OTHER TIMES
100 Years Ago – 1916: An agitation has been started for the purpose of having a bridge erected crossing Chester river at Eighth and Penn streets. This city highway is well-paved and many strangers in the city make the mistake of running down to the end of the street before noticing that it is a dead end and then it is necessary to go back and made a detour by way of Seventh or Ninth.
75 Years Ago – 1941: What goes on among the English during these days and nights of indiscriminate bombing? This question is in everyone’s mind. Examining news clippings sent to Ivor Jones, personnel manager of the General
Steel Castings Corporation in Eddystone, by his uncle, Evan Evans, a disabled World War veteran Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, shows that the British are not totally war conscious.
50 Years Ago – 1966: A learning improvement center for children of low-income families in Ridley Township, Ridley Park and Eddystone will be established this summer by the new Ridley School District. John W. O’Brien, Ridley Township Asst. School Supt. told the Ridley School District Interim School Board that the federal government will contribute $119,169 annually for the establishment and continuation of the center
25 Years Ago – 1991: Japan wants to buy several V-22Ospreys as soon as the aircraft are ready for sale, according to a memo received by Boeing Helicopters in Ridley Township. The memo, sent by C. Itoh, Inc., a consultant for the Japanese government, said Japan would like to buy two Ospreys in fiscal 1994and two more in fiscal 1995. “This is just super,” a Boeing spokesman said, “We do hope that the U.S. government takes note,” in reference to the Bush administration’s intention to kill the beleaguered program.
10 Years Ago – 2006: After surviving the grueling campaign trail known as the “Tom Judge Marathon” and walloping his opponents in the November county council election, John J. Whelan put his left hand on the Bible Tuesday and was sworn in to office. Whelan replaces Timothy Murtaugh and maintains the “unbroken stream” -- as Common Pleas Court Judge Joseph P. Cronin Jr. put it -- of Ridley Township politicians to serve on the five-member council, including Murtaugh, Paul Mattus and Nicholas Catania. “I can assure this body that Jack Whelan is a good man,” said Cronin, who administered the oath of office. “He’s a man of integrity.”