Days Gone By
100 YEARS AGO, 1923 » Dr. L.P. Wyman, dean of the instructors at the Pennsylvania Military College, told the Chester Kiwanis Club at its weekly meeting yesterday that military colleges and schools are not simply to train men to become soldiers. “Experience has taught us that the man who receives his education at a military school is better fitted to take up any profession or business he may choose after leaving college, and that as a rule these institutions turn out men worthwhile and always able to take care of themselves,” Wyman said.
75 YEARS AGO, 1948 » Flames shot 40 feet into the air as a lightningstarted fire burned at No. 2 tank farm of the Sun Soil Company, Twin Oaks, Sunday night. The lightning struck shortly before 8 p.m. and started the fire in an oil separator tank at the farm. The tank, about 40 feet in size, was underground with an open top located at ground level. The intense heat melted down a surrounding guard rail before plant and outside firemen could extinguish the fire with foamite and CO-2. The new CO-2 truck of the Sun Oil Company was brought into action and finally extinguished the flames.
50 YEARS AGO, 1973 » From the AP, Washington — Some call it Washington’s newest Social Register, but the White House didn’t intend it that way. Nearly 200 names of the rich, the famous and the not-so-famous who didn’t get along with the Nixon administration are inscribed on a socalled “Enemies List,” John W. Dean 3rd says the list came from White House files entitled Opponents List and Political Enemies Project.
25 YEARS AGO, 1998 » Blasting at the Morton Avenue construction site of a planned Acme supermarket is expected to begin tomorrow. Ridley
Township Commissioner David White, chairman of the building committee, said the blasting will probably take place mid-morning to remove rock for storm water management, a retention pond and parking area at the site.
10 YEARS AGO, 2013 » The annual Military All-Star Baseball Game this evening at Glen Mills Schools will open will ecognize Ernest Mariani, a veteran of World War II and 52-year resident of Swarthmore. Mariani, 90, tried four times to join the military to help America’s war efforts during World War II. His job at the Philadelphia Navy Shipyard was considered too important for him to go. But eventually he was drafted and served in one of the most famous conflicts in military history, The Battle of the Bulge. He went on to earn a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts for his service.