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PROCLAMATION 4350—FEB. 6, 1975 rights and interests of the persons furnishing information, every employee of the Census Bureau is prohibited, under heavy penalty, from disclosing any information that may thus come to his knowledge. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FOR D, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and make known that under the law it is the duty of every person from whom information is sought in connection with the 1974 Census of Agriculture to reply to the questions in the questionnaire. Prompt, complete, and accurate responses to all official inquiries made by Census officials are of great importance to our country. Therefore, I ask affected Americans for their full cooperation in the 1974 Census of Agriculture. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-ninth. GERALD R.

Proclamation 4350

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February 6, 1975

Save Your Vision Week, 1975 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation One of every twenty people in the United States suffers some degree of visual disability. Yet, many eye injuries and disorders could be pre\ en ted if Americans took greater care to preserve their vision. Simple measures, such as wearing protective goggles when engaged in hazardous activity, will help avoid eye injuries and save sight. Many disorders that impair vision or cause blindness can be arrested before the eyes become seriously damaged, if they are detected and treated early in their development. Even blindness can sometimes be cured. For example, 95 percent of the 5,000 Americans blinded or visually disabled by cataract, for whom surgery is recommended, could have their vision restored. Researchers in the visual science are continually striving to reduce the toll of visual disability. Advances made in vision research, many of which

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