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te A f'f HOME EDITION PRICE 20CENTS i ::4 Served by United Press International Associated Press Scripps-Howard Leased Wire Times London Express Newspaper Enterprise Association UPi Telephoto Pictures Issue No Phone 523-3131' KNOXVILLE TENN 37901 SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 14 1968 92 PAGES Eight Sections Proposals Hope Still Prevails America Stubborn Deceitful Say Reds US negotiators arc convinced their position will be strong in peace talks with North Vietnam Sea "Washington an Page F-7 Two Bodies Easter Joy Rings Out in Troubled World Taken From Crash Site Easter Sunday turned to prayer because the was great Downed Plano Found by Hikors Noar Tapoco NC Finn pub WwldiH President latest proposal for sites for Vietnam talks brought Hanoi objections Saturday raising the likelihood of further sparring before the two sides agree on where to send their envoys North Vietnam's Foreign Ministry declared the five possible meeting places listed by the United States not convenient for the (DRV) North Vietnamese side" 337 Reds Killed in Allied Attacks Yanks Soizt Big Arms Dump the most eggs which she has displayed on the grass in front of her and was rewarded with a (candy) Easter bunny The hunt one of many throughout the city was held yesterday afternoon SHE Kathy Mills has a big smile after winning the Easter Egg hunt at John Tarieton Home sponsored by Alpha Delta chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority Ninc-year-old Kathy found TAPOCO April 13-Reacue workers Saturday recovered the bodies of two Ohio men who died last Dec 22 when their single-engine plane crashed in this mountainous region near the Tennessee line Authorities Mid 20 members of the Graham County Rescue Squad returned the bodies of Larry Dale Wood 22 and Harry Stites 58 both of London Ohio from the mountain wilderness where they were found earlier in the day by hikers A spokesman said the two men apparently died on impact when the aircraft crashed while Wood the pilot wn flying Stites to Columbus Ga for Christmas reunion with a son Reend Omitted Year Earlier Donald Calfee Topo-co Lodge manager Mid a log book found in the wreckage carried a Jan 13 entry which was first thought to be an entry on Jan 13 1968 This gave rise to the belief that the two men had lived for more than three weeks after the crash But officials Hid later that the entry was made in 1967 Mr Calfee said the condition of the wreckage indicated that the two men died on impact The last radio contact with the plane was with the airport at Knoxville Tapoco is about miles south of Knoxville The hikers were on Hooper's Bald a peak about 1 miles from the Tennessee line Left Lag Back at Crash Site Calfee had camped overnight with Jacob Williams and am Hank and Harry Lee Birch-field They had hiked up Slick Rock Creek on a fishing trip and planned to stop at a "ramp while in foe area Slick Rock Creek is about 10 miles north of here Ed Rolen a sergeant for plant protection at Tapoco Hid that after foe group found the plane wreckage they left the plane's log book and other papers at the site hurried into Delivered Thousands of Babies need About 2000 years ago says Christian tradition Jesus Christ was crucified Friday Good Friday the Christian World went to church prayed and fasted to mark the suffering Sunday Christians were going to church to celebrate His rising But behind the hymns of gladness could be heard the roar of guns overseas and the echoes of a week of racial strife in the United States The holy city of Jerusalem was readied for the ceremonies marking the Resurrection of the Prince of Peace Thousands of Christians and Jewa were in Jerusalem to relebrate Holy Week and the Passover Thi year is one of the rare occasions when the two religious holidays coincide Hatch Packed For the Israelis the occasion had special significance It was the first time that either Easter nr Passover had been held in Jerusalem since they conquered Jerusalem and ripped down the barbed wire and barricades that had divided the city for 20 years And they want everything to go smoothly All hotels were packed with the overflow of visitors bedded down in pensions private homes schools and monasteries An unseasonable heat wave seared most of the Holy Land Saturday with temperatures mounting into the 90s More of the same was forecast for Easter Protestant sunrise services start the Easter Day religious rites followed by pontifical high Mass in the Crusader-built Church of the Holy Sepulchre Pope Marks Lent Close Saturday was the first day uf the Jewish Passover commemorating the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt more than 3000 years aga Church bells pealed across Rome Easier morning With Lenten sorrow gone the tidings of Joy for the Christian world rang from the belfries and towers of 500 churches starting at the stroke of midnight Only hours before Pnpe Paul VI showing signs of deep fatigue had marked the close of lent in a Holy Saturday service in which he changed from purple garments to white to mark the change from sorrow to joy Visibly exhausted after the arduous ceremonies of Holy See EASTER Page A ll On the Tee at Masters Rebel Yell Interest Running High in Knox Sheriffs Race Courthouso Talks Centering Around August Election By AL ROGERS Politicians around the Courthouse are eyeing one another like hawks these days Interest in the August county election is building up and each officeholder and potential candidate is Inking to see whom another potential candidate is talking to Ninety per cent of the talk is about the sheriffs race and quite a few seem to he after Sheriff Archie Weaver's job At least five names have been mentioned as possible candidates for the Democratic nomination for sheriff and at least three are nut to take the Republican nomination away from the sheriff Taro Have sauced On the Republican side Squire Joe McMillan and Harold Long who runs a karate school have already announced and John Beeler city superintendent of Inspections is expected In ennnunce soon Some Republican leaden are saying that Sheriff Weaver who last the mayor's race to Mayor Leonard Rogers last November has a hard race to be renominated and they're giving Mr Beeler the best chance of taking the nomination in the May 19 party convention Democrats being mentioned as possible sheriff candidates are Joe McCamphell nil company salesman Floyd Marshall a deputy US marshal: Jim Hess salesman with WTVK-TY County Building Commissioner Jake Kreis and Dnug Atkins professional football player May Jain Farces There is a persistent rumor in political circles that if The initial response of Washington authorities to the Communist statement monitored in Washington from a Hanoi radio broadcast was that North Vietnam is neither slamming foe dnnr on discussions nor delivering a final to the site suggestions Jockeying Sets foe Mood The Hanoi statement vehemently denounced what it called SAIGON April Attacking the "stubborn and perfidious at-Aliied forces killed 337 Commu- titude of the nists Saturday along the North But it reaffirmed North Virt-Vietnam border and in the Lam- "readiness to appoint its Mekong Delta ricebowl below representative to contact foe Saigon military spokesmen I in prelim- inary discussions to determine American and South Viet-! namese unit struck in bombing £ce raids and antiguerill sweeps the Wet Cong and North Viet The initial Spreading of foe namese troops caught on foe broadcast fit in with earlier por-defensive each time trayals in Washington of foe dip- US spokesmen said govern- lomatic and propaganda jockey-ment troops killed 89 North ling which has gone on in the Vietnamese invaders two miles 10 days since Washington and from Gio Link eastern anchor Hanoi first announced their wil-of foe Allied defense line just lingness for contacts under South northern a Ut S- strategists see It border The South Vietnamese I neither side has completely re-troops suffered light losses I jected any meeting site while 212 Die In Delta maneuvering for a location it American infantrymen and prefers But the protracted has-artillery barrages killed an-Isle has underscored foe tough-other 26 North Vietnamese on ness of foe bargaining expected the northern border near foe ahead if and when there are no-Marine fort of Khe Sank which I got iat ions on the real problems the Communisti failed to take of how to end foe war in an H-week siege- To Begin Thant Near Khe Sank US para- troopers seised an abandoned B'k'n proposals Communist arms dump holding Jjr Phnom Penh foa 6060 mortar ahells and nr Warsaw machine gun and rifle bullets he United States has countered In foe Mekong Delta 212 Wth Geneva Rangoon New Communists were killed IDelhi Vientiane nr Jakarta US headquarters Mid Safari The latest message day's air raids over North Viet- stressed preference for dunam marked the second straight elusions a country: day of resumed combat action i Which la neotraL hy the Air new Fills Where both iMoa have dip- The planes had been fanatic missions grounded after two were tost I Where good communications their first week of missions I facjjtiwn are available Make Deep Peoetratten Washington has no Spokesmen Hid Navy jets relations with Camhndia and made the deepest penetration Communist Poland is far fnm over the North since April 4 neutral hitting at a highway bridge 22 At the United Nations UN miles northwest of Vinh The Secretary General Thant Mid strike was well below the 26th Saturday preliminary peace parallel bombing limit set by talks Vietnam will begin President Johnson and a mile soon" below a reported unannounced He issued an appeal to both Dr Lou Hefley Plans Long Vacation By CARSON BREWER Dr Lou Hefley who has delivered enough babies to populate a substantial city will lay aside her forceps and take a long long vacation with her husband hospital administrator Donald McGrath back she' When she'll dosn't know "We have no plans right now" ah Mid yesterday after- (Big-gy) Sheriff Weaver loses the nomination he and County Welfare Commissioner William Wilson will team up to try to get the Democratic nomination for Mr Atkins Mr Vitam a Democrat was a supporter of Sheriff Weaver in the mayor's race Party candidates are pledged if they lose to hark the nominee but this hasn't always worked the past Supt of Schools Mildred Doyle and Tax Assessor Edward Hill may not have any opposition from the Democrats although Andy Myers real estate man is being mentioned as a pnssiMe Democratic candidate for assessor Both Miss Doyle and Mr HiU have held office for many years Three Board of Education members whose terms expire alw may ant have any Democratic opposition At least none is being talked at Ibis time The three members are Hop Bailey longtime board chairman Char See INIEREST Fife A-ll See 2 APPARENTLY Paga 11 which have been making the rounds she does intend to came beck here and resume her practice She know when But she speaks in terms of months instead of years a practice that began in Etowah 30 years ago She came here 25 yean ago But she starting delivering babies when she waa a 10th-quarter med student in Memphis 34 years ago Never Kept Couat How many babies has she delivered since then? "I never kept she Mid But she's sure it's more than M009 During World War II when there waa only one other obstetrician in Knoxville she was delivering from 1M to 120 babies per month Several hundred Hcfley-de-livered babies are pictured on leaving on a trip mainly because we're tired of living Mr McGrath former administrator of Children's Hospital here has been in the him position at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis for more than four years He has resigned effective May 1 Going West She's set May 9 as the beginning of her vacation go to the West Coast where see Mr McGrath's mother in Coronado Calif and their son Jim statiaord in the Navy at Alameda (A daughter Lee is U-T coed She expects to be a camp counselor this summer) The McGraths will go from California to Hawaii How long they'll stay there she doesn't know Nor where go from there i But contrary to some reports oudoun Lake Trail Opens Tomorrow RFK Wants Vietnam Pullout Outlines 3-Point Plan in Virginia CmM Fnm Fnw tom CHARLESTON April 13 Sen Robert Kennedy campaigning through the state that propelled his late brother to the presidency said Saturday if elected president he would try to pull VJ5 troops out of Vietnam and let the Vietnamese fight the war He outlined five elements of a "new foreign policy" here after telling an audience in Logan WVa of a three-point plan for Vietnam me say I would pull back the search and destroy missions" Kennedy said at Logan I would protect those areas of great population centers and I would try to bring American troops home and substitute South Vietnamese soldiers" The largest crowd in Kennedy's tour through seven West Virginia cities greeted him in Logan when aa estimated SOM persona cheered him wildly aa he spoke in front of the Logan courthouse An estimated 20M gave him a standing ovation at KENNEDY Last This Sec U-T Student Killed as Cycle Car Collide Picture ea Page A U-T graduate student in analogy was killed last night when his motorcycle collided with a car oa Clinch Ave at Eleventh St Roy Weber Tyler 29 of 1IM Clinch was dead no arrival at pm at University Hospital Mr Tyler was riding east an Clinch when his motorcycle collided with a car driven by James Robertson Jr 17 of 2(15 Emerald Ave which waa going north an Eleventh Traffic Officer Gene Morrell Mid Young Robertson and bis father who waa riding with him fold the officer they stopped at the intersection saw coming and pulled ouL Officer Morrell Mid the motorcycle bad no lights Mr TVlcr was thrown over the car the street about 23 feet mm the point of import Mr Tyler' wife Mrs Camille Tyler and the couple's le-mnntfc-oid an Roy Whary lyier were vtstmg Memphis The couple are (mm Memphis ef a U-T slaf sal nbreeght tefawrtha amber ef Set DR HEFLEY Faff MI IPS A BIG weekend for golf Tom Siler is in Augusta covering the Masters and many News-Sentinel staffers are covering the Rebel Yell tournament at Hnl'tna Hills For stories and pictures of hoik tnumamemi sec the Sports WHATTA LIFE! is dressed up hi its Easter finery Page F-l THE WORLD TODAY is on Page B4 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS on Page B4 limit at the 19th parallel miles into North Vietnam Khe Sanh in foe northwest corner of the country had been JO JO Soys: tagged aa a prime target for1 North Vietnamese forces since early this year It was surrounded and hammered daily by artillery rocket and mortar fire until fate in March Found Near Lang Vci Camp On April 1 Operation Pegasus involving 20006 Allied troops began and within a week foe siege had been lifted Since that time Allied forces have been sweeping around the bare and westward but have met little resistance The arms cache waa found lew than a mile west of the Lang Vei Special Forces camp aa Allied post jute outside Khe Sanh which was overrun by the enemy Feb 7 In addition to the mortar sheila the cache incuded 32 crew-served weapons 1609 rounds KNOXVILLE OAK RIDGE muon and 308 rounds of 42 mm I and MIDDLE EAST TENNES- "SnMter'mrte of the emmtrv l55 chudP and with scattered no significant ground ffghtmg shower and thundershowers was reported IVindi today southwest at If In another development foelmpk Knoxville Airport temper-Met Cong announced that it stares: High inday 72 low would begin Saturday a three- day cease-fire in An Giang Province near foe Cambodian border to mark the Khmer-or Cambodian new year Most ef Smith Vietnam's Khmer people live in the province southeast of Saigon Hanoi radio said fa re-pnrtaig foe truce By CARSON BREWER The Loudoun Lake Dogwood Trail opens tomorrow be worth the trip if not a dogwood tree grew on foe whole nine miles of it But there are plenty of dogwoods Some of the prettiest pinks in Knoxville in fact plus lots of white All of foe Dogwood Trails are different But foil one is so the only Trail outside the city Sort of a country trail Castle country Has Tint Homes Part of it ia high-quality suburbia Good home Good landscaping Plenty of trees Houses close enough together for neighborly acrott-lot chit-chat But another port of it Roiling acres of glossy grass and trees with some of the largest finest homes ia East Teruwssee Part of I wooded high ground with long-ranging visits Another part is easitystoping grassland that goes down to meet Fort Loudoun Lake Muck of the area aestles in a crank of the lake where much of the land was in the old Peter Blow farm Sequoyah Hills and East-era State Psychiatric Hospital are opposite The Loudoun Lake Trad will he the second me to open The Sequoyah Hills Triid opened yesterday HereYo HigMightf Mrs CsrroQ McGinnis Trad leii ssstil Vw i HEFLEY Dr Lou Htf ley looks through a scrapbook at pictures of some of the more than 10000 babies she's delivered in the past 34 years She and her husband Donald McGrath are getting ready for a long vocation ond Worm bu Wach Gums hod none to been date 4 canto along Mr McGinnis had gone to beep a date cm Progress Report in N-S Businessmen Push Negro Employment NNiciaaB and businessmen feeling On bet breath of An CM Rights revolution as a threat la eecurity and sales markets uw pushing effort! fa hire On awcaDed "hardcore wnnfcyod Ihiaagh hiring prajtcti la a penetrating and ninety series "Job: The Negro's StepUddev" starting tomorrow in The News-Seatiart Robert Dwtsch Scrippodtoward nun wrfcer reports his fkMhngs on hat is hem daw is obtain js far lha andettramed under-demotivated peranaa nta hve fa tog oty ghetma a Moat are Negroes la snow rak elimtoaung wrinen enipfoyment tests ick screened wa pcteuuagy efficient wdbng workers hiring projects uwuKwg the Federal Gournment ny balls corpora-Irak civic and CM Rights organizationa are adding 99 i payment figures The Maternal Alba are Bntmevamea goal tad fobs hr RUN by Jane Ml MM by Jam Wl Racial News Review Ms jeer an city atrvrt compared with eight Arafat at Ms Unfem there! an umbrella handy one'o Easter finery has a SI per cent chance of getting ra med today the Venther-ian figured last mgfa Temperatures today are expected to be a delightful il de-i green nd down only tn a tow of 91 mn-gfa But fa foe-meantime foe Vcnthetman says! af Dr Martin Lather Ring Jr Maryland Gov Sphw I try lag so E7lBffl ail some tea Or maybe was trout A few Trad highlights: Fiery-red tulips at Trai trance Mnutlake Drive at Alcoa Highway Lakemeer llnme and Garden Club planted them Mn Me-t'Gfanfa Mid Good mam ef white dngnond at Kmg Jr heme 3113 Mradake Several ones apparently tecenthy trane Sew LOL'DOL'X Page There hi foe Rn city Mb year nhh eight a of curlews fa seieeal on Page A-K A review ef Mte efforts I Page ArM Knox Booufifful Soys: IPs Rmd Rend On font af this The Negro's Stepfadder" riots fa Vi Due an oaPmoF-SU Tmteni rOpm 1 rwkAqt XJf to I PX we M- I vw iww9wiiivwi mm "SW".

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