Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1919: Hundreds of carloads of dirt and cinders are being hauled through this city on both railroads to use in filling in many washouts along the Delaware Division of the railroads. Reports made by trainmen state that the heavy rainstorm of Wednesday night played havoc in that section and small bridges were washed away and traffic delayed.

75 Years Ago – 1944: Remember that little $5 sticker that Uncle Sam said you should buy some time ago and put on the windshield of your car? If you haven’t got one – better run to the nearest post office and cough up because government agents and city police are looking for just such absent-minded people. Several hundred motorists, many of them war workers, were caught without the stamps on Tuesday as officers lunched a rigid enforcement campaign in the Chester area.

50 Years Ago – 1969: A gaudily dressed man escaped into the crowded 69th Street Terminal Friday after taking $2,000 in a half-hearted robber at the Greater Delaware Valley Savings & Loan in Upper Darby. The thief, dressed in a gold shift and green pants, went up to teller Carol Ogden and produced a note that read “Please, put $3,000 in my bag. I have no weapon. I won’t harm you.” While stepping on the bank’s silent alarm, Miss Ogden asked the man why he didn’t try to get the money from a loan office. The balding robber replied he couldn’t because he needed the money to pay bills.

25 Years Ago – 1994: Scott Paper Co. lowered the boom on Chester’s largest employer yesterday, handing out more than 100 pink slips to workers at its papermaking plant. The layoffs are the second local employee cutbacks unveiled by Scott as part of its accelerated restructuring plan, announced earlier this month. Last week, the company rolled out 1,150 job cuts at its corporate headquarters in Tinicum. Scott plans to eliminate 10,500 jobs – about one-third of its total global work force – by the end of this year.

10 Years Ago – 2009: Marple Township Commissioners approved the use of $50,000 from the capital projects fund as the matching amount for the federal grant awarded to install a sidewalk on Paxon Hollow Road from Paxon Hollow Middle School to Jamestown Road. The cost of the project is estimated at $227,000 and the township figure will compliment the

$174,869 from the Transportation, Community and System Preservation Program.