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PROCLAMATION 3894-FEB. 20, 1969

[83 STAT.

Congress authorized this poison prevention campaign in a joint resolution of September 26, 1961 (75 Stat. 681), and requested the President to issue annually a proclamation designating the third week in March as National Poison Prevention Week. Hopefully, as year-round preventive activities are increased even more lives may be saved and serious injuries averted. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning March 16, 1969, as National Poison Prevention Week. I direct the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government, and I invite State and local governments and organizations, to participate actively in programs designed to promote better protection against accidental poisonings, particularly as they relate to young children. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.

Proclamation 3894 February 20, 1969

RED CROSS MONTH, 1969 g / the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

For more than a century, men and women of good will have recognized one symbol as being representative of human compassion. That symbol, revered throughout the world, is a banner bearing a red cross on a field of white. Under it, citizens of all nations strive to bring aid and comfort to the stricken, to heal the sick, and to serve those in distress. As a member of that world fraternity, our American Red Cross helps each of us to help our fellow man. Through its concern and aid for members of our Armed Forces in 30 countries around the globe, the Red Cross last year gave help to great numbers of servicemen and their families. Each year, the Red Cross brings emergency aid and long-range assistance to victims of major catastrophies, and help to sufferers of thousands of local disasters. For the past several years it has been intensifying its efforts to involve all segments of society in the great work of volunteering to help others. Every day thousands of hospitals and physicians look to the Red Cross to provide life-saving blood and blood products for their patients. Nearly fifty percent of all the blood used in this country comes from this source. Each year millions of Americans of all ages participate in Red Cross classes, learning the skills of first aid, home care of the sick and injured, swimming and lifesaving. More than two million trained volunteers devote their time and abilities to working with patients in military and civilian hospitals, clinics, and homes for the aged, with youth, and in community programs seeking to meet the needs of disadvantaged people.

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