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PROCLAMATIONS—MAY 7, 1958

72 STAT.]

WHEREAS the Chairman of the President's Council on Youth Fitness, estabhshed in July 1956 to stimulate existing programs and to initiate other measures tending to enhance the fitness of American youth, has recommended that the week beginning June 1, 1958, be designated as National Youth Fitness Week; and WHEREAS the fitness of our young people can be promoted through the determined and constant effort of all our citizens, both young and old: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning June 1, 1958, as National Youth Fitness Week. I request officials of the Government, and I urge American parents, as well as business, labor, agricultural, educational, religious, and civic groups, to use all appropriate means during that week to promote programs and activities which will better the mental, social, spiritual, and physical fitness of the youth of America to the end that we may assure the continuing strength and well-being of our Nation. IN 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 30th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-second. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President:

National Youth Fitness Week, 1958.

JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S,

Secretary of State.

M OTHER ' S DAY,

1958

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

May 7, 1958 [No. 3238]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the spirit of motherhood adds strength and grace to the children of men; and WHEREAS by precept and example the mothers of America have a daily opportunity to shape the lives and destinies of our citizens; and WHEREAS, in recognition of their place in our homes and in our hearts, we are wont to pay special homage to our mothers on one day of each year; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 770), gave official recognition to this annual observance by designating the second Sunday in May of each year as Mother's Day, and by requesting the President to issue a proclamation calling for the celebration of that day; NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby request the observance of Sunday, the eleventh day of May, 1958, as Mother's Day; and I direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government buildings on that day. I also call upon the people of the Nation to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places on Mother's Day, as a public demonstration of our esteem for the mothers of our land; and to reaffirm on that day our gratitude for the heritage of love and honor our own mothers have bequeathed to each one of us. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. 98395 0-59-PT. n - 2 0

36 USC 142.

Mother's Day, 1958.

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