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Show PfajtKutg PwveHtd daUcfavto. national Farm Safety lAfosh July 25-31 President Ford Proclaims July 25-31 As Farm Safety Week volved falls from the same level, while injuries in the home involved in-volved falls from a different level. These same surveys indicated one of every four injuries in the field were the result of the victim vic-tim being caught or in between accident-causing objects; while The week of July 25-31 has been proclaimed as National Farm Safety Week by President Gerald R. Ford, under the banner "Planning Prevents Accidents." This is the 32nd consecutive observance of the annual national nation-al safety event, co-sponsored by. the National Safety Council and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture (USDA), and designed as a way to initiate and promote safety on America's farms and ranches. Begun during World War II, Farm Safety Week opened an attack at-tack on rural accidents that cut into crucial agricultural production produc-tion and spearheaded a concerted con-certed effort in American farm communities to reduce accidents and resultant losses, injury and death. The accident prevention fight has continued over two decades and safety emphasis is no less important in today's critical economy than it was in the days of the war. collisions were the most frequent fre-quent type of accident on the roads and highways. "Farmers arid ranchers may not be able to control shortages or nature, but they can do a great deal to control accidents. As a result of these surveys the National Safety Council has placed its accident prevention emphasis for 1975 on planning against accidents. The Council urges farmers to take spot inventories inven-tories of possible accident situations situa-tions and to establish avoidance techniques with family and workers. In his proclamation, President Ford stressed "the need and demand de-mand for agricultural products are at an all-time high both here and abroad." "In addition to supplying food for the tables of 210 million mil-lion Americans," the President said. "Many millions of people in other nations also look to American's farms and ranches for help in meeting their food needs," he said. The maintenance of a high level of output, however, said President Ford, is not without impediments such as shortages of some production supplies, adverse ad-verse weather and accidents. Accidents in 1974 claimed the lives of more than 5,500 farm residents and caused more than 500,000 disabling injuries with more than half of the deaths occuring in motor vehicle accidents, according to the National Na-tional Safety Council. About one-fourth of the deaths and more than 150,000 disabling injuries in-juries were caused by farm work accidents. The cost of these accidents and including farm fires, is estimated esti-mated at almost S3 billion, representing rep-resenting an oppressive burden on farm productivity aims. According to a recent eight-state eight-state accident survey one of every five farm accident occurs in farm buildings where the victim vic-tim was struck by a falling or flying object. One out of five injuries in-juries in the homeyard areas in- |