Joe [Jose] Alberto on Bicol situation. Then Gen. [Wilfredo] Encarnacion on the Lanao del Norte situation. Gov. [Arsenio] Quibranza has been disqualified or considered withdrawn.
And the chief of the Military History section of AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines], Col. ______ Chavez.
Spent the morning and up to 3:30 PM at the huge palace of Ka Erdi (Eraño) Manalo of the Iglesia Ni Cristo on the candidates they will support.
He says that they spent P17 million. More like P20 million for the new palace. And all tax exempt. If it were constructed today it would cost at least P 30 million.
Then met the Chemical Bank People and the Phil. Independent Church Mr. and Mrs. [Chito] Serrano.
After which dinner up to 10:30 PM for the Liberal Party delegates to the Cons. Con. [Constitutional Convention] led by Ex-Sen. [Estanislao] Fernandez, Roseller Lim, [Augusto] Syjuco, Teodoro Araneta, [Fidel] Purisima, Ven ______ and Toto del Rosario on the problem of their getting organized to push through a constitution.
Official Gazette for October 21, 1971: President Marcos received callers in the morning only, and devoted the whole afternoon and early evening to paper work and other urgent state business. Among those received by the President were officials of Chemical Bank of New York and of Sanyo, Ltd., who called at Malacañang to pay their respects following their arrival in the course of a tour of branch offices in the Far East. The bank officials were Charles W. Carson, Jr., executive vice president and in charge of the international division and W. Donald Brown, senior vice president. They were accompanied by Paul Mayers and Charles Sherwood III, local representatives of the bank, and Ernesto Rufino. The Sanyo official was T. Kimura.
During the day, the President addressed a letter to Mrs. Benito L. Prieto extending his and the First Lady’s condolence on the death of the president of the Manila Times Publishing Company. He paid tribute to Prieto as a gentleman “devoted to life itself, who valued and enriched friendships; and who stood steadfast in his beliefs.”
The President also received a Deed of Donation from a philanthropist from Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo, who offered to donate to the peace campaign in Mindanao one year’s produce or income from his land in Bukidnon, which has an area of some 10 hectares. The donor was Teodulo Padernal, who expressed in his deed of donation his desire to contribute to the peace campaign in Mindanao,” initiated by the Office of the President.