Official Gazette for December 6, 1972: THE HOUSE OF Representatives laid, down the organizational framework for its participation in the national campaign for the ratification of the proposed Constitution. Speaker Cornelio T. Villareal convoked a bipartisan caucus of all congressmen and divided them into regional coordination committees. Following the regional division under the government reorganization plan, Mr. Villareal assigned the regional chairmen from among senior members of the Lower House. These solons, assisted by other representatives, will coordinate the campaign in the provinces and congressional districts within their regions. The Speaker said he was inviting senators and Constitutional Convention delegates to be members of the regional coordinating committees. However, in the provincial level of the campaign organization, the governor shall be the chairman. The purpose of the regional coordinating committees, Mr. Villareal said, is to remedy possible conflicts and overlappings in the movements and operating areas of campaigners as well as in the distribution of information materials.
ALL DIVISION and city superintendents and officers-in-charge of public schools were named deputies of the Commission on Elections in their respective areas for the purpose of the coming plebiscite. As Comelec deputies, the local school officials will take charge of the more than 180,000 public school teachers who will serve as election inspectors in the January 15 plebiscite. During the plebiscite, three teachers will be poll inspectors in each of the 60,000 precincts in the country. The teachers who served as poll inspectors in the 1971 local election will also serve as such for the plebiscite, without need of any new appointment. The automatic reappointment aims to expedite preparation’s for the national referendum on the new Constitution.
ALL COMPLAINTS and information relative to the enforcement of Presidential Proclamation No. 1081 will be entertained by the Complaints and Action Branch of the Department of National Defense on a 24-hour basis daily, including Sundays and holidays, DND Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile said that in the interest of public service, he has directed, the CAB to answer queries and entertain complaints from the public made either personally or through communications. The legal counsel of the DND will make reasonable referrals of complaints or information to the appropriate government agencies; make periodic follow-up of such referrals and undertake the preparation and completion of the staff action necessary with respect to matters requiring the secretary’s action.
PRESIDENT MARCOS issued a decree requiring all persons—natural or juridical—owning or administering real property, including the improvements thereon, to file sworn statements of the true value of such property. The President noted that values of real property and improvements in said real property and improvements therein are usually underdeclared obviously for the purpose of evading payment of higher and correct taxes due the government. He said that “although real property and the improvements therein are undervalued for purposes of taxation, these real property are sold to the government when needed for public purposes, such as the construction of roads and other infrastructures, at their market value which is usually 10 to 20 times more than the value declared by the owners for purposes of taxation.
NATIONWIDE BAN on the manufacture, sale and possession of firecrackers and other pyrotechnic wares for the forthcoming Yuletide and New Year’s holidays, was imposed -by the Philippine Constabulary. In a directive to all zone, task force and provincial commanders, Brig. Gen. Fidel V. Ramos, PC chief, said that the ban is pursuant to Presidential Proclamation 1081 and Executive Order No. 52 dated November 28, 1966. Gen. Ramos stated that stiff penalties will be imposed on all violators of the ban.
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 77 amending Section 1 of R.A. 5180 prescribing a uniform system of preliminary investigation by provincial and city fiscals and their assistants, and by state attorneys or their assistants. The President said that R.A. 5180 which grants the complainant and the respondent in a preliminary investigation the right to confront and cross-examine each other and their witnesses, “is time-consuming and not conducive to the expeditious administration of justice.”
TWO DETAINEES were sentenced by a military court to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of P20,000 each after both were found guilty of violating the Dangerous Drugs. Act of 1972. Sentenced were Chua Cha and Charito Trinidad in whose possession were found drug paraphernalia and chemicals, during a raid conducted by a combined force of the National Bureau of Investigation and Metrocom agents at their residence at 840 Cabatuan St., Caloocan City. The paraphernalia were later found to have traces of heroine and morphine in a chemical analysis conducted by the NBI.
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The PNB [Philippine National Bank] is in a bad state financially. I attach the letters of Gen. [Gregorio] Licaros and Pres. [Eusebio] Villatuya of PNB.
Met Francis (Pat) Parker of the Janesco [Genesco] which owns Bonwit Teller, Jarman Shoes, I. Miller] and other outlets that buys [sic] $1.3 billion of apparel annually. Encouraged the setting up of garment factories with our textile mills.
Refrigeration ship of 300 tons according to Gen. [Eulogio] Balao cost $1 million. So I have asked through Rudy Cuenca whose CDCP [Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines] is building the refrigerated warehouses of the Greater Manila Food Terminal Market to ask the German manufacturers to come to the Ex. P Zone to set up a refrigeration factory.
And oil cracking or chemical factory.
As well as the steal blast furnace and copper smelters.