Proclamation 3312—National Youth Fitness Week, 1960

Whereas the fitness of our young people is essential to the strength and progress of our Nation; and

Whereas we must always strive to improve the well-being of our youth by determined and coordinated efforts in their areas of learning, work, play and matters of the spirit; and

Whereas, in this challenging world, fraught with peril on every side, it is imperative that our young people recognize their obligations to themselves, to their families, and to all of us, in order to prepare themselves for lives of satisfying and useful citizenship; and

Whereas the President's Council on Youth Fitness has recommended that the week beginning May 1, 1960, be designated as National Youth Fitness Week:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 1, 1960, as National Youth Fitness Week.

I request officials of the Government, and I urge parents, young people, and interested national and local organizations, to use all appropriate means now and during that week to promote programs and activities demonstrating the importance of youth fitness to the end that we may assure the continuing strength and well-being of our people.

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 tenth day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-fourth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

DOUGLAS DILLON,

Acting Secretary of State.