How do I make PDB 1HIG's data usable for producing ball-and-stick models?
This specific PDB file only contains the coordinates of all the $\ce{C_{\alpha}}$ atoms of the protein. It simply does not contain enough information to display an actual 3D structure of the protein. 

The file does contain secondary structure assignments, so it should probably be possible to create a cartoon display of the protein, but that would require more than a simple PDB viewing program. But there is no way to create a ball-and-stick model with the data contained in that file.