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PROCLAMATION 3552-AUG. 27, 1963

WHEREAS every means should be utilized to foster and encourage the voluntary acceptance of handicapped workers so that they may share fully in the benefits of our economic growth while contributing to the enrichment of our Nation as a whole; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 11, 1945 (59 Stat. 530), has designated the first week in October of each year as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week and has requested the President to issue a suitable proclamation each year: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do call upon the people of our Nation to observe the week beginning October 6, 1963, as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, and to cooperate with the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped in furthering equal employment opportunity for the handicapped. I also call upon Federal, State, and local public officials, leaders of industry and labor, and other interested individuals and organizations to cooperate in its observance by renewing their efforts toward creating community awareness of the abilities of handicapped persons. I urge all volunteers to rededicate themselves during that week to continuing their year-round interest and activities on behalf of the handicapped. 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 twenty-seventh day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty[SEAL] three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-eighth.

1021

36 USC iss.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN R U S K,

Secretary of State. Proclamation 3552 NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH WEEK, 1963 By the President of the United States of America

August 27, 1963

A Proclamation

WHEREAS the national school lunch program helps make is possible for our young people to enjoy a lunch rich in the essential elements of a good diet, and helps them to learn the benefits to be derived from good nutrition; and WHEREAS the serving of a nutritious lunch to 16 million children daily, in 68,000 schools, entails the consumption of foods from the entire range and variety of items that are so abundantly and efficiently produced by our farmers, and the employment of the unexcelled skills and techniques of our highly developed food-marketing system; and WHEREAS the national school lunch program represents one of the Nation's best examples of a cooperative local-State-Federal partnership for the benefit of a most important segment of our population; and WHEREAS, in order to gain recognition from citizens and civic groups for the work of the national school lunch program, the Congress, by a joint resolution approved October 9, 1962 (76 Stat. 779), 36 USC les. has designated the seven-day period beginning on the second Sunday

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