May 20, 1964

Neil Ernest Compton, a physician of obstetrics by profession and a conservationist by avocation who is widely recognized as the founder of the Ozark Society to Save the Buffalo River (today known as the Ozark Society, Inc.), received the American Motors Conservation Award. The Ozark Society successfully campaigned to stop the construction of two dams on the Buffalo River (Gilbert and Lone Rock) that were proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.