Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918:
Emphasizing the importance of keeping the transportation system up to top notch as an adjunct to the winning of war, prominent speakers roused the employees of the Southern Pennsylvania Traction Co. to a high sense of their responsibility at a loyalty meeting held in the car barns last night. Fully 100 motorman and conductors and other employees of the corporation were in attendance at the meeting which was followed by a smoker.
75 Years Ago – 1943:
While attempting to act as a peacemaker at a brawl during a 17-year-old girl’s birthday party, a 38-yearold man of the 1700 block of West Seventh Street, Chester, was stabbed in the heart shortly after midnight Sunday morning. He was dead on arrival the Chester Hospital. The brawl occurred in a house in the 900 block of Tilghman Street, the home of the birthday girl. Police descended on the place and placed 25 men and women under arrest, including the girl in whose honor the party was held.
50 Years Ago – 1968:
Local officials said today they will move as rapidly as possible to get construction started on the Chester Towers in the Deshong Urban Renewal Area. Their plans were disclosed following a refusal by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to consider an appeal attempting to block the project. Construction of the $4 million twin towers to contain apartments for the elderly has been blocked almost a year by litigation by attorney James L. Rankin.
25 Years Ago – 1993:
From Sound Off: “Whenever I hear or read the phrase ‘The Mother of All This,’ or ‘The Mother of All that,’ a picture of Saddam Hussein’s stupid, stoic, mustached faces flashes through my mind. Isn’t it about time the media and a certain U.S. Senator find a new cliché and stop paying tribute to the Middle East madman’s ‘insignificant contribution to the literary world?’ Signed, Fed Up Mother.”
10 Years Ago – 2008: After closing its doors in June 2006, the former Oakmont Elementary School has officially re-opened as the Oakmont Administrative and Early Childhood Development Center. Although it retains much of its former identity, the gray granite building on Eagle Road now houses new administrative offices, re-located from cramped quarters at the Haverford Middle School.