Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1922:
Belief that the “slack Bergdoll” would be apprehended and returned to the United States within a year was expressed by Rep. Lineberger, R-Calif., in urging the House at Washington, yesterday to increase the $3,000 the funds allowed by Congress for “bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime.” “One million doughboys are on Bergdoll’s trail,” said Lineberger, “and Secretary Hughes is active in seeking his apprehension.” The requested was voted down. A former Delaware County resident, the fugitive brewing heir is the nation’s most infamous war slacker.
75 Years Ago – 1947:
Delaware County residents were praised today for the co-operative and understanding attitude they have shown toward interruptions of telephone service due to the strike. Two county officials of the Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania said this morning that few complaints have been received despite the admitted difficulties of getting phone service on long distance calls. Meanwhile, more of the company’s 250 maintenance and installation workers were absent from work today, as their union, the Federation of Telephone Workers of Pennsylvania, scheduled an all-day meeting in
Philadelphia in a move to demonstrate support for the nation-wide strike.
50 Years Ago – 1972: The Boeing Co.’s Vertol Division, Ridley Township, has received a $4.89 million Army contract to develop an experimental engine for the rotor drive system of a heavy-life helicopter. No employment increase is expected.
25 Years Ago – 1997:
Tosco Corp. will receive more than $1 million in financial support from Pennsylvania for the creation of 360 jobs at the Trainer oil refinery it purchased from British Petroleum through two economic development programs created by Gov. Tom Ridge. Tosco will receive $720,000 in tax breaks through a job creation tax credit program and a $300,000 job-creation grant.
10 Years Ago – 2012:
Springfield planners recently recommended approval for Millers’ Ale House, a family and sportsoriented restaurant. The new entity will considerably alter the northwest corner of Baltimore Pike and Bishop Avenue with the consolidation of lots and demolition of the Knights of Columbus meeting hall and separate buildings that housed a credit union and auto tag business.