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PROCLAMATION 3414—MAY 16, 1961

DONE at the City of Washington this eleventh day of May 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: CHESTER BOWLES,

Acting Secretary of State. NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION WEEK, 1961 ^tf^ Wlf^ [No. 3414]

Ante, p. 79.

By the President of the United States ' of America A Proclamation WHEREAS transportation has been instrumental in the development of our natural resources and in the industrial and scientific achievements of the United States; and WHEREAS our Nation's status as a world power necessarily requires that we have an efficient and coordinated land, air, and water transportation system which strengthens our national defense and promotes our domestic progress; and WHEREAS the continuation of an efficient transportation system, under private ownership and management, is the combined responsibility of all our people—including management and labor, and Federal, State, and local governments; and WHEREAS it is appropriate that we recognize the importance to the United States of the transportation industry by setting aside a week as a tribute to the men and women who move this Nation's goods and people; and WHEREAS the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 143, approved May 16, 1961, has reQuested the President to proclaim the week in May of 1961 in which falls the third Friday of that month as National Transportation Week:

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