09/24/1969 - A boy was born at 10:51 a.m. yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Swaile of Kittanning RD 1.
09/24/1969 – Richard Cinatello, 41, of Leechburg RD2, was electrocuted when a ladder he was helping place against a house struck a high tension power line. He was assisting pouring cement at nearby St. Francis Catholic Church. While waiting for the cement to cure, he offered to help Andrew Castelnuovo place a ladder against his home and remove an old television antenna bracket. Cinatello is the father of five children.
09/24/1969 - A pedestrian award for having no pedestrian fatalities for five consecutive years was accepted for Ford City by Mayor John Hand. West Penn Motor Club presented the award at a luncheon.
09/24/1969 – The old Bailey homestead is being demolished at 2125 Bailey Avenue, Pattonville. It was last used as home of Ford City VFW Post. The VFW Home prior to being purchased by the VFW, was the family home of a former Armstrong County sheriff. Daughters of the family are Mrs. C. T. Montgomery and Mrs. Chris K. Leard, both of Kittanning, and Mrs. Harvey H. Heilman, Manorville.
09/24/1969 – NATIONAL – Television’s heavy diet of violence-laced shows is appalling and is “a contributing factor” to violence in American socity, a Presidential commission said today. Chairman Dr. Milton Eisenhower stated, “Violence on television encourages violent forms of behavior, and fosters moral and social values about violence in daily life, which are unacceptable in a civilized society.”
09/24/1969 – NATIONAL – Car antennas that started to be placed in windshields last year are now to be standard equipment in all 1970 General Motors vehicles as well as Chrysler Imperials. The nearly invisible “rabbit ears” embedded in the windshield have proven to work as well as conventional whip antennas for both AM and FM radios.
09/24/1964 - Between 300 and 325 Armstrong County educators and guests learned how to read and write a 44-letter alphabet. Their guests were from Indiana, Jefferson, Clarion and Westmoreland Counties for an in-service meeting sponsored by the Armstrong County branch of the International Reading Council and the Mahoning Chapter of the Council for Exceptional Children.
09/24/1959 - Jim Benton, Kittanning High School second string center and defensive end, has suffered a broken bone above the left elbow and will be out of action four to six weeks, according to football coach Dave Ullom.
09/24/1959 - Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) of Apollo has been chosen by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to develop power-producing nuclear fuel materials from plutonium, which until now has been used only for nuclear weapons.
09/24/1954 - Members of the 924th Transportation Company, U.S. Army Reserve, Kittanning, are undergoing a two-week training period at Ft. Knox, Ky. The unit is commanded by Lt. William Stennett.
09/24/1954 - R. H. Everetts of Merchants National Bank, Kittanning, was elected president of Armstrong County Bankers Association.
09/24/1949 - Donald Douglas, a 1949 graduate of Kittanning High School, is doing his first year’s college work in a pre-legal course with the aid of two Elks scholarships.
09/24/1949 - Fire in a newly remodeled North McKean Street duplex caused close to $7,000 damage before it was brought under control by Kittanning firemen. The blaze which broke out in the north side of a house occupied by Walter Barrett, was discovered by workers in the south side of the building.
09/24/1934 - Entering the Ken-Leech barbecue stand on Leechburg Road near Melwood Park, a young couple held up the lone attendant and escaped with about $15, total contents of the cash register.
09/24/1934 - New York: Bruno H. Hauptman, charged with extortion in the Lindberg case, went before a Bronx County jury today as police and federal agents sought to combine evidence linking him with the kidnapping and murder.
09/24/1929 - The Rev. Charles E. Held has resigned the pastorate of the Lutheran Church at Sagamore to accept a call to the church at Homer City.
09/24/1929 - Mrs. Elizabeth Kutch, 81, died at her home on Third Ave., Ford City.
09/24/1672 – John Bunyan, a tinker, imprisoned at Bedford, England, in 1660, was released in 1672, after writing part of “Pilgrim’s Progress.”
BIBLE MEDITATION – Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unaware. – Hebrews 13:2 Christ said, inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.