On this date in NEPA
75 years ago, P. Anthony Sweet, chairman of the newly formed Scranton Housing Authority, said he sent a questionnaire to Mayor Stanley Davis and city council members asking their opinions on clearing the slums of Scranton and to provide proper funding for the authority.
50 years ago, the citizens committee selected by Mayor William Schmidt reported on its meetings with officials from the Scranton Transit Co. and its unionized employees, recommending the unionized employees take the offer of the one-year contract extension with the 5-cent-an-hour raise.
25 years ago, unionized employees of COLTS approved their new contract giving them a $1-an-hour raise spread over three years and a change in the language of certain human resources policies.
10 years ago, Cosmo Iacavazzi of West Scranton was honored at halftime at the Princeton-Harvard football for his record-setting year in 1964.