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...Orangeburg, S.C., 1,000 students left two Negro college campuses and marched silently in files of two toward downtown drug and variety stores, bent on sit-ins at segregated lunch counters. Town, county and state police, backed by three fire-department pumper trucks, blocked the marchers. "Let the leaders come forward," ordered police. Replied the students, surging on: "We are all leaders." Fire hoses and tear gas scattered the Negroes, threw them into choking confusion. Police arrested 350 students, marched them to a makeshift stockade behind the wire fence of the Orangeburg County jail's parking lot. At week...
Fire Chief Henry A. Kilfoyle received numerous requests for the rides which he had offered to students from the Midwest. He regretted having to turn them down, but he said that "I have to protect the taxpayers and not take any chances of getting the old pumper stolen." The engine went to Kenosha for repairs...
Lynch isn't quite sure that the engine will make it all the way to Kenosha on the first try, but he vowed that "we'll send the rescue squad after the old pumper if she breaks down, and another engine to get the kids to Kenosha. It's Wisconsin or bust on this trip...
Crane expects the fire departments of cities en route to "give the pumper the old visiting fireman treatment, brass bands and all. During night stopovers, the engine will be parked in local firehouses, ready for anything...
...pumper's cab, made of heavy armor plate, can seat nine people. Kilfoyle said that "we're willing to fill her up with college kids, if we can help them by getting them home for Christmas." He emphasized that there would be no discrimination on account of sex in choosing the riders...