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100 Years Ago – 1920: Chester Day on Thursday will be a bid day at the International Rotary Clubs convention in Atlantic City. Extensive plans have been made for the trip and the local Rotarians are going to the famous seashore resort with all sorts of advertising features to place Chester on the map. One of the novel stunts will be the launching of a “Chestermade” vessel at Steel Pier, designed and built by the Rotarian Edward Nothnagle, which will be shipped in a big truck to the seashore sometime today.

75 Years Ago – 1945: A Rutledge solider who shot down a Japanese plane from the ground during the operations on Leyte last fall has been awarded the bronze star for heroic achievement. He is Pfc. Harold Massey, of 856 Agnes Ave., Rutledge, a former Chester Times Diamond Belt tourney boxer. Massey, a member of an airborne aviation battalion, voluntarily manned a machine gun at Carigara, Leyte, last Nov. 23when enemy planes attempted to strafe a strategically important pontoon bridge. 50 Years Ago – 1970: William H. Polk Jr., principal of Showalter Junior High School, was appointed the first black principal of Chester High School Monday night by the Chester School Board. Regina M.G.

Hynes, former Chester High School, was appointed to the newly –created post of director of curriculum and personnel.

25 Years Ago – 1995: A Chester native is the new superintendent for the Brandywine School District in Wilmington, Del. Joseph P. DeJohn, Ed.D., a 1967 graduate of St. James High School, is currently principal of P.S. DuPont Elementary School in Wilmington. From 1974to 1976, DeJohn taught business math at Chester High School, and from 1972 to 1973 taught social studies and math at Pulaski Junior High School. He also is lieutenant colonel in the Delaware National Guard.

10 Years Ago – 2010: Three days into the state of emergency, Chester police said there have been no reports of shootings, but there is no stoppage of other crime. Police

Capt. Stephen Fox said while he wouldn’t call the city “calm,” he said it was certainly much more quiet in terms of the number of shooting incidents. “We’re back to the normal type of calls,” Fox said. Among those he cited without being specific were criminal mischief and domestics. The five-day lockdown could continue another

30days if council extends the order at this morning’s meeting.