Former Juneauite
Charged With
„ Embezzling $41,000
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., IflV
Herbert S. Rowland, arrested on
a federal warrant charging him
with embezzling $27,177 from a
Canadian insurance firm, said he
would fight extradition.
Rowland, 41, is married and the
father of two children. The war
rant was from Juneau, Alaska.
Rowland did not deny taking
the money. He said that occurred
. at a time when he was an alco
holic.
He told newsmen he had signed
a restitution agreement with a
bonding company in November,
promising to pay back the money
over a 13-year period. The com
pany, he said, had agreed not to
prosecute.. He represented the
Crown Insurance Co. in Juneau
from January 1953, to November
1956.
Referring to his career in Ju
neau, Rowland said “it all came
from excessive drinking. There
was no gambling or anything of
that kind. I started drinking be
cause of the pressure of selling.”
When the discrepancies were
discovered, he said, he went to
company headquarters and talked
it over there and with the bond
ing company. The agreement was
daawn up and signed, he said,
and “they advised me to get out
of the insurance business and try
to rehabilitate myself.”
He moved to Menlo Park about
a year ago, joined Alcoholics
Anonymous and “have not taken
a single drink since.” Last week
he went to work for the Los Al
tos Chamber of Commerce for
$550 a month. He said he could
'n’t understand what could have
changed the situation.
In Juneau U.S. Atty. Roger G.
Connor said more than $41,000 of
Crown Co. funds had been mis
appropriated.
In Toronto the Crown Co. said
it was repaid the $41,000 by the
bonding company last year, and
that an agreement was drawn up
among the bonding company,
Rowland, and his brother, John
G. Rowland of Toronto, for the
money to be repaid to the bond
ing company at the rate of $2,000
a year without interest.
Map Showing Alaska
Recording Districts
Available At University
COLLEGE — The University
of Alaska school of mines’ re
search department has made
available to the public a large
map of Alaska which shows the
38 recording districts and the
withdrawn areas scattered thru
out the territory.
Peter O. Sandvik, geology in
structor, revised for 1958 the map
which Ernest N. Wolff, assistant
professor in mining, produced in
1952.
Earl H. Beistline, dean of the
school of mines, explained that
the revision was made to meet
the growing demand for such a
map as increasing interest centers
on Alaska.
“Many requests for the map
come from outside Alaska, parti
cularly from lawyers,” Dean
Beistline said.
The recording districts vary in
size and show the city or town
where the recordings must be
made with a U.S. Commissioner.
Territorial law requires per
sons to record mining claims in
the district in which they are
located. Failure on the part of
some miners to do so has led to
controversies.
The maps can be purchased for
$1 from the University of Alaska
School of Mines, College, Alaska.
Dog Gone, She Sure
Used To Could Kiss
LEXINGTON, Ky., — Mrs.
Ora Klar, 54, was awarded $1,000
damages in circuit court as a re
sult of being bitten on the mouth
by a dog.
The biting of a year ago left
its mark emotionally, Mrs. Klar
said. She testified sometimes
when her husband kissed her she
still thought of dogs.
Said her husband, Jacob Klar:
“My wife is normally an affec
tionate woman. Now she barks
at me and pushes me away when
I try to kiss her.”
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January Living Cost
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WASHINGTON, (to—The gov
ernment reported today record
high food prices pushed the na
tion’s living cost to a new peak
in January.
The jump in grocery prices was
blamed on repeated freezes in
Florida and excessive rains in
Texas, which boosted fruit and
vegetable costs, and also on short
and consequently expensive meat
supplies.
The Labor Dept, index of con
sumer prices rose six-tenths of
one per cent between Decembert
and January to a new high df
122.3 per cent of the 1947 - 49
average.
This was the largest monthly
rise since July 1956. The living
cost level has risen steadily in
15 out of the past 17 months.
The latest living cost jump
means a pay raise for some
1,350,000 workers whose wages
are partly geared to the index.
Ewan Clague, Labor Statistics
Commissioner, told newsmen he
could hold out no hope for any
drop in living costs in the next
few months. He pointed out that
there have been new crop freezes
in Florida since the January data
were collected.
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