08/26/1969 – Dr. William E. Martin, Kittanning native, will open a practice of dentistry here in October.
08/26/1969 – The go-ahead for the Armstrong County Vocational-Technical School board to submit application for financial aid from the Public School Building Authority went down the drain following special meetings of four district school boards - Leechburg Area, Freeport Area, Apollo-Ridge, and the Armstrong School District.
08/26/1969 - Harrisburg: The state Education Department has been notified by the office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Department that its plans to desegregate Pennsylvania’s 13 state-owned colleges and Indiana University of Pennsylvania are “quite satisfactory,” but additional information is needed on when they can be put into effect.
8/26/1969 - The parents and wife of PFC Ray M. Barker of Spaces Corners was notified today of his death in Vietnam, ten weeks after his departure from for combat duty. The telegram to his wife and parents of the 24-year-old serviceman read: “He was on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. Death occurred August 22.” He was the husband of the former Patricia Marie Marken of Yatesboro and son of Mr. & Mrs. Howard M. Barker.
08/26/1964 – A major change in materials handling has been made in Ford City by Eljer Plumbingware Division of the Wallace-Murray Corporation of America. The change is delivery of ball-clay to Kittanning by barge - instead of railroad cars - and unloading for transfer of the load to Eljer by truck. Ball clay is used at Eljer in making various china sanitary plumbing fixtures.
08/26/1959 – A 20-year-old Kittanning RD 4 man, Robert Charles Phul Jr., died instantly when his brick-laden flatbed truck rolled out-of-control down steep Thomas Run Road in South Fayette Township and crashed into two trees.
08/26/1959 –The Kittanning Firemen’s Band will present its annual concert in the Ford City park. The event will be sponsored by Pittsburgh Plate Glass Industries.
08/26/1959 – Police are investigating the burglary and larceny of building tools from a house being built at Ford City. Marshall Miller of Kittanning RD 3 reported to police that someone had entered the building and removed tools and nails valued at $25.
08/26/1954 – Test Change Is Postponed, Driver Examination To Continue Here Pending Approval of Leechburg Site.
08/26/1954 – Kittanning attorney Robert E. Pryde has been appointed 1954 Pennsylvania Week Coordinator of Armstrong County. Pryde will be responsible for coordinating promotional activities through the county during the week of Oct. 10-17.
08/26/1954 - Two convicts who escaped two weeks ago from Rockview Penitentiary were back home today following their capture here by local and State Police.
08/26/1949 - Twelve New Teachers on Freeport School Faculty. Consolidated District To Have Teaching Staff of 49 at Sept. 1 Term Opening.
08/26/1949 - Mrs. Jack Valentine was declared women’s golf champion of Kittanning Country Club for the second year in a row as she copped the crown in an extra-hole match.
08/26/1944 - Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Patcyk of 231 Harrison St., West Kittanning, were notified by the War Department that a son, Pvt. Chester L. Patcyk, was killed in action on July 6 in France.
08/26/1944 - Headlines: Paris Free But Hungry People of Luxembourg, Alsace-Lorraine Told Allied Armies Coming.
08/26/1939 – Crushed when a load of logs slipped off a truck bed, a Shelocta district truck driver, Giles Kenneth Cessna, 21, suffered internal injuries that resulted in his death at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital.
08/26/1939 - Bids for resurfacing nearly eight miles of the Benjamin Franklin Highway (U.S. Route 422) both east and west of Kittanning were opened by the Highways Department at Harrisburg.
08/26/1939 – Headlines: World Moves Toward War, National Capitals Echo 1914 Activity as Wartime Conditions Develop.
08/26/1929 - Wednesday evening in the Community Room of the State Deposit Building, a unit of the Dairymen’s Improvement Association, will be formed. The organization is working to develop cow testing in Armstrong County, and to raise the standard of dairy herds. Group One was formed some time ago with 26 members and over 450 cows represented. The second group will have about the same representation.