Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918: Charged with being a dangerous alien enemy, a
33-year-old Chester man was arrested Saturday by Sgt. Warren of the Army Intelligence Bureau. He was turned over the Department of Justice’s office, Philadelphia, and will be held for a presidential warrant. According to the federal authorities, he made seditious remarks against the government and also sneered at the Army and Navy. He denied that he made the remarks, declared he was patriotic and came to this country in 1912 to escape military service in Germany.
75 Years Ago – 1943: Plans for the opening of the new industrial highway, connecting Chester to Philadelphia, by Dec. 31 of this year, were revealed today by the state Highway Department The opening of the road to traffic to Chester’s industries will provide an improved artery of travel to approximately 12,000 automobiles which use the highway every day.
50 Years Ago – 1968: Two prisoners who escaped Saturday from the Broadmeadows Prison in Thornbury were being sought today by state and local police. The prisoners, who fled from a rear prison door about 1:30 p.m., were identified as a Estes, Colo., man and a Chester man from the 500 block of East Ninth Street. Saturday’s escape marked the fourth in the past month. “We’re terribly short of guards,” Warden John I. Gable said.
25 Years Ago – 1993: Bad news for cable TV subscribers and couch potatoes. Channels 3, 6, 10 and
17 will fade to black in six weeks unless the network affiliates and Suburban Cable TV agree on how much Suburban must pay for the rights to carry their signals – the same signals your neighbor without cable receives for free. Congress voted last fall to allow the networks and local stations to demand money from the cable companies that carry their shows. And many cable companies do not want to pay for something they have received for free since 1975.
10 Years Ago – 2008: A routine traffic stop in Upper Chichester led to the arrest of a convicted felon, who was allegedly driving drunk with a fully loaded Uzi by his side. The 42-year-old also had several bags of suspected marijuana and eight small bags of suspected cocaine in his possession when he was arrested in his driveway early Saturday morning, according to the affidavit of probable cause written by officers Hurley L. Smoak and Jason D. Mark.