10:20 PM on board
the Maria Luisa II, bottom
fishing
My jawbone from which they took some pieces during the operation last Wednesday night still aching whenever I eat or brush my teeth.
Read last night to early morning. Started fishing after five in the morning off Fortune Island transferring from the 777 to the Maria Luisa II.
At eleven we moved towards where we are now trolling on the Maria Luisa.
Sent back the 777 for Imee’s party tonight at 2:00 PM.
Made up for my sleepless night sleeping in the morning and napping from 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM in the sofa.
Resting as prescribed by the doctor—in a different atmosphere.
Official Gazette for May 19, 1973: THE PRESIDENT authorized alien firms to engage in the rice and corn industry in order to attract foreign investments in the development of virgin lands for the cereals. Presidential Decree No. 194 authorizes aliens, as well as associations or corporations owned in whole or in part by foreigners to engage in the rice and corn industry. The decree was issued by the President “to encourage foreign investments on a large-scale to develop virgin lands for rice and corn.”
THE PRESIDENT appointed three delegates to the 1971 Constitutional Convention and a presidential assistant executive secretary as members of the nine-man Commission on Elections under the new Constitution. The Chief Executive also named Chairman Adrian E. Cristobal of the Social Security Commission as special presidential assistant in a concurrent capacity. The four members of the elections commission are: 1) Sec. Flores Bayot; 2) Lininding Pangandaman; 3) Venancio L. Vaneza; and 4) Casimiro Mandarang Jr. The President has to fill up to other slots in the expanded commission.
MUNICIPAL HEALTH officers will be “the prime movers” in bringing the benefits of the country’s medicare program to the grassroots level. This new role of the rural government physician was delineated during the recently concluded 16th annual convention of the Association of Municipal Health Officers of the Philippines in Baguio City by a battery of speakers which included Department of Health Secretary Clemente S. Gatmaitan and Philippine Medical Care Commission Administrator Jose C. Denogo. The municipal health officers will head and supervise community hospitals and health centers now being established throughout the archipelago in connection with Phase II of the Medical Assistance Program, the health secretary said.
THE PRESIDENT expressed his determination to steer the nation toward a “new normalcy” distinguished by a real justice for all and by the supremacy of public interests. Recalling that a new society for the people was ushered in by the institution of Martial Law, he declared, “there is no doubt in my mind now that the gains that we have attained under the present regime thus far, covering a very brief span of eight months, were gains that could not have been possible under the old society over a long period of time.” The President warned against any “backsliding to a discredited past,” stressing “we must shape for our people a destiny they can be proud of.” The Chief Executive was addressing the Philippine Department of the American Legion in a speech read for him by Gen. Romeo G. Espino, Armed Forces chief of staff, on the occasion of the Department’s 53rd annual convention at the Veteran’s Center in Taguig, Rizal.