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PROCLAMATIONS—MAR. 31, 1954
(b) the individual shipment amounts to more than 100 bushels (of 56 pounds each) and the written approval of the Secretary of Agriculture or his designated representative is presented at the time of entry, or bond is furnished in a form prescribed by the Commissioner of Customs in an amount equal to the value of the merchandize as set forth in the entry, plus the estimated duty as determined at the time of entry, conditioned upon the production of such written approval within six months from the date of entry. IN W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 31st day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-eighth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S
Secretary of State
CANCER CONTROL M O N T H,
1954
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
March 31, 1954 [No. 3049]
A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the disease of cancer takes the lives of nearly a quarter of a million of our citizens every year, many of whom are at the peak of their achievements; and WHEREAS a democratic Nation which cherishes the life of the individual does not stand idly by in the face of such a challenge; and WHEREAS the will of this Nation to conquer cancer has been well attested by the work of public and private agencies alike—work which must continue to enlist support and participation by all of us if this disease is to be controlled; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved March 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 148), authorized and requested the President to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April of each year as Cancer Control Month: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of April 1954 as Cancer Control Month; and I invite the Governors of the States, Territories, and possessions of the United States to issue similar proclamations. I also urge the medical profession, the press, the radio, television, and motion-picture industries, and all interested agencies and individuals, to unite during the appointed month in public dedication to a program for the control of cancer. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 31st day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-eighth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S
Secretary of State
36 USC 150.
Cancer Control Month, 1954.
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