CHAPTER 478
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, the men and women of the Civil Aeronautics Administration are playing a major and indispensable role in the encouragement and development of civil aeronautics; and
WHEREAS, the Civil Aeronautics Administration, together with our aircraft and air transport industries, our private and business flyers, and other aviation interests, have been primarily responsible for the development of the world's outstanding system of airways and civil airports; and
WHEREAS, the Civil Aeronautics Administration has made a major contribution to safety in aviation; and
WHEREAS, American civil aviation is on the threshold of new frontiers of travel, comfort and safety as we prepare for the transition of our air transport fleets from piston-engined to jet-powered aircraft; and
WHEREAS, current defense plans of our military establishment continued to place great reliance upon the Federal airways, air traffic control, and safe operation of all aircraft in the nation, all primary functions of the CAA; and
WHEREAS, June 23, 1958, is the Twentieth Anniversary of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, bringing into being the Civil Aeronautics Administration;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor of this State of Delaware, do hereby proclaims Monday, June 23, 1958 as
CIVIL AVIATION DAY
and the week commencing Monday, June 23, 1958, as
CIVIL AVIATION WEEK
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, J. Caleb Boggs, Governor of the State of Delaware, have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the said State to be hereunto affixed at Dover this nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and eighty-second.
(GREAT SEAL)
J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor
JOHN N. McDOWELL, Secretary of State