HomeMy WebLinkAbout670215.tiffA PROCLAMATION
Agriculture is the leading industry in Weld County, Colorado, in
supplying food for many thousands of people, and the raw materials for many other
products.
The mechanization of agriculture has brought about a tremendous increase
in the number of machines being used to produce the food.
To produce the quanitity and quality of food desired by the American
consumer vast amounts of agricultural chemcials (insecticides, herbicide, and
fungicides) are used annually.
The livestock and dairy industry of Weld County, Colorado is one of
the largest of any County west of the Mississippi River.
Therefore, whatever affects the efficiency and productivity of our
Weld County farmers would be detrimentalto many people. We the Board of County
Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado, call on all rural people of Weld County
to help make their farms and communities a safer place by eliminating hazzards
and discontinuing unsafe practices that cause or contribute to accidents.
Now, Therefore, the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County,
Colorado do hereby call on the people of the area to observe the week of
July 23, 1967 as National Farm Safety Week. We urge all persons and groups
allied with agriculture to respond in whatever way possible to observe Farm
Safety Week.
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
WELH, COUNTY, COLORADO
DATED: JULY 12, 1967
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, 0, C. 20250
April 6, 1967
MEMORANDUM TO HEADS OF DEPARTMENT AGENCIES
National Farm Safety Week
July 23-29, 1967
President Lyndon B. Johnson has proclaimed the week beginning
July 23, 1967, as National Farm Safety Week. He has stated,
"...whatever diminishes or impedes the efficiency and productivity
of our farmers is detrimental to men and women everywhere."
Certainly accidents to farmers at work, at home, or on the highway,
do impede their efficiency and production. Thousands of productive
man hours and thousands of dollars which would be used to purchase
equipment, supplies, and services are lost every year. These losses
can and must be reduced.
I ask all agencies and personnel of the United States Department of
Agriculture to join the President, the National Safety Council, and
all others interested in the health and welfare of our farmers in
placing increased emphasis on safety in all our programs.
VAM.,
Proclamation reproduced on reverse.
NATIONAL FARM SAFETY WEEK, 1967
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Agriculture remains America's first and most important industry. It supplies
food for our people and for many millions throughout the world, and a vast measure
of the raw materials used in the making of other products.
Therefore, whatever diminishes or impedes the efficiency and productivity of our
farmers is detrimental to men and women everywhere. Each year, accidents kill
thousands of farm people, and disable nearly three-quarters of a million more. The
resultant economic loss that must be borne by farm families and the Nation approaches
two billion dollars.
This waste of human and economic resources, along with the tragic physical and
psychological damage suffered by farm men, women, and children, should prompt
us to regard the rural accident problem a matter for national concern.
For this reason, I urge all farm families to help make their farms and commu-
nities safer by eliminating hazards and discontinuing unsafe practices that cause or
contribute to accidents. This is the objective of National Farm Safety Week, 1967.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States
of America do hereby call on the people of the Nation to observe the week of
July 23, 1967, as National Farm Safety Week. I urge all persons who live on farms,
and those persons and groups allied with agriculture, to respond to applying full
energy to the ongoing task of reducing accidents at work, in homes, at recreation,
and on the roadways.
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 sixteenth day of February in the year of our
Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States
of America the one hundred and ninety-first.
/ s / LYNDON B. JOHNSON
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