Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918:
Magistrate Thomas C. Berry is conducting a campaign to rid the city of “drunks” by giving newcomers or persons who have not been in police toils in a long while another chance to redeem themselves. Three defendants were arraigned for the magistrate today and in each case it was disclosed that the victim had work, but became a little too familiar with King Booze. They were all discharged under the condition that if they are arrested again they will be obliged to pay heavily for their frolic.
75 Years Ago – 1943:
The Pennsylvania Military College has been selected by the War Department to train 400 enlisted men a year in basic engineering, Colonel Frank K. Hyatt, president of the school, announced today. The first 150 to 200 men in the contingent, to be known as a component of the Army Specialized Training Group, Basic Engineering, are scheduled to arrive April 5, and the balance in June or July.
50 Years Ago – 1968:
Upper Providence supervisors approved a tentative 1968 budget which calls for a tax reduction for the seventh consecutive year. The tax rate will be reduced from 6 mills to 5 ½ mills, or $5.50 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. The township real estate tax has been reduced at least one-half mill every year since 1961 when it was 9 ½ mills.
25 Years Ago – 1993:
A 3-year-old girl, left inside her father’s pickup truck to keep her warm while it went through a self-service car wash, locked the doors, put the keys in the ignition and then drove across two lanes of traffic before hitting a parked car and crashing through the front window a pizzeria, police said. The underaged driver who rolled across 50 yards of Concord Road around 5:30 p.m. Saturday was not injured. The same cannot be said for the Zokos Pizza. Owner John Calise was closed for business last night. The 1993 Dodge pickup truck took out his front window and door before it came to rest at a count. Calise has owned the pizza shop at 239 Concord Road for only four months. “This is a heck of a way to start,” he said.
10 Years Ago – 2008:
Opal Beckford wants people to have more time and that’s why she’s launched Second Pair of Hands, a service business that provides business and personal assistants to help clients with a variety of tasks to free their schedule.