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PROCLAMATIONS—JAN. 24, 1958

Pan American Day and Pan American Week, 1958.

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WHEREAS the Organization, as one of the important associations of free nations, contributes to hemispheric defense and to the advancement of international peace and the ideals of freedom: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Monday, April 14, 1958, as Pan American Day, and the period from April 14 to April 20, 1958, as Pan American Week; and I invite the Governors of the States, Territories, and possessions of the United States of America and the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to issue similar proclamations. I also urge our citizens and all interested organizations to join in the appropriate observance of Pan American Day and Pan American Week, in testimony of the steadfast friendship which unites the people of the United States with the people of the other American Republics. IN WITNESS W; H E R E 0 F, 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 22nd day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-second. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: CHRISTIAN A.

HERTER,

The Acting Secretary oj State.

NATIONAL JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT W E E K, January 24, 1958 [No. 3219]

1958

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

A PROCLAMATION

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National Achievement 1958.

Junior Week,

WHEREAS the Junior Achievement program, with the encouragement of American businessmen, is giving many young people of our Nation an opportunity to gain an early insight into the problems of industry and business; and WHEREAS the experience gained by American youth in organizing and conducting their own small business enterprises and meeting every day business problems will assist them in later life and enlarge their understanding of the privileges and duties of citizenship and the responsibilities of community leadership; and WHEREAS businessmen of local communities are voluntarily giving of their time, their counsel and their experience in aid of these junior enterprises; and WHEREAS the Congress, by Senate Concurrent Resolution 58, agreed to January 23, 1958, has requested the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning January 26, 1958, as National Junior Achievement Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of January 26 through February 1, 1958, as National Junior Achievement Week; and I urge all our citizens to observe the week by honoring Junior Achievers and their volunteer adult advisers through appropriate ceremonies. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

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