The Phl. Marketing Asso. [Association] hosted the 4th Pacific Asian Marketing Conference where I spoke as guest of honor. Theme: Asia wants peace and to be left alone by the world powers whether of Asia or not. Asian Forum needed. Djakarta is the beginning. Our dreams for Asia.
Have gotten the bill of [Sixto] Ting Roxas for national housing. It is a salary tax of about 5% for the establishment of a housing banking institution.
I hope to be able to raise funds for the deficiency in housing (400,000 annually).
The coral reefs northwest of Palawan one of the islands of which is Freedom Island seems to be the best chance for discovering oil. And the area is on our side of the median line between Thailand and the Philippines. So I am allowing the grant of concessions of even a million hectares in an exercise of jurisdiction over the area. Al Yuchengco is organizing the corporations for it.
Official Gazette for May 25, 1970: President Marcos rounded out his morning’s activities with an appearance as guest of honor and speaker at the opening of the plenary session of the 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Marketing Conference, held at the Hotel Inter-Continental.
In his speech, the President underlined the need for Asian unity if progress and continuing growth are to be achieved and maintained. He asked Asian nations to unify and “heal the physical and moral schisms and establish harmony.” The need for cooperation in Asia, he said, is crucial for it is the only way to full development.
Earlier in the morning, the President worked at his desk on state papers. Back to Malacañang at about 11:30 a.m., the President received a number of callers, among whom were Secretary Manuel Elizalde, Jr. of PANAMIN, Mrs. Adelina Rodriguez, Representatives Jose de Venecia and Aguedo Agbayani of Pangasinan, and Pablo Ocampo of Manila, and the Philippine delegation to the Second Asian Judo Championship Tournament, scheduled in Taiwan from May 28 to May 31. The group was composed of Florencio C. Catanghal, head of delegation; Major Dominador M. Estanislao, coach; Jess L. Ledesma, representative to the Judo Union of Asia Congress, also to be held in Taiwan: Rogelio Andres, lightweight; Geronimo Dyogi, light middleweight; Narzal Garcia, middleweight; Fernando Garcia, light heavyweight: and Oscar Bautista, open weight.
At 12:30 p.m., the President’s last caller left and he had lunch followed by a brief rest. In the afternoon, and through the rest of his working day, the President was closeted in his study, acting on official papers.
Among others, the President filled the top posts of the National Electrification Administration, created under Republic Act No. 6038, making the agency operational. Designated chairman of the NEA Board of Administrators was Geronimo Velasco, the president, of Dole Philippines; and named members were Brigadier General Ceferino Carreon (retired), former Public Works Secretary Antonio Raquiza, and Felix Limcaoco. The fifth member of the board, as specified in the law, should be the administrator of the Electrification Administration, created under Republic Act No. 2717, which is automatically dissolved with the organization of the NEA, and absorbed into the new agency.
The congressmen of Pangasinan want to divide the province. But this will raise many problems as all the provinces will seek to split up.
Ben Mallari, the right hand man of Commander Dante [Bernabe Buscayno] (the same Ben Mallari assigned to assassinate me), was killed with another (and three captured) in a fire fight last night by Task Force Lawin and a group under Lt. Col. Lamayo.