Proclamation 4399.
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89 STAT. 1303 Proclamation 4399 · October 3, 1975 National Forest Products Week, 1975 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Among our Nation’s most valuable and unique natural resources are its forests—valuable because of the numerous uses for wood products from forests, unique because this resource is renewable. As with any resource, forest products must be used efficiently and with foresight. Progress is being made to utilize this resource more thoroughly.
Forestry research is discovering how to use wood more efficiently in construction; it is finding ways to use all of every log harvested; it is investigating the chemical properties which might be tapped to replace products now made from nonrenewable resources; it is looking into the possibilities of using wood so gasoline and oil supplies can be extended. Our forests are vast, but we are making strenuous demands on them. With our needs rapidly expanding, there is danger our present forest production will soon be incapable of satisfying the demands made on it.
Fortunately, we know our forests can, under proper management, lie regrown perpetually at a rate equal to, or even greater than, the rate at which trees are used. We have much of the knowledge and technology to expand our forests productively. We must dedicate ourselves to expanding our public and private forests as well as to managing better the forest lands we now have. This requires the close cooperation of business, industry, government and the individual citizen. A giant step was taken with the passage in 1974 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act.
It [16 USC 1601 note](/us/usc/t16/s1601)requires an assessment of our present and potential supply and demand for all forest products and preparation of a proposed program to meet future demands. It requires us to plan and act today to meet the needs of tomorrow. To recognize the importance of forest resources and forest products to the Nation, the Congress has, by joint resolution of September 13, 1960 (74 Stat. 898), designated the seven-day period beginning the third [36 USC 163](/us/usc/t36/s163).Sunday of October each year as National Forest Products Week, and has 89 STAT. 1304requested the President to issue an annual proclamation calling for the observance of that week.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week beginning October 19, 1975, as National Forest Products Week, with activities and ceremonies designed to direct public attention to our forest resources which have benefited us materially and spiritually and which we must act to preserve. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundredth.
Gerald R. Ford 4400 October 13, 1975 United Nations Day, 1975 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 4400 · October 13, 1975 United Nations Day, 1975 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Each year, throughout the world, nations commemorate October 24 as United Nations Day. This year is the 30th Anniversary of the United [59 Stat. 1031](/us/usc/t59/s1031).Nations Charter. Originally with 51 nations as members, the United Nations today includes 141 nations, thus membership is nearly universal.
The primary purpose of the United Nations is to maintain international peace and security. Had the work of the organization included nothing more than its efforts for peace in the Middle East—through truce observers, emergency forces, and mediation services—it would have justified its existence. But its record of achievement is far greater, and it continues to face new tasks with skill and imagination. Today, the United Nations is adjusting to the new realities of economic interdependence.
At the Seventh Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September of this year, great progress was made toward reaching agreements through which the interests of all nations—less developed as well as developed—can be promoted through coopera-89 STAT. 1305tive action. In the field of economic development, as in peacekeeping, the United Nations has proved its usefulness to all its members. The United Nations also has accelerated its efforts to stress the individual rights of women and the need to use their talents for the progress of society.
By its designation of 1975 as “International Women’s Year” the United Nations has recognized the importance of women’s increasing contributions to the cause of peace and friendly relations among the Nations of the world. Many important tasks are still before the United Nations. These include agreements on Law of the Sea, procedures to eliminate torture and efforts to control debilitating diseases. We cannot be satisfied until great progress has been made in these and other areas of international concern.
I ask the American people to look at the United Nations with true perspective—neither exaggerating its accomplishments nor ignoring its shortcomings, but seeing clearly its record and its potential for constructive action in the best interests of the United States and of all other members. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Friday, October 24, 1975, as United Nations Day. I urge the citizens of this Nation to observe that day with community programs that will promote the United Nations and its affiliated agencies.
I have appointed H. J. Haynes to be United States National Chairman for United Nations Day and, through him, I call upon State and local officials to encourage citizens’ groups and all agencies of communication to engage in appropriate observances of United Nations Day in cooperation with the United Nations Association of the United States of America and other interested organizations. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundredth.
Gerald R. Ford 4401 October 18, 1975 Drug Abuse Prevention Week, 1975 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
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