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PROCLAMATION 3476-MAY 5, 1962

p. 69.

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WHEREAS the promotion and development of an efficient transportation system are responsibilities of the Government, users of transportation, and labor and management; and WHEREAS the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 628, approved May 14, 1962, has requested the President to proclaim annually the week in May of each year in which falls the third Friday of that month as National Transportation Week, as a tribute to the men and women who, night and day, move goods and people throughout our land: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning May 13, 1962, as National Transportation Week; and I urge all our people to join in appropriate activities and ceremonies with the various branches of the transportation industry and representatives of governmental agencies in such manner as will afford an opportunity for the people of each community to recognize the vital role which the transportation industry plays in our economy and in our daily lives. 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. DONE at the City of Washington this fourteenth day of May 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

By the President: DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State. Proclamation 3476 MOTHER'S DAY, 1962 May 5, 1962

36 USC 142.

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS the American home constitutes the very foundation of our Nation; and WHEREAS the mothers of our country embody and foster the virtures of love, devotion, and fortitude upon which our homes are founded; and WHEREAS it is appropriate that we devote one day each year to expressing publicly the boundless affection, respect, and gratitude we feel for our mothers; and WHEREAS, in official recognition of these feelings, the Congress, by.^ JQJj^^ resolution approved May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 770), designated the second Sunday in May of each year as Mother's Day and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation calling for the public observance of that d a y: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that Sunday, May 13, 1962, be observed as Mother's Day, and I direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on that day. I also call upon the people of the United States to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places as an expression of the reverent esteem in which they hold the mothers of our country.

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