Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 68 Part 2.djvu/486

 c50

PROCLAMATIONS—AUG. 4, 1954 F I R E PREVENTION W E E K,

August 4, 1954 [No. 3063]

[68 STAT.

1954

BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Fire P r e v e n t i o n Week, 1954.

WHEREAS during the past year preventable fires have taken thousands of lives; and WHEREAS destruction of property by fire results in an annual loss of nearly a billion dollars, of an untold number of jobs, and of an irreplaceable amount of production; and WHEREAS safety of life and property and conservation of natural resources are of primary importance to every citizen of the Nation; and WHEREAS the effectiveness of sound fire prevention programs has been demonstrated in communities throughout the land: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 3, 1954, as Fire Prevention Week. I call upon all citizens to initiate a year-round campaign against the waste caused by preventable fires, and I urge State and local governments, the American National Red Cross, the National Fire Waste Cquncil, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and business, labor, and farm organizations, as well as schools, civic groups, and public information agencies, to cooperate in the observance of Fire Prevention Week. I also direct the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government to assist in this national campaign against the loss of life and property resulting from fires. 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 fourth day of August 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-ninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S

Secretary oj State

NATIONAL D A Y OF PRAYER, 1954 August 11, 1954 [No. 3064]

BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION 36 USC 185.

National Day Prayer, 1954.

WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved on April 17, 1952 (66 Stat. 64), provided that the President "shall set aside and proclaim a suitable day each year, other than a Sunday, as a National Day of Prayer, on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation"; and WHEREAS Americans of every generation have sought and found in Almighty God help and guidance in their personal and national problems; and WHEREAS it is fitting that all Americans should unite in prayer on one day of each year in reaffirmation of our reliance upon divine support and our faith in the power of prayer: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Wednesday,

�