PROCLAMATIONS-MAR . 10 , 12, 1949
CANCER CONTROL MONTH, 1949
[63 STAT.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
36U.S.C.§150.
Designation of Can-
cer Control Month.
WHEREAS for many years cancer has steadily increased in
importance as a cause of death in this country and now accounts
for approximately one death in every eight; and
WHEREAS according to the best medical opinion a large number
of cancer deaths could be prevented if full use were made of our present
knowledge concerning early diagnosis and treatment of the disease;
and
WHEREAS every citizen should be informed of the nature of cancer
and the available means of combatting it; and
WHEREAS the program of cancer education, research, and con-
trol undertaken by the Federal and State Governments and by private
organizations must have the wholehearted support of our people if
we are to make progress against this disease; and
WHEREAS by a joint resolution approved March 28, 1938 (52
Stat. 148), the Congress authorized and requested the President to
issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April as
Cancer Control Month:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the
United States of America, do hereby set apart the month of April
1949 as Cancer Control Month; and I invite the Governors of the
several States and the Territories and possessions of the United States
to issue similar proclamations.
I also invite the medical profession, the press, the radio, the motion-
picture industry, and all organizations and individuals interested in a
national program for the control of cancer by education and other
cooperative means to unite during the month of April in a public
dedication to this program and in a concerted effort to impress upon
the people of the Nation the necessity for such a program.
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 10th day of March in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of
[SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one
hundred and seventy-third.
By the President:
DEAN ACHESON
Secretary of State
HARRY S TRUMAN
FURTHER POSTPONING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF PROCLAMATION
No. 2775 OF MARCH 26, 1948, PRESCRIBING CHANGES IN PANAMA
CANAL TOLL RATES
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS section 411 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, approved
June 19, 1934, authorizes the President to prescribe and from time
to time change the tolls that shall be levied by the Government of
the United States for the use of the Panama Canal, and provides
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March 10, 1949
[No. 2830]
March 12, 1949
INo. 2831]
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