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Thursday, October 13, 1988

Opposed to seatbelt law

In a few weeks we will be going to the polls and voting for candidates and initiatives that are on the ballot. Initiative No. 110 will be on the ballot. This initiative will repeal the Montana Seatbelt Use Act. The Montana Seatbelt Use Act requires the occupants of a motor vehicle to wear a fastened seat belt. If caught without fastened seatbelts the driver will be fined for all occupants unbelted in the vehicle.

Please note this initiative does not affect the child restraint law that has been in effect for some time.

Voters be sure and read the Initiatives before you vote on them. If a voter just votes for or against, they will probably not be voting their intention. By voting for this Initiative 110 we will all have the choice to wear or not to wear the seatbelt without penalty.

Let's preserve our freedom that so many of us fought for. If we lose this initiative the Highway Patrol will be watching every move we make. If seatbelts have merit, let us wear them because it makes sense to us; not because we are forced to.

Remember a vote for Initiative 110 is a vote for freedom.

- Morris O. Mancoronal Jr., Conrad, Montana

Seeley man chosen UM homecoming royalty

Six University of Montana students representing various campus groups have been chosen as royalty for UM's homecoming October 13-15.

One of the three King candidates, Rett Parker, a senior from Seeley Lake, majoring in forestry, is the son of Jeanne and Neil Grace of Bloomington, Minnesota. Rett is a member of Mortar Board, the student chapter of the Society of American Foresters, UM's Forestry Club and the Double Arrow Ranch Landowners Association.

The final selection for homecoming king and queen, will be announced October 13 for the UM Grizzly homecoming football game against the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks. The evening's events, which will also include the traditional lighting of the Oval and singing on the steps, will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Main Hall. The public is welcome to attend a reception afterward in the President's Room in the lobby of Brantly Hall on Connell Avenue.

Poet publishes Personal book

Seeley Swan readers will soon be able to purchase a book of poems written by Lennart B. Anderson of Condon. Anderson might be described as a "poet-on-hold" for most of his 82 years with one of his poems, titled "Montana's The Place," written in 1942 and the remaining poems written some 40 years later, from 1982-88.

The book, "For Today and Forever," consists of 32 pages plus cover and contains 12 full-color photographs Anderson has taken over the years. "The pictures provided most of the ideas and inspirations," Anderson said as he pointed out photographs of clouds, a buck deer, a dandelion, a springtime meadow of wildflowers, and the reflections of golden larch in the waters of Holland Lake. Other photographs and poems recall scenes and times from Columbia Gardens in Butte where Anderson and his wife, Marion, lived for 39 years.

After the Anaconda Company purchased the Anderson property in Butte in an expansion of mining activities, Lennart and Marion, who had no plans on leaving, founded a new home for themselves in the Swan Valley. "Looking for a place to move, we found a home in the Swan Valley near the wilderness in Northwest Montana to which we moved in October, 1977.Our Golden Wedding was celebrated in December, 1981", Anderson writes in the introduction.

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