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National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, 1954.

PROCLAMATIONS—SEPT. 27, 1954

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WHEREAS recent legislation enacted by the Congress will tend to increase greatly the number of our citizens who will be rehabilitated and prepared for gainful occupation annually, thus requiring redoubled activity in the field of employment; and WHEREAS observance of this week materially aids the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped in the accomplishment of its main objectives: to inform employers of the abilities of qualified handicapped workers, to encourage employers to hire such workers, and to increase community understanding of the value of rehabilitation and employment of the handicapped; and WHEREAS the ever-increasing awareness among public and private employers of the desirability of hiring the handicapped should be maintained and stimulated further; and WHEREAS the observance of National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week once each year, as authorized by a joint resolution of the Congress approved August 11, 1945 (69 Stat. 530), emphasizes the need for a year-round program: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do call upon the people of our Nation to observe the week beginning October 3, 1954, as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, and to cooperate with the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped in carrying out the aforementioned resolution of Congress, I also request the Governors of States, the mayors of municipalities, other public officials, leaders of industry and labor, and members of religious, civic, veterans', agricultural, women's, handicapped persons', and fraternal organizations, to participate actively in this f ^ rl^ipT^vfi Y\ PP

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 13th day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

/Secretary of

State.

GENERAL PULASKI'S MEMORIAL DAY, September 27, 1954 [No. 3067]

1954

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS Count Casimir Pulaski crossed the Atlantic to fight in the cause of freedom and gave his life for that cause on October 11, 1779, as a result of wounds received while leading the Pulaski Legion in a gallant cavalry charge at the siege of Savannah; and WHEREAS the story of this Polish patriot's supreme contribution to our independence is a treasured chapter in the annals of a grateful Nation; and WHEREAS it is fitting that we should honor the memory of this distinguished soldier, who attained the rank of Brigadier General in the American Revolutionary Army, on the one hundred and seventyfifth anniversary of his heroic death:

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