Spent the morning slaloming with the balls marking the slalom course at Looc Cove. It started to get windy at 10:00 AM.
Official Gazette for June 9, 1973: THE PRESIDENT issued Presidential Decree No. 207 ratifying the United Nations 1968 conventions in Vienna on road traffic and road signs and signals. The Chief Executive stressed that the adoption of these international rules is in line with the Government’s intensified campaign m road safety. He added this move is necessary in view of the increasing number of foreigners and tourists that are now operating motor vehicles on Philippine roads.
THE FIRST LADY tapped a P20 million loan from the Government Service Insurance System to solve the chronic dormitory and housing shortage at the University of the Philippines. After conducting an inspection tour of the site of the Philippine Medical Center in UP’s Diliman campus, the First Lady asked GSIS General Manager Roman Cruz Jr. to grant the loan to alleviate the acute housing shortage in the state university. Part of the loan will be utilized to build additional dormitories to lodge students coming from the provinces.
ACTING SECRETARY of Labor Amado C. Inciong announced that jobless engineers and new engineering graduates whose services are not needed locally are not covered by the travel ban on engineers and highly technical personnel. He made the announcement as he released the guidelines for overseas travel of engineers and technical personnel for employment or immigration. The following categories of engineers and scientists may be allowed to leave abroad: new graduates without any work experience; those who are jobless; those who are joining wife and husband who are immigrants of a foreign country; those already hired by foreign governments and international consultants; those who were considered resigned from their posts before May 22, 1973; recruits of foreign governments approved by the labor department; those hired by Philippine companies or firms with joint ventures in Indonesia and other foreign countries; those intending to work in special projects in foreign countries; those whose present jobs in the Philippines are not related to their professions; female engineers; and those whose applications may be considered meritorious by the Department of Labor and the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).
PHILIPPINE National Red Cross has received a merit award for public welfare services. The award is given by the Civic Assembly of Women of the Philippines in connection with CAWP’s 27th anniversary and the 75th anniversary of Philippine Independence. The PNRC was cited “for being the enduring symbol of humanitarian service carried on with integrity and the steadfast devotion, and for serving as the nations’s conscience through which many have given deeds of wonders, lifting the moral of the unfortunate and downtrodden.”
ADMINISTRATOR Jesus Tanchanco of the National Grains Authority announced that the ceiling price for all varieties of rice is still P1.25 per kilo. He made the announcement as he urged rice retailers to strictly observe the price ceiling in the wake of reported violations of NGA rules and regulations. Mr. Tanchanco said that overpricing is punishable by imprisonment of not less than one year nor more than two years and by a fine of not less than P4,000 to P6,000. The NGA administrator assured the public of enough rice buffer stock in various NGA warehouses.
MASAGANA 99 radio broadcasters have been designated members of their respective Provincial Action Committees to boost radio information support for the crash rice production program. The PACs headed by provincial governors, are the nerve centers for Masagana 99 operations. Acting Secretary of Agriculture Jose D. Drilon Jr. said the designation of the broadcasters, contained in a special order was designed to strengthen the communications aspects of the campaign.
THE ABACA and Other Fibers Development Board has been abolished and its functions transferred to other government agencies. Acting Secretary of Agriculture Jose D. Drilon Jr. said the board’s abolition was made pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 1 which directed the implementation of the Integrated Reorganization Plan in the DANR. Following are the board’s functions and the government agencies to which they have been transferred: 1) Research, to the Bureau of Plant Industry; 2) Agricultural extension, to the Bureau of Agricultural Extension; and 3) Foreign trade promotion, to the Bureau of Foreign Trade, Department of Trade.
started to get windy at 10:00 AM.
Recovering from both the cold and the cold tablets, Decolgen.
On the way to Talaga we went into Big and Small Jamilo coves are protected by surrounding and jutting peninsulas from the NE wind as well as the SW wind. So it would be ideal for skiing even if the SW monsoon is blowing.
Arrived at Talaga at 3:50 PM. Had a massage and slept as well as read.
At 7:00 PM I went to the Bataan House and watched the fellows play pelota.
The swimming pool is finished but the landscaper has planted four coconuts one meter from the pool. The rests (the spread forty meters) will crack the swimming pool.
I have decided to make a short Independence Day speech. I attach a duplicate of my notes which I dashed off in a few minutes on a note of inspiration.