Proclamation 3484—National Public Works Week

Whereas public works facilities and services are of vital importance to the health and well-being of the people of this Nation; and

Whereas such facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works engineers and administrators, representing Federal, State, and local units of Government, who are responsible for and must design, build, operate, and maintain the highway, water supply, sewage and refuse disposal systems, public buildings, and other structures and facilities essential to serve our citizens; and 

Whereas it is in the public interest for the citizens and civic leaders of this country to gain knowledge of and to maintain a progressive interest in the public works needs and programs of their respective communities; and

Whereas the Congress by Senate Joint Resolution 68, approved July 18, 1962, requested the President to issue a proclamation designating the seven-day period commencing October 14, 1962, as National Public Works Week:

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 14, 1962, as National Public Works Week; and I urge all our people to join with representatives of governmental agencies in activities and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to our public works engineers and administrators and to recognize the substantial contributions they have made to our national health and welfare.

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 eighteenth day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President:

DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State