Rose Tree Teachers Gain $500 Salary Increase for 1969-70
The Rose Tree Media School Board approved a $500 raise for all teachers to be effective in the 1969-70 school year. Increases vary by experience from $500 to $700, with starting salaries rising to 6500 for bachelor’s degree holders and up to 14000 for master’s degree plus 30 units. fringe benefits include substantial Blue Cross coverage and life insurance. The board also approved resignations and a new contract for the Media Recreation Program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Tree Media School Board
John Snyder
Pennsylvania School Boards Association
Blue Cross
Blue Sfield
Robert C. Strunk
Rose Tree Media Education Association
World Culties
Barton David
Leach
Hawaii
George L. King
Media
King
Media Boys Club
John ©. Hines
Mary Magdalene
Upper Providence
Hines
George Thompson
Girl Surrenders On Drug Charge in Lancaster
Mary Ryan a 20 year old Prospect Park resident surrendered to state police in Lancaster on drug charges from a May 4 marijuana raid. She was charged with a Drug Device and Cosmetic Act violation at a preliminary arraignment and released on $1,000 bond pending a hearing. Police also seek two men in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Prospect Park
Mary Ryan
Black Chester Pike
Prospect 1 Park
Frank A. Danna
Miss Ryan
Hearings Postponed On Philadelphia Water Rate Rise
The Philadelphia Suburban Water Co faced a postponement of rate increase hearings for at least a month after the Public Utility Commission approved a 15 percent hike and removal of a 5 percent prompt payment discount affecting 780,000 customers in Bucks, Delaware, Chester, and Montgomery counties. PUC examiner Nicholas Dobosh ordered the delay as opponents sought time to review 10 volumes of financial and trend data submitted by the company for cross examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
UPI
Philadelphia Suburban Water Co
Public Utility Commission
PUC
Bucks
Delaware
Chester
Montgomery
Nicholas
Dobosh
Piano Presented to YMCA Honors Late Frank E. Ritter
Chester YMCA received a $2,000 piano from the Rotary Club in memory of Frank E. Ritter 52 a civic leader and former United Steelworkers Union head. His widow Mrs Sally Ritter and son Frank Ritter Jr along with YMCA directors attended the presentation at the Central YMCA. Ritter died of a heart attack while hosting a square dance for the Y Knots Club last September and had helped raise funds for the United Community Fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Ymca
Frank Ritter
Frank Ritter, Jr
Sally Ritter
Malcolm B. Petrikin
A. H. Bleier
Chester Rotary Club
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
Ridley Township
YMCA
A. H. Bleter
United Community Fund
Chester Rotary
Chester and Vicinity
Malcolm B
Petrikin
The
Y Ritter
Wre Pena
Ritter
Katherine Roach
Schubert
Weimar
Central’ Ymca
Sewer Inlet Plans Ordered for Upland Borough
Upland council approved plans to prepare bid specifications for new storm sewer inlets along West Chelton Road to Church Street. Borough engineer Charles Catania was authorized to draft the inlet specifications above 2th Street for the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Catania
Youth Killed In Gang Fight In Philadelphia
Philadelphia police report the 20th teenage gang killing of the year as Garfield Jackson, 19, died after a Tuesday night shootout between the 12th and Oxford Street gang and the Marshall and Master gang. Three others were wounded and listed in fair condition at St Luke's hospital. The Oxford group had received a $13,000 federal grant last June to form a film company after producing The Jungle about teen gang life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Garfield Jackson
12Th
Oxford Street
Marshall and Master
Oxford Gang
St. Luke's Hospital
Crozer Graduates Urged To Convey Convincing Faith Message
Crozer Theological Seminary honors its 101st commencement with thirteen candidates receiving Master of Divinity degrees. Dr James Hester of New York University urges ministers to demonstrate faith through character, courage, and social justice amid modern uncertainty and changing orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upland
James
Martin Luther King Jr
McNaughton Hester
School of Social Change
New York University
Crozers
Theological Seminary
Socil
Hester
Chester
Crozer
James Montgomery
Navy
Hall Whabanan
Kremlin Parley Opens Amid International Communist Debates
Moscow hosts delegates from 49 foreign countries for a Soviet led conference amid petitions by Russian intellectuals urging an end to Stalin era tactics. The event draws signatories including historian Yakir and relatives of detainees as major parties boycott and focus shifts to anti imperialist rhetoric.
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Moscow
Dela Gates
Kremlin
Stalin
International Communist Movement
Red Army
Pyotr Grigoryenko
Ivan Yakhimovich
Czechoslovakia
Moscow Radio
Hungary
Janoskadar
Bulgaria
Todor Zhivkov
East Germany
Walter Ulbricht
Poland
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Mongolia
Umzhagin Tsedenbal
Prague
Gustav Husak
Lubomir Strougal
Strougal
Central Committee
CTK
Hall
Communist Party
New York
Gus Hall
U.S
Henry Winston
James Jackson
Chinese Communist Party
Albania
North Vietnam
North Korea
Yugoslavia
Cuba
Man Held on Gun Charge Ties to Slaying
Chester police say 20 year old William McCutchen is jailed on a $500 bond awaiting a June 12 hearing before Magistrate Ernest L. Burk on concealed deadly weapon charges. He is held as material witness in the slaying of 21 year old Renny Stoner in McCutchen’s garage. Police report two unidentified Black men about 20 years old killed Stoner in his garage on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Ernest L. Burk
William McCutchen
Renny Stoner
W. 5Th St
McCutchen
Sewer Billing Planned for 100 Spring and Winter Street Residents
The Delaware County township supervisors approve a benefit method sewer bill for about 100 residents on Spring and Winter Streets and nearby roads. Bills will be sent within 10 days, with objections heard by the jury of view. Plans also clear for 20 new one acre lots north of Rose Tree Road and Sandy Bank Road, built by Frank R. Tacobucci.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper
Providence
Overhill
State
Bobbin Mill
Overhill Circle
John P. Trevaskis
Trevaskis
Delaware County
Rose Tree Road
Sandy Bank Road
Media Bypass
Frank R. Tacobucci
Rose Tree Estates
Media
Baltimore Pike
Randall Craig
Joseph R. Grubb
Donald N. Kerr
Media-Upper Providence
Airbags Urged as Standard Safety in New Cars
Transportation Secretary Velpe urges airbags in all new cars and warns the Nixon administration may force adoption if manufacturers do not voluntary comply. He notes airbags inflate in a crash from the steering wheel hub or dashboard, initially costing about 42 dollars each with potential mass production cutting costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Transportation
John A. Velpe
Velpe
Automotive Safety Foundation
Volpe
Plan Oe d by Edgmont Supervisors Adopts Zoning Revisions
Edgmont supervisors approve the comprehensive plan reducing minimum residential acreage from four to unknown value and allow for multi family housing in residential zones. They accept planning commission member Carl Ratliff Jr. resignation, appoint Thomas Albertson, reappoint Walter Hoffman as chairman, and accept roadmaster Patrick Morris's resignation with interim duties by I Lester Piersal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Township Planning Commission
Carl M. Ratliff Jr
Planning Commission
Ratliff
Thomas Albertson
Ratliffs
Walter C. Hoffman
Patrick H. Morris
I. Lester Piersal
Delaware County Camp Upland Lands Grant For Recreation Site
The Department of Community Affairs announced a 181217 grant as half of the 362435 land purchase price for Camp Upland in Delaware County. The 61 acre site, formerly Salvation Army property, was bought last March and will be developed for county wide recreation with HUD funds already used for the purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Upland
Department of Community Affairs
Harrisburg
Salvation Army
Delaware County
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
W. James Graef
Delaware County Planning Commission
Upland Center Inc
Group Forms to Oppose Busway Plan in Darby Township
Township commissioners on Tuesday created a committee to oppose Red Arrow Bus Co applications to the PUC to convert rights of way from 63rd Street to Media and Sharon Hill for busways. Hearing set for June 9. Members: George E. Hill Frank K. Remy Joseph L. Salbucci Jr. Huey Park concerns raised. Study placing four way stop signs at Greenwood and Crosley Aves playgrounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wpper Darby
State Public Utilities Commission
PUC
Red Arrow Bus Co
63Th Street Terminal
Media
Sharon Hill
George E. Hill
11Th Ward
Frank K. Remy
Iath Ward
Joseph L. Salbucci Jr
14Th Ward
Huey Park
Greenwood and
Crosley Aves
Weather wrap reports variable temperatures and tides
A compact weather summary notes today highs around mid 70s, nightly lows near the 50s, and a week ahead with temperatures expected to stay near normal or above. Sunrise is 5 30 a m and sunset around 7 00 p m with tides noted at Chester’s pier mid 70s and overnight lows in the 50s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesters
Tidewater Terminal Pier
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F. E. Ritter
Okatny Usiule
Staale
Edgmont
Hue
Nevada
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