Bongbong and Miguelito came back at about 12:00 AM with the following bag: one deer, one duck and eleven fish (big ones, one carp and several bass more than one foot long)
Official Gazette for May 15, 1970: President Marcos motored to the Manila International Airport where he conferred with Civil Aeronautics Administration officials on the improvement and expansion of civil air transportation facilities. The President also made a visit to Camp Crame where he checked on the progress of the carnapping campaign at the Philippine Constabulary headquarters in Quezon City.
Earlier in the morning, the President held conferences with a number of key officials, at Malacañang. Secretary of Public Works and Communications Manuel Syquio, chairman of the study committee on the improvement of mass transportation in the Greater Manila area, called to submit his report and recommendations. With him was Public Service Commissioner Enrique Medina, one of the members of the committee.
A delegation from the Elks Cerebral Palsy Project, Inc. called to thank the President for having proclaimed the period from May 1 to June 30 this year for the project’s national educational and fund campaign. The group included DBP Chairman Leonides S. Virata, the project’s campaign chairman for 1970; John L. Manning, Sr., chairman of the board of directors; Dr Deogracias Tablan, medical director of the main clinic: Mrs. Priscila Dayao, a Tarlac school teacher, and her daughter Ditas, 13 who had been afflicted with cerebral palsy since birth.
Among others who conferred with the President at noon were Secretary of National Defense Juan Ponce Enrile and Representative Ali Dimaporo of Lanao del Sur. In the afternoon, the President went to Camp Crame where Col. Jaime Catral, chief of Trafcon, showed him recovered carnapped vehicles which have not been claimed by their owners and informed him that 42 out of 48 stolen vehicles had been recovered since the anti-carnapping drive was launched last April-27.
Then the President proceeded to the MIA where CAA officials briefed him on the progress of projects designed to improve civil aviation facilities. In a move to ensure harmony and consistency in the objectives of the annual budget and long-range development plans, the President created the Presidential Development Budget Committee, establishing the level of annual government expenditures.
In a related order, the President created another committee to study the computerization of budgetary and financial reports.
In his executive order creating the Presidential Development Budget Committee, the President underscored the need for involving more fully in basic budgetary decision-making all development planning agencies and other principal fiscal agencies of the government.
The committee will be headed by the Budget Commissioner, with the chairman of the National Economic Council, Director-General of the Presidential Economic Staff, Secretary of Finance and Governor of the Central Bank as members.
The President also certified to Congress the bill creating a Philippine News Agency. The bill seeks an accurate and effective voice of Filipino viewpoints in the international scene while serving as an effective and continuous medium to promote the country’s export and tourism trades.
Authored by Rep. Artemio Al. Loyola of Davao del Sur the bill proposes to declare as the policy of the state the provision of “an indigenous means of obtaining information on events occurring in foreign countries upon which an informed public opinion on foreign affairs may be formalized, and of disseminating accurate information concerning the country abroad that will project its rightful image in the international community.”
In the pursuit of these objectives, the bill’s author said that the basic tenets of a free press shall be fully guaranteed and maintained.
We ate some of the fish at Danny [Daniel] and [Maria Luisa] Ising Vazquez tonight where I went to after the Task Force headed by Col. [Jaime] Catral, the CAA [Civil Aeronautics Administration] and the conference at the safehouse on security.
The two young men are strutting around like “white hunters.”
Lost my temper on Cong. [Gaudencio] Beduya who is supposed to have said that the smuggling of the PLDT [Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company] franchise was done through an unseen hand from above apparently referring to me. The PLDT got caught in a fight against Majority Floor Leader [Marcelino] Veloso who is suspected of having received a consideration for the inclusion of the bill in the approved list last Friday without actually being approved.
Col. Catral’s men have recovered 42 of the 48 vehicles stolen and either killed or arrested 24 carnappers. Gave them a commendation and released P100,000 more.
Went to inspect CAA facilities and talk to the staff and the air traffic controllers who were called untrained, inefficient and incompetent by the pilots yesterday. The air traffic controllers threatened to stay away from work for 48 hours but I convinced them not to. They are for [Federico] Ablan [Jr.].
But we must increase controllers and their budget and equipment. So I must push through the omnibus bill.