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PROCLAMATION 3451-FEB. 26, 1962

[76 STAT.

Proclamation 3451 NATIONAL FARM SAFETY WEEK, 1962 February 26. 1962

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS accidents result in disabling injuries and often death to a million farm residents each year; and WHEREAS those farm accidents are responsible for needless suffering and incapacity, and cause wasteful economic losses to both the farm community and the Nation; and WHEREAS all Americans are concerned about the safety and well-being of farm families from whom we receive our abundance of food and other essential agricultural commodities; and WHEREAS nearly one hundred thousand voluntary leaders, two million farm families and one million 4-H Club boys and girls actively participated in the farm, home, and highway safety training program last year; and WHEREAS the annual records show a notable and steady decline in the number and rate of accidents among farm people as a direct result of this national program of self-training under sound guidance; and WHEREAS that decline in farm accidents demonstrates the value of community and national farm safety activities: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby call on the people of the Nation to observe the week beginning July 22, 1962, as National F a r m Safety Week, and I urge all citizens in our great farm community to actively heed the theme "Family Safety—At Work and Play." I also urge all persons and organizations allied with agriculture to join in a strong, concerted effort to reduce the number of farm, home, and highway accidents. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 26th day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth. JOHN F. KENNEDY

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Secretary of State. Proclamation 3452 PAN AMERICAN DAY AND PAN AMERICAN WEEK, 1962 February 26, 1962

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS April 14, 1962, will be the seventy-second anniversary of the establishment by the American Republics of our inter-American system^ now known as the Organization of American States; and

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