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Show : AH OF CAP j MM DAT MEETING Lt. Col. Joseph E. Bergin, of the i M Air Patrol, spoke at a meet- I IE of the Junior Chamber of Corn-race Corn-race last Thursday emphasizing j it importance of the CAP. .tang other things, he stated lj lat the CAP, organized in 1941, 1 sitributed much to civilian de- jj 'a. The CAP requested permis- )j, ?n to set up liases at its own ex- !e to patrol the coast, and the t 'AP was responsible for the sink-1 A -S of 27 submarines and the sav- i; :l of 1,000 lives from torpedoed fj The CAP, he said, had :iH to search for lost bombers (j -this country and has done many -ier services. n present objective of the or- $ ation is to enlist 15, 16, and jg '-year-old boys and girls to aid 5? - taking America air-minded in fl event of a future war. JheCAP official stated that )l -ill expects to have 150 airports J ;5 1950, and that the state now , r 37 airports and 10 others un-I un-I faction. He pointed out jk utah is ahead of other states 'rts S'Ze Seven majr air" -imi!3 a'S0 Pinted out during 'l i., that only three percent of '1 who had had CAP training: out" in military training, I !f.ei.lPercent of the Pilots who had no training, fall. ,v 2 mating was under the di-'4 di-'4 ' ! Tf Ralph chairman ' -h I, Vcee Nation committee, S' ittwheld esPecially to point f 1 1 its of CAP Gaining. ! ? of voung prospective i 'feting1 W6re invited to the |