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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A proposed resolution would ask Congress to rename Hill Air Force Base after the late President Ronald Reagan.
It would be called the Reagan Hill Air Force Base.
The resolution is sponsored by Rep. LaVar Christensen, R-Draper, who said the base and Reagan were linked in bringing about the end of the Cold War with "peace through strength."
Congress named Hill Air Force Base after an Air Corps pilot, Maj. Ployer Peter Hill, who died in an experimental airplane crash in Ohio.
Clearfield Interim City Manager Kay Chandler supports the proposal.
"I'm a very devout Republican. Reagan would be fine with me," he said.
However, Chandler figures Utahns and Air Force personnel still would use the shorthand "Hill."
Christensen has hired prominent Republican strategist Eddie Mahe and organized an exploratory committee, and is expected to challenge three-term Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson in the 2nd U.S. House District.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
