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100 Years Ago – 1922:

Attorney General George E. Alter carried the city of Chester for governor over Gifford Pinchot by 4,158 votes. Out in the county Pinchot is leading Alter by a two-one vote.

75 Years Ago – 1947: One hour before a strike vote was scheduled, the CIO Steelworkers and General Steel Castings Corp. came to terms on a new labor contract involving 1,500 workers at the big Eddystone foundry. The new contract provides a wage increase of 12 ½ cents an hour, across the board, plus a paid insurance plan, equivalent to open and a quarter cents, and an improved vacation clause.

50 Years Ago – 1972:

There’s going to be fun Saturday in Chester, rain or shine. The Great Hoagie Hunt and VIP Newsboy Day will take place in the city, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Seven sandwich shops, selected by votes of hoagie lovers and submitted to the Daily Times, will vie to make the best hoagie for a panel of judges. Special editions of the Daily Times, commemorating the historic Courthouse, will be sold by local celebrities. There will be music, Italian costumed members of St. Anthony’s Church and the Christopher Columbus Memorial Association under the direction of Mrs. Rose Toanone, and the hoagies.

25 Years Ago – 1997:

PTO representatives and parents at Thursday’s Haverford School Board meeting voiced concerns about a plan to move music classes at Chatham Park Elementary School from a seminar room to make space for a larger infirmary. Options discussed at Tuesday’s work session include the purchase of a trailer for music classes or music teacher Ken Peters using carts to take his popular program to the pupils. Peters teaches 39 music classes per week. On Thursday, Chatham Park PTO President Melinda Smith said 260 parents have signed a petition calling for the use of a portable

classroom.

10 Years Ago – 2012:

Chester Mayor John Linder has not pulled the plug on proposed amusement and parking taxes that have Philadelphia Union and Harrah’s executives seeing red but another prominent Democrat doubts the ordinances will come to a vote as currently constructed. “I would be very surprised,” state Rep. Thaddeus Kirkland, D-159 of Chester, said Wednesday. “What’s out there now is a draft -- a piece to work from. It has generated some conversation but nobody has come out and said ‘This is what it’s going to be.’”