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Show Republican Reagan slates local visit It was a dramatic announcement at the time-that former Presidential candidate and possible 1980 hopeful Ronald Reagan would attend a Republican rally in Cedar City-but it was later changed. Dan Marriott, candidate for the Second Congressional seat, said Reagan would highlight a rally July 7 for state and local Republican candidates. can-didates. A phone call two days after the convention, when the announcement an-nouncement was made, changed the rallying point from Cedar City to St. George. Marriott was one of several Republican leaders who attended the Saturday County Convention. The freshman congressman blasted the Carter administration for their "Weak-kneed" defense policies. Marriott also said 94 Dercpnt of the fedora) lands in the United States are in states represented by 17 percent of the congressman. "So you can see the problem," he said, "we need to get a good voice for public lands." He also said deficit government spending and increasing national debt were major concerns of the party. Marriott said he was presently studying a three-tiered income tax policy and other tax reform. He said tax limitation measures, not all in the form of Proposition 13, are "Republican issues." Others taking time in the well-attended well-attended convention were Mac Haddow, administrative Assistant to Sen. Orrin Hatch. He represented both Jake Gam and Hatch in offering his support of Marriott. Haddow said his message is being sent to Washington that there is a "con servative swing out West." "People are tired of big government govern-ment and we have got to call a halt to deficit spending leadership," Haddow said. "Your state senator's message to you is: Return Dan Marriott to Congress." S. Garth Jones, Republican candidate can-didate for the state House of Representatives, and Ivan Matheson, state Senator, also spoke to the gathered Republicans, each emphasizing em-phasizing "there Is a difference" in the two-parties' philosophies. Matheson said there are tax changes that need to be made, "but not proposition 13." He said to put a lid on government spending is the approach most viable. "That would force a re-evaluation of bureaucracy and put a lid on it," the Republican Senator said. Also addressing the group were Doris Williams, state vice-chairman of the party, Jack Marchant, organizational director, and Enid Green, State Young Republicans. |