10/29/1969 - Inactivity in Armstrong County has resulted in loss of employment, cultural stagnation, and an abundance of pessimism, Kittanning Rotarians were told yesterday. Edward J. Steiner, Kittanning attorney, in an address at the Rotarian luncheon, said that a great deal of thinking has come about as to problems in the county, but little action has been taken.
10/29/1969 – A final cost of more than $479,000 was disclosed for Central School Building renovation completed after a fire occurred in July 1965. A bond issue for $520,000 was done to pay for the renovations.
10/29/1969 - Lewistown: Brad Risch, 14-year-old ventriloquist from Sarver, Butler County, won top honors in a talent contest of the opening of the 97th convention of the Pennsylvania State Grange here Monday night.
10/29/1969 - Worthington Sailor Helps North Viet Fishermen Home.
10/29/1969 - Young Hero Shown Film About LSD.
10/29/1969 – China and Russia are meeting in Peking, but the threat of war continues between the two countries.
10/29/1964 - A county-wide fire prevention essay contest is being conducted again by Armstrong County Firemen’s Association.
10/29/1964 - Robert L. Engel, administrator of Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, Kittanning, presented a paper entitled Hospital Financial Problems at the second midwest Advanced Institute for Hospital Administrators at Cleveland.
10/29/1959 - The Rev. Ralph Newell was elected vice president of Pennsylvania Baptist Convention. Pastor of the Kittanning First Baptist Church for nearly six years, Mr. Newell resides with his wife and four children at 334 Arch St.
10/29/1959 - Christmas Seals were prepared today for mailing by four volunteers of the Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle at the Kittanning office of the Armstrong County Tuberculosis and Health Society. They were Mrs. June Bassinger, Mrs. Lucille Reedy, Mrs. Ruby Williamson and Mrs. Joyce Powers. Other club groups also help prepare the seals which finance work of the society.
10/29/1954 - Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. McNutt of Ford City RD 2 sailed from San Francisco harbor for a holiday in Hawaii.
10/29/1954 - Hemingway Wins Nobel Prize. The Old Man and the sea Merits Coveted Award for American Novelist.
10/29/1949 - H. D. McClure, veteran automobile dealer in the Kittanning area, was honored on his retirement from the auto business. A dinner was held for him at Kittanning Country Club by auto dealers of Kittanning and Ford City.
10/29/1949 - A burning shanty caused some excitement in Sistersville, near Slate Lick. The shanty was set afire by children playing near it, authorities said.
10/29/1949 - Kittanning Rallies To Defeat Apollo 18-7. Wildcats Explode Into Action in Last Period After Trailing 7 to 6.
10/29/1944 - The tenth anniversary of the pastorate of Dr. and Mrs. Elmer F. Rice with the Grace Lutheran Church, Manorville, the Christ (Rupp) Lutheran and Emmanuel (Heilman) Lutheran Churches was celebrated at a public service in the Heilman Church. More than 300 members of the congregation and friends of the neighborhood joined in the celebration.
10/29/1944 - Most of the pupils who had been on strike at Cowanshannock High School, Sagamore, are back in their classrooms. Pupils not attending school sessions were denied transportation in the school bus.
10/29/1939 - A new St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Chapel at Schenley will be dedicated by the Rev. Joseph Byrne, pastor of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Freeport.
10/29/1939 - Kittanning High School Wildcats staged a futile race against the clock in the closing seconds of a mud battle and lost a heartbreaking 6-0 decision to Butler High School gridders under the Butler lights.
10/29/1929 - Dr. E. E. Evans, husband of Sarah Ailene Wyant Evans, formerly of Kittanning, died at his home in McKeesport.
10/29/1929 - A petition has been presented to Armstrong County court here for the incorporation of Glendola, to be created from a part of Kiskiminetas Twp.
10/29/1929 - Tillman Scheeren Jr., architect for Armstrong County Home, is in Harrisburg to review plans for the new structure.
BIBLE MEDITATION – And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord… So that ye were exsammples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. – I Thessalonians 1:6-7 The Church at Thessalonica had learned the great lesson that Christianity is caught and no taught. Action is more important than words.