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PROCLAMATIONS

JANE ADDAMS CENTENNIAL DAY

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

WHEREAS September 6, 1960, will mark the centennial of the birth of Jane Addams, one of our country's first and greatest champions of human progress through neighborly understanding; and

WHEREAS Jane Addams pioneered in helping unfortunate persons through the neighborly services offered at Hull House the Nation's first settlement house which she founded in Chicago in 1889; and

WHEREAS many of today's welfare services owe their origin to her establishment of such resources as our first child-guidance clinic, a child-care center to help working mothers, an employment service, and educational and recreational opportunities for impoverished families; and

WHEREAS her vision and leadership led to the outlawing of child labor, to the establishment of the world's first juvenile court, and to improved working conditions and hours of labor; and

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WHEREAS she fought to improve sanitary standards in the Nation's homes and market places and to effect clearance of slums; and

WHEREAS her work at Hull House and her leadership in the struggles for woman suffrage, race equality, and international cooperation have benefited the people of other lands as well as the people of the United States; and

WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved September 2, 1960, has authorized and requested the President to proclaim September 6, 1960, as a day upon which all Americans should pay honor and respect to Jane Addams, founder and leader of Chicago's Hull House:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate September 6, 1960, as Jane Addams Centennial Day; and I urge all Americans to rededicate themselves on that day, and throughout this centennial year of 1960, to the ideals that motivated Jane Addams in her devotion to the work of improving individual, family, and community 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 second day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred [SEAL] and sixty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightyfifth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

CHRISTIAN A. HERTER,

Secretary of State.

NATIONAL FOREST PRODUCTS
WEEK, 1960

By the President of the United States September 15, 1960 [No. 3371] of America

A Proclamation

WHEREAS the bounty of our forest and timber lands provides our people with a source of strength and pride; and WHEREAS as a major renewable resource, supported by the science of modern forestry, wood offers the availability and abundance to satisfy the Nation's ever growing needs for many productslumber, paper, building materials, chemicals, furniture, and cloth-all dedicated to improving the lives of our people; and

WHEREAS the Congress, in order to reemphasize the importance of our forest resources, has by a joint resolution approved September 13, 1960, designated 74 Stat. 898. the seven-day period beginning on the third Sunday of October in each year as National Forest Products Week, and has requested the President to issue annually a proclamation calling for the observance of that week:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week beginning October 16, 1960, as National Forest Products Week, with activities and ceremonies designed to focus attention on the importance of our forests and forest products to the Nation's economy 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 fifteenth day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred [SEAL] and sixty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightyfifth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

DOUGLAS DILLON,

Acting Secretary of State.

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IMMIGRATION QUOTAS

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

WHEREAS under the provisions of section 202 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, each independent country, self-governing dominion, mandated territory, and territory under the international trusteeship system of the United Nations, other than independent countries of North, Central, and South America, is entitled to be treated as a separate quota area when approved by the Secretary of State; and

WHEREAS under the provisions of section 201(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to determine the annual quota of any quota area established pursuant to the provisions of section 201(a) of the said Act, and to report to the President the quota of each quota area so determined; and

WHEREAS under the provisions of section 202 (e) of the said Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to revise the quotas, whenever necessary, to provide for any political changes requiring a change in the list of quota areas; and

WHEREAS the Republic of Cameroun came into existence on January 1, 1960, with the termination of the United Nations Trusteeship; and

WHEREAS the Republic of Togo was established on April 27, 1960, upon the termination of the United Nations Trusteeship; and

WHEREAS the Malagasy Republic, a former Autonomous Republic of the French Community, became independent on June 26, 1960; and

WHEREAS the Republic of the Congo, the former Belgian Congo, was granted independence by Belgium on June 30, 1960; and

WHEREAS the Somali Republic came into existence on July 1, 1960, by the union of the former Italian Trust Territory of Somaliland and the former British Somaliland; and

WHEREAS the Central African Republic, the Republic of Chad, the Republic of Congo (former Middle Congo), the Republic of Dahomey, the Gabon Republic, the Republic of Ivory Coast, the Republic of Niger, and the Republic of Upper Volta, previously Autonomous Republics within the French Community, were granted independence by France between August 1 and August 17, 1960; and

WHEREAS the Republic of Cyprus, the former British Crown Colony of Cyprus, was granted independence by the Government of the United Kingdom on August 16, 1960; and

WHEREAS the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General have jointly determined and reported to me the immigration quotas hereinafter set forth:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby proclaim and make known that the annual quotas of the quota areas hereinafter designated have been determined in accordance with the law to be, and shall be, as follows:

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