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Local Artist .Displays Work At Arts Festival PAGE 5 - PLA1NDEALER Those Magnificent Women A very special exhibit of papier mache sculpture by McHenry artist Betty Od- mark will be included id the Seventh Annual Fall Arts festival to be presented by American Society of Artists, a national ^membership organization at Crystal Point mall, Rt. 14 and Main street, Crystal Lake, Thursday through Sunday, Oct 16-19. Papier mache goes back more than 1,000 years. Soon after the Chinese invented paper they began to ex­ periment with shaping and melding it. The craft declined for several hundred years until the 18th century. It then surfaced to popularity in France. Betty Odmark creates both realistic and whimsical creatures and people from papier mache - in all sizes! She studied at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago and today works in a 100- year-old garage on the Fox river near McHenry. While the artist works in many forms-acrylics, wood, clay, etc., her papier mache sculptures are among her most popular and interesting works. She currently has work on display in the Society's Merchandise mart showroom and recently had a special two-man show at the society's Michigan avenue gallery. Additional information may be obtained from American Society of Artists at 312-751-2500. Pass Bill To Prevent Swine Fever Outbreak The United States Senate has unanimously passed a bill introduced by Senator Charles H. Percy (R:I11.) to require the processing of raw garbage fed to hogs to prevent outbreaks of African swine fever. "With Senate passage of the Swine Health Protection Act, we can be assured that our hog population will be better protected from the possible ravages of an outbreak of African swine fever,'.' Percy said. "This is especially important to Illinois - the second largest hog-producing state in the country". African swine fever, a deadly infectious disease of pigs, had never been found in the western hemisphere until an outbreak occurred in Cuba in 1971. Since then, the disease has been discovered in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Brazil. African swine fever is transmitted through raw or improperly treated garbage. The Percy legislation requires that garbage may be fed to hogs only after it has been treated to kill disease organisms. States which have adequate laws and regulations concerning the processing of garbage fed to hogs, such as Illinois, will continue to have primary responsibility for enforcement. The House of Represen­ tatives passed similar legislation introduced by Congressmen Paul Findley (R-Pittsfield) and Edward R. Madigan (R-Lincoln). The legislation now goes to the President to be signed into law. ^^TZ©?C/*° "Another thing I appreciate about my NEWSPAPER -- It never blows a picture tube!" WEEKEND CROSSWORD ACROSS I Back talk S Auguries It Arboretum item 11 Erase 13 Austen novel 14 Obsessed 15 One kind of music If Throw 17 Age II Hit the sack n Tease 21 Cuff 22 Voxpopuli sampling 23 Popular street name 2S Bequest getter 21 Wings: Lat. 27 Blatter, inlaw 2S Women's org. 21 Imprison 32 Doctors' org. 33-out (clothe) - 34 Beak 31 Specialty; forte Siatyin Judah 31 Brought forth 41 Valley 41 Apart from 42 Colored DOWN 1 Keep in -- 2 Early battle gear 3UJS. Coast Guard motto 4 At -- (bewildered) 5 Less common I Put together 7 Man's name S Mercouri film » 9 Aseptic 12 Empower If Pitch- T O D A Y ' S A N S W E R scisa r-]Bca asm QQH EfflOMfflH SEE BBE feJflWD sfejos&j tJUEam HEME SEE fclOE felEUQfcJQ •Ei] SfeJB HKE 12IIEEL ClZfijEJ feJfeJEH If Yarn 22 Versifier 23 Bovary's title 24 Calif. city 25 Anesthetize 29 Stallion Think about pioneers of flight and certain names ^immediately leap to mind: the Wright brothers, Jimifiy iDoolittle, Charles Lind­ bergh, Harriet Quimby. Harriet who? Harriet Quimby-the first woman in the United States to hold a pilot's license and the first woman to pilot her own aircraft across the English Channel. A spunky, determined, dark-eyed beauty, Harriet Quimby captured the admiration of men and women alike in the ' early 1900s. She was America's darling as she looped and whirled through the air wearing a plum- colored satin flying suit. Yet, the daring exploits of Harriet Quimby and other early female aviators have been a little-known chapter in the annals of flight. That is one oversight that Claudia Oakes, assistant curator of aeronautics at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space museum, hopes to rectify. While doing the research for a book, U.S. Women in Aviation through World War I, Ms. Oakes spent eight months tracking down women aviation pioneers who made headlines and heads turn during the early days of flight. Ms. Oakes' interest in The Boston Palladium, an early 19th century news­ paper, was the first to send reporters out to bring news in instead of merely printing news sent to the office. 1 r-3 4 r 6 7 s-r-P to 1" P 13 f if 15 r n lb i7~ * 20" IBHMI ir~ jjj H 22 23 24 SB 25 26 • i 27 2& 20 31 • 55 33 IS 34~ 36 n --1 * 39 40 41 42 early aviation goes back a long way, even before her employment at the Smithsonian in 1969. "My father, who was born in 1905, told me of seeing a demonstration in rural Tennessee of what was probably a Curtiss Pusher when he was 6 or 7 years old," she says. That image, coupled with her fascination with things Edwardian, eventually led her to research and record the role of early women aviators. "When aviation was in its infancy," Ms. Oakes says, "it was considered radical for a woman to involve herself in any aspect, be it pilot, passenger or even promoter." But in spite of all the obstacles-family, friends, training, funds, equipment-women wanted to fly, and fly they did. The first American woman to pilot her own aircraft~a balloon-was Mary H. Myers at Little Falls, N.Y., in 1880. Mrs. Myers, later billed professionally as "Carlotta, the Lady Aeronaut," became known throughout the Northeast for her ballooning skills and was often hired to perform at festivals. In 1886, she established a new world altitude record of 4 miles in a balloon filled with natural gas instead of hydrogen~a record even more astonishing because she did it without using oxygen equipment. In the early 1900s, women graduated from balloons to airplanes. They were willing passengers in the new­ fangled flying machines, though the flights were such rarities that they were treated as hard news. The June 20, 1911, edition of the Detroit Free Press carried a front-page account of women who, without a trace of fear in their walk, climbed into planes and flew as passengers at the 1911 Detroit Air meet. The headline proclaimed "Three Detroit Women Venture in Biplane." As aviation grew, so too did women's involvement, and records were set each step of the way. Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick became the first woman to parachute from an airplane over Griffith Park in Los Angeles; Lillian Todd, of New York City, the first woman to design her own aircraft, and Julia Clark, the first U.S. woman killed in an airplane crash, in 1912 at the Illinois State fair in Springfield. "If any one thing can set thefce women apart, it would be their independence," Ms. Oakes says. "These women were leading unusual lives even before getting into aviation." Take Blanche Scott, hired by the Willys Overland company to drive an Overland car from New York to San Francisco as a publicity stunt, thus becoming the first woman to drive coast-to-coast by automobile. While passing through Dayton, Ohio, she lekrned of the existence of the Wright school and became interested in flying. Later that same year, 1910, she became the first American woman to solo. Or consider Bessicta Raiche of Beloit, Wis. Bessica was indeed a modern woman-for one thing, she wore bloomers. She also drove a car and liked to shoot and swim, all of which were considered masculine endeavors. But what really set her home town buzzing was the French husband she brought back from an overseas trip. Bessica also began flying in 1910, but lost out to Blanche Scott as the first woman to solo. With her husband she later formed the French-American Aeroplane company, designing and building her own airplanes. Never one to be content with traditional "woman's work," Bessica PAGE 5 • PLA1NDEALER - WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 15,1980 counts of the accident laid the blame on the fact that the pilot was a woman. Even the serious aviation journals of the day blamed the aircraft and its structure as the cause of the tragedy. It looked as though women as aviators had arrived." returned to school to study medicine after her retirement from aviation and became a practicing physician. Harriet Quimby was a well-known journalist of the day and a drama critic for Leslie's Weekly, a popular magazine. The uncertainty surrounding her past (Harriet let on that she was born into a wealthy California family while evidence indicates that she was the daughter of a Michigan farmer) added to the mystique. "Harriet was very am­ bitious and very deter­ mined," Ms. Oakes says. "She used her imagination to help her get ahead, in­ venting, for example, a more prominent background to promote herself. "But one thing Harriet had was gumption. In 1910 she decided she would learn to fly and she did. She wanted to be the first woman to fly across the English Channel and in 1912 she did that, too." Unfortunately, Harriet's flamboyant flying career was short lived. She and a male passenger crashed during a routine flying exhibition at the 1912 Har- vard-Boston Aviation meet and both were killed. "Interestingly," Ms. Oakes points out, "no ac- By World War I, women had proven they were capable, dedicated, qualified flyers. Though they may have been oddities, their skills were recognized and admired. Yet the U.S. government steadfastly refused to allow them to join the Air Services and fly in combat, an issue still in dispute today, more than half a century later "After, the war',' Ms, Oakes says, "flying took on a different aspect^ There were more people flying in general; there were more airplanes in existence. The novelty had worn off Women aviators in the 1920s also had one other big ad­ vantage over their predecessors: role models " "I think that is the most important contribution of the early women aviators," she continues. "They proved that women were not too stupid or too fragile to learn to fly. They showed women everywhere that they, too, could break with tradition. They were successful; they were professionals. They were truly pioneers of flight." 39 Swarm 31 Don Murray film role 3S Caused to be 37 Here: FT. 39 Recipe word OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 7 AM to 10 PM SUNNYSIDE FOODS & ED'S FINER MEATS & SAUSAGE SHOP 4216 N. WILMOT ROAD, SUNNYSIDE, ILL. JUST NORTH OF JOHNSBURG i We reserve the right to limit quantities while they last. Not responsible for typographical errors. 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