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Show Oliver, first and second vice chairmen, Salt Lake City; Sam Herskovit, treasurer, Ogden; and Gail Martin, executive director, Salt Lake City. The FEP committee com-mittee is made up of Utah civic loaders, who believe there is a need for this type of legislation. Mr. Ivin-s Is widely known thru-out thru-out the state as a teacher, farmer farm-er and business man. Now engaged en-gaged in the poultry hatchery business in American Fork, he was Utah Ol'A director from its beginning to the end of controls. He filled the professorship of animal husbandry at Brigham Young University, for 12 years. He acted for three years as secretary sec-retary of the Salt Lake Horse Show Ass'n, having had charge of some of the largest shows put on in the Intermountain west. "Work of the committee will i & t v- - V ' i , - P jt 4 II. Grant Ivins, who will head movement for passage of fair employment practice legislation legisla-tion in Utah. have l)Ut one objective", Mr. Ivins Iv-ins said, that is to obtain passage pass-age of an act by the Utah Legislature Legis-lature milking unlawful the discrimination dis-crimination in employmi nt a-giiinst a-giiinst any person on account of race, leligious belief, or ancestry. ances-try. Social, fraternal, charitable and religious oiganizations are specifically exempted from provisions pro-visions of the law. The bill now being drawn up by the organization's attorney, would accomplish its objectives largely through education and conciliation rather than through coercion. It would operate .similarly .simil-arly to the law passed in New York, which dining the few years of its life has accomplished accomplish-ed untold good and only resulted in six legal cases, all settled out of court. PLANS COMPLETED FOR EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN Plans to carry on an educational educa-tional campaign on behalf of fair employment practice legislation in Utah were completed today when II. Grant Ivins of American Ameri-can Fork .accepted appointment as chairman of the Fair Employment Employ-ment Practices committee for the state of Utah. Other officers of the organization include Mrs. William J. Cope and David H. |