This photograph shows the Mitchell County Law Enforcement team about 1960. Pictured, left to right, are James Edwards and Joe Stewart, Mitchell County deputies; Sam Gouge, Mitchell County Sheriff; Jim Burleson, Spruce Pine Chief of Police; Ray Gunter and Landon “Cotton” Burleson, Spruce Pine Police Department officers; Herb Teague, Spruce Pine Police Department detective; Zeke Howell, Mitchell County Jailer; and North Carolina Highway Patrolmen Charles Radcliffe, R.E. Pipes, and Lee Lance. The automobiles, left to right, have been identified as a 1960 Ford, a 1960 Pontiac, a 1959 Chevrolet, and a 1959 Ford.
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Mitchell County’s Keepers of the Peace 1960

This photograph shows the Mitchell County Law Enforcement team about 1960. Pictured, left to right, are James Edwards and Joe Stewart, Mitchell County deputies; Sam Gouge, Mitchell County Sheriff; Jim Burleson, Spruce Pine Chief of Police; Ray Gunter and Landon “Cotton” Burleson, Spruce Pine Police Department officers; Herb Teague, Spruce Pine Police Department detective; Zeke Howell, Mitchell County Jailer; and North Carolina Highway Patrolmen Charles Radcliffe, R.E. Pipes, and Lee Lance. The automobiles, left to right, have been identified as a 1960 Ford, a 1960 Pontiac, a 1959 Chevrolet, and a 1959 Ford.This photograph shows the Mitchell County Law Enforcement team about 1960.  Pictured, left to right, are James Edwards and Joe Stewart, Mitchell County deputies; Sam Gouge, Mitchell County Sheriff; Jim Burleson, Spruce Pine Chief of Police; Ray Gunter and Landon “Cotton” Burleson, Spruce Pine Police Department officers; Herb Teague, Spruce Pine Police Department detective; Zeke Howell, Mitchell County Jailer; and North Carolina Highway Patrolmen Charles Radcliffe, R.E. Pipes, and Lee Lance. The automobiles, left to right, have been identified as a 1960 Ford, a 1960 Pontiac, a 1959 Chevrolet, and a 1959 Ford.

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