Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1916: Wide interest has been roused in the case of the three Pennsylvania Military College students, athletes of the college, who are charged with aggravated assault and battery on a Philadelphia dentist who acted us referee during a basketball game last winter. The victim testifed it was the fifth game he had refereed at the PMC but the first lost by the home team. Yates had many times called fouls against the home team during the game.
75 Years Ago – 1941: The secret suspension of eight Upper Darby High School seniors for drinking on their class trip to New York was revealed at a meeting of the Upper Darby School Board. The revelation came when Mrs. Anna Murphy, of Stonehurst, pleaded the case of a boy who lives near her, who would not be graduated next week. Albert J. Williams, president of the board, was startled by Mrs. Murphy’s statement. “Why wasn’t the board notified?” he asked William Sampson, superintendent of schools. Sampson said that the matter was discussed by the board’s instructions committee.
50 Years Ago – 1966:
Two of the three Bethel supervisors have asked the Delaware County Republican Party to remove U.S.
Rep. G. Robert Watkins of Birmingham as the township’s representative on the powerful Republican Board of Supervisors (War Board). They charged Watkins with “utter neglect insofar as his duties to us and members of the Republican Party who reside in this area.”
25 Years Ago – 1991:
Boeing Helicopters voluntarily suspended flight tests of the V-22 Osprey in the wake of this week’s crash of a prototype of the tilt-rotor aircraft. The crash, during the maiden of the fifth Osprey prototype, occurred just after one of the pilots said he “didn’t like the way it was handling,” according to
Timothy D. Fehr, V-22 program president.
10 Years Ago – 2006:
Nether Providence officials have gone on record as being opposed to intense development of a nearly 80-acre “pristine and unspoiled” property in Middletown known as the Elwyn tract or Mineral Hill. The site is immediately adjacent to Ridley Creek. As such, it is “just upstream from a major drinking water intake that supplies drinking water to residents of Nether Providence Township and Media Borough,” a letter from Board of Commissioners President Lin Floyd notes.