The Daily Alaska Empire

WINNERS OF
NENANA ICE
POOL
PLANS
Both Miss Harding, Tom
Ringen to Help Moth-
ers They Announce

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 22 -
Two Nenana Ice Classic winners
said they plan
to shower their
mothers with gifts as a result of
their new fortune, estimated at
more than one hundred thousand
dollars.

Rita Harding said she will pur-
chase a small farm near Oakland,
California, which her mother al-
ways wanted. After that she has
no plans.

Tom Ringen said he will go to
Norway as soon as possible to see
if he can restore personal property
and other belongings lost by his
mother during the German occu-
pation.

Miss Harding said she and Rin-
gen were partners in 80 guesses
and the eighty-first was the win-
ner.

"Only lucky break I've ever had,"
she said.

Ringen purchased the 80 tickets
at 8 o'clock on the closing night.

"I spent the evening marking
them. I did the last one in time
to get them deposited five min-
utes before the deadline. When I
got to the last ticket I was so tired
I didn't know what I was doing,
so marked it at random."

Ringen, a prospector
and
miner since
1932,
hasn't
seen
his mother in 20 years. Miss Hard-
ing visited her mother at Oakland
in 1941.