Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917:
“We are working strenuously to determine the reason for the Eddystone Ammunition Company explosion and will soon have a formal announcement to make to the public,” said Fire Marshal Port at the Washington House when interviewed relative to the work being accomplished in the investigation. Port’s deputies have continued the grueling examination of persons who are supposed to have made remarks about the Eddystone catastrophe.
75 Years Ago – 1942: “We are going to break up this prostitution racket and you and the others defying the authorities may just as well get that into your heads.” So said Chester Magistrate Lowry after hearing testimony in a case in which the principals were two women and one man. “We are ‘smacked’ by the newspapers when they say we don’t do anything about it and we’re ‘smacked’ again when we do something to better conditions. We are going to keep at it until we have wiped out all bawdy and disorderly houses.”
50 Years Ago – 1967:
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed a Marcus Hook taxpayers’ suit which sought to dissolve the Chichester School District. The taxpayers had challenge lie state’s school district reorganization law,
contending it was passed by malapportioned Legislature. The school district was formed last year by the merger of Upper Chichester, Lower Chichester, Trainer and Marcus Hook school districts.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
On the stump, Democrat John Innelli tells voters he can beat incumbent U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, R-7, this year by pointing out that in 1990 he “held Curt Weldon to the lowest vote total he received” since Weldon was elected in 1986. What Innelli doesn’t mention is that he received a lower number of votes than either of Weldon’s previous challengers. “I don’t think you should create the impression
that I had the worst run against him. That’s not true,” he said, pointing to the others’ lower percentage of the vote.
10 Years Ago – 2007: The developer who submitted plans to develop the Lagoon in Tinicum into a 248-townhouse community confirmed that he has withdrawn his plans because of the ambiguity surrounding the change in flight patterns but, he said, his firm is still considering the development potential of the site. In the meantime, the Lagoon is open and operating for business.