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Show HALLOWEEN 'I Continued fbom page 13 saw the ghost's image her silhouetted in the window one day and quickly took up s piece of paper and pencil to sketch the image, his rendition portrayed George as Hispanic, in his midforties with a moustache, wearing a knit cap. "He looked like an ordinary person, like a fisherman, Margie explained. Margie said George makes his presence known by turning the television viewing, operating the cd player even ejectingdisks and strumming a guitar on occasion. His footsteps can be heard walking up and down the trailer hallway both day and night. Misty said she was in the rear ofthe house when she heard someooe strumming the guitar. She assumed it was Margies SPOOKY GREETINGS-The- sc scary folks arc eagerly aw aiting a visit from children during Hal low een, and hope they stick around for some tasty candy. Bar Top Bighorn sheep moved to Desolation Canyon Bighorn Sheep were returned to the northern part of Desolation Cany9on as part of an instate transplant by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Fifteen bighorns, a mix of rams, ewes and lambs; were captured from the Bare Top herd and transported to Desolation Canyon to fill in some areas without bighorns. This is only the second time an instate transfer ofbighoms has occurred. This is only the second time we have been able to do an transplant of Rocky Mountain bighorns, said Charlie Green wood, UDWR wildlife biologist. The Bare Top herd is only the second herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep that has grown large enough to allow us to take a few animals to transfer Theother herd is the Rattlesnake herd which te provided transplant stock to Timpanogos last year. We captured the bighorns with a net gun and a helicopter. The helicopter pilot flies in dose and tries to isolate an animal in an open area. We then fire a net gun to trap the animal long enough for one or two muggers (Division personnel) to jump out and Once on the ground, we secure hobble the bighorn sheep's legs and roll it into a tarp which laces into a bag. The helicopter then picks it up and flies the sheep to another ground crew at the main staging area. The second ground crew records the sex, age, weights and other measurements, and then tags the animal, attaches a radio collar, gives them it antibiotic shots and finally places them into a trailer for transport. An experienced ere w can take all the data and give the shots, ear tags and collars in three to five minutes. said J im Karpowitx, UDWR wildlife coordinator. We want to do it Cast to reduce the stress on the sheep. Once in the trailers, the bighorns settle down making the transport easier. This transplant is actually the fust half of an exchange of bighorns. Wesent these sheep to the Southeast Region to augment the bighorns m Desolation Canyon where they have a hole or open area without sheep, Greenwood said. Later this winter, they will capture some from the Desolation Canyon area to send up here. We will place most of them in the Carter Creek area to supplement the new herd there and then will put a few rams back on BareTop to increase the genetic base. Taking a few animals out of this herd should actually help it grow, Greenwood said. The Bare Top herd was first introduced in 1983 and 84. It grew to over 100 animals fay the early 90's and then crashed. In 1993, the population was down int eh low 60s. Based on our last count, we estimate the herd is again over 100. By taking some of the animals, we not only have the opportunity to start a new herd, it should help to avoid and keep the herd another die-ofgrowing strong and healthy. By exchanging animals with another region, we can tend our animals far enough away so they don't find their way back. An exchange will also increase our genetic base. Having two or more sources will also accelerate the bighorn sheep reintroduction program. J ust having two herds is really a boon to the reintroduction program because we won't have to rely on excess animals from other states, Greenwood said. Utah is on bighorn sheep waiting lists all over the Western States and even some Canadian Provinces, but transplant stock is hard to get. X ow. by having two herds large enough to tap for transplant stock, we can movesheep to start or supplement herds. We may also be able to exchange a few rams to increase the genetic base for other herds. T te rr.Uintah Basin STANDARD daughter, Chassy, until she learned the young girl hadn't been in her bedroom that evening. Oddly, she was the only one who heard the sound. On another occasion, Margie said Chassy's cd player came on fli at 3:30 in the morning The young girljumpedupand turned itofLxnow-ing- il must have awakened the entire household, but when she told her mother and Misty the rifaxt morning they had never heard it. Family members, skeptical at first, became believers when strange phenomena occurred in their presence, Margie said, divulging that while her mother was cleaning the kitchen after a shared meal, a kitchen fork would suddenly come oflofthe table and soar across the room. The strangest example yet was the appearance of small orange-colore- d triangles that began showing up on their clothing and carpet, which wouldnt come out with washing. My friend Mary Newman freaks out, she doesn't like it. klargie said, laughing, and added,He doesn't hurt us. It's no big deal really. We just yell at him when he does things and he sums. Margie said she has never dabbled in the occult, nor ever held a seance. "No, I don't mess with those kinds of things. I've never done that kind of stuff, she asserted, adding that George wasn't invited into her house. He just showed up on his own. U is not unusual, said Misty, for George to haunt every day for a while and then cease his activities for a time. 1 t's usually when someone is with you. 1 don't think he wants to scare us, Margie said. Which leaves us with the question, if this is true, could George be catego- rised as a friendly ghosljike Casper? HAUNTED HOSPITAL LEGEND It's perfect really an old building on a street corner that has sheltered both the living and the dead, as well as jailed the corrupt The old Roosevelt City Hospital, then city administrative buildingand police department and now home to Uintah Basin Home Health and Duchesne County's Motor Vehicle Registration Department. The building even housed a spook alley for a few years each Halloween. Couple that with perpetual unexplained noises and happening! and the haunting legend continues. I heard the old jail was haunted, said Melany Zoumadakis, registered nurse for Home Health, adding; "but I like spirits so I dont mind. Melany said that former police dispatchers told her thejail was haunted. It spooked her enough that she said she would never go down there alone. "The dispatchers heard people walking through the building too when they were the only ones here. The old basement area can be entered by a sloping cement ramp used for gurneys that led into the former morgue or by staircase. At the bottom cd the ramp a door leads to three jail cells, two as holding cells and one drunk tank. There isjust enough room for a hallway. The air is musty, the ceiling low overhead, and the cells dank and oppressive. Linda Cook, office manager at Home Health Services, saidshe's never heard any noises but was told that there have been unexplained sounds including crying that have occurred from time to time. I've expected to hear sounds, she divulged. When the old stone building was remodeled a few wars ago, Cook said that construction workers were spooked on occasion by what they the Salt Lake Olympic Games Torch Relay team NO STOPPING-Mcmber- sof and on don't going keep stop. The group passed through Roosevelt during a test run for the relay. heard. So convinced were they that the building was haunted, they planned to spend the night to see if any specters would appear. Equipped with sleeping bags and a television set they settled down for the night. However, not one ghost showed up for the slumber party, Cook reported, noting that the workers believed the television may havebeentooloud and scared them off. Late one night Cook wee in her office, and aa she was working at the computer, a stack of paperwork fell from her desk. She didn't know bow it happened, but the incident made her so uncomfortable she said, "I decided, that's it. It must be time for me to go home. CpI. Steve Hooley of the Roosevelt Police Department said that when the police station was housed in the old hospital, dispatchers were convinced that it was haunted. Police record were kept down in the old jail area in filing cabinets and boxes, and occasionally dispatchers would have to go downstairs to retrieve information. 1 didn't like to go downstairs at all. Youd get an eerie feeling, aaid Denise Rhoades, a former Roosevelt Police dispatcher from 1981-8- 6 who believed the building to be haunted. "You'd be Bitting there and feel cold airnround you, oryou could dispatcher's fear and tormented them all with practical jokes. Hooley said he would often lie in wait on the other aide of the ambulance bay door to knock on it and frighten the women, or would hide by the staircase just to grab at their legs. "Oh! He was just swful! Marilyn said, adding that if anyone should have been haunted at the old jail it should have beenofticer Hooley for all of the stunta he pulled. hair-raisin- g President & Vice President GEORGE W. BUSH DICK CHENEY - CLASSIFIED ADSJfi - - I U.S. Senate : -- : CallToIl Free ORBIfl G. HATCH 00-427-8679 -8- or 722-51- : 31 . . U.S. Representative CHRIS CANNON t Governor & Lieutenant Governor it used to be. j Eking 40 or 50 isn't That's hy Baby Boomers need life insurance. MICHAEL 0. LEAVITT OLENE S. WALKER It's important that vour life insurance plan reflects where you are headed. See me for Life Insurance that reflects your changing insurance needs. Attorney General MARK L. SKURTLEFF Andy Driggs 180 N. 300 East, Roosevelt 722-241- Like State Auditor 5 AUSTON G. 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I heard babys crying from the other room. 1 felt the cold sir. You'd get scared but what could you do? Barbara said, adding that she believed the building was haunted. "They told me the downstairs was haunted end not to go down there, said former dispatcher Kim Russell, adding, 1 heard things, I didn't go down there. I'd turn the TV uploudat night so I didnt hive to hear it Marilyn Phillips also dispatched for a time within the building "It was just an old creepy jail, Phillips said, noting that Hooley and other officers capitalised on the |