Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1920:
Driving a blazing automobile over a country road at a fast rate of speed was the experience of Elmer Anderson, an employee of a local steel company, who was forced to abandon the burning car at Baldwin’s Run. The incident took place while Anderson was en route home. According to the story, Anderson thought he smelled smoke as he was driving by the Chester Fair Grounds, but did not make an investigation. As he traveled he realized the car was getting warmer. Intent on reaching Village Green, where he hoped to refill the radiator, Anderson urged the machine on and when reaching Baldwin’s Run there was a slight explosion. He leaped from the car, but not before his clothing was scorched.
75 Years Ago – 1945:
Chester City Council today proposed to help relieve the perennial downtown traffic headache by opening a municipal parking lot between Sixth and Seventh streets just across Chester River. Given approval on first reading, the ordinance provides for purchase of tract of land about 3 acres in size for $30,000 cash.
50 Years Ago – 1970:
The Springfield High School band, winners of an unprecedented two first places in the World Music Festival in Kerkade,
Holland, will return home Sunday night. More than a thousand persons are expected to turn out at the high school football field to welcome the band about 10 p.m.
25 Years Ago – 1995:
A recent change in state law shifts the responsibility for educating students being held in the county’s Juvenile Detention Center from the Intermediate
Unit to Rose Tree Media School District. At a recent IU board meeting, John Stubbs, Rose Tree Media representative to the board, didn’t appear to welcome the news. Also included in new law was elimination of the designation of all detention center youths as special education students.
10 Years Ago – 2010:
Cheyney University’s sibling coaching duo, Marilyn and Dominique Stephens, are featured in a new book entitled, “Under Your Nose: Great Philadelphia Sports Stories You’ve Never Heard.” The Stephens’ made headlines in 2009 when they became the NCAA’s first brother/sister collegiate coaches of the same university, with Dominique appointed as men’s basketball head coach that year and Marilyn, a former Temple University Hall of Famer, joining Cheney as the head women’s coach.