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PROCLAMATION 4321-OCT. 3, 1974
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 6, 1974, as Fire Prevention Week. I call upon all citizens, individually and as a Nation, to support, participate in, and promote the fire prevention programs and activities of their local community fire departments and of the National Fire Protection Association. I urge state and local governments, business, labor, and other organizations, as well as schools, civic groups, and public information agencies, to observe Fire Prevention Week, to provide useful fire safety information to the public, and to enlist the active participation of all citizens in year-round fire prevention programs. I also urge all Federal agencies, in cooperation with the Federal Fire Council, to set an example for the Nation by conducting effective yearround fire prevention programs, including employee fire safety training programs and drills. Let us all work together in reducing the unnecessary waste of human life and property from fire. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-ninth. GERALD R.
Proclamation 4321
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October 3, 1974
Leif Erikson Day, 1974 By the President
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A Proclamation Nearly one thousand years ago, Leif Erikson and his small crew of Norse explorers embarked upon a courageous voyage through unknown seas that led them to the bountiful shores of the New World. Today most of the world's frontiers have been explored but there are still personal frontiers that are no less challenging and forbidding than
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