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PROCLAMATION 3340—MAR. 28, 1960

the people of this Nation, annually takes the lives of more than a quarter of a million Americans of all ages; and WHEREAS application of the results of research has saved the lives of one million cancer victims in this country and could save many thousands more each year; and WHEREAS the concerted research effort in progress may lead to the development of methods permitting more effective control of cancer through prevention, diagnosis, and treatment; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved March 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 148), authorized and requested the 36 USC iso. President to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April of each year as Cancer Control Month: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of April 1960 as Cancer Control Month; and I invite the Governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to issue similar proclamations. I also ask the medical and allied health professions, the communications industries, and all interested persons and groups to unite within the appointed month to further our nationwide effort to control cancer. 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 twenty-eighth day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred [SEAL] and sixty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightyfourth. DwiGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: CHRISTIAN A. HERTER,

Secretary

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State.

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