Show MYSTERY BIRD PICTURE FADE FADES Winged Whiffed Demon Painted On Cliff Baffles Moderns AJ ALTO TO III Fob Feb H By lS Ey Thi Th A The Prea-The Pros The choicest choices I pigments ot of o a I twentieth century palette have tailed failed to 10 preserve for tor future generations generation tho gaudy and mysterious Plasa bird The winged demon was painted more than Ihan 00 years ago students estimate on the smoothed I face faca or of ora ofa ofa a limestone cliff overlooking the islE I river Who did It none I knows know Indians could not account even In legend for tor the hand that engraved the Image Imago In grotesque hues which stood for tor centuries D Before tore the Civil war quarrying nearby shattered the soft rock on which the IK figure was wa designed and It disappeared piece by piece SCOUTS nEl I REPAINT T IT Two years ellra ago Boy Scouts spon spon- sponsored sponsored I ord an effort to reproduce It so 50 that It II would again ho he visible for tor another two centuries or more gazing ferociously from Crom If its vantage point at the crest erest of ot bluff bluer A painter swinging a scaffold from the tho top of ot the cliff painted the monster anew But erosion Is effacing his work and within a few years It will no lop longer be visible nic rI FIRST 0 OND 0 Galu Gaius Galus Paddock 90 years yearn cau old be- be believes believes be believes himself the only living man who saw taw the original Plasa bird birdAs As a year old boy ho he sighted it In 1852 as he rowed owed along the Mississippi It It was In bright colors of brown red and amber be he saysa says a figure more than 30 feet teet long painted on the highest and most abrupt cliff In the vicinity II a hun hun- hundred hundred hundred dred and fifty feet teet above aboe the river riverbank riverbank riverbank bank |