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The Roaring Spring High School Girls Basketball Team from 1940-41 included (from left): first row -- Coach Earl Hite Jr., Chip Ray, Doris Hite, Dorothy Morgart, Pauline Metzger, Nancy Garver, Jeanette Claar and Miss Mildred Melchoir; second row -- Mid Shoenfelt, Dorothy McCown, Doris Ketner, Barbara Carrothers, Alice Smith, Elaine Butler, Gladys Holsinger and Elsie Keith; third row -- Mary Kay Albright, Donna Bechtel, Rozella Albright, Jean Lauer, Ruth Shoenfelt and Gail Yoder. The photo was submitted by Victor L. Curfman of Altoona, formerly of Roaring Spring.
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Local news on this date
Nov. 1, 1950
U.S. Congressman James E. Van Zandt of Altoona, a member of the joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, spoke to the Altoona Works of the Pennsylvania Railroad Police on "Altoona in the Atomic Age."
Nov. 1, 1975
Dr. Luke H. Rhoads, executive director of the Allegheny Lutheran Home and Lutheran Social Services, retiring after 25 years, was honored with a testimonial banquet at the Jaffa Mosque in Altoona. A Dr. Luke H. Rhoades Endowment Fund was also established.
Nov. 1, 2000
Bon Secours Holy Family Hospital sued the Logan Township Supervisors over their decision to allow the construction of a medical clinic and doctors' offices on the grounds of Penn State Altoona to be called the Sheetz Student Health and Wellness Center to be affiliated with the Altoona Hospital Group.
Nov. 1, 2015
The Family Services Teen Shelter in the former Bigelow Funeral Home building at 1701 Sixth Ave., was marking its 28th anniversary. It was founded in 1987, was in the former Our Lady of Lourdes Convent, then to 510 26th St., then to 371 Eighth Ave. and then to its current location.
Nov. 2, 1950
John T. Sherwood, a native of Cresson, was a member of the Secret Service assigned to protect President Harry Truman and was present when two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist group were shot and one killed when trying to attack the President in Blair House, across the street from the White House in Washington, D.C. A police officer was also killed.
Two local chapters of Disabled American Veterans were to sponsor a display of "Ripley Believe It or Not Oddities" from a mobile trailer, including a lifelike sculpture of Mr. Ripley by a man named Mark Shoesmith, who was totally blind. Admission was free with donations accepted by the DAV.
Nov. 2, 1975
Altoona Area High School, Janet Crimens AAHS librarian in charge, was chosen to compete in the Scholastic Quiz, produced by the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and WJAC channel 6, this coming weekend.
Members of the Bishop Guilfoyle High School Mission Club, Pauline Kaczor, Michele Strittmatter and Paula Maurer, made up and delivered favors to patients at Valley View Home as part of their Halloween Project, then stayed to visit with them.
Nov. 2, 2000
The 30th annual Altoona Police Recognition Night was held at the Bernard Albert Good Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Juniata with PA Attorney General Mike Fisher as special guest. Late post commander Lowell Norris started the recognition night in 1970, and his wife Aggie carried it on.
The 100-year-old Bland's Park in Tipton, purchased by Ferdinand and Mafalda DelGrosso in 1947, was changing its name to DelGrosso's Amusement Park. In 1947, Mafalda had a small popular restaurant on site.
Nov. 2, 2015
Local women Holly Dick and Lisa Grassi started a group called "Together We Rise" to help foster children transition from one residence to another and donated $1,300 to Blair County Children and Youth Services for supply bags.
A large number of area businesses were sponsoring a program called "Be A Santa to A Senior" program to provide gifts and companionship to seniors at area nursing homes. It was organized by the local Home Instead Senior Care Office, Theresa Zurilla owner.
National, world news on this date
Nov. 1
In 1765, the Stamp Act, passed by the British Parliament, went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
In 1861, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln named Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan General-in-Chief of the Union armies, succeeding Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott.
In 1938, in a two-horse match, Seabiscuit defeated the favored Triple Crown winner War Admiral by four lengths in what was dubbed the "Race of the Century" at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
In 1982, the first Japanese car produced in the U.S. rolled off the assembly line at the Honda manufacturing plant in Marysville, Ohio.
Nov. 2
In 1783, Gen. George Washington issued his Farewell Address to the Army.
In 1948, in one of the most unexpected results in U.S. presidential election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeated the heavily favored Republican governor of New York, Thomas E. Dewey.
In 1959, Charles Van Doren testified before a congressional committee that he had conspired with television producers to cheat on the television quiz show "Twenty-One."
In 1976, Democrat Jimmy Carter, a former governor of Georgia, became the first candidate from the Deep South to be elected president since the Civil War, defeating Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford.
Local news compiled by Tim Doyle. National, world news from The Associated Press.