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100 Years Ago – 1919: Fifteen riveting gangs, or about 45 men, have been laid off at the Sun Shipyard. An official explained to a Times reporter that a recent launching was the cause. There are now but four boats on the ways there and the officials said there was not enough riveting going on now to keep so many men busy.

75 Years Ago – 1944: The century-old, grey-stone Delaware County prison at Media, located behind the courthouse at Second and Orange streets, will be closed down March 6, and the 67 prisoners now held there will be transferred to Broadmeadows Farm, it was announced today by Albert R. Granger, president of the Delaware County Prison Board. An annual saving to the taxpayers of $27,879 was promised as the result of the Media prison abandonment. In the old prison there are only 58 cells and the 400 cells at Broadmeadows, furnished with proper prison equipment, will afford better quarters, the board said. 50 Years Ago – 1969: The mass sick call by 55 clerical workers of the Delaware County Board of Assistance went into effect today as workers continued to press for 35 percent salary increases. Clerks presently receive $68 a week and clerk typists receive a gross pay of $71.50 a week. Operation of the office at

12th and Crosby streets, Chester, was expected to be hampered but not curtailed, according to Mrs. Betty Engh, executive director of the office.

25 Years Ago – 1994:

A Clifton Heights man pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Cape May County Friday to the aggravated assault of a Wildwood man last summer by setting him on fire. The 18-yearold borough man said he was very drunk and only wanted to play a joke on the 48-year-old dishwasher – asleep in front of his apartment – when he and a juvenile poured food items and turpentine on the man before attempting to give him a “hot foot,” adding he knew the turpentine was flammable.

10 Years Ago – 2009: The reputed leader of a lucrative bookmaking ring dubbed by authorities as “Delco Nostra” opted not to gamble on a trial and entered pleas Wednesday to a variety of charges ranging from corrupt organization to laundering money. The

49-year-old Wallingford man, charged with illegal gambling operations based out of Ridley Township, is to forfeit just less than

$100,000 in illegal loot confiscated by authorities and serve a 11 1⁄2 to

23-month sentence.