw, a graduate of Apollo High School and Washington & Jefferson College, has been elected athletic instructor and coach at Apollo High School.