Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1921:
The Times goes to its readers today in 32-page form. The increase in the size of the paper was occasioned by reason of the large amount of advertising in connection with the Automobile Show which opens in the local Armory today. The first section of 16 pages is devoted to the regular news, and the second 16 almost exclusively to advertisements and news of the Automobile show.
75 Years Ago – 1946:
A homicide charge was lodged today against a 29-year-old Philadelphia Electric Co. worker following the death of the foreman he was accused of beating at the Highland Avenue coke ovens last Tuesday afternoon. The victim succumbed in Chester Hospital at 12:15 this morning to a fractured skull after having failed to regain consciousness. The defendant, who admitted to police that he struck the victim with his fist and knocked him down, was held without bail for the Grand Jury.
50 Years Ago – 1971:
Dr. Leon Sullivan, founderdirector of the Opportunities Industrialization Center, told an audience of 450 persons at the First Baptist Church in Chester Sunday night that “there is going to be an OIC in
Chester” and asked the people to support it when it comes. Sullivan praised Thomas B. McCabe, Scott Paper Co. board chairman, as the man who “more than any other person in America” has “inspired captains of industry to get involved and work to make us all Americans.”
25 Years Ago – 1996:
The Marple Newtown School Board unanimously approved a $14,900 purchase of 200 band uniform jackets for the Paxon Hollow Middle School band, with delivery expected in the fall. “This will replace the band’s tie-dyed T-shirts,” said Assistant Superintendent Dr. Thomas Kerr, who showed off the new look. The white jacket features a black banded collar and an orange and black chest stripe, accented with a tiger pawprint. It will be worn with black trousers.
10 Years Ago – 2011: The fight has officially begun. Tinicum Township, along with a grassroots opposition group, has formally filed petitions against the Federal Aviation Administration’s support for the controversial Philadelphia International Airport expansion plan. The $5.2 billion expansion plan calls for the demolition of
72 homes and 80 businesses in the township.