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 Municipality
Of Moises Padilla |
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Moises Padilla became a town
on October 16, 1951. Formerly known as Magallon, it was once
the biggest barrio of Isabela and provided a huge income for
the town because of its marketplace. Plenty of people
converge in this barrio from the mountains of La Castellana,
Isabela and other neighboring sitios every Tuesday to trade
with merchants from other places.
Magallon remained as a barrio of Isabela until the Municipal
Council of Isabela and the provincial board of Negros
Occidental in a joint session on November 26, 1946 approved
a resoltuion proposing the separation of barrioss Magallon,
Odiong and Guinpana-an with all their sitioss to constittute
a new municipality. The proposal was later approved and
signed by President Elpidio Quirino on June 6, 1951.
The conversion of the town’s name into "Moises Padilla" was
in honor of its defeated NP candidate for mayor of the same
name who was tortured to death by the Special Police of
former Governor Rafael Lacson shortly after the 1951
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