Official Gazette for July 6, 1973: THE PRESIDENT has validated in Presidential Decree No. 227 the permanent list of voters in the 1971 elections and the list of Barangay members who participated in the January 1973 referendum to enable these voters and Barangay members to participate in the July 27 referendum. The new decree amends Section 14 of Presidential Decree No. 210 which provides for a system of registration for members of the Barangays (citizen’s assemblies).
BUREAU of Internal Revenue reported to the President “uprecedented collections from internal revenue taxes totalling P4, 089,833,725 during fiscal year 1972-1973 ending last June 30, 1973. The amount represents an increase of 46.42 per cent over the P2, 793,042,015 collected during the previous fiscal year 1971-72. Bureau of Internal Revenue Commissioner Misael P. Vera attributed the big increase in tax collections to the general effects of Martial Law and the increasing support of taxpayers in the Government. Noteworthy were gains in specific tax, P70, 767,321; license, business and occupation taxes, P15, 500,667, and franchise tax, P15, 165,340.
THE PRESIDENT has personally distributed land transfer certificates to some 3,532 tenant-farmers in 14 towns of Leyte. He made the distribution, the first in the Eastern Visayan region, shortly after the inauguration of the San Juanico Bridge. Held at the NIDC compound in Tanauan, Leyte, the awarding of the land transfer certificates was the second the President has distributed: to the tenants emancipated by Presidential Decree No. 27. Assisting the First Couple in the awarding ceremonies were Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella, DAR Undersecretary Ernesto Valdez and Assistant Secretary Benjamin Labayen.
SECURITIES and Exchange Commission has announced that a total of 249 corporations with a paid up capital of P1.3 billion retained an undivided profit amounting to P2, 669,708,171. The release of this latest listing is in compliance with a Presidential directive requiring the Securities and Exchange Commission to determine which corporations have been retaining their undivided corporate profits equivalent to more than 100 per cent of their paid up capital. The directive is designed to stop tax evasion by these big corporations and to insure the buyers of stocks of these corporations a fair return from their investments in the form of dividend payments. However, the directive allows these corporations to retain undivided profits equivalent to more than 100 per cent of their paid up capital if such corporations could give justifiable reasons” for the retention of the undivided profits.
GOVERNMENT loan agencies and rural banks have stepped up financial assistance to farmers involved in the Masagana 99; rice production program In its latest report, the Agricultural Credit Administration said P6, 100, 426 have been released as of June 28 to some 7,726 farmers In Ilocos Norte, the Philippine National Bank branch and four rural banks loaned out a total of P1, 398,186 to 2,943 Masagana 99 farmers. The PNB office in Laoag City released some P1, 127,390 to 2,376 farmers cultivating some 1,623.58 hectares.
Official Gazette July 7, 1973: THE PRESIDENT intensified government efforts to prevent hoarding of rice and corn by deputizing provincial governors and city mayors in an all-out drive to check the movements of commercial stocks of the cereals. In a complementary move, the Chief Executive authorized the imposition of price ceilings for rice, to prevent unwarranted increases on the price of the staple commodity. These twin measures are embodied in Letter of Instructions No. 97 issued by the Chief Executive. LOI No. 97 modifies LOI Nos. 79 and 88 which set the guidelines for the trading of rice, corn and other basic commodities. LOI No. 97 also authorizes the NGA to establish price ceilings for rice, whether locally produced or imported, provided that the retail price ceiling for any variety shall not exceed P3.50 per ganta or P1.45 per kilo. The NGA may establish price ceilings in all the different regions of the country.
ACTING EXECUTIVE Secretary Roberto V. Reyes said that the government, as an instrument of the people’s welfare and well-being, must assume sole responsibility for the quality, dependability and competence of professionals in order to safeguard and protect the public interest. Secretary Reyes was guest speaker at the get-together of the Philippine Association of Government Board Examiners, held at the Romulus Restaurant on Roxas Boulevard. In his remarks, Secretary Reyes delved on the two salient provisions of Presidential Decree No. 223, which created the Professional Regulation Commission. Mr. Reyes emphasized that this Commission was purposely created to supervise, conduct and manage the conduct of professional rating systems, and delineate policies and guidelines in the conduct of state examinations.
DANGEROUS DRUGS Board has set guidelines for accreditation of preventive centers for drug addiction. In a
A lazy and restful two days. We came in at about 12:00 AM Friday, the 5th, a long siesta, dinner and dancing to an organ. I went to bed after midnight.
Today swimming in the big breakers at the beach house, three miles from the house. Then lunch. But LBM—Carbo-Monocyl.
Have been planning on the referendum and the development of a constitutional situation where the powers of martial law can be exercised without a proclamation of continuance of martial law.
And the use of native materials for the production of exports—garments, capiz, dresses etc.
But top designers should be utilized and paid for. Then mass production in the Philippines.
meeting, the board decided that preventive centers be accredited according to the type of programs it will undertake. The center may conduct one or two programs or a combination of several types such as crises intervention, guidelines and counselling, public information and mass media production. The board agreed to require applicants for accreditation to submit in writing a clear definition of purpose and functions. Such definition shall include goal and specific objectives, geographical area or target group or groups to served by the program. The center should also meet the drug education or prevention needs of the area where it would be located.
ISABELO de los Reyes, father of labor unionism is remembered’ now on his 109th birth anniversary. De los Reyes was also a patriot-historian, senator, journalist, nationalist and co-founder of the Philippine Independent Church. He was born in 1864 in the historic town of Vigan, Ilocos Sur, to Elias de los Reyes and Leona Florentino, the first Filipina poetess. Finishing law at the age of 22, he shifted to journalism and wrote articles for various periodicals. Being a nationalist, he criticized the Spanish maladministration in the Philippines in a leading newspapers in Spain. For having been too vocal against Spanish authorities, he was deported to Barcelona in Spain. He became popular as the “Father of Philippine Unionism” when he established the first labor union in the country and became its first president. He died October 10, 1938.
Entry is misdated as July 5.