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PROCLAMATION 3421~JULY 20, 1961

farm organizations and other groups in preparing and carrying out programs for the appropriate observance of National Farm-City Week, including public meetings, discussions, exhibits, pageants, and press, radio, and television features, with special emphasis on the interdependence of the family farm and the city. I also request labor, business, industry, and all consumers to join in this observance, along with farm groups, as evidence of America's appreciation of all those on the farms and in the cities who provide us with the food and fiber for better living. 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 seventeenth day of July 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 eightysixth. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State. FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, 1961 ^"[NoWT]^

^y **^® President of the United States of America A Proclamation WHEREAS an unconscionable number of lives and approximately a billion dollars worth of property are lost each year because of fires which could have been prevented or controlled; and WHEREAS our communities and the Nation can ill afford this inexcusable waste of our resources: NOW, THEREFORE. I, JOHN P. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 8, 1961, as Fire Prevention Week.

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