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Peanuts, modification of import restrictions. 7 USC 624. 67 Stat. C46.

PROCLAMATIONS—AUG. 30, 1956

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Virginia-type peanuts is not sufficient to meet the essential requirements of domestic users of such peanuts and that such deficit may be permitted to be supplied from peanuts of foreign origin, but only under the conditions and subject to the fee hereinafter proclaimed, without rendering or tending to render ineffective, or materially interfering with, the said program of the Department of Agriculture with respect to peanuts, or reducing substantially the amount of any product processed in the United States from peanuts with respect to which such program is being undertaken: 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 said section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, do hereby proclaim that the said Proclamation No. 3019, as amended, is hereby modified so as to permit an unlimited quantity of peanuts of the Virginia type, shelled (not including peanuts blanched, salted, prepared, or preserved), of sizes averaging in representative samples not more than 40 kernels per ounce, to be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period beginning on the day following the date of this proclamation and ending a t the close of business on 10 September 1956, subject to a fee of 7 cents per pound, b u t not more than 50 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the said fee shall be in addition to any other duties imposed on the importation of such peanuts. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set m y hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E a t the City of Washington this 29th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State.

NATIONAL F A R M - C I T Y W E E K, August 30, 1956 [No. 3153]

BY THE P R E S I D E N T

1956

OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

70 Stat. 732.

National Farm-City Weelt, 1956.

WHEREAS it is fitting that all citizens should recognize the contribution that American farm families have made to our civilization; and WHEREAS it is also desirable that the public should understand the needs, problems, and opportunities of all the people of the United States whose main concern is agriculture; and WHEREAS the productivity of the farms and of urban labor and business continues to provide the food, the tools, the services, and the goods that afford our citizens the highest standard of living in the world; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved July 30, 1956, has designated the week of November 16 to 22, 1956, as National Farm-City Week, and has requested the President to issue a proclamation calling for suitable observance of that week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people throughout the country to participate fully in the observance of the period from November 16 to November 22, 1956, as National Farm-