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The Summer Reading Pro-gram at the Logan County Li-brary kicked off with 34attending.

The program continues onTuesdays, and the June 18and 25 sessions will be heldin the Bronco Room of Sta-pleton Public Schools from10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Therewill be special activites thesetwo days.

Friends of the Library will beconducting their annual booksale on Saturday, June 22.

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Pictured l-r: Jerry Johnson, Lt. Colonel Buck Duis, Kathy Johnson, Col. John Bolduc, Lieutenant Governor Mike Foley, Delores Bayer, Jim Amos, Mike Amos, Susan Amos,

Megan Amos, Trooper Brent Potthoff, PSD Sgt. Amos, Major Mike Jahnke, Kelsey Amos and Kennetha Amos.

KENDRA CUTLER - THE STAPLETON ENTERPRISE

The Amos household inLexington was buzzingwith excitement on Fri-day, April 20, 1973.George Amos Jr., 28, waspreparing his uniform forhis shift with the Ne-braska State Patrol. De-lores, his wife, their sonsMichael, four, and 18-month-old Jimmy werealso excited because itwas good Friday andEaster was right aroundthe corner. While Georgewas preparing for work,Delores was sewing a newcoat for Michael forEaster.

Nearly at the same timea dark blue Buick Electra225 had driven erraticallyinto a gas station. Themale driver of the car andthe woman with him,seemed to be under theinfluence of alcohol. Afterthey paid for gas and left,a station attendant de-cided to call the Kearneyauthorities.

Trooper George Amos Jr.Badge #9 called the dis-patcher and advised 10-41, that he was on duty.By now the Buick was atthe Elm Creek inter-change on I-80. TrooperAmos had acknowledged

the call about the drunkdriver and stated he wasnear Cozad.

Trooper Amos scannedthe interstate. He soonfound the Buick and ad-vised Trooper Fawcettthat he had stopped thevehicle. Trooper Fawcetthad also responded to thecall about the drunkdriver, but was furtheraway than Trooper Amos.After being advised thatTrooper Amos hadstopped the vehicleTrooper Fawcett asked ifhe needed assistance. Sur-prisingly, Trooper Amosasked for help, thereforeTrooper Fawcett pro-ceeded to his location,finding it unusual forGeorge to need help witha drunken driver.

When Trooper Fawcettgot to Trooper Amos’ loca-tion he noticed that therewas no Buick there. Hegot out of his vehicle andwalked up to TrooperAmos’ car. He then sawthere was blood onGeorge’s face, and he hadno cardiac pulse. TrooperFawcett called in a 10-33“Officer in Trouble.”When he returned toTrooper Amos’ vehicle henoticed his revolver wasmissing, and reported

that also. Gothenburg Officer

Tamke, was also on duty,and was notified of theBuick. Tamke observedthe Buick going west-bound on Highway 30. Hecalled it in and began fol-lowing the car. Tamkepulled over the vehiclenoticing blood on the dri-ver’s shirt, and gave thedriver directions to I-80.That’s when a State Patrolaircraft from North Plattecame into sight. Tamkethen went and blockedthe exit ramp with hisown vehicle. Tamke gotout his shot gun andawaited the Buick thatwas currently drivingthrough an alfalfa field.As the car approached theexit with officers follow-ing, Tamke was trying toget a shot off when he re-alized that the Buick wasgoing to run into him. Hedove into his car just asthe Buick smashed intothe side of Tamke’s vehi-cle. The Buick turned andwent off into anotherfield as Patrol OfficersReese and Grieb contin-ued the chase. Reesemade one shot to theBuick with his shotgun,then the Buick collidedwith the patrol car. Both

vehicles came to an im-mediate stop. Reese andGrieb then arrested thedriver and passenger.Once arrests were madeGrieb went and foundTrooper Amos’ revolver inthe front seat.

Another Trooper thenarrived on the scene andannounced that TrooperGeorge Amos had diedafter being shot. The in-toxicated couple was iden-tified as Jimmie andTeresa Andersen. Afterchanging his statement,Jimmie Andersen pledguilty to first-degree mur-der, and was sentenced toa life of imprisonment.He died in prison on April24, 1991. Teresa pledguilty to an amendedcharge of manslaughter,and was sentenced to aperiod of three to nineyears.

Today, Delores is mar-ried to George Bayer ofOmaha, and they cur-rently live in North Platteto be close to their grand-daughters. Mike and hiswife Susan live in Pan-handle, Texas, and havetwo sons Luke, 23, andWill, 22. Jim and his wifeKennetha live near Sta-pleton, with daughtersMegan, 15, and Kelsey, 11.

Trooper Amos may begone, but he is not forgot-ten. PSD Sergeant Amos, atwo-and-a-half-year-oldDanish Shepherd fromthe Netherlands, is nowworking for the NebraskaState Patrol Police ServiceDog Unit in memory ofGeorge Amos. HandlerBrent Potthoff, of Sidney,works with SergeantAmos to patrol and detectcontrolled substances. Healso works across Ne-braska training dogs.Trooper Potthoff gotAmos when he was 11months old and thenstarted training him. PSDEddie, Potthoff’s last dog,was injured during a cer-tification training, and isnow retired. SergeantAmos will work with theState Patrol until the dogis determined not fit towork anymore.

Potthoff said, “Amos isstill a puppy, and is learn-ing something new everyday.”

Potthoff decided toname his new dog Amos,because he wanted tohonor the life of TrooperAmos. Potthoff had origi-nally learned of TrooperGeorge Amos at theTrooper Academy. Onesection of learning at the

MEGAN AMOS

Fallen Trooper’s Legacy Lives On

academy is the history ofthe 11 fallen troopers ofNebraska.

On May 15th, Deloresand George met TrooperPotthoff and SergeantAmos at the Law Enforce-ment Memorial at IronHorse Park in NorthPlatte. Trooper Amos andother fallen policemenwere paid tribute with a21-gun salute and taps.

On June 6th, TrooperGeorge Amos Jr. was hon-ored once again. The Ne-braska State Patrol held aceremony in the Gover-nor’s Hearing Room inthe Capitol building inLincoln. They presented awarning ticket to theAmos family that TrooperAmos had written on Au-gust 9, 1972. Another fam-ily had found the ticketand had given it to the Ne-braska State Patrol. Sev-eral members of theAmos family gathered inremembrance of George.Trooper Potthoff and PSDSergeant Amos were alsoin attendance. Lt. Gover-nor Mike Foley and NSPSuperintendent, ColonelJohn Bolduc presentedthe award to Delores,