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. • _ - CIVIC CENTER, 410 E. WASHINGTON ST.
!^ IOWA CITY. IOWA 52240
319-354-/000
RAY S. WELLS. CITY MANAGER
MAYOR
EDGAR CiARNECKI
COUNCR.MEMRERs
C L '1Y." RRANDT
PENNY DAVIDSEN
CAROL dJROSSE
L PAIR" WMTE
P R O C L A M A T I O N
WHEREAS, the world is.confronted by a food crisis of an unprecedented
and long-term character which presents a moral as well as an
economic challenge to the United States; and
WHEREAS, the increasingly widespread shortage of food is aggravated by
rapidly escalating.prices for fertilizer, petroleum, and food
itself, which threaten to curtail what is available to hungry
people even further; and
WHEREAS, to attack world hunger immediately by stimulating public inter-
est in and action toward (a) sharply increasing food aid through
both private and public channels, (b) building up the U. S. com-
ponent of a`worldwide food reserve, and (c) insuring that the U. S.
delegation to the :World Food Conference in Rome advocates a policy
of sharing national `food resources with the hungry.
NOW THEREFORE, a.a Mayon ob .Iom.:C.ity, Iowa., I heheby pnocta.im Septembeh
22.11- '29, 1974., a.6 NATIONAL WEEK OF CONCERN FOR WORLD HUNGER in
.the. City ob:"Iowa City, and ulcge a t .c i tizene to take pnimany
kapon4zbiZi4;6on..keti. v,:ng.pneeent, and guarding aga,i.nat butune
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acahty, eien �o:the po.uu`" ob Z&i ting our own eacatating wand-
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