The home journal. [volume], October 27, 1952, Image 3

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Puerto Rico Notebook
By Julio Francis ridwards
The Secretary of Educa
tion has applied to the Plan
ning Board for a $3,000,000
annual appropiation to build
additional schoolrooms
during the next six years.
It would spend $1,650.000
during 1952-53 in the con
struction of 357 rooms...
Arguing that he wants to
augment by two per-cent
the number of elementary
studentsand by one percent
that in the junior and se-‘
nior high schools, Secretary
Villaron za informed that at
present only 74 per cent of‘l
children between 6 and 12
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years are registered in the
elementary schools; 67 per
centbetween 13 and 15
years in the junior high
schools and 34 per cent
between 16 and 18 years
in the senior high schools.
It is believed that with
the 6-year plan of SIB,OOO,
000 schoolrooms construc
tion, averages will be raised
91,75,& 41 per-cent by 1960.
Although statistics are
not final, it was revealed
that 51 houses have been
destroyed in Ponce by
floods during the present
rainy season, and 91 insev
eral other cities and towns.
Losses surpass the SBOO,OOO
mark.
The Home Journal
By the Governor of the Virgin Islands "
of the United States
A Proclamation
Whereas, for the first time in our history an enemy
has the power to loose the tremendous destructive
power of modern weapons on the American mainland;
Whereas, our military leaders have emphasized
time and again that in the face of modern weapons of
mass destruction, military measures alone cannot pro
tect our vital industries trom being destroyed and
our people from being killed;
Whereas, our national civil defense program as a
whole has not yet reached the leve: of preparedness
-essential to our national security, thus creating a
dangerous unbalance in our total preparedness;
Whereas, a strong civil defense program, like a
strong military program, is not just a shield buta
sword; ‘without preparedness on the homefront, we
invite attack; with such preparedness, civil defense
can be a major force in helping keep the peace;
Whereas, there is need for a planned program of
civil defense in the Viagin Islands, which constitute
the easternmost defense outpost of the United States
in the Caribbean;
Whereas, the kind of home defense program,strong
enough to protect our homeland, requires individual
.action and complete community support;
Now, Therefore, I MorrisF. de Castro, Governor
of the Virgin Islands, do hereby proclaim the period
from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day (November
11 to November 27,1952) as a special “Time For
Home Defense Action” by all our citizens, and do
call uponeverycitizen and every organiz
ed group in this community to reaffirm our national
unity and devotion as Americans and to participate in
our Civil Defense “Pledge for Home Defense’ cam
paign; thus expressing our active rededication as a
free people by voluntarily signifying a willingness to
train ourselves and members of our families in self
protection and to be included in a register of poten
tial volunteers from which our civil defense organiza
tion can select volunteer leaders for specialized civil
defense training in the months to come.
In witness whereof, | have hereunto set my hand
and caused the Seal of the Government of the Virgin
Islands of the United States to be affixed at Charlotte
Amalie, St. Thomas, V. l. this twentieth day of Octo
ber, A.D., 1952.
Morris F. de Castro, Governor
" Countersigned
Daniel W. Ambrose
Government Secretary .