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The TANBERRY EADLIGHT VOLUME 48. STANREKRY, GENTRY COUNTY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, MARCH I 1946. NO. 5. CANDIDATES FILE FOR OFFICE HERE EDGAR A.

SUMMERS TOOK HIS OWN LIFE STANBERRY FOLK IN IOWA BLIZZARD BETTY JENNINGS IN SCIENTIFIC WORK PORK THAT PAID! Good hogs, plus good care, gave M. O. Showen, young farmer of northeast of Stanberry, a nice profit on his 1945 pork production. Showen had two registered Du-roc Jersey gilts that farrowed 20 pigs on Feb. 25, 1945.

One of the gilts had been purchased from the Lester Thompson herd, near King City. The other was from Show-en's own hogs. The gilts had been bred to a Berkshire male. Of the 20 pigs, Showen saved 16. An even dozen of the 16 were sold last Sept.

5 for $360. Four of the 16 pigs were saved for spring farrowing. The four were valued at $240. The two original gilts were bred for fall farrowing and on Aug. 25, they farrowed 21 pigs, from which 17 were saved.

Then on Feb. 25, of this year, one day earlier than a year after the first pigs were farrowed, the 17 pigs were sent to market weighing an average of 230 pounds each and they brought the neat sum of $557.17. The two sows were sold on Oct. 1, 1945, for $50 each. The gross sum received from the two gilts in the year amounted to $1,257.17.

Showen computes his feed cost chargeable to the gilts and their pigs at $560. Thus he had a net profit of $697.17. And that is lots of pork production and a good profit on any farm. HE'S WELL PROTECTED! Persons who have the feeling that the President of the United States needs ample protection may rest assured that he does have. At least that was the opinion of the persons who attended the meeting last week at Fulton, where former Prime Minister Winston Churchill was the featured speaker.

During the parade through Fulton streets, secret service men were everywhere. Photographs in the daily press have shown some of them, but there were far more than the pictures in the daily press showed. As the parade went through the Fulton streets, immediately in front of the car carrying President Truman and Mr. Churchill, there was a car filled with secret service men, gazing at the persons along the streets. As the two honored guests entered the gymnasium where the program was presented, the secret service men made almost a human wedge around President Truman.

Not only that, but they accompanied the line of march to the stage in the gymnasium and several of these agents sat on the stage. These secret service men were disturbed over the photographers who flocked around the stage each time that Mr. Churchill or the President were on their feet. In fact, it was necessary for these agents to "chase" the photographers back to their seats. At one time as Mr.

Churchill was speaking, a secret service man went up into the crowd to "collar" a photographer who continued to take photographs from a distance. As the distinguished group left the platform at the conclusion of the program, the wedge of agents around the President did not seem so great as when he had entered. These agents maintained a constant vigil around the home of Dr. Frank McCluer, president of Westminster College, who was host to the celebrities. Stanberry Citizens Had a Harrowing Experience in Iowa Blizzard.

All Came Through It Safely. Early Iowa settlers have recounted harrowing experiences during the course of wintry blizzards that swept that state in winter months. And a small group of Stanberry persons, Laton F. Phillips and Mr. and Mrs.

Lloyd E. Maple, still shudder over an experience they had last week up in Iowa. The group had left Stanberry last Thursday night at 8 o'clock in the Phillips ambulance. Mrs. Ed.

Als-bury and son, Robert, being taken to Mason City, la. Mrs. Alsbury and her son, recently discharged from the navy, had come to Stanberry on Saturday, March 2, for a visit with her sisters, Mrs. Maple and Mrs. Paul G.

Derks and their families. Shortly after arriving in Stanberry, Mrs. Alsbury became very ill. When her condition failed to improve, Mrs. Alsbury asked that she be removed to the hospital in her home town of Mason City, where she could have her own physician and also be near other members of her family.

The trip was planned for the Phillips ambulance. Frequent rain squalls made driving difficult and the party did not reach Des Moines, until about midnight Shortly after leaving Des Moines, they found the rain had changed into a driving snow storm. About 100 miles out of Mason City, the group came to a grade crossing which proved too slick to cross. A large trailer truck was jack-knifed across the highway and it seemed advisable to return to a filling station a short distance back down the highway. The station was closed, but by that time, other cars were beginning to stop there.

Hot water was needed to fill hot water bottles for Mrs. Als? bury and attempts to arouse the owners of the station were unsuccessful. Becoming desperate, young Alsbury took a flashlight and flashed it in the window of the living quarters and saw the occupants asleep. Alsbury finally got the man and his wife awake and told them of the illness of his mother and that there was need for hot water. He didn't stop that, for he told them if they did not get up and open the station he was going to break in the door.

The station wTas opened. Enough gasoline was obtained to keep the heater of the ambulance going and members of the group warmed by the fire in the filling station. Telephone calls were made to learn if highway maintenance men were to open the highway, but the only report obtained was that all crews were out in the storm working on the highways. About two dozen trucks and motor cars had stopped at this same station. It was not until 8 o'clock the next morning that the highway was opened for traffic.

Mrs. Maple, who had spent the entire night in the ambulance with her sister, urged as early a start as possible. With chains on the ambulance, the group left the station. Driving even then proved difficult and after the group had negotiated the grade crossing, they discovered that if they had crossed it the night before, they would have been stalled in a far deeper drift 4 miles beyond the crossing. Had they gone on, all of their gasoline supply would have been exhausted and Mrs.

Alsbury would have been in a far more critical circumstance than she was. Mrs. Alsbury was delivered to the hospital in Mason City at about noon last Friday. Mrs. Maple remained in Mason City with her and reports indicate her condition is serious, but she does not seem to have suffered too greatly from the harrowing trip.

The two Stanberry men arrived home last Friday night about 10 o'clock. 40-ACRE FARM FOR RENT Located southwest of Gentry; an excellent 40-acre farm, plenty of water and nice improvements. See, call or write W. P. STAPLETON Albany, Mo.

Adv. 14-2t-p. DR. HOMER McCULLOUGH Dentist, of Albany, will be in Stanberry Friday of each week at the Stanberry hotel, to practice his profession. Telephone Albany, 301 Adv.

10-tf. UNDER THE STARS Stanberry High Graduate Is Operator of Electronic Computer Which Has Astounded Scientific World. A Gentry county girl and a graduate of Stanberry high school is one of the operators of the new electronic computers at the University of Pennsylvania which has astounded the scientific world with its varied possibilities. In the Feb. 18 issue of Newsweek and the Feb.

25 issue of Time magazine, appeared articles and photographs of the machine. The girl. Miss Betty Jean Jennings, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.

Jennings, of is the young woman operator appearing in the background of both pictures. There are six persons in the photograph in Newsweek and only three persons in Time magazine. According to the two magazine articles, the machine performed calculations in two hours which, under ordinary circumstances, would have required the labor of 100 trained men over a period of one year. Invented by Dr. J.

W. Mauchly, a 38-year-old physicist, and J. Presper Eckert, a 26-year-old designing engineer, to meet the army's need for computing problems peculiar to the Ballistic research laboratory, Eniac is the first all-electronic mathematical instrument. In a recent demonstration, a five-figure number was multiplied by another five-figure number 500 times. After one second, the answer was visible.

The new machine, which cost will be housed at the Aberdeen. Proving Ground, for further development of ballistic research. However, new models that may be built, at an approximate cost of $250,000, will be made available for peacetime studies in nuclear physics and aerodynamics. Industrial applications of the machine may prove of important value to-the electrical and electronic industries, in aircraft design, banking and insurance and in meteorology. There is plenty of work ahead for Eniac, its inventors say.

In almost every science and every branch of engineering, there are proved principles which have lain dormant for many years because their use required toe much calculation. Miss Jennings, who is 22 years old. has been working on the machine since June 1, 1945. She is a civil service employe attached to the Ballistic Research Laboratory of the Army Ordnance department and is one of six girls who program the solution of various mathematical problems for ther machine and also help in the operation of the machine. To acquaintances here of Miss Jennings, it is no great surprise to know that she is holding such an important position.

She was salutatorian of herr graduating class in Stanberry high inv 1941. Her scholastic records at the local school show that she had been at straight student in all of her mathematical studies during her four-years of high school work. After completing her high school work here. Miss Jennings was graduated from the Northwest Missouri State Teachers College at Maryville with a major in mathematics. After completing her work there in February, 1945, Miss Jennings was chosen by the University of Pennsylvania to undertake this new work, upon the recommendation of officials at the Maryville college.

When questioned here, members of her family said that she had written often of her work and that she thor- joughly enjoyed all of her mathematic al duties. PENNEY STORE HERE NEARS COMPLETION; OPENING SOOW John M. Voss Hopes lo Announce ih Opening of Basement Sales Floor Within the Very Near Future. Completion of the remodeling of the J. C.

Penney Co. store is expected in the near future. Manager John M. Voss announced this week. The remodeling is mainly an enlargement of selling area, accomplished by opening a basement sales floor.

This enlargement will give the store approximately 30 per cent more selling space thasv it has used previously and will allow the addition of many new items of merchandise, as well as the spreading, of former lines and old departments. "We're spreading out," remarked Voss, and opening up the extra space we've been wanting. Thar changes we are making will make it possible for Penney customers to proceed with their shopping much more quickly and easily than before. "In addition to the larger selling area, we're rearranging the moving to the basement many departments that were formerly on the first floor, and using that space to increase our assortments of men's and women's, furnishings. We'll be able to opem several entirely new departments as well as to enlarge the familiar ones.

"Our new basement store is our particular pride and joy. Basement departments will include the cotton shop, bedding, blankets, curtains andl draperies and a shop for boys' apparel, all of which were formerly handled on the main floor. Modern departmental markers give style to the floor as well as making it easy for the shopper to find the proper department. Open selling fixtures will be a convenience to the customer who likes to examine and compare merchandise-before making a selection. Stanberry residents will welcome the increased efficiency and convenience that th (Continued on page Well Known Farmer Living Southwest of Stanberry, Hanged Himself Sunday Morning.

Stanberry and the community southwest of here were shocked and grieved to learn Sunday that Edgar A. Summers, a prominent and respected farmer, had taken his life by hanging at his farm home, about 5 miles southwest of Stanberry. The body of Mr. Summers, who w-ould have been 79 years old yesterday, was found hanging in the hay mow of his barn at about 11:30 o'clock Sunday morning by his son, Oakal Summers, who. lives one-quarter mile from the farm of his father.

The son had gone to ask his father for Sunday dinner. Dr. S. E. Simpson was called to the Summers farm home and he was one of the first persons to view the body.

It was his opinion that Mr. Summers had been dead about one hour when his body was found. A small quarter-inch rope had been used and was knotted around Mr. Summers' neck. The rope had been tied to a rafter and apparently the despondent man then stepped from the plating of the barn and was hanging with his body not more than one foot above the hay.

Death was due to strangulation, Dr. Simpson said, probably due to the fact that there was little drop possible from where the rope had been tied. Dr. C. N.

Williamson, of Gentry, coroner for Gentry county, was called to view the body. It was his verdict that death was due to suicide by hanging. It appears that Mr. Summers' act was the result of despondency over the death of his wife. Mrs.

Summers, an invalid for 15 years, died on Jan. 14, of this year. Through her long illness, her husband was a devoted and tireless attendant at her side. After Mrs. Summers' death, he became very despondent and frequently gave signs of an approaching nervous breakdown.

To the members of his family and to his most intimate friends, it was a nervous breakdown that led to the rash act. WTiile Mr. Summers retained his own home, much of his time was spent in the home of his son. On the night before his death, Mr. Summers had visited in the Oakal Summers home until 10:30 o'clock and seemed to forget his grief in playing with his small great grandson.

Richard Koch. Oakal Summers told this newspaper that he went to his father's home at about 11 o'clock Sunday morning to do some chores there. He noticed his father was not around the farm, but he thought little of it at the time, An examination of the house showed that Mr. Summers had prepared and eaten his breakfast and had milked the cow, turned her out into the pasture and cared for the milk. It appeared that the break in his normal actions came after that.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. R. Summers, he was born on March 13, 1867, in Greenburg, Ind.

While a young boy, he came with his parents to Montgomery county, Mo. After a short residence they moved to Nodaway county and lived on a farm, southwest of Maryville. Only a year or two later they moved to the Lafayette school neighborhood, where Mr. Summers grew to manhood. He was married to Miss Iva Boyd on Feb.

4, 1897. Two sons were born to this union. They were Oakal T. and Kenneth, the latter of whom died when he was 5 years old. Much of Mr.

Summers' married life was spent in the section where he died. He was an active member of the Island City Christian church and served for many years as an elder in that church. He was one of the citizens of his community who was influential in forming the Crosswhite school district. Surviving him are his son, Oakal; one sister and two brothers, who are: Mrs. Mary S.

Allen, of Stanberry, M. E. Summers, of Phoenix, and O. M. Summers, of St.

Joseph. There are three grandchildren, one great grandchild, besides other relatives and a wide circle of friends. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Island City Christian church, conducted by the Rev. Ralph Allen, of St. Joseph.

Interment was in the Meeker cemetery, west of Island City. Spangler saw much overseas service jand is now employed in the Daniel supply btore, here. Harold Schubert, a warrant officer in the navy, visited here Monday with his uncle, Dr. A. W.

Coppersmith, and with other relatives and friends. He visited here while on travel leave en route to Chicago for orders. Dur ing much of the winter he had served on a ship based at Bermuda. Upon bis arrival at Chicago, he expects to be assigned to duty at New Orleans. I TSgt.

Richard M. Hardin left last Tuesday for Heidelburg, Germany, where he has been assigned to duty. TSgt. Hardin, who had been spending a 90-day re-enlistment furlough here with Mrs. Hardin at the home of her I parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Albert House, and with other relatives and friends, is returning to the theater in which he had served prior to his discharge under the point system. (Continued on back page.) Candidate by Late Tuesday Afternoon Had Filed for Ci -and for Board of Education. Ey late Tuesday afternoon, candidates had filed for all of the various offices to be filled at the city and the school elections, which will be held on Tuesday. April 2.

There is only one contest among the entire group and that is for alderman in ward 1. Both John Tatum and Jas. C. Stuart have filed from ward 1. Tatum is the present alderman in that ward and Stuart has held the same post in former years.

In the coming city election the offices of mayor, collector, marshal, police judge, one alderman from the first, second and third wards and two aldermen from the fourth ward are to be elected. One of the aldermen to be elected in ward 4 is for a two-year term and the other for a one-year term to serve the unexpired term of the late John L. Fulton. Candidates thus far who have filed for city offices are: For mayor Wm. F.

Seevers. For collector Mrs. Eula Lawson. For city marshal D. M.

Pierce. For police judge J. H. Filbert. For alderman, ward 1 John Tatum and Jas.

C. Stuart. For alderman, ward 2 J. E. Johnson.

For alderman, ward 3 J. E. Luns-ford (name filed by friends). For alderman, ward 4, (two-year term) J. F.

Stephenson. For alderman, ward 4, (one-year term) Wayman Roberts. Of the candidates listed above, all are candidates to succeed themselves, with the exception of Mrs. Lawson, Stuart and Roberts. In the school election, two members of the board of education are to be elected.

Each will serve for a three-year term. The two candidates who had filed for the offices by late Tuesday afternoon were A. B. Vogt and Warren Feldman. These two men are filing for offices now held by Mrs.

Ray Jones and C. G. Comm. Mrs. Jones, who is serving for the unexpired term of Chas.

Jones, who left Stanberry more than a year ago, has not signified thus far her intention of seeking re-election to the office. Corum has sold his business here and is planning to leave Stan-berry. Whether or not other candidates file for the various offices to be filled remains to be seen. All of the candidates who have filed thus far for city and school offices are capable, efficient and would make good officials. MRS.

JOHN YADON DIED ON SUNDAY Mother of Mrs. Earl Gilliland Succumbed at Home in Albany Sunday Night. Funeral Today. Mrs. John A.

Yadon, mother of Mrs. Earl Gilliland, of Stanberry, died Sunday night at her home in Albany. She had been ill for about three weeks, but members of her family had visited with her Sunday and she had seemed to enjoy their visits and had spent part of the day out of her bed. Funeral services will be held this (Thursday) afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Christian church in Albany, conducted by the Rev. Geo.

Manning, pastor of that church. Interment will be In the High Ridge cemetery, here. Mrs. Yadon, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

T. J. Shisler, was born on June 10, 1878. at Old ML Pleasant. All of her early life was spent in that vicinity.

She was married to Mr. Yadon on Feb. 27, 1895, and for 19 years she and her husband operated a general store at Alanthus. When Mr. Yadon was elected to the office of county clerk, he and Mrs.

Yadon moved to Albany in 1930 and they have since lived there. She was a member of the Albany Christian church, having transferred her membership there about 12 years ago from the Christian church at Alanthus. A member of Esther Chapter No. 13 of the Order of Eastern Star at Albany, Mrs. Yadon had held chairs in the organization for a number of years.

Surviving her are her husband and four children, who are: Mrs. Earl Gilliland, of Stanberry, Mrs. Everett Grantham, of Ravenwood, Mrs. Cleo Pierce and Fred Yadon, both of Albany. Mrs.

Yadon leaves six brothers and sisters, who are: A. O. Shisler, of St Joseph, Chas. Shisler, of Mexico, Ed. Shisler, of Stanberry, Mrs.

Oma Lowe, of Sioux Falls, S. and Mrs. Ella Miller and Mrs. Maude Bennett, of Kansas City. She also is survived by 11 grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and a wide circle of friends.

BENEFIT DANCE NEXT TUESDAY The Stanberry Business and Professional Women's Club is sponsoring a benefit dance to be held in the school gymnasium on next Tuesday night, March 19. Music for round and square dancing will be provided and in addition a general program will be offered. All of the net proceeds will go to the Stanberry Public Library. It is hoped that citizens of this community will assist in this worthy project by attending the dance next Tuesday night FOR SALE Six-tube Zenith electric radio, good condition. C.

O. JENNINGS. Adv. M-lt-p. COUNTY DONATES $1,596 TO POLIO AID Detailed Report of 'March of Dimes' Campaign Made by Mrs.

PL H. Beets, the County Chairman. Gentry county citizens contributed the net sum of $1,596.09 in the 1946 "March of Dimes" polio compaign, according to the detailed report made last Friday by Mrs. R. H.

Beets, of Stanberry, county chairman of the drive. According to her report, Albany contributed King City, Stanberry, and the rural section of the county contributed the surprising sum of $715.71. Mrs. Marian Lunsford, vice-chairman of the county drive, directed the campaign in the rural section. That section included the Grandview, Darlington, McFall and Gentry schools, as well as the rural schools of the county.

In addition to the amounts listed above, Albany citizens contributed a total of $93.60 in collections taken at the Rigney Theater during the drive. The sum $127.80 was raised through collections made at the King City theater. No collections were made at the Mo-derne Theatre here, Mrs. Beets reported, because of the failure of those in charge to send the 'March of Dimes' motion picture trailer here. T.

A. Spurgin, owner of the Moderne, had signed for and expected the trailer to be sent here. The amount raised at King City was through a house-to-house canvass, according to Mrs. Beets. No parties or other entertainment were included in the King City drive.

One-half of the net proceeds raised during the campaign remains in the treasury of the local county chapter. Judge Paul G. Derks is treasurer of the group. This means that the drive has brought $788.04 into the county treasury for bringing aid to needy sufferers from the dreaded malady of infantile paralysis. Mrs.

Beets and Mrs. Lunsford have asked this newspaper to express their sincere thanks to the numerous organizations and individuals over Gentry county who so willingly offered their aid and their funds in the conduct of the drive. MANY CIRCUIT COURT CASES HAVE BEEN SET FOR TRIAL March Term of Circuit Court Started Albany Monday Before Circuit Judge Beavers, of Grant City. Many cases were docketed for trial Monday, when the March term of circuit court got under way at Albany before Circuit Judge Ellis Beavers, of Grant City. Many of the cases are docketed for trial in ApriL Several cases were disposed of in the one-day session held at Albany this week.

The following is a list of the cases and the action taken thus far. State of Missouri vs Gerald Peterson and Carl Martin, stealing chickens. Defendants discharged from parole. State of Missouri vs Gale Farns-worth, bogus check. Defendant enters plea of guilty and is fined $1 and costs.

State of Missouri vs Melvin Wright, leave scene of accident. Defendant enters plea of not guilty and trial set for Friday, March 22. State of Missouri vs Paul (Buster) Sweeten, driving motor vehicle while intoxicated. Cause continued. (Continued on back page.) CHANGE FIRM NAME The name of the Blincoe Store is being changed this week to DePriest Norment, according to an announcement made by J.

T. Norment, manager of the store and one of its owners. The Blincoe store was purchased on Dec 1, 1945, by Mr. and Mrs. J.

T. Norment and Miss Bonnie DePriest. Since that time it had been operated under the old name, until the change was announced this week. DR. P.

E. KIMBALL Licensed, graduate veterinarian. Telephone 26. Adv. S-tf.

T. J. SEGO FUNERAL HELD HERE MONDAY Funeral Services Held Monday Afternoon at Baptist Church. Death Occurred Last Saturday. Funeral services for Thos.

J. Sego, were held Monday afternoon at the Stanberry Baptist church, conducted by the Rev. Lawrence H. Cox, pastor of that church. Interment was in the High Ridge cemetery.

Mr. Sego, who was 67 years old, died last Saturday morning at the General hospital in Kansas City. He had entered that hospital last Friday, suffering from a severe throat ailment, which had started about two weeks prior to his death. During the period of his illness, various treatments had been resorted to, and last Thursday members of the family decided to take Mr. Sego to Kansas City for treatment.

Although a native of Albany, Mr. Sego had spent much of his life in Stanberry and this vicinity. He was married to Miss Clydia Wilson on May 28, 1902. They were the parents of six children, who are: Ernest and Otis Sego, of Kansas City; Mrs. Helen Grantham, of Independence, Mrs.

Margie Sager, of Stanberry; and Ray and T. J. Sego, of the home. During his early married life, Mr. Sego was a farmer.

For a short time he had farmed in Buchanan county and at Denver, Mo. But for the past 29 years he had lived in Stanberry and this vicinity. During that period of time, he farmed at various times, teamed and for a time was employed on a Wabash Railway Co. section crew. Surviving him are the widow, of the home, the children mentioned above, two brothers and one sister, who are: Calvin Sego, of St.

Joseph, Henry Sego, of Albany, and Mrs. Amanda Burk, of Michigan. He also is survived by seven grandchildren, other relatives and a wide circle of friends. DAY-OLD INFANT DIED Harlan Eugene Masoner, the day-old infant of Mr. and Mrs.

J. H. Masoner, died last Saturday night at the home of his parents, here. The baby was born last Friday morning. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Johnson funeral home, conducted by the Rev.

L. H. Cox, pastor of the Baptist church. Interment was in the High Ridge cemetery. The child is survived by his parents, a sister, Glenda, his paternal grandmother, Mrs.

Everett Stropes, and Mr. Stropes, and by his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Treese.

BOONE OATS FOR SALE Good Boone oats. Some located near Ballard corner, west of Stanberry; others at Albany and at Denver, Mo. Priced at $1.00 per busheL See, call or write W. P. STAPLETON Albany, Mo.

Adv. 14-2t-p. TWO FARMS FOR RENT Large 515-acre farm, located northeast of Albany. Rents for cash and grain. Also an excellent 40-acre farm, located southwest of Gentry.

W. P. STAPLETON 8c Albany, Mo. Adv. 14-lt-p.

DR. K. N. HARKER Deputy State Veterinarian. Telephone 99, Stanberry, Mo.

Adv. 8-tf. HALLMARK EASTER CARDS Now on display at DEPRIEST-NORMENT. Adv. 14-lt.

AND STRIPES SSsrt. and Mrs Albert Moore and daughter, Carlene, of St. Joseph, vis- 1 1 1 nr? ilea relatives ana lxienus ueie xuw-dav. rSp-l Wnorp who has re -en listed in the army, has been spending a furlough with the memoers oi nis familv in St. Josenh.

He will report next Tuesday at Leavenworth, and expects to be assigned to duty at McCord Field, Wash. Mrs. Moore and their daughter will join him there at a later date. SSgt Clarence Dakan. has received his honorable discharge from the army, after serving for three and one-half years in the China-India war theater.

A radio mechanic, young Dakan has arrived in Stanberry and for the present will assist his father in the operation of Dakan's Store. Emery Spangler, a staff sergeant in the army prior to his honorable discharge several weeks ago, last week received a Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service with an army transportation division in France..