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Show Page Eight FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1958 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Writer Announces Candidacy for Chairman Post ' j s t j. t :::.:".. v.vv.:.;.;..v. ..:::.'...'.-- ' Episcopal church. His college education was obtained at the University of Utah. i He is today an active member of the North 18th Ward, Ensign Stake, Salt Lake City, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. Prior to the publication of his books he had been many years a newspaper writer specializing in politics. He had been a re-porter on the Standard-Examin- er in Ogden and a desk man on the Salt Lake Tribune. "It is my hope, if ejected state chairman," he said, "to devote substantially full time to the post of state chairman to strengthen the organization and prestige of the Democratic party in the state of Utah for victory in the elec-tions this November, and to pre-pare the people of the state for the election of a Democratic ad-ministration here in harmony with the natoinal Democratic landslide that I think we can confidently predict for 1960." j JOSEPH H. WESTON Joseph H. Weston this week publicly anounced his candidacy for the state chairmanship of the Democratic party. Mr. Weston has been active in Democratic political work in Salt Lake City for the past 17 years, excepting for two brief intervals of military duty and foreign residence. He has been a county, state and national dele-gate. He is a reserve officer veteran of more than 14 years of active mjlitary duty that included man-agement of Civilian Conservation Corps camps during the latter part of the Hoover depression, and service in World War II. He was awarded several battle deco-rations for activities in the European- -African, Asiatic and Ameri-can theaters of operations. Mr. Weston is the father of nine children, nine of whom are still at home. His wife is the former Lou Jean Fairbanks of Salt Lake City. He was educated in the public schools of Little Rock, Ark., and in a secondary school of the Democratic PoliticalActivity Centers on Chairman Choice (Continued from Page 1) U. S. House of Representatives. Names of Allan C. Howe, a Salt Lake attorney, and Oscar Mc-Conk- ie Jr., the candidate in 1956, are still being mentioned. Mr. Howe, along with Deputy Salt Lake County Attorney Jay Banks is also being mentioned as a possible candidate for state chairman. It was reported during the week that Tracy Welling, long active in Utah Democratic cir- - cles, was being given favorable consideration for the chairman post. The same sources said Mrs. Sunday Anderson, former state representative and active in many branches of the party, may be the next vice chairman. Other candidates being men-tioned include Ray Leavitt for the Democratic nomination for the four-yea- r county commission term, and Lawrence Jones for county assessor. Republicans with their incum-bents all expected to seek re-election, are not looking forward to much activity prior to the general election. Seeking reelection will be Sen. Arthur V. Watkins, Rep. William A. Dawson and Rep. Henry A. Dixon. In addition to the national of-fices a number of county offices will be filled and virtually the entire Utah legislature will be elected. o Democrat Women Call Meeting Salt Lake County Treasurer Sharp M. Larsen will address a meeting of the Democratic Women's Study Group for Legis-lative District 13. The meeting will be Thursday, March 13 at 8 pm.., in the home of Mrs. Charles R. Krammer, 217 W. 5th North, said Mrs. Viola Allen, secretary. Mrs. Norris Pippy is president. means SIS 3 YEARS it s 010 lighter milder Rgfl and l&iOT i 86 PROOF EL CICNMORE DISTILLERIES COM? Q m j OWIMIIOHO. NINTUCIT in Di" ic ...yet a worthy companion in quality to our fine 100 Proof Bottled-in-Bo- nd KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 100 PROOF BOTTLED-IN-BON- D & 86 PROOF Enjoy them both! They re timed to perfection 7 long, mellow years I GLENMORE DISTILLERIES COMPANY LOUISVILLE, KENTUCJCT ' provnofion this week ? let them know by long distance Remember, rate are lowest after 6 P.M. and all day Sunday always lower when you call station-to-statio- n. Mountain States Telephone i Committee of Democrats Charts Course for Nation (Continued from Page 1) needs to do. The whole history of depressions has taught us that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Things which the government now needs to do are not arti-fical- ly created projects, designed merely to stimulate production and employment. The things that the government now needs to do are urgently demanded by our national security and domestic requirements. We should always spend carefully with determina-tion to get full value for our dollars. But we should act. De-fense and overseas economic as-sistance should be adequate. In the building of a strong and free world economy, we should make maximum use of our great re-serves of food and fibers. We reject the argument that increased national security ex-penditures must mean reduced support for education, health, housing, urban renewal, for re-source development, for the ill, the aged and the handicapped.' To reduce further farm income1 is to add insult to injury. An in-- 1 crease in farm income is long overdue. The tight money policy should be further eased. We do not be-lieve that this by itself will bring recovery. But it will ease the hardship of the housebuilder and homeowner, the other small busi-nessmen, and it will check the spiraling cost of carrying the public debt. It will also elimi-nate the justification for the high. j rates which the Republicans have been seeking to charge domestic borrowers and also foreigfn bor-rowers. President Eisenhower said that given unemployment and the need for expansion, a deficit is to bepreferred to a tax increase. He is right. This is also a position which the Democratic Adminis-tration of Franklin D. Roosevelt first took twenty years ago. (It will be interesting to see how the Republicans, who have never failed to attack the Democratic j Party for such a policy, react to its espousal by a Republican President. Presumably there will be an agonizing reappraisal.) If the Republican Administration cannot arrest the recession, a tax cut may be necessary to stimu-late activity. There will then be arguments by Republicans that this should go as an incentive to ' the well-to-d- o and to the cor-- ! porations. For reasons both ofj equity and maximum effect on , purchasing power any such re-- ; lief should go to the hard pressed j families in the lower income, brackets. We Democrats have faith in the American economy. We believe in growth and expansion. We do not .think that depressions are either good or inevitable. Unlike the Republicans, we believe in backing our faith with deeds. We believe that the American peo-ple share our confidence in our economic system and in the abil-- : ity of government to provide the necessary and constructive sup-port to economic growth. |