European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Slone Mountain i believed la 200 million years and loom 700 4 civil War photograph of Gen Robert Lee nitride Hli named finished sculpture will measure 138 feel High and look somewhat like this the big Stone by Frank staff writer a Stone of contents Othats what Stone hag Boon for the past so of 200millionyear the controversy has entered around what to do with this 700foothigh chunk of since it has been settled that the Mountain was to become a Confederate that about All that was settled until a few years a contest was held to select a suitable memorial for the Mountain und nine artists prepared models for final judg these were on display through october the announced in March was sculptor Walker Kin land Hancock of of All Hancocks idea Tor the memorial was to Complete in rough Dout form a huge carving begun in it shows three figures on Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis unfinished the begun in 1135 by augus Tus is the largest of its Type in the larger even Hun the famous Rushmore or the Sphinx m it is a distance of 131 feet from the Crown of Gen hat to his horses work is under Way to make the memorial into a finished work of Art by roughing out some unfinished areas in such a Way As to make it appear intentional so As to emphasize essential Michelangelo and a number of other sculptors used this technique to great Hancock also though of the idea of sum Lohing Mil the rough edges into u Larai picture who re will help make the carving stand out More from the Side of the Massie the located 16 Miles from Atlanta on us was pm coed Tor a memorial to the confederacy in 1915 in sculptor Gutzon Flo glum begun work on he sheer face of the Granite who later carved the Rushmore memorial in South quarrelled with the United daughters of the confederacy and the memorial association and never completed his it was just As some years Lukeman discovered a fault in the Rock and blasted away Borglum then he began november 1964 the stabs and stripes his own carving and continued work until it is Luke mans work that is now in the process of being the is not All there if to the which is attracting More Yankee tourist dollars every in the Georgia general Assem Bly ordered the Purchase of Stone Moun Tain and the creation of a the same act created a memorial association and this group has pushed development of the Mountain la its present advanced the tourist visiting Stone Mountain these Days will find such attractions As a full scale replica of civil War train with classic coaches pulled around the base of the Mountain it has a Girth of five Miles by an old steam Loco Cable constructed by a Swiss to whisk you to the top of the towering Monument a heavily wooded game preserve an antique Auto museum with a rare collection of Yin go models an authentic antebellum plan tation 1840 moved piece by piece from the big Park with camping facilities and a Riding Academy a mod Ern replica of a which piles a 418acre Lake a Georgia Battlefield diorama and a 92unlt on the drawing boards Are a me Morial Hall at the base of the carving and a 18hole Golf the sculptor estimates that it will be three or four years before the monster Stone carving is finished but in the meantime the other parts of the me Park Are already Complete or soon will the gently sloping Granite Monolith has claimed an estimated 100 lives in past years but a safety Fence has now been erected around the brow of Thi Hill to keep climbers from slip Ping to their More than 111 million has been spent thus far to make Stone Mountain the showplace of the and its quite a package Harold a retired air Force general who is manager of the estimates that the Park will attract 1 million visitors annually when All la Georgia is proud to offer the Ameri can Public an enthusiastic View of con federate Maddox Page ii