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...Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission is established. It is composed of one officer each from Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The N.N.S.C. will have 20 neutral-nations inspection teams, and will watch five Communist "ports of entry" (Sinuiju, Chongjin, Hungnam. Manpo, Sinanju) and five U.N. centers (Inchon, Taegu, Pusan, Kangnung, Kunsan...
Last week the new chaplaincy corps shipped 113 Korean civilian chaplains out to ROK units, the largest group yet to graduate from its training school in Taegu. But the demand is still so far ahead of supply that many of the Catholics have had to be rushed through before ordination, hence may not hear confessions or say Mass. Chief of the ROK chaplains, Catholic Father Cho In Won, 46, is encouraged. "We can now reach people we could never reach before," he says. "In its own way, the war has given us a spiritual revival...
Overseas, the society, partly from contributions received from the blind in the U.S., helps train Christian teachers for the blind, and lends support to 40 Christian schools and homes for blind children, including one not far behind the battle lines at Taegu, Korea. In the U.S. and abroad, more than 90% of its blind readers are communicants of some Christian denomination...
...These boys' tails are really up," reported Lieut. General Isaac D. White, X Corps commander, next day. Van Fleet was delighted. At a ceremony in Taegu, he celebrated the anniversary of the ROK army, which began seven years ago as a constabulary of 600 men. Full of pep and eleven divisions strong, it is now holding almost 70% of the U.N. line in Korea, doing most of the fighting and taking the brunt of the casualties...
Last week Colonel Prendergast climbed into his Thunder jet, took off on his 27th combat mission, a standard workhorse job-cutting enemy rail lines near Sinan-ju. Mission completed, he was leading his formation home when he got word that the landing field at Taegu was all but socked in by weather, and that several score orbiting planes were stacked up there waiting their turns to land. Prendergast led his men to another field, saw them head in safely, one by one, then started down himself. He was making his final approach when he ran out of fuel...