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 PROCLAMATION 3500-OCT. 9, 1962

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[76 STAT.

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 14, 1962, as National School Lunch Week, with ceremonies and activities designed to encourage our citizens and civic groups to extend every effort in support of the school-lunch program. 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 ninth day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN E U S K,

Secretary

of

State. Proclamation 3500

PROVIDING FURTHER FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE CONSTITUTION October 9. 1962

Ante,

p. 757.

Ante,

p. 1462.

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS September 17, 1962, marked the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States; and WHEREAS the Congress, by joint resolution of July 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 508, as amended by Senate Joint Eesolution 60, approved October 9, 1962, provided for a comprehensive national observance of this anniversary; and WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 3464 of April 5, 1962, I designated the period beginning September 17 and ending September 23, 1962, as Constitution Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States, acting in accord with Senate Joint Eesolution 60, do hereby further designate the period from September 17, 1962, to July 4, 1963, inclusive, as a period dedicated to a renewal of national awareness of the priceless heritage which the Constitution represents; and I call upon the people of the United States during that period to engage in such educational and inspirational activities as will deepen their understanding of the Constitution and strengthen their devotion to it. 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 ninth day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN E U S K,

Secretary

of

State.

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