01/09/1970 – Armstrong County was in a deep freeze this morning with all minus temperatures. Foxburg, Walk Chalk, and Heilman Church vicinity seemed to be the coldest spots with temperatures more than 10 degrees below zero.
01/09/1970 - The executive board of the Woman’s Club of Kittanning was told by the president, Mrs. Lester Swink, on Wednesday that the club was presented with a check for $250 from the March of Dimes for addressing and stuffing envelopes for the March of Dimes campaign this month.
01/09/1970 - Catherine Manofsky, 18, of Apollo, is listed in satisfactory condition in Armstrong County Memorial Hospital with a fractured leg. She reportedly fell while ice skating.
01/09/1970 - Crooked Creek State Park Welcomes Snowmobilers.
01/09/1965 - Rep. John P. Saylor of the 22nd Congressional District entertained Armstrong County cadets and midshipmen whom he appointed to service schools at an annual luncheon in Rustic Lodge, Indiana. Attending were Harold B. Dickey, Kittanning RD 3, Coast Guard Academy; James R. Aubrey, Kittanning MR 10, Air Force Academy; Gary W. Hooks, Kittanning RD 6, Naval Academy; James R. Thomaswick, 615-13th St., Ford City, West Point Military Academy; Conrad C. Best, Leechburg RD 4, Naval Academy and Joseph R. Kolek, Apollo RD 3, Air Force Academy.
01/09/1960 - The new business establishment of the So-Clean Laundry, 4th Ave., Ford City, will add to the variety of business in that town. The coin-operated automatic laundry will be a self-service establishment, open 24-hours daily, seven days a week.
01/09/1960 - Kittanning Wildcat cagers eked a 52-50 victory over New Kensington to hang on to first place in WPIAL Section One. The Red and White passers are 2-0 in section play. Har-Brack, which defeated Vandergrift 69-49 last night, and Ford City are 1-0 in the section.
01/09/1950 - Ford City: Fourteen truck drivers for the O. K. Heilman Motor Freight Company were presented with safe driving awards and Mr. Heilman made a donation of $11,077 to his employes at an annual dinner of company personnel. Winners were Clyde Southworth of West Kittanning, 13 years; Lewis Bowser of Kittanning, five years; Thomas Clever of Ford City, four years; Wilbur Wilson of McGrann, three years; Harvey Bellas of West Kittanning, C. C. Horn of Pittsburgh, “Doc” Sherman of West Kittanning and Paul Toy of Garretts Run, two years and Joseph Angelo of Kittanning, Joseph Gillespie of Kittanning RD 4, G. H. Lewis of Pittsburgh, Martin Lockhart of Slate Lick, C. A. Swaney of Ford City RD 1 and Raymond Thompson of Pittsburgh, one year.
01/09/1950 - Machinery Readied for Local Religious Survey. Town wide Count is Planned Next Sunday as Part of Vigorous Evangelizing.
01/09/1950 - Apollo: A flash fire demolished a two-story structure on Warren Ave. and early estimates placed the loss at $75,000. The building housed the Burkett Flower Shop and McColgin’s Meat Market. Three families lived in apartments on the second floor of the structure.
01/09/1945 - Robert, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leard of Kittanning RD, suffered a fracture of a bone in his right leg, when he fell from a hobby horse on which he was playing in the parental home.
01/09/1945 - Your National Debt Share is $2,118 Each. War to Cost $450 Billion.
01/09/1945 - Another Kittanning district soldier, Pvt. Raynolds Bowser of RD 3, has been killed in action in a gruelling Western Front battle to bring Germany to her knees.
01/09/1940 - Burton Welch of Kittanning, assistant to Armstrong County game protector, was cast in the role of a hero when he rescued a woman and child from a fire which destroyed their dwelling in the village of Houston, Washington County, where he was visiting his family when flames were discovered in the adjoining dwelling.
01/09/1940 - M. W. Bowers of Hutchison Court, N. Jefferson St. was added to the Kittanning borough police force by election to a vacancy filled for several months by Frank N. Copenhaver.
01/09/1935 - An estimated 100 Kittanning high school students reaching here each day via Pittsburg and Shawmut passenger car, had near normal service restored to them when a passenger coach and steam locomotive replaced two gasoline passenger coaches which were heavily damaged by fire. The students from points both north and south of Kittanning, were unable to reach classes for one day because fire had damaged both motorized coaches. The blaze broke out from some undetermined cause in one of the passenger coaches, housed in a steel building at Timblin.
01/09/1935 - Fire which leveled a barn on the Alex McCullough farm, five miles from Kittanning on the Kittanning-Butler Road, occasioned damages estimated at $20,000.
01/09/1930 - All officers of Armstrong County Agricultural Extension Association were re-elected at the association’s annual meeting. The officers are president, George Templeton of Rayburn Township; vice president, D. M. Scher of Gilpin Township; secretary H. E. Butler of Dayton, and treasurer, W. J. Sturgeon of Kittanning,
01/09/1930 - About forty per cent of the 1250 names selected for filling the jury wheel in 1930, it is estimated, are those of women.
BIBLE MEDITIATION – When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee:… Since thou wast precious in my sight… and I have loved thee. – Isaiah 43:2-4. This is not an old broadcast. This is said to you ,by your own Father, to reassure you today.