Officials of the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground in the west Utah desert seem to have a thing for dead sheep.
   The Army is soliciting potential vendors that can supply Dugway's West Desert Test Center with 30 refrigerated sheep carcasses in batches of five at a time to test incinerator efficiencies during the disposal of livestock.
   Solicitation Number W911S6-05-T-XXX1 has been placed on commercial Web sites where vendors and contractors can find opportunities for government contracts. It has raised the curiosity of the Citizens Education Project in Utah, which has sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the commander of Dugway Proving Ground seeking all records, reports, documents and correspondence pertaining to the solicitation of sheep carcasses.
   You might recall that in 1968, about 6,000 sheep died in Utah's Skull Valley region after the accidental release of VX nerve gas from the biological and chemical weapons test center at Dugway. The Army denied culpability, blaming the deaths on malnutrition and noxious weeds, but it eventually agreed to pay compensation to the sheep owners.
   
    Like the Phoenix: South High School closed in 1988 - the sacrificial lamb of the Salt Lake City School Board needing to drop one of its four high schools because of declining population. But it still has one of the most active alumni associations in the state, and today it will be the site of yet another rise from the ashes of a once-forgotten school symbol.
   The South High Seal, designed during the school's inaugural year of 1931, was immortalized in bronze through a donation by the class of 1978. When the state bought South for the Salt Lake Community College campus in 1989, the seal was gone, and it was assumed it had been sold for scrap.
   This school year, maintenance workers found the 31-inch-wide seal packed away in storage. So at 10 a.m. today, it will be installed on the wall of SLCC's foyer. It will be rededicated during the South High homecoming next fall.
   
   Wishy-washy: Campers at the Green River State Park and Golf Course were kept awake in the campground last week because of the noisy sump pump employed to dry out the soaked fairways next door.
   The campers then were baffled when the golf course sprinklers came on at 2 a.m. Saturday morning, drenching several of the tents. The same sprinklers kicked on again Sunday morning, after a torrential downpour.
    The whole time, the sump pump tirelessly kept on working, trying to dry out the course.
   
   Defensive driving? Here are two incidents last week that should serve as a warning to freeway drivers to be wary of large trucks:
   l Tuesday at 10:30 a.m., a driver on westbound I-80, just before the I-15 interchange, was showered with rocks and gravel from an open-bed truck owned by Enterprise Paving of Lindon. She tried to get a license number, but couldn't see a plate because of the mud and dirt on the bumpers.
   l Shortly after noon on Thursday, northbound cars on I-15 between 5300 South and 4500 South were forced to dodge a steady stream of gravel spewing from the bottom of a double-trailer hopper truck owned by LTI.
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