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County commissioners and other local officials meet around a pot-bellied stove in the old courthouse in this photo from about 1970. That’s Dick Jones standing by the stovepipe, next to Sheriff George Moses. Press editor Bob Sloan is standing to the right of a poster for an Ox Roast Festival. County manager Ron Winecoff is in front of Sloan and County Chairman Oscar Ledford is sitting beside him. Also shown are the two other county commissioners and members of the Highlands town board.
Barbara McRae
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Relaxed on his comfortable back porch last week, Dick Jones reminisced over the cases and characters he has known during nearly six decades as a Franklin lawyer.
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