European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Three 90-foof-tall Stone giants Robert e. Lee Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson will ride forever Over memorial Park. Ammoth Monument to the confederacy by Mark Dahlinger staff writer thurs a sculpture started in 1923 i finally being completed and the Jet age has moved in to make the Job easier. At Stone Mountain memorial Park 16 Miles cast of Atlanta Jet torches actually a sort of miniature Jet in Kino Are cutting into the face of the biggest hunk of Granite in the world to carve out a Salute to the confederacy. When the Mammoth undertaking i completed. Gen. Robert e. Lee confederacy president Jefferson Davis and Gen. Andrew Stonewall Jackson All astride their horses and with their hats Over their hearts will ride forever Over the recently developed 3,000-acre me Morial Park at the Mountain s base. The flames blasting from the Jet torches have a muzzle velocity of about 100 feet per minute and a temperature around 3,500 degrees and the men Han a Lite them work 33 stories above the base. Is eel spikes have been driven into Sione Mountain s face to support the scaffolds on which the workmen sculptors blast away. When completed their heroic work fan will stretch Over 57,950 Square feet the project measuring out at an impressive 190 feet by 305 feet. The whole sculpture idea which ims undergone some upsetting periods of tempers and tantrums started in la when the daughters of the confederacy brought famed sculptor gut on Boi Klum to Stone Mountain with the View of having him carve out an entire Confederate army on foot and horse pack a work anybody should have realized was far too ambitious. World War i was blamed for delaying any real carving work for some Rea son. And it was t until june 1923, tha Thoi glum drilled in. By january 1924, enough carving had been done on the sure of Lee that the sculptor was � in to stage a publicity coup of no Small proportions breakfast was serve to distinguished guests on Lee s great shoulder. Temperament set in and Borglum went off to South Dakota to leave his Mark on it. Rushmore and another artist Augustus Lukeman took Over the project recommending a smaller de sign with Only the figures of Lee Davis and Jackson. As a result most of Borglum s work was blasted right off Stone Mountain. But alas by mid-1928, funds and enthusiasm petered out and the outlines on Stone Mountain weathered until 1958,when the Georgia legislature created the Stone Mountain memorial association. That body was authorized to sell Revenue Bonds to Purchase Park Landau the base and finish the memorial carving. By. August 15, 1968 Alker Hancock of Gloucester muss., was named consulting sculptor when things got moving again and work on the carving slowly started up once More thanks in part to the fact that Lucman s models and plans were still around. The size of the undertaking can be realized perhaps from Lee s Dimen Sions. He s 90 feet High with a 12-Footby 14-foot head a 38-foot Arm and a sword 50 feet Long. His horse traveller is 141 feet Long. Since the state itself acted to further the memorial plan the Park has been developed and Cable cars carry visitors from the base to the museum crowned Mountaintop where the flags of the 11 Confederate states Fly. In the Park a full scale replica of a civil War train pulls classic old coaches around the five mile base. Also completed Are camping facilities a Battle Field diorama Motel Riding Academy antique Auto museum and Steamboat replica gliding Over a 416-acre Lake. The Star and stripes sculptors use Jet torches to carve massive features. Page 11