$30,000 Reward
Doesn’t Go Far
These Days
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, UP>—What
happened to the $30,000 reward
'tnoney in the Ellis Hall search
case?
Herman Ludwigsen, young flier
and outdoorsman who first sight
ed the wreckage of the missing
New Mexico oil man’s plane last
Sept. 15, laughingly parried:
“Well, just how far does $30,000
go these days?”
Ludwigsen received the biggest
reward ever posted in a north
country aerial search after he
found the rugged spot where the
wealthy oil man crashed with his
wife, two daughters and the teen
age son of a New Mexico profes
sor after their takeoff for a return
flight to the States.
Part of the main reward pay
ment of $25,000 went to' other
searchers under a “pool” agree
ment of the small plane pilots—
and a good chunk went to Uncle
Sam. The other $5,000 also offered
by Hall’s business associates was
for whatever charities the success
ful searcher might designate.
All but $1,000 of the $5,000 has
been distributed. It is being kept
in the bank for the Ketchikan
volunteer rescue squad, pending
reorganization.
The allocations already made
are >1.501 for the Guiding Light
Ho ne fur boys, near here: 51,000
for the Ke a ■ n Civic Center;
$5 Jo Scouts,
Salvation Army and Teen-Town
Club.
Ludwigsen says it didn't take
long for the $25,000 to vanish—
except for a fund he created for
his daughter, Lynn, who was born
just five weeks after his discovery
of pieces of the Hall plane in the
formidable Boca de Quadra area.
First, there was $1,000 each to
the other eight private plane own
ers who participated in the search.
Then there .was a little item of
about $6,000 in income taxes on
Ludwigsen’s share. After that he
paid for the floats on his Pipc-r
PA-12 and then almost had to
rebuild it.
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Beta Sigma Phi Meeting
By Caroline Reader
Beta Sigma Phi members and
guests Suzy Hermann, Marie
Wall, Barbara Martin and Christy
Waldheim met in regular meeting
at the Waldheim residence. New
officer^ for the ^orority will be
elected at the March 11. meeting
and will take office on Founder’s
Day, April 30.
Caroline Reader gave a presen
tation of Beta Sigma Phi, telling
of its activities, purposes and its
scope. After a recess, while every
one looked at chapter scrapbooks
and issues of The Torch, program
chairman Omie McCarthy called
the cultural portion of the meet
ing to order. Book reports were
then given by Caroline Reader
on The Caine Mutiny, by May
belle Lenert on the voyage of the
raft Kon-Tiki and by Betty Alex
ander on Icebound Summer.
Then we all made a trip to Den
mark with Ellen Waldheim, who
told of her several months’ visit
to this land of her ancestors and
to nearby Sweden and Germany.
Betty Gustafson took us in hand
for a long walk up Powell Street
in San Francisco with stops at
Union Square, Fishermen’s Wharf
and several luxurious hotels.
After group conversation on
where we’d like to visit and
where we had visited, refresh
ments of date bread and Danish
coffee cake were graciously serv
ed by hostess Ellen Waldheim.
Brownie News
This month the Pansy Brownies
sewed a fait purse and a doll j
dress. Yv'e all paid up so we have;
our membership cards. We are 10
Brownies now.
We had our Valentine party at
the CAA Recreation Hall. It was i
fun.
—Harriet Henry, Scribe
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Mathis Son Born Yesterday
Mr. and Mrs. Graham Mathis
are the parents of son, born yes
terday at the hospital and weigh
ing 7 pounds 14 ounces. Mr. I
Mathis is with the CAA here.
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Living Costs Rise
WASHINGTON, (JV-1The gov
ernment reported today living
costs rose in January to a point
just below the record.
Today’s rise brought the index
to 115.2, the same figure as last
September.
Relief Inadequate
SEATTLE, UP)—An Alaska union
official contended Wednesday that
natives in the Bristol Bay area
still lack adequate food despite
the emergency relief program in
the territory.
German ‘Els’ Collide
HAMBURG, Germany, (A*)—Two
elevated trains collided head-on
here Wednesday, injuring 30 per
sons, four of them seriously.
By using man - made mercury
198 and the wave length of the
green light that it emits as a
! standard, scientists can measure
with a precision of one part in
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N.W.A. C. of C.
Annual Banquet
About 60 persons attended the
annual Chamber of Commerce
banquet Wednesday evening at
the Bering Sea Club.
Outgoing president of the N.W.
Alaska Chamber of Commerce,
Dewey Goodrich, acted as toast
master and was the speaker of
the evening, with an address on
the object, aims and responsibility
of the Chamber of Commerce.
Mayor Steve Anderson wel
comed the assembled crowd on
behalf of the city and the Cham
ber.
Tenor John Shumaker, ac
companied by Robert Heath on
the piano sang “Rose of Tralee”
“O Solo Mio” and later sang
“Pagliacci” without piano accom
paniment.
Toastmaster Goodrich told of
the considerable volume of cor
respondence which the chamber
answers each year and requests
for information about the Nome
district received from all over
the world. He extended his thanks
and that of the Chamber to the
volunteer workers who do this
work.
Mayor Andersen reported on
two city projects of the past year
undertaken with the Chamber’s
assistance — the school addition
and the city’s purchase of the I
power and light company.
The mayor also called attention
to the need for more candidates
to fill municipal offices. More
capable administrators will be
needed to fill council vacancies,
and this year, five members of
the utility board for the Nome
Power and Light must be elected
in the April municipal election.
Chairmen of standing commit
tees then gave their annual re
ports:
Dr. F. Langsam, treasurer and
sanitation and health, reported a
bank balance of $211.91 compared
to $219 last year. ,
On the health situation he re
! ported that the local clinic treat
I ed 3,000 person in 1‘953. He also
| reported on growing expenses of
operating the MMM Hospital of
which he is administrator. Total
expense- of operating the hospital
i in 1952 was 8100,000, and in 1953
! between $120,000 and $125,000.
Dr. Langsam also compared pa
tient expenses per day to com
parable hospitals on the west
coast: $18 for Nome and $28 for
| stateside.
Robt. Curtis, of the Aviation
committee; Ben Young, of the
Roads Committee; Boyd Harwood
of the Ways and Means Commit
tee; and Carl Glavinovich, sec
retary, who gave a resume of
mining activities in the district
and more particularly of the U.S.
Smelting Co., of which he is the
Retirement Application for
Alaska Judge Approved
WASHINGTON, UP)— President
Eisenhower today approved the
application for retirement of Fed
eral District Judge Harry E. Pratt
of Alaska’s Fourth Division.
Pratt, a Democrat, reached the
retirement age of 70 last Jan. 26.
He has served on the court since
July, 1935.
Pipeline Builders Will Try
To Buy Supplies In Alaska
FAIRBANKS, GW—An official
of one of the three firms building
the 30 million dollar Haines-Fair
banks pipeline says the builders
will make every effort to hire
workers and buy supplies in the
territory.
manager. Mr. Glavinovich re
vealed his company will build
a new steel dredge on the Sub- ,
marine, west of Nome, in 1955,
utilizing the machinery of their
old No. 3 dredge and also that the
company will resume large scale
thawing operations this summer.
John Cooley, of A.R.C. reported
on road building activties.
A. Polet reported on advance
ment and prospects of tourism.
Toastmaster Goodrich paid tri
bute to the late Bud Harper, past
vice president of the Chamber
and chairman of the Roads com
mittee.
Larry Galvin, chairman of the
Nominating committee reported
the selection of James Walsh,
Boyd Harwood and Ernie Gustaf
son to the board of directors for
the ensuing year.
President Goodrich then an
nounced a meeting of the com
plete board of directors to be held
Sunday afternoon, following
which the meeting closed after
singing “America.”
U. S, Gained Much
In Berlin Talks,
Dulles Says
WASHINGTON, Ifl—Secretary
of State Dulles has assured the
nation it lost nothing at Berlin
and gained much—including a
chance to bring Red China “before
the bar of world opinion.”
Dulles, who returned five days
ago from the month-long Big Four
talks, told a nationwide radio
television audience Wednesday
night two results “will profoundly
influence the future.” He de
scribed them as:
1. Soviet Foreign Minister V.
M. Molotov was forced by the
U.S., French and British delegates
“to show Russia’s hand”—a hand
which Dulles said hung on to all
it had, including East Germany
and East Austria, and grabbed for
more;
2. Molotov gave in, at the last
hour, in a “concession ... not to be
ignored,” and signed a declaration
spelling out U.S. refusal to recog
nize Red China.
His report to the nation cli
maxed his campaign to convince
critics anywhere that the Commu
nist world was not “appeased” in
arrangements agreed upon at Ber
lin for the holding April 26 of an
Asian peace conference at Gene
va, Switzerland, and in a lack of
progress on the German and Aus
trian questions.
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