9:00 PM
Veterans Memorial Hospital
while waiting to be operated
on for my lower right incisor
tooth abscess
Slept late, worked on Rice supply and Tourism and Foreign Policy.
At 12:00 AM [sic] I witnessed the demonstration by Juan Blanche and Virgilio ______ of faith healing.
The first patient was Mrs. Villaluz, the wife of Judge [Onofre?] Villaluz, head of the
Official Gazette for May 16, 1973: THE PRESIDENT gave the assurance that there will be no recurrence of the perennial shortage of rice this year. The Chief Executive said that the Government was able to minimize losses in rice production due to last year’s devastating floods in Central Luzon through “Operation Rice Bowl” recovery efforts. The expected decrease in harvest will be pegged down to a minimal seven per cent of previous projections. The Government has also purchased in advance enough rice stocks and had entered into purchase contracts to fill the deficiencies estimated at 600,000 tons, the President reported. The President said that to attain self-sufficiency in rice, he has launched the Masagana 99 rice production program in 43 provinces harnessing the efforts of both the Government and the private sector.
LOCALLY MANUFACTURED cars are subject to lower tax rates than imported ones beginning January 1, this year. This was contained in Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 5-73 by Finance Secretary Cesar E. A. Virata to explain certain amendments to the National Internal Revenue Code pursuant to Presidential Deere No. 69. Under Section 184-A of the NIRC, Mr. Virata said, a progressive system of tax computation has been adopted to compute taxes on locally manufactured and imported motor vehicles. Prior to this amendment, taxes of local and imported cars were computed on the same level. Car assemblers are now entitled to the reduced rate of tax on the importation of completely knocked down units and of replacement parts only when they are duly registered under the progressive manufacturing program of the Board of Investments. Percentage tax on imported cars are based on the landed cost plus mark-up as established by Section 183 (b) while locally made cars are taxed through their gross selling prices.
DR. PACIFICO E. MARCOS, chairman of the Philippine Medical Care Commission reported that Filipinos who are seriously ill or dying of grave disease now have a better chance of survival through immediate medical assistance. With the implementation of the medicare plan, the percentage of death in the country without medical attention has gone down by 45 per cent. By the end of this year, the percentage is expected to be about only 20 per cent.
SECURITY GUARDS can now secure their license from the Constabulary provincial commanders in the respective provinces they are working, Camp Crame announced. Colonel Miguel Gantuangco, commanding officer of the PC supervisory unit for security and investigative agencies, said the approval of such licenses has been delegated to zone commanders and/or deputy zone commanders in the PC zones. Those in Greater Manila may obtain theirs from the PC chief of staff in Camp Crame. Applicants working in the provinces may file their applications with the PC provincial commanders who will in turn screen and process the applications and forward them to the zone headquarters. The zone-3 officer will screen and process the applications in coordination with the zone-2 officer.
THE GOVERNMENT is looking into reported cases of coffee hoarding by traders who are holding out stocks for higher prices. The complaint was filed by local coffee producers to the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Denying any shortage of coffee, the producers said that a sizable amount of coffee produced are in the hands of traders who are holding out for higher prices. The DANR ordered an investigation into the reported hoarding of coffee. It is also studying the possibility of creating a Coffee Marketing Board whose function, among others, will be to reconcile the interests of producers, processors and consumers.
Hyonotist Association of the Philippines for a cyst on the right knee.
After prayers and a reading of the bible, Juan Blanche (now of Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya and formerly of Santa Maria, Batac , Ilocos Norte) used my right hand to by a wave cut an incision twice on the skin and flesh of the patient and manually extract the cyst. She felt no pain but a mere “kurot.”
But Virgilio ______ could not “concentrate.” So he asked to postpone the demonstration.