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Show owt’ Catholics Page A4 — THE DAILY HERALD, Prove, Utah, Seterday, May 11, 1996 Colo. man fighting to protect castle “This is the only fighting castle left in the world,” says Jim Bishop, who over 27 years singlehandedly built the castle of granite After climbing the dark bell EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Roman C: are demanding the destructioa of tower's spiral staircase, made all the more treacherous by blown-in snow, 8-year-old Steve Patin of Houston, said, “It’s really scary, really frightening when you go up to the top of that tower, ‘cause when you look down it's OHbhh- a secretly made recording of a priest hearing confession from an inmate, @ sacred hh! “‘It's like a real castle.” aitis heard Conan Wayne Hale on April “How many people you know rocks, stee! and concrete without wantto build a storage shed out in blueprints, building inspectors or the back yard and haven't done it permits, in 10 years?” asked Rusty Buller 22 in the visiting area of Lane County Jail. Hale, 20, faces trial on burglary and theft charges next month and “It has been under siege, but wonall its battles so far,” says Bishop, a visionary — perhaps eccentric — wrought-iron craftsman with a shop in Pueblo. The attacking dragons have been bureaucrats from the state highwayandtax departments. The highway department didn’t Bear 3 ¥ slayings. Officials have not said what is on the tape or whether Hale even admitted to a crime. However, District Attorney Doug Harcleroad has suggested that prosecu- Need a last minute gift that doesn't looklike one? Yay 10¢77, 10am-8 p os ite Stegauee Of Certificates court,although he said he has not yet made a final decision “We are trying to solve a triple homicide. We will use all legal means to do that,” Harcleroad said this week. Hale’s lawyer, Terri Wood, said he would try to suppress the tape if prosecutors attempt to use it. t 100 E. Maple St. Mapleton Come & see our new crafts & wonderful bakery!! Nostesses: Sharell Edeunds 491-6031 Joonne Staneli 480-0624 Give your wife or mother a gift certificate for aapenas cere dress or from being questioned by police about confidential conversations. But Harcleroad said the law allows the recording of conversations in jail. “The only exemption is the attorney-client privilege,” Harcleroad said. Roman Catholic officials, however, are outraged. “It was beyond belief that AP Photo Rye, Colo. Bishop, a self-professed zealot for freedom,has built the castle of granite rocks, stee! and concrete over the past 27 years. : dim Bishop stands onthe steps of his Castle of the Hours, which is perhaps the world’s largest one-manproject, in the Wet Mountains northwest of eT sports land. The sacrament of recon- ciliation is considered private underall conditions, he said. 550 S. 500 W. Santaquin 16” Fuehsia Baskets .. BAS.9B Reg. s20.00 | Jumbo Pack Bedding Plants ......$1.99 Reg. $2.50 i] 16” Color Bowl... 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He then reminded them of the box at the castle like Bishop’s highway signs giv- donation entrance, donations that have kept ing directionsto the castle, located the project going, but is also the 16 miles northwest of Rye and cause ofhislatest fears that he will about 25 miles southwest of lose his charity status. Pueblo. After much acrimony Asthe crowd thinned and peothere now is a state-approved sign ple wound their way back to the pointingto the site. bus, Bishop admitted he may be Property taxes were another burned out, partly because of a major battle. Bishop’s wife, family tragedy. Phoebe, won a property-tax Eight years ago, his 4-year-old exemption forthe castle by setting it up as a nonprofit corporation son, Roy, was killed in a treethat pledged part of the donations felling accidentnear the castle site to helping newborns with heart while Bishop was up on the walls, “The loss of a child ... that’s trouble. Another dragon looms on the hard,” Bishop says, looking away. horizon, a proposed amendmentto “Been awful hard on my wife. I'd irapose property taxes on certain just work and cry.” Bishop's other children grew up nonprofit entities. Colorado voters in the gift shop he built on land will vote on it next November. adjacentto the castle site. In hap“That may be the last straw,” pier times, they had named the Bishop groaned. “It’s all free. It ain’t costing the granite structure “Castle of the state of Colorado a penny. I don’t Golden Hours — time golden have Bo grants, just the donation spent,” Bishoprecalis. After a time, following the box. The 5-foot-3 Bishop has a drag- child’s death, his wife, Phoebe, on of his ownto hold attackers at and the other children — now23, bay. Jutting out from the third-sto- 21 and 7 — moved back to the ry gable is a gargoyle hammered family home in Pueblo, near his and welded from surplus hospital wrought-iron shop. Their interest stainless-steel dinner plates. in the castle waned and then was Somedayit will shootfire from its gone. “T still got the vision to see the mouth and smoke from its flaring castle through to completion,” nostrils, Bishop says. Sixty-thousand people sign the Bishop said, but his eyes dulled guest register each year, Bishop and shoulders sagged. He is midsays. He lets civic groups and 4-H dle-aged now. Arthritis has weakClubs use the castle for fund-rais- ened his shoulders. And whydid it begin? ers, bake sales and Halloween Asa teenager he had helped his spook nights. Seventeen weddings parents buy the parcelof land. His have been held in the Great Hall. After a recent storm, a busload father wanted a one-room stone oftourists and several cars stopped cottage for weekendretreats in the on Colorado 165 at the small sign Wet Mountains northwest of Rye. “Passing fishermenstarted callpointing to the castle. The curious broke through 17 inches of fresh ing it a castle. That’s what inspired snow up the trail to the granite me. It dawned on me I could build structure, its flying buttresses a castle,” Bishop said, and the spreading to the four points of the light blazed backin his dark eyes. compass. He worked on the castle on “Fantastic,” was a common weekendsand holidays while living in Pueblo near his workshop. reaction. “Now it’s inspirational,” he Later, they toured the 2,500square-foot Great Hall on the third says. “It shows what anybody can floor, with its soaring cathedral do with their God-given talents. ceiling and louvered glass and It’s perhaps the world’s biggest wrought-iron windowsnsing from one-manproject.” floor to gable. And a moat? The ground levelstill has a dirt “Let the state build that,” Bishfloor, and the second floor will op growled. “And a parking lot.” 2 Hug TG Me oe again. over taped confession someday be a museum. 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