Sapphire thief freed then held on fugitive charges
Jack Murphy known as Murph the Surf was released from Rikers Island and immediately arraigned on Florida fugitive charges for major theft tied to the Star of India and 21 other jewels. Allen Kuhnats and Roger Clark, also convicted in the 1964 American Museum robbery, were freed earlier and arraigned on fugitive charges with bail set at 7500 and 3500 respectively.
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New York
Jack
Murf
Murphy
Florida
Riker’s Island Penitentiary
Manuel Gomez
Denehtes
American Museum of Natural History
Allen Dale Kuhnats
Roger Frederick Clark
Island
Kuhn
Gail and
Clark
Boston Mayors seek salary raise to $40,000
Mayor John F. Collings proposed boosting the mayoral salary from 20,000 to 40,000 per year, effective in 1968, arguing many city officials now earn up to half again as much as the mayor.
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Boston
John F. Collings
Giant nuclear blast simulator rises on Potomac banks
At Dahlgren Virginia the conical shock tube air blast simulator, described as the only one of its type, rises along the Potomac to test effects on ships engines shelters and waterfront structures. The 264 foot long device uses a 20 kiloton mock blast and will assess space vehicle re entry damage up to 100000 feet while commanded from naval facilities with DoD funding of 2.4 million.
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Lion
TNT Ca
Erriit Fredericksburg Free Lance
Sun Shipbuilding Co
Dahlgren
Potomac
Hiroshima
U.S. Naval
Labora
Tory
Fredericksburg
Navy
Department of Defense
Unclear draft on tube test firing and shock confinement
Unclear fragment describes a tube test firing with main shock waves confined in a concrete blockhouse. It mentions 10 18 or 22 foot diameters and instruments, with first firing expected to measure blast results and a later date uncertain.
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Nan
U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory
Potomac Bank
Billy Brown
Fender
Pagano Building
St. & Phila. St
Indiana
NEW Wheels
Pha
Gendyser Auto
Goodyear
5Th St
Indiana, Pa
First National Bank
Megh
Waxler
Waxler’s
Kuppenheimer
Eagle
Botany
Stanley Blacker
McGregor
S. & H. Green
Alligator
RRA Aia
Pendleton
Ashley
Woolf
Bernhard Altman
McGregor, Pringle
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