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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1981
Page
4
District doors will display updated student class lists and bus assignments on September 4. Officials request residents review the postings for transportation details and class enrollments affecting their children.
District Attorney Frank Hazel will meet aides to discuss possible charges over the June shipyard disaster at Sun Ship Inc. in Chester. Investigators say someone intentionally triggered a fire extinguisher system releasing carbon dioxide foam, killing four workers aboard the drydocked S.S. Lash Atlantico, with a suspect reportedly at the scene and refusing a lie detector test.
The Eastern Pennsylvania Burglar and Fire Alarm Association and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Police Chiefs Association will sponsor an educational security industry seminar on October 28 at the Holiday Inn on City Line Avenue and Monument Road. Exhibits will demonstrate security products and the event is open to all law enforcement and security officers. The burglar and fire alarm group, founded two years ago, now has 70 member companies.
Bryn Mawr College and The Greater Philadelphia Branch of the Orton Society sponsor a two day event on October 23 and 24 at Friends Central School and Bryn Mawr College. Physicians psychologists teachers parents and educators lead lessons on reading writing and mathematics difficulties in children and adults.
Interested individuals are invited to join a 12 week behavior modification program at Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia. Sessions run Wednesdays from 7 to 9:30 p.m. and cover behavior change and new eating habits. For information call 645-2207.
Mary White, protective services specialist for Delaware County COSA, attended the two week Ethel Percy Andrus Summer Institute in Gerontology at UCLA this summer. She received a partial scholarship to the center and has served in COSA's protective services office for five years.
Registration opens at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Sun Valley High School office. Parents must accompany the student for a guidance counselor conference to build a schedule. Bring transfer card report card birth certificate and proof of residency for enrollment.
Hav erford township commissioners meet at 8 tonight in the township building on Darby Road to consider the proposed sale of a 4.4 acre parcel of township property.
Millbourne, the county’s smallest borough with 652 residents, had a higher crime rate per 100000 than Chester in 1980, driven by 22,699 crimes per 100k vs 11,121 for Chester. Darby Township posted the lowest rate, Parkside had the fewest actual crimes, and larceny led all offenses with 11,752 countywide.
A list of communities and their crime counts for an expanded population of 101000 based on the 1980 State Police Uniform Crime Report. Mellbourne 148 crimes. Chester 5083. Media 480. Tenicum 266. Springfield 1530. Chester Twp 295. Marple 663. Glenolden 346. Folcroft 394. Colwyn 132. Trainer 42. Sw Re 112. Lower Chi 53.
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