Eastern Sun, 28 July 1966

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  • 25 1 EASTERN SUN INDEPENDENT ENGLISH NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 1. No. 12. ft Singapore, July 28 966. MC (P) 1942 KDN 2309 Price 13 renU
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  • 303 1  -  Indonesian vessel submerges under 12 fee By WEE HOCK CHYE Malacca, Wed. A 40,000 ton Greek cargo ship Linda collided with the Selat Sunda a 500 ton Indonesian vessel in the Straits of Malacca at 1.45 a.m. this morning. The collision occurred in international waters reported
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  • 125 1 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) The motor vessel "Manuelo" was sinking in the South China Sea South-East of Saigon this morning, according to a distress message intercepted by a ground radio station here. Rescue centre in Manila and at Clark Air Force base in the Philippines
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  • 36 1 MANILA, Wed (UPI) Former Filipino newspaperman, Jose de Venecia is scheduled to arrive in Saigon on Aug. 4 to assume his post as Press ana Economic Affairs Counsellor with the Philippine Embassy there,
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  • 112 1 SEOUL, Wed. (UPI)— South Korean Foreign Minister, Lee Tong-Won said today he expected a Vietnam war conference among Free World Allies would be held before long either at Honolulu or an Asian site. Lee told a news conference that the meeting was expected to be
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  • 108 1 TAIPEH, Wed (AP) A New Zealand girl and a Chinese student, pen pals for six years, met yesterday for the first time. They were Miss Joan Freeth, 22, of Picton, New Zealand, and Tsai Ming-Shih, 24, who is majoring in French at the Tamkang College
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  • 165 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed— Projects providing a further 4.076 hostel places for students from overseas countries studying in Britain have been approved by the British Government. The Secretary of Statt for Commonwealth Relations. Mr. Arthur Bottomley said that a £2,500,000 grant allocated for hostel accommodation last
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  • 134 1 JAKARTA, Wed (AP) The proposed endorsement of the Bangkok peace accord will likely become a major topic in the first meeting of Indonesia's new Cabinet Presidium, authoritative sources said today. The Cabinet will be sworn in tomorrow morning by President Sukarno at the
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  • 130 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A general view of the Orchid Island at the MAIIA show. It will be the rendezvous to all Orchid lovers and rare specimens and prize winning exhibits will be on display. Some of the Orchids on display are the Vanda and Vandaceous
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  • 229 1 Aidit heads exile govt. near Vietnam f_TANOI, Wed. (AFP) The newly formed Indonen sian Government in exile which will include former Communist Party Chief Aidit —is to be set up in a small inhabited island in Indonesia, Afro-Asian sources in Hanoi disclosed today. The "Shadow Cabinet" will be led by
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  • 245 1 JAKARTA. Wed. (AP) American Ambassador to Indonesia Marshall Green today held talks with Foreign Minister Adam Malik centred on the formation of tne new Cabinet and America's growing economic role nere. With Mr. Green during the meeting was Mr. Robert Taft, U.S. congressional candidate from Ohio's First
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  • Local News
    • 769 2  -  By MUSA SCULLY KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The DTC Trained Teachers' Union will go ahead with its plan to take strike-action and to boycott all extra-mural activities, if there is a further delay in the Government announcement for parity for DTC 'I teachers. The union
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    • 113 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Out-patients will soon have to pay 50 cents for every treatment. This decision to charge a flat rate lor those who could afford to pay was announced by the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, after the weekly Cabinet meeting here today.
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    • 104 2 PENANG, Wed. Mr. Teh Ewe Lim, 40, United Democratic Party City Councillor and State Assemblyman, was today fined $6O in the First Magistrate's Court, when he was found guilty of driving a car without reasonable consideration. He collided with a motor cycle in the compound of the
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    • 106 2 PENANG. Wed. The Chl e 1 Police Officer, Penang, Enche Salleh bin Abdul Rahman, today warned the public here to pick and choose the trishaws in which they travelled as passengers. He said that some robbers disguise themselves as trishaw pedallers to carry out their
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    • 197 2 IPOH, Wed. The refusal of some people to stand to attention, when the National Anthem is played, must not be misconstrued as persons being disloyal to their King and country. This was emphasised by Mr. D.R. Seenivasagam (PPP—Pekan Lama), leader of the opposition at the
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    • 83 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. Mr. Chia Sow Leong, 25, traffic sales agent attached to Pan Am's Kuala Lumpur office, will leave on Saturday for New York to take up a sales training course. Mr. Chia's trip is part of Pan Am's continuing programme to brief the company's overseas
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    • 88 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The United Malay National Organisation women's section will discuss a resolution calling on the government to make the present women territorial army a permanent unit of the Malaysian Army. The UMNO 'Kaum Ibu' will also urge the government to ban obsence
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    • 69 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Royal Air Force 64 Squadron will hold a ceremonial parade and flypast at RAF Tengah on Friday to mark its 50th anniversary. The reviewing officer will be Major General Baron Michel Donnet, deputy chief of the Belgian Armed Forces, who commanded the squadron in 1943.
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    • 29 2 TOKYO, Wed. Summer-visitors jam Enoshima beach, popular sea bathing resort south of Tokyo. Hundreds of thousands people fled from the heat in the Tokyo area.
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    • 145 2  -  By MADELEINE NATHAN SINGAPORE, Wed. Seventy out of 1,300 local handicapped and underprivileged children were this morning given an unusual entertainment. Unusual because 44 of them could only see a special film premiere of Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" at Cathay Cinema as they
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    • 46 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. Enche Rahim Ishak, Minister of State for Education, was admitted to the General Hospital for medical treatment yesterday. Enche Rahim was due to give away prizes at the finals of the Singapore National Badminton Championships at the Badminton Hall tonight.
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    • 180 2  -  By A. JOHNSON gINGAPORE, Wed. A wedding dinner party planned for a newly-wed couple was mared by the death of the bridegroom who was killed in a road accident at New Upper Thomson Road yesterday afternoon. The bridegroom, Goh Ml Seng, a supervisor in a
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    • 55 2 The Malayan Railways has erected a miniature track with electric trains to attract visitors to its stall at MAHA. It will be a "great show" especially to the younger set. The stall will also exhibit the progress of Malayan Railway tracing the evolution from the use of charcoal steam locomotives
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    • 124 2 KUALA LUMPUR. W<*l— period of distribution of cash relief to flood victimi in Kelantan and Trengganu has been extended to August. 15. A total sum of $124,000 for both states still remains tin* paid. This was announced bjr the assistant Minister of National and Rural
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    • 107 2 IPOH. Wed. A gal art of screen celebrities from Hong Kong who arrived here to make personal ap» pearances at the Star Theatre for nine days with songi and dances received an enthusiastic ovation from their fans at their debut today. The team is made up
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    • 105 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. A new, high quality king-size filter cigarette has just made its debut in Singapore. Its name is "Mayor". It comes in a golden pack and retails at 40 cents. As an introductory offer the manufacturer is giving a quality, luxury lighter free with
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    • 201 3  -  S'pore will be Indon trade centre By Suhaimi Bidin SINGAPORE, Wed. The first job for the 30-man Indonesian fact-finding mission when they arrive here tomorrow is to hold talks with Ministry of Finance officials to pave way for the resumption of trade relations, diplomatic sources
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    • 110 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. Enche Ahmad bin Kenap, Member of Parliament fo Geylang Serai, will peerform the opening ceremony of five roads in the Geyland Serai area on Sunday. The metalling roads are: Jalan Alsagoff Jalan Paya, Jalan Kampong Paya, Jalan Penggaga and Jalan Kachang. The
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    • 91 3 SINGAPORE. Wed The Q.ieenstown Residents' Welfare Association will hold a social and dance at the F and N Hall at River Valley Road on Aug. 8 from 8 p.m.. to 2 a.m. in commemoration of Singapore's Independence Day The dance, which will be under tthe patronage of the
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    • 418 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. Music lovers and maestros alike who attended the China-born bass-baritone singer, Mr. Yi-Kwei Sze's first recital here last nifht at the Conference Hall, gave him a thunderous ovation. Enjoying a wide reputation, this is Mr. Sze's first South-East Asia tour and the Asians in
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    • 83 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. Mr. Willie Ma, 31, a sales engineer with Mobil Oil (Malaya) Ltd., has returned to Singapore from a five-month sales training course In Japan. Mr. Ma spent some time at Mobil's modern laboratory and head office in Yokohama. Later he was sent to Mobil's
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    • 51 3 KLANG, Wed. Raja Zan binti Raja Hussien (seated) won the Medical Club Queen title from twenty-one contestants during the club's annual gala dance held at the new Nurses' Hostel at Langat Road, Klang. With her are Che Bariyah binti Yaacob (2nd) and Miss Jaswant Kaur
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    • 117 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Third Secretary (Commercial) of the Office of the High Commissioner for Canada, Mr. F. M. Mulkern will leave Singapore tomorrow with his family after a tour of service here. He will be replaced by Mr. Douglas H. M. Branion. Second Secretary
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    • 41 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The 23rd Singapore Coy., Boys' Brigade, will receive the company's colours from its patron Mr. Wong Peng Yuen, this Sunday at 11.20 a.m. The presentation ceremony will be blessed by the Company's Chaplain, Rev. W.D. Store.
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    • 128 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Minister for Culture and Social Affairs, Enche Othman Wok has praised the Kamala Club for organising a film premiere of which more than half the proceeds would be donated to the Singapore Association for Retarded Children. Enche Othman Wok said this
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    • 30 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The former St. Michael's Estate Tamils Death Benefit Association has now changed its name to Singapore Tamils Death Benefit Association as from Aug. 1.
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    • 579 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. Riots as a form of protest is less and less likely here, said Professor K. Tregonning, a noted historian on South-East Asian affairs, today. He stressed that all the riots in Singapore had been caused by a combination of any
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    • 104 3 Presentation by Mrs. Christine Lewis of an inscribed pewter tankard to Master Air Quartermaster Ivor J. Morgan, founder and first chairman of the RAF Changi TaekwonDo Club, on the occasion of his departure from Singapore for the United Kingdom recently. The Club, which M.
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    • 111 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Australian Accountants Students' Society in Singapore have started a fund-raising campaign for the expansion of their library. The aim is to assist about 1,000 local students in the examinations conducted by the Australian Society of Accountants. Members of the Society have given good support
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    • 157 4 PENANG. Wed. The dead body of missing airman, LAC D. F. Henstridge of the RAAF was found by a fisherman In the North Channel at 5 p.m. yes- terday. This ends the four-day air and sea search for LAC. Henstridge, whose boat capsized in
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    • 71 4 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Wed. Lighting and earth cables at the RAAF airbase Perworth were reported stolen yesterday. The value of the cables was given at $219.20 cts. The total length of the cables missing is about 950 yards. Yesterday, the telecommunications department also reported theft of telephone wires
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    • 218 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Government will soon begin negotiations for a cultural and technical agreement with France, the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, disclosed today. A working committee, under the chairmanship of the Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Tan Sri Ohazali Shafle, has
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    • 150 4 KOTA BHARU, Wed. The Assistant Minister of National and Rural Development, Inche Suleiman bin Bulon has called on the Kelantan State Government to give the same cooperation to rural development projects as they gave to the food rehabilitation scheme. It this was done
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    • 46 4 A new type of telephone, called Hands-Free telephone, which permits you to speak or listen without picking up the receiver while taking notes or looking up papers, has made its debut in Tokyo recently. Photo above shows a Japanese businessman using the Hands-Free telephone.
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    • 173 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Enche Ismail bin Mohd. Zain, 36, younger brother of Enche Ahmad Noordin, head of External Information Service has the distinction of being the first Malay in the country to be made an associate of the Royal College of Art in
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    • 175 4 SEREMBAN. Wed. The Mentrl Besar of Negri Sembilan. Dato (Dr.) Mohamed Said bin Mohamed last night expressed dissatisfaction on the slow progress in some of the kampongs Speaking at a meet-the-people session in Kampong Pilin near here, Dato Said made it clear that he was
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    • 420 4  -  It'll be a great asset to artists in Malaysia—Sullivan By HOO BAN KHEE KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The proposed establishment of a National College of Fine Arts receives overwhelming supports from the public here The consensus of opinion among the art circle here is: The need
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    • 200 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Results of the Trinity (Overseas) examination (1966 Council of Legal Education) issued by the Ministry of Education: Roman Law: Class 3: Goh. Kooi Choo. Goh Lim Earn, Francis Foo Tet Leong, Loh Poh Seng, William Mei York L.. Michael, Peter D. Singh, Jagdis,
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    • 70 4 TAIPINQ, Wed. Bidon bin Sudin, 23, was Jailed for nine months by the Magistrate Inche Shaik Daud here today, after he pleaded guilty to steeling 10 katties of padi. belonging to Ahmad bin Wahab, at Kg. Chengkal near here. The court was told that on July
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    • 179 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed The public has been invited to send in their views on the proposed Criminal ProCode (amendment) The Bill is aimed at providing a more uniform code of criminal procedure for the States of Malaya. The main aspect of the Bill is the
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    • 92 4 PENANG, Wed. A group of educationists from fiv# South-east Asian countries will arrive here tomorrow to survey the feasibility oi establishing a regional Institute of science and mathematics teaching and materials for South-east Asia at Penang. The group will be led by Dr. Kaw Swaadi Panich,
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    • 28 4 PENANG. Wed.—A Bulan Bihasa Kebangsaan poster competition for south-west district. Penang Island, will be he!d to c it 3 p.m. at the Balik Pulau Recreation Club.
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    • 379 5 SINGAPORE, Wed. A landlord offered as alternative ™was'told*tedaV'*™ 1 THe farMer refUSed &e The court was told that about 120 acres of land at Clementi port ntr Clementi Road was acquired by the landlord for a private housSeestfte f A f only tenant
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    • 85 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Mr Martin M. Rosen, executive vice-president of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) left here today on a brief tour of Malaysia. He will see for himself the progress that has taken place in the country since his last visit here in 1957. Mr.
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    • 140 5 PENANG, Wed —Mr, Geh Chong Keat, a Member of Parliament and advisor to Inshore fishermen, northern region, today urged the government to stop trawler fishermen from Thailand selling their trade here. He said that this would discourage them from trawling close
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    • 50 5 Soviet Foreign Minister Mr. Andrei Gromyko, right, delivers statement at Tokyo International airport recently on his arrival for a one-week official visit to Japan. He was greeted by Japanese Foreign Minister Mr. Etsusaburo Shiina, left. Mrs. Gromvko is shown in background. AP PHOTO. AP PHOTO.
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    • 38 5 KLANG, Wed.—Enche Mohd. Fadiil bin Abbas of the Royal Malaysian Navy, Singapore, and his bride Che Hanipah binti Bohari of Sibu, Sarawak, during tne bersanding ceremony held at the bridegroom's house hert recently.
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    • 313 5 SINGAPORE, Wed. Top officers of the Canadian fire fighting organisation were impressed with the facilities and training programme conducted for fire officers in the Singapore Fire Brigade. This was stated by Mr. Chan Thai Ho, divisional officer and head of the fire prevention bureau in
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    • 111 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The Labour Party of Maiaya, Bungsar/Brickfields branch, has called on the Alliance Government to lift the emergency regulations and withdraw the internal security act. This was one of five resolutions passed at the party's Bth annual general meeting earlier this week.
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    • 210 5 IPOH. Wed. Malaysia cannot afford to 'slow down' in her five-year development plan because of her increasing birth rate. This was stated by the Minister of Labour Mr. V. Manickavasagam. at the inaugural meeting of the local advisory committee in Telok Anson yesterday.
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    • 44 5 President Sukarno (centre) and Deputy Prime Minister Suharto, of Indonesia come out of conference room after discussion with six-member Cabinet Presidium at Bogor Palace recently. They had a final discussion of new Cabinet formation. AP PHOTO. AP PHOTO.
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    • 41 5 Indian women, led by Communists, march in front of the U.S. Information Service Library in Downtown Calcutta recently. The women including housewives, factory and office workers and students, held a three-hour demonstration in protest against American policy in Vietnam.
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    • 109 5 KUCHING, Wed. Th* Sarawak Chief Minister, Penghulu Tawi Sli, todaysaid that the loyalty of the majority of the expatriates to the government was not doubted and called upon them to dismiss rumours and not jump to the conclusion that they were resented or disliked. Speaking
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    • 39 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Mr. V. David has been elected chairman of the Labour Party of Malaya, Bungsar/Brickfields branch. Other officials are ViceChairman, Mr. Zainal Rampaks Secretary Mr. S. Palany and Treasurer, Mr. Chellappan Pillai.
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    • 251 5 SINGAPORE, Wed. A local man, Mr. Gan Wan Sang, was promoted as Efficiency Officer by the Bata Shoe Company here. This is in line with the company's policy of training promising local men to fill executive positions. Mr Gan first joined the company as a costing
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 91 3 SPORE DIARY 7.30 p.m Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture: Naval Base Firemen's Quarters; Sin Min School, Elias Road; Nam Ho Village, Lim Chu Kang Road; Fu Hwa School, Jurong Road, 15$ m.s. 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. National Library, Stamford R o ad: "Colour Slides Show". 8
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    • 749 4 What's on in today's J M r>:. :jv Radio and Television CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Penang; 6 Ipoh and Malacca; 3 and 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. PJVI. 5.00 Opening Programme Summary; 5.01 MAHA Show 1966; 5.45 Opening Programme Summary; 5.50 News Outlines in
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 151 6 pHICAGO, Illinois, Wed. (AP) Richard Speck, 24 was formally accused yesterday of murdering eight nurses, including two Filipinas, in a Methodical massacre in their dormitory on July 14. A Cook County (Chicago) grand jury, after a day of hearing police and medical witnesses, handed
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    • 79 6 LONDON, Wed. (AP) Government officials last night rejected Communist Chinese claims that Britain is helping the American war effort in Vietnam with a military airlift and with base facilities in Hong Kong. Defence Ministry authorities, however, reported some medium-range Royal Air Force planes are
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    • 81 6 TOKYO wed. (AP) Peking's New China News Agency said yesterday that large numbers •of young workers and students in North Vietnam "are applying for enlistment in the army." NCNA, quoting its correspondent in Hanoi, also said men in the tteserve Force "are requesting to fight
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    • 155 6 HONOLULU, Wed. (AP) Mrs. Maggie Young, who drowned her five youngest children on Nov. 22, was found dead in a chicken slaughter house on the ground of the Hawaii State Hospital on Monday. Police said she had hanged herself. Mrs. Young was committed ttf the h6spital
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    • 156 6 LOS ANGELES, Wed. (UPI). A couple stranded here by the air strike solved the problem of how to get back home to New York by taxi cab. When Willie Scoma. 46, and his wife Mary, learned last Thursday they could not get reservations
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    • 51 6 KARACHI, Pakistan, Wed. (AP) Pakistan Commerce Minister Chulam Faruque leaves here today for a fiveday "friendly visit" to Communist China. j > A Faruque, who is also President Ayub Khan's defence adviser, will discuss the expansion of trade and "other allied matters" with Chinese leaders, it
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    • 66 6 G^ r JT!fi n Ch ??"f?I E fhard (centre) guides French President Charles de (> iuLe as the latter armed in Bonn recently for a brief ten-hour visit. They had discussions on various problems, including NATO, Franco-German relations and recent de Gaulle's visit to Moscow. i!i?I
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    • 94 6 MUNSTERLAGER. West Germany, Wed. (AFP) West Germany's President Heinrieh Luebke had a narrow escape today when a guided missUe ran amok during military exercise here. i The President, with a party of senior army officers, was watching a demonstration of armoured cars and anti-tank missiles Suddenly
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    • 60 6 TUCSON. Arizona, Wed. (AP) Burglars dragged a 200-pound safe from a Paint Company, hoisted it over a six-foot wall and loaded it on a truck. They would have been disappointed with the outcome of all their work, even if thev had noticed the key to the
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    • 94 6 MONROVIA, Liberia, Wed. Liberian President William Tubman charged yesterday that the World Court's decision on Southwest Africa last week, was "transparent with racism and the old regime of colonialism." Mr. Tubman spoke at Independence day celebration marking the 119 th anniversary of the Liberian State.
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    • 59 6 SALISBURY, Rhodesia, Wed. (AP) The Disciplinary Committee of Salisbury's University College yesterday suspended 27 African students and White students for their part in the demonstrations at the University's Graduation Day ceremony July 17. The students were told to quit the campus until Sept. 10, when the new
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    • 415 6 ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Wed. (AP). PRESIDENT Gamal Abdel Nasser said yesterday 1 revolutionary Arab states can mount an Army of four million men for the liberation of Palestine but he accused what he called Arab reactionaries of conspiring to sabotage the Arab struggle against Israel. Mr.
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    • 216 6 WASHINGTON Wed. (UPI) William H. Whalen, a former Pentagon Officer under indictment for conspiring to sell militaryatomic secrets to the Russians. was taken to an Army Hospital yesterday complaining of chest pains. Whalen, a retired Lieutenant Colonel, wa6 taken on a stretcher from his
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    • 120 6 MOSCOW, Wed. (AFP) The Soviet Union apparently following the advice of Western multi-millionaire Baron Philippe de Rothschild, has decided to transform the ancient 10th century City of Suzdal into the "Mecca of Soviet tourism". The newspaper "Moscow Evening" tonight announced plans for developing the picturesque city
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    • 84 6 LITTLE ROCK. Arkansas Wed. (AP) Jim Johnson, the only out-spoken segregationist among seven candidates, held a slim lead last night In early returns from Arkansas Democratic Gubernatorial Primary. Following closely was Frank Holt. Most of the early returns were from small rural precincts where both
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    • 101 6 MILAN, Italy, Wed. (AP) The Milan Daily Corriere Delia Sera yesterday quoted unnamed sources as saying Pope Paul VI might allow Roman Catholic married couples to use contraceptive pills for as long as two years after a childbirth. The Pontiff is expected
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    • 124 6 OANGKOK, Wed. (AP) Actor Sean Connery and his wile actress Diane Cilento yesterday had motorboat ride on Bangkok's canals and toured the /scenic floating markets of this capital's foremost tourist attractions During the two hour trip Connery famed in this country
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    • 175 6 BUDAPEST, Wed. <AP) The Vietcong radio and news agency operates in hideouts over a ten mile area and uses mostly captured American equipment, the Hungarian News- Agency MTI reports. MTl's Hanoi correspondent said on Monday "the printing machine was brought piece by piece from Saigon. The
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    • 127 6 KINSHASA (formerly Leopoldville), the Congo, Wed. (AP) Government' Circles here suspected that a coup to overthrow President Joseph Mobutu was \o have been made after army units mutinied in Kisangani, semiofficial sources, said yesterday. i V The plot was inspired by financial circles, they said. Kinshasa
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    • 56 6 WASHINGTON, Wed. (AP) Rumania has called off a scheduled visit to the United States of a Rumanian Folk. Dane# State Department officials said yesterday. The cancellation was In line with similar actions the communists hive 1 taken to show their disapproval of UA-Vietnam poHc j. > The
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    • 210 6 Abducted engineer died of a fall says expert THE HAGUE, Wed. (AP). —A Communist Chinese engineer whose death last week sparked off a crisis between Peking and the Hague, died of a "a fall, premeditated or not," a Forensic expert said here yesterday. Dr. Jan Zeldenrust, head Of the Judicial
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    • 200 6 WASHINGTON, Wed. (AP) A big Diplomatic reception i$ planned on Monr, day to introduce jthe President's daughter, Luci Johnson, and her fiancee, Patrick Nugent, to the heads of the Diplomatic Corps of Washington. T The party on Monday evening the biggest of the
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    • 48 6 KUWAIT, Wed. <AP) Kuwait yesterday announced it was breaking off Diplomatic relations with Portugal. A general assembly announcement from the Foreign office said Vfoat i n keeping with a U.N; recommendation the "government of Kuwait has decided to sever diplomatic and consular relation* with Portugal.**
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    • 107 6 WASHINGTON Wed. (UPI) The Senate, by a 74-14 vote, yesterday aj> proved an amendment to tht Foreign Aid Bill, calling for a ne w study of the U.S. Foreign aid effort. The amendment, introduced by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York, calll for the study
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    • 131 6 SEOUL, Wed. (AFP) Visiting Malagasy Foreign Minister Albert Sylva paid a courtesy call on President Park Chung Hee this morning and conferred for 20 minutes. Their conference was reportedly countered on expansion of trade between the countries and South Korean policies on the issue of Korean
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    • 35 6 NEW YORK, Wed. (AP> Profits of General Motori Corporation the ration largest Industrial Corporation. dropped sharply to US$546 mil. In the second quarter from US$639 mil. In the same period a year ago.
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    • 485 7 WASHINGTON, Wed. (AP) The United States disassociated itself yesterday from a call by South Vietnam Premier for a Military confrontation now with Communist China. A State Department spokesman declared: "Our position of not seeking any wider war has been repeatedly made
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    • 168 7 JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Wed. (AP) A modernday Samson drank the bitter dregs of defeat yesterday outdone by a mere 243ton Tugboat. Jack Walsh. 38, 202pound strong man who claims practically every superhuman feat imaginable, could not stop the tug from backing its pier
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    • 306 7 LONDON, Wed. (UPl).—The matter of a more representative government in Hong Kong will have a top priority when Colonial Secretary Frederick Lee visits the colony starting late next month, well-informed sources said yesterday. Mr. Lee. who leaves on Friday for a
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    • 38 7 MEXICO CITY, Wed. (AP) —Mexican movie Villain Salvador Terroba Cardosa, 50. died on Monday night when his sports car overturned. Police said the car was travelling at high speed and the actor apparently died instantly.
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    • 65 7 BERLIN, Wed. (AP) This squirrel just couldn't hold his liquor. According to the East German news agency ADN, the little forest fellow raided a box of Cognac-filled candy in a house on the edge of the city of Eisenach. Numbed by the grogg, the squirrel
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    • 180 7 WASHINGTON, Wed. (AP) Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Britain will arrive here tomorrow night for a one-day visit during which the White House said he and President Johnson will be carrying on discussions on such matters as NATO, EastWest relations, and to some extent Vietnam.
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    • 86 7 MOENCHEN-GLADBACH, Germany, Wed. (AP) The Are power of the British Army in West Germany is to be increased considerably this year whether or not the force is rescued, an Army spokesman said Tuesday. There will be a modernisation of the armaments of the force, now placed
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    • 33 7 BERLIN, Wed. <AP).— A refugee trying to flee into West Berlin last night fell under a hail of 300 to 40 shots sprayed by east German border guards. Customs officials said.
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    • 30 7 CALCUTTA, Wed. (AP) West Bengal states Fore■try Department warned of an apparent increase in men-eating tigers in wilderness around Calcutta. The irsAw as? ta te pMt ,w
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    • Article, Illustration
      44 7 Militant Buddhist leader Ttaich Tri Quang photographed when he attended a cocktail party, his first appearance since he began his hunger strike 44 days ago. After Quang left, a Buddhist monk tried to burn himself to de ath. UPI Photo. UPI Photo.
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    • 290 7 NEW YORK, Wed. (AP).—Negro leaders yesterday decried the use of the slogan "black power" in the U.S. civil rights movement, but all basically agreed that continued pressure must be exerted to provide Negroes with political, economic and social equality. The leaders appeared on a nationwide television
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    • 78 7 SALISBURY, Rhodesia, Wed. (AP) Chaos, economic collapse and wholesale murder among Africans would have resulted if the Brit is h Government had been allowed to impose independence terms on Rhodesia, says Internal Affairs Secretary W. H. Nicolle. In his annual report to Parliament yesterday. Nicolle added the
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    • 64 7 PUEBLA. Mexico City. Wed. (AP).—More than 40 High School students were reported injured in a fourhour battle with students from the University of Puebla. The younger students claimed the University Students attacked them yesterday because they planned to return to classes In an attempt to
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    • 108 7 LONDON, Wed. CAP) Commonwealth Relations Secretary Arthur Bottomley told Parliament yesterday that Britain is not ready to resume talks with Prime Minister lan Smith's rebel Rhodesian government. Bottomley said the British Government had not yet reviewed all the aspects a settlement with Rhodesia calls for.
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    • 124 7 BOSTON, Wed. (UPI) Bandits with Blazing submachine guns wounded two guards and sprayed a crowded hospital with bullets yesterday in an U.S.$ 80,000 armoured car holdup, the second in greater Boston in four days. The three bandits, dressed in black with hoods over their faces, felled the
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    • 284 7 MOSCOW, Wed. (UPI). A leading Soviet scientist said yesterday that the proMem of production synthetic foods to feed the human race, "has been in the main solved." Alexander Nesmeyanov, former President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and now the head of the Soviet Institute of
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    • 28 7 MEXICO CITY. W e d. (AP) —Nearly 3,000 university students paraded through Mexico City last night demonstrating in support of Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution.
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    • 588 7 CHEDDAR, England Wed. (UPI) Four months ago 28-year-old David Lafferty entered an underground cave here hoping to break the 126-day world's record for staying alone underground. Now he is lej>s than one from his target but doesn't know It. "He thinks he has at
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    • 199 7 f ONDON, Wed. (AFP). —The British Government will re-deploy its forces in the Far East more than a year ahead of scheduled, Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan said yesterday In the Commons. This will produce a significant savings in overseas expenditure, he said. This
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    • 214 7 CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Wed. (UPI) Mars is a planet of high continents, two Smithsonian astrophysical observatory scientists said yesterday. They said their discovery of major elevations on Mars could effect the type of landing procedure used in future explorations of the planet. Drs. Carl Sagon and
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    • 352 11 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Powerful Labour leader Frank Cousins moved last night to try to block expected endorsement of the Government s proposed wage freeze by the giant Trades Union Congress (TUC). 1 With, the executive Council only 24 hours awav from decision t^
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    • 32 11 CANBERRA, Wed. (UPI) By the end of June, 539 Asians living in Australia had applied fcr resident status under the newly eased immigration lequirements, an Immigration Department spokesman said today.
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    • 184 11 HAVANA, Wed. (UPI) Cuban Premier Fidel Castro said yesterday the Vietnamese Communists could win the war against American "imperialists" if they called on the socialist countries for volunteers. He said Cuba would send "whole combat units with their equipment" if Hanoi asked. Dr Castro renewed
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    • 299 11 MOSCOW, Wed. (UPI) U.N. Secretary General Thant conferred twice with Soviet leaders yesterday but apparently met outright rejection 61 his plan for a compromise settlement in Vietnam. There were indications that his talks had shifted from the Vietnam crisis to the United Nations economic woes.
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    • 42 11 Gen. Ernesto Mata, Chief of Staff of the Philippines Armed Forces, inspects the work of the Filipino medical team in Tay Ninh, in South Vietnam. On his left is Capt. Manuel Reyes, team leader. UPI UPI PHOTO.
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    • 318 11 TOKYO, Wed. (AP) Soviet Foreign Minister Andrie A. Gromyko today turned a cold shoulder to Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's call for Soviet support to end the war in Vietnam. Informed govern ment sources said Mr. Gromyko told Mr. Sato the Soviet Union has no intention to
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    • 68 11 SYDNEY, Wed. (AP Sir Norman McAllister Gregg, 74, the Australian doctor who discovered that German measles in a pregnant woman could lead to physical deformities in her child, died today. Cause of death was not announced. Sir Norman discovered 23 years ago that the child of a
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    • 210 11 SEOUL, Wed. (UPI) Rain and floods have claimed a total of 67 lives in Seoul and provincial areas and driven nearly 90,000 people from their homes in the last 13 days, the government flood relief centre announced today. Another 17 people were reported missing
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    • 64 11 HONGKONK. Wed. (AP) Twenty persons were injured today when a bus plunged 150 feet off a cliff, police reported. Twelve of the injured were reported in serious condition. Officials said there was no immediate explanation for the accident which occurred in Kowloon, a peninsula across
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    • 127 11 WASHINGTON, Wed. (AP) The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said yesterday it may try to explore the atmosphere of Venus by floating balloons or other inflatable buoyant devices on the planet's dense clouds. The agency also will look into the feasibility of releasing "descent and
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    • 94 11 PISA, ITALY. Wed (AP) A car driven by Aemrican actor William Holden was involved in a collision near here last night that killed another driver. Pisa police said today. Holden and a passenger in his car were not injured, police said. The accident happened on a
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    • 29 11 RAIPUR, India. Wed. (AP) Madhya Pradesh State has decided convicts will be put to work in the fields in an effort to help boost India's food production.
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    • 95 11 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) A German motor vessel was reported sinking in the South China Sea today about midway between Manila and Saigon, according to an SOS message received by a shore station here. The message, relayed by the master of the British warship "Chichester", said the
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    • 87 11 MANILA, Wed. (AP) Mayor Lucio Gutierrez of Malabon thought the twon's policemen were looking a little scruffy. He ordered all policemen with moustaches and long side burns to line up outside his dfflce yesterday. The Mayor appeared sharpening a cut throat razor. He then set
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    • 194 11 LONDON, Wed. (CPI) The Times today editorially welcomed the formation of the bow Indonesian cabinet but expressed doubts about the situation as a whole in that country. The new cabinet moves one step further in consolidating Gen. Suharto's power and bringing a formal end to
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    • 264 11 JAKARTA, Wed. (AP) Indonesian strongman Lt. General Suharto says "sound and constructive opposition" to the new cabinet is "highly needed." Gen. Buharto, the Army chief who heads the Presidium of the new cabinet, in a speech last night assured the nation that democracy is being
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    • 90 11 SALISBURY, Rhodesia. Wed. (AP) University sources said police raided Salisbury University campus early this morning and arrested five White lecturers and 10 African students. The report could not be immediately confirmed. Sources said a woman lecturer was among those detained. They said the lecturers were held in
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  • 458 8 OTRANGE things have been happening In k Johore of late. Pursuit of wrong policy, flaws in local administration, and bigoted thinking have been drawing attention to this State. The current session of the State Assembly is unusually lively. Democracy in action in Johore seems to have
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  • 291 8 fJpHE setting up of a Department of Employment and Training by the Malaysian Ministry of Labour is most welcome. At last the Central Government is getting down to tackling the problems of employment and job training. The success of the national development plan depends on the availability of
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  • 1203 8  -  Story by MUSA SCULLY KUALA LUMPUR# Wed. In the hot, steaming jungles of Southern Thailand, along the narrow Isthmus of Kra, a hidden danger lurks. Preying on innocent village peasants in the four provinces near the Tha iMalaysia border, a sinister bond is working
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  • 691 8  -  By Frederick Heasen Viewed from Hanoi the problem of ending the war in south Vietnam is a simple matter. North Vietnam's President Ho Chi Minh, in a letter to a number of governments last January, dec I a red there will be peace
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  • 713 8  -  SHORTAGE OF WHITE WORKERS IN SOUTH AFRICA 50... By Dennis Lee Royle JOHANNESBURG, South J Africa, Wed. (AP) South Africa's industries are growing so fast there aren't sufficient skilled White workers to keep the industrial wheels turning at full speed.
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  • Commercial and industrial
    • 220 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. Singapore can play an important role as middleman in the trade between Korea and Indonesia, said the leader of a Korean trade mission today. Mr. Yone 111 Kim, head of a 14-nian team sponsored by the Korean Chamber of Commerce, told the Eastern
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    • 377 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. In order to fulfil the increasing demand for specialised technicians and mechanics In Singapore and Malaysia, the ANKER factories of Bielefed, West Germany have sent their special Service Superintendent, Mr. Horst G. Kahle, to Singapore for a Technical Training Course for the local staff
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    • 308 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. August first grade rubber f.o.b. buyers closed at 5 p.m. today in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur at 65-1/4 cents per lb., up 3/8 of a cent. The closed tone was very quiet. The market was very slow to form at about last night's levels to
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    • 59 9 SINGAPORE Wed.—Chinese Produce Exchange, Singapore noon prices per picul today. Coconut oil: bulk s4ss sellers, drum s47s sellers Pepper: Muntok white slB7s sellers, Sarawak white $lB5 sellers, special Sarawak black $l4O sellers, garbled Lampong black sl42s (N) sellers (all 96% NLW) ASTA sls7s sellers (***** NLW). Singapore Coconut Oil
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    • 13 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The tin price today was $629-7/8 per picul, up $2-7/8.
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    • 237 9  -  By HOO BAN KEE «ii LUMPUR, Wed. Malaysia's first steel mill will start rolling out 150 tons of steel daily from its blast furnaces in April next year. Preparations have entered their final stage to put the $75 million ambitious project, the Malayawata Steel
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    • 435 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. Optimism among investors resulted in a very steady Stock Exchange today; otherwise there were no other features Turnover: 411,500 units (value $822,189) of which industrials accounted for 282,500 units, properties 70,000, tins 41,000. and sterling rubbers 18,000. Most active stocks: Tractions (49.000); CCM (44,000);
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE-MALAYSIA, S'PORE
      • 196 9 B 8 Boustead 1.58 1.59 C T 8 Ords 55/3 Chemical Co 1.56 Cold Storage Dunlop E. 8melting 3.98 Esso Ords 3.12 United Holdings CCR 2.08 Fitzpatricks 1.85 F N. Ords 3.72 3.74 Gammon 2.21 2.22 Georgetown 1.48 Goodwood Park 2.70 Guinness 2.37 Hotel S'pura 1.05 1.06 Hume (M)
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      • 38 9 Central Prop 96 City Dev tut» 38 38* Faber Union 9«t« 1 1 51 Island Hotel 4• 61 62* Island Pen 46| K. L. Prop 87 San Holdings 34* 35 Sel. Prop 1.30 S'pore Land 64 «4J
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      • 134 9 Ampat CCR Aokam 10/3.50 3.56 Austral Amal. 24/41 24/6 Austral Malay CR 43/Ayer HI tarn 24/7J 24/104 Berjuntal CD 36/4i Chenderiang Gopeng CD 39/Hong Kong 36/6 40/Idri8 Hyd. CD 16/7* 16/9 K'pong Lanjut XCR 24/3 24/6 Kamunting 20/6 20/6 Kent 9/6 10/4* Klllinghall 46/6 49/. Kinta Kellas 35/6 39/.
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      • 68 9 Ayer Hitam Bassett (50cts) 79 Batu Lintang Benta XD 1.40 1.45 Borelli (New) 2.20 2.32 Glenealy 1.65 Jeram Kuantan 2.18 L Kempas 2.00 2.02 Kepong Plant 1.70 1.90 Kluang Ord 1.85 Kundong Tg. Pau 1.90 New Serendah 2.26 2.32 Parit Perak 4.00 r Riverview XD 2/4 Sel Coconut
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      • 22 9 Bertam Con. CD 2/4 2/8 Biiklt Sembawang 5/6 6/2 Bukit Katil 2.52 High k Low 3/4J Nyalas 1.06 1/4* Seafled 3/10
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      • 23 9 Anglo-Asian 1/2 Anglo Oriental 3/4 3/5* Duff Dev 12/3 Golden Hope 4/10 5/3 Kulim 1/9 Rub. Est. Malaya 3/Strs. Rubber 1/4
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    • AIR MOVEMENTS-SINGAPORE, KUALA LUMPUR
      • 154 9 TIME: AIRLINE: FROM: .8.20 a.m. MAL 010 Kuala Lumpur. 0.30 a.m. MAL 121 Kuala Lumpur. 10.55 a.m. MAL 005 Penang. Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca. 11.05 a.m. MAL 451 Kuching. 12.50 p.m. PAA 841 S. Francisco, L. Angeles. Honolulu, Guam. Manila, Saigon. Kota Bahru, Kuantan, 2.45 pjn. MAL
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      • 164 9 TIME: AIRLINE: TO: 7.00 a.m. MAL 034 Malacca, K. Lumpur. Penang, Alor Star. K. Bahru. 7.00 am BA 797 Kuala Lumpur, Colombo. Bombay, Cairo, London. 7.31 ajn. MAL 122 Kuala Lumpur. 7.40 a.m. MAL 452 Kuchina. Bangkok. 8.00 a.m. Thai 402 8.00 a.m RAC 602 Phnompenh. Kuala
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      • 135 9 TIME: AIRLINE: FROM: 7.45 a.m. BOAC (BA 797) Singapore 8.40 a.m. Cathay Pacific <CX 578) Singapore. 7.10 p.m. Cathay Pacific Tokyo. Osaka. Taipeh, Hongkong, Bangkok. <CX 577) 9.10 p.m. Thai <TG 801/TO 401) Tokyo, Osaka. Taipeh, Hongkong. Bangkok. 8.19 a.m. MAL (ML 122/121) Singapore 8.25 a.m.
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      • 133 9 TIME: AIKLINE: TO: 8.29 a.m. BOAC (BA 797) Colombo. Bombay, Cairo. 9.05 a.m. Cathay Pacific bonaoD. <CX 576) Bangkok, Hongkong, Taipth, Osaka, Tokyo. 7.45 p.m. Cathay Pacific <CX 577) Singapore. 9.45 p.m Thai (TO 601/TO 401) Singapore. 7.15 a.m. MAL (ML 019) Singapore. 8.45 a.m. MAL
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    • 123 9 SINGAPORE The following ships are expected to be in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Zeeland 6/7 Bougainville 10/11 Benioyal 15/16 Nestor 25/26 Halldor 27/28 Medola 29/30 Shigeshima Maru 31/32 Glenfalloch 35/36 Star Betelguese 38/39 Ceylon 40/41 Leoville 42/43 Caltex Bombay 44 Moonie 45 Sipsah 46 Hamburg 47 Maron
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    • 80 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Association of Banks in Malaysia today made the following changes in its rates to merchants: New York; buying T.T. 3211/16; airmail, O.D. 32-13/16, 90 d/st. 33-5/16 trade bills, 33-7/16 trade bills. Canada: buying T.T. 35j/8; airmail, Oi>. 35-1/4, 90 d/st. 35-13/16 credit bills, 35-7/8
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  • 257 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. A Senior British bone surgeon is expected in Singapore today to give lectures on bone surgery in Singapore, Malaysia, and Sarawak. The lecturer is Mr. H. Jackson Burrows, the president of the British Orthopaedic Association. Mr. Jackson is 64. He will be
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  • 236 10 MUAR, Wed.—The Johore State Amateur Athletic Association will hold its annual meet at Johore Bahru on Friday from 9 a.m. Four districts Muar, Segamat, Batu Pahat and Johore Bahru —are taking part. The Muar district, winner of the inter-district championship title for the
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  • 118 10 MUAR, Wed. A Pagoh shopkeeper, Mr. Soon Beng Hin, out of curiosity, recently cleaned and polished a muddy bronze plate which he had abandoned in his house compound for two years. To his great surprise, the plate turned out to be a relic belonging to the Ming
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  • 93 10 CINGAPORE, Wed. T*ie Supervisory and Management Training Association of Singapore will hold a "Techniques in Sales Management" course on Fridays, commencing on Aug. 5 this year. The fee for the course is $75 for non-members and $6O for corporate and ordinary members It will be held at the
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  • 74 10 SINGAPORE, Wed.—Tourist and transit visas to Cambodia obtainable upon arrival there, will no longer be issued free of charge when new regulations come into force. Chancery fees equivalent to 150 riels (about $4) for tourist and 50 riels (about $1.30) for transit visas will be
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  • 128 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. Malaysian teachers are returning to Sabah after a year of study as Commonwealth bursars at the College of Home Econnomlcs at Bath in Southwest England. They are Miss Eugenie Chen and Miss Alice Kim. Miss Chen said that her studies included cooking with emphasis
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  • 109 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. Mr. Yeo Khye Leong, 27, chemist with Prima Ltd. flour mills here, has left for Sydney to study quality control of wheat flour. He will be trained at the Bread Research Institute of Australia. He will be there for three months
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  • 84 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Liquors Licensing Board will hold a general licensing session at the First District Court on Sept. 13 at 10.30 a.m. All applications for the issue or transfer of public house, beer house, samsu shop, retail shop and wholesalers' licence should be lodged
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  • 30 10 MUAR, Wed. The Chiang Chuan Association here will celebrate its 31st anniversary with a dinner at its premises at Jalan Arab on Aug.. 1 at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 264 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. Three Malaysian journalists, now in Britain for a month, as guests of the Commonwealth Relations Office, have visited a company which sells two million eggs a day to British housewives. The journalists are: Mr. Victor Chong, of the Borneo Times, Sandakan; Mr.
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  • 94 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. A group of 14 travel agents from Singapore and Malaysia has left for a five-day educational visit to Australia as guests of BOAC. Members of the group are from Penang, Ipoh, Jesselton, Brunei, Kuching, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Accompanying the group is
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  • 115 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Junior Chamber of Singapore has reported that it has received overwhelming response for its annual "Youth Week in Business and Industry" from Aug. 15 20. This annual event is organised jointly by the Junior Chamber of Singapore and the Government's Vocational Guidance Steering Committee. A
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  • 203 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. In a dawn swoop on a busy market in Chinatown here today, Customs men seized 380 pounds of raw opium. The opium is said to be worth about $102,000. It was just after 3 a.m. when labourers were starting to unload a
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  • News in brief from Muar...
    • 116 10 MUAR. Wed. The Muar Rotary Club has included among their new projects for this year a text-book scheme to help poor Form One pupils in assisted schools in the district. All heads of schools have been asked by the club to nominate five outstanding but
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    • 33 10 MUAR, Wed. Work on the Sultan's palace costing $380,000 is nearing completion at Jalan Petri here. It is expected to be completed by September this year, according to a palace source.
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    • 33 10 MUAR, Wed. The Muar Social Welfare Committee has set aside $65,000 for about 3,000 needy schoolchildren in the district. The money will be spent on books, transportion fees and pocket money.
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    • 31 10 MUAR, Wed. The Johore Government is to spend a total of $1,575,000 to build and repair 63 mosques in the Muar district under the rural development programme this year.
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    • 50 10 MUAR, Wed.—The Johore State Youth Club will hold a handicraft and farm-pro-duce exhibition at the Malay Primary School Hall at Jalan Arab here on Aug. 5 at 9 a.m. It will be opened by the Assistant Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth, Enche Engku Mohsein bin Kadir
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    • 24 10 MUAR, Wed. Hie Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, will go on a two-day tour of Johore from Saturday.
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    • 26 10 MUAR, Wed. Inche Hashim bin Hamzah has been re-elected president of the Association of Malay Teachers Union here for the sixth successive year.
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    • 36 10 MUAR, Wed. A threeday adult-education course will be held at the Ismail School Hall here from Aug. 12. More than sixty women from the Domestic Science Institute and the Women Institute here will attend.
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    • 36 10 MUAR, Wed. The new District Officer, Enche Talib bin Abu, will be entertained to a dinner by government servants in the Muar district at the Diamond Jubilee Hall here on Friday at 8 p.m.
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    • 29 10 MUAR, Wed. The Malaysian Government is to spend a total of $BOO,OOO on the construction of mosques, prayer-halls and community nails in the Johore State this year.
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    • 80 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. The District Commissioner for Papua and New Guinea, Mr. R.T. Galloway, will arrive here on Aug. 4 for a two-day visit. During his visit he will be briefed by local government officials on the Johore Government's efforts to solve the economic and rural problems of
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    • 29 10 MUAR, Wed. Work on the $500,000 fire station at Jalan Salleh here has been completed. Of contemporary design, the station will have the latest fire-fighting equipment.
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  • 552 10 TOHORE BAHRU, Wed. A defeated Mr. H L. Tang returned to his constl. J tuencv in Kulai in grief yesterday after the Johore State Assembly had eluded its four-day sitting here. The reason? Mr Tang, who is also the Chairman of Johore Planters'
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  • 78 10 SINGAPORE. Wed—Thf Junior Inter-club billiards knock out championships 1966 was won by the Customs Sports Club which beat S.R.C. 2 —l. Results of the game played at the Siong 800 Athletic Association last night are: 3 balls Tan Cheng Seong beat John Reuten by 200 pts
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  • 117 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. Ch# Mawan bte Wajid Khan, wife of the Minister of State for Education, will officiate at the opening ceremony of a kindergarten exhibition on Saturday at 10.30 a.m. The exhibition, organised by the Ministry of Education, will be held at the start of the Sea Kindergarten,
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  • 169 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. To attain peace in turbulent South-East Asia, the "seeds of love" must be sown in the hearts of the people in this region. This statement comes from Mr. A. G. S. Danaraj. in his article in the latest issue of (Oisca-International Organisation for
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  • 82 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. A lunch-time crowd outside the office of the Lufthansa German Airlines at Raffles Place here today stopped to watch a model of the 1,800-miles-an-hour supersonic Jetliner of the future. This electronically-operated moving model, specially airfreighted to Singapore for display at the airline's office, is a model of the
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 79 10 K. LUMPUR DIARY National Zoo at Ulu KJang 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Muzium Negara 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. Jalan Weld swimming pool 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Betty Rollins' Exhibition at Galerie 11, Jalan Pinang 10 a.m.
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  • MAHA EXHIBITION TODAY
    • 553 12  -  Foreign countries take part show By JOHN KAM, JAMAL ALI pROM fruits to cottage industry products... from sepak raga to "Miss Kebaya Maha" competitions...from camel rides to padi competitions. ..yes almost everything has been included in this year's MAHA
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    • 95 12 "Try this for size" says Mr. Thoo Chow Foo as he tries the "Tudong Saji" on colleague Che Siti Hajar of Ulu Langat. Both are attending the Selangor State Government's stall at the MAHA show which opens today. The Johore Anti-Tuberculosis Rehabilitation Organisation has set ud a
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    • 95 12 NEW YORK, Wed. (AP) About 150 relatives and friends attended private funeral services for actor Montgomery Clift. About 100 fans gathered outside St. James Church, where the simple episcopal rite was conducted by the P-verend Canon William J Chase. Clin. 45, died of a heart
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    • 59 12 DARJEELING, India, Wed (AP) Indian forces in the Himalayan protectorate of have tightened border security along the Tibetan A rentier because Communist China allegedly in sending infiltrators across with refugees. Tibetans found to be genuine refugees are taken immediately through 81kinto Tndia where they are further Interrogated and
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    • 204 12 DEATH VALLEY, Callfornia, Wed. (AP) There must be an easier way to prove there's still some adventure in America, and perhaps one will occur to Jean Pierre Marquant while he takes a rest break from his historic walking tour of blistering Death
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    • 39 12 NEW DELHI, Wed. (AP) A resident of this Indian capital complained to a newspaper that he had taken an air mail letter add* ressed to Holland to four different postal rate» rupees 1.25, i.30, 1.55 and 1.90.
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  • WOMEN'S PAGE
    • 311 13  -  By Rosalie Chan SINGAPORE, Wed.— A novelty for car owners has hit the market. It cleans the car upholstery. And gives it that "new, bright and breezy" look. This high-powered gadget which "National" has come up with, cleans the nooks snd crevices of
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    • 242 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. There is nothing like a set of glittering Jewellery to enhance the beauty of your evening dress. Yes, you can afford to own such a set without spending much maybe sacrificing a couple of new dresses will
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    • 233 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. All sixty flight hostesses working for Cathay Pacific Airways attended a series of beauty and make-up classes held recently by Mile. Monique Fichere of "Orlane" and "Jean D'Albert" of Paris. Apart from showing the girls how a skilful
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    • 534 13  -  By Madeleine Nathan SINGAPORE, Wed. Meet a hotelier's wife who is indirectly promoting Singapore's Tourist Industry just by playing the perfect hostess to Hotel Singapura Intercontinental. Mrs. Peggy Milne, wife of Singapura's General Manager, Mr. George Milne, certainly takes gratification in the
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  • SUNSPORT
    • 150 14 Brazil's first goal, and Bulgaria's Ivan Vutzov finished up i n net with ball, scored by Pele. The Bulgarian goal-keeper, George Naidenov flat out. Brazil beat Bulgaria two goals to zero recently in the opening game of group three play at the World Cup Soccer
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    • 733 14 World Cup soccer final: LONDON, Wed. JTNGLAND reached the final of the World Cup for the first time ever, worthily defeating Portugal, the one time favourite by two goals to one at the Empire Stadium, Wembley, before a crowd of 90,000 here tonight. England led one
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    • 124 14 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) For England, champagne. For Portugal, coffee and commiserations. For England, a place in the World Soccer Cup final on Saturday against West Germany. For Portugal, a "consolation" third place game tomorrow against Russia, a game they unhappily qualified for by coming out on the
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    • 161 14 LONDON, Wed. (AP) England and West Germany were high and dry in the final of the world cup on Wednesday, and soccer was holding its head up proudly again. These were some of the facts of the England-Por-tugal game: Only 11 fouls were committed eight
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    • 177 14 LONDON, Wed. (AP) The South American Football Confederation demanded today that a conditional ban on Argentina from the 1970 World Cup in Mexico be annulled. The executive committee of the confederation sent a protest to the World Soccer Federation (FIFA) after a 2-\ hour meeting. Argentina
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    • 1416 15 H.M. THE AGONG'S GOLD CUP HORSES CL. 1, DIV. 1, 6 FURS. H reU^C en 4 Hokorn (Chukell Stable) R. W. van Breukelen Sv on? 441 Silver Crown (LK Ngl R. W. van Breukelen 905 &71 Pizarro II (Mr. Ch'ng Chwee Kim y 05 Madam
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    • 367 15 By WINDSOR LAD KUALA LUMPUR, Wed —LORD JIM, who equalled the 6f. Bukit Timah record of 1 min. 12 sec- early this month, displayed striking form when he easily skipped 3f. in 39 4/5 on a firm track this morning. Ridden by Ricky Kingston,
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    • 135 15 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Singapore Amateur Swimming Association has kindly requested all officials in-charge-of respective swimming events for the forthcoming Pesta Sukan (sports celebrations) to submit the names of participants/players to the Hon. Secretary, SASA, before Saturday lo finalize the printing of the swimming programme for the
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    • 430 15  - 'Lumber jack King' makes wrestling debut on Sat. By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Wed. A former lumberjack and finalist in the Olympics Gamps at Melbourne in 1956, John Da Silva, will make his professional wrestling debut when he meets the heavyweight champion of Europe, Hans Von Steiger, in the main wrestling
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    • 413 15 SINGAPORE, Wed. The hockey season has progressed far enough to attempt to "forecast" who will be champions in the Fourth Tun Razak Cup meet beginning in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. The three-day hockey tourney is expected to produce keen rivalary among the four states taking
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    • 50 15 PENANG, Wed.—The 3rd Malaysian Table Tennis Championships, will be held at the indoor stadium of Han Chiang High school here from Aug. 7 to 14. Rothman of Pall Ma'l will donate $l,OOO for the purchase of trophies for the championships. organised by the Penang Table Tennis Association.
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    • 85 15 PENANG, Wed. The Amateur Race Meeting of the Penang Turf Club will be held on Saturday. Entries close at noon tomorrow. The following are the events: (1) M.A.R.A. class 1, 8-1/2 furs, handicap, <2) class 2, 8-1/2 furs. Div. 1 handicap, (3) class 3, 6 furs.
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    • 91 15 Ipoh, Wed. The Ipoh Boys* Club will be holding a cycling carnival next month open to all cyclists in Malaysia. Entries must reach the sports organising secretary, Mr. G. Santhanagopal, c/o No. 4, Jalan Haji EusoiT Housing Trust, Kampar Road, Ipoh, at least two days before events. Mr.
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    • 105 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. —The Inter-School Malaysian School Boy's Badminton Championship for the year will be held at Sta dium Negara on August 2 and 3. Mr. C. Rajalingam, secretary of the Schools Sports' Council of Malaysia said today that the boys playing for the
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    • 250 15 Kuala Lumpur, Wed. The Methodist Boys' School Kuala Lumpur, were crowned champions for the fifth year in the finals of the annual gymnastic competitions held at Stadium Negara here recently. Second place was taken by the Methodist Boys School Sentul, which secured a total
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    • 265 15 Malaya C KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. With only two we«** to the finals of the Malaya Cup competition, Selangor and Armed Forces—this year's finalists—are intensifying their team training. Both sides feel that the result of the finals will depend to a large extent on the "fitness"
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