Yesteryear-Oct. 6
POSTED: October 6, 2007
50 years ago
Michele Walters, a student at Altoona High School, was a delegate to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (Polio) meeting in New York City.
The Debating Association of Pennsylvania Colleges held a “right to work” debate in Altoona.
25 years ago
Ernest Wissinger, owner of two Wissinger IGA food markets in Altoona, said he was looking at a site near Hollidaysburg.
Buzzer the Fire Fox, the Altoona Fire Department’s new mascot, made his first public appearance at Baker Mansion, Altoona.
10 years ago
About 600 area residents took part in a Citizen’s Concerned for Human Life national life chain anti-abortion rally along 17th Street in Altoona.
Executive officer Allen Meadors said that a new $8 million classroom-computer center-nursing program center-faculty office building would be built at Penn State Altoona.
