Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917:
Apparently the authorities have the situation in Chester well in hand. But because last night found the city comparatively quiet is no reason why the precautions should be relaxed, as we have no reason to believe they will be. Chester’s season of bloodshed and murder is, we hope, at an end. The strong hand of the law has fallen and, as is always the case, the rabble, cowardly at the best, has taken to its heels and fled.
75 Years Ago – 1942:
Mr. and Mrs. David E. Davis, of 1010 W. Eight St., Chester, received an unexpected thrill on Sunday afternoon when the telephone rang and the long-distance operator said “Hawaii calling.” The call was from their son, Corporal David E. Davis Jr., of the Army Air Corps, who is stationed in the islands. He was on a three-day pass in Honolulu and called from that city. Conversation was limited by censorship, and Corporal David could not discuss the war in his three-minute talk, but he informed his parents that he was in excellent health and happy with Army life.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
A program designed to ease any racial tension which might exist here was mapped out Thursday in Chester City Hall. Mayor James H. Gorbey called an emergency meeting in council chambers in response to a request from Chester NAACP President Frederick Douglas. The result was a plan to implement immediately a campaign to dispel unfounded rumors of racial trouble and to expand the city’s recreation program.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
The financially struggling Delaware County AIDS Network got a boost from Delaware County government officials who awarded the grassroots organization $12,000 in state Human Service Development Funds. The network, which provides HIV-AIDS education and volunteer buddies to assist AIDS patients, is in need of $58,000 to cover operating costs. Delaware County, which does not have a health department, has the third highest number of AIDS cases in the state.
10 Years Ago – 2007:
A $1 million state grant has revamped the revitalization project in the county’s only city with new opportunities for home ownership. The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development has presented Chester with the grant to construct twenty single-family homes in Chester. Twelve will be built in the Highland Gardens neighborhood.