1969 - Kittanning borough council hired Donald G. Carley as a policeman at its regular monthly meeting, bringing the police force to a full staff of nine. Carley, a non-resident, reportedly has agreed to move into the borough.
09/05/1969 – Armstrong County Taxpayers League expressed their support of county commissioners in their opposition to the proposed air park near Worthington. The group called for further studies and evidence that it will attract industry.
09/05/1969 - Armstrong County Center of Indiana University of Pennsylvania will begin its fall term with an enrollment of 575 students. Plans are developing for a student union in a newly acquired building along Locust Street, Kittanning, adjoining the center campus.
09/05/1969 - A Kittanning landmark - the borough building - more readily recognized by its tenant than it is by the landlord, has been sold to the tenant. The Armstrong County Trust Company last night purchased the building from borough council for $70,200. The bank was the only bidder on the property. The bank occupies the front while the borough occupies the rear with its office, police station, and jail.
09/05/1969 – A “special service of praise” will be held Sunday afternoon to commemorate St. Luke’s United Church of Christ’s 100th anniversary. Highlights will be an organ recital by Clarence Cloak on a newly reconditioned organ that was given to the church by Dr. A. I. Slagle in 1957. Cloak, a son of Mr. & Mrs. Clarence M. Cloak of 902 N. Grant Ave, will be a junior at Westminster Choir College,Princeton, NJ. There will also be special prayer recorded for the congregation by Dr. Ben Lierbster, retiring national president of the United Church of Christ.
09/05/1969 – NATION - Approval was given today to birth control pills. While stating they were effective and safe, physicians still warned that they affect every part of a woman’s body and users run 4.4 times the risk of serious blood-clotting diseases.
09/05/1964 - You can travel by boat or car to sunset vespers and a hymn sing at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow along the shore of the Allegheny River, at Wattersonville Methodist Church.
09/05/1964 - Genevieve Blatt, a small town girl who made good, returned to her East Brady birthplace today to open her campaign for the U.S. Senate.
09/05/1959 – Residents of Armstrong County who have watched West Penn Power’s giant new power station at Reesedale being built will have the opportunity today to inspect it. The new station is open to the general public as a highlight of its dedication and open house between 2-4 today and 7-8:30 tonight. The new plant cost $49 million to build. The tour takes about an hour.
09/05/1959 - Two National Safety Council plaques for outstanding plant safety were accepted on behalf of Works Six Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and its employes by Manager John H. Busch.
09/05/1959 - Kittanning Firemen’s Band completed the 1959 street parade season undefeated as it took first prize money in a firemen’s parade at Brockway. The Kittanning group has captured ten first place awards, including the Western Pennsylvania Championship at Brookville, in as many competitions this year.
09/05/1959 - Safety officials pressed every available state trooper into service to help hold down traffic fatalities in Pennsylvania during the long Labor Day weekend. But the death count began to mount in the early hours of the holiday.
09/05/1944 - Kittanning Borough Council, the Chamber of Commerce, the Ministerial Association, the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars are sponsoring a program for united observance of X-Day - the day Germany surrenders. The program is not an elaborate one - it being impossible to establish an exact schedule in advance of the date of X-Day, but it does provide means for all to participate.
09/05/1944 - The Armstrong County Fair went over the top on Labor Day by breaking all attendance records. Monday’s crowd was described by an official of the fair association as the largest in the history of the fair.
09/05/1939 - Seven persons were injured in a Labor Day evening crash, the second accident of the summer involving Cleveland people to occur at Woodlawn Crest on Route 422 near Worthington.
09/05/1939 - Nearly quelled until a spring only source of water supply went dry, flames roared out of control and levelled a two-story farmhouse owned by J. E. Watterson here in Kittanning Township.
09/05/1939 - Three Apollo residents were seriously injured when a tree uprooted by a heavy thunderstorm crashed onto the automobile in which they were riding, sending it off the highway into a swamp near Belmont.
09/05/1939 - After locking their 16-foot outboard motor boat through Allegheny River Dam No. 7 at Kittanning, a Canadian grandmother and her male companion continued upstream to East Brady, where they began their second portage in an all-water cruising of the continental United States.
09/05/1934 - Stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage, Paul Farkas, 75-year-old resident of Armstrong County Home died in an automobile conveying him to Kittanning from a farm near Campbells Mills, Burrell Township, where he had been visiting.
09/05/1934 - Kittanning Kiwanis members discussed early plans for staging of a polo game here some time soon, when they met in Steim Hotel.
09/05/1929 - A committee of Kittanning School Board was appointed to investigate the advisability of having High School and Central Building pupils exchange buildings to relieve congestion in the high school.
09/05/1929 - The fire-damaged Flynn Company Store in Ford City is being razed rapidly to make way for a new building.