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f WASHINGTON. (AP) -- Officials say a Justice Departmentcampaign against organized crime, begun in 1961, is succeeding. But they assert congressional tightening of purse strings is hampering the fight against the Syndicate,“We're stretching and straining all the while, said Assistant Afcty. Gen, Fred M, Vinson Jr., of the department's Criminal Division, “but the fact is we’re having to rob Peter to pay Paul to keep our people in the field” .Vinson and Henry Peterson, head of the division’s organized crime section, report highly mobile task forces of federal crime fighters are making inroads into La Cosa Nostra, but that more money is heeded for additional men. f =:-The task forces, spearhead of the Justice Department’s most . recent efforts against organized crime, work with other federalpeople were interviewed, including every adult male in the nearby town of Walsall. Forbes also called on the international police organization to investigate leads in 11 countries overseas. • • ■0;’ .What: Forbes established definitely was that Christine had .been .lured into a car near her Walsall .home four days before her body was found. A main highway runs between the places , where all three girls were found dead.Forbes had solved 13 consecutive, murders before taking charge of the Christine Darby case.agents in selected cities to pressure organized hoodlum elements. ' . .In Detroit, for example, they report 65 indictments—12 of. them last Thursday. .: The task groups have infiltrated five areas so far, and are described by Justice Department officials as the biggest boon to organized crime-busting since Elliot Ness.Like guerrilla warfare, it’s difficult, Vinson said in an interview, to pinpoint gain against the underworld. But he thinks that since 1961, when Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy began the present campaign, “the graph has levelled off and maybe has gone down a bit.”Some' officials estimate it may take 10 years of vigorous effort to bring organized crime to heel.-• • * •“What you have to do,” Vinson says, “is establish priorities ... hit them where it hurts.”ant U.S. attorneys and got 65, He wanted 40 more lawyers for the criminal division—a battery of five is used in each task force —and didn’t get any.: An demandfor funds to provide 200 morenarcotics agents was halved.But the heat’s on, and there are reports of discomfort and movement in the underworld.Vinson said an indication that the task force scheme is beginning to pay off is the “obviousunwillingness of the second (Mafia) echelon to assume power,” •He says a series of doms” has begun emerging particularly in the past two years. •• * ’ i •The best PGA golf tour scoresof 1967 were 61s. They wereturned in by Dave Hill at Hartford, Conn., and Gav Brewer at Pensacola, Fla.This is the job of the task forces, and two more groups leave the department for secret destinations within the next ‘ month. Another two, Peterson disclosed, are “on the drawingboard”'for early next year.• * • •. But Visson and Peterson complain they’ve been left by Congress with inadequate funds to carry on the war.Vinson says the ' department asked for 100 additional assist-Financial StatementPARIS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ©.1 STRICTFor the Fiscal Year Ended August 31, 1968Cash Balance All Funds — August 31, 1967 ........ $1,470,983.00ReceiptsLocal Funds ..... $ 787.638.28State, County and Federal Funds ... 1,531,684.14Sale of.Investments ... — ...... —Q~mTOTAL RECEIPTS .............i..... 2,319,322.42Total Funds Available ...................... J3.790,305.42DisbursementsAdministration ..... S 76,650.38Instruction ..... 1,596,684.84Operation and Maintenance ........ 128,223.49Other School Services — ......... ; 90,349.29Fixed Charges ....... —....... : . 3.9B8.04Capital Outlay and Investments : 916,600.53Debt Service ............r.. 191,471.69 ,,1966-67 Title I Encumbrance $ 863.03 : 7Less 1967-68 Title I Encumbrance 768.01 94.99Total Disbursement 3,004,063.25Cash Balance Ail Funds, August 31, 1968 ...........' $ 786,242.17
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Paris News
Paris, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 17, 1968
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