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Kathleen S. Ruckman Kensington...
...fund languished, however, until last week, when a thin blonde woman in her early 20s walked into Davie's Sterling National Bank, mumbled something to a secretary, and left a package addressed to Robert Ruckman, the bank's president and the chief collector for the fund. In the package were $2,000 in twenty, fifty and one hundred dollar bills and a letter explaining the gift: "What the hell is happening in this country when a six-year-old child needs life-saving surgery and is denied treatment because some hospital demands a down payment on the inherent...
ANDREW V. RUCKMAN...
This week, eight years after the rescue of Star Dust, President Eisenhower signed a bill awarding Ruckman his $250 without interest. In Springfield, Businessman Ruckman, who considered his claim "a matter of honor," was philosophic about the delay. Said he: "I think the Government should be frugal and consider things like this carefully...
After the war George Ruckman, now a leather salesman in Springfield, 111., put in a claim for $250 to cover part of his personal expenses in repairing Star Dust. In 1951, after the Army Finance Center coldly informed him that it was "not authorized to develop claims involving accounts where the disbursing officer is in doubt as to the propriety of payment," George Ruckman took his case to Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen...