12/27/1969 – Armstrong County commissioners tentatively approved its new general operating budget for 1970, calling for nearly a quarter of a million dollars more in expenditures, but without raising taxes.
12/27/1969 - Bonnie and Connie Claypoole of Kittanning RD 3 will be celebrating their 20th birthday tomorrow. The reason this home piece of information is so astonishing is that the twin daughters of Mrs. Daisey Claypoole and the late Richard Mark Claypoole have a twin brother and sister, Larry and Linda, who also celebrated their 20th birthday this year. The four twins were attended in Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, Kittanning. The older twins were born on Jan 19, 1949 and the younger set, Dec. 28, 1949
12/27/1969 - Floy “Chappy” Jones was named Jaycee-of-the Month for December by Greater Kittanning Jaycees at a general membership meeting.
12/27/1969 – An open house is held today to honor the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Altman of Kittanning RD4. It will be held at the Pony Farm Clubhouse. The reception is given by their daughter, Mrs. James (Evelyn) Pore and granddaughters, Mrs. Turney (Shirley) Bowser and Mrs. William (Sandra) Gray. The honored couple was married December 24, 1919 in Manorville by the Rev. J.G. Langham. Mrs. Altman is the former Estelle Stitt of Ford City RD1. Her husband is a farmer and blacksmith. The couple has six great-grandchildren.
Sister Zilla
12/27/1969 – Sister Elizabeth Zilla, Order of St. Francis, Alverno College, Milwaukee, business manager has been chosen by the board of trustees as board treasurer. Sister Zilla, daughter of the late Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Zilla Sr. of Ford City, became the college’s business manager in 1968. She has been affiliated with the business office for 16 years. She majored in business education and received a bachelor of science degree from Alverno in 1961.
12/27/1954 – Trustees of Rogers Chapel Methodist Church of McVille met to plan for renovation of a one-room school building they purchased for a parish house. A short distance from the church, the former McVille School will be used for church and community activities, as soon as work on the building is completed.
12/27/1949 - An unidentified vandal last night broke six windows in a Mayport RD 2 home while the residents were visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grant Schaffer of Mayport RD 2 returned home about 7:30 to find all but one window broken in the lower floor of the two-story frame house. Lumps of coal used as missiles, lay on the carpet of the home.
12/27/1949 - A 26-year old Leechburg woman today admitted killing her little adopted daughter Saturday because the child received more affection from the family members than she did.
12/27/1944 - A 28-year-old Kittanning soldier, Pfc. H. Reynolds Starr, is dead on a battlefield in France, less than nine months after his induction into the Army.
12/27/1944 - Fire of undetermined origin on Tuesday afternoon destroyed a small building at the summer home owned by H. A Heilman, along Freeport Road. The house was used by the caretaker and was unoccupied at the time.
12/27/1939 - Uncle Sam’s job of counting noses in a coast-to-coast roll call which must be undertaken every ten years, got started in a preliminary way in the 27th Congressional District (which includes Armstrong County) with the opening of office of the United States Census Bureau last Friday on the 10th floor of the First National Bank, Johnstown.
12/27/1939 - Winter temperatures and a heavy mantle of snow that fell over a wide area during the morning hours today had become the favorite topic for after-Christmas street conversation.
12/27/1934 - Business in Kittanning for the Christmas season was the best in years, according to reports from town merchants. It is estimated that close to half a million dollars was expended in Kittanning and Ford City during the Christmas buying rush.
12/27/1929 - Cyrus A. Smith, 67, died Thursday evening at his home in Rural Valley.
12/27/1929 - Charles J. Best has been appointed detective for Armstrong County.
BIBLE MEDITATION – A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. – John 13:34 The command to love one another is not new. The new thing is to love with the same devotion as Christ loved us.