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Son Still Alive—FatherContinued From Page 1I think l«'ll find enough green berries—there's not anything ripe—but I think he'll find enough berries and stuff to survive for some time,'' said the haggard father, a 32-yoar-cld Knoxville architect.I think since we haven’t found him ever a bluff or a waterfall or somewhere up in the highlands, I think he’s in the lowlands somewhere just wandering around.The weekend search was Ihc biggest in Ihe 35-year history of the SmokiesPark rangers have voiced cautious optimism about recovery of Ihe youth, although hope was fading lhat the youth would be found alive.Volunteers from as far away as Kentucky and Georgia were aiding 200 Tennessee National Guardsmen and some 50 Green Beret Iroops undertaking an inch-by-iiteh search of the area surrounding Botes Mountain. The boy disappeared from a clearing on the rugged mountain side about 4.800 feet above sea level.Four Army hflicopiers crisscrossed a 55-square-ml!e area in hopes of capturing a glimpse of Ihe bright rod shirt worn by the boy when last seen.More than £00 persons were ferried up Hie mountain by helicopter Saturday morning and rangers dispatched the others fn different directions.Chief Hanger Lee Sneddon, coordinating the search from the Cades Cove search headquarters, kept meticulous records of each group of searchers.Each parly mokes sweeps using ttucc-foot slicks to beat down the underbrush, fcloeh member of the party remains close to another member so (hat nothing goes untouched. Sometimes searchers have to get down on tlieir hands and knees to defeat the heavy underbrush. Some briar bushes are head-high. Observers say seine of the land had never been touched by humans.Every possible clue has been checked out, but there has been nothing turned up, said William T. Briekey, a ranger.
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Kingsport Times News
Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Sun, Jun 22, 1969
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