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PUBLIC LAW 89.410-MAY 4, 1966

[80, STAT.

Public Law 89-410 May 4, 1966 JOINT RESOLUTION [S. J. Res. 86] ^ ijiQ authorize the President to proclaim May 4, 1966, as a "Day of Recognition' for firefighters. Firefighters. Day of Recognition. Proclamation authorization.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is hereby authorized and requested to issue a proclamation designating May 4, 1966, as a "Day of Recognition" of the personal sacrifices and devotion to duty of firefighters in the United States of America in protecting lives and property in their communities; and calling upon the people of the United States to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies. Approved May 4, 1966.

Public Law 89-411 May 4, 1966 [S. J. R e s. 18]

Youth Temperance Education Week. Designation.

JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the designation of the week beginning April 23, 1967, as 'Youth Temperance Education Week". Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning April 23, 1967, as "Youth Temperance Education Week", and inviting the people of the United States to cooperate during such week with programs of temperance education. Approved May 4, 1966.

Public Law 89-412 May 5, 1966 [ S. J. R e s. 130]

JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the designation of the week of May 8 to May 14, 1966, as "National School Safety Patrol Week". "Whereas more than an estimated forty-nine thousand Americans died in traffic accidents on the Nation's highways during the year 1965 and the prevention of such accidents has become a problem of major concern; and Whereas the school safety patrols, since their organization on a national scale in the early 1920's, have played an important role in the reduction of highway accidents involving school-age children; and Whereas more than nine hundred thousand safety patrol members are now serving forty thousand schools in all fifty States, protecting nineteen million children; and Whereas the school safety patrols are a cooperative program sponsored jointly by American Automobile Association motor clubs, local schools, and police; and Whereas more than sixteen million Americans have served as safety patrol members during the more than forty years since the program was established; and Whereas the traffic death rate of school-age children since 1922 has dropped nearly one-half while the death rate of all other age groups has doubled and the efforts of the school safety patrols have been a contributing factor in this reduction; and Whereas the lifesaving efforts of the school safety patrols play an increasingly important role in the nationwide campaign to reduce

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