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Show JOSEPH H. WESTON TO JRUN FOR CONGRESS Joseph H. Weston, Salt Lake City author and book publisher, Saturday night announced his candidacy for election to the Congress of the United States as a representative from the Second Sec-ond Utah District which consists of Salt Lake, Utah, Tooele and Davis counties. A lifelong Democrat, Mr. Weston Wes-ton has been active in his party ever since he became a political reporter for a large daily newspaper news-paper at the age of 17. Excepting Except-ing for a few months, Mr. Weston Wes-ton has made his home in Utah for the past 12 years, having come here as an officer in the dy of the Infantry school, Denning, Den-ning, Ga., the Field Artillery school of Ft. Sill, Okla.; and the Air Corps school of Chanute Field, Rantoul, 111. He earned his commission from the ranks, having hav-ing held the positions of private, sergeant and master-sergeant in the army and seaman in the navy. na-vy. He was also graduated from the Naval Aviation Machinists' Mates school at Great Lakes, 111. and from various naval flight classes. During World War II and the national emergency that preceded preced-ed it, he served five years on active duty as an officer. In 1940 and 41, he was adjutant of the famous Sixth Airbase Squadron of the Fifth Airbase group. In 1942, he was commanding officer offic-er of the 1186th Guard Squadron at the Salt Lake Airport, and was provost marshall the army equivalent of sheriff for Salt Lake City and county. During the latter part of the war he held the position of shipment supervisor super-visor of Air -Forces troops, and escorted shipments of replacement replace-ment specialists from Kearns to their places of duty in all parts of the world. Vessels on which he served were attacked by submarines sub-marines and German planes in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. He traveled extensively in Europe, Eur-ope, Africa and Asia. Before resigning to establish his own business, Mr. Weston last year was public information officer for the U. S. Naval Supply Sup-ply depot at Clearfield, and in that capacity was one of the organizers or-ganizers and managers of a campaign cam-paign that secured the coveted "Minute Man" flag for high participation par-ticipation in U. S. Bonds purchases. purch-ases. ' Aged 40, he is the father of nine children. His wife is the former Lou Jean Fairbanks. A native of Salt Lake City, she is the daughter of Lynn R. Fairbanks Fair-banks and his first wife, Jennie Tanner Fairbanks. Mrs. Weston is a graduate of the University of Utah. The Westons reside at 509 Fifth avenue, Salt Lake City. and "Where Do Ideas Come From?". Widely known as a speaker, he has addressed audiences during the past three years that he esti-! mates have totaled more than 500,000 people. Mr. Weston is a member of the quorum of high priests of Ensign En-sign stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and at the present time is also serving serv-ing as a missionary In the same stake. He was educated in the public schools of Arkansas, at Little Rock Junior College, at an Episcopal Epis-copal theological school, and at the University of Utah. From the time of his early teens, he paid his way through school as a newspaper reporter, having lost jhis father shortly after World j War I. He secured his first job-selling job-selling newspapers and began buying his own clothing and books when he was 9. Concurrently with his civilian occupation, he served as a nation al guardsman, enlisted reservist and a reserve officer of the army for more than nine years prior to 1940. He commanded CCC I forestry camps in the mountains of Arkansas and the forests of l western Montana for one year. J He was for several years staff political writer for the San Diego Di-ego Morning Union, a daily newspaper in the coast city, between be-tween 1936 and 1940. His military education is extensive ex-tensive and varied, since he was singled out early in his career for special training and development. develop-ment. For more than two years, he was trained under the direct personal supervision of General James A. Van Fleet, who now commands the ground forces in Korea, and who is known as one of the most brilliant soldiers in American history. Mr. Weston is a graduate of the Army Chemical Chemi-cal Warfare school at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., and made high grades in special courses of stu- , - Joseph H. Weston army air corps in 1940. He was a candidate for the legislature in 1946 and fur the state senate in 1948 and 1950. Mr. Weston is the author of several LDS books that have received re-ceived world wide distribution. Among them are "These Amazing Amaz-ing Mormons", "Mormons Are Different", "My Testimony", "The Mormon Welfare Plan", |