Lloyd Lehrbas, 68, passed away Friday  October 30 , 1964.  He was born October 16, 1896 to L. H. Lehrbas and Marjorie Lehrbas.  He was one of 12 students who graduated from Montpelier High School with the class of 1914.  He continued his education at the University of Idaho and majored in journalism at the University of Wisconsin.  He was a pilot with the rank of lieutenant in World War I but before he could be sent overseas the Armistice was signed.  His first reporting jobs were on the San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago American, the Chicago Tribune and as assistant city editor of the Chicago Evening American.  Montpelier's illustrious son played his life's role on a world wide stage.  He fulfilled assignments for his country and displayed great courage as a roving reporter and a war correspondent for the Associated Press.  He documented this century's memorial historical events.  In 1919 he went to the Far East and worked one year with the Manila Bulletin and for five years as a writer with the China Press in Shanghai.  In 1927 he went to New York as news editor of Fox Movietone News.  Three years later he resumed his travels as a free lance writer in Europe and the Far East.  In 1932 he became a Washington correspondent for the Associated Press and later was assigned as a war correspondent.  In 1937 he reported on the last stand of China's "Lost Battalion" in the Sino-Japanese War.  His coverage of the German air raid in Warsaw, Poland brought him honorable mention for the 1930 Pulitzer prize award.  Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1942 he joined the staff of General Douglas MacArthur.  He waded ashore with MacArthur when the general returned to the Philippines in the Luzon invasion.  In civilian life he was executive editor of US News and World Report from 1946 to 1948.He became special assistant to the Undersecretary of State and an aide to the Secretary of the Army.  He never married.  Survivors include one brother.  Funeral services were conducted at the Pocatello Trinity Episcopal Church..  The urn containing cremated remains will be placed by those of his mother in the burial plot.