Police Probing Mysterious Blasts at Sunshine Track, Daily Racing Form, 1955-06-17

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Police Probing Mysterious Blasts at Sunshine Track OLDSMAR, Fla., June 16 Puzzled police officers continued their probe today into the mysterious dynamiting of the Sunshine Park clubhouse here Tuesday night. No motives were uncovered for the explosions, which caused damage estimated at 0,000. Two blasts hit the deserted clubhouse. One was set off in an elevator shaft on the first floor and the other in the mutuels money room on the second floor. Police reported there were no signs of forced entry to the track, which has been closed since the end of the race meeting here March 15. Sheriffs lieutenant Archie Adair estimated the total damage at 0,000, while Sunshine Park president, W. Frank Hobbs, said the damage to the" elevator and shaft in the clubhouse alone amounted to 6,000. Adair and Hobbs, who said there was no money in the building, were at a loss to explain the reason anyone might have had for dynamiting the structure. ! i i , i 1


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