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PROCLAMATION 3729-JUNE 15, 1966

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NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning June 12, 1966, as National Flag Week. I direct the appropriate Government officials to display the Flag of the United States on all Government buildings during that week; and I request the people of the United States to observe Flag Day and National Flag Week by flying the Stars and Stripes at their homes and other suitable places. Let us remind ourselves on F l a g Day and throughout National Flag Week that the rights and freedoms which we have so long enjoyed under our national flag must be nourished and protected. Let us resolve always to conduct ourselves, at home and abroad, in keeping with the lofty principles for which our flag stands—to the end that freedom and understanding will be encouraged among all people and all nations of the world. 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 June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninetieth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: GEORGE W. BALJL,,

A ding Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3729 GAS INDUSTRY WEEK By the President of the United States of America

June is, 1966

A Proclamation

The abundant life and well-being of millions of Americans are directly related to the bounty of natural resources with which this Nation has been so generously endowed. The depths of our American continent have yielded up great treasures of mineral resources, and enormous industries have developed to guarantee a maximum of public benefit from this mineral wealth. I t has been one hundred and fifty years since the first gas company was founded in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 13, 1816. Since that early beginning this dynamic industry has become the sixth largest industry in the United States. I t has developed an intricate web of underground pipelines extending three quarters of a million miles and delivering the heat, light, and power benefits of the American gas industry to its thirty-six and a half million customers. To call public attention to the contributions which the gas industry has made toward the health and well-being of our people, the Eightyninth Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 160, has designated the ^"*^' P- 2°^period beginning June 13 and ending June 19, 1966, as Gas Industry Week, and has requested the President to issue a proclamation calling for its appropriate observance.

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