Hello all! Just thougt you all would enjoy this little tidbit that my mother found on my great-uncle Albert POTTER. Yes, the subject line is true. My great-uncle was in Ripley's Believe it or not! Pikeville man did 'sheriffin' for 71 years By. T.G. MOORE Associated Press PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Albert Potter speaks with more than 70 years of ex- perience when he says that being a po- liceman "can be a right smart headache." Potter, a retired Pike County deputy sheriff, will be 91 on Jan. 1, 1977, and is one of the oldest living law enforcement officers in the United States, according to the FBI. "They sent me some papers and said I was one of the oldest alive." Potter said recently from his home near Pikeville. Potter is still offically listed as a dep- uty sheriff, and he often gives advice to the department. He carries a badge and gun, but does not recieve a salary. His career had taken him across the hills of Eastern Kentucky hundreds of times in search of "outlaws and bad men." "I started sheriffin' in Letcher County when I was 19 years old. I joined up with some federal revenuers." Potter said. "I was pretty young then. They used to come in here about 15 or 16 men in a group and go out cutting those stills in Johnson, Floyd, Knott, Pike and Letcher counties. "When I first started I'd keep the horsed for them when they'd go on a raid, and later I helped'em bust up some stills." he added. Potter settled in Pike County when he was about 30 and has been a deputy sher- iff "ever since". Many times Potter said, the duties of a deputy sheriff involved as much mar- riage counseling as enforcing the law. "You take a woman when she takes a notion to get mad at her man for gettin' drunk, why, she'd get a warrant for him and I'd go talk to them and get them to make friends." "I had pretty good luck with that," Potter said. Making the rounds on horseback, with a ".38-special" strapped to either leg "and sometimes a Winchester" in the saddle, often to got to be "pretty dangerous work," Potter said. Once he said, "I don't remember real- ly when, I got shot in the left arm and shoulder and I would have bled to death if it hadn't been for a good man who bound me up." Potter, who has had two sons enter and retire from law enforcement, said that "if I had my days to live over again I wouldn't be an officer." "My children took after me, but I started out as a carpenter and I'd have been better off to stayed in it." However, Potter said his wife Virgie, has never complained once during nearly 70 years of marriage. Potter and his wife will celebrate their 70th anniversary on Dec. 26. "She always told me she didn't want me to give it up; she wanted me to be an officer." said Potter. "I told her I guessed she was trying to get me killed, but I was only joking." Well, that's all that the article had to say. I hope you all have enjoyed reading it as much as I have. Rachel Vore dau. of Louise Vore gdau of Frances Baker and Monroe Vanover