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100 Years Ago — 1922: A group of boys and girls thirty and a half pounds heavier than they were last April, met for the last meeting of the nutrition class of the Horace Mann School on Wednesday. These thirty and a half pounds represent the net gain for this group of underweight children who have been meeting from week to week in an effort to gain the needed number of pounds to reach normal weight.
75 Years Ago — 1947: As a result of tests revealing that typhoid fever germs have caused pollution, the Chester city health authorities have banned swimming in the Chester river. Experiments were made after Melvin Woodland, 102 Birtwell St., was admitted to the Chester Hospital more than a week ago, suffering from the disease. The 15-year-old Chester High School student is receiving treatment in the isolation ward, and his condition is reported as “fair” by the hospital authorities. The health authorities have enforced “no swimming” regulations for the entire length of the river.
50 Years Ago — 1972: Delaware County Judge Louis A. Bloom dismissed legal arguments Wednesday against scheduled school reorganization. Judge Bloom’s action clears the way for the completion for several scheduled mergers under a 1968law by the June 30 deadline. Administrative Unit 4 will be formed by the merger of Darby-Colwyn Joint School District with the Yeadon and the Lansdowne-Aldan school districts. Unit 5 will be formed by the merger of Collingdale, Sharon Hill, Folcroft and Darby Township. Chester, Chester Township and Upland will merge to form Unit 12.
25 Years Ago — 1997: Two Delaware County women were honored Thursday for using their cell phones to save lives. Christine Hayes of Radnor and Gina Riniello of Marple received Good Samaritan awards at the Independent Seaport Musuem, in Philadelphia, from Comcast Metrophone. Hayes, the top winner, reported an elderly woman struck by an automobile on her cell phone and waited with the woman until an ambulance arrived. Riniello, a visiting nurse at Methodist Hospital in Philadelphia, called a patient when she did not answer her front door. The woman was able to answer the telephone and unlock the door, but then slipped into a diabetic coma, from which Riniello revived her.
10 Years Ago — 2012: Tinicum Commissioners have given the green light to Philadelphia International Airport’s plans to extend an existing taxiway and add a new high-speed exit to the facility. The $23million project, to be completed in two phases by the spring of 2014, will improve circulation of aircraft, airport project manager Matt Ponce said.