08/27/1969 – A survey by the Pennsylvania Association of Taxpayer Leagues showed 95 percent of 2,000 returns opposed the personal income tax program advocated by Gov. Raymond Shafer. Richard A. Mix, Rimersburg RD2 is president of the association. A record budget was recently enacted by the state legislature requiring some form of additional tax.
08/27/1969 – Thirty-five children are attending YMCA Day Camp this week at Crooked Creek State Park.
08/27/1969 – The Emergency Operating Center in Kittanning is making available to businesses, industry and private homes, monitoring service to provide around the clock protection from burglars and fire. EOC has arranged with the Kittanning Telephone Company to connect interested parties to the EOC control room in the basement of the Armstrong County court house. Banks are first to subscribe to the service.
08/27/1969 – Students at St. Marys School, Kittanning, will be taught reading and mathematics on a non-graded level beginning this year.
08/27/1969 – Washington: Joseph A. “Jock” Yablonski, candidate for president of United Mine Workers of America, filed suit Tuesday charging the union newspaper has been used as “a personal propaganda organ” by W. A. “Tony” Boyle, incumbent UMW president. The suit filed in U.S. District Court here claims in one issue of the UMW Journal (paid for by union funds), Boyle’s picture appeared 33 times in 24 pages, while Yablonski’s campaign has yet to be discussed in the magazine.
08/27/1969 – Descendants of Christopher and Mary Ann (Stoops) Rupp attended a reunion at Dayton. Gifts were given to Charles Snyder and Mrs. Susie Rupp, oldest man and woman; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clever, married the longest. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Rupp, youngest married couple; Mr. & Mrs. Carl Houser, oldest married couple; Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Rupp, most grandchildren and youngest grandchild. Approximately 250 attended.
08/27/1969 – Students beginning school at St. Marys on North Jefferson Street will not receive a grade for reading and math. The non-graded classes are new this year. The children like it because there is no such thing as failure, said Sister Rose Marie. Students will be instructed according to their abilities. Enrollment is expected to be 239 – an increase over last year.
08/27/1964 – Elderton: Giant earth moving machines rumbled into action of nearby Gastown this week as work started on a dam that will impound cooling water for the proposed Keystone power projects at Idaho, south of here.
08/27/1959 – Jack Hill, former owner of Hiland Drug Store here, was found dead in bed this morning in his hotel room at Indianapolis. Death was evidently the result of a heart attack.
08/27/1959 – Armstrong County commissioners and W. Davis Graham, attorney for the Rayburn Township Water Board, have written letters to Congressman John P. Saylor requesting federal aid for construction of a water supply system in the township.
08/27/1959 – Mrs. Clark Blose of Yatesboro returned to work at the Kittanning post office after an absence of 14 weeks. She is recovering from a knee fracture she suffered in a fall at her home.
08/27/1954 - Ray Prugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Prugh of Rural Valley RD 1, is recovering from a superficial head wound received when he was struck by a stray .22 caliber bullet.
08/27/1954 - Armstrong County Memorial Hospital for the first time in its history displays a Certificate of Accreditation of Hospitals. A framed certificate was posted in the hospital lobby this week.
08/27/1949 – Ford City page headlines: Library Has Third Birthday. 77 Books Borrowed on Anniversary Date; 28 New Borrowers Signed This Month.
08/27/1949 - Sheriff Preston R. Johnston thwarted an attempted jail break and still is recovering improvised tools made by two prisoners.
08/27/1934 – Construction work on the foundation of the new Armstrong County Memorial Hospital went ahead at full tilt today. Nearly two dozen workmen busied themselves about the plot where the new building is to be erected.
08/27/1934 - Headlines: Unemployment Battle Far from Won Although Men Have Been Given Much Work. 4,120,000 Persons Have Been Put To Work in First 16 Months of Roosevelt Administration - Business Failures Fewer.
08/27/1929 - Steps are underway for surrender of the borough charter of Johnetta, which for years was a flourishing village. Most of the residents have moved away.
08/27/1929 - The Rev. C. C. Bailey was assigned to the pastorate of the Methodist Church of Kittanning, at the annual Pittsburgh Conference.