I have just had my teeth attended to by the dentist, Dr. Primo Gonzales, Chairman of the Board of Examiners of Dentistry and Capt. Paz as well as Dr. Maliksi who attended (the latter two in the Pres. Guards). My teeth that had been broken by my Japanese torturers in Fort Santiago recapped after the liberation and now chipped and broken by usage so much so they were beginning to pain me.
Painful but necessary.
Official Gazette for February 18, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS had a heavy schedule that started with the call of the members of the presidential commission which, undertook the survey and assessment of the country’s educational system.
Chairmanned by Secretary of Education Onofre D. Corpuz, the Commission recommended the total overhaul of the educational system and its reorientation to the present goals of national development,
The President also received the 25-man study group on Asian Tax Administration and Research which held a seminar in Manila on tax collection and incentives promotion. Participants from, nine Asian countries composed the study group.
The President was informed by Rep. Artemio Loyola that the Philippine delegation, of which he is the chairman, has proposed the establishment of an Asian Center for Tax Administration and Research. The group was accompanied to Malacañang by Secretary of Finance Cesar A. Virata,
Among other callers on the President were Mayor Lucio Gutierrez of Malabon, Delegate-elect Domingo Guevarra, former Rep. Carmen Dinglasan Consing and former Cavite Governor Dominador Camerino.
In the evening, the President met with some 100 business, trade and industrial leaders, representing a fair cross-section of the economic community, at the Makati residence of Jesus Cabarrus, a mining industrialist, during which he enlisted the Support of business arid industry behind a long-range massive housing program for the common laborers.
The President also sounded out the private sector on the various features which may be incorporated into a proposed exports incentives bill which he will submit to Congress.
The administration’s proposed low-cost housing program will be submitted by the President for Senate Committee hearings.
Present during the three-hour conference were Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr., Secretaries Cesar E. A, Virata of the Department of Finance; Arturo R. Tanco, Jr. of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ernesto Maceda of the Department of Commerce and Industry; NEC Chairman Gerardo Sicat, RCA Chairman Alfredo Montelibano, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Jose D; Ingles, CB Governor Gregorio S. Licaros, GSIS General Manager Roman.
Cruz, Jr., SSS Administrator Gilberto Teodoro, Minister Sergio Barrero of DFA, House Majority Floorleader Marcelino Veloso and Johnny Araneta of the Export Coordinating Center.
From the private sector were Manuel Elizalde, Jesus and Jose Cabarrus, Jose Ma. Soriano, Andres Soriano, Jr., Washington and Alfonso Sycip, Domingo Guevara, Manuel Lim, Polly Cayetano, Ramon V. del Rosario, Hans Menzi, Jose Campos, Antonio Roxas-Chua, Jose de la Cruz, Generoso Tanseco, Greg Timbol, Sebastian Ugarte, and many others.
While working on state papers earlier in the afternoon, the President issued an administrative order formally removing from office Felipe B. Pareja, city treasurer of Cebu. Pareja and three others were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Court of First Instance of Cebu for the murder of Antonio Abad Tormis, editor of the Republic News of Cebu City. The sentence was later affirmed by the Supreme Court.
Received the first volume of the Educational Survey by the commission appointed which is working at the expense of the World Bank which is also ready to finance the projects it will recommend.
Sec. O[nofre].D. Corpuz, the chairman, is sick and so the report had to be submitted by Ting [Sixto] Roxas.
Met the businessmen at the house of Jesus Cabarrus, this afternoon at 4:00-7:00 PM. The small and medium scale industry heads and the representatives of handicraft industries as ______.
Sen. Pres. [Gil] Puyat is playing along with the crowd because he is also interested to run for President in 1973.
And money is his god. To make him, the multimillionaire, happy, all one has to do is to hand him a few thousand pesos.
It is his boast that he has not used his office for private gain. But he has become rich since he became a senator in 1949.
And he has always opposed taxes and tariff increases no matter how meritorious and even after he had committed himself in a caucus. But he is fast to go with the tide to support a tax bill in a spirit of self-abnegation when he realizes he can no longer stop it.
So in the past several years, he has put up the Manila Banking Corporation, a flour mill, plywood plant, a cemetery—the Manila Memorial, a huge multi-storied office building in Ayala Blvd. in Makati. He bought the Red V desiccated coconut and has increased his logging operations to include Indonesia.
He has not grown rich indeed in public office.
And he paid P52 only as income tax in the year 1960 and similar amounts thereafter
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