1:30 AM July 23rd
Official Gazette for July 21, 1973: THE PRESIDENT announced his approval and the adoption of the Four-Year Development Plan for Fiscal Years 1974-77 as prepared by the National Economic and Development Authority. The announcement was embodied in Proclamation No. 1157 issued by the Chief Executive who enjoined all government officers to align their plans and projects with the objectives and policies embodied in the Plan, including the changes that may be made therein. He also called upon the private sector to take full cognizance of the plan and to cooperate fully in the attainment of its goals and objectives. The development plan seeks to attain a more equitable distribution of, wealth, expand employment opportunities, promote social development, stabilize prices at reason able levels, accelerate economic growth, and promote regional development and industrialization.
THE PRESIDENT promulgated Presidential Decree No. 248 extending the period for the registration of reservists to August 31. The President extended the deadline to enable all reservists in the country, as well as those who are abroad, to register in accordance with Presidential Decree No. 183, dated May 6. The Chief Executive warned there would be no further extension after August 31. He said all those who fail to register will be prosecuted and penalized accordingly.
THE PRESIDENT has declared July’24 as a special registration day to enable many qualified citizens throughout the country, including detainees, to register for the forthcoming referendum on July 27. The President noted in Proclamation No. 1166 that many who have been unable to register should be given all the opportunity to exercise their right as citizens in the July 27 referendum which will decide certain issues vital to the country and people.
THE PRESIDENT issued Presidential Decree No. 249, authorizing government officials, employes and military personnel who may have been registered as barangay members elsewhere to vote in barangay referendum centers nearest their residences or places of assignment. The new decree also provides for the postponement of the referendum in places where there is a calamity, flood, or other force majeure, violence, terrorism, loss or destruction of referendum paraphernalia Or records, and other, similar causes which may make the holding of a referendum in said places impossible. The decree amends Presidential Decree No. 229, which provides for the manner of voting and canvass in barangays.
DEPARTMENT of Trade issued pointers for house and lot buyers to keep them from falling into the hands of certain unscrupulous subdivision owners and dealers. Secretary of Trade Troadio T. Quiazon Jr. said the public will do well to consider the pointers seriously to protect their own interest and avoid unnecessary litigations. On buying lots in subdivision, the Department of Trade chief said it is necessary to: 1) Check on the reliability of owners, developers; management or sales agents; study their accomplishments and other previous performances; 2) Check veracity of brochures, advertisements and other sales gimmicks; 3) Study carefully the contract to sell or land purchase agreement; 4) Do not buy lot if fees, charges and other obligations are unreasonable; 5) If lot is mortgaged, check if amortization is regularly paid and mortgage is willing to cancel mortgage if purchase price on lot is fully paid; and 6) Seek legal advice.
THE PRESIDENT conferred the Presidential Merit Medal on Dr. Carl P. Schaffner and Dr. Hans Kaunitz for their lasting contributions enhancing the coconut industry in the Philippines. In a citation read by Secretary Francisco S. Tatad of the Department of Public Information, Dr. Schaffner was credited with undertaking research and scientific investigations aimed at preventing the growth of salmonella and other bacteria in processed or dessicated coconut. In the citation for Dr. Kaunitz, which was likewise read at the award ceremonies by Secretary Tatad, the professor emeritus on physiology at Columbia University was also credited with undertaking research and scientific investigations to determine the nutritional properties of coconut oil.
BUREAU of Plant Industry is urging the public to plant sweet potato (camote) as it provides essential vitamins and minerals and additional income. The BPI has reported that 134,620 hectares have been planted to sweet potato in the Philippines in 1970. The total yield of 431,893,900 kilos of tubers was valued at P215, 822,900. Sweet potato is propagated by planting tubers, slips, vine cuttings or terminal cuttings. BPI’s food technologists estimated that two tubers of sweet potato contains food energy equivalent to a cup of rice. It is said to be rich in vitamins and minerals essential in the human diet.
Official Gazette for July 22, 1973: MALACAÑANG issued guidelines to be followed on the placement of personnel affected by the implementation of the Integrated Reorganization Plan. The guidelines, contained in Memorandum Circular No. 650 set the priorities for placement of personnel in the following order: 1) Permanent
Saturday and Sunday
Barrio Fiesta for Gen. Ibnu Sotucuo, the President-Gen. Manager of Pertamina. Invited were Mr. and Mrs. William Seawell of PANAM.
Gen. Sotucuo and his assistant Dr. Sanger have agreed to help us procure crude oil for our refinery. But the price cannot be stabilized even at the high of $2.80 per barrel that is the asking price of Saudi-Arabia now. They inform us that next September, there may be an escalation of prices.
So I wait for Amb. [Eduardo] Romualdez who has been ordered to talk to the major oil companies who may be able to procure oil at better prices.
We suffered 16 casualties in Tuburan, Basilan in an ambush. The PC [Philippine Constabulary] company at Camp Andres Luuk, Sulu (472nd, Lt. Castro with 24 enlisted men and their dependents, abandoned the camp without their heavy weapons that they left behind in camp: one 81 man mortar with 14 rds of ammo, one 75 mm recoil-less rifle with 18 rds of ammo, one Heavy Machinegun .50 cal with 400 rds of ammo, two light machinegun, cal 30, one armored car (carburetor destroyed) and one radio set (equipment smashed).
So I have ordered the command in SOWESCOM [Southwest Command] changed. And the command structure in Mindanao and Sulu restudied.
Tomorrow I met the major service commanders and the General Staff on this problem.
I attach the report.
employes presently occupying positions with the same or comparable titles and duties and responsibilities as those in the approved staffing patterns, provided that in cases where the number of positions exceed those in the staffing pattern, the incumbents shall be compared m terms of relative fitness and the most qualified shall be preferred; 2) Permanent employes presently occupying higher level of positions in the same occupational group as those in the approved staffing pattern who have not yet been placed; 3) Permanent, employes who are presently occupying allied or functionally related positions at higher or comparable levels with those positions in the staffing pattern provided such employes meet all the requirements for appointment.
ONE of the biggest mail order houses in West Germany in buying $6-million worth of exportable products from the Philippines for distribution in its network of 50 department stores. To supply the huge requirements. Secretary of Trade Troadio T. Quiazon Jr. convened a meeting between the country’s leading manufacturers, producers and exporters and representatives of the German firm Neckermann Versand Ltd. of Frankfurt. Secretary Quiazon said the $6-million allocation for the Philippines this year will be for the purchase of garments, shoes, household items, wood products, decorative items, electronic and electricals, leather tires and travel goods and beach items (including speedboats made of fiber glasses). The initial purchase allocations, according to the secretary, will be increased at the rate of 12 per cent per annum.
THE NATION observed the 109th birth anniversary of Apolinario Mabini, the “brain of the Philippine revolution,” with floral offerings in three places in Manila and Tanauan, Batangas. Chairman Esteban de Ocampo of the National Historical Commission said the wreath-laying rites will be held at the Mabini shrine in Barrio Talaga, Tanauan, Batangas, the Mabini shrine in Pandacan, Manila and the national library compound in T. M. Kalaw st. Apolinario Mabini was born in 1864 in Barrio Talaga, Tanauan, Batangas, to Inocencio Mabini and Dionisia Maranan. Mabini played a significant role during the second phase of the Philippine revolution. He served first as adviser to Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo and was responsible for laying down the first Philippine Republic. He wrote several decrees, including one which created the revolutionary government on June 23, 1898.