12/19/1969 - Christmas in the south-western section of the United States and Mexico is not complete without the colorful Christmas flowers which grow wild in the warm climate of the area. Surprising as it may seem, the fragile flowers also grow in West Kittanning. They do not, however, grow naturally, but in an artificial atmosphere created by horticulturist James Ford. He raised approximately 50,000 plants this year, for distribution in the tri-state area.
12/19/1969 - Joseph E. Janovsky, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Janovsky of Ford Cliff, was discharged from the U.S. Army after a two-year hitch.
12/19/1969 – Pvt. Larry J. Crissman (left), son of Mrs. Janet Crissman of Adrian RD1 and the late Richard Crissman, is expected home Saturday for Christmas leave from Fort Dix, NJ, where he is undergoing Army basic training. The 19-year-old youth, a graduate of East Brady High School, worked for U.S. Steel at Saxonburg before enlisting for a three-year military duty tour.
12/19/1969 - Blair Green of Ford City today was named assistant district attorney for Armstrong County.
12/19/1969 – Robert (Bob) Thurbon has been re-elected president of Kittanning’s Lenape Little League for 1970. Others elected were: Jerry Cable (vice-president); Cliff Hathaway (secretary; Jack Steffy (treasurer), and Ed Lattanzio (public relations).
12/19/1969 – Heroin was involved in 93.6 per cent of new cases of drug addiction reported in 1967.
12/19/1964 - Freda Yount Blose, who was practically born in a post office, next week winds up 41 years employment in the postal service.
12/19/1959 - The Rev. Forrest G. Sparks of Warren has accepted a call to serve as minister at First Baptist Church, Ford City.
12/19/1959 - James Stone and Linda Pierce reigned as king and queen of Santa’s Fantasy in the Kittanning Junior High School gym.
12/19/1959 - Dayton Woman’s Club again this year is sponsoring a Christmas Decorating Contest in Dayton in co-operation with various service clubs of the community.
12/19/1949 - War Crime Trials To End Today. Last German to Face Tribunal Gets Defense Fund Help From Several Britons.
12/19/1949 - Fire completely destroyed a five-member family home near Cooks Summit on Leechburg Road. The home and furnishings of N. Long and family were burned out while the family was Christmas shopping.
12/19/1949 - Fire raced through a three-story brick double house here, completely gutting the building and most of its contents. Total damage to the house and furnishings was estimated at $18,000. The blaze was discovered by Paul H. Lackey, who lives in the other side of the building.
12/19/1944 - Mr. and Mrs. James King of High St., East Brady have been notified by the War Department of the death of their youngest son, Pfc. Eugene “Tunney” King on Nov. 27, 1944 in France.
12/19/1944 - Market Street traffic at the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing was held up for about 14 minutes when a State Highway Department snow plow, descending the courthouse hill, was unable to clear the railroad tracks. The pointed front of the plow, only a few inches from the ground, dug into the first rail and was unable to move and clear the railroad tracks.
12/19/1944 - Pfc. Edward Russell (Ted) Birch, one of a family of six in military service, was killed in action Dec. 3, 1944 in Germany according to a telegram delivered from the War Department to the parents, Chief Engineer First Class and Mrs. E. J. Birch of Ford Cliff.
12/19/1939 - It required two nerve-tingling overtime periods for the Ford City High basketball force to wring out a victory over the Har-Brack quint in an exhibition game on the latter’s floor. The final score was 28 to 26.
12/19/1939 - Plunged more than 20 feet to the sidewalk when scaffolding broke under them, two Pittsburgh men working on installation of the ornamental front of the A & P Market building on North McKean St. here, were removed to Armstrong County Memorial Hospital for treatment.
12/19/1934 - Ford City: Mrs. Pearl Kijowski is the newly elected president of Ladies Branch of Polish National Alliance, it was announced today.
12/19/1934 - Ray Hudson’s hard-to-beat basketball team gave John Simmon’s Kittanning High cagers their worst evening of the current year before the locals were able to mark down the long end of a 25-20 count. It was the first A-K conference game for either quint, and put the Kittanning club up among leaders in the valley circuit.
12/19/1929 - Mrs. Lucille K. Mohney, 27, wife of Albert M. Mohney died at her home on 4th Ave., Ford City.
12/19/1929 - Kittanning basketball team was defeated for the first time this season, Brookville High turning the trick 25-16.
BIBLE MEDITATION – When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – I Corinthians 13:11. Childlike faith in God is essential. Childish thinking and conduct should be outgrown.