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PROCLAMATION 3485-JULY 19, 1962

Ante, p. 168.

[76 STAT.

WHEREAS it is in the public interest for the citizens and civic leaders of this country to gain knowledge of and to maintain a progressive interest in the public works needs and programs of their respective communities; and WHEREAS the Congress by Senate Joint Resolution 68, approved July 18, 1962, requested the President to issue a proclamation designating the seven-day period commencing October 14, 1962, as National Public Works Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 14, 1962, as National Public Works Week; and I urge all our people to join with representatives of governmental agencies in activities and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to our public works engineers and administrators and to recognize the substantial contributions they have made to our national health and welfare. 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 RUSK,

Secretary

of

State. Proclamation 3485

ALLOCATING TO CERTAIN WESTERN HEMISPHERE COUNTRIES PART OF THE SUGAR WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED TO CUBA July 19, 1962

Ante, 169.

pp. 156,

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS section 202(c)(4) of the Sugar Act of 1948 (P.L. 87535 and 87-539) provides as follows: "(4)(A) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3) of this subsection, whenever the United States is not in diplomatic relations with any country named in paragraph (3) of this subsection and during such period after resumption of diplomatic relations with such country as the Secretary determines is required to permit an orderly adjustment in the channels of commerce for sugar, the proration or allocation provided for in paragraph (3) of this subsection shall not be made to such country, and a quantity of su^ar not to exceed an amount equal to the proration or allocation which would have been made but for the provisions of this paragraph, may be authorized for purchase and importation from foreign countries, except that all or any part of such quantity need not be purchased from any country with which the United States is not in diplomatic relations, or from any country designated by the President whenever he finds and proclaims that such action is required in the national interest. In authorizing the purchase and importation of sugar from foreign countries under this paragraph, special consideration shall be given to countries of the Western Hemisphere and to those countries purchasing United States agricultural commodities.

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