Federal Register - October 14, 1955
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Washingtont Friday, October 14, 1955
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10639
TU tE 3 THE PRESIDENT
PROCLAMATION 3115
C o l u m b u s D a y , 1955
BY THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS Christopher Columbus, with a fleet of three vessels, daringly set sail upon an unknown sea and per severed until he landed upon a strange shore, thus discovering a new continent and a new world; and WHEREAS appropriate recognition should be given to the memory of this great navigator, whose exploits have in spired other brave men throughout the centuries to seek those opportunities which lie beyond the horizon; and WHEREAS October 12, 1492, the date of the sighting of land by Columbus in trepid crew, marks the beginning of a new epoch in mankinds ever-widening search for a freer and a richer life; and WHEREAS a grateful Congress, in ap preciation of the debt we owe to Christopher Columbus, by a joint reso lution approved April 30, 1934 48 Stat.
657, requested the President to issue a proclamation designating October 12 of each year as Columbus Day:
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, D W IG H T
D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Wednesday, the twelfth day of October, 1955, as Columbus Day, and I
direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government build ings on that day. I also invite our citi zens to observe this anniversary with ceremonies designed to honor the dis coverer of America.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here unto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this tenth day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and lse a l
fifty-five, and of the Independence of the United JStates of America the one hundred and eightieth.
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By virtue of and pursuant to the au thority vested in me by section 1745 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended 22 U. S. C. 1201, it is hereby ordered as follows :
The Tariff of United States Foreign Service Fees, prescribed by section V-15
of the Foreign Service Regulations of the United States Executive Order No.
7968, as amended; 22 CFR 103.1, is amended by deleting therefrom Items No. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
All prior Executive orders inconsistent herewith are amended accordingly.
This order shall become effective ten days after the date of its publidafton in the F e d e r a l R e g i s t e r . x T
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By virtue f the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and in order to provide for the carrying out of the provisions of the Joint Resolu tion approved July 11, 1949, ch. 302, 63
Stat. 409, as amended, and the provi sions of section 8 of the Vocational Re habilitation Act, as amended by section 2 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Amendments of 1954 68 Stat. 659; 29
U. S. C. 38, it is ordered as follows:
CO N TEN TS
THE PRESIDENT
Executive Orders
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Amendment of the Tariff of United StateaForeign Service Fees.____________________________
The Presidents Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped___________________
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Proclamation Columbus Day, 1955_____________
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EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
Agricultural Marketing Service Notices:
Director, Cotton Division; dele gation of authority to exercise certain powers and functions, of Administrator_______ -_____ 7740
Proposed rule making:
Grapefruit grown in Arizona;
Imperial County, Calif., and that part of Riverside County, Calif., situated south and east of San Gorgonio PaSs; han dling of_______________________ 7738
Rules and regulations:
Dates, domestic, produced or packed in Los Angeles and Riverside Counties of Calif.;
establishment of additional grade regulations for 19551956 crop year________________ 7720
Agriculture Department See Agricultural Marketing Serv ice; Commodity Credit Corpo ration; Farmers Home Admin istration.
Civil Aeronautics Administra tion
S e c t i o n 1. Composition of the Com Rules and regulations:
mittee. a There is hereby continued, Standard instrument approach subject to the provisions of this order procedures; alterations-.____
and under the name of the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Physi Civil Aeronautics Board cally Handicapped, the now existiiig Notices:
committee of that name heretofore Statement of tentative findings sometimes referred to as the Presidents and conclusions and order Committee on National Employ the to show cause:
Physically Handicapped W eek .
Allegheny Airlines, Inc______
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The Presidents Committee on Bpnanza Air Lines, Inc______
Employment of the Physically Handi Central Airlines, Inc__________
capped hereinafter referred to as the Ozark Air Lines, Inc_________
Committee or as the Presidents ComPiedmont Aviation, Inc______
C o n tin u e d o n n e x t p a g e
Southern Airways, Inc________
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