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PROCLAMATION 4407—NOV. 4, 1975 our communities, especially in rural areas, still require considerable improvement, NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning November 3 as Emergency Medical Services Week. I call upon the Governors and Mayors and all other State and local officials to assist hospital administrators and physicians, fire departments, public safety agencies and all ambulance services in improving emergency medical services. I call upon Federal agencies, especially the Departments of Transportation and Health, Education, and Welfare to continue, with renewed vigor, their assistance to States and communities in accelerating efforts to help those in need of emergency medical assistance. I call upon all our people to lend their support to these efforts. We are a traveling nation and none of us knows when we might need help far from home. Let us affirm that this national legislation is only the beginning of our effort to upgrade and perpetuate this part of our total health care system so no individual in this country will lack help whenever or wherever he needs it, IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-five and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundredth. GERALD R.

Proclamation 4407

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FORD

November 4, 1975

National Farm-City Week, 1975

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Our Nation, nurtured on individual self-reliance, began as a rural society. Through two centuries, it has developed into primarily an urban society of great cities.

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