Hit a 72 at Camp John Hay this morning with the same foursome, Maj. Jim Ball, CO [Commanding Officer] of the base, Ricky and Helen Cu-Unjieng whom invited to come up to Baguio.
Signed the Peace and Order Fund bill which seeks to raise about P90 million for salaries and equipment of local police and the NBI [National Bureau of Investigation] on a 2% tax on stock sales and an increase on a travel tax on Filipinos and permanent residents going abroad. Just received it in Baguio today.
Sent some officers on jungle training at Singapore, arrangements having been made with the British.
Issued instructions on Sangley Pt. and the [Averill] Holman case to Sec. [Manuel] Collantes. The records should be more extensive.
Directed another area in Quezon hill for the resettlement of squatters in Baguio.
Finalized the Nawasa [National Water and Sewerage Authority] studies on the waterworks project for Baguio City which may cost $10 million.
We are starting Projects Black and White to change the image of criminality and corruption in the Philippines in the minds of foreign newspapermen. I attach the project proposal.
Official Gazette for November 4, 1970: President Marcos worked mostly on state papers brought up from Malacañang, and otherwise enjoyed the nippy Baguio weather and a, chance to relax. He decided to remain in the Pines city on the request of local officials, so that problems in the region could be threshed out with him. He has scheduled conferences with various officials in the area, while also awaiting national officials whom he had called to Baguio for consultations.
Earlier in the day, the President sat down with newsmen covering him for a brief interview, in the course of which he commended Commission on Elections Chairman Jaime Ferrer for his courage in initiating the drive against so-called private armies, and at the same time announced that he will order the Philippine Constabulary to give all-out support to the Comelec campaign against armed groups.
The President also conferred with Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr., who among other things reported on his recent trip abroad.
In the evening, the Chief Executive signed House Bill No. 1537, otherwise known as the Special Peace and Order Fund bill. The measure was received by Malacañang from Congress only yesterday and was conveyed to the President for his signature by Presidential Executive Assistant Jacobo C. Clave.
The new law provides for a special fund to finance the activities, functions and program of the Police Commission, created under the Police Act of 1966, and police activities of the National Bureau of Investigation. The bill appropriates F60 million for the expenditures of the Police Commission from the date of effectivity of the Act to June 30, 1971. This is in addition to the appropriations for the Police Commission authorized under existing laws.
I had the postpone the visit to the projects of the Mt. Prov. Dev. Bd. [Mountain Province Development Board] headed by Sinai Hamada at Trinidad for tomorrow as I had to work on the papers brought up by [Jacobo] Jake Clave and [Francisco] Kits Tatad.