This photo was taken by Clair Ritchey on a Brownie box camera in 1919 or 1920 at Puzzletown School. Shown are (from left): first row — Charles Moyer, Herman Yingling, Ward Moyer, Mrs. Jessie Himes Altmanshofer and Roy Moyer; second row — Donald Ritchey, Mrs. Mary Moyer Borlie, Howard Himes, Mrs. Clara Reimer, Rollin Shaw, Mrs. Verna Reimer Whitfield and Lester Yingling; third row — Edward Moyer, Mrs. Iva Ritchey Aurandt, Mrs. Mabel Daugherty Moyer, Mrs. Alma Clark Dodson (teacher), Cyril Moyer, Mrs. Hazel Ritchey Feathers, Mrs. Flossie Miller, Mrs. Grace Miller and Mrs. Viola Reimer.

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Local news on this date

May 16, 1951

Playing for one day only at Gamble Hill in Altoona, the lot opposite Lloyd Street from Sixth Avenue up past First Avenue, was the great Hagen Brothers 3-ring Circus, sponsored by the Altoona Lions Club with admission $1.25 for adults and 60 cents for children. Proceeds went to the Altoona Halloween Parade.

May 16, 1976

The Altoona Redevelopment Authority approved the placing of an A&P Supermarket at the 17th Street end of the soon-to-be-built Station Mall along Ninth Avenue and a Hills Department Store at the other end. Center Associates of Ohio was the contractor.

May 16, 2001

Morris management announced that a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Restaurant and Gift Shop would be built at the intersection of Plank Road and Good’s Lane. The parent company was located in Lebanon, Tenn.

May 16, 2016

The ABC Photo Society, Brandon Hirt president, held its 64th annual banquet, this year at Jethro’s in Altoona. Eric Gaston was named Photographer of the Year. The group met twice a week at the Hollidaysburg Area Public Library.

May 17, 1951

The office of Clair Clugh, works manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Altoona, announced the layoff of 3,500 men in the repair and maintenance department, saying the rail cars and equipment needed for the defense to supply the Korean War was “caught up.”

Newly elected officers at Altoona Senior High School were: Jack Winter, president; James Pritchard, vice president; Dolores Vitelli, secretary; and Patty Maxwell, treasurer. Officers for the junior high were: James Burns, president; Janet Farrell, vice president; Betty McKerihan, secretary; and Donna Henchey, treasurer.

May 17, 1976

Antointte Thompson, a member of the Student and Safety Patrol at Edison School, was awarded the American Automobile Association Gold Lifesaving Medal for saving the life of a first grader from a runaway car.

The eighth grade class at Logan Junior High School, Doris Wilshire and Ben Kensinger supervising, held a Bicentennial Fair in the school gym with at least 45 students wearing colonial attire they had sown themselves. They also published a 10-page newspaper called “The Colonial Times.”

May 17, 2001

Bill Shuster was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives until next year to replace his retiring father Bud Shuster. He spent the day meeting with congressional leaders and learning his way around the capitol building guided by his father’s former chief of staff, Darrell Wilson.

The Altoona Fire Department received a 50 percent certification from the PA Office of the State Fire Commissioner and State Fire Academy and Fire Chief Reynold Santone said that the department was working toward its 100 percent certification. The program was called The Voluntary Firefighters Certification Program.

May 17, 2016

At the first of seven meetings planned to explain the upcoming Blair County Property Tax reassessment in Claysburg, Evaluator Services & Technologies Inc. Vice-President Tim Barr spoke to Blair residents. The reassessment was to start in six weeks.

The Altoona Area School District, Dave Andrews solicitor, held a meeting to discuss the possible closing of the William P. Kimmel Alternative School, which would then open under new leadership, Adelphi Education Services, which already operated one half of the school.

National, world news on this date

May 16

In 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.

In 1929, the first Academy Awards were presented. “Wings” won the award for Outstanding Picture, while Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor were named Best Actor and Best Actress.

In 1943, the nearly monthlong Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the city’s Great Synagogue.

In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

In 1988, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop declared that nicotine is as addictive as heroin or cocaine as part of his campaign to warn against the health hazards of smoking and make America smoke-free by 2000.

In 1991, Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress, speaking to a joint meeting of both chambers during her state visit to the United States.

May 17

In 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was held; the race was won by Aristides, ridden by jockey Oliver Lewis.

In 1973, a special committee convened by the U.S. Senate began its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal.

In 1980, rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating Black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie.

In 1987, 37 American sailors were killed when an Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf. (Iraq apologized for the attack, calling it a mistake, and paid more than $27 million in compensation.)

In 1995, Army veteran Shawn Nelson took a 57-ton M-60 tank from a California National Guard armory and terrorized San Diego for 23 minutes, barreling down residential streets, smashing into cars, street lights and fire hydrants on a miles-long path of destruction. Police ultimately forced the tank hatch open and fatally shot Nelson.

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