A reception at the Manila Room of the Marco Polo Plaza Hotel marked the 64th anniversary celebration of the State of Israel. In attendance were Israel’s Ambassador Menashe Bar-on and his wife Mme. Esther Bar-on.
Milagring Sembrano had been gone for months, visiting her daughters in the United States. Oct. 6 came and friends thought she’d be back in Cebu to celebrate her 90th birthday. But the lights at her mansion in front of the Casino Español remained dim.