Word: arps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students will take part in such tasks as protection of University property, the roping off of damaged areas, control of crowds, and the suppression of panie. Since they have not had the specialized training in ARP worn necessary to take on air wardens' duties, Mil Set men will be used by the University more as an unofficial police force...
After a mnoth of instruction in Air Raid Precautions, 164 members of the University ARP course became full-fledged Air Wardens of the city of Cambridge when they received their certificates from Major Ralph Robert, Chief Warden of Cambridge, last night in Emerson...
...laboratory work on blackout and combustion control, and Red Cross instruction, graduates of the course are now eligible for assignment to posts as wardens anywhere in the United States. Since they are all either students, Faculty, or staff members, most of them will be used within the framework of ARP organization which is being set up at the University...
...pointed out that men wanting to get ARP. training as soon as possible could "do their bit" now in service with Cambridge defense pending the probable establishment of a new air raid course after the vacation...
Methods and organization of Air Raid Precautions in Great Britain were discussed last night by Dr. John E. Gordon, director of the American Red Cross-Harvard Hospital in Salisbury, England, Dr. Gordon who has just returned to America, spoke at a regular meeting of the University ARP course in Emerson Hall, telling of his experiences in bombing raids...