Joint resolution to authorize the President to proclaim a special period for intensified voluntary contributions of clothing and kindred supplies in connection with the collection effort of American Relief for Korea, Incorporated
PL 82-138 (H.J.Res.281), enacted 08/31/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 138—AUG. 31, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
Restriction 
pointinents. 
Nonapplicability. 
Personal services. 
Short title. 
(1) functions performed by a person designated as an informa-
tion specialist, information and editorial specialist, publications 
and information coordinator, press relations officer or counsel, 
photographer, radio expert, television expert, 
motion-picture 
expert, or publicity expert, or designated by any similar title, or 
(2) functions performed by persons who assist persons perform-
ing the functions described in (1) in drafting, preparing, editing, 
typing, duplicating, or disseminating public information publica-
tions or releases, radio or television scripts, magazine articles, 
photograf)hs, motion pictures, and similar material, 
shall be available to pay the compensation of persons performing the 
functions described in (1) or (2). 
SEO. 605. No part of any appropriation or authorization contained 
in this Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any incumbent 
appointed to any civil office or position which may become vacant 
during the fiscal year beginning on July 1,1951: Provided^ That this 
inhibition shall not apply— 
(a) to not to exceed 25 per centum of all vacancies; 
(b) to positions filled from within and by transfer to agencies 
provided for by this Act; 
(c) to offices or positions required by law to be filled by appointment 
of the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; 
(d) to employees of the White House Office; 
(e) to employees engaged in the care, maintenance, and so forth, 
of the Executive Mansion and Grounds; 
(f) to all employees in veterans' medical facilities, exclusive of 
medical departmental personnel in the District of Columbia; 
(g) to employees of the General Accounting Office; 
(h) to employees of the Smithsonian Institution, including the 
National Gallery of Art; 
(i) to employees of The Tax Court of the United States: 
Provided further^ That when any department or agency covered in this 
Act shall, as a result of the operation of this amendment reduce their 
employment to a figure not exceeding 90 per centum of the total number 
on their rolls as of July 1,1951, such amendment shall cease to apply 
and said 90 per centum figure shall become a ceiling for employment 
during the fiscal year 1952 and if exceeded at any time during fiscal 
year 1952 this amendment shall again become operative: And provided 
fv/rther^ That amounts for personal services, in those paragraphs 
where amounts for such personal services have been expressly limited 
in this Act, may be exceeded by 2 ^er centum of said limitation on 
personal services if said 2 per centum is available from the total amount 
of any such appropriation or authorization. 
SEO. 606. This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Appro-
priation Act, 1952". 
Approved August 31, 1951. 
August 31, 1951 
[H. J. Res. 281] 
Public Law 138 
CHAPTER 377 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To authorize the President to proclaim a special period for intensified voluntary 
contributions of clothing and kindred supplies in connection with the collec-
tion effort of American Relief for Korea, Incorporated. 
Whereas the Deputy Agent General of the United Nations Korean 
Reconstruction Agency in Pusan has reported that there are two 
million and nine hundred thousand registered refugees in Korea 
and additional millions estimated to be unregistered; and 
Whereas a situation has arisen in Korea which challenges the humani-
tarian instincts of the American people and should challenge the 
humanitarian instincts of the entire world; and 
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Whereas the Unified Command in Korea is supplying emergency food 
rations and medical care for said refugees and, through the 
Advisory Committee on Voluntary Aid of the Department of State, 
is urgently requesting voluntary contributions of clothing, blankets, 
yard goods, yarn, needles, thread, soap, and kindred supplies from 
the American people; and 
Whereas ten member agencies of the American Council of Voluntary 
Agencies for Foreign Service, Incorporated, including the Amer-
ican Friends Service Committee; Brethren Service Commission; 
Church World Service; Labor League for Human Rights, Amer-
ican Federation of Labor; Lutheran World Relief; Mennonite Cen-
tral Committee; Save the Children Federation; War Relief Serv-
ice—National Catholic Welfare Conference; World Student Service 
Fund; Young Women's Christian Association—World Emergency 
Fund, with the cooperation of the Advisory Committee on Volun-
tary Foreign Aid of the Department of State have recently set up 
an organization known as American Relief for Korea, Incorporated, 
as an over-all national channel for the collection and transmission 
of clothing and kindred supplies to Korea; and 
Whereas American Relief for Korea, Incorporated, is now actively 
functioning from its national headquarters at 133 East Thirty-ninth 
Street, New York 16, New York, with warehouses located at 
Maspeth, New York, and Oakland, California, for the preparation 
and shipment of clothing and kindred supplies to Korea: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Congress of the 
United States, having deep sympathy for the plight of the millions 
of Korean refugees who are innocent victims of cruel and unprovoked 
aggression, recognizes their desperate condition, expresses its hope 
and expectation that all Americans will respond generously to the 
appeal of American Relief for Korea, Incorporated, and authorizes 
the President to set aside as soon as practicable a period of not less 
than one month as a special period of intensive effort during the 
course of which, as an additional sincere and tangible gesture of 
American friendship and sympathy, the clothing collection appeal of 
American Relief for Korea, Incorporated, may receive the utmost 
support of all Americans. 
Approved August 31, 1951. 
American Relief for 
Korea, Inc. 
Contributions of 
clothing, etc. 
Public Law 139 
CHAPTER 378 
AN ACT 
To assist the provision of liousing and community facilities and services required 
in connection with the national defense. 
September 1, 1951 
[S. 349] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of A7nerica in Congress assembled, That this Act may ^nd''commu^i'ty^FV 
be cited as the "Defense Housing and Community Facilities and 
Services Act of 1951". 
cilities and 
Act of 1951. 
Services 
TITLE I—CRITICAL DEFENSE HOUSING AREAS, PRO-
CEDURES 
FOR 
EXERCISE 
OF 
AUTHORITY, 
AND 
EXPIRATION DATE 
SEC. 101. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, the cis^o^/aSrity.''''''^' 
authority contained in titles II, I I I , or IV of this Act shall not be ^^Postl PP. 295, 3
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exercised in any area unless the President shall have determined that 
such area is a critical defense housing area.