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Proclamation 3483 FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, 1962 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

July is, 1962

WHEREAS experience has revealed the great value of effective community fire prevention programs in conserving our national treasures of life and property; and WHEREAS increased fire losses during the past year demand an immediate awareness on the part of the public of the need for, and value of, exercising greater care and responsibility in avoiding destructive fires and for participating in community fire prevention programs and related activities: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 7, 1962, as Fire Prevention Week. I bid all citizens to join in actively promoting the fire prevention and control efforts of their respective community fire departments, and I especially invoke the wholehearted support of State and local governments, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the American National Red Cross, and other labor, business, farm, and professional organizations, as well as schools, civic groups, and public information agencies, in observing Fire Prevention Week and in enlisting the public as active participants in fire prevention efforts. I also direct the appropriate Federal agencies to assist in this effort to reduce the shameful waste caused by preventable fires. 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 eighteenth day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN R U S K,

Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3484 NATIONAL PUBLIC WORKS WEEK By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS public works facilities and services are of vital importance to the health and well-being of the people of this Nation; and WHEREAS such facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works engineers and administrators, representing Federal, State, and local units of Government, who are responsible for and must design, build, operate, and maintain the highway, water supply, sewage and refuse disposal systems, public buildings, and other structures and facilities essential to serve our citizens; and

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