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PROCLAMATIONS—SEPT. 3, 1955

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educational system, and an obligation to demonstrate a desire and capacity to meet the major problems facing American education: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the period from November 6 through November 12, 1955, as American Education Week, and I ask the people throughout the country to participate fully in the observance of that week. I urge this observance as evidence of appreciation to teachers and school officials for work well done, and as a pledge of citizen interest in better education. I also urge this observance as a fitting prelude to the White House Conference on Education to be held in the City of Washington from November 28 through December 1, 1955, and as a tribute to the challenging role American education is playing in building a better and stronger nation in today's world of nations. IN WITNESS 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 first day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightieth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: HERBERT HOOVER,

American Educa tion Week, 1955.

Jr.,

Acting Secretary of State.

NATIONAL EMPLOY THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED W E E K,

1955

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

September 3, 1955 [No. 3113]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS opportunity for employment should not be denied any qualified person merely because of a physical handicap; and WHEREAS an individual's ability—not his disability—should be the first consideration in determining his capacity for employment; and WHEREAS the Nation's program under the Vocational Rehabilitation Amendments of 1954 (68 Stat. 652) will greatly increase the number of Americans rehabilitated annually; and WHEREAS it is imperative that jobs be provided through the public employment service and other channels so that disabled veterans and other handicapped men and women can become active and participating members of the Nation's working force; and WHEREAS the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Department of Labor, and the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped are cooperating with governors' committees in the States and Territories in a joint public-education program to rehabilitate and hire the handicapped; and WHEREAS the observance of National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week once each year, as authorized by the joint resolution of the Congress approved August 11, 1945 (59 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 2, 1955, 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 the Congress,

29 USC 31 note.

National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, 1955.

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