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Show Small Businessmen Dominate Utah's New State Legislature The Utah Legislature, which convenes in January, will be comprised largely of small businessmen busi-nessmen and farmers. As usual, there is a good sprinkling sprin-kling of attorneys. The legislature will have 22 small businessmen in the House and 10 in the Senate. The 22 in the House represents slightly more than one-third of the membership. mem-bership. There are 14 members of the House who are mainly in the farming and livestock business, the majority being engaged primarily pri-marily in livestock operations. There are nine educators, some of whom are retired. Fourth largest group is made up of attorneys. at-torneys. The remainder of the House membership is made up of three public employes, four employes of private business firms, two railroad workers and two housewives. house-wives. One of the housewives is a beauty culturist. The group classified as businessmen busi-nessmen is made up chiefly of merchants, real estate brokers, and insurance men. The Senate is comprised of 10 businessmen, six attorneys, two educators, three livestock growers, grow-ers, and a weekly newspaper publisher. The membership includes only one member of the healing arts a retired dentist who now is engaged in farming. |