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Commissioners plan Paxson renovation By ED KEMMICK The commissioners' drive will while no "commitments of any the assumption the rest of the Durnford said the money will be Montana Kalmln Reporter supplement a two-year-old fund kind” have been made, the com­ money can be raised after the turned over to the commissioners A fund drive for the restoration drive by the Missoula County missioners are negotiating with restoration has started. after a conservator has been con­ of eight E. S. Paxson paintings that Homemakers Extension, which four conservators to do the work. Browman also said the National tracted. have hung in the Missoula County has already raised about $13,000. The commissioners are “ready Park Service has expressed “favor­ The group also placed a visitors' Courthouse since 1914 was begun Commissioner Lud Browman to move at once," Browman said, able interest" in providing a match­ log book in the lobby of the recently by the Missoula County said yesterday the restoration will and would like to contract a ing grant of at least $30,000 for the courthouse, where the paintings Commissioners. cost an estimated $120,000 and, conservator as soon as possible on restoration. are on display, to elicit comments on the paintings and the planned Restoration and Remounting restoration. Work on the paintings is expect­ ed to take about two years and will Variety of Comments involve moving the murals to a Comments ranged from "breath- special laboratory for restoration takingly beautiful, full of history, MONTANA and remounting. wonderful” to "decent painter." The murals depict scenes of Durnford said she would like to early Montana, including the arri­ see the paintings restored as soon val of Father Ravalli at Fort Owen as possible because “with the and Lewis and Clark camping on paint flaking off, it won't be long Lolo Creek, and were painted by before they're gone." western artist Edgar S. Paxson, Donations can be made out to KAIMIN who spent the last years of his life Paxson Murals Fund in care of in Missoula. Paxson died in 1919. Missoula County Commissioners, Ann Durnford, chairperson of Missoula County Courthouse, or the Missoula County Homemakers to the Paxson Painting Fund in Tuesday, April 25,1978 Missoula, Mont. Vot. 80, No. 90 Extension Paxson Painting Fund, care of Western Federal Savings said the drive began in 1976 as the and Loan, Missoula. group's bicentennial project and Contributions are tax deducti­ has raised $13,246. ble. Forestry dean prospects to be ranked tomorrow By SUZANNE BRADLEY Montana Kalmln Reporter The names of four candidates for the new dean of the University of Montana School of Forestry will be ranked in order of preference and submitted to UM President Richard Bowers tomorrow by the Search and Screen Committee. Bowers, who will select the new dean, is out-of-town this week. The new dean will replace acting Dean Arnold Bolle, who is retiring. Bolle was appointed acting dean last Spring Quarter. The candidates for the post are: Lawrence Davis, resource economist at Utah State: Gerald Stairs, geneticist at the University of Arizona: Benjamin Stout, forest ecologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and David White, professor of forest economics at West Virginia University. In ranking the four finalists, the nine-member committee will consider the results of its Interviews with the candidates and the findings of other campus groups and individuals who met with the candidates, Raymond Murray, dean of the graduate school and chairman of the committee, said last week. The Search and Screen Committee members are: Murray; Evan Denney, associate professor of geography; Sidney Frissell Jr., associate Staff photo by David UMa. professor of forestry and assistant dean of the forestry school; Leo Cummins, associate professor of forestry; Charles Jonkel, research assistant for the forestry school; David Jackson, assistant professor of forestry: David Smith, dean of the education school; Rhett Oligmiller, Quiet trip to Rocky Flats planned senior in forestry, and Barbara Slott, graduate in wildlife biology. People considering engaging in an act of civil A show of hands at the meeting indicated that The groups that met with the candidates during their separate visits disobedience at the Rocky Flats anti-nuclear 37 people there were committed to making the to UM over the past few weeks are: the Council of Deans, the Executive Committee of the Senate, the Dean's Advisory Council, the faculty and weapons demonstration will not be included in a trip. students of the forestry school, Donald Habbe, academic vice president. university-funded bus ride to Denver, a spokes­ Jordan then read from a list of signatures Bolle and Bowers. man for the Headwaters Alliance, said Monday. collected last week of those who wanted to ride The search for the new dean began in October when the position was The alliance is a network of local organizations on the bus. adding that they had first priority. advertised nationally and applications were due Feb. 15. allied to protest the proliferation of nuclear Perry Gliessman, a member of Mountain Life Sixteen persons applied, Murray said, but he declined to name them weapons. Community, said there were people not on the or say if any UM faculty members had applied. Matt Jordan, senior in political science and list who should be considered because they had The committee narrowed the field to four candidates after receiving economics, said persons planning civil disobe­ worked fixing up the bus and staging a children's letters of recommendation and interviewing the candidates by dience will travel in separate cars and will pay all film festival at the Crystal Theater. He said the pf their own expenses. telephone. film festival collected $50, which was donated to Another forestry school dean search ended unsuccessfully after it Jordan and several other speakers addressed the trip's general fund. about 60 people in LA 102 on particulars of the began last Spring Quarter to fill the position when it was vacated by Saturday demonstration and the 1,000-mile trip Gliessman asked for persons who owned cars Robert Wambach, who left the previous January to head the state Fish& to Denver to be made in “Honeysuckle," a 31- to volunteer to carry the overflow of riders. Game Department, Murray said. passenger Ford bus the alliance recently pur­ Joy DeStefano, another member of Mountain He said two candidates' names were submitted to Bowers, who chased. Life Community, gave a brief lecture on the trip’s decided instead to appoint Arnold Bolle, then the acting academic vice Central Board voted last Wednesday to fund ground rules and the need for non-violent president, to the post until another search could be held. Friends of the Earth $288 for gas and oil for the reaction if a confrontation with the authorities Denver trip after it was agreed that none of the ensues while at Rocky Flats. passengers in the bus would participate in acts of DeStefano told the group it should prepare to civil disobedience, Jordan said. become “victims" to halt violence at the demon­ Friends of the Earth is a member of the stration, which she said might be attended by up ‘Go away, little girl,’ Headwaters Alliance. to 40,000 protestors. Mike Dahlem, graduate student in philosophy The nuclear weapons facility manufactures and a member of Central Board, told the group plutonium triggers for all U.S. nuclear bombs and Donny is engaged the $288 allocation would have to be requested is also a key research and production site for the from ASUM Business Manager Lary Achenbach. proposed neutron bomb. Recording and television star Donny Osmond Is engaged to Dahlem said the group will need to present gas In a violent confrontation, DeStefano said, a be married to a former Billings woman, it was announced receipts upon its return to verify expenses, person should step between the assailant and the Sunday. adding that whatever is not spent must be victim, assuming a self-protective position, Osmond's fiancee Is Debra Glenn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. returned to ASUM. tucking the legs In toward the chest and ducking Avery Glenn, formerly of Billings. Mr. Glenn was music director According to, a fact sheet dubbed the Rocky one's head. of the Billings public school system for 14 years. The family Flats Flak and Fact Packet, registered riders Other ground rules for the trip Include: moved from there to Utah In 1971. should meet this Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Harry • No alcohol or drugs. Osmond made the announcement while in Hawaii filming a Adams Field House parking lot. Riders must sign • No weapons. movie with his sister, Marie. release forms freeing the group from liability • Sobriety and silence from all passengers if a The wedding is scheduled for early June. arising from damages or injuries which'may confrontation occurs with the police en route to occur on the trip.