Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 9

I 2 Delaware County THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1971 SPORTS 20-24 CLASSIFIED COMICS 34,.35 1 'Dust thou art and to dust Henry Wadsicorth Longfellow Tropical storm uproots tree, uncovers 100-year-old grave Yeadon teachers fail to get YEADON, After nine months of negotiations with the Yeadon School the. negotiating committee of the Yeadon Teachers Association (YEA) resigned at a teachers meeting Wednesday The letter of resignation from the committee was addressed to YEA President Robert Leshinsky. "It "is indeed sad," Leshinsky said, '''that this committee chose to resign. It is a shame that it has come, to this. I knew that'you have all been under pressure'and we all appreciate your efforts." James McBride, chairman of the nine-member negotiating committee said in the of resignation, that "something had to be dqne.

We are not quitting. As a matter of fact, the experience of the last nine months has really increased our commitment to the task, of making the public school teacher better paid, better understood and more appreciated." 'All the members signed the After a c.c i the resignations, Leshinsky called for volunteers form a new negotiating committee to be announced within the-next few days. The; last YEA meeting with, the school negotiating team was Aug. 26. There was no change at that time.with the board's position no meeting, has been scheduled since 'Yeadon's 74 teachers are still working without a contract.

Presently the teachers are asking for a across- the-board raise, which includes the yearly increment provided by the state. The school board has offered According to the teachers, the majority of other districts are giving $800 to $850 a year increases. teachers feel the real point is not economics, but the fact the board wants to take away several personnel policies already included in the teachers last contract. One of the policies the boarc wants to change is the grievance procedure, so that only a few items would be subject to grievance. McBride said, "The teachers want to move the board wants to go Extensive flood damage City to repair pool soon The city hopes to have extensive flood damage to facilities at the Crozef Park municipal swimming repaired this fall to permit opening on schedule next summer.

Councilman Leo S. Holmes director of parks and public safety, said Wednesday he has already arranged to obtain repair estimates from a builder, plumber and electrician. Police chief's son has eye operation SPRINGFIELD The son of Chief of Police Lester Forrester was operated on in -Wills Eye Hospital, Philadlephia Wednesday night following accident when a hunting bow slipped and struck his eye. Chief Forrester said today that'his son Robert, 42, of 161 Rolling Road-was stringing hunting bow at 7 p.m. in preparatiqn for a hunting trip this when the bow flipped-back and hit him in the right He was taken to Delaware County Hospital, Upper Darby by township police a immediately removed to Wills Eye Hospital.

Chief Forrester said today his son, a township contractor, wa tested last night and the hospita authorities said there is a.good chance he be able to.see. 'His eyes are bandaged anc he is' "sandbagged" or bcinf held immobile for five days. Tit chief "said he has been hunting every year since he was-a youn boy and this is his first accident Car-cycle crash CHESTER r-; A city man was fair condition with severe ack injuries today after he was nvolved in a car-motorcycie at 9Ui and Fulton Sts. about 8:10 p.m. Wednesday.

Admitted to Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, was lay Keene, 36, of 1235 Potter of a motorcycle hat collided with an auto driven Maxine Johnson, 22, of 2205 V. 3rd St. Rampaging waters'of Chester Ireek last week ripped the roof ff the filter'house, tore a hole into the south wall of the bath house, and partially buckled the east wall. The flood also ripped down considerable fencing a deposited mud about the pool, and bath house. In addition, there is a "great possibility filtering equipment in the filter house is shot," Holmes said.

He said it wouldn't be known if the main pool was damaged until it is drained. The equipment was under water for more than 48 hours, he said. Holmes declined to give a dollar estimate of the damage to the pool. He said he believed federal disaster relief funds would pa all costs of pool repair. The pool, which was built at a cost of about $320,000, has been plagued with trouble, particularly tin's past summer.

A dispute between a private life guard firm and the city delayed the opening for about" 7 a week, and later in the summer a chlorine gas leak sickened about 60 persons. Holmes.said before the pool was built he was advised there was no need for any flood protection a the possibility of severe Chester Creek flooding was remote: The pool is only about 25 feet from Chester Creek. MARCUS HOOK A tree, partially uprooted i tropical storm Doria, has opened a hundred-year-old grave in St. Martin's Episcopal Chinch Cemetery. The vault contains the remains of A.C.

Morton, who is likely a descendant of John Morton, Delaware County's signer of the Declaration of Independence. The churchyard caretaker, Frank Manerchia, discovered the vault had been pried open by a tree which is leaning against the lid of the tomb. Manerchia said he looked into the tomb and discovered the coffin had deteriorated, exposing the skeleton. "THE OPENING was small and the vault is quite deep, using a flashlight I could see well enough to out the skeleton," he said. The inscription on the tombstone states Morton was born in 1844 and died in 1867.

The verse on the stone reflects his parent's grief at losing their only son at the age of "22 years, 10 months and 4 days." There are several other graves near his vault which also bear the name of Morton. Directly in front are the graves of Erasmus and Abigail Morton, and to the side, the grave of Alice Morton, the ''infant daughter of William and Mary." The date on Abigail's grave stone reads "Bora 1808-died 1866." The dates on the other Morton graves have eroded.and cannot be read. MRS. HELEN M. Greenhalgh, curator of the Delaware County Historical Society located in the Wolfgram Library PMC Colleges, researched records there and said Erasmus and Abigail were descendants of John They were residents of Upper Chichester.

She said many 5 Morton descendants lived; in that community. 'Greenhalgh found a record of an A.C. Morton, the son of Erasmus and Abigail but the dates did not coincide with the ones on the vault. She considers it most likely that A. C.

Morton is their relative. MANERCHIA lives, in a caretakers cottage in the historic churchyard. "I've even heard rumors that Blackbeard the Pirate Js buried here," he said. "Many of the gravestones have names which could be connected in -some way with historical figures." The church was founded in 1702 and is reported to be the second oldest Episcopal Church in the county. Walter Martin, the church's namesake, deeded two acres of land as a "gift to the inhabitants of the town and township of Chichester for a churchyard and free burying place." Martin was buried June 26, 1719 in the churchyard.

The first church opened in 1702 and was rebuilt in 1745 and 1845. The congregation now attends services in a new church at 700 Meetinghouse Road, Upper Chichester. The last burial at the cemetery was in 1968. CROZER PARK'S municipal swimming pool was damaged in'flood. TREE PARTIALLY uprooted in tropical storm Doria dislodged top' of this vault, exposing rerriains of man believed to be a descendant of John INSCRIPTION on stone in St.

Martin's Churchyard, Marcus Hook, is to "my only son" in memory of A. C. Morton, born Oct. 1, 1844 and died Aug. 5, 1867.

Apartment ok sought ASTON -The township com missioners Wednesday night heard a rezoning request for a portion of a seven-acre tract near Five Points on Concord Road, for a $600,000 apartment complex. The. request was made by Albert E. and Russell H. Richardson, who want the property from residential to business.

The plans were presented by Russell Richardson, who is also architect. He said they wantfis to build 60 to 70 apartment units five or six brick buildings with a commercial building at the entrance of the complex. Richardson said the 20, one- bedroom units and the 40, two bedroom apartments would rent for $175 and $2CO. .5 The only dissenters to the proposal were Mr. and Mrs! William Everman of Bridgewater Farms who said more building in the township would result in more schools.

Mall in Chester credited with stemming flood waters CHESTER The new C'West Pedestrian Mall, which was scheduled for dedication Sept. 14, made it--but the park is being credited for saving Medford Meats and other industries in the line of flood water from disaster. Bernard Ryan, president of Medford's at 18 W. 2nd St. which adjacent to the mall site at 3rd St.

and Edgmont said water damage to the plant "was infinitesimal." "The park and 'bulkhead i stopped a water from coming into our plant which could have caused us consicfer- able I believe of other industries were saved from the waters, such as Scott, but I can't speak he said. The $393,000 park was not so lucky itself. John Fitzgerald, director of tile Chester Redevelopment Authority'(CRA), said it's still early, to determine the extent of the park's wounds. "Some of the hexagonal blocks were torn up. There are holes where 1 shrubs were picked up and swept away.

When I was there, last Tuesday I thought it was extensive damage. But considering how hard the area was hit, I guess we were blessed." He said the bulkhead itself damaged. But "about 20 feet of the drywall was washed out and the embankment eroded. We' haven't even looked at the fountain. don't know what damage is there." The night of Sept.

13 all that could be seen of'the pedestrtan mall were the tops of the polycarbonate light overlooking pool of muddy water. The dedication ceremonies have been postponed indefinitely. Fitzgerald estimated about eight feet of water had surged through the area. 'We designed the park to withstand, a flood which would nave occurred once every, 50 years on the lower level. And once every 100 years at the top.

The flood waters surpassed that," said. have, asked the contractor, to come back and give us a detailed report and estimates of the damage. I- couldn't begin to calculate it. We've been busv with other flood problems and haven't had time to do. detailed report on the park yet," he.