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PROCLAMATION 3459-MAR. 27, 1962

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fying the trade agreement concession and adjusting the duty on certain machine-woven pile floor coverings, and Proclamation No. Ante, p. 1454. 3455, modifying the trade agreement concessions and adjusting duties on cylinder, crown, and sheet glass; and WHEREAS I determine that it is desirable and appropriate to delay the effective dates of such Proclamations of March 19, 1962: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351), and section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1364), do proclaim that Proclamation No. 3454 and Proclamation No. 3455 of March 19, 1962, are each modified by deleting therefrom the effective date of "April 18, 1962" and by inserting in place thereof "June 17, 1962." 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 twenty-seventh day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty[SEAL] two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,

Acting Secretary

of

State.

Proclamation 3459 NATIONAL HIGHWAY WEEK, 1962 March 27, 1962

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS our Nation, with its expanding economy and growing population, is largely dependent on its highway network for the safe and efficient movement of people and goods; and WHEREAS the inadequacies of our present highway network are responsible in large degree for one of the great American tragedies of our time—the costly and inexcusable annual toll of deaths and injuries on the highways; and WHEREAS the Congress, at my request, last year made financial provision for completing the finest road network the world has ever seen, geared to our future as well as present needs; and WHEREAS the American people should be reminded of their vital interest in this program and the boundless benefits it will produce:

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