10/23/1969 - Lenape Vo-Tech Head Gives Resignation. Robert Rathfon is stepping down as Lenape director.
10/23/1969 - Thousands of bottles and barrels of liquor surrounded about 250 people who appeared pleased yesterday. The people didn’t taste any of the spirits. In fact, many of them had coffee after the experience. The occasion was the first tour in history by families of employes at Schenley Industries, Inc., division of Joseph S. Finch and Co. at Schenley.
10/23/1969 - An Applewold man’s missing automobile was found yesterday lying at the bottom of a 30-foot ravine at Stitt Hollow, about 2 miles east of Ford City. The car belongs to Norman Bennett of Applewold. Manor Township Lt. Sam Schrecengost said the car struck a tree in the ravine and the 1962 vehicle was considered a total loss.
10/23/1969 - Famed Boxer “Two-ton Tony” Galento to be Ford City Eagle Party Guest.
10/23/1969 - Icy Worthington Bridge blamed for mishaps when a car driven by Donna Jean Wolfe, 30, of Worthington slid on the viaduct and slammed into the side of the bridge. Minutes later, Margaret Shankle, 19, of Kittanning RD5 approached the scene and slowed down for the accident. Carol Goldstrohm, 31, of Kittanning RD5, followed behind and was unable to stop because of the ice, slamming into Shankle’s vehicle.
10/23/1969 - Hospital Employes Pledge $53, 135 to Building Fund.
10/23/1964 - A bill that would authorize the Pennsylvania Department of Highways to spend up to $16 million for construction of a new multi-lane bridge here is scheduled to reach the state legislative reference bureau next January.
10/23/1964 - Larry Wingard, East Brady Area High School’s top science student will receive the Bausch and Lomb honorary science award medal when he graduates, principal David B. McKelvey said today. Wingard is also eligible to compete for a science scholarship sponsored by Bausch and Lomb at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.
10/23/1959 - Robert Rupert was installed as noble grand of Manorville Lodge of Odd Fellows by District Deputy Grand Master George W. Stennett and his staff.
10/23/1959 - A crowd of 5,400 persons, including men, women and children, received polio-preventive inoculations during an 11 hour clinic in Ford City High School gymnasium. The mass polio clinic was spearheaded by the Ford City Eagles Aerie, with the cooperation of many agencies.
10/23/1954 - Sport page headlines: Glassers Rout Arnold High 32-7 to Keep Alive Hopes for WPIAL Class A Title. Leechburg Gets First Win of Year With 26-24 Last Minute Squeak Over Cats.
10/23/1954 - A new pulpit Bible honoring the memory of Maj. Edward William Dame will be dedicated tomorrow at the morning worship service at First Presbyterian Church, Kittanning.
10/23/1954 - The 20th anniversary of Dr. Elmer F. Rice’s pastorate in Grace Lutheran Church, Manorville, was marked at a congregational dinner.
10/23/1944 - First Lt. Oliver B. Elder is missing in action since Sept. 27, the War Department informed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Elder of East Brady.
10/23/1944 - Graham (Gus) Heilman, son of Neal Heilman of N. Jefferson St. has been ordained to the rank of major by command of Lt. Gen. Patch. Maj. Heilman is stationed with the first special force in France.
10/23/1939 - Hose Company No. 6 firemen answered their 38th alarm of the year when they were called to a barn fire on the Snyder farm near Cowansville.
10/23/1939 - Leechburg: What happened to our cornerstone? That’s what the First Presbyterians want to know, now that all of the bricks have been carted from their demolished church. A steam shovel scooped out much of the wall structure but the wrecking contractor had his men strip the brick off layer by layer in the vicinity where the cornerstone was believed to lay. They never found it. Meanwhile workmen have nearly completed excavation and contractor R. O. Coughnour of Pittsburgh expressed hope that the $50,000 structure would be under roof by Christmas.
10/23/1934 - Organization of a Parent-Teacher Association in Ford City, long advocated by the Kiwanis Club of the town, will be effected in the high school auditorium tonight when officers are elected.
10/23/1934 - Los Angeles: A seven-car streamline train was racing against time toward Chicago and New York, inaugurating a new era in rail transportation. Attaining at times a speed in excess of 100 miles an hour, the Union Pacific canary and brown train was expected to reach La Salle Street station in Chicago within 39 hours and 30 minutes and New York in 57 hours. Both times are under existing rail schedules.
10/23/1929 - The last of large-sized currency bills are expected to vanish with the new year. The Treasury Department has announced it will have all new money in circulation by that time.
10/23/1929 - Dr. F. H. Gaige of Millerstown, in an address before Armstrong County Teachers’ Institute in the high school here, cited China as the next world power.
BIBLE MEDITATION – We exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, that ye would walk worthy of God. – 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 The ultimate test of your actions and the quality of your life is found in the question, “Is it worthy of God?”