Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917:
Uncle Sam is taking the bull by the horns and will himself erect dwellings for munitions workers of this city and other sections. This news comes from New York. Outside of two or three industries that have erected homes for their workmen, scarcely any effort has been made to provide accommodations for workers, and the employers have had a big problem to deal with the past two years. According to Mayor McDowell, there are about 7,000 persons in this city who are living in boarding houses, lodging houses, hotels and in private homes who would like to have their own homes. 75 Years Ago – 1942: The regular weekly meeting of the Chester Lions Club will be held at Chester-Arms Hotel at 12:15 Thursday. Joe Cobots will be the chairman for this meeting, and he has secured a motion picture from the Franklin Institute on “The Miracle of Gasoline Chemistry,” which will be shown following the luncheon.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
A Pennsylvania Supreme Court desegregation order apparently will force the city school board to scrap its $15-million, eight-year master construction plan. Tuesday’s high court ruling directing the district to end de facto (in fact) segregation in six public schools apparently kills the already ailing master plan, School Board President Clarence H. Roberts said. The board’s existing master plan was designed on the neighborhood schools concept – which was at the heart of Tuesday’s ruling and which the school board has defended.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
A bulldozer being used to eliminate flooding on 13th Street in Prospect Park yesterday sunk in the mud of an old lake bed and is still mired there, despite a day-long effort to free it. PennDOT was using the track loaders to scoop out soil and change the configuration of a small stream as it approaches 13th Street at the Prospect Park/Ridley Park when the track loader began to sink the mud at Moore’s Lake, which has disappeared gradually over the past three decades from silt build-up.
10 Years Ago – 2007: A 16-year-old Drexel Hill boy on probation has been arrested again for allegedly groping women and breaking into parked cars. The youth was arrested after two indecent assaults and harassment charges were lodged by Delaware County Memorial Hospital security. “We have to get these bums off the street. He’s on probation and the system allows him to become more of a danger to the community. They treat these freakin’ bums with kid gloves,” said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood.