Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1918:

The Greek American Society recently formed at the Sun Shipbuilding Company will meet tomorrow afternoon at the lodge rooms in the Nolan building, Market Street. The meeting will be called at 3 o’clock. There will be prominent speakers and singing of national airs. Ice cream and cakes will be served.

75 Years Ago – 1943:

Nearly 1,500 residents of the Delaware County Trailer Park, Woodlyn, are going to have to leave their homes in the next few weeks. Walking up the dirt roads between the rows of boxlike little trailers all painted the same color as our battleships and jeeps and Army trucks, you wouldn’t say the trailer park is very “homey.” But when you come across fences trimmed with animated cartoon figures, ivy and geraniums around doorways, and cheerful striped awnings like Mrs. Manchak’s, you begin to get an inkling of why so many of the tenants tell the manager, George Betzer, that they don’t want to leave. What will be done with the ground, leased from the McGraff estate, is still unknown.

50 Years Ago – 1968:

Republican vice presidential nominee Spiro T. Agnew, governor of Maryland, has accepted an invitation to lecture at PMC Colleges No. 14, the college announced Friday. The college’s cultural affairs office said plans call for a noon luncheon in honor of the governor and a 3 p.m. public lecture in MacMorland Center. When Agnew comes to the county, he will either be the vice president-elect or governor of Maryland, indicating he will not resign until after the Nov. 5 election.

25 Years Ago – 1993:

More than 99 percent of Upland residents back the fledgling effort to remove the borough from the academically and financially troubled Chester Upland School District, according to the results of a door-todoor straw vote conducted by a group advocating the split. Only five of 750 people responding to the Concerned Citizens for the Education of Upland’s Children’s poll said they would not support the effort, said Ed Rostron, a member of CCEUC.

10 Years Ago – 2008:

Springfield Zoning Hearing Board granted a variance and special exception for a plan to demolish the existing Ferraro Cadillac, located at 674 Baltimore Pike, and build a Rite Aid, day care center and bank. The property had served as a showroom, repair shop and detailing center for more than 40 years.