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Show Kennedy Proclaims Farm Safety Week By proclamation of President Kennedy, July 23-29 has been designated 18th annual National Farm Safety Week. Co-sponsored by the National Safety Council and the U.S. Department De-partment of Agriculture, this year's event will have as its theme, "Safety is a Family Affair." Af-fair." Farm safety programs of the National Safety Council during dur-ing the week and throughout the year will especially emphasize rural highway and farm machinery machin-ery safety, two critical areas of farm accident prevention. "Accidents claimed the lives of 11,700 farm residents in 1959," said Howard Pyle, NSC president, presi-dent, "a tremendous waste of lives. "Every farm accident is both a personal tragedy and a blow to the economy of our nation. "It is imperative we take every possible step to reduce the toll of accidental death on the farm. Accident prevention does work. Farm people can help prove it," he said. |