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100 Years Ago – 1920: Henry E. Jackson, of the United States Bureau of Education, delivered the baccalaureate address yesterday morning to the graduating class of Swarthmore College. Jackson urged the graduates to “enter into American life and religion as did William Penn. Politics and religion should never have torn asunder,” he said. “They were always one and the same. However, there should no connection between church and state. One idea that has done great damage to the human race is the false distinction between the secular and the sacred.”
75 Years Ago – 1945:
Revealing the secret of McClure control over the citizens of Chester and Delaware County, Judge E. Wallace Chadwick, in a radio broadcast Wednesday night, said that it is within the power of the women of the county to break the vicious McClure hold at the June 19Primary Election. Chadwick, a pioneer for woman suffrage in the day when women were not permitted to vote, urged every woman voter to go to the polls on June 19.
50 Years Ago – 1970: The major aspects of a fourmonth investigation into charges linking a number of Chester policemen to a series of crimes have been completed. Rocco P. Urella, chief of the Delaware County Criminal Investigation Division, said there are a “few remaining loose ends.” He said he and District Attorney Stephen J. McEwen Jr. will meet this week with Chester Mayor John H. Nacrelli and Police Chief Joseph M. Bail to review the evidence and “make a determination on what direction the probe should take from here on.”
25 Years Ago – 1995: Without a word of debate, the state Senate yesterday gave final legislative approval by a 42-8 vote to a
65 mph speed limit on rural stretches of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and 1,200 miles of interstate highways. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Clarence D. Bell,
R-9 of Upland, and already approved by the state House, now goes to Gov. Tom Ridge who is expected to sign it.
10 Years Ago – 2010: Traffic remained the only topic on the agenda as Concord supervisors continued the conditional use hearing regarding the possibility of a Costco behind Brinton Lake Corporate Center, Baltimore Pike.
The 148,000-square-foot warehouse, with a fourisland, 16-pump fueling station, is proposed for the former Westinghouse facility.