2:00 AM Dec. 6th
10:00 AM—Ambassador [Toshio] Urabe
- Reparations acceleration
- Project and Commodity Loan
- Rice
- Treaty of Amity and Navigation
11:00 AM—Sec. [David] Consunji—Dept. of Public Works Organization Gen. Manager [Gilberto] Bert Teodoro—Housing.
11:30 AM—Gen. [Fidel] Ramos.
12:00 [P]M—Japanese Mainichi Correspondent T. Masuoko.
12:40 [P]M—Ising [Maria Luisa Madrigal-Vazquez] and Danny [Daniel Vazquez] (Both cried because they felt Imelda had abandoned them.
1:30 PM—Unfinished papers.
Official Gazette for December 5, 1972: SSS ADMINISTRATOR Gilberto S. Teodoro announced that starting this January, the compensation of a covered employe which is subject to SSS monthly contribution shall include all actual remuneration, “except that part of the remuneration received during the month which exceeds P1,000.” Mr. Teodoro said, “This means that the range of compensation upon which the monthly contributions of an employe will be based, has been increased from the previous maximum salary of P500 to PI,000.” He added that this change is in line with Presidential Decree No. 24, amending the Social Security Law.
AN ALL-TIME high collections of P5,688,271 in November was recorded at the Manila International Airport customhouse, according to a report submitted by Collector Cesar Dario. The November collection represented an increase of P1,993,948, or about 54 per cent, over that of the same period last year. An increase in the volume of incoming cargo was also reported by the airport warehouse manager, Francisco Astilla, who said that 316,066 kilos were registered for last month as against 313,500 kilos in November last year. The disappearance of fixers, smuggling, harassment and major apprehensions with the implementation of Proclamation 1081, was pointed to as the cause of the collection and incoming cargo increases.
AGRARIAN REFORM Secretary Conrado F. Estrella said that sugar and coconut lands are not covered by Presidential Decree No. 27 (Emancipation of Tenants decree) and that only owners of tenanted rice and corn farmlands are directed to sell their landholdings to bonafide tenant-tillers. Mr. Estrella made this clarification due to persistent queries on the actual coverage of the Decree. “The language of the decree is clear and that all lands other than those planted to rice and corn are exempt from the purview of the decree which ordains the emancipation of tenants,” he, said.
AN INCREASE of 70 per cent in the area planted to high-yielding varieties of sugarcane, was announced by the Philippine Sugar Institute. The institute is engaged in an intensified educational and informational campaign to induce sugarcane planters to adopt modern techniques including the use of high-yielding varieties. There are at present 411,505 hectares of land planted to sugarcane. Of the area, 85 per cent is planted to HYV’s. Before the implementation of the program, only 15 per cent of the area was planted to HYV’s.
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2.05 PM—Interim by Focus magazine Julian Cruz.
3:00 PM—Lunch.
No golf as my right ankle is aching—probably uric acid deposits.
Took Butagulidine.
8:00 PM—Conference with Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile, [Alejandro] Melchor [Jr.], Gen. [Romeo] Espino, [Jose] Rancudo and [Fabian] Ver. Formalized the Eddie [Eduardo] Martelino separation from the service and his intelligence mission in Sulu, procure six Marchetti planes.