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PROCLAMATION 3520-FEB. 14, 1963
[77 STAT.
D O N E at the City of Washington this eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-three, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh. JOHN F. KENNEDY
By the President: DEAN E U S K,
Secretary of State. Proclamation 3520 NATIONAL FARM SAFETY WEEK, 1963 February 14, 1963
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
WHEREAS hundreds of thousands of rural volunteer leaders and 4 - H Club members actively participate in organized farm, home, and highway safety programs; and WHEREAS these community, State, and national safety programs have proved effective in reducing the number and rate of accidents among farm people; and WHEREAS accidents nevertheless continue to kill or disable nearly a million farm residents annually, and cause needless suffering and economic waste to both the agricultural community and the Nation; and WHEREAS increased emphasis on the safety and productive efficiency of farm families is vital to assure a continuing abundance of food and fiber for the well-being of all Americans: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby call on the people of the Nation to observe the week beginning July 21, 1963, as National F a r m Safety Week; and I urge all farm families, and all persons and organizations allied with agriculture, to engage in a purposeful, united effort to reduce further the number of farm, home, and highway accidents. 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. DONE at the City of Washington this fourteenth day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-three, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh. JOHN F. KENNEDY
By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,
Acting Secretary of State.
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