Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, July 8, 1995 TAG: 9507110046
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From wire reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The ``Little House on the Prairie'' actress alleges defamation, invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress in the complaint filed Thursday over the article in the July 4 issue. Ex-husband Bo Brinkman accuses Gilbert of ``ignoring' their 6-year-old son, Dakota, the lawsuit says.
Gilbert married actor Bruce Boxleitner this year and is expecting her second child.
Buck Wrightam, 77, the Army bugler who was the model for the popular World War II song, ``Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B.''died Thursday in Clearmont, Fla..
Wrightam had continued to play his bugle in a Lake County honor guard until just a couple of years ago, sounding taps for old soldiers who went to their final rest.
But it was his wartime bugling more than 50 years ago that caught the imagination of composer Hughie Prince, who heard Wrightam play.
Prince later wrote ``Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,'' a hit made popular by the Andrews Sisters and revived in 1973 by Bette Midler.
Wrightam was with the Army 129th Infantry, Company B, 33rd Division and also played in the 8th Air Force Comets Band.
While his Bugle Boy status was Wrightam's claim to national fame, he was well known locally for other reasons. In 1985 he was named Deputy of the Year by the National Sheriffs Association. He won the honor not for acts of bravery, but for his tireless work to prevent crime.
Wrightam organized more than 150 Neighborhood Crime Watch programs, set up liaison activities in elementary schools, fingerprinted children and promoted bicycle safety campaigns.
by CNB