12/31/1969 - A Ford City man serving in Vietnam, Lawrence D. Goyda, wrote an open letter to all local residents asking them not to “forget the unfortunate and underprivileged at Christmas.” The letter was published in today’s paper at the request of his sister.
12/31/1969 - Former Ford City Plant Manager John H. Busch Dead at 46.
12/31/1969 - Area Retail Merchants Plan Snowmobile Debut.
12/31/1969 - Indiana County Gets Pilot Day Care Center Project.
12/31/1969 - My Lai Sergeant Ordered to Trial.
12/31/1969 - Man Says Accomplice Killed Valerie Percy.
12/31/1969 – Kittanning Council passed the 1970 budget with a millage rate of 21 mills.
12/31/1964 - Kittanning corps of the Salvation Army moves officially into a new headquarters building here tonight to greet the new year and cap with success a long and frustrating struggle for adequate quarters.
12/31/1959 - The Kittanning High School cagers ran up their biggest score of the current campaign as they defeated Marion Center 80-56 on the losers floor.
12/31/1959 - Winners in the Rural Valley Lions’ Lighting Contest were Merle Umbaugh of Yatesboro, first; Anthony Maffie of Yatesboro, second and Robert Fear of Rural Valley, third.
12/31/1959 - Silas Crotzer closed his stamp window at Kittanning post office for the final time at the end of business today. Crotzer had been a Kittanning postal clerk for 37 years.
12/31/1954 - Weather Seer Lee Wolfe Forecasts Mild Winter, 1955 Winter To Be Remembered for Years as Exceptionally Moderate.
12/31/1954 - Monessen Hands Forders 56-47 Loss As Classers Complete Warming Slate. Pete Krukar led the Glassers with 16 points.
12/31/1954 - Jack Stull, who fought his way back from the brink of death on a shell-torn Pacific island 11 years ago, today is winning a similar battle with death-dealing polio. The husky ex-marine and former Kittanning High School football player was stricken last October with the crippling disease which struck at his spinal cord and for a time, threatened his life.
12/31/1949 - The Tide of Toys, an American Legion program to provide toys for children in war-torn areas of Europe, has resulted in a fairly good return at Kittanning.
12/31/1949 - Ninety-eight years ago Dec. 30, 1851 - Mrs. Hannah Heilman was born in Manor Township. Yesterday she celebrated her birthday at her home in Bethel Township, where she has resided the last 67 years.
12/31/1934 - The new year will find Pennsylvania beginning another effort to keep mechanically unsafe motor vehicles off the roads. The seventh of the Commonwealth’s semi-annual compulsory inspection periods starts Jan. 1 and continues to March 31.
12/31/1929 - Lyman Haugh, 55, and William J. Flanders, 59, both well known residents of Ford City, died.
12/31/1929 - A railroad grade crossing at the west end of Yatesboro, on the Kittanning-Rural Valley Road, was the scene of an accident in which Martha Iseman, 19, of Indiana, lost her life.
12/31/1929 - A printer telegraph machine, installed the latter part of last week in Kittanning police station by the State Police for law enforcement purposes went into operation this morning.
BIBLE MEDITATION – And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord. – Leviticus 19:12 Disrespect for the name of God is not only an abomination to the Lord, but a revelation of the insecurity of the offender.