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Proclamation 3047—National Farm Safety Week, 1954

March 30, 1954


By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Whereas more accidental deaths occur in farming than in any other major industry in this country; and

Whereas a disabling injury strikes some farm person in America every twenty-six seconds, on an average, as the result of an avoidable accident; and

Whereas this appalling loss can be greatly reduced by the exercise of care and caution on the part of farm people:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the Nation to observe the week beginning July 25, 1954, as National Farm Safety Week; and I urgently request all farm residents to make every effort to develop safe work habits and skills, so that they may "Farm To Live and Live To Farm". I also request all persons and organizations interested in farm life and welfare to join in a campaign to free as many farm homes as possible from the tragedies and losses caused by needless accidents.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-eighth.

Signature of Dwight D. Eisenhower

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Proclamation 3047—National Farm Safety Week, 1954 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/308127

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