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Show Parties nam candidates Republicans tab Jones, Marchantand Stratton In an expected cakewalk, Mayor Kerry Jones was selected as the Republican choice to run for the top city position in their convention held Tuesday, while political newcomer Don Marchant will vie for a city councilman post. Also nominated and elected on the first ballot to seek reelection was councr'm Robert L. Stratton. Marchant and Stratton both received a majority of the votes on the first ballot over present councilman Dr. Leslie Burbidge and Paul Wilden. No opposition was posted against incumbent Jones. In speeches made before the voting, Marchant said he hoped to "Use tradition as a foundation for achievements of tomorrow." He said he considers the development of an industrial park an important issue during the next four years. Other campaign items noted by Marchant were: additional development of water resource, improvement of our parks and cemetery, extensive efforts in the area of community beautification and providing a safe and secure place to raise a family. He also said he favored the cooperative development of recreational activities, and singled out tennis as an example for future development. Stratton told the nearly 300 persons in attendance at the Cedar High Auditorium he believed in representing the majority. He stressed that "special minority groups" should not be given an abundance of time at the expense of the majority of Cedar residents. Since moving to Cedar City in 1948, he said, "Cedar City has proven itself to me." In an earlier State of the City report, Jones highlighted what he considered the major accomplishments of the city council during the past four four years. He said he has enjoyed himself "99 and nine-tenths percent of the time. No specific platform was formed by the local r, . PipubUcans for the November 8 election. Democrats chose Shirley and Starr Harold Shirley and Barbara Starr were named as candidates for Cedar City Council posts at the nomination meeting of the Democractic Committee held Tuesday evening. Richard Dotson was also elected to serve as Cedar City Democratic Chairman and Clarence Miller was selected to serve as the party treasurer at the meeting. No candidate was named at the meeting for position of Mayor, which will be open at the November 8 election, but officers of the party were authorized to seek out possible candidates before the filing deadline Shirley told the convention delegates that "we have the Republicans on the ropes and if we don't finish them off its our own fault." The candidate projected a six point campaign program in his acceptance of the nomination. "I believe that we must develop an expanded role of cooperation between the city and the school and re-involve Iron County in a cooperative role, particularly in recreation," Shirley stated. Other points of his campaign committments included the acquisition of land and facilities for expanded recreation activities; the need for the city to take a hard line in development of water needs particularly as it relates to effluent from the sewage disposal plant to either develop an additional step to further purify the water or put political pressure on the state Department oif Health to lower the standard to make the water acceptable ac-ceptable for use by the city. Further he supported the development of an Industrial Park, the development of a permanent home for the City Offices and for the City Council, to take a more definite stand on the power issue and "not relegate the power issue to an ad hoc committee without involvement or action on the part of the council." , Ms. Starr detailed her reasons for wanting to live in Cedar City listing the low crime level, the public schools, the advantages of a college and the recreational and scenic beauties of the area. Ms. Starr suggested that "How do we preserve these wonderful things?" and answered her own question by stating that "we need new flexibility, a new way of looking at things. Our main problem is that we need new faces and new ways of looking at and solving our problems," she suggested. "I'm looking forward to a good, clean, fair and exciting fight. I believe in being involved in a good cause and as a wife, mother, and woman I believe that to vie for the City Council is a good and exciting cause," she said. |