10/01/1969 - The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania announced Tuesday that the sale of cigarettes on its grounds has been prohibited because they are “a known killer.”
10/01/1969 - Ward B. Hoover of Apollo retired today after 42 years’ service with Peoples Natural Gas Company.
10/01/1969 - Capt. Kenneth Baillie received Salvation Army orders to move to Johnstown by Oct. 15, after a two-year stay in Kittanning. He is credited with paying off the mortgage 7 years earlier than expected. Captain Richard Wheeler will arrive from Clearfield to replace Baillie.
10/01/1969 – Second Lt. John Steven Placek, son of Mrs. Marguerite Placek of Neale Ave, Ford Cliff, has been assigned to duty as an infantry platoon leader in South Vietnam. He is married to the former Mary Elizabeth Anthony, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. James Anthony of Worthington RD2. He is a 1967 graduate of Ford City High School
10/01/1964 - United Cerebral Palsy of Western Pennsylvania, at Spring Church, is listed in the October Reader’s Digest as one of three outpost centers employing the Neurological Organization method of treating brain injury, devised at the Institute for the Achievement of Human Potential, in Philadelphia.
10/01/1959 - Armstrong County Controller E. Clinton Stitt has been named vice chairman of the United Fund campaign in 15 townships in Kittanning-Ford City area.
10/01/1959 - Kittanningites began this week to pay for a sewage disposal plant which as of today was no more than a hole in the ground. Bulldozing started this week on the Allegheny River site near Edgewood for the half-million dollar establishment. Meanwhile the bills delivered to Kittanning patrons of Armstrong Water Company contained the first billing for sewer rental at the rate of three-fourth of the water bill.
10/01/1959 - A Center Hill driller was killed when caught accidentally in a whirling 10-foot wide flywheel. Armstrong County Coroner’s office identified the victim as 63-year-old Clark Bowser of Kittanning RD 3, who died shortly after midnight of internal injuries.
10/01/1954 - Wattersonville Methodist Church was filled to capacity for a dedication and homecoming service.
10/01/1954 - Stanley P. Ashe, who died in Fox Chapel was a son of a former minister of First Methodist Church, Kittanning. Before his retirement in 1950, Ashe was warden at Western Penitentiary for 27 years.
10/01/1954 - “Tom Sawyer,” first of the series of plays being presented by Grace Price Productions of the Pittsburgh Children’s Theatre will be staged at Kittanning High School auditorium.
10/01/1949 - Ritchey Transportation Company, Inc., New Bethlehem, has purchased the bus line operating between Clarion and Kane.
10/01/1949 - Courthouse Parking Lot Taken Over. County Acquires Two Acres for Expansion, Parking at Cost of $10,000.
10/01/1934 - Work has been started on alterations to a room in the Linnon Hotel Building, Market at Jefferson, to be used by the Farmers National Bank of Kittanning. The room is directly to the rear of that now occupied by the bank, which has need for larger quarters.
10/01/1934 - Idle Teachers and Trained Workers To Be Given Work During Coming Winter. Educational Program Being Outlined Under Emergency Relief Plan - Many Activities.
10/01/1934 - More than one-half million cubic yards of material will be excavated from the bed of the Allegheny River as part of Mayor W. D. Styler’s program to improve channel conditions in the existing pools.
10/01/1929 - Simon Rupert, 85-year-old Civil War veteran, died at his home in Garretts Run.
10/01/1929 - The Harry B. Henderson home on Rebecca St. here was sold to William A. Ashe.
BIBLE MEDITATION – Let us watch and be sober. – 1 Thessalonians 5:6 This call to sobriety means far more than abstinence from alcohol. We are called upon to live seriously, and not to be frivolous or irresponsible toward life.