1:00 AM Aug. 3rd A
After the referendum have outlived the strategy for action:
Arrest the back-sliding to the old society vices.
Bring about unity.
Achieve the “internal revolution.”
Official Gazette for August 2, 1973: THE PRESIDENT issued a presidential decree reconstituting the Presidential Committee on Wood, Industries Development, which had been abolished under the reorganization plan, into a planning, evaluation and consultative body. As reconstituted, the PCWID is composed of the secretary of agriculture and natural resources as chairman, a representative of the private sector as vice chairman, and the following as members: the secretary of finance, the secretary of public works, transportation and communications, the chairman of the Board of Investments, the director general of the National Economic and Development Authority, the director of forest management, the commissioner of Forest Products Research and Development, the president of the Chamber of Wood Industries, the president of Philippine Lumber and Plywood Manufacturers Association, the president of the Society of Foresters, the president of the Association of Permanent Foresters, and the dean of the University of the Philippines College of Forestry.
THE PRESIDENT has issued Presidential Decree No. 258 creating the Philippine Center in San Francisco, California, along with a Philippine Center Management Board, under which will be consolidated, integrated, and coordinated the activities of all Philippine government offices and agencies which are at present dispersed in that American City, a situation entailing unnecessary expense and duplication of functions, according to the decree. The Philippine Center will have its own fund to accrue from the sale of all real properties in San Francisco owned by the Philippine government.
PHILIPPINE National Bank scored a breakthrough in the international money with the placement of S30 million in certificates of deposits in London. PNB President P. O. Domingo signed the agreement for the issuance of the certificates subscribed by 21 financial institutions: seven North American, seven European, and seven from Asia and the Pacific. Interest on the certificates of deposit is payable at a rate based on the London inter-bank offering rate for Eurodollar deposits.
DEPARTMENT of Health has tied up its nation-wide cancer detection program on women with its family planning project in a bid to arrest or minimize cancer incidence among the female population, Health authorities took the move following reports from abroad that the use of intrauterine device (IUD) in women increases the incidence of cancer of the cervix. In order to give more impetus to the program, the health department through the Cancer Detection Center, has set up cancer clinic and tumor boards in the different designated medical centers under the department.
CAMP CRAME announced the organization of the Office for Muslim Affairs at the PC headquarters. The new office, which will be made part of the special staff of the PC chief, will assist the chief of Constabulary in promoting and maintaining rapport between the PC command and the Muslim population to enhance Government efforts in implementing socio-economic programs for the development of southern Philippines PC Chief Brig. Gen. Fidel V. Ramos named Col. Mangacop Bangcola, the highest ranking PC Muslim officer in the active service as head of the new office. Col. Bangcola is in his own right the Sultan of Butig, Lanao del Sur.
BUREAU of Customs collected P203,331,413.71 in revenue last month compared with last year’s July total of P83,365,158.24. Manila Port Collector Augusco T. Africa, m a report to Customs Commissioner Rolando G. Geotina, said that the July take exceeds previous collection by P118,966,255.47 Commissioner Geotina who has set a customs collection goal of P3.3 billion this fiscal year said that should this collection performance continue, there is a possibility that the bureau might overshoot the target.
From the strength of unity and the new society we reorient our efforts
- From production of import substitution to exports.
- From filling up deficiencies to planning for surpluses.
a. Large scale staple, meat and high quality marine products.
b. Small and medium sized industries in the country side.
c. National electrification.
d. Processing of primary export products.