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So were several sets of keys and money in U.S, Canadian and German currency. "There are some things that indicate that it could be a sex crime," iKnox County Sheriff Tim Hutchison said yesterday. "We are waiting for I the autopsy to tell us whether it really was." Authorities were searching for a man seen with Adams in local restaurants Wednesday night Hutchison said Adams' mother told authorities he had been "acting real weird" in the past two or three weeks and quit his job. Adams apparently drove to the Vancouver airport on Tuesday, rent-led a car and drove to Seattle, Wash. 0 TT Investigators examine the body of a Canadian tourist found at a construction site in Knoxville.

The victim was identified as Blair Robert Dennis Adams, 31, of Surrey, British Columbia. Camry towed to a Knoxville repair shop, telling the towing company he lost the keys. But those keys were found near his body Thursday. From there he flew to Washington, D.C on a one-way ticket He rented a car at Dulles Airport, saying he would be in that area about two days. The next day his body was found here, some 430 miles south.

Adams had his rented Toyota 32 if SkJ 2 He finally turned to family basket malting that Confederate soldiers hanged him three times to make him tell where the horses were." But Jacob Noah survived, he says, never revealing the exact location of the horses. In some ways, Milhorn believes he's continuing those stories and that heritage as he weaves his baskets. Had heard about great-grandfather's work for 60 years JOHNSON CITY (AP) For more than 60 years, Milhorn listened to stories about his great-, grandfather. He heard how Jacob Noah Stout had fought in the Civil War against secession and how he "I was out hunting rabbits down at this friend off mine's aunt's farm one cold December day. and I thought there must be a better way of spending your spare time.

MILHORN STOUT had loved tobacco in his later years. He also heard how his great grandfather had taken trees from Pay Absolutely ales Tax No can use. That's the edge. That's real flexible." The white strip is itself cut into strips that are used to make the basket's ridges, lacings and ribs. "You work it before it gets too dry," he says.

"If it gets a little dry on you, you soak it in water." Then you weave it together in what Milhorn calls "The Jacob Noah" pattern, or in an egg, butterfly, melon or flat-bottom pattern. Altogether, he says, it takes him about seven to 10 days to make a basket With each basket Milhorn feels he is taking another step in his great-grandfather's shoes. Yet Milhorn acknowledges, it's a walk they were never able to take together. "I had never seen my greatgrandfather do this," Milhorn says of the basket making. "He died in 1932 at age 86.

I would have been about 6 or 7. The most vivid thing I guess I remember was his bald head." He also remembers the wonder of sampling fresh apples in the middle of the winter. "My great-grandfather served apples they had buried out in the garden during the fall," Milhorn says. "They were so delicious." Then, of course, there are the stories told to him by his mother, Hattie, as well as other family members. "He was a Civil War veteran who served in the 13th Cavalry," Milhorn says, the ghost of a boy's wonder still in his voice.

"We were told For a limited time, La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries will pay all applicable state and local sales taxes on any purchase in our store. the forest and turned them into baskets at his remote Johnson County jhome. I So when time began to weigh heavily on the now-retired Milhorn, he turned back to his family roots. And started weaving baskets. "I was out hunting rabbits down at this friend of mine's aunt's farm one cold December day," Milhorn irecalls, "and I thought there must be a better way of spending your spare time.

"The fellow that was with me, I asked him, 'Do you know of anyone Wo can make those white oak "'Yes sir, I he said." i And so it began. I That was six years ago and since then the 72-year-old Johnson City resident has made about 60 baskets. "My first one was in 1990," he says, i The baskets are scattered throughout his house, atop bookshelves, nestled near recliners and across countertops. His wife even uses one to keep her knitting skeins in. But stop by Milhorn's home for a visit and it's not one of his baskets he'll pull out to show you.

The first one youH see is one Jacob Noah made. "This is a basket of my greatgrandfather's," Milhorn says proudly, holding out the nearly 100-year-old container. "And this," he says, holding out another, "is one that my mother had that she remembered helping him make in 1908. She was 12 years old." According to Milhorn, the baskets whether Milhorn's or Stout's were made in the same manner. First, he says, you go out into the woods and cut down a five-to-six-inch wide white oak tree.

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