Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918:
It was stated at the Sun Shipbuilding Co. that plans are in consideration and a contract pending to construct the largest marine boiler shop on the Atlantic coast in this company’s yard, in addition to the boiler shop already in operation there. The new shop will have an output of 250 boilers per year, from 1,000-1,500 horsepower, or 50 boilers more per year than the present large shop in the Atlantic coast, that of the Pusey & Jones Pennsylvania shipyard at Gloucester.
75 Years Ago – 1943:
The Sun Ship Employees Association will file an appeal from the decision declaring the CIO winner in last week’s election at the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. The Shipbuilders Union, CIO, was declared the winner of the election over the independent union by a margin of 24 in the closest labor election the National Labor Relations Board’s history. Over 25,000 of the company’s 35,000 workers voted.
50 Years Ago – 1968:
Chester High School will operate on double sessions for the next three years while a new high school is being constructed, Schools Superintendent John J. Vaul revealed. Schools directors declined to speculate on the price for the proposed site, the former Chester hospital property at Ninth and Barclay streets, but some estimates have placed the post of the property and the new building at $8 million.
25 Years Ago – 1993:
The man accused of killing Chester Police Officer Connie Hawkins and his girlfriend was returned to Pennsylvania from Delaware yesterday to face the murder charges. He was held without bail, then taken to a prison in Philadelphia instead of county prison, because “the police didn’t believe Broadmeadows would be the safest place for him,” according to District Justice Horace Davis of the Chester Regional Court. Davis would not elaborate. Hawkins worked a guard at the county prison for three years before joining the Chester force.
10 Years Ago – 2008:
A sweltering Upper Darby High School conference room filled with applause as Gov. Ed Rendell ceremoniously signed off on Pennsylvania’s new $9.7 billion education budget. The new budget increases publicschool funding by $274 million, or 5.5 percent, statewide. It also institutes the first new funding formula in decades, aimed to distribute funds according to need, taxes and size.