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TO BE REMEMBEREDVLocal 'Death March'participants will« % bronze starBy Scott Angus Gazette StaffMore than 40 years after “the Death March” and imprisonment by the Japanese decimated their ranks, members of Company A of the 192nd Tank Battalion from Janesville are being honored by their country.Tank company members and other Army veterans involved in the defense of the Philippines from Dec. 7, 1941, through May 10, 1942, are being awarded the Bronze Star for their “meritorious service.”Janesville’s 99-man tank company went to the Philippines just 18 days before Pearl Harbor. Only 35 returned; the rest died in the Death March and Japanese prison camps.All members of the battalion are eligible for Bronze Stars, including those who didn’t return. Their surviving relatives may apply for the medals, and local Army National Guard and veterans officials are offering their assistance.First Lt. Jeff Tellefson of the National Guard’s Company C, 132nd Support Battalion, said local officials are attempting “to get the word out” that the medals are available. “We particularly want to make the families of deceased veterans aware so that they may receive the medals for their own satisfaction or as a memento in remembrance of a family member.”Forrest Knox, a surviving tank company member and its “unofficial historian,” said most of the 20 Company A veterans still living and the relatives of those who returned but died since have been located. “We’re basically working on the 64 who died (in service). We’ve lost track of their families.”According to Army regulations, “primary next of kin” may apply for medals on behalf of deceased relatives. In order of precedence, they are spouse, eldest child, father or mother, eldest sibling or eldest grandchild.Documentation is needed to prove that a relative served in the tank battalion. John Nor-deng, Rock County’s veterans service officer, will help surviving relatives locate discharge or duty records. He can be reached at the courthouse in Janesville,755-2052.Form letters and written instructions on procedures for applying for medals are available between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the National Guard Armory, 11 Palmer, Janesville, 755-2760Bronze starMedal recipients—veterans or relatives—who desire a formal presentation should contact E. J. Sartell Jr., Red Arrow Club, 1716 Sousa, or Tellefson at the Armory, 11 Palmer.Authorization for the medals came from John O. Marsh Jr., secretary of the Army. Though 40 years late, Tellefsen believes the honor is appropriate.“They’re deserving of recognition for serving their country under awful circumstances. The veterans and their families may be comforted in some small way by these medals,” he said.Members of Company A of the 192nd Tank Battalion were:Robert Bam, Donald Bar oar, Robert Boehm, Fay Balden, Ray Balden, Jack Bruce, Earl Borchard, Melvin Buggt, Letter Buggt, Wayne Buoot, John Burke, Delmon Buthaw, John Campbell, Willard Campbell, Alva Chapman, Daniel Court* nay, Charles Crompton, Roger Dery, Leo Dorsey, Herbert Durner, Wesley Elmer, Wesley Fane her, Harold Fanning, John Fox.Alton Goff, Laurence Grim, Robert Harrfe, Kenneth Hatlevig, Robert Havens, Donald Heddleaton, Raymond Hill, Robert Hubbard, Kent Hughes, Harold Keegan, Ronald King, Paul Kiltxkie, Donald Knlps* chield, Forrest Knox, Leslie Krause, Fred Krug, Robert Kubly, Alfred Langley, Dale Lawton, Lloyd Lobdetl, Maurice Lustlg, Henry Luther, John Luther.Harold Madison, Ralph Madison, Jamei Manooue, William McAullffe, George McCarthy, Joseph McCrea, Osborne Me Do nald, Claude Moreland, Carl Nlckols, William Nolan, Joseph O'Connell, Phlll? Parish, Marvel Peterson, Lewis Phillips, George Pru*h*r, Emerson Rex, Lloyc Richter, Boyd Rlese, Orvlt Rinehart, Gil bert Rymen, Thomas Samek, Owen Sand mire.Emil Schmidt, James Schultz, Kenneth Schoeberle, Donald Semrow, BernardShea, John ‘ Spencer, Kenneth Squire,Arnold Steen, Gerald Star ken, Robert Stewart, Forrest Teal, Edward Trebs, Jesse Tubbs, Edmund Van Gaidar, Lewis Wetllsch, Ernest Walsh, DeWayne Wasson, Ivan Wllmer, Glen White and John Wood.Associated PressLOS ANGELES—A sniper who sprayed a schoolyard with rifle fire, killing one girl and wounding 13 people, was a drug abuser, drank heavily and had lived in “unremitting bleakness” since his parents died in the Jonestown mass suicide, police and acquaintances said.quarters in a house across the street, opened fire on the crowded playground of the 49th Street Elementary School just as classes emptied for the weekend.“At first 1 thought it was a firecracker. Then I saw some dirt jump,” said Shawn Williams, 10, whose sister was wounded.Tyrone Mitchell, who killed himself after the 15-minute sniping attack, had himself followed the Rev. Jim Jones’ cult to South America but was seeing a dentist the day 912 people drank poisoned punch and died, said a lawyer who represented Mitchell after the 1978 mass suicide.A vice principal’s warning to “get down!” sent Shawn flopping to the ground. As he lay there, he saw 10-year-old Shala Eubanks struck by a fatal blast.“Shala was by the stairs. She started running, and then looked back. I saw her fall,” Shawn said.Children screamed and scattered Friday afternoon as the 28-year-old Mitchell, from his second-floorMitchell, who began firing at 2 .39 p.m., was dead when police entered the white Victorian house, using a□ Turn to SNIPER'10AsShot trying to help feAssociated PressLOS ANGELES—A 50-year-old playground supervisor shot while trying repeatedly to help a child felled by gunfire said the sniper who shattered a routine school day “definitely was going to keep me from getting to that little girlshar»yAlbert Jones, who has worked at the 49th Street Elementary School for three years, was in the schoolyard when the sniper began shooting Friday only because he had lingered an extra hour, to play softball with students and teachers and to watch the children leave for home.thhlt;di“I usually stay to make sure the kids get out ail right, that nobody gets into a fight or anything,” he said.1*fcClasses had just been dismissed when sharp cracks filled the airPolice said the shots, which killed one girl and wounded 13 people, including Jones, were fired from a house across the street by 28 year-old Tyrone Mitchell. Mitchell, described as a “well-known suspect” with a history of drug abuse, later shot himself to death, police saidcigliJones said he was outdoors, talking with a colleague “He looked over at me and said. ‘Them sounded like shots,’ and 1 said, Yeah, they suredo.1tit IAs children screamed and scattered, Jones, who had a bicycle with him, quickly rode toward them across the schoolyarddPGraduation standardsAssociafed Pressreceived enough academic credits£MADISON—A proposal that the state enact standards for public high school graduation in response to complaints about inadequate teaching was endorsed Friday 5-1 by a Senate committeeGov. Anthony S. Earl has recom mended that public schools be forbidden by the state from issuing diplomas to students who have notA spokesman for Herbert J Grover, secretary of the Depart ment of Public Instruction, quarreled with the idea of state-imposed standards during a hearing earlier this month, saying guidelines for graduation ought to be decided lo cally by teachers, principals and superintendentstfcr1frcThe plan endorsed by the Health, Education, Corrections and HumanY
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