Last night, Dr. Titong Bautista my eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, ordered complete silence for me (no talking) for two days, more exercise in the sun and more rest. So all appointments have been cancelled.
But I reorganized the PHHC [People’s Homesite and Housing Corporation] Board of Directors to meet the urgent demand of the PHHC disenchanted customers. The Sapang Palay demonstration yesterday which demanded the titles to the land in this resettlement area was due to the inaction of the board on the directive to value and sell the land to the occupants and the bad roads that have not been maintained due to the bad weather. Col. Navarro has been assigned to coordinate the efforts of all government agencies in the area.
I made some appointments, caught up with my paper work and reading after a golf game from 9:00 AM to 10:45 AM at [Bahay] Pangarap.
Tonight I have just finished a 4-page letter to Bongbong to whom I am also sending some Varidase for his swollen ankle and knee he twisted in a rugby scrimmage.
I am right now midway through the book, Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian, Hitler’s foremost tank officer.
Official Gazette for October 6, 1970: President Marcos worked mostly at his desk, being slightly indisposed, and under doctor’s orders to confine himself to light exertions.
Among other official business, he followed up on the action taken to meet the requirements for improving conditions in Sapang Palay by reorganizing the PHHC board, naming technocrats to its membership, including PES Deputy Director-General Apolinario Orosa, Jr., Maj. Gen. Gaudencio Tobias (ret.) of the National Housing Corporation, Administrator Gilberto Teodoro of the Social Security System and Undersecretary of Labor Raoul M. Inocentes. The President directed the new board to expedite the processing of applications for the purchase of home lots in the resettlement community, and to have the PHHC team working on these papers observe a seven-day week till all papers are approved.
During the day he also signed the nominations to three posts and submitted the papers to the Commission on Appointments for confirmation. The nominees were Jose Catabagan, as branch clerk of court in Branch XIV (Caloocan City) of the Rizal Court of First Instance; Maximo D. Palma, as provincial treasurer of Misamis Oriental; Vicente Osorio, as city treasurer of Ozamis City; and Eleno Kabanlit, as provincial treasurer of Misamis Occidental.
The President continued to work at his desk through the day, but dealt only with the most urgent state business, during which he set the guidelines for filing complaints against public officials and employees by citizens who have observed or known of irregularities in official conduct and transactions.
The guidelines were contained in Executive Order No. 264, issued by Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr. (Text of Executive Order No. 264 in OG.)
Is this the same or a different letter from that dated September 30, 1970 appended to the entries of September 1970?