Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 476

STATE OF DELAWARE

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, the benefits of Little League Baseball are far reaching, providing youngsters at an early age with knowledge of the fundamentals of our national pastime and, more important, teaching good sportsmanship; and

WHEREAS, Little League Baseball continues to grow in popularity in Delaware with 47 teams and more than 1,000 players competing in ten leagues; and

WHEREAS, the National Congress of Little Leagues has designated Saturday, June 14, as Little League Foundation Day to demonstrate the community benefit resulting from Little League activity and to assure its continuation; now

THEREFORE, I, J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor of the State of Delaware, do proclaim Saturday, June 14, 1958, as

LITTLE LEAGUE FOUNDATION DAY IN DELAWARE

and urge the citizens of our state to join in this observance and to support our Little Leagues in every possible way.

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 tenth 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