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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 755, May 24, 1961 ]

DESIGNATING THE PERIOD FROM JUNE 1 TO JULY 15, 1961, FOR THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL EDUCATIONAL AND FUND CAMPAIGN OF THE COMMUNITY CHEST

To enable the Community Chest to carry on its community welfare services, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, do hereby designate the period from June 1 to July 15, 1961, for its thirteenth annual educational and fund camp;

I call upon all residents, firms, and organizations in the City of Manila, Quezon City, Pasay City, and the municipalities of Caloocan, Makati, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Navotas, Parañaque, and San Juan to support this fund campaign and to give generously to the Community Chest which unites into one annual appeal the fund campaigns of the following:

Abiertas House of Friendship	Free Medical Clinics
American-Philippine Guardian Asilo de San Vicente de Paul	Philippine Association of the Deaf
Asociacion de Damas Filipinas	Philippine Band of Mercy
Catholic Youth Organization Council of Welfare Agencies	Philippine Mental Health Association
Free Legal Aid Clinic Good Shepherd Convent	Young Men’s Christian Association
La Proteccion de la Infancia National Federation of Women’s Clubs	Young Women’s Christian Association
	Girl Scouts of the Philippines

I authorize and urge all government officials and employees, including school authorities and teachers, to accept, for the Community Chest, fund-raising responsibilities and give it full support and dedicated leadership in their respective communities.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 24th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary

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