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PROCLAMATION 3799-AUG. 12, 1967

[81 STAT.

For this reason, I have asked the Congress to enact the Fire Kesearch and Safety Act of 1967, which will: —Improve our information about the causes and costs of fire. —Develop better fire fighting and fire prevention techniques. —Support community efforts to improve their fire control programs. —Expand public education in the prevention of fires. I have also asked the Congress to enact amendments to the Flammable Fabrics Act, which will enable us to help save the thousands who die each year because of flammable and explosive clothing and interior furnishings. This legislation will strengthen America's efforts to reduce the senseless repetition of destruction that fire inflicts on our Nation. But in the final analysis, fire prevention can succeed only at the community level. Local efforts must make every citizen aware of his personal responsibility for removing fire hazards and reforming the habits that cause fires. Recognizing the importance of those efforts, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 8, 1967, as Fire Prevention

Week. I bid all citizens earnestly to support the fire prevention and control efforts of their community fire departments. I urge State and local governments, the National Fire Protection Association, business and civic groups, and public information agencies to observe Fire Prevention Week, to provide useful fire safety information to the public, and to enlist the active participation of all citizens in year-round fire prevention programs. I also direct the Federal Fire Council and the appropriate Federal agencies to assist in this effort to reduce the needless waste of life and property caused by preventable fires. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of August 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-second.

Proclamation 3799 AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK, 1967 August 12. 1967

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

The future of America is written on school blackboards and in student notebooks. The quality of thought in our classrooms today will determine the quality of our lives a generation hence. This year more Americans are in school than ever before in our history. Three out of every ten are occupied—as students or teachers— in the process of education. Thirty-seven million children—1.4 percent more than last year— are enrolled in elementary schools. High school enrollments are up 3

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