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Official Gazette for July 13, 1973: THE PRESIDENT has issued Decree No. 221 abolishing the various United Nations national committees individually acting as liaison between the UN agencies and the Philippine government,, and transferring their functions together with “applicable appropriations, records, equipment property, and such qualified personnel as may be necessary to the Office of the United Nations Affairs and International Organizations of the Department of Foreign Affairs. The UNESCO National Commission has been ordered attached to the DFA but its administrative staff and functions, together with applicable appropriations, records, equipment, property and such qualified personnel as may be necessary, shall remain “in their present status with the said Commission.” The foreign affairs secretary shall be the chairman of the commission.
THE PRESIDENT called for the intensification of the industrial development effort under the New Society in order to solve the serious problems confronting the country. Addressing the closing session of the 20th National Convention of Philippine Manufacturers and Producers, under the auspices of the Philippine Chamber of Industries, at the Maharlika Hall of Malacañang, the President reiterated the country’s goal of establishing a balanced agro-industrial economy and pledge full protection to industry and investments.
THE PRESIDENT has issued Letter of Instructions No. 101 creating a committee of four members which will oversee the proper implementation of the prohibition on the destruction of or squatting on the watershed of the Ambuklao and Binga hydro-electric dams by vegetable gardeners on the pretext that they are authorized to do so under Executive Order No. 87, series of 1967. The prohibition is embodied in Presidential Decree No. 209 issued by the President. The Chief Executive has likewise activated the regional evaluation board created by virtue of said decree, which is charged with the task of reviewing all tax declarations and other pertinent papers relative to areas occupied by virtue of Executive Order No. 87. With the director of forest development as chairman, the four-man committee will have the governor of Ifugao, a representative of the Commission on Audit designated by the chairman, and the chairman of the defunct Mountain Province Development Authority (MPDA) as members.
FOREIGN tourist arrivals last June totalled 18,534, a record increase of 23.29 per cent compared with June of last year. Statistics released by the office of Tourism Secretary Jose D. Aspiras disclosed that Japanese tourists registered the highest percentage increase, from 1,627 in June 1972 to 3 228 in June 1973 or a rise of 99 per cent. Filipino residents abroad registered the second highest increase from 1,593 arrivals in June 1972 to 2,160 in June 1973 or a rise of 35.5 per cent. Australian arrivals chalked up a record 20 per cent increase from l,153 in June, 1972 to 1,383 last month. British arrivals increased from 956 to 1,103 or an increase of 15.3 per cent. The increase in visitor arrivals last month was considered highly significant since June is the start of the off-season for foreign arrivals.
DEPARTMENT of Labor released the “pakiao” rates for sugar workers as ratified by representatives of planters and workers during the tripartite sugar conference in Bacolod City. Labor Secretary Bias Ople said that under the approved rates, sugar agricultural workers are assured of income not lower than the statutory minimum daily wage of P8 for workers in Sarabia, Talisay, and Silay City in Negros Occidental, P7 for those working elsewhere in the province, P6 for those in Panay. The rates vary depending on the kind of work. But in all cases, a worker gets a bonus of P0.50 for a piece of work completed in eight hours. If the worker finishes a job earlier, he will be entitled to a higher bonus.
TOTAL of P130 million was authorized in a project agreement between the National Economic and Development Authority and the USAID Mission to expedite the construction of rural electric cooperative systems in the country. The amount was earmarked from the proceeds of PL 480 Agreements. The sum of P13.4 million, as per agreement, will be made immediately available out of the earmarked P130 million, with the balance to be released at the rate of P24 million every quarter. The agency implementing the electrification program is the National Electrification Administration. The nationwide electrification program, one of the President’s high priority projects, envisions initially the setting up of 36 rural electric cooperatives throughout the country.
PEOPLE’S Republic of China is sending a trade mission to the Philippines sometime this year, according to a report submitted to the President by Dr. Wigberto Clavecilla, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines and head of the 15-man CCP Trade Mission that visited Peking from April 15 to May 26. The acceptance of the CCP mission’s invitation was made by Chinese Premier Chou En Lai who received the Filipino group in an hour-long audience. Premier Chou said the Chinese mission would come to the Philippines “mainly to find out what we need
Robert Mosbacker has come into the oil-prospecting in Sulu with Philodrill, Superior and Endeavor others for a million and a half hectares of concessions. We sign tomorrow.
Endeavor has tied up with Pioneer Bay for the Cagayan Valley.
And Podco [Philippine Oil Development Company] is asking for a service contract on 51,000 hectares of National Reserve in Iloilo.
We sign those contracts tomorrow at 11:30 AM. And then luncheon for the contractors.
and can buy from you.” The Premier also proposed that the Philippines and the People’s Republic of China send trade missions to each other yearly, the report said.
DEPARTMENT of Education and Culture has launched the “Magtanim Upang Mabuhay” program, a nation-wide campaign for self-sufficiency in food. The program, which is in line with the Green Revolution project of the First Lady, was launched through the National Youth Volunteer Coordinating Center for National Development (NYVCCND) with special participation of the Veterans Memorial Hospital. Specifically, this new project seeks to intensify the production of root crops as possible substitutes for rice and other cereals.
NATIONAL Food and Agriculture Council announced further reduction by five per cent in the prices of agricultural pesticides and weed-killers sold nation-wide for the “Masagana 99” drive by Nine-member companies of the Agricultural Pesticide Institute of the Philippines (APIP). The price reductions are being made even while costs of imported ingredients of these farm chemicals are going up. Price reductions ranged from P1.10 as in a case of 1 quart bottle of Azodrin insecticide (Shell) to P3.55 per quart bottle of Hostathion (Hoechst Phil.).