Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918: The old Garrett paper mills, near 69th Street station, Upper Darby, among the oldest buildings in the county and operated by Lindsay Brothers, were seriously damaged by fire which broke out at 6:30 o’clock this morning, entailing a loss of about $35,000. Speculation as to the cause of the fire ascribes it to a defective electric wire. The interior was well-nigh “gutted.”
75 Years Ago – 1943:
The FBI today resumed its investigation of the $750 robbery at the Federal Public housing Project at Overlook Heights, MacDade Boulevard and Bullens Lane, last Friday. According to Mrs. Patricia Lyons, 33, of 101 E. 23rd St., Chester, cashier in the project, she was alone in the office when a bandit came and seized $750 she was counting. He stuck a gun in her back, she said, and ignored over $250 which was also lying on the desk.
50 Years Ago – 1968: The Chester School District asked the county court Friday to issue a preliminary injunction against five civil rights figures and virtually muzzle them. The court suit was aimed at five of the six persons who sat in overnight in the district’s administration office following Monday night’s school board meeting. Board Solicitor Guy G. deFuria said in the suit the defendants threatened to attend the next board meeting on June 10 and conduct a mass sit-in and he asked the court to block it. 25 Years Ago – 1993: Staying active and keeping fit is the key to aging well, says Rene Timmons. So is daily contact with young people. She ought to know. The 85-year-old Havertown resident has worked for the past 32 years as a secretary in Villanova University’s Health Care Center. And she’s not planning to retire any time soon. “I love what I’m doing, and I hope to keep on working until they tell me I have to leave,” said the mother of two, grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of 15 – with two more greatgrandchildren on the way.
10 Years Ago – 2008:
About 400 nurses and their supporters rallied Saturday outside of the CrozerChester Medical Center as the June 5 strike deadline looms and the sides have yet to reach a settlement. As thunder boomed and rain teemed down on the sea of umbrellas above the grassy knoll on Upland Avenue, Bill Cruice, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, rallied the hundreds.