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Oregon Centennial Celebration, 1959.

PROCLAMATIONS—MAR. 4, 1958

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will stimulate industry, will promote trade and peaceful relationships with other peoples, and will serve as a reminder of the rich and historic heritage of the land at the end of the Oregon Trail; and WHEREAS the Congress of the United States, by a joint resolution approved February 4, 1958, authorized the President of the United States to issue a proclamation calling upon the people to commemorate with appropriate ceremonies the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Oregon into the Union: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, pursuant to the joint resolution of Congress and the request of.^the Governor of Oregon, do hereby call upon the American people toobserve the one hundredth anniversary of Oregon's admission to statehood throughout the centennial year beginning February 14, 1959, by appropriate activities and ceremonies. I also invite the States of the Union, and our Territories and possessions to participate in the Celebration which will be held at Portland, Oregon, in 1959. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this fourteenth day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-second. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: CHRISTIAN A.

HERTER,

Acting Secretary of State.

NATIONAL D E F E N S E TRANSPORTATION D A Y, March 4, 1968 [No. 3224]

1958

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

A PROCLAMATION

36 USC 160.

National Defense Transportation Day, 1968.

WHEREAS the United States of America has the greatest transportation system—by land, by sea, and by air—that has ever been developed anywhere in the world; and WHEREAS this system is essential to the expansion of our commerce, to the moving of the products of our farms and factories, to the logistic support of our armed forces in times of national emergency, and to the welfare and security of all our people; and WHEREAS it is fitting that we should give full recognition to the significance of our transportation system and to the importance of maintaining its facilities, so that it may continue to serve our needs in times of peace and in the defense of our country; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 16, 1957 (71 Stat. 30), has requested the President annually to issue a proclamation designating the third Friday of May of each year as National Defense Transportation Day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Friday, May 16, 1958, as National Defense Transportation Day, and I urge all our people on that day to collaborate in appropriate activities and ceremonies with the various branches of the transportation industry and with representatives of the armed forces and other Governmental agencies.

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