6:55 PM as the
777 is coming in to
Dock at Pier 15, Manila
Saw Mariveles Mountains crowned with mist and the Cross at Mt. Samat on fire from the golden sun behind it at 6:10 PM.
Woke up at Talaga at 3:15 AM as I had gone to sleep at 10:00 PM last night. So I went fishing with Neling [Manuel] Nieto [Jr.], Danny [Daniel] Vazquez and Pocholo Razon on the MV [Motor Vessel] Maria Luisa II.
My fishing rod with a live bait of squid and white feathers caught a bonito or skip jack at
Entry is misdated as 1972.
Official Gazette for May 13, 1973: THE PRESIDENT called on the nation’s farmers to achieve self-sufficiency in food so that the country may no longer depend on food imports for national survival. He made this call in a speech read for him by Secretary Conrado F. Estrella of the Department of Agrarian Reform at the 9th national convention of the Federation of Farmers Association of the Philippines at the Teachers Camp in Baguio. The President stressed that under the New Society, the country shall produce enough grains and other food items for local consumption and, if possible, for export. He also pointed out that the government has taken three decisive steps to restructure the conditions in which the farmers work to liberate him from injustice, oppression and backwardness, through: 1) Presidential Decree No. 2, declaring the entire country a land reform area; 2) Presidential Decree No. 27, declaring all tenant-farmers as owners of the land they are cultivating; 3) The Agrarian Reform Coordinating Council which was established to provide a total, integrated approach to land reform.
DEVELOPMENT BANK of the Philippines has approved a Financing Program for small agricultural/industrial loans in Muslim Mindanao. The loans—P2,000 per applicant—will be extended to qualified borrowers from Mindanao and Sulu for the purpose of buying power tillers, carabaos, seedlings, fertilizers, insecticides, farm implements, industrial tools, equipment and raw materials. Repayment term is five equal yearly installments at nine per cent interest per annum. For security: two guarantors coming from the same area and an undertaking not to sell the capital assets acquired from the loan proceeds without DBP’s prior approval. Pre-acceptance requirement is a clearance and/or endorsement from the Philippine Constabulary area commander.
VARIOUS GOVERNMENT agencies have urged the private sector, particularly business and industrial firms, to support government efforts in the rehabilitation of squatters in the Greater Manila area. The appeal is centered mainly on the solution of unemployment among relocated families, particularly those in Sapang Palay. The call was reiterated in a meeting of the Department of Social Welfare which was presided over by Secretary Estefania Aldaba Lim. In the same meeting, the People’s Homesite and Housing Corporation announced that the agency has reserved an industrial site in Sapang Palay in order to attract private entrepreneurs to do business in the area.
COUNTRY’S RICE millers were urged to invest more in the grains industry and redirect their efforts toward the industry’s full development. The call was sounded by NGA administrator Jesus Tanchanco in a keynote speech at the opening day of the 19th annual Rice and Corn Convention at the DBP Social Hall in Makati. He bewailed the general misconception that too many people are already engaged in the grains industry and they have no more place in the business. On the contrary, he said, the Government is committed to provide full assistance and incentives to enable investors to have a fair return on their investments.
THE PHILIPPINE Medical Care Commission has urged hospitals, particularly the private medical institutions, to place their facilities within the reach of the common people. Dr. Pacifico E. Marcos, PMCC chairman, sounded the appeal during the closing ceremonies of National Hospital Week held at the Children’s Medical Center in Quezon City. Also on the same occasion, Dr. Marcos took to task certain hospitals and physicians who have been subverting the medicare law. Dr. Marcos, however, added that “unfortunately these kind of hospitals and physicians are very few and that they are very much balanced by the public good that most hospitals are doing.”
6:10 AM off Bataan but the lead wire snapped as [Bagnos] Magno and the boat’s crew pulled it into the boat.
Anyway this is the first fish caught by the boat of Pocholo after he bought it from MacDonald of Mantrade.
Skied up to 12:45 AM [sic]. Sea unusually calm up to afternoon.
While we have spent some happy days off and on Bataan and the other side of the bay in Cavite and Batangas, this week-end has been the most enjoyable so far, specially this day, Sunday.
The sudden decision to stay away from Manila overnight, the “living off the land” as we had no preparations for food or clothing, the roughing it up, the camaraderie in lively company of friends who included Ex Ambassador Loyd Hand, on Saturday at Looc Cove Angie [Angel] Limjoco [Jr.] Neling Nieto, Danny Vazquez, Ricky Cu-Unjieng, Mundy [Raymundo] Feliciano, Pocholo Razon, Bejo [Alfredo] Romualdez.
We saw the sun rise and set today. The mountains including Mariveles and Natib looked like a Chines painting in the cool dawn and the sunset behind the cross like a Luna painting with its flaming crimson dying down to pastels of gold and rose and red.
As we arrived in the Manila breakwater we floated into a strong rain that lasted for about two hours (6:00-8:00 PM) resulting in a blackout and some flash floods.
Dinner and hilarious ribbing at the State Dining Room in badly soiled T-shirts, shorts, tennis shoes. Good natured ribbing for having been liberated for two days from the ladies and toothbrushes and all the amenities of home.
We had been carefree boys again!