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[79 STAT. 1502]
PUBLIC LAW 89-000—MMMM. DD, 1965
[79 STAT. 1502]

1502

Ante, p. 548.

PROCLAMATION 3670-SEPT. 11, 1965

[79 STAT.

acquire respect for other persons, rules, and property, as well as opportunities to develop individual skills and to advance to professional careers in the sport of baseball; and WHEREAS the annual American Legion World Series for 1965 will be played at Aberdeen, South Dakota, during the period from August 31 through September 6; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 23, 1965, has reouested the President to designate the period from August 31 through September 6, 1965, as National American Legion Baseball Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the period from August 31 through September 6, 1965, as National American Legion Baseball Week, and I invite the Governors of the several States to join me in issuing similar proclamations. I call upon all sports organizations, community leaders, parents and other interested citizens to arrange appropriate observances of National American Legion Baseball Week and to join hands in the effort to strengthen all programs which contribute to the healthy physical and moral development of our youth. 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 23rd day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-five, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninetieth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: DEAN R U S K,

Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3670 NATIONAL FOREST PRODUCTS WEEK, 1965 September 11, 1965

gy the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

36 USC 163.

WHEREAS this Nation has been endowed with bountiful forest resources that yield the timber products that are essential to the growth of our economy, the welfare of our people, and the development of our industries; and WHEREAS these forests also contribute to the attainment of a more beautiful and better way of life for our citizens by providing a place of natural retreat and a place for recreation; and WHEREAS these forests provide other essential natural benefits in the form of watershed protection, forage, and wildlife habitat; and WHEREAS many communities of our country depend on the resources of our forests for their livelihood and for the well-being of their people; and WHEREAS the Congress, wishing to re-emphasize the importance and heritage of our forest resources, has by the joint resolution of September 13, 1960 (74 Stat. 898) designated the seven-day period