Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918:
Not one accident in the score of cases treated at Chester Hospital from 8 o’clock Tuesday (July 2) night until 8 o’clock this morning was due to fireworks burns or other Fourth of July contrivances so common in other years. It is the first time in the hospital’s history that not a single case could be traced to fireworks.
75 Years Ago – 1943:
Claiming irregularities, lack of facilities for some of their members to vote; citing the destruction of 200 challenged ballots; insisting that the National Labor Relations Board did not send sufficient trained help to conduct the election; and making other serious charges, the Sun Shipyard Employees Association has filed 30 separate complaints with the NLRB of Philadelphia as an aftermath of the election held at the shipyard last week to determine which union would represent its workers, the independent SSEA or an CIO-affiliated shipbuilders’ union.
50 Years Ago – 1968:
State police were confronted today with a “blue tattoo” murder mystery. The body of an unidentified young white man, who apparently had been clubbed to death, was found face down in the woods off of Bethel Road and Featherbed Lane in Concord. State police at the Elwyn Barracks in Middletown said only a pocket comb and two dimes were found in his trousers. The body had blue tattoos on his arms and wrists. He was discovered about 4:15 p.m. yesterday by a horseback rider.
25 Years Ago – 1993:
About 60 Lansdowne residents gathered in a borough home to discuss ways to convince the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to rebuild homes being demolished in a Superfund cleanup of radioactive contamination. A recent EPA report on options for 19 contaminated sites recommend that 14 of the properties be dismantled, contamination removed and residents permanently relocated. “We don’t Lansdowne to become another Centralia,” said host Mark DuFrayne of Plumstead Avenue.
10 Years Ago – 2008:
From the AP wire: After battling rowdy renters and outof-control keggers for decades, the Jersey shore party town of Belmar has finally decided to lighten up a little. Belmar, with its reputation as a raucous party enclave, has scraped laws against giving the finger and requiring beer kegs to be registered. The town’s mayor said the rules were difficult to enforce.