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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1948)
1 l I PACI TEM HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON TUESDAY, JAN. , 194 t i ! i ! 5 ! f i i ; Thirteen Persons Saved After Spending Five Days On Ice Coated Peninsula KODIAK, Alnka, Jan. 6 Wr Thirteen persons, including a mother and hnr six children, sped toward Kodiak aboard a coast guard cutter and navy tuar today for hospitalization after belli rescued from an ice sheathed point of the Alaska peninsula where they had been stranded for up to five days. Ten of the f nut -bitten survivors were aboard the wrecked cannery tender Spencer, which smashed Into (he rocks opposite Kodiak Island New Year's Eve and broke up In ihf pounding aw ells. All are reported suffering: from frost bite and exposure but are not believed to be In serious condition. The other three were volunteer rescuers from the navy tug Mataco who struggled to shore after their small boat overturned Saturday night In a daring attempt to reach the stranded party. The Mataco and the cutter Clover and expected to reach here around noon (5 p. m. EST.) today. The rescue, balked for three days by fiO-nle-an-hour winds and rale-tossed seas, was completed yesterday during a lull in the storm. Although only five miles from the village of Kanatak. the scene was unreachable by land because -f f- high cliffs and Impassable terrain. Ranger Gets Pay Boost WASHINGTON. Jim. 6 iT Wil liam J. Butler, assistant chief ranger at Rainier National park. who turned down a $5000 reward lor uncling a missing marine transport plane on the slopes ol Mount Rainier, has been given pay raise of $126 a year. The raise, which lifts Butler's salary from $3!89 to $4024. was an nounced by Secretary of the In terior J. A. Krug. The transport and its 32 marine passengers and crewmen crashed December 10. 1946. Butler found it Inst July 4 on a day off and was legally entitled to accept the re ward. Krug. in a letter to Butler, said: 'Your extraordinary act in re jecting a large monetary reward. Chignik to Kodiak when it piled up i which I understand, was actually Six of the cannery tender's per- lonnel are aboard the Clover, in cluding two women and a young boy. They are Miss Alva Skonberg. Mrs. Ous Skonberg, Calvin Skon berg, 14, Bert Larsen. Andrew Skon berg and Jacob Osbekoff, all of Chignik, Alaska. The other four members of the Spencer's crew, also from Chignik. are aboard the Mataco. They are Capt. Axel Carlson, William Skon berg. Dan Skonberg and Arthur Skonberg. Navy Men The three navy men were saved by a party from the Clover and transferred to the Mataco. Lt (.ig E. J. Kratochvil of Washington, D. C and two enlisted men, E W. Kelley and S. J. Komola (home towns unavailable) comprised the volunteer trio. Oldest of the survivors is Mrs, Skonberg. in her middle-fifties. She is the mother of the six other Skon bergs aboard the tender. The vessel was en route from Transportation Hews Retirement on January 15 of N. Christ ophfison, Great Northern Railway general agent at Belling hum, Wash., and formerly of Khun nth Falls, was announced today R. P. Stair of Seattle, western traf fic manager. His successor will be R. C. Ram .-cy. now traveling freight agent for the ruituay at Spokane. Ramsey will be succeeded by M, W. Elslng, city freight agent at Spokane. Christopherson. with O r e a Northern since 1913. has been gen eiai agent at Bciungnnm since 1938. He ns city freight and pas scnger agent at Vancouver, Wash. and traveling freight agent there before going to Klamath Falls as general agent in 1927. He remained at Klamath Falls until going Bcllingham In 1938. Joining Ureal Northern in 1914 as clerk in the general agent' office in Spokane, Ramsey served as chief clerk there from 1916 to 1920, when he became traveling freight agent. to Mercury Up ; Over Nation in the Shelikof strait. Chignik .s along the Alaska peninsula approx imately 150 miles southwest of Kanatak. Elkhorn To Get Bridge Today SALEM. Ore.. Jan. 6 OJV Resi- denta of the community of Elk horn, marooned since last Tuesday when the only bridge link with other towns collapsed, waited anxiously today for state workers to complete a temporary span across the San tiam river. Three women of the logging and ranch area village are expecting babies and the road crews were working In a race with time for the aafety of the expectant mothers. Supplies have been carried to the families by rubber boat since the older bridge collapsed. Highway en gineers said the temporary type span, a prefabricated unit used in emergencies, should be in use later today. placed in your hands by the par ents of marines who died in the crash, is one which impresses me as an outstanding illustration of the high caliber of the men who find their way into public service." BODY FOl'ND AMITY. Jan. 6 The body of Mrs. Sarah M. 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