Proclamation No. 390 (1968)
Declaring the Period From Mar 1, 1968 to April 30, 1969, as National Social Action and Economic Development Year, and Creating a Committee to Implement Programs Incident Thereto
MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ Proclamation No. 390, April 30, 1968 ]
DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM MAR 1, 1968 TO APRIL 30, 1969, AS NATIONAL SOCIAL ACTION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT YEAR, AND CREATING A COMMITTEE TO IMPLEMENT PROGRAMS INCIDENT THERETO.
WHEREAS, our country must mobilize immediately all its resources to attack poverty, illiteracy and social injustice and continue its program of social and economic development;
WHEREAS, there is a need to cultivate in our people new habits, sound values, proven ways of social cooperation and proper motivations imperative to social and economic development; and
WHEREAS, it is imports that economic development and social awareness be supported and maintained in the face of population explosion and other equally serious problems;
NOW THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in my by law, do hereby declare the period from May 1, 1968, to April 30, 1969, as National Social Action and Economic Development year. I call upon all citizens and residents of the Philippines, irrespective of nationality or creed, to support and cooperate in undertaking projects that will hasten our social and economic development. I call upon them to commemorate that year in ways most appropriate to that occasion.
A Committee is hereby created to implement all programs incident thereto:
Honorable Blas Ople | Chairman Bishop Mariano Gaviola | Co-Chairman Honorable Onofre D. Corpuz | Vice-Chairman Dean Conrado Benitez | Co-Vice Chairman Dr. Juan Flavier | Executive Secretary Mr. Amando B. Isip | Member Atty. Jeremias Montemayor | Member Mr. Ramon Jimenez | Member
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 30th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JOSE J. LEIDO JR.
Acting Executive Secretary