Excerpts and summaries of news tales from the former Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era and Sunday Information that concentration on the occasions in the county’s earlier that are noteworthy, newsworthy or just bizarre.
In late 1995 and early 1996, the School District of Lancaster was busy updating its strategic prepare – a checklist of lengthy-expression targets that should be submitted to the point out every five several years.
Element of the process associated getting general public input, and in February 1996, district officers ended up modifying the prepare to get into account the a single issue that every person seemed to want much more of: computer systems.
At the February 1996 faculty board assembly, a list of guardian, staff and group worries was presented to the board, and the most repeated issue was the need to have to get college students as considerably time and encounter as achievable with desktops. Directors dedicated to making certain that every single college student would be laptop literate when they graduated from large school.
In the headlines:
Buchanan wins, GOP seeks a frontrunner
Okla. bombing trial moved
Brazilian girl statements she’s 124
Check out out the Feb. 21, 1996, Lancaster New Period right here.
Ice chunks breaking off from a big floe float down the Susquehanna River south of Harrisburg in this photograph from February 1971.
Ice floes on the Susquehanna River had been induce for issue in 1971, as a enormous floe in close proximity to Harrisburg was in risk of primary to ice jams and flooding downriver.
Owners of summertime cottages were on warn to protected their homes versus flooding and resident of riverfront communities were told to prepare for attainable evacuation.
However, as of Feb. 21, the floe was breaking up slowly and in small adequate parts that the ice was just floating downriver without any trouble.
Even so, with warm weather conditions forecast for the subsequent quite a few times, danger of a large-scale ice jam and flood had not abated.
In the headlines:
State Senate again balks on passing tax offer
Palestinian guerrilla power fight looms
Boeing statements ‘quiet’ SST now attainable
Examine out the Feb. 21, 1971, Sunday Information here.
From an early hearth to its final times, here’s a look at Lancaster Malleable in the information
A transportation strike – which was then expanded to a normal strike – ultimately ended in Lancaster on Feb. 21, 1946, right after 16 times.
Workers of the Conestoga Transportation Organization, which ran all city bus and trolley strains, went on strike Feb. 5. That strike noticed some violence, as strikebreakers pushed by picket traces to get the job done versus the will of the union. But those people employees had been couple of in quantity, and the strike held.
On Feb. 17, the Central Labor Union known as a standard strike in help of the placing transportation staff, and business enterprise which include factories, grocery suppliers, and movie theaters all shut down until the strike finished 5 times later on.
The agreement that finished the strike observed advancements in both wages and positive aspects for CTC staff.
In the headlines:
Pope bestows crimson hats in long, majestic ceremony
Soviets detain 9 newsmen, then consider them on tour
Vice-admiral is drowned
Check out out the Feb. 21, 1946, Lancaster New Period here.
A massive hearth destroyed the Cocalico Lodge, a longtime Ephrata landmark, in February 1921.
A faulty flue was blamed for the hearth, which absolutely gutted the creating, creating $160,000 in destruction. The five-story construction, claimed to be “a single of the most effective state inns in the county,” was reduced to just two outer walls by the time the blaze was underneath manage.
Injury may well have been worsened since firefighters’ efforts had been originally hampered by snow and ice.
However numerous nearby buildings were being threatened, firefighters contained the blaze to just the hotel alone. 1 firefighter endured a minimal personal injury, and the woman at the hotel’s front desk was briefly defeat by smoke. Quite a few households who ended up dwelling at the lodge were being evacuated and misplaced all of their possessions in the fire.
In the headlines:
Allies may well change Treaty of Sevres in favor of Turks
President-elect (Harding) faces active 7 days
Look at out the Feb. 21, 1921, Lancaster Intelligencer here.