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Show OLD TIMER AWAITS PENSION TO RETIRE A 76 year old man this week confidently awaited word of final endorsement of his pension application ap-plication by the Brotherhood of Railroad Locomotive Engineers, receipt of which will mean his retirement from railroad work begun over a half century ago. The man is James H. Vaughn, familiarly known as "Jimmy", who was born In slavery In Lew-isburg, Lew-isburg, North Carolina, in 1861. He and his sister were adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Archie Garoote of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1868. Beginning his employment on railroads In 1886 Vaughn has since worked for five different railroads. He began work with the Utah Copper in Bingham In 1917. During 1921-1922 shutdown shut-down he worked In Denver, returning re-turning to Bingham in 1925. The jaatt.wcuyeax'a Jie .has, beaa.m-ployed beaa.m-ployed as a switch tender for Utah Copper. Through the years Vaughn retained re-tained his membership In the Brotherhood of Locomotive engineers, en-gineers, keeping careful record of the companies and length of service he was employed with A local lawyer helped Mr. Vaughn in his application for a pension. He hopes to leave within with-in two weelrs to make his home In Boulder, Colo., where his son Is now living. |