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People You Know News Roundup Highlights Union Pacific Veteran
Frank G. Baker retires as yardmaster in Sidney after a 53 year Union Pacific career began in Evanston Wyoming in 1914. Lt. Jerry Vavrina, one of the original 44 Nebraska Safety Patrol troopers, remains active in North Platte dispatch work and holds Badge No. 2. Pam Thompson recalls Jacqueline Kennedy's condolence letter after the Kennedy assassination. Gary Porter earns an Atomic Energy Commission fellowship to pursue nuclear engineering at Penn State. Verne Livingston praised for utility leadership in Nebraska City while Sidney remembers him as a top citizen.
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Frank G. Baker
Evanston
Wyo
Sidney
Harold Cochran
Mr. Baker
Air Corps
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Ogden
Green River
Rawlins
Denver
Omaha
Sioux
Baker
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North Platte
Helen Brester
Frances Schmitt
Casper
Robert W
Amarillo
Texas
Lillian Hoover
U. P
Elks
American Legion
America
Nebraska Safety Patrol
Jerry Vavrina
Nebraska
Vavrina
Scottsbluff
Alliance
Jerry
Brainard
Peru State Teachers College
Chilicothe
Safety Patrol
Madison
Norfolk
Bridgeport
Chadron
McCook
Bayard
L. L. Hubbe
H. D. Robinson
Dorothy
Washington
Jean Ann
Kearney State Teachers College
Pam Thompson
Jacqueline Kennedy
Pam
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
James Thompson
Atomic Energy Commission
Gary Porter
Ralph Porter
A.E.C
Porter
Pennsylvania State University
University Park
Pennsylvania State
Colorado School of Mines
Golden
Verne Livingston
Livingston
Nebraska City
Omaha World Herald
Missouri
Utilities Company
World Herald