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PROCLAMATIONS—AUG. 2, 1955

[60 STAT.

I call upon the citizens of all communities in the land to organize effective programs for reducing the needless waste caused by preventable fires, and I urge State and local governments, the American National Red Cross, the National Fire Waste Council, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and business, labor, and farm organizations, as well as schools, civic groups, and public information agencies, actively to observe Fire Prevention Week. I also direct the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government to assist in this national effort to reduce 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 second day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightieth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN F O S T E R DuLiiES,

Secretary of State.

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