PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 9 , 12, 1946 The reservation herein made shall not affect any claim, filing, or entry hitherto made and hereafter legally maintained, or any with- drawal of lands for public purposes, other than for classification or use as a stock driveway, so long as such withdrawal is needed for such public purposes. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 9 t h day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-six and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-first. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: W. L . CLAYTON Acting Secretary of State. NATIONAL EMPLOY THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED WEEK, 1946 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the people of this Nation are determined to do their utmost to restore to normal living those of their countrymen who have become physically handicapped and to assist them in developing their potential power for service to themselves and to their fellows; and WHEREAS the people of this Nation are profoundly conscious of the immeasurable debt they owe to the heroes who went bravely forth to battle and returned with physical handicaps; and WHEREAS our late President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, through moral courage, physical stamina, and spiritual strength, exemplified the power of the physically handicapped to bring hope and confidence to mankind; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 11, 1945 (59 Stat. 530), has designated the first week in October of each year as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, during which appropriate ceremonies are to be held throughout the Nation, and has requested that the President issue a suitable procla- mation each year: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week of October 6-12, 1946, as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week. I also call upon the Governors of States, the mayors of cities, and the heads of other instrumentalities of government, as well as leaders of civic groups, to hold during that week exercises designed to foster the widest possible public support for and interest in the employment of otherwise qualified but physically handicapped workers. 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 12th day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-six, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-first. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: W. L. CLAYTON Acting Secretary of State 95347° - 49 -PT. II 6 Observance of Oct. 6-12,1946, as National Employ the Physi- cally Handicapped Week. Claims, withdraw- als, etc. September 12, 1946 [No. 2703] 1041 61 STAT.]
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