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Show Native Dixie Boy Given High Promotion In United States Air Corps One of the highest possible military mili-tary honors was accorded recently to Grandison Gardner, a native .Dixie boy, when President Franklin Frank-lin D. Roosevelt recommended to .the .U. S. .Senate his promotion irom the rank of Colonel to that of Brigadier General in the U. S. Army air corps. Grandison Gardner is a son of John and Celestia Snow .Gardner and was reared in Pine Valley and Grass Valley. The family moved temporarily to Logan, whene their children could attend the U.S.A.C., where Grandison graduated in 1914 with a reserve officers' commission com-mission from the R. O. T. C. of the A. C. From there he went to Leland Stanford university in California, receiving his Ph. D. in mathematics. When America entered World War I he enlisted from his home town of Pine Valley and went almost al-most immediately over seas as a member of the U. S. Army air corps, receiving recognition for his service. After the war ended he still remained with the over seas army studying aviation. In the present war, when the Nazis first began their invasion of France he was one of a group of five sent to Europe as aviation observers from the U. S. Army. After his return he was placed in command of eight Army. ai"L colf and plane testing fields m Florida where he is still located and where the commission of Bi a-dier a-dier General was accorded him with due ceremony. There are still many in this vicinity who will remember Grandson Grand-son Gardner in his boyhood and 1 h, t Pine Valley and who join with relatives here in ex-lending ex-lending congratulations to him for his achievements. He is a erandson of Erastus Snow the father of Dixie's cotton mission a? of Robert Gardner, whose f this area was of pioneering of this aiea equal importance. His Prfem a'nk as Brigadier General of h IT S Army air corps is a wiae step from his life as a boy in with the s faun w SnTatroVdlpendabiUty and of service were inculcated. |