The first grade class in Duncansville’s Foot of Ten Allegheny #2 Elementary School in 1962-63 were (from left): front row — Mike McConnell, Cindy Detrick, Bobby Walker, Kathy McCladden, Melvin Boose, Darla Miller, Scott Emiegh and Vaughn Brubaker; middle row — Mrs. Wogan, Mark Montgomery, Bonnie Hale, Bernie Edmundson, Joseph Cunningham, David White, Kenny Eger, Freddie Imler and Karen Dick; back row — Vicki LeCrone, Wendy Clapper, Marilyn Edmundson, Geri Cox, Judy Ringler, Danny Furry and Pete McCoy. The photo was submitted by Marilyn Frieda of Claysburg.

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Local news on this date

June 27, 1951

The Greater Altoona Federation Board of Directors, James S. Taylor president, meeting at the Penn Alto Hotel, voted to combine the fundraising efforts of 105 separate organizations under the Community Chest Banner like many other cities had been doing.

June 27, 1976

The daylong Town Meeting ’76 got underway at the Penn Alto Hotel as a large number of residents appeared to present their views on basic community issues. Women, who had never been permitted to attend town meetings during the early days of the country, were in the majority.

June 27, 2001

Norfolk Southern Railroad was to auction off about 50 EMD and GE locomotives this weekend at the rail yards of the Juniata Locomotive Shops along 12th Avenue. Blackmon Auctions of Little Rock, Ark., was the auctioneer. The locomotives were in various states of repair.

June 27, 2016

Julie Heckman of the American Pyrotechnics Association said that sales of fireworks last year to consumers was $755 million and sales to displays were $800 million. Those totals were expected to be exceeded this year.

June 28, 1951

The Hollidaysburg Lions Club, Edgar Magill president, met at the Capitol Hotel to plan the annual Horse Show on Labor Day at Dell Delight Park in Holldaysburg, with Joseph King in charge.

The Acme Supermarket on Plank Road was holding a giant Fourth of July food sale with an appearance by “Ranger Joe” who was to hand out free Ranger Joe coffee mugs and then make an appearance on the WVAM Radio Hay Ride Show in Martinsburg.

June 28, 1976

An arbitrator awarded 175 Blair County employees with the United Mine Workers of America Union a 3 percent raise. UMW negotiator Keith Barnhart said the commissioners should “hang their heads in shame” over the small increase. The union estimated it would take $4.4 million in raises to bring Blair employees up to par with 5th class county workers.

The Tyrone Gardner Guards Drum and Bugle Corps, Robert Wilson manager, played a special concert at the PPG plant in Tipton, R.H. Bishop manager, to mark the plant’s 10th anniversary. The plant manufactured window glass for automobiles.

June 28, 2001

The retirement of U.S. Rep. Bud Shuster, R-9th District, left $18.6 million in funding he had earmarked for local projects like the Bedford Springs Hotel project in danger of being taken back into the Appropriations Committee general fund.

About 350 members of the Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club of Pennsylvania visited the Wall That Heals at the Van Zandt VA Hospital in Altoona. They then donated $1,000 to a local project called Fire Base Eagle that planned a Vietnam War history museum at Westfall Park. Member and minister Paul Johnson told the men the nation didn’t give them a party when they got back, so they’re still partying.

June 28, 2016

Second Avenue United Methodist Church youth group partnered with the kids groups from Huntingdon Methodist and Evansville, Ind., Methodist to restore homes in Altoona that badly needed repair. One project was the Family Services Teen Shelter in Altoona.

Altoona native Ted Kattouf, former U.S. ambassador to Syria and the United Arab Emirates founded a program where Muslim youths stayed with Christian host families in the United States called AMIDEAST, now 13 years old. Ted’s father owned Hab’s Cafe on 16th Street in Altoona.

National, world news on this date

June 27:

In 1957, Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm, causing as many as 600 deaths.

In 1967, Barclays Bank unveiled the first automated teller machine (ATM) in the town of Enfield, north London.

In 1991, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement.

In 2005, BTK serial killer Dennis Rader pleaded guilty to 10 murders that had spread fear across Wichita, Kansas, beginning in the 1970s. (Rader was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms in prison.)

June 28:

In 1914, in an act that helped trigger World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were shot to death in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip.

In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, formally ending the First World War.

In 1969, riots broke out following a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ+ bar in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, leading to six days of violent protests that served as a watershed moment in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

In 2000, seven months after he was found adrift in the Straits of Florida, Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba.

Local news compiled by Tim Doyle. National, world news from The Associated Press.