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Page 6A Thursday, February 15, 1996 Search From Page 1 After 20 years, you ready yourself that all they may find will be remains. It will be a closure Louise Clinkscales find their son. They printed and distributed This morning, dogs trained to find cadavers sniffed the lake's muddy bottom and deputies probed the silt with poles and metal detectors. "We're still hopeful," said David Bell, a spokesman for the department. "After 20 years, we think that whatever may be down there will be under silt." The cascade of events that led investigators to the Big Springs area was set off by a Jan.

27 article in the LaGrange Daily News about the 20th anniversary of Clinkscales' disappearance. "It was kind of a snowball effect," Bell said. "We were beginning to recover bits of evidence that had not been obtained before." On Wednesday, deputies working with city workers from La-Grange tore apart an earthen dam and used pumps to drain the water from the lake. The lake is not much more than a football field in length and its sides slope steeply downward from the road. More than 100 people crowded anxiously near the shore watching the bottom for signs of a car as Chief Deputy Joey Branch and Deputy Earl Thompson waded waist-deep in mud probing the lake bottom with poles and oars.

"There ain't never been this many people in Big Springs never," said Kabe Jackson, who lives near the lake. "I bet they had to call their kinfolk to find it." As the sun went down, workers hooked up their pumps again to drain the remaining six feet of water in the lake. They used a generator to operate lights that cast a glare on the muddy water. Dogs sniffed the mud. For 13 years after their child disappeared, the Clinkscales operated an organization called FIND-ME to help other families locate their missing children.

John Clinkscales, a Talladega native, wrote a book, "Kyle's Story: The Search for Missing Children," about he and his wife's efforts to I Announces His Candidacy for U.S. Congress yi 8:30 sun. Friday, 1 February 16 Calhoun County iLi Courthouse Judge Monk's Courtroom 0 Come Out and Hear fu This Proven Leader Discuss His Stand Vv on the Issues That Affect You Paid Political Advertisement By Gerald Willis, 15695 Ala. Hwy. 9, Piedmont, Ala.

pamphlets to law-enforcement agencies and to individuals about tracking missing children. President Ronald Reagan recognized them for their efforts. They also helped establish the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Clinkscales served on its board. The Clinkscales shut down FIND-ME in 1993, but they never gave up hope of finding their son. They had trouble believing that he would simply disappear on his own without notice; they feared that he had been killed.

Now they worry that their fears were justified. "There's nothing definite yet," said Mrs. Clinkscales. "They are trying to follow all the new leads up." Coma From Page 1 "This is one of the biggest blessings that's ever happened to me," he said. 1 "i Dockery drifted into a coma that limited him to occasional nication through blinking, grimacing or groaning.

His family was never sure how much he really un- derstood. In the days since his awakening, Dockery had had some setbacks. He spoke less on Tuesday and not at all on Wednesday. He remembered neither the shooting nor taking the Walden police job just three months before. He did recall his divorce and the eight years he spent with the Lookout Mountain police, and he recognized his sons.

He has no idea who is president. He was spared O.J. Simpson's murder trial. He has no concept of the Internet. "There's not but one way to describe it," said family friend Tim Thompson.

"It's a miracle of God." Dockery telephoned his mother Hourlys Good Friday Night Only February 16th Monday. Then he spoke out distinctly to his sister. "I looked up at him and he had a look I had never seen before," Lisa Dockery said through a hospital spokeswoman. "He seemed so at ease ahd his eyes were wide open." "I'm your sister," she said. "Uh-huh," he responded.

"You're talking!" she exclaimed. "I sure he answered brightly. He was quickly reunited with the. two sons he had not seen for seven years and other relatives. Today, the family asked Folkening not answer any questions from reporters.

He read from a statement, saying relatives were hoping to get some privacy. He did not say how long the operation lasted, but his briefing began about 212 hours after the surgery began. On Sept. 7, 1988, Dockery answered a trouble call in Walden, a mountain town 15 miles northeast of Chattanooga where he worked as a policeman. He was shot point-blank with a derringer as he stood talking to the 911 caller in his driveway.

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