Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1920: With Sergeant Stevenson Post taking final action tonight at the Alpha Boat Club, Chester’s American Day celebration on May 1 gives promises of being the most spectacular demonstration of patriotic loyalty ever attempted in Chester. An example of the enthusiasm was displayed in a letter of acceptance yesterday from Wilde Post, Grand Army of the Republic. Although fast dwindling in membership, this organization will be conspicuously in evidence with their few remaining occupying a position of honor in the parade.
75 Years Ago – 1945: Contracts for 13 Sun Ship tankers – T-2type tankers at $3 million apiece – have been canceled by the U.S. Maritime Commission. The cutback leaves the yard with 37 Maritime vessels still to complete, plus 10 large ships for the Netherlands government. No immediate layoffs are expected.
50 Years Ago – 1970: Earth Day dawned cool, clear and relatively smogfree today, as if to remind the nation of the natural pleasures it is destroying. College teach-ins, antipollution marches, school assemblies, litter pickups and car burials were planned in Delaware County to dramatize the deterioration of the environment. About
500 girls at Notre Dame High School in Upper Providence, marked today by coming to school on foot, on skates and on bicycles – thus avoiding use of cars and buses.
25 Years Ago – 1995: Colwyn residents voiced concerns at Monday night’s borough council meeting about increasing juvenile vandalism, police protection, all-terrain vehicles and a community pavilion. One woman said her
5-year-old was hit in the back of the head by kids throwing rocks a week and a half ago. Other residents talked of vandalism on school property and gangs of kids hanging out on the streets. 10 Years Ago – 2010:
It was the lull before the storm Wednesday morning and early afternoon at area service stations and beer distributors selling Powerball tickets as people beat the crowds expected later on with hopes of winning the $252 million jackpot Wednesday night. At the Exxon service station at Five Points in Aston, manager Dao Allassane said he bought $10worth of tickets. “If I win, at least (will) put some money for people with disabilities,” he said. “I want to do something for those people and the drug addicts, try to cure them,” he said.