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FEDERAL
VOLUME 17

V , 1934 &
ONlJtO

NUMBER 16

Washington, Wednesday, January 23, 1952
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TITLE 3 THE PRESIDENT
PROCLAMATION 2961
A d d it io n o p D e v il s H o l e , N evada , t o D eath V a l l e y N a t io n a l M o n u m e n t
C a lif o r n ia a n d N evada BY THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA

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A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 2028
of February 11, 1933 47 Stat. 2554, certain lands in California known as Death Valley were set aside and re served as the Death Valley National Monument for the preservation of the unusual features of scenic, scientific, and educational interest therein contained;
and by Proclamation No. 2228 of March 26,1937 50 Stat. 1823, the said monu ment was enlarged by adding thereto certain contiguous lands in California and Nevada; and WHEREAS there is located outside the boundaries of the said monument but in the vicinity thereof a forty-acre tract of public land in Nevada containing a re markable underground pool known as Devils Hole; and WHEREAS the said pool is a unique subsurface remnant of the prehistoric chain of lakes which in Pleistocene times formed the Death Valley Lake System, and is unusual among caverns in that it is a solution area in distinctly striated limestone, while also owing its formation in part to fault action; and WHEREAS the geologic evidence that this subterranean pool is an integral part of the hydrographic history of the Death Valley region is further confirmed by the presence in this pool of a peculiar race of desert fish, and zoologists have demon strated that this race of fish, which is found nowhere else in the world, evolved only after the gradual drying up of the Death Valley Lake System isolated this fish population from the original ances tral stock that in Pleistocene times was common to the entire region; and WHEREAS the said pool is of such out standing scientific importance that it should be given special protection, and such protection can be best afforded by making the said forty-acre tract con
taining the pool a part of the said monument:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S.
TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, 34 Stat. 225 16
U. S. C. 431, do proclaim that, subject to the provisions of the act of Congress approved June 13, 1933, 48 Stat. 139
16 U. S. C. 447, and to all valid existing rights, the following-described tract of land in Nevada is hereby added to and .reserved as a part of the Death Valley National Monument, as a detached unit thereof;
M o u n t D iablo M eridian , N evada T. 17 S., R. 50 E., , Sec. 36, SW!/4 SE% ;

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appro priate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this addition to the said mon ument and not to locate or settle on any of the lands thereof.
The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Sec retary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of the lands hereby added to the said mon ument as provided in the act of Congress entitled An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes , approved August 25, 1916 39 Stat. 535;
16 U. S. C. 1-3, and acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREO, 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 17th day of January in tlffe year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seal fifty-two, and of the Independ ence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventysixth.
H a r r y S. T r u m a n
By the President:
D ean A cheson,
Secretary of State.
P. R. Doc. 52-953; Piled, Jan. 22, 1952;
10:06 a. m.

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CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamation
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Addition of Devils Hole, Nev., to Death Valley National Monu ment California and Nevada__

681

Executive Order Further exemption of Lawrence M. Lawson from compulsory retirement for age______ .

693

EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
Alien Property, Office of Notices:
Vesting orders, etc.:
Flury, Plácido______________
707
Gunster, Peter, and Aurelia Kalb______________________
708
Julien, Maurice Alexandre___
707
May, Bertha 2 documents _ 708,709
Musken, Hinrich___________
706
707
Pekastnig, Caecilie__________
Rindler, Nikolaus-__________
707
Romane, Georges___________
708
Satake, Iwajiro_____________
708
Wiese, Emma Whitney-------707

Civil Aeronautics Administra tion Rules and regulations:
Danger areas, alterations."_____

693

Commerce Department See Civil Aeronautics Administra tion.

Defense Department Notices :
Organization; establishment of A r m e d Fo r c e s Ho us i ng Agency________________ J____
Rules and regulations:
Release of information from medical records of members and former members of the Armed Forces______________
Solicitation of commercial life insurance on military instal lations ______________________

701

696
695

Economic Stabilization Agency See Price Stabilization, Office of.

Federal Power Commission Notices:
Hearings, etc.:
California Electric Power Co_
691

705