Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1920: It looked like old times in police court today, when a man from North Street, was arraigned before Magistrate Elliot on the charge of drunk and disorderly. According to Patrolman Feeney, the man was down and out when he was picked up at Fifth and Crosby streets. He was still groggy when he faced the magistrate, but refused to give an inkling of where the precious “knockouts” were obtained. He was fined $5and costs.
75Years Ago – 1945: The present Juvenile Home, at Third and Crosby streets, is a firetrap and any money spent on remodeling the structure would be “a gross waste of taxpayers’ money.” George M. Ewing, of Swarthmore, architect engaged by the county commissioners, reported to Richard Barringer, of the Philadelphia office of the War Production Board. Barringer wrote that at least $30,000would be required just to make the structure safe and “sanitary,” without enlarging its facilities.
50 Years Ago – 1970: Dr. Clarence R. Moll, president of PMC Colleges, said today the main reason he formed a special committee to decide whether to keep the colleges’ cadet corps was an economic one, not an anti-military one. Moll spoke Saturday at a PMC colloquium on the military profession, charging that military training instills “blind patriotism” in students. His words produced a storm of anger and shock among the school’s 350cadets.
25 Years Ago – 1995: Upland will not be merging with the Penn-Delco School District, Superintendent Dr. Timothy Kirby informed the board at last night’s study session. Kirby read aloud a letter he had received on Wednesday from the state’s acting secretary of education informing Delaware County Judge Joseph Labrum that the petition from “”Concerned Citizens for the Education of Upland’s Children’’ was denied. In the letter, the acting secretary of education said that there was “”nothing to indicate that the proposed transfer would have any significant benefit to the children directly involved in the transfer.”
10 Years Ago – 2010: One-time Philadelphia mob associate Fred Aldrich died Monday after slamming his car into a Subway sandwich shop on Chester Pike in Glenolden, authorities said. Aldrich, former bodyguard of one-time Philadelphia mob boss John Stanfa, was driving his 1990Lincoln Town Car in the parking lot of a strip mall in the 300block of Chester Pike around 12:27p.m. when the crash occurred. Aldrich was the driver of a car carrying Stanfa and his son, John, when there was an attempted hit on the mob boss’ life Aug. 31, 1993, on the Schuylkill Expressway.