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Show Joseph H, Weston, Mhor, ts Congress Hopeful Joseph H. Weston, Salt Lake City author and book publisher, has announced his candidacy for election to the Congress of the United States as a representative representa-tive from the Second Utah District, Dis-trict, which consists of Salt Lake, Utah, Tooele and Davis counties. , A lifelong Democrat, Mr. Weston has been active in his party ever since he became a political reporter for a large daily newspaper at the age of 17. Excepting for a few months, Mr. Weston has made his home in Utah for the past 12 years, having come here as an officer in the army air corps in 1940. He was a candidate for the legislature leg-islature in 1946, and for the state senate in 1948 and 1950. Mr. Weston is the author of several LDS books that have received worldwide distribution. Among them are "These Amazing Amaz-ing Mormons," "Mormons Ar? Different," "My Testimony," "The Mormon Welfare Plan," and "Where Do Ideas Come From?" Widely known as a speaker, he has addressed audiences during dur-ing the past three years that he estimates have totaled more than 500,000 people. Mr. Weston is a member of the quorum of high priests of Ensign 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 pub-lic schools of Arkansas, at Little Lit-tle Rock Junior College, at an Episcopal 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 his father shortly after World War I. He secured his first jot; selling newspapers and began buying his own clothing cloth-ing and books when he was 9. Concurrently with his civilian occupation, he served as a national na-tional guardsman, enlisted reservist re-servist and a reserve officer of the army for more than nine years prior to 1940. He cam-manded cam-manded CCC forestry camps in the mountains of Arkansas and the forests of western Montana for one year. ' He was for several years staff political writer for the San Diego Morning Union, a daily newspaper in the Coast city, between 1936 and 1940. Mr. Weston said he will manage man-age his own campaign, and will maintain a headquarters at his office in the Hooper Building, 23 East First South, Salt Lake City. |
