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PROCLAMATIONS—APR. 18, 1959 NATIONAL FARM SAFETY W E E K,

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1959

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

April 17, 1959 [No. 3281]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the continued well-being and economic progress of our rural families are vital to the strength of the Nation; and WHEREAS accidents each year bring suffering and hardship to many rural inhabitants of our land and constitute a serious problem throughout the national community; and WHEREAS programs of safety education and information have demonstrated their effectiveness in preventing accidents in the fields, in the homes, and on the highways and have greatly reduced the needless loss of life and property: 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 19, 1959, as National Farm Safety Week, and I urge farm families and persons allied with agriculture to join their efforts in a continuing campaign to prevent accidents. I also request all persons and organizations concerned for the welfare of farm people to support and participate in National Farm Safety Week. 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 seventeenth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-third. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: ROBERT M U R P H Y,

Acting Secretary of State.

LOYALTY D A Y, 1959 BY THE

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

April 18, 1959 [No. 3282] [N — -

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS loyalty to the United States of America, its democratic traditions and institutions, and the liberties embodied in our Constitution is essential to the preservation of our freedoms in a world threatened by totalitarianism; and WHEREAS it is fitting and proper that we reaffirm by special observance our loyalty to our country and our gratitude for the precious heritage of freedom and liberty under law; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution of July 18, 1958 (72 Stat. 369), has designated May 1 of each year as Loyalty Day, seiiscm and has requested the President to issue annually a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States, and upon all patriotic, civic, educational, and

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