Preamble
WHEREAS, the Tomas Oppus Community College in Barangay San Isidro, Municipality of Tomas Oppus, Province of Southern Leyte, with its very limited resources, can only offer the Bachelor of Science in Education and Liberal Arts courses, and therefore cannot meet the needs of the Province of Leyte for teachers to enhance the educational development of the Province as well as the municipalities bordering the province; WHEREAS, the Tomas Oppus Normal College can also extend teachers education to the youth of the western municipalities of Leyte which are linked by the Bato-Bato road to the Municipality of Tomas Oppus; WHEREAS, the growing population of the Province of Southern Leyte as well as the western municipalities of Leyte is a constant concern of the Government as well as parents and in order to satisfy the need for a sufficient number of teachers to staff the schools for these children, a normal school should be avaiable within the area; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philipines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order and decree, that: