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-3- Acting Mayor Grauel made the following Proclamation: WHEREAS twenty-three years ago, on October twenty-fourth 1945, the United Nations Charter came into being; and WHEREAS the General Assembly of the United Nations called for the annual observance of October twenty-fourth as United Nations Day, to be devoted by all Member Nations to making known to the people of the world the aims and achievements of the United Nations and to gaining their support for the work of the United Nationsj and WHEREAS the President of the United States officially proclaims October twenty-fourth 1968 as United Nations Day in the United States; and WHEREAS the citizens of this community are fully aware that our survival requires worldwide cooperation; and that this country's highest hopes are in harmony with the hopes and aspirations of peoples everywhere; and WHEREAS the United Nations was created to maintain peace in the world, based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self- determination of peoples, to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, and to raise the standard of living for all men--purposes which the United States of America wholeheartedly supports; and lruEREAS the United Nations has designated 1968 as International Human Rights Year, and has called upon the private citizens of Member Nations to observe the 20th anniversary of the Universal De- claration of Human Rights by undertaking community programs dedicated to the understanding of the problems of human rights, and of the standards of achievement incorporated into Human Rights Conventions to be ratified by the individual nations; and WHEREAS American ratification of these conventions, the principles of which are part of our own national heritage, and the rights and freedoms embodied therein are those which the United States has always defended, is long overdue; NOW, TIiEREFORE, I, Albert W. Grauel, Acting Mayor of the Village of Roseville do hereby proclaim Thursday, October 24. 1968, as United Nations Day. and call upon all ci ti zens of Rosevi lle to observe that day in a spirit of common purpose with the aims of the United Nations; I urge everyone, groups or individuals, to participate in programs and activities designed to develop an understanding of the problems as well as the potential of the United Nations. I ask all citizens to observe United Nations Day with a sense of rededication to the high truths which we in the United States hold to be self-evident, as expressed for us in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and for all the world in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Shields Moved. Cutley Seconded, that Joseph Sills be appointed Chairman of U. N. Day. Roll Call, Ayes: Linebarger, Curley, Shields and Grauel. Nays: None. CHAIRMAN U. N. DAY