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PROCLAMATIONS—MAR. 17, 1955

[69 STAT.

NATIONAL FARM SAFETY W E E K, 1955 March 17, 1955 [No. 3085]

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

National Farm Safety Week, 1955.

WHEREAS accidents kill more than fourteen thousand, and injure more than one million, farm residents each year; and WHEREAS human failure is associated with nearly all these deaths and disabling injuries; and WHEREAS the occupational death rate of the nearly seven million farm workers in the United States is the third highest among the rates reported for all types of industry in this country; and WHEREAS every farm worker can aid in reducing the toll of deaths and injuries by constantly bearing in mind the slogan, "Your safety is in vour hands": NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the Nation to observe the week beginning July 24, 1955, as National F a r m Safety Week, and I urgently request all farm workers to make safety inventories of their homes, farms, machinery, and equipment, and to cultivate careful work habits and attitudes. I also request all persons and organizations interested in farm life and welfare to join in a campaign to reduce the tragedies and losses caused by needless 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 17th day of March in the year of our I ^ r d nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: HERBERT HOOVER, J r.,

Acting Secretary of State.

CANCER CONTROL MONTH, 1955 March 25, 1955 [No. 3086]

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

A PROCLAMATION

36 USC 150.

WHEREAS the impact of cancer upon this country results in the loss of nearly a quarter of a million lives annually, the suffering and incapacitation of hundreds of thousands of our citizens, and the serious lowering of our national productivity; and WHEREAS protection against this threat to the vitality of the Nation through the cooperative effort of both private and public organizations is necessary to the welfare of our people; and WHEREAS it is incumbent upon all of us to encourage and support the efforts of the official agencies and voluntary groups engaged in research to increase knowledge of cancer, and in programs for the application of this knowledge to the problem of control of cancer through early diagnosis and effective treatment; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved March 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 148), authorized and requested the President to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April of each year as Cancer Control Month:

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