DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM MAY 6 TO 12, 1962, AS NATIONAL 4-H CLUB WEEK

WHEREAS, the 4-H Club, an organization of young
boys and girls from the rural areas who pledge their heads to clearer thinking,
their hearts to greater loyalty, their hands to larger service, and their
health to better living for their club, community, and country, has been found
to be one of the major forces in improving the standard of living in the rural
areas;

WHEREAS, through this organization more than
120,000 boys: and girls in and out of school have been developed into more
useful young citizens and future leaders, thereby minimizing juvenile
delinquency;

WHEREAS, the organization has contributed to the
development of native industries and farm and home skills through its project
work in addition to increasing food production and bolstering rural income by
millions of pesos;

WHEREAS, through the 4-H Club young people have
learned to make wise use of their time and have realized the value of team work
and cooperation, two important factors in making the rural areas a better place
in which to live;

WHEREAS, 14,000 volunteer adult leaders who serve
without pay devote their spare time and pour in their talents to develop among
the youth essential leadership, useful citizenship, good character, and
responsibility; and

WHEREAS, this organization has fostered
international friendship and good will by means of exchanges with the United
States and East Asian countries ;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Diosdado Macapagal, President
of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby
declare the period from May 6 to 12, 1962, as National 4-H Club Week and
designate the Bureau of Agricutural Extension to take charge of and coordinate
all activities in celebration of said week. I call upon all our countrymen to
turn their thoughts during the week the great service that this youth
organization is doing for our country, both economically and socially, and to
extend their cooperation and support to this movement.

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

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of
April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:
AMELITO R. MUTUC
Executive Secretary

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