2:30 PM Nov. 29th
Mr. John Wendell Anderson and his wife, Lisa with Mrs. Susie Gardner were brought by Tony Florendo and Alan Foran to the palace at 10:30 AM and they stayed till about 12:00 AM.
Tony and I talked later of the Tadeco [Tagum Agricultural Development Company] contract with Davao Penal Colony and my instructions five years ago to get the penal colonies to be self-sufficient by allowing private parties to develop and utilize their lands.
Tadeco has 4,000 hectares for a banana plantation which should bring in about $20 million worth of banana exports by a tie up with United Fruit which sells to Japan. By 1975 the market in Japan should be $100 million for bananas.
I am now reviewing the list of generals and colonels to be retired by the end of this year and their replacements.
We have just come from the party thrown by Tony and Nenita for the Andersons.
Official Gazette for November 28, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS followed his weekend routine schedule of desk work.
In the course of the day, the President acted on a recommendation of Secretary of Justice Vicente Abad Santos and State Prosecutor Jesus R. de Vega for the dismissal of an assistant city fiscal of Manila.
He issued an administrative order dismissing Assistant City Fiscal Salvador M. Gaa for grave misconduct in office and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service.
Secretary Abad Santos and Prosecutor De Vega found that the respondent fiscal had acted with “questionable bias and partiality” and recommended his removal from office “with prejudice to Reinstatement in any branch of the government.”
The President also named five more nominees of the Liberal Party to seats in three municipal boards left vacant by LP city councilors who had resigned to run for other elective positions.
Appointed by the President in accordance with the Decentralization Law and on recommendation of Sen. Gerardo M. Roxas, LP president, were Drs. Feliciano Vergara and Marius Abesamis, as members of the municipal board of Cabanatuan City; Vittorio Arnaldo and Ricardo Dorado, as members of the municipal board of Roxas City; and Eduardo Cartagena, as member of the city council of Basilan.