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Show l Veal Sill: Roosevelt, Utah March 7, 1946 I heard just the other day that Kenny had been in the hospital to haw his appendix removed. !; We're glad to learn that he's been getting along in fine shape. The appendix supply in your r- family must be running pretty t low. You know, Bill, I've always maintained that by the time a younstcr reaches the age of nine he should have his appendix cut I, out, his tonsils removed and all ' his teeth pulled. Think of all ' the future grief he would have eliminated. Well, Harry Sprouse, Henry Slaugh and Dave Thomas, the game wardens for the Uintah Basin, returned from the antelope ante-lope round-up a few days ago. You see it's been the plan of the state game department to bring the. antelope back to something some-thing like its former standing in Utah. So the boys went up into in-to Brown's Park country to round-up a bunch and transplant them into the Basin. ' Up on the antelope range in I Brown's Park the warden con-( con-( structed a combination wire and , pole corral and then started their it antelope drive from the air. A II plane moved back six or eight miles from the corral, spotted a herd, dove and headed the ani- l mals on a dead run toward the f enclosure. Of course it wasn't like pushing along a bunch of old milk cows so the pilot had ''i to dive from one side and then o 1 the other, keeping the antelope ?j moving toward the corral. J,' As the herd tore down on that newly constructed "back yard," si the wardens on horseback gal-NF gal-NF loped in from both sides and i' drove ten antelope through the r, gate. But antelope axe crazy ij" things and by the time the dust ,': had settled only six of the ani- mals remained alive. The other four had battered themselves to pieces against the wire fence. The six excited and badly ,;. frightened antelope were loaded I into a truck and brought over I the mountain into the Basin. It's r a military secret as to where . they were released. Harry tells me that he never J saw a more shabby bunch of an- telope in his life than the six " that were turned loose in the Basin. During their ride over the mountain, the wild little fellows with the black neck ties banged against the truck, kicked, buck-t buck-t ed and scrambled and with their I keert't'dged hooves peeled hide, v- hair and meat from each other. Ij About the only thing they didn't get was car sick. J I guess it was a great day at Brown's Park when the drive got under way. Spectators from the surrounding country appear-- appear-- ed in flocks, and even school was dismissed so that the youngsters could witness the event. Clem Labrum got as far as Salt Lake with his new plane on Monday. He picked up a P-13 at Phoenix, and fighting head winds all the way flew into . Salt Lake in about six hours. He'll fly his plane to Roosevelt just as soon as the plane is reregistered re-registered and given a new number num-ber at Salt Lake. Well, Bill, I'll get this in the 1 mail now. So for the time being J I'll call it quits. As ever, Unc |