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the Journal Times, Sunday, Sept. 21, 1980 Kdcme, Wti. 11A National He peers Into Rushmore's faces from 300 feet up BylulesLoh AP Spatial Cormpondcnt MOUNT RUSHMORE, S.D. A man with a fear of heights has no business dangling from a cable over Mount Rushmore, but Bob Crlsman would not trade that duty with anyone, thing I've never seen in any book. He told me they cut out a piece of weak feldspar and replaced it with a block of granite.

"I told him I had nevereen a patch, and I never would have found it tf he hadn't told me where to look." "Oh, yes. I never go out to Mount Rushmore without my camera." wet, I shook all over and my heart raced like crazy. But I learned to control it. I guess it's in realizing that, strapped in like I am, I'm safe. Now it's like walking out the door.

"Now IJmow how the men who carved it felt. I've tried to -locate as many of those men as I can, and talk to them. "One of them, George Rumple, told me some- He was born and raised on a ranch 13 miles from here and never troubled to go look at the sculpture, except a few times from a distance. When he got out of school and then the Air Force, seven years ago, he took a job with the Park Service at age 24. That was when he got his first close-up look at Mount Rushmore.

"Once I saw it," he said, "I was really awed. "When the sculpture maintenance Job opened up years ago, I applied. One reason was because I wanted to overcome my fear of heights. It didn't work. I still can't go near the edge of anything.

"The first time I was lowered my hands went i kuuic iu nuvc very strung feelings about that sculpture," he was saying the other day, safe on the ground under the gaze of those four presidential faces. "It's hard to put into words, but once you've been out there, touching mftirlMn 4 HARVEST FESTIVAL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 12:00 to 4:00 mountain, or rather the faces, by two trustworthy friends above ating a hand winch that was left for that purpose when the carvings were finished in 1941. Same old winch, same old cable. From below, he looks like a tiny puppet on a string. Thus deployed, 300 feet above "impact level," as he puts it, he goes about filling hairline cracks in the granite so that water won't get in them, freeze, and possibly break off somebody's nose, or lip, or eyebrow.

"Don't worry," he said. "These are not cracks that have developed. They were always there. The rock is crazed, sort of like an old plate, with cracks from the size of a hair to the size of a pencil lead. "When the sculptor, Gutzon Bor-glum, finished it, he filled all those cracks with a mixture of granite dust, white lead and linseed oil.

I use the same thing. The cracks I fill are in the fillings. I have never seen any new cracks." Bob Crisman's affection for the monument is apparent he has read every word he can find about it im Si RACINE SWEET YWCA River Bend Nature Center ADELINES FINIAN'S RAINBOW ii, uiuviug uci cveiy aquuic men UI you develop a certain attachment to it, a pride such as the men who actually carved it must have felt. "It's a personal matter. I asked for the job, they let me have it, and.

J. don't want anyone else to do it but me." The National Park Service titles Bob Crisman's Job "sculpture main-jenance," an accurate but juiceless description of what he actually does. What he does is strap himself in a bosun's chair and allow himself to be lowered over the face of the Sept. 27, MS M. Spt.

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