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Show fi., - Mi- V ' t t 0-m . . , ' , J f- . t CONGRESSMAN WAYNE OWENS Candidate Talks Llmii Inflation He recommended budget cuts in the areas of national defense. Owens would like to see a cut-back in the number num-ber of UJS. troops inEurope. "Maintaining 300,000 UJ3. troops in Europe is completely com-pletely unjustifiable." He also sees no sense in spending billions on fabulous, fab-ulous, elaborate weapon systems, sy-stems, particularly in the area of nerve gas. Owens also recommended a complete revamping of our foreign aid programs. Last Friday, the citizens of Park City were invited to a no-host breakfast at the C'est Bon sponsored by United Unit-ed States Senate candidate Wayne Owens. The breakfast, while sparsely attended, represented rep-resented a cross section of Park City with members of the press, Greater Park City Company, City Council and local Democratic party officials of-ficials attending. Park City was the first stop on a five-day 17-county - According to Owens, "sup-porting "sup-porting dictatorships and military regimes is not what this country stands for." "I would like to discontinue discon-tinue all foreign aid and then resume it on a purely humanitarian hum-anitarian basis rather than a .political one." The congressman also expressed ex-pressed a need for greater government regulation of big business and greater enforcement en-forcement of the anti-trust laws. He sees big business as one cause of inflation in that they bargain and fix prices among one another which results in higher prices being passed down to consumers. After the question period ended Mr. Owens walked Main Street shaking hands and talking to everyone he encountered. He then left for Heber, where he caught a plane to Roosevelt and continued con-tinued his state-wide tour. campaign tour. After breakfast, Owens entertained a half -hour question and answer session. The big issue according to Owens is inflation. "This horrendous inflation we are currently experiencing," he stated, "is psychologically hard to stop because Americans Amer-icans are habitual consumers." con-sumers." Owens outlined several measures that would curb inflation. in-flation. "First of all," he said, 'we must lower interest inter-est rates." He commended a two-tiered system where money would be made available avail-able to small business at a lower rate than that available avail-able to large corporations." He commented that high rates will drive the small businessmen out of business unless something is done. Another anti-inflation measure would be a cutback in government spending. |