Oct 13 1973
From The Space Library
The work of Abe Karen, NASA physicist and consultant to New York City's Budget Dept., was described in a New York Times article. Karen worked under a "one-man program called the NASA/New York City Applications Project," administered by NASA's Office of Technology Utilization. Karen, paid by NASA, had introduced Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Silent Communication Alarm Network (SCAN) security system to protect life and property in two crime-ridden New York high schools and an Ames Research Center device to detect heroin in urine samples. He was eying other NASA-funded innovations for road-patching, bridge structural testing, fire warning, and removing graffiti from public build-ings. (Darnton, NYT, 10/13/73, 37; NASA Off TU)
After a 35-yr local dispute, the "Great White Sands Missile Range Lost Gold Treasure Affair" had "blossomed into a national mystery," the New York Times reported. Attorney F. Lee Bailey recently had been en-gaged by 50 unidentified claimants who sought prospecting rights to gold bars and treasure said to be buried on the missile range and to be worth up to $1.5 billion. In 1963 the Army, insisting there was no treasure, had banned prospectors from the range because of danger from exploding target-practice shells. Rep. Harold L. Runnels (D-N. Mex.) had proposed a joint Federal-state search for the treasure, said to have originated in various ways. (Sterba, NYT, 10/13/73, 37)
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