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Show Candidates begin to shape ideas, platforms Following party nominating conventions con-ventions and subsequent filings, the stage is set for Cedar City municipal elections to be held November 8, with a slate of six candidates. Following is a look, in alphabetical order at the candidates for mayor and city council: KERRY JONES. Mayor Jones, present Republican mayor, is a native of Cedar City, born in 1929. Attended local schools and graduated from BAC in 1949, and the University of Utah in 1951. Uncle Sam called Jones to serve in Korea in 1952-53 following his schooling. He is presently married, with four children. "It is important that the city approach ap-proach growth by requiring more individual in-dividual responsibility and encourage expansion of private enterprise," Jones said in a statement to the Record. "Culinary water availability is the basic factor in Cedar City's future growth and prosperity and we must have a continual and aggressive water procurement policy." Being careful of investments is another policy the city should follow, the mayor said. "The city's civdit rating and its ability to pay its bills should be protected and at the same time avoid untimely investments which tend to raise taxes and the cost of operating city programs." Prior to being elected mayor, Jones served on the city council. He is in the home construction business. DON MARCH t is one of the Republican candidates for city council. Marchant was ai.so born and educated in Cedar City. Presently in business with his family ir. Cedar City, Mar-chant Mar-chant says he is "paying back some of the debt he owes to Cedar City." The most important issue of the campaign, Marchant states, is the development of water resources. "Almost every other issue is dependent on water," he said. Marchant also states he is in favor of an industrial park for Cedar City. "We must have an adequate water supply if we are to be successful in the development of an Industrial Park. We can be proud of the industry and business that have chosen to locate facilities in Cedar City," he said. "It is this type of non-pollutant, industry that we need to encourage and plan for in the development of an Industrial Park." The city needs to take the lead in city beautification by improving all parks and the cemetery, Marchant said, and the need also exists for citizens to improve individual yards and property. Recreation is also a basis for concern, con-cern, Marchant said. Overcrowding and need for improvement of facilities exists, he said, and cooperative school-city school-city efforts should be promoted. JACK SAWYERS is Democratic candidate for Mayor. He stated in his statement to the Record, however, that local elections should be non-partisan "so citizens can vote on a man's qualifications and not on political parties, thereby encouraging more citizen involvement." He said several problems facing the community must be solved cooperatively. According to the former teacher and present theatre owner, some of them are: --we need jobs and recreation for young people. We need to keep them in our area. We educate them and then other cities reap the benefits. --"One of our most serious problems is a lack of balanced economy. We have a shortage of high paying jobs and at the same time our living expenses exceed those of most other towns in the United States. One of the contributors (SeeCandidates', page 3) Candidates' views (continued from page 1) is high utilities. In Cedar City many people pay as much for utilities as they do for house payments." -Senior citizens should be viewed as an asset and used properly. --More cooperation is needed between bet-ween Cedar City and Iron County. "It is a little disheartening to fight for cooperative dollars on such things as the jail, garbage dump, ambulance service, mental health, when you consider that Cedar City represents 75 percent of all resident tax dollars." Sawyers also said he hopes there would never be an unopposed official running for office. HAROLD SHIRLEY, Democratic candidate for city council, was born and educated in a small Texas town. He attended Brigham Young University on a leadership scholarship, completing his Masters Degree in Contemporary U. S. History. He has been a resident of Cedar City since 1967, when he was employed at Cedar High School. Shirley has taught almost 2000 students and was also responsible for setting up the graphics and humanities programs at the high school. Shirley served for five years as Recreation Director for the city, coached Sophomore football and helped with pep band development. Action in order to prevent stagnation is the key to this year's campaign, Shirley states. "Too many people passively accept things as they are and assume nothing can be done about them. I don't subscribe sub-scribe to 'whatever is is right.' Whatever is may be good, but it could be even better with a little creative thinking." Shirley said. People should not just gripe, but get involved, Shirley added, with recent hearings on power as an example. Shirley said he has faith in the two party system and said he is campaigning cam-paigning with a positive approach to the future. He said change is inevitable ' and advocates meeting those changes "on our grounds,, not leaving everything to chance. We can't back Planning is a major part of Mrs. Starr's campaign. She says we must plan now to protect and enhance the attractive qualities of Cedar City, such as the free crime, cleanliness, and nearby beauties. "My experience has convinced me," she stated, "we will have more and more people wanting to escape high property taxes and prices, bad crime rates and an exploding population in other areas. We must plan for this growth. Water will be one main limiting factor." Mrs. Starr said we need to obtain and develop every possible source of water. The Sewage treatment plant would be pushed for completion, she added, and clean industries should be encouraged to locate here. Mrs. Starr said the county commissioners com-missioners have been unresponsive by not using the broad resources available to them to help them with people-oriented people-oriented programs. "At this time they have available to them over $400,000 in lieu of tax funds. Yet they cannot contribute $.'5500 to the community recreation program. We hear a great deal from them that people should never get something for nothing, yet the city citizens are paying the county's share of the recreation program." A more stringent zoning was also listed by Starr as a need, as well as a more definite role by the county as jailer. ROBERT L. STRATTON, Republican candidate for city council, stated he finds Cedar City a reflection of the citizens who live in it "a wonderful won-derful place to live, to work and to raise a family." Stratton is an active church member, having served as bishop and other assignments. He is a former member of the Lions Club, has served as chairman of the Heart Fund Drive locally, and is a past president to the Southern Utah rhunior nf Phi Oolta lQnna Presently Stratton is principal of the East Elementary and has been a teacher or administrator in the Iron County School District for 28 years. He has a masters degree from Brigham Young University. "I believe in responsible government," govern-ment," Stratton said. "That a city is a place for all the people who live there." The ideal city plan, he went on, is adapted to the daily life that goes on within the city, and calls for good homes, streets, parks, public buildings, schools, a business, adequate utilities, proper recreational opportunities "and that all can conform to the highest standards if the spirit of the community is high." "I believe every man has a responsibility to his family, his church, his community, to his nation and to God." when Cedar City had only 7,000 residents. We can't wait until problems reach the crisis state, we must do something now." Other concerns expressed by Shirley were: expanded cooperation between city and county, similar to present cooperation between city and schools; water conservation and pushing the sewage treatment plant to completion; completion of an industrial park; purchasing new ares for recreational development and getting permanent office space for city administration; completion of a power feasibility study. BARBARA STARR, is a native of the area who is running for the city council on the Democratic ticket. She is a graduate of SUSC ( 1967) where she was president of the Student Education Association. Mrs. Starr has taught in the public school system and is presently co-owner co-owner of the Hillside School and Day Care Center as well as a real estate associate. i S'' ' K A nV 4 I (' SKILLS ARKA. Ronnie Messerly of the Cedar Junior High explains process of chromefinishing through electrical process to Walter D. Talbot, Executive Director, of the Utah State of Education during visit. Board was in Cedar City for monthly meeting and visited vocational arts program at the school. HKLI'FLL HINTS. Steve Garrett of Cedar City and member of the Utah State Board of Education discusses project with Kelly Neff, a Cedar Junior High Seventh Grader as he works on house marker. |