10/03/1969 – Roger Stitt, 26, of Kittanning RD7 was injured when his car went out of control on Route 422 in West Kittanning and hit a pole.
10/03/1969 – School students being transported across the Putneyville Bridge are let off on the one side of the bridge, they walk across the bridge, and then get back on the bus. Last Spring, the Department of Highways posted a 2½-ton weight limit. Students affected are from Redbank Valley High School, New Bethlehem, and Mahoning Township Elementary School.
10/03/1969 - A boy was born at 1:31 p.m. yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Victor R. Cesare, Ford City RD 1.
10/03/1969 - Freeport: Kittanning matches power against Freeport speed here tonight in a WPIAL Class A football classic that could determine the 1969 league champion.
10/03/1964 - Kittanning Area Chamber of Commerce invited merchants and property owners today to help brighten the town by participating in Operation LIFT (Let’s Improve For Tomorrow). Operation LIFT is the name given a plan for making the most of the business district’s architectural potential under the direction of School of Architecture, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh.
10/03/1959 - Ardell C. “Curly” Campbell, 50-year-old Kittanning clothier, was killed yesterday when a speeding out of control tractor-trailer carried his car over the Allegheny River bank at the western approach to the bridge.
10/03/1959 - The Kittanning Wildcats muffed two golden scoring opportunities and had one touchdown called back as they played to a 6-6 tie with Vandergrift on the latter’s field. The deadlock knocked both teams out of the running for WPIAL Class A laurels.
10/03/1949 - Pittsburgh Hiker-Cyclers Will Visit Crooked Creek Area Reservoirs to be Destination Sunday of City Youth Hostels Members.
10/03/1949 - During the past several days of warm weather an apple tree burst into blossom at the rear of the Ukrainian National Home, 6th Ave., Ford City.
10/03/1949 - Methodist Ministries Assigned. Changes Made in Pastorates at Ford City, Elderton, Dayton and Freeport.
10/03/1944 - An estimated $500 damage was caused to a street paying machine, being used by contractor Ray F. Yount to pave Cemetery Road, when the machine caught fire on a road in the Kittanning cemetery.
10/03/1944 - Excavating has started for foundation of a new boiler room and laundry building at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital.
10/03/1939 - Mercury sagged to its lowest level of the current fall season at 4 a.m. Tuesday when it hit a 35-degree bottom - only three degrees above freezing.
10/03/1939 - The Rev. Samuel Slagle was returned to Wilson Avenue Church of God, Kittanning, at the annual Church of God conference in New Brighton.
10/03/1939 - Fifty-one marriage license applications were made during September at the office of Armstrong County Recorder Glenn Mast. This was considered an average number.
10/03/1934 - With paving completed, it is expected the new bridge at Parkers Landing will be open to traffic in a few weeks.
10/03/1934 - Newly started vocational departments in Kittanning High School, their remaining equipment arriving daily, will be operated at normal tilt within a week or ten days, school officials believe.
10/03/1929 - Kittanning’s need for a new and modern hospital was apparent again today. There were 38 patients in the institution.
10/03/1929 - Mr. and Mrs. David Booher celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, surrounded by 300 relatives and friends who had gathered at Point Breeze Grange Hall.
BIBLE MEDITATION – Therefore let us not sleep as do others; but let us watch. – 1 Thessalonians 5:6 As Christians, we are called upon to remain alert to the many ways we can be of service to Christ and His Kingdom here on earth.