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PROCLAMATION 3789-JUNE 15, 1967

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Proclamation 3789 NATIONAL COAL WEEK By the President of the United States of America

June is, 1967

A Proclamation

Nearly a thousand years ago, Indians in what is now Arizona began to mine coal as a fuel for baking pottery. From that remote beginning grew a great industry that contributed mightily to our development as a Nation. Coal fed the steam engines that conquered our rivers and pushed our frontiers westward. I t smelted the iron that built cities and railroads and automobiles. I t warmed our homes and provided the current to light them. I t fired—and is still firing—the furnaces of freedom. Today, our expanding technology imposes new demands on the coal industry to assure its future service as a source of energy, and as a continued source of livelihood for thousands of our citizens. All Americans look to the leaders of this great industry—management and labor alike—to continue their efforts toward further technological advancement. I t is essential to our national well-being that this great natural resource, which has meant much to our history, continue to play a significant role in the development of America's tomorrow. The Congress, by Senate Concurrent Eesolution 20, has asked me ^"*®' P- ^°''^to direct attention to this abundant resource. I t is my pleasure to do so. NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of June 1824, 1967, as National Coal Week. I call upon citizens throughout the Nation to participate in observance of that week, in honor of the National Coal Association. I invite the Governors of the various States to issue proclamations for this purpose. I encourage the various agencies and departments to join in suitable observances of National Coal Week, including public meetings, exhibits, and news-media features. 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 fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-first.

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THE W H I T E HOUSE,

June 15, 1967. By the President: Secretary

of State.

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