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Ever at Her Husband's Side .

LAUREL (Md.) — (UPI) was rushed auto race at Talladega, Ala., but it is cleaned up and he's — There was blood on her by road and helicopter to the and has joined her husband out of surgery. yellow dress and tears operating table. on the hustings almost con- "The children and are Old Friend stantly in this political year. going in to speak to him. Be- streaked her cheeks. She Cornelia Ellis Snively Wal- At Holy Cross Hospital in fore he went into surgery, he knelt on the dirt gray as- lace, 32, divorced her citrus the minutes and hours after was conscious all the time phalt of the parking lot, her heir husband a few months the shooting, she waited in a and quite aware of every- long black hair cascading before she married the wid- nurse's station while sur- thing that was happening to protectively on the shoulders ower Wallace. She had geons worked on her hus- him. of her fallen husband. known Wallace since child- band. Friends and even one He was talking to me al) hood when she lived with the time front the accident Yesterday afternoon Cor- other presidential candidate, her uncle, former to the hospital. I feel very she Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, nelia Wallace was where Gov. James "Big Jim" Fol- optimistic about him. And has been since Jan. 4, 1971 dropped by to comfort her. SOM. you know hiS nature — he Composed by the side of her hus- The mother of two boys ;- didn't get the title of. the band, the governor and the • six children all together. The next time reporters `Fightin Little Judge' for presidential contender, with counting Wallace's four — is saw her she was composed, nothing. him on the campaign trail an accomplished guitarist surrounded by Wallace 's "I am very happy and I as often as possible. and a friendly, folksy wom- tour children. feel very good that he is Bystanders and police fi- an who sometimes dresses "I just wanted to tell you alive, that he has a sound lially pulled t h e sobbing in mod clothing and boots. myself," she said, the gov- heart and a sound brain and Mrs. Wallace away from her The first summer after ernor is in very good condi- all of his vital organs are husband a nd she cli'mbed in her marriage she drove the tion. Ile has suffered a seri- solid. I couldn't thank God the emergency van as,. pace car in the Winston 500 ous injury to his abdomen, °'r any more thanr-that."

Sobbing, Cornelia Wallace kneels at her husband's side moments after the shooting- UPL Photo