Atlanta Daily World

Anti-Bias Unit Gets New Executive

WASHINGTON, D. C.—Vice President Richard Nixon has announced the appointment of Irving Ferman as Executive Vice Chairman of the President's Committee on Government Contracts.

The Committee, of which Vice President Nixon is the Chairman and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell the Vice Chairman works to broaden Equal Job Opportunity throughout the United States. Government contracts under existing regulations must include a clause prohibiting discrimination in employment because of race, religion, color or national origin.

Mr. Ferman, as the new Executive Vice Chairman, will be responsible to the Vice President and the Secretary of Labor for the execution of Committee policy as determined by its 16 members drawn from private life and Governmental agencies. He formerly was the Director of the Washington, D. C. office of the American Civil Liberties Union until May of this year when he began serving as Consultant to the Committee.

Mr. Ferman, who is 39, served with the Armed Forces during World War II as a Navigator. A graduate of Harvard Law School he was a member of the New Orleans law firm of Provensal, Faris, and Ferman before coming to Washington in 1952. He is a member of the Louisiana State and U. S. Supreme Court Bars.

From 1953 until 1956 Mr. Ferman was Vice Chairman of the National Civil Liberties Clearing House. In 1957 he was on the Citizens' Committee of the United States Commission on Government Security.

His wife is the former Bertha Paglin of New Orleans. They have two children, James and Susan.