Wheeler Lipes will finally get his medal. Sixty-three years ago, Lipes performed a historic and controversial surgery aboard a submarine, saving a young sailor's life. For Lipes, who has been battling pancreatic cancer in recent years, it will be gratifying to receive the Navy Commendation Medal. "I certainly didn't expect that kind of recognition," said Lipes, who lives off Madame Moore's Lane with his wife, Audrey. In 1942, aboard the submarine USS Seadragon 120 feet under the Pacific Ocean near Indochina, Lipes performed an emergency appendectomy on sailor Darrel Dean Rector. Lipes wasn't a doctor, but rather a pharmacists' mate....