Show Reed Stevens Seeking Office ice Business Leader Asks G. G O. O P. P Backing for Job Reed Stevens Salt Lake City business executive and livestock man announced Tuesday he will be bea a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in the fall election primaries He is the second Republican to announce intentions of seeking the governorship being preceded by Mayor J Bracken Lee of Price The nomination of Wendell Willkie for the presidency has helped to revitalize the Republican party and he has become a symbol symbol symbol sym sym- bol of its renewed progressiveness progressive- progressive ness Mr Stevens asserted Mr Willkie has expressed a determination determination determination de de- de- de termination to bring about national national national na na- na- na unity to destroy defeatism to take the good from the accomplishments accomplishments accomplishments of the present adminIstration administration administration admin admin- and build forward Son of Pioneers I r heartily indorse such efforts and pledge myself to a similar program program program pro pro- gram in Utah if elected governor the new candidate said d. d Mr Stevens began life liCe on a homestead at Oakley Summit county He is 49 years old and was born to Mr and Mrs William H. H Stevens pioneers of 1856 He founded and built a creamery company company company com com- pany which now operates 10 factories factories factories facto facto- ries throughout the state He operates operates operates op op- a large ranch where he breeds purebred livestock He has engaged in the business business business busi busi- ness and has been instrumental in promoting several major irrigation projects We must promote the expansion expansion expansion sion of industry which pays in jobs and w wages rather than the expansion of government which must be paid for in increased taxes Mr Stevens saidI saidI said I r have decided to enter public service because I r believe there must be a new sense of individual responsibility responsibility responsibility in government he con con- Too many of us assume that no matter what happens government government government gov gov- goes goeson on just the same Founds Creamery Business After attending the public schools of Oakley Mr Stevens came to Salt Lake City and at attended attended attended at- at tended the L. L D D. S. S Business college college college col col- col- col lege and the University of Utah He obtained a job as a collector for a local ice company He was wasa a bookkeeper in Los Angeles for forone forone forone one year and then returned to Utah to travel over the stale state as a magazine salesman With the savings savings savings sav sav- ings from these endeavors he heI I 1 ii w w r r ra a y I REED STEVENS I Candidate for Governor Go started in the creamery business The business now furnishes employment employment employment em em- for more than pers persons persons per per- s sons ns and manufactures and markets markets markets mar mar- worth of products annually purchasing butterfat from more than 2000 dairy farm farm- ers He was a member of the board of education of the South Summit district in charge of the finance department from 1921 to 1929 during during during dur dur- ing which time the indebtedness of the system was wiped out He was secretary of the Echo dam project during its construction construction construction tion and of the Smith Reservoir company at the time it constructed its dam He also aided with adjudication of Weber river water rights Mr Stevens has been active Inmany in inmany inmany many civic enterprises He is past president of the Salt Lake Kiwanis club is a director in the Bonneville Bonneville Bonneville Bonne- Bonne ville Knife and Fork club and in inthe inthe inthe the Utah chapter of the American Red Cross and was vice chairman of the 1940 community chest drive H He is president of the Utah Dairy Products association and is a di director director director di- di rector in the Utah Dairy fe federation and the Utah Manufacturers' Manufacturers asso asso- He is a member of the livestock committee of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce He resides with his wife three daughters and a son at 1484 Harvard Harvard Har liar vard yard avenue |