Returned from Talaga Bay at 6:00 PM. Fished up to 9:00 AM from 5:00 AM. Then waterskied up to 2:00 PM.
On the way back to Manila passed by Mariveles. Pilas (the low portion of the hills of Cochinas Point is a protection from the Southwest wind. So it could be used (the Mariveles side) for waterskiing later in the year. We also passed by Saysayin Cove.
Official Gazette for June 10, 1973: THE GOVERNMENT has initiated a crackdown on hoarders of grains and price manipulators as the President directed the confiscation and seizure of stocks of industrial establishments keeping grains in excess of their normal raw material requirements. The President also directed the secretary of defense, the constabulary chief and the administrator of the National Grains Authority to activate themselves into coordinating body to oversee the Government’s drive against hoarding of cereals. The Chief Executive issued Letter of Instructions No. 88 setting additional guidelines to firm up administration efforts to apprehend price manipulators, profiteers and hoarders of prime commodities.
INFORMATION Secretary Francisco S. Tatad exhorted the Mabuhay ang Pilipino Movement to sustain its initial gains and move on toward greater momentum. Addressing the first national conference of the Movement at San Sebastian College, the secretary said the Movement must organize and increase in membership. The secretary told the conference that “we are not planting the proverbial tree alone, under which shade we shall not sit, but under which our children shall find shelter, and perhaps read poetry, dream, visualize the future and create music.” He said that although the nation is working toward the transformation of values so that the future will be good and bright, “we make no offering to the future at the cost of the present.” Secretary Tatad said that public support of the Movement went far beyond the leadership’s expectation. The Mabuhay national campaign on discipline, he said, has taken root even in the remotest areas where the word discipline is unlikely to mean anything at al.
THE PRESIDENT has declared the period from July 1 to 7 of every year as National Culture Consciousness Week. The Chief Executive signed Proclamation 1148, urging all citizens and organizations to celebrate National Culture Consciousness Week appropriately “in connection with the need to make Filipinos constantly aware of their proud cultural heritage.” The proclamation was inspired by Article XV of the new Constitution which provides that “Filipino culture shall be preserve and developed for national identity.”
THE PRESIDENT has set the registration of barangay members from June 19 to July 4. The fixing of the registration period for members of 35,000 barangays was held significant in view of the President’s pledge to convene the assemblies before the end of the year to sound them out on vital issues. It reminds all qualified citizens, irrespective of age to register so that their voices can be heard on vital issues affecting the country. The rules for the registration will be drafted by the newly constituted Commission on Elections.
DEPARTMENT of Trade announced details of an offer by the People’s Republic of China to include Manila in the regular shipping routes of Chinese commercial vessels. Secretary of Trade Troadio T. Quiazon Jr. said details of the Chinese proposal were made through the Philippine Trade Mission which went to China last month. The Chinese officials were willing to make Manila as a regular route of Chinese vessels which maintain regular routes to Singapore and Malaysia (Port Swetenham). The Chinese representatives agreed initially to provide a vessel for Philippine shippers on a direct point-to-point shipment provided there are at least 300 tons of cargo to he shipped. They further offered the Philippines that if clearance is given for their vessels to enter Manila and there is the required volume of cargo, they are ready to start sending to Manila cargo ship direct from Shanghai beginning this month.
THE PRESIDENT has declared the period for the BSP fund raising campaign in line with the Government’s support to youth development. The annual fund campaign for the Boy Scouts of the Philippines will be held from July 1 to December 31 this year. Presidential Proclamation No. 1140 calls upon all citizens and residents of the Philippines to assist in the campaign “in order that the BSP may be able to continue with its youth citizenship training program.”
I have just received copies of the papers of Raoul Beloso seeking political asylum in the U.S. They indicate the escapists’ and adventurers’ desire to involve the United States again in Philippine affairs—notwithstanding all that the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] and the State Dept. stand for the murder of Ngo Din Dhiem, the abandonment of Taiwan etc.—and domination of the Philippines all over again. (I attach the papers)
This represents for me the mentality of the Lopezes, Aranetas, Manglapuses etc. who cannot understand the Maoists in the Philippines who would turn us to Chinese masters are not any worse than they.
They have the same weakness of character that the Filipino has long been heir to—no integrity, no self-reliance.