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Organized Crime ‘BreakingYearsMay Require-WASHINGTON (UPtt -Assistant Attorney General Will R. Wilson, chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, predicted Wednesday the nation could break the back” of organized crime in five to 10 years.“If we are able to keep the public support and the budgetary support that we now have and jf we don’t have some national emergency to divert attention, we can break the rackets—and we will break them,” Wilson said.. Wilson told a meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General that “strike forces,’* now being cessfully in 11 cities against the Atafia, were “the vehicle to break the back of the rackets, J. . in a minimum of five andambrimum of 10 years.”' Infiltrate Government. ?Of the members of the Cosathe FBI, Internal Revenue Sized bv the 1968 Safe StreetsService and the Narcotics Bureau. Recent indictments in the Newark, N.J.. area resulted from investigations by a strike force there.William S. Lynch, chief of the Justice Department's Organized Crime Section, said wire tapping and “bugging,” author-Act, were valuable tools ofstrike forces.As state attorneys general,” said Lynch, “Those of you who already have similar wire tap tools, I’d say already have a leg up on the problem. Those who don’t, I’d say, you shouldwork for these tools.”TO GARBAGE WOESAlcohol May Be Answerby hydro) izing cellulose, aBy PAI L B. CAMP BULLLONDON (UP1) -- Garbage,]major constituent of domesli now being used sue- garbage everywhere and the!wastes, which, with additionaltinmeoffgnisoutsitisasitbe.wewethitheho•it:Rostra, Wilson said, “They aredefiance ofin open cenance or ourgovernment, our l^ws, ourprinciples, our values. Wecannot allow them to continue. l£ is up to all of us to speed the day whep we can rid our cities o( this problem.”Wilson, a onetime attorney general of Texas, said Mafia members infiltrate government aod u:e their positions to try to nullify law enforcement efforts afcainst organized crime./'Part of your fight, always, isf to clean out the government you’re working with,” said .Wilson, who described strikeforce tactics as “head hunting.” Wire Tap* Help TThe strike forces are small .teams of men, highly trainedaid representing such federall«(w enforcement branches asproblem facing municipal authorities and governments the world over is what to do with it.A British researcher says he believes he has the answer.Turn the garbage into alcohol.Nowhere more than in Britain is the problem of wastedisposal viewed with deepprocessing, will produce ethyl alcohol.Ethyl alcohol has many us^sboth in manufacturing processes and in their end products. Ollulosp To Sugar Cellulose is found chiefly in paper and vegetable wastes. Boiled with hydroeholoric acid it is converted fairly simplyconcern by authorities. The into sugar, which again can he|thealttotfoithlt;1theanClde;Krinamaverage British town-dwelling!processed by fermentation t()family produces up to two tons of garbage each year.produce ethyl alcohol. The process wasused inSome is dumped, but refuse America during the war years,grounds up and down the country are already overflow-ing. Some is incinerated, but at a cost of about $16 per ton - aIDeonlt;fitto provide alcohol for war industries. But not as simply as by Port eons’ process. Inane peacetime conditions, the con-heavy burden on the taxpayer version was not economicallyfor a non-productive process. More Economical MethodDr. Andrew Porteous,Mo:Jotifeasible.However, Porteous said his ;!.•»* ! process promises to double thelecturer at the University of]alcohol output, and reduce theMoMoGlasgow, Scotland. believes time taken in hydroli/ing frnmjk?,that by turning garbage into;three horn's to just over onMoalcohol, authorities have a way to recoup at least part of the cost and achieve efficient garlage destruction.minute.Already his proposals arej^ur being studied in a program Mosponsored by the United StatesDr. Porteous’ process works 1 Public Health Service.K\Mi■MiKv
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Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 05, 1970
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