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Show SEARCH FOR HARRY PAPPAS ENDED 1 ,m Harry Pappas, left, beams as he receives check for $1366 from Charles R. Bird, Kennecott Copper Corp. Pension Plan Administrator, Adminis-trator, Mr. Pappas, a former Nevada employee, was located in Salt Lake City after company employees had spent more than three years trying to locate the pensioner. It was a long search. It was a challenge to Kennecott Copper Corporation personnel workers. But, they were determined that a man who had served the firm faithfully long enough to earn a pension would receive such bene fits. Top officials of the company master-minded the search in its latter stages. , Mr. Pappas, known only as "Pensioner No. 176" to the scores of Kennecott " employees involved involv-ed in the more than three-year long search, was a mighty happy man when Charles R. Bird, Kennecott Ken-necott Pension Plan Administrator, Administra-tor, presented 'him with a check for $1,366 in the Salt Lake offices of-fices of the firm. At the time, Mr. Bird also advised Mr. Pappas Pap-pas that he was the holder of a $1,000 paid-up life insurance policy another reward for his efforts for the company. Mr. Pappas, a long time employee em-ployee for Kennecott in the Nevada Ne-vada Mines Division, was located recently in Salt Lake City. Work ing in McGill, he had quit in May of 1952 and the following year it was determined that he was eligible for a pension. From that time, the search for Harry Pappas went on. Contacts were made in almost every Western state and with several agencies of the federal government. govern-ment. He finally was located through a Greek organization in Salt Lake City after a McGill employee had informed the investigators in-vestigators of his whereabouts. After the contact finally was made, Mr. Pappas, of Greek decent de-cent and who speaks very little English, informed Miss Anna Pappas of the Salt Lake Kennecott Kenne-cott office, who speaks the language lang-uage very fluently, that he had received a letter from the firm in 1955 while he was living in San Francisco. At the time, however, how-ever, Mr. Pappas was ill and said he did not understand the letter and by the time he had recovered, re-covered, the letter had been misplaced. mis-placed. iMr. Bird praised Miss Pappas, who is no relative to the pensioner, pension-er, for her assistance in concluding conclud-ing the settlement with Mr. Pappas. |