Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reconstructed from interviews with students, faculty, and firemen, and from on-the-scene observation, this is what happened yesterday...
...Club, with annual dues of $150 and a treasury of more than $300,000. So far, the club has given 77 widows and their children $321,000 for everything from unpaid mortgages to scholarships and cash for unpaid bills. It covers Michigan state troopers as well as policemen and firemen in Detroit and 50 nearby communities...
...murdered by his own gun in a scuffle with teen-age burglars in nearby Youngstown, Ariz. Deputy Nofs's death stirred such a response that the Phoenix Club may now increase membership to 350 and already has plans to pay life insurance premiums for all local policemen and firemen, hopes eventually to extend coverage to every lawman in Arizona. Grim proof that it is needed came once again last week: a 48-year-old Phoenix sheriff's lieutenant was killed during a gunfight, leaving a wife and three children-the latest beneficiaries of the Hundred Club...
...month earlier, a militant civil rights group called ACT had led 60 marchers to the West Garfield firehouse to demand that the all-white company hire Negroes. After Dessie Williams' death last week, some 200 Negroes gathered around the firehouse, shouting, jeering and throwing rocks. They taunted the firemen by setting small piles of debris ablaze, hurled a Molotov cocktail onto the roof of a mobile classroom across the street. Heaving missiles and assaulting whites, the crowd spread over a twelve-block area before it was dispersed. Seven persons were injured, among them four policemen hit by bricks...
...trouble was Ohio, where 590 National Guardsmen were mobilized to restore peace to two different towns-Russells Point and Geneva-on-the-Lake. Before they did, 1,500 youths at Russells Point had broken the glass of every store front in town, set fire to homes and businesses, driven firemen away with rocks. At Geneva-on-the-Lake, some 8,000 students rioted for three hours, mauling three police cruisers, smashing shop windows, and keeping residents awake with blasts from three-foot-long plastic horns...