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PAGE 22- PLAINDEALER-WEDNESDA Y, HECEMBER 1. 1976 McCullom Lake Mary Jo Farrell 344*1575 Civil Defense Director Job Needs Volunteer At the village board meeting which was held Tuesday, Nov. 23, one very important item of business came up. McCullom "Lake's Civil Defense director, Alice Schrocder, announced that she will be moving out of the state shortly. With Mrs. Schroeder's resignation, the job of Civil Defense director is vacant and should be filled promptly. The Civil Defense director's job entails being our villages' contact with the McHenry County Civil Defense. There would be some meetings to attend every so often but that would be all. If you are in­ terested in becoming Mc Cullom Lake's new Civil Defense director, come to the next village board meeting or contact village president, Allan McKim. The next village board meeting will be held Dec 7 at 8 p.m. at the beach house. All villagers are urged to attend. - RE AT WHITE HUNTER Jerry Raycraft once more proved that he can certainly make the price of that out-of- state hunting license worth while. He came home with a deer again this year. Jerry and friends went to northern Wisconsin on their annual hunting trip during the weekend of Nov. 19 and Sunday morning Jerry bagged his deer, a three pointer! Yes, I said three, the poor deer was deformed. Only the rack, though, the rest of the deer is just right. The hunters arrived home Monday, tired out but victorious. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Roger and LaVerne Loewe celebrated theiir wedding anniversary Nov. 23 by going out to dinner at a nearby very swanky restaurant. Before that, Roger, the romantic devil, brought lovely flowers home with him for LaVerne. They had a nice quiet, peaceful dinner, you know, the kind without any kids, and relaxed. CHRISTMAS PARTY The Christmas party for the village youngsters will be held Saturday, Dec. 11, at the beach house. The doors will open at 12:30 and the program will start at 1 p.m. sharp. The children will be expected to be in their seats before the program starts, so please be sure to be there early enough. There will be lots of ex­ citement and a visit from a very special someone. Refresh­ ments will be served, and there will be favors for the kids from you-know who. BIRTHDAYSAND ANNIVERSARIES Lots of birthdays this week to celebrate. Patti Milbratz will celebrate her "sweet sixteen" birthday Dec. 3, Jim Wyman has a birthday Dec. 5, Mark Grim celebrates Dec. 6, as do Lesley and Nichole Curran. hope you all have great bir­ thdays. StrtSiW by Gerry Johnson Take It Easy At 92? Not This Man There's more to being a good teacher than a knowledge of a subject. Should people just take it easy after they reach a cer­ tain age? Ninety-two-year- old George Woods, of Port­ land, Oregon doesn't think so. Woods has walked down a lot of different roads since he was a boy in the Okla­ homa Indian Territory in the late 1880s. When he was 16, he ran away from home to become a water boy on the Frisco Railroad, then being built from South­ east Kansas to Oklahoma City. For the next several years, he laid railroad track, slept in bunk cars and gam­ bled with the other workers. "The pay wasn't what you'd call regular," Woods told a writer from The Na­ tional Council on the Aging in a recent interview. "Once in a while the boss gave us enough money to buy some whiskey and gamble a little." Either Woods got paid more regularly than the other men or he was a very good gambler, because he was able to quit the rail­ roads after a couple of years and move to Oregon, where he has lived since 1921. With no job and no pro­ fession, Woods had some hard times when he first ar­ rived in Coffeyville, Oregon. To support his wife and six children he chopped wood, did yard work and cleaned cisterns until he gradually built a gardening business. While he was caring for the local gardens, Woods started building a house on a lot he bought for $40. Working at night, he kept adding rooms to the house his family lived in for 53 years. His gardening business prospered and he was able to put all of his children through college. , "The kids are scattered all over the map, now," Woods said. "After my wife died, they got on me to come and visit." Woods took them up on their offer. In the past three years he has been to New York, San Francisco, Wis­ consin, and Portland, Ore­ gon, where he now lives with his youngest son. To help pay for his trav­ els, Woods works for the Loaves and Fishes, a Port­ land community program for older persons. 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"I tell a lot of funny stor­ ies and try to keep every­ body laughing," Woods said. He also builds birdhouses and other craft items which are exhibited in displays at the centers. Besides enjoying his work, Woods likes the regu­ lar paycheck he receives. "Between this job and my Social Security, I'm making ore now than I ever have my life," Woods said. . When he can arrange to take time off from work, George Woods will be off on another trip. "Some people want to know how old I have to get before I settle down like an old man is supposed to," Woods said. "I tell them I'll settle down and act 'respect­ able' the day I die-" • • * "I TAKE SOME PER­ SONAL SATISFACTION from the fact that Social Se­ curity benefits have gone up by 120 percent since 1965. But I know that 5 million older persons still live in poverty and I say ifs high time that the Supplemental Security Income Program became an effective instruJ ment for ending that shame­ ful condition, once and for all."--Senator Frank Church at the 26th annual meeting of The National Council on the Aging. Looking Back THE PIASA BIRD In 1673 Louis Jolliet, an experienced woodsman and cartographer, and Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit priest, led the first European exploration of the middle Mississippi River region. Among other remarkable adventures recounted in his journal, Father Marquette in­ cluded the following descrip­ tion of a pictograph which the expedition observed on the rocky bluffs above present-day Alton, 111. "While Skirting some rocks," the priest wrote, "which by Their height and length inspired awe, We saw upon one of them two painted monsters which at first made Us afraid, and upon Which the boldest savages dare not Long rest their eyes. They are as large As a calf; they have Horns on their heads Like those of a deer, a horrible look, red eyes, a beard Like a tiger's, a face somewhat like a man's, a body Covered with scales, and so Long A tail that it winds all around the Body, passing above the head and going back between the legs, ending in a Fish's tail. Green, red, and black are the three Colors com­ posing the Picture. Moreover, these 2 monsters are so well painted that we cannet^eUjve that any savage is their author; for good painters in france would find it difficult to reach that place Conveniently to patot Uiem. Here is mately The shape of these monsters, As we have faithfully Copied It." The pictograph was seen subsequently by LaSalle and other French explorers in the ' 17th century after which the record is silent for a hundred years. Then additional sightings are reported in the early 19th century, and the earliest- known artist's sketch was made in 1825 by William Dennis. He labeled his creation the "Flying Dragon." In 1836 John Russell of Bluffdale, 111., published an article entitled "The Bird That Devours Men," and called the monster the Piasa Bird for the first time. Russell related a legend, much of which he created, which persists as the explanation of the pictograph. The Piasa Bird, Russell wrote, was a hugh flying monster which lived on the cliffs, destroyed Indian villages, con­ sumed its captives, and resisted efforts to destroy it. Chief Ouatoga, however, during a dream inspired by the Great Spirit conceived a plan to kill the terrible bird. Using himself as bait and 20 of his bravest warriors to launch poisoned arrows, Ouatoga's plan suc­ ceeded and the Piasa Bird fell into the Mississippi and drowned. In commemoration of this event, Russell con­ tended, the grateful Indians.; placed the image of the Piasa Bird on the bluff. In 1841 the Piasa Bird was * included in a lithograph by John Caspar Wild and in 1846-47 it was sketched by- Henry Lewis for a major collec­ tion of lithographs which, appeared in 1854. Rudolf, Friederick Kurz, a visiting Swiss artist, described the' pictograph in 1847 as "a . colossal eagle," and in the same year John Russell published a, revised version of the legend. S p e c u l a t i o n c o n t i n u e d throughout the 19th century, even after the entire rock upon which the pictograph appeared- was quarried away for making lime. Although there is no way of ascertaining just how the origi­ nal pictograph looked, the most commonly accepted version was a sketch made by a group of old citizens of Alton which has been reproduced numerous times and is now painted on a cliff along the Great River Road above Alton. Thunder Bird of the Dakota Sioux, medicine animal of the Winnebagos, a figment of Father Marquette's imagina­ tion, or avenging monster of the bluffs of the Mississippi River, the Piasa Bird is an indelible part of Illinois legends. SENIOR CITIZEN'S CORNER I Prevent Fires According to the latest esti­ mates, the United States again has the dubious distinction of having a higher fire death rate than in any other industrialized country. Most of those deaths oc­ cur in residences. The majority of the fires are linked to trash buring, electrical wiring and ap­ pliances, heating and cooking equipment or smoking. The con­ tents of a home -- rather than the building itself -- are usually the first items ignited in fatal fires. Following are some suggestions to make your home more fire- safe. --Have heating equipment checked and cleaned by qualified servicemen. --Keep stove free of grease. 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