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Show 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-day Latter-day Saints. Prior to the publication of his books he had been many years a newspaper writer specializing in politics. He had been a reporter re-porter on the Standard-Examiner 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 i of state chairman to strengthen the organization and prestige of the Democratic party in the state of Utah for victory in the elections elec-tions this November, and to prepare pre-pare the people of the state for the election of a Democratic administration 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 delegate. dele-gate. He is a reserve officer veteran of more than 14 years of active mjlitary duty that included management 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 decorations deco-rations for activities in the European-African, Asiatic and American 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 |