Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1917:

Edward Chance, a youth living at 1913 W. Fourth St., Chester, was struck and hurled to the street by an automobile at Third and Reaney streets. He was sent to the Chester Hospital. He sustained a few abrasions and after receiving treatment was sent to his home.

75 Years Ago – 1942:

John J. McClure has become the stormy petrel of the state gubernatorial campaign. The alliance of Delaware County’s political boss with the forces of Senator James J. Davis is creating statewide repercussion which may result in Major General Edward Martin getting the Republican nomination of governor. The award promised McClure for his support of Davis is control of the state Liquor Control Board, one of the richest plumes in the United States today. Committeemen and women of the McClure machine are making house-to-house canvass in an effort to garner votes for Davis, and every job-holder in the city and country has been told to “produce or else.”

50 Years Ago – 1967:

A tentative agreement was reached following a oneday strike by some 700 workers against Shop-Rite food stores in Pennsylvania, Jersey and Delaware. The strike affected some 20 meat cutters and advertising employees at Shop-Rite of Folsom. The agreement came after some 1,5000 grocery clerks refused to cross picket lines set up by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen’s Union. The current pay for journeymen meat cutters is about $138 a week.

25 Years Ago – 1992:

The Penn-Delco School Board approved a preliminary budget of $24,288,410 at a recent meeting, which would raise taxes by 98 mills if adopted as presented. School director Nancy Bowden voted against the budget. The figure is approximately $2.2 million more than last year, of which approximately 80 percent will go for salary and benefits, Superintendent Harry M. Hill said. Rachel Irvine, a member of Better Education – Sensible Taxes, blamed high taxes on the PSEA, which she called “the most powerful union in Pennsylvania.”

10 Years Ago – 2007:

In tribute to their deceased colleague, Aston commissioners, via resolution, renamed Eagle Field Park, the Lewis H. Fisher Memorial Park. Fisher, who served for 20 years as second ward commissioner, died July 18, 2005, after a long illness.