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PROCLAMATION 3836-MAR. 19, 1968

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offer the citizen who has the talent, the will—and the chance—a means of fulfilling his dream of taking a meaningful, productive role in our national life. Your Government has recognized the importance of each of these contributions of the small businessman, and through the Small Business Administration: —offers counsel and economic assistance to owners of small businesses; —provides financial assistance and guarantees rental payments to energetic citizens seeking to bring more business and more jobs into poverty-locked ghettoes; —aids small firms in competing for government contracts; —seeks ways of protecting small firms against criminal acts. These programs, as expanded by the Small Business Act Amendments I signed last fall, help insure that small business will continue ^^ Stat. 268. to provide a reservoir of economic opportunities tor our nation. It 15 USC 633 note. is appropriate that all citizens share in an expression of our national appreciation of the present, and the historic, contributions of the small businessman to our economic development. NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning May 12, 1968 as Small Business Week, and I urge industrial and commercial organizations, chambers of commerce, boards of trade, and other public and private organizations to participate in ceremonies recognizing the significant contributions, past and present, of small business to our land, our culture, and our ideals. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-second.

Proclamation 3836 CANCER CONTROL MONTH, 1968 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation This year, more than 900,000 Americans will be treated for cancer, and more than 300,000 Avill die. Medical science will save 200,000 cancer patients in 1968. But another 100,000 persons, who might have been saved by earlier treatment using the skills we now possess, will be lost. Cancer continues to be our second deadliest disease—and the afHiction people fear more than any other.

March i9, 1968

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