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Show JAYCEES ASKED TO SUPPORT LAWS Pre-natal and pre-marital legislation le-gislation sponsored by the Utah junior chamber of commerce and passed during the last session was discussed by B. LaMar May-cock May-cock of Provo, vice president of the Utah junior chamber, Monday evening at Bingham cafe. He stated that although - the ! bills have caused many couples to go out of the state to be married mar-ried and county clerks to complain com-plain about loss of revenue, junior ju-nior chamber organizations should back the two bills and see that they remain in our state statutes. sta-tutes. Mr. Maycock added that the Utah organization is contacting Wyoming. Idaho and Nevada Jaycee organizations asking sponsorship spon-sorship of similar measures in those states. In the past six months 217 Utah couples were married in Nevada, 486 went to Idaho for the ceremonies. Prior to passage of Utah's reform legislation requiring re-quiring certificates from physicians physi-cians for couples planning marriage mar-riage and physical examinations of expectant mothers, out-of-state marriages were' few. The public must be educated to the value of the new legislation legisla-tion if it is to remain on the statute books. Wayne Boren,, secretary, acted as president in the absence of Elliott W. Evans. Eddie Arata reported re-ported that plans were complete for a winter sports party in Dry Fork canyon Sunday afternoon, February 22. Assisting Mr. Arata Ara-ta in arrangements are Francis C. Oswald, L. A. Johnson, C. Inglis Wetmore and Wayne Boren. Bor-en. A talk on "Preparedness After The War" was given by Mr. Wet-more. Wet-more. Leland G. Burress told of Americanism week plans of the junior chamber. |