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VOLUME 20

EGISTER
1934

NUMBER 94

Washington, Friday, May 13, 1955

TITLE 3 THE PRESIDENT
PROCLAMATION 3094
N ational M aritim e D ay ,
1955

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS the American Merchant Marine is today carrying on a long and honorable tradition of serving the trade and commerce of the world upon the high seas; and WHEREAS American merchant ships and American seamen stand ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice; and WHEREAS we have added to the United States Program for Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy a proposal to build an atomic-powered merchant ship th at will visit the ports of the world to demon strate to people everywhere atomic energy harnessed to peacetime uses for the benefit of mankind; and WHEREAS the Congress by a joint resolution approved May 20, 1933 48
Stat. 73, designated May 22 as National Maritime Day, thus honoring the Mer chant Marine by commemorating the departure from Savannah, Georgia, on May 22, 1819, of the Savannah on the first transoceanic voyage by any steam ship, and requested the President to issue a proclamation annually calling for the observance of th at day; and WHEREAS since May 22 falls on Sun day this year, it is appropriate that Na tional Maritime Day be observed on the following Monday;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D.
EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the people of the United States to honor our Merchant Marine on Monday, May 23, 1955, by displaying the flag of the United States at their homes or other suitable places; and I direct the appro priate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag on all Government buildings on th at day. I
also request th at all ships sailing under the American flag dress ship on Monday, May 23, in tribute to our Merchant Marine.
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 May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-five, seal and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth.
D w ight D . E isen h o w er
By the President:
H erbert H oover, Jr.,
Acting Secretary of State.
P. R. Doc. 55-3950; Piled, May 11, 1955;
1:12 p. m.J

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10611

CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamation
Page
National Maritime Day, 1955___

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Executive Orders
Establishing the Civil Defense Co ordinating Board and defining its duties__________________ 3245
Restoring certain lands reserved for military purposes to the ju
risdiction of the Territory of Hawaii_____________
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EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
Agricultural Conservation Pro gram Service
Rules and regulations:
National agricultural conserva tion; appeals:
1952 _______________
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By virtue of the authority vested in 1953 ___________________ 3255
me by the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1954 ___________________ 3256
1950 64 Stat. 1245, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as Agricultural Marketing Service Proposed rule making:
follows :
Cotton linters, American; offi 1. There is hereby established a Civil cial standards____________ 3259
Defense Coordinating Board, hereinafter Handling requirements, Florida:
referred to as the Board, within the Avocados_________________ 3259
executive branch of the Government.
Limes____________________ 3261
The Board shall be composed of the Ad Market agencies at Union Stock ministrator of the Federal Civil Defense Yards, Ogden, Utah ; petitions Administration, who shall be the Chair for modification of rate or man of the Board, and seventeen other der______________________ 3258
members, one of whom shall be desig nated by and represent each of the fol Rules and regulations:
Canned peas; U. S. standards lowing-named officials, respectively:
for grades________________ 3252
The heads of the ten executive depart Tobacco inspection; designation ments, the Chairmen of the Atomic of tobacco markets at Alma Energy Commission and Federal Power and Pearson, Ga__________ 3251
Commission, the Directors of the Office of Defense Mobilization and the Bureau Agriculture Department of the Budget, and the Administrators See Agricultural Conservation Program Service; Agricultural of the Housing and Home Finance Marketing Service; Commodity Agency, the General Services Adminis Credit Corporation; Farmers tration, and the Veterans Administra Home Administration.
tion.
Civil Aeronautics Administra 2. The functions of the Board shall be:
tion a To assist in the development of an orderly, integrated plan for the par Rules and regulations:
Civil airways, designation of;
ticipation of all Federal departments Blue civil airway No. 71
and agencies in the civil defense of the Toledo, Wash., to Seattle, nation, taking into consideration other W ash.___________________ 3256
defense requirements, both economic and Control areas, control zones, military.
and reporting points, desig Continued on next page nation of; Gulfport, Miss 3256
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E stablishing the C iv il D e fe n se C oordi nating B oard and D e f in in g I ts D u t ie s