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Show : IV ' ' 1 v .. I ft- A V rrwMMMMwd D. JAMES CANNON . . . candidate for Mayor J. BRACKEN LEE . . . incumbant in Mayoralty race Cannon Says Run City Like Business By KAY ISRAEL and ANGELYN NELSON Chronicle Staff Writers D. James Cannon, candidate for mayor, said Friday Fri-day Salt Lake City should be run like a business with emphasis on sales and promotion. In an exclusive interview with the Chronicle, Cannon stated the city should be consumer oriented in its overall policy. "It's one thing to run an insurance business like Mr. Lee has done, and it's another thing to run a business where you have to depend upon customers coming in," said Cannon. Cannon believes to take a greater load off the taxpayer the government must be run "like a good i sales organization." He said Mayor Lee was the most expensive gov- I ernor the state has had as evidenced by the post- ponement of University of ' Utah construction. ' He cited the eventual bonding of funds created additional unnecessary costs. This pattern had been carried over into his terms as mayor. Taxpayers' Friend? . . "He says he's the taxpayer's friend but I think he's the taxpayer's foe," he said, "not that he intends in-tends to be, but he makes decisions where it costs '' more to run government." ! Pointing out the laxity in law enforcement began eight years ago with Mayor Lee's election, he said law enforcement is on decline in Salt Lake City. "I don't think we need to become like every other I city in the United States. We've got higher ideals here. We love our community. We love it because it's clean and we want to keep it that way. We need a mayor who will enforce the law fully," he said. "The responsibility of the mayor is to back up completely the law enforcement division of our city," he continued. Firemen Dissatisfied "Right now," he added, "there is dissatisfaction among the policemen and among the firemen concerning con-cerning the mayor. I think it's because he hasn't y given them the kind of support and back up they need." To bring industry to the city we need to emphasize em-phasize the intellectual and technological capabilities ; of Salt Lake City's university, he said. Cannon said he was "dismayed" at the failure of voters to take positive steps toward improvement of local government. "I don't think a change in government will necessarily neces-sarily solve all our problems, but I think that it's archaic to believe that we can have five bosses over five departments and run them efficiently," said i Cannon. ! He said he could go along with the commission ! form of government because he would exert leader-; leader-; ship on the commission and encourage discussion on ways to improve it. Favors Consolidation Consolidation of city and county government would be favorable, said Cannon, if the county health j department, for example, were to bring its standards I to the level of the city's. j He believes Salt Lake City's physical appearance ; could be upgraded through example. The construc-! construc-! tion of the Salt Palace can be an incentive to the I businesses facing it to improve their store fronts. "Once one property owner gets something started, the others will quickly follow suit because they'll realize that their investment will pay off in greater economic return," re-turn," said Cannon. , To combat Salt Lake City's smog problem, Cannon suggests a stricter enforcement of existing laws. "I think it's not a wise idea to close a business up necessarily but to give a business a warning and then additional time to take care of it and keep a constant appraisal to make sure of it," he said. He also added through the city, Chamber of Commerce and private priv-ate enterprise cooperation the present bus line could be run successfully. suc-cessfully. Cannon said one major change that would take place in Salt Lake City if he were elected Tuesday Tues-day would be a mayor who could work with the city commissioners and would "not be the bickering kind of mayor like we've got today." |