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PROCLAMATION 3400—MAR. 25, 1961

DONE at the City of Washington this eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] sixty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightyfifth. JOHN P. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State.

CANCER CONTROL MONTH, 1961 March 25, 1961 By the President of the United States [No 3400]

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of America A Proclamation

36 USC 150.

WHEREAS cancer strikes in approximately two of three American families and seriously affects the vitality of our Nation; and WHEREAS the one million Americans who have been saved from cancer are living testimony to the success of control methods produced over decades of arduous and painstaking research; and WHEREAS it is clear to all who battle this disease that the solution of the problem of cancer will be achieved only by full application of control measures now known and of those yet to be developed; and WHEREAS it is essential to the health of the Nation that our citizens be aware of the extensive efforts directed toward the control of cancer in order to avail themselves of these measures; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved March 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 148), has authorized and requested the President to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April of each year as Cancer Control Month: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of April 1961 as Cancer Control Month; and I invite the Governors of the States, the Commonwealth of

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