Proclamation 3335—National Safe Boating Week, 1960

Whereas many millions of our citizens enjoy the sport of boating for recreation and relaxation; and

Whereas safety on the waterways is as important as safety on the highways; and

Whereas the Congress of the United States, in seeking to focus national attention on the importance of safe boating practices, by a joint resolution approved June 4, 1958 (72 Stat. 179), has authorized and requested the President to proclaim annually the week which includes July 4 as National Safe Boating Week:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning July 3, 1980, as National Safe Boating Week.

I invite all the people of this Nation interested in boating, including boating organizations, the boating industry, Government agencies and other groups, to observe National Safe Boating Week. I urge them during this week and throughout the entire year to follow safe boating practices and to exercise courtesy on the waterways.

I also invite the Governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to provide for the observance of this week.

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 fifth day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-fourth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

CHRISTIAN A. HERTER,

Secretary of State