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PROCLAMATION 3636-JAN. 28, 1965

To aid in encouraging the American people to learn of the dangers of accidental poisoning and to take such preventive measures as are warranted, the Congress, by a joint resolution approved September 26, 1961 (75 Stat. 681), requested the President to issue annually a proclamation designating the third week in March as National Poison Prevention Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning March 14, 1965, as National Poison Prevention Week. I direct the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government, and I invite State and local governments and organizations interested in child safety, to participate actively in programs designed to promote better protection against accidental poisonings. 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 28th day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-five, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-ninth.

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LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,

Acting Secretary

of State.

Proclamation 3636 RED CROSS MONTH, 1965 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS the American National Red Cross is recognized by the Congress of the United States as the agency authorized to provide voluntary relief to our servicemen and their families and to serve as the medium of communication between the people of the United States and their Armed Forces; and WHEREAS for more than eighty-four years the American Red Cross has served the Government of the United States in periods of national emergency, war, and peace as a voluntary aid in matters affecting the welfare of all the American people; and WHEREAS the national programs and community services of the American Red Cross, including Disaster Relief operations, the Blood Program, Nursing Services, First Aid, Water Safety, and others, contribute to the general good and must be maintained at maximum efficiency; and WHEREAS these essential programs and services are made possible through the voluntary support and cooperation of 43,500,000 members and volunteers in 3,500 Red Cross chapters across the Nation; and WHEREAS the American National Red Cross, as a member of the League of Red Cross Societies and in full cooperation with the League, participates in the international relief programs, providing food, clothing, medical care, assistance, and hope to the peoples affected by war, pestilence, civil conflict, and disaster; and WHEREAS, under the provisions of the Geneva Conventions, the American Red Cross, in cooperation with its sister societies and the

January 28, 1965

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