11/05/1969 - GOP Keeps the Courthouse, with Joseph Frick as Sheriff, D. Dale Claypool winning over Joseph Nickleach for District Attorney, and John Kennedy for Coroner.
11/05/1969 - State police today continued to search a wooded area off Route 28, about 12 miles south of Kittanning, looking for a weapon that they believe is involved in the death of Richard S. Wilson, 16, of Leechburg. Wilson’s skeleton was discovered Saturday about 150 feet off Furnace Run Road by a hunter, five months after the youth was last seen alive May 20.
11/05/1969 - Col. J. E. Hammer, district engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Pittsburgh, said today locks and other navigational operations on the Allegheny River are not responsible for bank erosion in this area. Town officials contend an erosion situation which has endangered a dwelling downstream from the dam can be traced to river ice pushed southward last Spring.
11/05/1969 – Charles Waltenbaugh, son of Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Waltenbaugh, Ford City RD2, is undergoing basic training at Fort Bragg, NC. He is a 1968 graduate of Ford City High School. He was employed at Allegheny Ludlum prior to entering the military.
11/05/1959 - Pride and joy of Ford Cliff Firemen is their new white fire-fighting apparatus, purchased at a cost of $28,000.
11/05/1959 - Frank Gilliland, 61-year-old Kittanning RD 5 man, is listed in satisfactory condition at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, where he is a patient for care of face burns. A can of paint among rubbish he had placed in a burner, exploded in his face.
11/05/1959 - The general fund of Kittanning borough treasury swelled to $68,101.05 during October, borough treasurer Wilbur S. Bowers said. General fund balance at the end of September was $15,154.80.
11/05/1954 - Furnace Run Dedication Program Set. Union Sunday School Buys Building in Which It Had Met for Many Years.
11/05/1954 - State Police from Kittanning sub-station arrested two youths on charges of burglary of a home and store at Brownstown Mines (Kiski Twp.).
11/05/1954 - Pittsburgh: Owners of the Community Drive-In, Kittanning and two other Western Pennsylvania drive-in theatre owners sought $4,575,000 in damages today from the country’s top moving picture companies in a dispute over the showing of first-run films.
11/05/1949 - Pennsylvania voters will pass judgement in the November elections on one of the most controversial issues to appear on the ballot in many years - a proposed bonus for the Commonwealth’s estimated 1,200,138 men and women who served in the nation’s armed forces during World War II.
11/05/1949 - Turkey to be plentiful: Same goes for trimmings. Bird output Is Second Largest on Record, in Readiness for the Holidays.
11/05/1934 - Ford City: A dream of many years - a new high school gymnasium building - was near realization today as workmen entered upon what is expected to be the final week of work on the white brick building considered the outstanding RWD project in the county.
11/05/1934 - Ford City: The St. Mary Roman Catholic and St. Francis de Paul men’s choirs participated in a choir festival at St. Mary’s school hall, Freeport.
11/05/1934 - In celebrating its fifth birthday anniversary with a luncheon, the Kittanning Garden Club took occasion to honor its president, Mrs. Clifford B. McNees.
11/05/1929 - Indications were that a record light vote was being cast in Kittanning today. At noon only 225 of the town’s 4,000 qualified voters had voted.
11/05/1929 - James E. Heilman, 67, of Kittanning Township, died in a Pittsburgh hospital.
BIBLE MEDITATION – Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. – Matthew 16:22 We cleverly contrive to make being a Christian an easy thing and rebuke others for suggesting the discipline of discipleship.