The need for an aggressive program to provide for our outdoor recreation needs is both real and immediate.

We must and do make good use of that valuable tool--price supports.

All officers and employees in the executive branch of the Government appointed by the President who are subject to the Civil Service Retirement Act, as amended, and who reach the retirement age prescribed for automatic separation from the service between July 1, 1956, and September 30, 1956, both dates inclusive, and are not now exempted therefrom, are hereby exempted from automatic separation from the service until October 31, 1956.

The continued success of the policy of awarding public contracts by competitive bids depends, of course, on the knowledge that successful bidders will be held to their bids with the same strictness as if they were dealing with private contractors.

Today, the Federal crop insurance program is still operated by those same farmer-elected committeemen.

Subcommittees of the Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements have been directed to recommend to that Committee at an early date proposals with regard to the remaining four of these agreements.

In my judgment, the public interest requires that the said person be exempted from such compulsory retirement as provided below:

I hereby exempt the said William E. Lee from compulsory retirement for age for an indefinite period of time not extending beyond the expiration of his present term of office as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission:

Any legislation to increase public assistance payments should take account of the relationship between those payments and the amounts paid under our old age and survivors insurance system.

The savings to be realized from the transfers provided for in the plan cannot be predicted in detail at this time.

The program of highway safety must be expanded and intensified.

No nation can afford this needless peacetime waste of the lives of its citizens in traffic accidents.

This Order shall remain in force during the continuance of the present war and for six months after the termination thereof, unless revoked by Presidential order.

This order shall become effective immediately and shall be published in the Federal Register.

It is ordered that the following-described public lands... be... reserved and set apart for the Department of the Interior.

Executive Order No. 1023 of February 6, 1909, reserving certain land near the town of Rampart, Alaska, as a site for an agricultural experiment station, is hereby revoked.

It is ordered that all lands within the hereinafter-described area acquired, or in process of acquisition, by the United States, together with the improvements thereon, be, and they are hereby, transferred from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of War for national defense purposes:

Subject to valid existing rights, the public lands in the following-described areas are hereby withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws.