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PROCLAMATION 3411—APR. 29, 1961

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grams and activities demonstrating the importance of youth fitness to the end that we may assure the continuing strength and well-being of our people. 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-ninth day of April 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 F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State. NATIONAL HIGHWAY WEEK, 1961 April By the President of the United States "^E 29, 1961 No. 34111 of America A Proclamation WHEREAS an adequate highway network is indispensable to traffic safety, to the growth of our economy and to the National defense; and WHEREAS some 40,000 of our citizens are killed and 1,400,000 are injured every year in highway accidents; and WHEREAS the orderly advancement of our expanded Federal-State highway program promises a sharp reduction in our annual waste of human and economic resources due to outmoded highways; and WHEREAS the public should be reminded of the importance of completing the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways on schedule in 1972: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week of May 21-27, 1961, as National Highway Week in recognition of the vital role of highway transportation in our way of life.

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