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Trenton \ olunteer Firemen Aeed Uniforms For W lieu They Ask ‘Where's The Fire?’Rv M\X ROMMTRS Journal Stall* I'd (torTRENTON—Like a\! . fire departments, larlt;lt; small, paid or volunteer one at Trenton would be pv if it never had any to do.Not that the mrmbrnlat.xNxWt » just that fires, while tintdf some excitement, k mean a dent tn some-IwKetKook.•b thing that bothers theve'.mteers. though, is‘um shaking, that afrrod sometimes that rr gftt v.ue some of the! That's one reason why the I man-department, is going to si la movie “The King of Kings.” '•he Middletown Armory May The movie, which is a Cecil DcMille production, is based I the life of Christ. There'll be16itle to the venture. ITie firemen j sold ads in a booklet about the department to merchants in the! area, who receive tickets to distribute to their customers any way they want to.With the money from the ads. | the firemen hope to have enough j to buy themselves uniforms.) They’ll probably be Oxford grey, with Eisenhower jackets, accord-j ing to Calv.n Harpe, secretary and treasurer of the Trenton Volunteer Fire Department Asaocia-I tion. the group's official name We don’t want the uniat29Bontwoperformances, at 2 and at 7 p,m Tickets for the movie won t be on sale 'actually they're free1, but there’s a money-maging an-- •’•STform* to wear tofires/’llarpe explained. “We get alot of rails to helpcontroltraffic In the tillageon spe-rial occasions, such asat Halhwecn when the kidsare inthe streets and carshave tobe slowed down.“We help out when the schoolis having something at night, andthings like that. The trouble isthat none of us wearthe samething, and most people don't knowwho we are.| If we're going to beout there^resentingI the village, we ought tr» at leasthave some sort of uniform“Besides, maybe unifomis will(give us more of a feel mg of| belonging to an orgamzution.Sometimes we feet ltke peopleI around here forget thcvhave fire-(men, until they need usMOTORIZED—This truck was used until the present one was purchased in 1938. Oscar Reed (who’s Trenton's police chief now* and Ira Guy are the men on the truck, trom left to right.Fire calls ring at two phones,:years, one in the home of Richard O’Con-j The doonrtment's * nell on one side of the station, and j same building which one in a restaurant on the other Mde. The restaurant operator.Ken Irvin, is a member of the department, and he takes most of the day calls.Either the O'Connells or Irvinle oruone used, aithoc ;u ‘here 1 been improvements in it.chief.»nd he’s the or-ui... ra* oir (.’cording to H«lv one
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Middletown Sunday News Journal
Middletown, Ohio, US
Sun, May 09, 1954
Page 26
Full Page
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