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30 years ago

MARQUETTE — Several area businesses have donated money to help keep the COPS program going in the low-income Lake Superior Village apartment complex. Under COPS — the Community Officer Patrolling Streets program — a city police officer walks a beat on the neighborhood. City business owner Dale Berglund has been trying to collect $8,000 to keep the successful program going. State funding has for COPS was cut. So far, the city has received $500 from J.J Shamrock Irish Pub; $25 from Feltner Plumbing and Heating; $50 from the Longyear Apartments; $100 from First of America Bank; and $500 from Bresnan Communications.

Bresnan also produced a videotape and donated airtime for the fundraising effort. The COPS program costs about $40,000 to run.

90 years ago

POWERS — Modest, clear-thinking Doris Behrend, Powers telephone operator, was disclosed today as one of the chief foes of the Hermanville bank robbers on their flight Tuesday.

Miss Behrend knew Sheriff Edward Reindl was at Wilson and when she received the first notice of the Hermansville holdup she flashed a warning to Sheriff Reindl, who was informed within a few minutes of the robbery. Miss Brehand then called the state police at Iron Mountain and began a systematic series of alarms to nearby villages to be on the lookout for the getaway car of the bandits. When the sheriff’s office and state police requested that a telephone alarm be broadcast they learned that the request had been anticipated and the work was already done. Mrs. Alberta Harris, agent at Powers for the Michigan Bell Telephone Company, was not on duty at the time of the holdup. She made no report of her assistant’s service to the officers, believing like Miss Behrend, that the latter had simply done her duty.