Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1919: According to a statement given out by James Foust, director of the Pennsylvania Food Bureau, the people of Delaware, Chester and a few other counties in the eastern section of the state are being sold watered-down butter and milk. Foust has instructed his agents to make arrests wherever they find that pure milk and butter are not being sold. Foust said the butter and milk are being watered to the extent of from 20 to 42 percent.
75 Years Ago – 1944: Four loudspeakers from the second-floor window of the Chester Times building blared forth election returns to hundreds of persons in the downtown area Tuesday evening. There was a crowd on hand at 8:30. Bill Burk, Chester Times sportswriter; Bert Goodman, local radio technician, and Chauncey L. Eanes, general manager of the Chester Times, handled the broadcasts of Chester and Delaware County returns, interspersed with national radio broadcasts.
50 Years Ago – 1969: From the Associated Press Washington Bureau: Government inspectors are making an intensive check of turkeys bound for the Thanksgiving market after finding traces of a powerful pesticide in tens of thousands of the birds. Agriculture Department officials say they are confident no turkeys reached the retail markets.
25 Years Ago – 1994: An angry Delaware County Council yesterday denounced a state Supreme Court decision to require county Offices of Judicial Support statewide to furnish copies of judges’ orders to all parties involved. “This could cost close to one-quarter million (dollars),” Councilman Wallace Nunn said. According to OJS Director Joseph Dorsey, under one of the state’s latest unfunded mandates, copies of all orders signed by a judge, both criminal and civil, must be sent to the lawyers and all parties involved. “And there has been an instance where there were 16parties in a case and all had to be notified,” he said.
10 Years Ago – 2009: State police are looking for a man and a woman who stole approximately $13,000worth of jewelry Saturday from a house in the 300 block of Lenni Road in Chester Heights, whose owner who was preoccupied with a yard sale. Police say the woman received permission to use the bathroom from the homeowner’s daughter and then went up to the master bedroom and removed the jewelry.