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STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW

89'6-MAR.

24, 1965

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those counties shall be included in "the region" or "the Appalachian region" for the purposes of this Act. SEVERABILITY

SEC. 404. If any provision of this Act, or the applicapility thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. TERMINATION

SEC. 405. This Act shall cease to be in effect on July 1, 1971. Approved March 9, 1965.

Public Law 89-5 AN ACT To promote public knowledge of progress and achievement in a s t r o n a u t i c s and related sciences through the designation of a special day in honor of Doctor Robert Hutchings Goddard, the father of modern rockets, missiles, and astronautics.

Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress hereby finds that rapid advances and developments in the fields of astronautics and related sciences are having an increasing impact on the daily lives of the people, the national security, and long-range human progress. I t is therefore desirable and appropriate that steps be taken to promote greater public knowledge of the progress and achievement being brought about in these fields, and for that purpose to provide for special recognition and honor to Doctor Robert Hutchings Goddard, the father of modern rockets, missiles, and astronautics, and to designate and set aside a special day to honor his memory and his accomplishments. SEC. 2. (a) The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall provide for appropriate ceremonies, meetings, and other activities on March 16, 1965, said day to be known and celebrated as Goddard Day in honor of the epochal achievements in these fields by the late Doctor Robert Hutchings Goddard. (b) The President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon omcials of the Government and the public to participate in the ceremonies, meetings, and other activities held in observance of Goddard Day. Approved March 12, 1965.

March 12, 1965 [S. 3oi]

Dr. Robert H. Goddard day.

presidential

proclamation.

Public Law 89-6 AN ACT To amend the Inter-American Development Bank Act to authorize the United States to participate in an increase in the resources of the F u n d for Special Operations of the I liter-American Development Bank.

March 24, 1965 [H. R. 45]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the InterAmerican Development Bank Act (22 U.S.C. 283-283i) is amended ^ ^I^^S^*- ^^^' by adding at the end thereof the following new section: ^' '

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