Editing Springfield, Missouri (section)

===The Ozark Hillbilly Medallion===
The Springfield Chamber of Commerce once presented visiting dignitaries with an "Ozark [[Hillbilly]] Medallion" and a certificate proclaiming the honoree a "hillbilly of the Ozarks". On June 7, 1953, U.S. President [[Harry Truman]] [http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=2414&st=&st1= received the medallion after a breakfast speech] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607121957/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=2414&st=&st1= |date=June 7, 2011 }}) at the Shrine Mosque for a reunion of the [[35th Infantry Division (United States)|35th Division]]. Other recipients included [[US Army]] generals [[Omar Bradley]] and [[Matthew Ridgway]], [[Dewey Jackson Short|US Representative Dewey Short]], [[James Cash Penney|J. C. Penney]], [[Johnny Olson]], [[Ralph Story]] and disc jockey [[Nelson King]].<ref>Dessauer, Phil "Springfield, Mo.-Radio City of Country Music" (April 1957), ''[[Coronet (magazine)|Coronet]]'', p. 151</ref><ref>"First C&W Deejay Conclave" (June 23, 1956), ''[[Billboard (magazine)|The Billboard]]'', p. 40</ref>