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PROCLAMATION 3492-SEPT. 17, 1%2

WHEREAS this forest-based industry is among the Nation's largest and currently employs one out of every 20 persons employed, and the forest itself continues to be a much sought-after base for expanded industry development that in the future will employ even more people, provide new timber products, and generally aid in the continuation of this country's economic progress; and WHEREAS under modern technology and enlightened management policies the forest products industry opportunities can be realized with enhancement of other recognized and inherent material and spiritual benefits derived from abundant, well managed and developed forests; and WHEREAS the Congress, wishing to emphasize and assure full understanding of our great forest heritage and its possibilities, has by joint resolution approved on September 13, 1960 (74 Stat. 898) designated the seven-day period beginning on the third Sunday of October in each year as National Forest Products Week, and has requested the President to issue an annual proclamation calling for the observance of that week:

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NOW, THEREFORE, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week beginning October 21, 1962, as National Forest Products Week, with activities and ceremonies designed to direct public attention to the necessity for recognizing that productive forests and a thriving forest products industry are elements in our economy essential to its continued growth. 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 13th day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and [SEAL] 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 3492 AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK, 1962 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS the outstanding accomplishments in the field of science and technology, especially in space exploration, electronics, peaceful use of atomic energy, and medical research, stagger the imagination and clearly and dramatically demonstrate the need for unceasing efforts to improve and expand our educational systems and educational facilities; and WHEREAS the ever-increasing complexities of modern-day living constantly challenge our ingenuity and compel us to set higher standards of educational achievement to meet that challenge and to assure national progress; and WHEREAS the efforts of our Nation's schools and colleges to provide the education and leadership required to preserve both freedom

September 17, 1962

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