Mr. & Mrs. Angelo Scopel
12/09/1969 - Photo: Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Scopel of Cadogan celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at the Latin American Club, Ford City. The couple were married Nov. 15, 1919 in SerenDel Groppa, Italy, and the December celebration was for the assembly of their four sons and families: Mr. & Mrs. Emilio Scopel of Cadogan, Mr. & Mrs. Ennio Scopel of Bel Air, MD, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Scopel of Raleigh, NC, and MR. & Mrs. Angelo Scopel Jr. of Cadogan. The couple have 18 grandchildren and now are each 75 years old. Mr. Scopel is a retired coal miner of the Allegheny River Mining Company mine, Cadogan.
12/09/1969 - Kittanning Town Council last night ratified purchase of land for a fifth off-street parking lot, in a meeting fraught with worry over how to make financial ends meet. Local tax bodies are being informed that taxable property taken for redevelopment may result in higher taxes for other Kittanning real estate owners. Expenditures for 1970 are exceeding income by as much as $21,000.
12/09/1969 – Local tax collector James Ellermeyer wrote letters to Kittanning Council, Armstrong County School District, and county officials concerning repercussions of the property take-over near Armstrong County Memorial Hospital. Ellermeyer called the Armstrong County Redevelopment Authority “deceptive”. At the time of taking property for Armstrong Court (high-rise) and Allegheny Manor Plan several years ago, the authority collected a pro-rata portion of annual property taxes from previous owners and never turned the taxes over to the local bodies.
12/09/1969 – HEADLINES: Tiny Tim, Bride to Wed on NBC-TV “Tonight” Show. Apache Dancers Vanish From Parisian Scene. Anemic Bridge Big Path to Putneyville, With Six Years Off.
12/09/1964 - The oldest house north of what is now Union Avenue (Old Cemetery Lane) in Kittanning occupied during his entire lifetime by Attorney John W. Rohrer Jr. was sold this week by his heirs.
12/09/1964 - Warren C. Dosch of West Kittanning, a junior at the music department of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, attended the annual conference of Pennsylvania Music Educators Association in Harrisburg. He represented the IUP student chapter of the association, of which he is secretary-treasurer. Dosch also has been elected president of the Music Club of the college.
12/09/1959 - Kittanning Kiwanis Club officers notified the membership that profits from a pancake day fund-raiser have reached $454.34, with a few members still to report on ticket sales.
12/09/1959 - A practice lesson in international friendship will get underway in Ford City next fall with the inaugurations of the American Field Service, better known as the foreign exchange student program.
12/09/1959 - Louis Pechan was re-elected president of Kittanning Waterfront Corporation at a reorganization meeting.
12/09/1954 - Ford City: A run-off election will be necessary to determine winners of three offices in the Ford City Glassworkers Union, it was announced after ballots were counted. Run-off balloting will take place Dec. 21 for the offices of president, vice president of Works 4 and innerguard.
12/09/1954 - Freeport’s Century-old Central Hotel has been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. John Bray of New Kensington for $18,000, Armstrong County courthouse records show. Announcement of the sale was made last week by owner Mrs. Clara Rumbaugh.
12/09/1949 - James Christos, Kittanning restaurant owner, has gone into the fruit business. The Kittanning Sandwich Shop proprietor will operate the Clearview Market in West Kittanning.
12/09/1949 - Kittanning Hose Co. No. 1’s aerial ladder truck was used in decorating the Lions Christmas tree in the riverfront park near the Allegheny River bridge here.
12/09/1944 - Mrs. Hazel Shea of Yatesboro received a War Department telegram advising her that her husband, Sgt. Larry Shea, has been missing in action in France since Nov. 13, 1944.
12/09/1944 - Wildcats Beaten by Leechburg 18 to 15; Glassers Beat Apollolites 28-26.
12/09/1939 - Ford City: Dedication of a new $50,000 federal building was to proceed according to schedule here this afternoon, but the post office force was not expected to move into the building until an indefinite future time.
12/09/1939 - Wildcats Win Third, Defeating Ellwood by 25-15 score.
12/09/1929 - After a lapse of several years the Epworth League of Ford Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Ford City, met for the purpose of reorganizing. Edythe Sellers was elected president.
12/09/1929 - Clearing of a right-of-way for the road improvement between Kittanning and Ford City is progressing. Men began razing at Edgewood several buildings in the line of the new highway.
BIBLE MEDITATION – For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. – John 3:16. This is the heart of Christianity and it reveals the heart of God.