12/30/1969 - Local nightspots advertised their New Year’s Eve line-ups in today’s paper. Entertainment included free jukebox music at the P & A Inn, Ford City; music by the Rebyanski Brothers at Kittanning Eagles, the Hill Tones at Kittanning VFW; round, square and polka dancing with the Country Gentlemen at Worthington Firehall; Tommy Lee at the Alexander Hotel; Amber and her sister MiMi at the Village, Kittanning; Pressley B and the Riverboys at Ab’s In, Cowansville; Walls of Ellusion at the Loyl Order of Moose 137; and The New Invazhun at The Chief, on Route 422. Also, a New Year’s Eve skating party at Cicero’s Rollercade, Kittanning. Menus for most of the nightspots included the traditional sauerkraut, wieners and potato salad.
12/30/1969 – Two Kittanning RD6 girls were injured at 9AM today in a chain-reaction accident on old Route 422 north of West Kittanning. Judith Umbaugh, 22, and Phoebe Umbaugh, 18, were treated and released at the hospital. A car driven by George Kenny, 30, of Kittanning struck the rear of the Umbaugh car, which in turn struct a hi-lift tractor operated by Stephen Kapusta of Slickville.
12/30/1969 - Ford City police win $500-a-year Pay Hike in an arbitration award. They will also receive fully-paid health and life insurance.
12/30/1964 - Leechburg: Hustle and strong outside shooting earned upset-minded Kittanning to a 60-57 exhibition basketball win over Leechburg Blue Devils here last night. Kittanning’s big scorers were Tom Emminger (20) and Bill Buck (18) as both hit with pinpoint accuracy from outside.
12/30/1964 - Shirley M. Steinmetz, daugher of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Steinmetz, 426 Dewey St., Kittanning, and Sandra Lee Minteer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald S. Minteer, Ford City Rd 2, have been commissioned officers in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.
12/30/1959 - Midland High School basketball team won the Ford City Kiwanis Invitational Basketball Tournament downing Ford City 59-36.
12/30/1959 - Armstrong Auto Parts will celebrate the new year and its 25th year in business with an opening at its new and expanded location. For the past 24 years the auto supply firm has been situated beside Cicero’s Rollercade on North Grant Ave. In its location in the former Crown Bottling Works on South Jefferson St., Armstrong Auto expects to be better able to serve its many customers, owner A. B. Sigel said.
12/30/1954 - An interdenominational celebration of the Week of Prayer will take place at Kittanning next week in services planned at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and St. Luke’s Reformed Church.
12/30/1954 - The hours and minutes are ticking away toward the start of the 1944 Baby Derby. Twelve Kittanning merchants are offering an array of gifts for the winner of the Leader-Times First Baby of 1955 Contest. Mom and Dad will share in the winnings. Last year’s winner was Jerry Alan Resseman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Reeseman of Kittanning RD 5, who was born at 4:15 a.m. New Year’s Day.
12/30/1949 - The Pony Farm clubhouse of Armstrong County Hunting and Fishing Club, scene of many a sportsmen reunion, will go under the ax next week to make room for a new structure.
12/30/1949 - Fertilizer Plant Planned Near Here. Farm Cooperative to Build $400,000 Plant on Over-River Tract. Construction Start is Timed for Spring; Odorless Operation Promised.
12/30/1944 - A Cowansville district youth, William A. Allot, has assured his parents that he is safe and well after the sinking of a U.S. destroyer on which he served in the Philippines area.
12/30/1944 - Pfc. Clifton E. (Ed) Wolfe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Wolfe of N. Grant Ave., Kittanning, has been wounded in action and is in a hospital somewhere in the European war theater.
12/30/1939 - The Applewold Fire Department installed a bell on top of a 30-foot pole to be used as a fire alarm for the ever-river town. The bell will be rung for the first time in greeting the new year.
12/30/1939 - West Penn Power Company moved a line crew permanently into Rural Valley to handle power line maintenance and construction required by a soaring customer increase in the vicinity.
12/30/1929 - Ford City High School basketball team was handed its second defeat of the season by the South High Team of Pittsburgh. The score was 28-22.
12/30/1929 - The Kittanning community was grieved at the sudden death of Elizabeth Brown Duell, at the office here of a physician where Mrs. Duell had gone only, a few minutes before.
BIBLE MEDITATION – Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: for but the transgressors shall fall therein. – Hosea 14:9. Wisdom, prudence, and righteousness, march side by side to victory.