·        Raised on a wheat ranch north of Conrad. Ditch irrigating, picking rock, running farm machinery.

·        Teen years: 2 summers horse-logging on a  ranch in Canada.

·        Worked on oil rigs.

·        1 year of college in Missouri. Played basketball. Met future wife, Rose Anne.

·        Worked for a custom harvester out of Wheatland, Wyoming, starting in Texas & up to Montana.

·        Went to Oregon & got married. Raised 1 son and 3 daughters. Had our 44th anniversary October 26^th.

·        Started logging in old growth & 2nd growth timber for father-in-law, on his ranch in the Coast Range mountains of Western Oregon. Many 1-log  and 3-log loads.

·        Did some road building and blasting stumps.

·        I started hauling logs at 21 years of age. I bought my first new log truck when I was 23. We flew back to Michigan and I brought 3 new trucks out of Portland with 2 piggy-backed. I hauled logs for some very fine logging companies; some logging industry which had been developed to a high science. It takes just 40 years to grow a crop of hybrid Douglas Fir to a harvesting diameter of 18 to 24”.

·        Clemens Forest Products Scholarship Fun paid our 4 children's' college tuition up to 4 years. Now the applicants are required to write an essay to show that they approve of the logging industry. The result? OSU, which once had a prestigious School of Forestry, will no longer accept the Clemens Foundation scholarships.

·        We raised beef cattle in Oregon for about 35 years; also had horses & sheep.

·        Refereed basketball 27 years.

·        Built & sold a house in Post Falls, Idaho in 1970. Worked for Hunt's Construction Co.

·        Hauled logs out of St. Joe River country into St. Regis. Bought 260 acres on the St. Regis River & Little Joe Creek in 1970. Went back to Oregon for the winter; spent parts of several years in Montana, but always returned home to the same house in Oregon.

·        One year I trucked canned goods from Seattle to Los Angeles. One winter I worked in Clemens Forest Products lumber mill while the woods were shut down.

·        Bought more land adjoining ours in 1977 in Montana.

·        In 1979 I hauled a cat and some lumber to Montana and built a nice split entry house and logged timber to pay for it. The cat must have brought some tansey ragwort seeds, so eventually we got involved in Montana's War On Weeds. We've nearly won the war.

·        Sold the house and a 20-acre parcel of land in '81.

·        Hauled grain out of Montana 2 different times, 1980.

·        Invested in a mapped-out hard rock underground gold mine on the South Fork of the Clearwater River in 1980. Sold my share to my partner in '81. I hauled equipment in to the mine and hauled 1 load of ore to the refinery.

·        With a dealership license I bought & sold heavy equipment, trucks & vehicles. The best way to make money hauling logs is to buy trucks at auctions & sell them, while working them. I did a lot of bragging and sold a lot of trucks. Then I'd be all stressed out until I bought another one to keep my job.

·        I took my caterpillar to fight forest fires in 1980 and again in 2001.  There were some huge, sad changes during those years.  We were drastically more effective in 1980.  Back then we fought fire at night when the wind had died down, the air was moist, and the fire had laid down.  We put the fire out.  That’s why I think the states should be in charge of their own firefighting, hiring their own citizens.

·        I hauled gravel on construction of I-90 near Tarkio.  Also hauled gravel in Oregon.  I bought salvage logging contracts from the BLM in Oregon and made good money.  Then the “Spotted Owl controversy” began and my equipment got sabotaged. Later, I was sabotaged twice in Montana.  By the way, the spotted owls are everywhere in the Oregon woods!  The true endangered species the land-owner and logger.  My brother-in-law can ship logs on his own road only in the fall and winter because a spotted owl might be nesting.  The owls don’t care at all.  After the “tree-hugger-nature-worshippers ran the timber industry out of Oregon, I bought alfalfa hay in eastern Oregon and Washington and sold it to the dairy men, cattle & sheepmen and horse people in Western Oregon.  It was good business until the environmentalists ran the dairies out of business.

·        So I came back to my place in St. Regis and logged.  My wife and family spent parts of many years in a camper trailer.

·        In 2001 we made a permanent move to St. Regis.  Now my Peterbilt is hauling crushed cars from all over Montana to steel mills in Utah, Alberta and Saskatchewan.  I think Montana needs a steel mill somewhere along I-90; I wish, close to home, but that’s a state issue, not national.

·        Now for what little political experience I’ve had.

·        Refereeing basketball was quite political.  I was president of the Corvallis Association for two years.  Because I called the game by the rule book I never was promoted to the highest bracket.  This upset my wife a lot.  I did get work the stat class B tournament one year.  That was lots of fun, especially since our daughter was competing there.  We’ve watched our kids at the tournament 10 different years.  The most recent was this spring when we watched our son referee there.

·        My wife and I were Bib Elk Precinct Committee persons one or two times and we hosted a campaign rally.  She started a Republican Women’s Club.

·        I served County Fair open class livestock barn superintendent several years while our kids were in 4-H.

·        I served on the Lincoln County, Oregon Soil and Water Conservation Board.  I’ve developed a minor subdivision on our property and gotten it approved.

·        Our son, Swede, Anton III, is a Senior Trooper and a Game Warden with the Oregon State Police.  He’s learned there’s lots of politics in that department!  He’s earned a reputation as “the Trooper with 9 lives”.  He’s on the trauma team.

·        You can see I’m not much of a politician, but I believe in Free Enterprise; I sympathize with property owners and business people and those who want to keep America free, and I would cast my votes in their favor.

·        Thank you!