01/06/1970 - Services of the Emergency Operating Center, communications control center for Middle Armstrong County set up to receive all emergency calls and dispatch necessary assistance, have been expanded to include the Borough of East Brady and Cowanshannock Twp, according to EOC board chairman Gerald R. Shuster.
01/06/1970 – Armstrong County salary board approved across-the-board wage increases of $20 monthly to 140 workers. The salary boost will add $32,000 to the budget this year. Meanwhile, unemployment in Armstrong County now stands at 6.5% - higher than the national rate of 5.9%.
01/06/1970 - Zigmund Cieply was re-elected president of Ford City Borough Council as two new solons were seated as members of the deliberating body last night at the Borough Building.
01/06/1970 – Farmers Delight Dairy of Leechburg is now serving customers of the former Country Belle. Harry Parks, Farmers Delight Dairy owner, said his firm’s purchase of Pittsburgh-based Country Belle became effective January 1.
01/06/1970 – John Daloisio of Kittanning suffered burns to the face when he was working on a channel iron with welding equipment at the Armstrong Station of West Penn Power in Reesedale, where he is employed. He was admitted to the hospital in Kittanning.
01/06/1970 - Kittanning councilman Jack Vensel last night was chosen as council president in the first formal borough meeting seating new elected officials. Newly-elected councilmen taking their seat were: Richard Reedy, William Frederick, and Wilbur Bowers. New Mayor Howard Shuster also took his seat.
01/06/1970 - A Kittanning native, State Sen. Jack E. McGregor of Edgewood, announced his intention to seek the GOP nomination for governor.
01/06/1965 - Harrisburg: W. Stuart Helm, former state House Speaker from Kittanning, today, was named to serve as a special aide in the office of Gov. William Scranton.
01/06/1965 - Kittanning down by four points late in the game, staged a late, late rally last night to beat Arnold’s tough Lions in a Section 1-A shindig here, 55 to 53.
01/06/1960 - The Armstrong County Child Welfare office has 244 children representing 73 families on the records for service during 1960. Mrs. William S. Merwin, Child Welfare director, reported to the Child Welfare Advisory Committee that 390 children from 123 families received service through the office in 1959.
01/06/1960 - Dr. Albert R. Pechan, Ford City dentist and veteran state senator, was returned as majority whip of the Senate.
01/06/1955 - Dayton High School cagers will entertain Washington Township in their new spacious gymnasium in WPIAL Section 21-B game tomorrow night.
01/06/1955 - James Scheeren, architect, asked Ford City Union School Board to forgive the contractors for working beyond the completion date on the construction of the fieldhouse at the football field. According to the contract, the completion date was Oct. 8. Scheeren said that the building was “substantially completed” Nov. 12. The Oct. 8 completion date gave the contractors two months to finish the work.
01/06/1955 - A community bonfire will burn at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Seventh Ave. ball field near Thirteen St., Ford City, after members of Ford City Lions Club make their annual collection of discarded Christmas trees.
01/06/1950 - Reporters were chased from a meeting of the Armstrong County Salary Board in the controller’s office by a vote of three to two. The salary board met to decide wages of clerks and deputies working for the county for the year 1950.
01/06/1950 - Mr. 1950, this year’s New Year’s baby arrived in Kittanning almost two hours after the start of the year, but was still in plenty of time to win The Leader-Times Stork Derby. The lad dropped in at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital at 1:40 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 1, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Prazenica of Ford City.
01/06/1945 - Another Armstrong County home was saddened by news from the European war zone. A War Department telegram brought the news to Mrs. Elva Jean (Lemmon) Brown, Kittanning RD 3, that her husband, Pvt. Richard Joseph Brown, had met death on a battlefield in Germany on Dec. 18, 1944.
01/06/1945 - Kenneth Smith, a soldier who received an honorable discharge from the army a few weeks ago, is acting as substitute mail carrier on Rural Route Five out of the Kittanning office. Carl Grafton, temporary carrier on the route since his father’s retirement sometime ago, expects to enter the military service Jan 10.
01/06/1940 - T. Winston McConkey, field supervisor of the Allegheny County Give-A-Job mobilization campaign, summarized the work procedure at a meeting of the Armstrong County committee in State Employment Service headquarters in the Empire building, Market St.
01/06/1940 - The outdoor sports enthusiasts of the district were having their innings these days as a combination of snow and cold produced conditions favorable for sledriding, skiing and ice skating.
01/06/1930 - Death came instantly to Harrison Hall, 41-year-old World War veteran whose home is near Atwood, when he was struck by a truck traveling east between White’s Store and Secrists’ on the Rural Valley-Plumville-Home Road.
BIBLE MEDITATION – Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling… - Jude 24. Christianity is a preventative as well as curative faith. Time after time, an angel stops us before we step into trouble.