11/14/1969 – Nine election districts to serve the Armstrong County School District was “the most horrible mistake we ever made.” This was the opinion of C. Nicely Hanner, superintendent of Armstrong County School District, when he gave his farewell address to the board last night. Hanner said that the nine election districts were a provincial way to handle school matters when directors would be more concerned for their own district rather than being concerned with the whole district.
11/14/1969 – Construction of new schools and additions highlighted the school board meeting last night. The Board authorized architect Robert T. Scheeren of Indiana to draw plans for additions to existing elementary facilities at Kittanning Township, Rural Valley, and Sugarcreek. Meanwhile, property at the Kittanning school site and Shannock Valley school site for expansion was planned.
11/14/1969 – Anna Clepper, 40, of Cowansville RD1, operating a school but, pulled onto Route 422 at at the Glade Run intersection and was struck from the rear by a sedan driven by Harold Wiseman, 23, of Templeton RD1. Only two children were aboard the bus when the mishap occurred.
11/14/1969 – Louse McIntire took her quarter-horse, Blue, through the best time in the Ladies Invitational Barrel Race for first prize in the PA National Horse Show at Harrisburg. The Ford City native became interested in horses after she married Ron McIntire of Elderton. The couple raises registered quarter horses on their farm one mile west of Elderton on Route 422.
11/14/1969 – John Rossman Jr. is honored as the Manor Township Lions Club’s “student of the month” from Lenape Vo-Tech at a dinner meeting last night at the Manor Township Fire Hall in McGrann. Rossman, a Ford City High School football player, is a senior majoring in electronics. He plans to attend college and spoke of the studies at the tech school to the Lions.
11/14/1964 – Headlines: 70,000 Workers, Striking in Nation – threats of a nationwide railroad strike and the prospect of the total shutdown of Ford’s automotive operations were added today to the burden of the nation’s mounting labor problems.
11/14/1964 – Twice-beaten Leechburg defeated stubborn Kittanning 20-0 here last night in the 29th renewal of a grid series that started in 1923.
11/14/1959 – An eleven-year-old Slate Lick girl died in the emergency room of Armstrong county Memorial Hospital, the victim of non-contagious meningitis. Linda Sue Crytzer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Crytzer, was in convulsions when admitted to the hospital here.
11/14/1959 – About 1,500 persons attended open house events at Ford City school in celebration of American Education Week.
11/14/1949 – West Franklin Township Man, at 82, May Be Oldest Constable. Lawson Claypoole Has Held Office Every Year But Two Since Election in 1902.
11/14/1949 – Ford City public school pupils enjoyed a half-day holiday because of the school football team’s victory over Kittanning.
11/14/1949 – Three buck deer were killed by automobiles on Armstrong County highways, district game protector W. J. Brion reported.
11/14/1944 – While teaching in her classroom in Worthington public schools, Mrs. Mary Luella Adams received a telegram from the War Department informing her of the death of her husband, John Adams of the U.S. Navy. His death occurred Nov. 9, 1944 at Pearl Harbor.
11/14/1944 – “Vickie,” a farce in three acts, will be presented by the senior class of Kittanning High School. The cast includes Peg Zellefrow, George Snyder, Miles Brunt, Gail McGeary, John Neurohr, Mary Calano, Helyn Hoover, Jack Rhodes, Richard Hill, Betty Shira, Jean Crossel, Nancy McCaughan, Lauretta Shoffner, John Kalb, Doris Hawk, William Parker and Sara Shaffer.
11/14/1939 – Headlines: Apollo Lays Claim To Mythical County Football Title.
11/14/1939 – Dec. 7 is the date decided upon for the first of three concerts to be presented in Kittanning High School auditorium under auspices of the newly organized Kittanning-Ford City Concert Association.
11/14/1939 – Thanksgiving Day will be made brighter for 200 underprivileged children of Kittanning, Ford City, McGrann, Manorville and Garretts Run communities. Capt. James Dihle announced that Salvation Army Corps at Kittanning would serve dinner with all the trimmings to that number in the Jacob Street Citadel.
11/14/1934 – Golden wedding anniversaries are comparatively rare events but when there is a 60th anniversary, it is a notable occasion. One of the latter occurred in Armstrong County on Nov. 10 when Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Wareham of Bethel Township were at home to many friends and relatives who called to extend congratulations.
11/14/1934 – The final step in establishment of a nine-foot river channel in the Allegheny River from Lock No. 8 at Templeton to Pittsburgh will be started within a few days.
11/14/1934 – Turkeys for Thanksgiving this year will be about as cheap as they ever have been, and those with a weak spot for the great American bird should be able to hit the spot. In the Kittanning markets 35 cents a pound is being charged.
11/14/1929 – Peter Graff II was honored at a reception by members of Worthington Lutheran Church, in appreciation of his services as superintendent of the Sunday School. More than 300 persons were present.
11/14/1929 – Plans are being made for a cooking school which the Leader-Times will conduct next week in the Columbia Theater.
BIBLE MEDITATION – And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted on that day. – Isaiah 2:17. God is not awed by human pretensions or man’s self-sufficient pride.