The Robesonian from Lumberton, North Carolina • Page 6

6--The Robcsoni'an, Mom'ay June 15, 1970 Great Smokies Keep Mum On Secret Of Lost Child By ESCAR THOMPSON Associated Press Writer GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP)-A year ago Sunday Dennis Martin, 7, vanished in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as if he had been swallowed by one of the countless sinkholes that dot the Smokies. The disappearance of the Knoxville lad while on a hiking trip along the famed Appa- Jachin Trail with his father, William a i and other relatives touched off the biggest and most expensive a in the history of the Smoky Park. moment i a romping and playing i his older brother. Douglas; the next he had vanished.

As soon as a i reported to park headquarters his son was missing, officials set in motion so massive that at its peak more a 1,400 persons combed the rugged mountains. "Rut never did i a trace of the boy." said Kd Wid- mcr, assistant chief ranger of the Smoky Park and one of the search lenders. "We checked out dozens of leads and rumors and never came up with anything positive," Widmer added. The spot where Dennis disappeared is known as Spence Field, a cleared area along the Appalachian Trail about air miles southwest of Gatlinburg. Spence field is surrounded by dense which abounds in (fie Park service officials say they I are convinced the boy simply 1 got lost and eventually died in the Spence field area.

"We fee! certain he never left the park," said Widmer. "It is a rugged area and most i i to find anything. Only recently an airplane that had been missing about J5 months on a flight over the Smokies a found. If it tcK)k that long to find a a you can see how i i cult it might be to find a small boy." But Martin, a former draftsman for a Knoxville architect i and his wife say they are convinced Dennis left the park. "The fact a there has not been one shred of evidence he might have gotten out of the park somehow," Martin said.

For months after the park service officially closed the search for Dennis last Sept. 14, Martin placed advertisements in Knoxville and other area newspaper seeking information about his son. The searchers came from hundreds of miles away and from almost as many areas. The Army sent helicopters from Fort Bragg, N.C., and Green Bcrct troops specially trained to search in rugged terrain. Along with volunteers by the hundreds, there also were National Guardsmen, rescue squad members and Coast units that checked out lakes and streams.

The massive effort produce high hopes of finding Dennis. But the Smokies they get their a from the mists that drift and cling (o the curving ranges which rise to the highest peaks in eastern United States-never gave up their secret, turned up about Dennis leads my wife and me to believe that 333,000 about Head these and reap! PRICES IN THIS AD ARE EFFECTIVE IN LUMBERTON, N. C. THROUGH JUNE 20. For Father's Right" Meats! ALLGOOD BRAND SULTANA BRAND FROZEN MEAT PIES Bt.t 4 Pkgs' 69c HEAVY CORN FED BEEF AVG.

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Feeder cattle are the primary products of (he state's beef industry. These 400 to 500-pound animals are produced usually to be sold to go into finishing operations. North Carolina has only a small role in finishing cattle FeedJot finishing on an all grain ration is fading, according to a recent study done by a U. S. Department of Agriculture researcher stationed at NCSU.

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