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Nevertheless, most pupils and their parents would not trade the experience for anything. A particularly staunch supporter is Montana's Governor Ted Schwinden, himself a one-room alumnus. "I have nothing but good memories of it," he says. Another is Salund's Herbranson, who sounds like anything but today's unappreciated, burned-out teacher, despite a 1983 salary of $6,300, which the National Education Association certified as the nation's lowest (her wages have now soared to $6,800). "The feeling of being needed," she says, "that's something worthwhile. Many of my former students are married...
...Faithful Inn, destroying more than a dozen buildings. The fires have ruined 1.2 million acres of Yellowstone and adjoining national forests. As high winds threatened to pick up again at week's end, residents of nearby Silver Gate and Cooke City, Mont., were evacuated. Montana Governor Ted Schwinden banned hiking, fishing and camping in his state and postponed hunting season for the first time ever...
...contrast, both Democrats running for re-election were successful: Montana's Ted Schwinden, 59, and Arkansas' Bill Clinton, 38. In North Dakota, State Representative George Sinner, 55, scored an upset victory over Republican Governor Allen Olson, 46. Elected in 1980, Olson came under criticism late in the campaign for admitting that he had not yet filed a 1983 federal income tax return, though he claimed that he had received extensions...
...Elwood Freeman (R) 179.209 36 Delaware William Quillen (D) 107.736 45 100 E--Michael Castle (R) 133.892 55 Indiana Wayne Townsend (D) 889.906 47 86 E--Robert Orr (R) 995.526 53 Missoun Kenneth Rothman (D) 569.343 41 86 E--John Ashcroft (R) 810.642 59 Montana E--Ted Schwinden (D)* 68.875 70 29 Pat Goodover (R) 26.222 27 New Hampshire Chris Spirou (D) 56.992 34 61 E--John Sununu (R)* 111.283 66 North Carolina Rufus Edmisten(D) 757.479 45 80 E--James Martin (R) 918.769 55 North Dakota E--George Sinner (D) 77.189 57 61 Allen Olson (R)* 58.113 43 Rhode...
...state is literally on fire," said Montana's Governor Ted Schwinden, who had only to look out the window of his office in Helena to see thick gray smoke billowing skyward last week from the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness Area, 20 miles from the state capital. Touched off by lightning strikes and whipped by winds that at tunes exceeded 50 m.p.h., flames devoured more than 220,000 acres of unusually dry timber and range lands, creating what is considered the worst conflagration in Montana since 1967. Some 5,000 fire fighters, including many from neighboring states, battled throughout...