Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1920:
Defying the police, and declaring he “elected the man who made the city laws,” George Stewart, Ninth ward politician, charged with violating the parking rules on Market Street, Chester, was surprised this morning when Chief Deavenport accepted his challenge to the department and had him removed from his home on Central Avenue in the city patrolman station for hearing before Magistrate Elliott. Stewart told June, a mounted traffic officer, that he would “get him fired by higherups if arrested.” He also have the officer a severe tongue-lashing in front of the Chester National Bank when reminded of his infraction of the law and informed him that he had “better wise up.”
75 Years Ago – 1945:
Delaware County Friday afternoon became the guinea pig test in a new development in the use of DDT for mosquito extermination. The stuff was blanketed over a wide area in Norwood and Sharon
Hill by a fogging machine to the consternation of some timid residents and exuberant delight of scores of kids.
50 Years Ago – 1970:
An increased tuition fee for Roman Catholic high school students apparently will not dissuade parents from sending their children to the county’s six high schools, at least not this year. Typical of the reactions of several parents interviewed came from Samuel Zampino, of Haverford, whose son Thomas will enter the ninth grade at Cardinal O’Hara High School, Maple, on Wednesday. “I don’t like the (85 percent) increase but I will pay it because Tom really wants to go to O’Hara,” he said.
25 Years Ago – 1995:
Chester Upland School District students who were waiting for a big yellow bus to take them to school yesterday discovered they were in for a long wait - four days to be exact. Despite chronically high student absentee rates, the district had no plans to provide bus service for its students until Monday.
10 Years Ago – 2010:
While slot revenue continues to spike across the state, Harrah’s Chester Casino and Racetrack isn’t seeing likewise increases. For the sixth time in seven months, Harrah’s gross revenue decreased in comparison to the corresponding time period from a year prior. Four of the eight casinos that fully operated slots during August 2009 also registered decreases in slot revenue. Statewide slot revenue rose by 5.19 percent.