Eastern Sun, 30 August 1966

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  • 26 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1. No. 43. Tuesday, August 30 1966. ■fr MC (P) 1942 KDN 2309 Price 15 cenU
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  • 89 1 HONOLULU. Hawaii, Mon. (AP). St. Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral in Honolulu was f.lled on Saturday nitjht for the wedding of Miss Pamelia Chong and Dr. Lee Suan Yew. I)r. Lee is the son of Mr. ind Mrs. Lee Chin Koon of Singapore and is the
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  • 42 1 TSANGKOK, Mon. (AFP) Thai Foreign Minister Inn Thanat Khoman declared today that he fully support General de Gaulle's speech in Addis Ababa in tthich the French President called for joint action by all peace-loving nations to halt the Vietnam war.
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  • 441 1 Dr. Malik stresses of immediate participation in the world body JAKARTA, MON. AFP INDONESIA is certain to return to the United Notions. The only thing that is needed is President Sukarno's order. This was stated here today by the Foreign Minister, Dr. Adam Malik. Speaking
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  • 148 1 MANILA, Mon. (AFP) Indonesia's militant Journal Mr. Mochtar Lubis is scheduled to arrive in Manila by air from Hong Kong tonight to receive next Wednesday the Ramon Magsaysay award for journalism and literature he won eight years ago. Mr. Lubis was unable
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  • 169 1 JAKARTA, Mon. (AFP) Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman said here today that he would not press Indonesia to join the Association of South-east Asia (ASA). Speaking to newsmen on arrival for a three-day official visit at the invitation of his Indonesian counterpart, Dr. Adam
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  • 131 1 SINGAPORE Mon. (AFP) The body of Indonesian Ambassador Lukman Hakim, 52. who died in Bonn on Aug. 20, was received with full military honours on arrival in Jakarta by air today, Radio Jakarta reported. A delegation, which included Foreign Minister Dr. Adam Malik, Police
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  • 135 1 SAIGON, Mon. (AFP) American aircraft destroyed two high speed North Vietnamese launches and damaged two others in the Gulf of Tonkin during the past 24 hours, the U.S. High Command announced today. Two of the launches were blasted by carrier based A-6 Intruders with rockets and cannon
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  • 93 1 HONG KONG, Mon. (AFP) Mr. Fred Lee, Secretary of State for the Colonies today held behind-the-scene talks with the Governor. Sir David Trench and other high government officials. The discussions were officially described as of a general nature. Later in the day, the Co- lonial Secretary visited
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  • Local News
    • 122 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Mr. Kwok Hae Leong, University of Malaya lecturer who will study for his Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. will depart shortly for the United States. Mr. Kwok has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering since 1962. Before that he
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    • 197 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. There has been a spate of taxi robberies in the Federal capital these last few days. During the last 24 hours, three cases of taxi drivers were robbed in various parts of the town. These were reported to the police. •REPORT No. 1
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    • 81 2 BRUNEI Town Mon. The Agricultural department has tendered for a small sugar cane mill to manufacture sugar in Brunei. The Government wants to see whether sugar can be manufactured commercially in the State. In June last year sugar was manufactured by hand from cane grown at
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    • 61 2 SEGAMAT, Mon. Puan Fakhriah bte Dato Haji Mohd. Noah, wife of the District here has been reelected President of the Segamat District GirlGuides Association, for the fifth successive year. Other officials are: Vicepresident Mrs. Dr. R.F. D'Costa, Secretary Mrs. B. F D'Costa and treasurer Mrs. Lim Ban Chee.
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    • 414 2  -  By CHAN KAM YAU KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A form of "thought control" with all its odious implications, "unbelievable, paralysing and shocking." This is how the Democratic Action Party 'described the banning of parliamentarians and politicians from participation in open debates and forums in
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    • 90 2 SEGAMAT, Mon. A giant rally comprising some 10,000 schoolchildren will gather on the town padang here on Aug. 31 to celebrate Malaysia Day. All government buildings, clubs and shops will be decorated for the occasion and the Malaysian and Johore flags will be flown together. The
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    • 69 2 IPOH, Mon. Popular opinion on smoking or no smoking in cinemas will be sought by the management of the Lido Theatre in a polls campaign from Sept. 1 to 15. A voting ticket to smoke' or 'not to smoke' will be given to all patrons
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    • 70 2 IPOH, Mon. Fifteen girls are aspiring to become Miss Perak at the Jaycee Merdeka Ball at St. John Ambulance Association here tomorrow night. The Ball is being held under the patronage of the Bultan of Perak. Miss Perak will be crowned by the Che
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    • 105 2 SELAMA, Mon. More than 500 school children will assemble at the town padang here on Wednesday to celebrate Malaysia Day. At the assembly the Assistant District Officer, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Abu Bakar, will read the Malaysia Day message. The school children will then
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    • 128 2 IPOH, Mon. —And 11-year-old boy, went home crying to his father after a coffee shop assistant, Baharuddin bin Ahmad (18) had committed an unnatural offence on him, Mr. Justic Chan Min Tat in the High Court here was told today. Baharuddin pleaded guilty to a charge
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    • 119 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Two Royal Malaysian Navy ships, Kapal Dl-Raja Mahamiru, commanded by Lieutenant Comma nder M.W. Alvisse, and Kapal Dl-Raja Jerai commanded by Lieutenant Commander K..H. MacQowan, took part in a minesweeping exercise in the Gulf of Thailand together with ships of the Thai Royal Navy, the
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    • 106 2 KCALA LUMPUR, Mon. To ease congestion in the Gardens area variety shows will be held on Wednesday in celebration of the third anniversary of Malaysia, certain roads in tne area will be closed to vehicular traffic from 6 Dm. to 11 pm. that day The
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    • 134 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. —An opium smoker told the Sessions Court today that smoking opium was a cheaper way to cure his sickness than getting medical treatment. Yap Thin Chai, 46, was charged with possession of 20 packets of chandu and utensils for use in
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    • 211 2 DUNGUN. Mon Dungun Is all set for the third Malaysia Day anniversary celebration. It will begin with a morning mass rally of government officials, school children and the general public at the Padang Bandar at 8.00 a.m. The royal address will be read by
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    • 36 2 MUAR, Mon. Johore's Chief Education Officer. Mr. Tan Telk Bens; today called on all heads of secondary and primary schools in the state to hold celebrations to mark Universal Children's Day on October 3.
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    • 205 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. pirates, armed with pistols and rifles, last swooped down on a fishing craft near Pullau A g off the Sungei Buloh village coast in the Kuaia Seian gor district here and kidnapped a member of the two- man fishing crew. The kidnapped
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    • 154 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon A combined operation has been launched by the Selangor traffic police and the Registrar and Inspector of Motor Vehicles against taxis causing traffic congestion by parking and double parking in front of cinemas before and after shows. Nine taxis were booked by the
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    • 151 2 IPOH, Mon.—An eating house shop assistant in Hugh Low Street here, Chan Siew Mun. (29), who went to China without a Malayan passport in l'J57 was deprived of his citizenship on his return to this country in 1961, Mr. Justice Chang Min Tat was told this today
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    • 61 2 KUANTAN, Mon. A Merdeka Ball, under the patronage of the Mentri Besar, Pahang, Dato Yahaya bin Mohd. Seh, and State Secretary. Pahang, Tuan Ismail bin Ibrahim, will be held at 8.00 p.m. on Malaysia Day in the town hall here. A "Miss Merdeka, Kuantan" will be elected
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    • 155 2 PORT SWETTENHAM, Mon. The Sultan of Selangor today called upon 13.000 fishermen on Pulau Ketam to maintain racial harmony and goodwill. The Ruler spoke to them when he visited the island two miles from here. He said with restoration of peace between Malaysia and Indonesia fishermen
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    • 164 2 K A JANG, Mon. A dinner and joget on the night of Wednesday at the Kajang Hall at Jalan Club, will climax the Merdeka Day celebrations In Ulu Langat district. The Merdeka joy will start with a rally in the morning at the padang here
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    • 129 2 Muar, Mon. The Muar Town Council has been unable to carry out its administration smoothly because of the non-payment of revenue by members of the public. This was revealed by the secretary of the council Enche Ithnin bin Haji Ma'ruf. He said, "Last year the arrears of
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    • 41 2 MUAR, Mon. A Merdeka Ball will be held here at the Muar Tanjong Club in Jalan Petrie on Aug. 31 to celebrate M-Day by the Muar Girl Guides Association. The highlight of the evening will be a fashion show.
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    • 81 2 MUAR, Mon. The renowned Mount Ophir holiday resort, 23 miles from here, will soon be further developed at a cost of $300,000. Under the plan, there will be more changing rooms, foodstalls, a car park and a pavilion for tourists. A government spokesman said that
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    • 79 2 IP OH, Mon. The Sultan of Perak attended the dinner and dance of the Lions Club of Ipoh at the Perak Turf Club sports section in Tiger Lane here last night. The function was held in honour of the first visit to the Lion Club
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    • 49 2 LUMUT, Mon. A mobile unit will visit the district hospital here to give free chest X-rays to the public on Sept 29 and 30, Oct. 20 and 21, Nov. 10 and 11 at 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 2 p.m. to 4 D.m. each day.
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    • 202 2 BRUNEI TOWN. Mon. The British High Commissioner to Brunei, Mr. T. D. Webber, stated durlnf the weekend that Britain was "wholly sincere" in her attitude towards Brunei. He was commenting on allegations bv local politicians who said that Britain was not "sincere in her aims to
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    • 195 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. In the planning of a town, the needs of the people must be taken into consideration, says Mr. Loh See Hong, 35, a town planner attached to the Singapore Government's Planning Department Mr. Loh, just back after t year's study at the
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    • 77 3 PENANG, Mon.—A housewife in Noordin Street here this morning got the shock of her life when, she was confronted by two masked men a«d threatened with a dagger outside an upstairs bedroom of the house. Madam Lee Poh Lan had a few minutes earlier gone up
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    • 294 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Five thugs sporting Beatle hair styles snatched $ll,OOO from a bus company cashier in a highway hold-up along busy Jalan Ah Fook here today. The cashier of the South Johore Bus Company, Mr. Tay Tian Soon, 51, emerged from his Jalan Ah Fook office,
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    • Article, Illustration
      42 3 MKMBERS of Parliament for Serangoon Garden, Mr. H. A. Gonzales, and next to him, Mr. Fong Sip Chee, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Culture, stand at ease at the People's Defence Force cadet officers passing out parade recently.
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    • 340 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. An organisation of Malaysian film producers in the country has submitted a seven-point memorandum to the Government to protect and encourage the growth ot the local film industry. The organisation called, Filem Producer Malaysia Bersatu, is headed by prominent K.L.
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    • 97 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A youth's expression of love for a girl he kidnapped her cost him $5OO in the Sessions Court today. This was the fine imposed on M. Seetharan, 20, when he was found guilty of kidnapping a girl under 16 years old
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    • 67 3 SINGAPORE, Mon.-—The secretary of the Public Daily Rated Cleansing Workers Union, today welcomed the Government's decision to hold discussions with the Union on city cleansing matters. In his statement, Mr. P.P. Nathan, said: "The responsibility of keeping the city clean is not only that of the Ministry of
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    • 78 3 SINGAPORE, M on. One of four new British Post Office stamps depicting different aspects of British technology proved to be distinctly advanced in thinking. The 6d. stamp shows, a Jaguar "E" type sports car against a background of Austin Mini cars. The colours are orange, red
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    • 728 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Leaf-fall and pod-rot of rubber trees caused by a fungus (Phytophthora palmivora) was unknown in Malaysia until a month ago, even though a closely similar. if not identical, fungus has long been present. First indications about the disease were obtained
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    • 101 3 Tan Lian Seng (left), Singapore representative at the Asian Zone (Zone 10) Chess Tournament which has just ended in Auckland, New Zealand, had less than 15 minutes in hand to make eight moves when this photograph was taken during his match with Djamil Djamal, of Indonesia. The
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    • 367 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Festivals are an effective way of promoting understanding and also helps to create a satisfying and tolerant society. Besides oeing occasions for great rejoicing in a multiracial society like Singapore's, festivals have an added significance. This was the definition of the word "festival"'
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    • 63 3 A HIGH speed printer of numerous Chinese letters was recently developed in Japan. The new product, developed by leading Japanese manufacturer Hitachi Co., is able to print more than 150 Chinese letters per second. Only two letters can be written per second by usual Chinese letter printers. Up to 2,400
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    • 281 4 PENANG, Mon. The Penang division of the United Democratic Party voiced full report for the stand taken by its national chairman, Dr. Lim Chong Eu and other leaders of the opposition in Parliament in opposing the Local Government Elections (Amendment) Bill. At a meeting
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    • 108 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Four officers of Malaysian Army have been selected to undergo further military training overseas. They are Captain Cheah Phee San, Majors Asidin bin Ali, Lakhbir Singh Gill and G.E. Simon Captain Cheah will attend a one-month medical service officer career course at
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    • 71 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Yang di-Pertuan Agong will speak to the nation in a special broadcast over Radio Malaysia on Malaysia Day, Wednesday. The broadcast can be heard over all services of Radio Malaysia at 10.00 a.m. followed by translations in English, Chinese and Tamil. The Prime
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    • 250 4 PENANG, Mon. All arrangements ior the opening of the annual Pesta Malaysia Carnival, orgsnised by UM NO, Penang division, for nine nights, starting on Sept. 2, have now been finalised. This was dirclosed by the chairman )f the UMNO Pesta Malaysia celebration committee, Ene'ne Aziz
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    • 183 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Shell's contribution to the Malaysia Day celebrations in Port Dickson will be the sponsorship of a walking race which will take place at 9.00 a.m. on Wednesday. The route will be from the Port Dickson Town padang to the Garrison parade square, a
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    • 59 4 MALACCA. Mon. Work on a 100-unit housing estate off Pringgit Road here —the second to be undertaken in the State is to begin soon. The first housing estate comprising 50 units in Alor G« jah district, near Tampin, is now nearing completion. Plans are now being flnalied for
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    • 371 4  - Free port status of Penang remains Dr. Lim By JOHN KAM KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, this morning laughed away rumours circulated by unscrupulous businessmen that the free port status of Penang would be taken away from Wednesday. In an exclusive interview
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    • 121 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Merdeka Stadium here was this morning a hive of activity when a dress rehearsal in preparation for the
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    • 97 4 PENANG, Mon. A taxidriver, Lim Chin Hock, 37, reported to the police that he was assaulted by a European, who also took $l6 from him at Tanjong Bungah last night The European boarded his taxi in Tanjong Tokong for Mount Pleasure, Batu Ferringhi. On the way,
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    • 128 4 PENANG, Mon. —A special tea party for Handicapped children at the residence of the District Officer, Sungei Bakap, will be held at 5 p.m. on Sept. 12. -This is part of the Malaysia Day celebrations for Province Weilesley South. A garden party will be held at
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    • 45 4 MALACCA, Mon. Thieves broke into the homes of two soldiers during the week-end and escaped with household articles worth about $2,000. J. Mcvey of Klebang reported the loss of $1,570 while Mrs. Irene Campbei. of Bukit Baru lost $430 in cash and articles.
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    • 45 4 IPOH, Mon. The Perak Contractors' Association celebrated their first anniversary with a dinner party at the Golden Jubilee Restaurant in Kampar Road here last night. The President of the Association, Mr. Fong Yee. presented a crest to their legal adviser, Mr. D. Seenivasagam.
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    • 202 4 PENANG. Mon. —An 18-year-old seaman, Peter Michael Williams, stated in the second Magistrate's Court today that he was drunk when he took a City Council bus without the driver's knowledge at Weld Quay on Aug. 12 He pleaded guilty to committing theft of the
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    • 41 4 MALACCA, Mon. —The Indian Community here is to honour Tun Abdul Razak, the Deputy Prime Minister, with a dinner for his success in bringing an end to confrontation and also being named as the next Prime Minister of Malaysia.
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    • 319 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The importance of increasing productivity and levels of efficiency in all sectors of the Malaysian economy was again given prominence in a speech by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, today. Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the
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    • 105 5 SINGAPORE, Mon A second photograhpic competition in conjunction with the Afro-Asian Housing Congress will be held at Singapore Conference Hall here in November this year. The competition is sponsored by the Housing and Development Board and presented by the Photographic Society of Singapore. The objective of the
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    • 75 5 PENANG, Mon. Two snatch thefts were reported to the Police yesterday. A Eurasian woman, who was returning home after her marketing, had her cash of $63 snatched by an unknown person on a bicycle in Leandros Lane, Pulau Tikus. In the other case. Ng Ah Looi was
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    • 107 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. A prominent left-wing trade unionist, Foo Yong Fong, who was arrested together with 15 others in the recent anti-American demonstration here, has been released. Foo, a former secretarygeneral of the now defunct Singapore Business Houses Employees' Union, was released early this month. Foo's
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    • 185 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. Charming girls will soon attend to weary travellers and take care of their needs. The girls are female PROs (passenger relations officers) for which there are only two vacancies in Singapore. The job; To help air-tra-vellers with their neverending demands over food, accomodation, tours
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    • 89 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. To deter motorists from being a nuisance to other car-owners on official business at Paya Lebar airport, parking fees will be Introduced as from SeDt. 1. A Ministry of Law and National Development statement tonight announced that these steps were taken to curb
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    • 76 5 Dr. C. G. Foo, chairman of the Society of General Practice, Singapore Medical Association, speaking at the society's annual seminar at Alumni Medical Centre, College Road on Saturday. c rtf From left: Dr. C. Wilson, a committee member; Dr. Gwee Ah Leng, senior consultant phvsician, General Hospital; Dr. Foo; Prof.
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    • 78 5 Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. seen addresing a large gathering of Singapore Traction Company Employees' Union members at the union headquarters in Woodsville Road on Sunday night. The Premier urged the workers to be responsible and to co-operate with the Government to consolidate the nation's economic stability Mr. Lee
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    • 225 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore bus company operators were taken unawares today by a statement from the Prime Minister that Singapore would have a national transport system in 10 years' time. A spokesman for the Singapore Chinese Bus Owners Association, Mr. Tan Kong Eng, said that
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    • 39 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. An early .morning fire completely gutted a rattancane factory, three shophouses, and made 45 people homeless at Kallang Road here today. Damages to property was estimated at $90,000. Investigations are now going on.
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    • 84 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. Shaw's largest cinema in Singapore, the Capitol will be distributing pollins: slips to their patrons inviting them to cast their votes whether or not to impose a ban on smoking at the theatre. The polling will be carried out for a few days, commencing
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    • 103 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. Eastern Sun readers today donated a total of $65 for Madam Chan Tai Moi, a Kuala Lumpur tapper who is suffering from a heart aliment. Her doctor said she had to have an operation which could only be done in Australia
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    • 61 5 PENANG, Mon. A flagcarried out by the Alliance raising ceremony will be Party at UMNO Hall, MacAlister Road at midnight on ugust 30. At a previous press conference, the Chief Minister, Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee, mentioned that there would be a similar ceremony at his residence
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    • 51 5 SINGAPORE. Mon The following were elected office-bearers of the Singapore Surgical Society at its inaugural meeting held at the Alumni Medical Centre recently: President, Mr. Yahya Cohen; vice-president, Professor L. F. Tinckler, secre-tary-cum-treasurer, Mr. R. Nambiar. Committee members; Mr. N. C. Tan and Mr. Campbell H. A.
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    • 86 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. A $5 currency note issued in 1898 by the Singapore colonial government is in the possession of Enche Daud bin Mohamed Yusoff, a salesman. Enche Daud, 35, said he bought it for $lO from a friend 10 years ago to keep as a
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    • 124 5 SINGAPORE. Mo n. The Singapore Chapter, Rosicrucian Order AMORC will hold its traditional pyramid ceremony of the Singapore Chapter on Sept. 24 at the Outram Road, Y.W.C.A. at 7.30 p.m. Since the Rosicrucians trace their traditional origin back to Akhnaton, Pharaoh of Egypt in 1350 8.C.. they
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    • 36 5 SINGAPORE. Mon.—The Minister for Culture and Social Affairs En c he Othman Wok will officially open the third annual art exhibition, at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Empress Place here on Sept. 3 at 3 p.m.
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    • 52 5 Enche Saul Hameed bin Mohamed Ibrahim with his bride, Sipak bintc Hamid, after their wedding in Jalan AlsagofT, Singapore. Enche Saul Hameed, a cinema-operator with Cathay Organisation, is the eldest son of Che Sarambee binte N. Mamat. The bride is the third daughter of Enche Abdul Hamid,
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    • 65 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore's National Language Month Working Committee will meet on Friday to discuss detailed plans for the forthcoming National Language campaigns. The meeting, which will be attended by representatives of Government departments, universities and newspapers, wil lbe chaired by Enche Mohd. Ghazali Ismail, Political Secretary to
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    • 87 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. The newly-formed Singapore Surgical Society will endeavour to promote closer relations between similar societies in other countries. The society held its inaugural meeting at the Alumni Medical Centre recently. The other objects of the society are to promote cooperative activities among surgeons in the country
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    • 383 5 MERSING, Mon. The Malaysian Government is anxious to work in close co-operation with the Singapore Government. The Minister of Home Affairs, Tun Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, declared here today. But, the Minister added, co-operation was only possible if the Republic authorities refrained from "interfering"
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 393 2 Why crack your head when you can tackle easier quiz like ours EASTERN SUN $3,000 Contest CONTEST NO. 5 Quiz for August 30 1966. 1. What is the name of the "Land of the Midnight Sun"? 2. Name the largest desert in the world, 3. What is the smallest particle
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    • 95 3 KUALA LUMPUR DIARY National Zoo at Ulu Klang 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.: and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Soo Pieng Exhibition at Samat Art Gallery
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    • 592 4 What's on in today's Radio and Television CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Penan?; 6 Ipoh and Malacca; 3 and 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. P.M. 5.45 Opening Annct.; 5.50 News In The National Language; 5.55 National Songs; 6.00 News In Tamil; 6.10 The Manilla Gorilla
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    • 91 5 SPORE DIARY 7.30 p.m. Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture: Tao Khoon School, Kranji Road; Hwa Nong School, Jalan Alsagoff; Kampong Chia Keng. Track Eight, Yio Chu Kang Road; and Delhi Road, Naval Base. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Victoria Memorial Hall, Empress Place: Art Exhibition. 5.30 p.m.
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    • 60 5 TIME AND TIDE Penan;: 12.33 a.m. (6.8 ft.), 12.28 p.m. (7.9 ft Port Swettenham: 5.43 a.m. (12.7 ft.), 6.51 p.m. (12.5 ft). Port Dickson: 6.14 a.m. (7.0 ft.), 6.46 p.m. (8.1 ft.). Singapore: 11.29 a.m. (7.4 ft), 10.35 p.m. (86 ft). Sedili Kechil: 10.15 a.m. (7.6 ft.), 8.42 p.m. (6.2
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 276 6 WASHINGTON, Mon. (AP). —Secret Servicemen arrested a W. E. B. Dubois Club member yesterday on charges that he threatened President Johnson's life and violated the Marijuana Tax Act, police said. Robert Watts, 18, a negro and a Harlem civil rights worker,
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    • 104 6 MOMBASA, Mon. (AFP). President Jomo Kenyatta said here today Asians had been recently deported from Kenya because they had resorted to acts of disrespect to the people and government. Those who did not respect the nation's laws would be removed like "an aching tooth."
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    • 56 6 CAIRO, Mon. (AFP) A policeman died today of Injuries sustained yesterday during demonstrations by Somali students against the French embassy here. The policeman was injured when a truck carrying police and demonstrators crashed into a wall and turned over. Fifteen police and 15 students were hospitalised
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    • 142 6 LONDON, Mon. (AFP) Premier Harold Wilson today described as "quite illegal and quite invalid" Rhodesian Premier Mr. Lan Smith's latest move to introduce a constitutional amendment in Rhodesia. The Premier was speaking to a group of journalists who met him at the little Cornish Port
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    • 86 6 NEW YORK, Mon. (AP).— Mr. Edwin O. Reischauer, retiring U.S. ambassador to Japan, said yesterday that Japan could play the role of a mediator in the Vietnam conflict because "they are more acceptable and respected" by Asians than Americans. He stressed, however, in an interview
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    • 61 6 MONTECATINI TERME, Italy, Mon. (AP). A girl from Ireland was proclaimed yesterday "The Ideal Woman of Europe." The honour went to Grace Shaughnessy, a 26-year-old model, who was selected over contestants from every other European country in a contest at this north Italian resort. Vicky Papaphilippou.
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    • 200 6 KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Mon (UPI). Former President Mr- Harrv S. Truman issued an unusual public statement yesterday expressing alarm about rising interest rates and warned they could lead to "a serious depression." Mr. Truman noted that he rarely takes "up pen to make comment on
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    • 144 6 CHULA VISTA, California, Mon. (UPI) Johnny (Spaghetti Joe) Keyes, former "Mayor of China-town in New York" and a fight promoter, died today in a hospital of an apparent heart attack. He was 74. Keyes also served as a bodyguard for Mae West, appeared in
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    • 38 6 WICHITA, Kansas, Mon. (AF). —Two men were killed yesterday when a drum containing caustic soda exploded at a Chemical plant in Wichita. Sheriff Vernon Miller identified the dead as Delbert Cline and Don Matzen.
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    • 209 6 PHNOM PENH, Cambodia. Mon. (AFP) Final preparations were under way here today for the visit of French President Charles de Gualle, due to arrive in two days time. Hundreds of French flags were mingling with the Cambodian flags along the newly surfaced highway leading
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    • 390 6 NEW YORK, Mon. (AP). fkN her last day in the White House, Mrs. F. Kennedy wrote a letter in her own hand to the then-Soviet Premier, Mr. Nikita Khrushchev expressing, as a mother of two children, her hopes for peace, it was reported yesterday.
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    • 78 6 SANTIAGO, Chile, Mon. (UPI). United Nations Secretary General, U Thant arrived last night to inaugurate a new UN building in this capital. The building will house a number of regional Latin American organisations which come under UN authority. U Thant was received at the
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    • 73 6 INNSBRUCK, Austria, Mon. (UPI) Two German mountaineers were killed when they fell 300 metres from a mountain in Tyrol yesterday. The 22-year-old Martin Pfender and 30-year-old Hans Spoeckmier, both from Munich, were climbing the Zetten-Ostwand in the Wilden Kaiser mountains when they suddenly lost their footings and
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    • 54 6 LONDON, Mon. (AP) Jack Bond, 28, a film editor, and Miss Maureen Safhill, 21, an art student, lie in bed and discuss their sex lives in a television documentary drama by the British Broadcasting Corporation called "Exit 19" shown recently in England. Executives of the government-owned
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    • 205 6 lOWA CITY, lowa, Mon. (AP)—A Citation of Merit for science writing was awarded to the Associated Press yesterday by the American Society of Journalism School Administrators. The award was in recognition of "superior news reporting and interpretative coverage of the physical,
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    • 155 6 BANGKOK, Mon. (AFP) Danish Foreign Minister Per Haekkerup denied here today that he had ever stated that United Nations troops should be sent to Vietnam to control the fighting there. He told journalists that he had been misquoted by reporters
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    • 123 6 SALZBURG, Austria, Mon. (AP). King Buhmibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand arrived yesterday from neighbouring Germany for a two-day private visit of Austria. The Royal couple was welcomed by officials of the Vienese Thai embassy and a member of the Salzburg provincial government. They took
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    • 60 6 NEW YORK, Mon. (AP).—New York City Police officers snatch two teenage girls from a 21st floor ledge of the Hotel American recently. The girls had threatened to jump "unless we get to see the Beatles." The British singing group is quartered in
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    • 147 6 LONDON, Mon (AFP) British philosopher left wing peace campaig. ner Bertrand Russel invited President J o h n son to appear in person =1" hf < Paris "Tf'bun. ai he is organising to in. quire into alleged Amori. can war crimes in Vint» nam.
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    • 112 6 KARACHI. Mon. (AFP) Iranian Foreign Minister. Mr. Abbas Aram this afternoon gave President Ayub Khan an urgent personal message from the Shah after his arrival on a special mission from Teheran, it was announced here. No information was available about the contents of the message
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    • 112 6 GLASGOW, Scotland, Mon. (AP) A nKtor scooter caught Are and exploded in a Glasgow suburb last night burning 14 Dersons, including 11 children. Two of the injured were reported in serious condition. The scooter rider, Neil McGuire, 18. said the children rushed around the machine after
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    • 632 7 AMRITSAR, Punjab, Mon. (AFP). —The IndoPakistani frontier, where lighting flared up just a year ago and continued in a 22-day fratricidal struggle, is heavy with threats once more. For a month, India and Pakistan have been accusing each other of strengthening their positions and massing
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    • 108 7 NEW YORK. Mon. (AFP) Printing workers today voted to end their 127-day-oM strike against the new World Journal Tribune newspaper company. By a vote of 263 to 208. the printers accepted an agreement reached on Friday between representatives of their union and the company.
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    • 196 7 MARSEILLES, France, Mon. (UPI) The world's largest openair brothel is now closed, polce said yesterday. For weeks motorists leaving Salon-De-Pro-vence were puzzled by the number of girls trying to hitchhike their way to nearby Marseilles. AH of them were beauties dressed in provocative skin tight slacks,
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    • 85 7 MEXICO City. Mon. (AP) Torrential rains in the past few days have flooded extensive areas in Northern Mexico and destroyed more than 50 plush residences in this capital city. Reports from the Ministry of Defence said, yesterday the rivers Conchos, Grande, San Pedro and Florido have flooded
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    • 51 7 CANBERRA, Australia, Mon. The new Malaysian Hifh Commissioner to Australia, Inche Mohammed bin Baba inspects a guard of honour at Government House, Canberra, the national capital, after presenting his letters of credence on Aug. 8. The new High Commissioner succeeds Tun Lim Yew
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    • 429 7 VENICE, Italy, Mon. (AP) AN American movie about motorcycle hoodlums last night opened the 27th Venice Film Festival, the most glamorous in recent years but as controversial 2ls ever. The film, "The Wild Angels," promised to further enliven the polemics over
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    • 75 7 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) A light earthquake jolted Tokyo buildings today. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The Japanese Central Meteorological Board reported the epi-centre of the quake in Matsushiro, Nacano Prefecture, 110 miles Northwest of Tokyo. The intensity at Matsushiro. which has been hit
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    • 57 7 LONDON, Mon. <AP> Sir William Eric Beckett. British expert In International Law, died on Saturday. He was 69. As legal adviser to the Foreign office, he represented Britain in several major cases before the International Court at the Hague and In treaty negotiations with other countries.
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    • 151 7 MOSCOW. Mon. (AP) The Soviet Union maintained silence yesterday on the fate of Luna 11, although a leading British expert said the unmanned Soviet satellite was orbiting the moon. Some 24 hours after Luna II was supposed to have swung into orbit around
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    • 111 7 BUFFALO, New York, Mon. (AP). A 16-year-oid Greek boy, a crew member of a ship docked in the Buffalo harbour, drowned yesterday near the vessel while swimming with two companions. Police divers and coast guardmen recovered the body of Styllianos Koummis of Chios, Greece, several hours
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    • 69 7 CAIRO, Mon. (AFP) Three of seven Muslim brothers condemned to death nere last week were executed last night, the semi-official A 1 Ahram newspaper said. Those executed were the Chief Defendent, Sayed Kotb. Aly Shamowi, and Abdul Neguib Abdul Samy. Sentences on the other four were commuted
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    • 68 7 ACCRA. Mon. (UPI> St e e 1-helmeted policemen patrolled the town of Kpone. 27 miles from Accra yesterday following weekend rioting which killed apolice corporal and two farmers. The riots erupted over a local chieftaincy dispute when opposing factions clashed at a festival. A total of 83
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    • 108 7 BERLIN. Mon. (AP) Police said an anonymous call was received yesterday threatening death to a Canadian girl kidnapped a week ago and found on Friday. The caller told a West Berlin newspaper he would kill Audrey Klewer, 4, of Montreal, if two persons arrested
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    • 108 7 OTTAWA. Mon. (AP) Union and railroad negotiators marked time yesterday holding off resumption of their talks on ending Canada's nationwide rail strike until after the government introduces legislation today aimed at ending the walkout. Prime Minister, Mr. Lester B. Pearson will present the government's plan
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    • 75 7 ZURICH, Mon. (AFP) Gotlieb Wiesendanger 58, of Nieder Wenigen Zurich suffocated himself in a restaurant here when he stuffed eight slices of meat into his mouth and tried to swallow them, it was stated here todax. All attempts by the restaurant owner to help the man disgorge
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    • 49 7 US astronaut Charles Gonrad, command pilot of the I'S spacecraft Gemini XI, wearing his flight suit, is positioned by technicians in the weight and balance rig for weight distribution and calibration teste in preparation for the coming three-day mission in the orbit.— PANA Photo.
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    • 166 7 ADEN Mon (UPI) One British soldier was killed and seven wounded when a terrorist grenade was tossed at a patrol standing outside a suburban police station yesterday. British Command sources said the attack in the Aden suburb of crater apparently was one more in
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    • 55 7 VIENNA, Mon. (AFP). The 1968 International Ycjth Hostel Conference will b% helo in Tokyo, it was announced today. The 26th Conferenct wound up here yesterday. It was attended by 200 delegates from 54 countries. The Federation has four and a half million members and 4.094
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    • 58 7 MANILA, Mon. (UPI). Fire razed through a commercial district of Bacolod City 150 miles South of here, damaging property estimated at Ave million pesos (about $1.75 million). No casualty was reported. The fire started in a beauty parlour and swept several blocks of commercial establishments. low water
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    • 314 7 CAIRO, Egypt, Mon. (AP). President Gamal Abdel Nasser yesterday issued a presidential decree launching the setting up of a Free Zone in Port Said. The Zone will be completed with all necessary storehouses, factories, banks and other facilities in
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    • 56 7 WESTON-SUPER-MARE, England. Mon. (UPI) The Dilot and three passengers of a private aircraft were killed today when the Diane crashed after taking off on a short pleasure trip from Weston airport. Eyewitnesses said the auster plane was about 200 feet up when the engine stopped
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  • 378 8 WITH the end of confrontation the communists in East Malaysia have lost their ally, who in turn has become hostile to them. Since their attempt to exploit the nationalistic angle has failed, the communists are now pursuing new tactics. They have apparently recalled their armed personnel from
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  • 395 8 QNE feature of the public transport service in Singapore is the increasing rudeness of bus conductors and taxi drivers, whether licensed or pirate. Perhaps it is due to nervous tension In dealing with all sorts of customers. Though it is admitted that operating buses and taxis Is a
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  • Letters...
    • 394 8  -  DANIEL JAMES AS a Malayan I view with deep concern the measures that are being adopted to finance the First Malaysian Plan. It seems to me that $27 million is hardly an end that is capable of justifying the means by which it is being
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    • 188 8 WILL FAIR PLAY (Eastern Sun, 24 Aug.) who is so well acquainted with the running of many Catholic Schools in Malaya please let us know why the Post of Head of Arts, Form 6, at St. Xavier's, Penang, vacant since 1961, has not been
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    • 99 8 split unwise Economically speaking, Malaysia and Singapore are interdependent on each other. Hence, the dollar split is shocking and unwise. Whatever the reasons, the currency talks should continue. The two governments should bear in mind the following:— (a) Let political differences remain in the background. (b) Determine to find a
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    • 280 8 I VIEWED with sadness the recent quarrel between RTC and DTC teachers. Letters from both sides have been published in the unbiased Eastern Sun. I am neither RTC nor DTC trained. But I would like to say something and hope that the unnecessary argument will be
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    • 308 8 THERE IS a small section of teachers who Is completely forgotten by the unions and it seems by the Government, too. These are the Pass Degree graduates in the U.T.S. They possess the same academic and professional qualifications obtained from the same institutions and carry out the
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    • 53 8 WOULD It be possible for the Singapore Teachers' Union and the Adult Education Board to organise H.S.C. classes in arts and science in the morning? Many teachers in the afternoon sessions wish to better themselves in the teaching profession but are unable to attend night
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    • 437 8  -  A. PACIFIST IN your editorial for August 11, you alleged that Hanoi is the catspaw of Peking." This allegation has been repeated times without number, but few who have made the charge have cared to examine the whole mass of evidence
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    • 62 8  -  C. P. Thane I JUST can't understand how a small Republic like Singapore can give its viewers 14J hours of Television (2 channels) on Saturdays and Sundays whilst T.V. Malaysia can only give us 7 hours. There must be something seriously wrong somewhere because Malaysia
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    • 170 8  -  K. N. Achary, IT is a pity that although the people of Anson are bestowed with 3 powerful organisation i.e. Anson Citizens Consultative Committee People Action Party Anson Division Anson Road Community Centre, yet collectively or Individually they have not taken action to introduce zebra
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    • 285 8 FAIR PLAY who Is "not an ex-student of the Brothers' Schools," and "who is not a Brother" claims that he Is "well acquainted with the running of the many Catholic schools In Malaya" and he does not want "wild allegations" appearing in newspapers to go unchallenged.
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    • 261 8 I WAS greatly interested in the two letters which aj> pea red in your paper on tht subject of Malayanisation in Catholic Mission Schools and so tried to see who wai talking sense. I picked up all the Catholic Secondary Schools in Central and Northern
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    • 244 8  -  T. A. Mugan I READ with interest Mr. William Pickles' article entitled "Socialists view of Communism". Socialism is defined by a local leader as one that arouses the social instincts in man and I entirely agree with his view. Man is a social animal. He
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    • 319 9 LONDON, Mon. (UP!)— The world's production of non-ceilulosic man-made fibres will have almost caught up with the production of cellulosics by the end of 1967, according to figures just released by the Commonwealth Economic Committee. The committee in a review of the man-made fibres situation in
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    • 128 9 MANILA, MON. (UPI) The Philippine peso is more than holding its own against the U.S. dollar and the sterling pound in currency stability, the Manila rinancial Journal reported. The journal, a weekly economic publication, said confidence in the economic policies of President Fredinand E. Marcos and
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    • 78 9 The HAGUE Mon. Esso Chemie N.V. of The Hague is to make a fifty percent Increase In the planned capacity of the ammonia plant which this company intends to build In the Europoort port area near Rotterdam. This brings the production figure up to an annual 450,000 tons.
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    • 524 9 LONDON, Mon. (UPI).— Japan led the way as the world s industrial countries increased their exports during the first quarter of this year, according to the British Board of Trade. In a review of industrial countries (OECD members) trade and production published In its
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    • 154 9 SINGAPORE The following ships are expected to be in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Benreoch J/4 Cambodge 5 Golden Sprong 8/t Rhexenor 10/11 Asahi Maru 13/14 Sefra 15/16 Lica Maersk 18 Rondo 15 26 Tatiana 27/28 Ferngate 29/30 Seikai Maru 31/32 Yamagata Maru 33/34 Tjimanuk 35 36 Glenogle
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    • 163 9 WASHINGTON, Mon. The urgent requirement in the developing nations is not money but managerial skills, Mr. Frank Pace, Jr., president of the International Executives Service Corps (lESC) said. lESC is aiming to satisfy this need. Addresing the 44th annual luncheon of American Importer in New York City,
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    • 88 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Pan Malayan Finance Limited, will pay a final dividend of 7J percent, bringing the total of dividends paid for the year ended June 30 to 17J percent. This was announced in a statement by the Chairman, Mr. Oei Tjong le, in the
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    • 305 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Sept. first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 62-7/8 per lb. up 1/8 on the previous close. The tone was very quiet, steady. The market eased during the first stages of the morning as the more bearish
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    • 11 9 SINGAPORE, Mon.—The tin price to-day was $604-|, down Sl-L
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    • 448 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Prices on the Stock Exchange eased slightly on a small turnover today. CCM again dominated the market and other prices generally were lower in line. Sime Darby firmed again to $3.04. Properties followed the same pattern as industrials. Tins had fe\* supporters. In
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    • 98 9 THE HAGUE, Mon Before the end of this year a start will be made on the construction of a freshwater factory in the port of Terneuzen in south-west Holland The plant will have an annual production of around 10 million cubic metres (353 million cu. ft.) of water
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    • 39 9 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler said yesterday that the Vietnam war has probably foiled U.S. efforts to reach equilibrium In its balance of payments in 1966. But he added: "We look forward with confidence."
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE-MALAYSIA, S'PORE
      • 214 9 B S Boustead 1.53 1.55 Chemical Co 1.43 1.44 Cola Storage 2.92 Dunlop 2.40 2.43 E. Smelting 4.02 4.06 Esso Ords 2.97 United Holdings CCR 1.91 1.93 Fitzpatrlcks 1.58 1.63 F. N. Ords 3.60 3.64 Gammon 2.12 2.14 G. E. Life 62.50 Guinness 2.25 2.29 Hotel S'pura 1.02 1.03
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      • 37 9 Central Prop 82 City Dev. 35* .36 Faber Union .55 Island Hotel 55 Island Pen 44 .46 K. L. Prop 86 .89 San Holdings 31 .31 Sel. Prop 1.25 S'pore Land 59 Town City 80 .85
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      • 97 9 Ampat CCR 8/6 Aokam 3.70 3.80 Austral Amal. 23/3 23/6 Austral Malay XR 32/6 Ayer Hitam 22/3 Ber junta! 33/3 34/Idris Hyd. XD 15/6 K'pong L&njut 23/9 24/Kamunting 19/Kramat 12/71 Kuala Kampar 24/7 It Kuchai 1.99 Larut ll/l! 11/6 Lingui 2 00 Lower Perak 23/23/6 Malayan Tin 25/6 27/Pahang
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      • 62 9 Bassett (50cts) .75 Batu Lintang 1.69 3enta 1.37 Borelli (New) 2.20 2.25 Jeram Kuantan CD 2.18 2.30 Kempas 1.90 2.00 Kepong Plant 1.95 2.00 Kluang Ord 1.75 Kundong Tg. Pau 1.80 1.85 Kuala Sidim 1.65 Mentakab m 1.63 New Scudai 4.16 4.50 New Serendah 2.30 2.40 Sel. Coconut
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      • 27 9 Anglo-Asian XD Anglo Oriental 1/1 3/1 3/4 Consol Salak 2/5 K. L. Kepong 2/1 2/3 Malaya General 2/5 Merlimau Peeoh 2/Petalinsr 3/6 Strs Rubber 1/1
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      • 27 9 First Malayan 2.21 2.31 Second Malayan 1.56 1.66 Third Malayan 1.14 1.25 Malaysian Commerce 90 1.01 Mai. Savings Commerce 1.34 1.44 Sterling Commodity 3/9 4/4
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    • AIR MOVEMENTS – SINGAPORE, KUALA LUMPUR
      • 155 9 TIME: AIRLINE FROM 8.20 a.m. MAL 019 Kuala Lumpur. 9.30 a.m. MAL 121 Kuala Lumpur. 10.55 a.m. MAL 005 Penang. Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur. Malacca. 11.05 a.m. MAL 451 Kuching. 2.45 p.m. MAL 045 Kota Bahru, Kuantan, Kuala Lumpur. 3.30 p.m. MAL 453 Jesselton. 5.00 p.m. MAL 613
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      • 152 9 TIME: AIRLINES: TO 7.31 a.m. MAL 122 Kuala Lumpur. 7.40 a.m. MAL 452 Kuching. 8.00 a.m. Thai 402 Bangkok. 8.00 a.m. PAA 842 Saigon, Manila. Guam. Honolulu, L. Angeles, S. Francisco. 8.30 a.m. MAL 614 Hongkong. 9.00 a.m. CPA 574 Kuala Lumpur, Hongkong, Taipeh, Osaka. Tokyo. 9.00
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      • 140 9 TIME AIRLINES FROM 7.45 a.m. BOAC (BA 789) Singapore. 8.15 a.m. MAL (ML 122) Singapore. 8.25 a.m. MAL (ML 034) Singapore. Malacca. 9.15 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Penang, Ipoh. 9.40 a.m. Cathay (CX 574) Singapore. 10.05 ajn. MAL (ML 042) Singapore. 12.30 p.m. MAL (ML 512)
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      • 137 9 TIME AIRLINES TO 7.15 a.m. MAL (ML 019) Singapore. 8.25 a.m. BOAC (BA 789) Colombo, Bombay, Cairo, London. 8.45 a.m. MAL (ML 122) Ipoh, Penang, Alor Star, Kota Bahru. 9.30 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Malacca, Singapore. 10.05 a.m. Cathay (CX 574) Bangkok, Taipeh, Osaka. Tokyo. 10.20
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    • 128 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore Chinese produce exchange noon prices today were: Previous Today's Sellers Sellers Coconut oil (FOB) Bulk 44.00 Aug Coconut oil (FOB) 45.50 nriimQ Alley mmimm Sugar (Java) ex-godown... 25.75 Nutmegs 110s B W Niitmpa* R Ri W Garbled Lampong Black 142.50n 140.00 Pepper (FOB) Pepper Black Special
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  • 397 10 RANGOON, Mon. (AFP). United Nations Secretary General U Thant will not accept a new term of office when his president mandate expires on November 3, U Thanh's brother U Khant said today. U Khant said the Secretary General had stated this in letters to his
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  • 259 10 MANILA, Mon. (UPI) The forthcoming state visit Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos to Japan could open a new and promising trade era between the two countries, according to a weekly financial publication, The Financial Journal. It said that Filipino's had long been suspicious of
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  • 204 10 HONGKONG, Mon. (AFP). —The North Vietnamese government paper Nhandan today listed 10 weak points in the United States 'Forces in South Vietnam which would "ensure the defeat of the US aggressors", New China News Agency reported. Among the weak points the paper alleged incompetent command and wavering
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  • 162 10 BANGKOK, Mon. (AP) The level of the Mekong river today was reported to be continuing to rise and most of the riverside town of Nongkhai, in North-east Thailand, was said to be eovered with over three feet of water. Press reports here said this was the severest
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  • 95 10 BOLZANO, Italy, Mon. (UPI) Grenade-hurling terrorists attacked an Italian police post on the Austrian frontier on Saturday night but were driven off by machine gunfire. The terrorists, assumed to be members of a Germanlanguage extremist organisation seeking autonomy for the Alto Adige (the pre-World War I Austrian
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  • 456 10 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) —In the interests of self-preservation, the house committee on unAmerican activities will take no action against two persons who openly defied its subpoenas. The two, Dr. Allen Krebs and Walter D. Teague 111, both of New York city, ignored their
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  • 158 10 MANILA, Mon. (UPI) City police have started patrolling the University of the Philippines in an effort to reduce violence touched off by a fraternity feud in the wake of a recent campus election. The trouble started when a law student from Beta Sigma fraternity beat an
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  • 181 10 TEL AVIV, Israel, Mon. (AP). A major business recession is threatening Israel for the first time in the young state's history. "It's almost biblical," said one Israeli economist. "We've enjoyed seven fat years since 1959 and there is every indication we are facing seven lean years."
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  • 149 10 TOKYO, Mon. (AFP). France is in a position to exert pressure on the United States and thus restrain her from escalating the war in Vietnam by strengthening her ties with Soviet Russia, the influential daily "Yomiuri Shimbun" suggested this morning. In an
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  • 84 10 MANILA, Mon. (AP) Kim Yong-Ki, the farmerphilosopher from South Korea who is this year's winner of the Magsaysay Award for public service, arrived from Seoul, today. Kim and his fellow awardee will receive their medallions and a cash prize U.S. $lO,OOO each at ceremonies to be
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  • 43 10 SEOUL, Mon. (AP) The death toll from encephalitis since early this month rose to 310 today as 54 more persons died in a day, the health ministry reported. The ministry said a total of 1,386 cases has been reported this summer.
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  • 197 10 millions back rent claims DAMASCUS. Mon. (AFP) Syria today claimed the Iraq Petroleum Company owed it several hundred million Syrian pounds because of an 11-year-old calculation error in annual rents for the use of oil pipelines on Syrian territory. An official note has been sent to the oil company asking
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  • 129 10 KYOTO, Japan. Mon. (UPI) A scientific meeting of the sixth International Electronic Microscope Conference opened here yesterday at Kyoto microscopes. The eight-day meeting, participated by 1.500 scientists from 37 countries, is the first meeting to be held in Asia. The first congress was held in 1949 in the
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  • 24 10 MILAN, Italy, Mon. (UPI) A commission of government and tourism officials has selected the umbrella pine as the horticultural symbol of Italy.
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  • 496 10 LONDON, Mon. (AP) —Britons are emigrating in record numbers with indications the wage and credit squeeze will step up the pace. The flow is mainly to Australia, Canada and South Africa but the United States is becoming more of an attraction, especially for doctors, scientists
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  • 51 10 VARTO, Antolia Region, Turkey, Mon.—Turkish troops were among the many rescue workers at the site of the quake-shattered town on August 21. Varto and surrounding villages were buried by the series of quakes and thousands were rendered homeless. Meanwhile international aid continues to pour in for the stricken and bereaved
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  • 303 10 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) Sen. Jacob K. Javits. Re-publican-New York, told the American Legion yesterday that President Johnson wai misleading the American people into believing the United States could achieve a military victory in Vietnam. But in reality, Javits said, America could not expert "total and decisive military
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  • 150 10 Brunei Town, Sri. Mon. Brunei's Crown Prince, Duli Pengiran Muda Mahkota Hassanal Bolkiah, during the weekend launched the first ever built modern vessels here. This was the Crown Prince's first official function since his arrival here a fortnight ago from studies at the Royal Military Academy in
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  • 103 11 MICHAEL PARKS, who plays the part of a talented but mixedup young artist who seduces his best friend's mother in Paramount's "The Idol," under the direction of Daniel Petrie, has recently portrayed Adam in the unreleased film version of "The Bible," but he doesn't particularly
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  • 191 11 A SHERIFF'S deputy found Michele Carey and James Caan safe "but beginning to panic" after the feminine and juvenile leads of Howard Hawks' "Eldorado" had been lost in the Arizona desert five hours, recently. during location filming of the John WayneRobert Mitchum starrer. FRENCH film maker
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  • 722 11 WITH an errie "whooosh," two 50-foot-high glass-paneled doors slide open to reveal the subterranean headquarters of an ultrasophisticated scientific organisation called the Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces. This is the starting point of "Fantastic Voyage," a truly unique $6,500,000 science-fiction film currently being made
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  • 927 11 SHADOWS overcloud the carefree world of Philippe de Montfaucon, Marquis de Bellac (David Niven) when his vineyard overseer, Grandee (Michael Miller), arrives at his palatial Paris home. The news that Grandee brings is disturbing. Once again, for the third successive year, the famed Bellac
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  • 314 11 HANDSOME lanky Anthony Perkins was particularly happy with his starring role in "Is Paris Burning?" Paramount's stirring film version of the international best-seller by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, because it finally provided him with an opportunity of playing his age. "I realise I
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  • 374 11 Andrea Dromm is a pixie-blonde with a build of a boy except in those spots where it counts the most. Snub-nosed Andrea, cute as a button and more fun to have around, is making her film debut in Norman Jewison's 'The Russians Are Coming The
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  • 197 12 GARDINER, Oregon, Sun. (UPI). Workers continued to picket International Paper Company's long-bell Plywood operation here yesterday in a dispute over a female worker's tight pants. Members of the Plywood Worker's Union local 2,195 walked off the job after Patricia Morris,' 35, on the night shift,
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  • 232 12 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI). Sen. Roman L. Hruska, Republican-Nebras-ka, warned yesterday that beef imports may total one billion pounds this year, the level that brought "the awful collapse of the cattle market" in 1963. Hruska and Sen. Karl E. Mundt, Republican-Sou th Dakota, discussed rising beef
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  • 491 12 jyt ELBOURNE, Australia, Mon. Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne recently conducted an unusual course to encourage married women doctors back to the medical profession. Many of the 22 women who took the course have been out of the profession for between 15 and 20
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  • 478 12 TAY NINH, Vietnam. Mon. (UPI) "Phi Luat Tan, Phi Uat Tan," the children called as the truck loads of Filipino soldiers drove into the camp. "They knew we were coming before we got here," said Capt. Eduardo Ermita, leader of one of
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  • 423 12 UNITED NATIONS, Mon. (AP) A report to the United Nations on Soviet space activities claims that the Automatic Space Station, Luna 9, was at "zero velocity," or dead still, when it made the world s first soft landing on
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  • 83 12 VIENNA, Mon. (AFP) Austrian Premier. Mr. Franz Jcnas will make a 10-day official visit to Thailand next January on the invitation of King Bumiphol, it was announced here today. The visit will return one made to Austria by the King and Queen of Thailand in
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  • 43 12 HANOI. Mon. (AFP) North Vietnam forces downed a United States aircraft over Central Thanh Hoa province today. The north Vietnam news agency reported. This brings the total of United States aeroplanes brought down over North Vietnam to 1,367, the agency added.
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  • 693 12 PHU LOI, Vietnam, Mon. (UPI). —"Oh God i e t me live" said the young soldier. He said it over and over again. Blood spurted from his head. Someone told th« terrified young negro he was going to be okay, but
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  • 142 12 BONN. Mon. (AFP) West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard said here today he would discuss during his coming tour of Scandinavia the possibility of re-opening talks between Britain and the European economic community. At Bonn-Cologne airport before leaving for Oslo on the first stage
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  • 1214 13  -  By Wendy Hall THE University of Sussex, which opened at Brighton on the south coast of England in 1961, was the first of a group of seven new universities planned during the 1950s to increase considerably the number of student places in Britain.
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  • 85 13 DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Mon. (AP) The largest herd of elephants ever recorded in the famous Seregeti National Park of Tanzania was sighted yesterday thundering through the jungles of the park. More than 800 were seen by Chief Park Warden Mr. P.A.G. Field who termed the mass movement
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  • 44 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Tuan Haji Ghazali bin Haji Jawi, will pay a week's official visit to Sabah and Sarawak early next month. He will leave Kuala Lumpur for Jesseltoa on Sept. 1 at 8.45 a.m.
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  • 399 13 SYDNEY. Mon. Defecates from 16 Asian countries participated in an important medico-scientific conference in Australia recently. The conference was the Xlth Congress of the International Society of Haematology, and the International Society of Blood Transfusion, which ended today. It took Dlace In the University of Sydney.
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  • 404 13 STEERING by the stars is probably almost as old as travel itself, but in the fast-moving 20th-century it has become necessary to link navigation to the latest in technology. In a small observatory at the Bristol College of Science and Technology in south-west England, a team
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  • 655 13  - Is there enough water in the world By JOHN COOPER It can be argued that of all the world's peat treasures, water is the greatest. Certainly in countries where rainfall is rare and rivers and lakes nonexistent, water has a value beyond gold and precious stones, at times even beyond
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  • 132 13 LONDON, Mon. (UPI).— Decca Navigator Company, a British firm that manufactures navigation aids for ships and planes, is claiming that the U.S. Government infringed on its patent rights, it was announced yesterday. Managing Director Mr. Harvey Schwarz said the claim concerns the loran C. navigational
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  • 49 13 JUDY HUXTABLE, stunning British society girl, is anything but a "gimmick" in her first major screen role. As the feminine juvenile lead in Paramount's thriller 'The Psychopath/' the lovely blonde proves that she has, or has learned, what it takes to be a first-rate actress*
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  • 428 13 PERTH. Mon. The Western Australian Minister for Industrial Development, Mr. Charles Court, said recently that the State Government was engagrd in negotiations which would add manganese to the multi- million dollar ironore development already under way in the north of Western Australia. The other partner to
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  • 85 13 PENANG. Mon. Villagers in Tanjong Bungah. who attended a Chinese wayang at a Chinese temple there last night, fled when two rival parties clashed near the vicinity. Lam Jit Mooi. 26, was seriously injured on the head and was rushed to the general hospital. Another man.
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  • 51 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon A passing-oul parade for 197 national service recruits will be held at National Service Training Centre, Gunong Panjang camp, Jalan Tambun, Ipoh tomorrow. The parade will be commanded by Lieutenant Soud bin Taimun, M.M., and the band of ihc Royal Malay Regiment will be in
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  • 735 15 IPOH. Mon. The following are the weights for the Ist day Perak Turf Club Sultan's Gold Vase Meeting on Sept: First Day, Sept. 4. Horses CL 1, Div. 1 6 Furs. Silver Crown 9.06 Top Honour 9.06 Lord Jim 9.04 Ifokoru
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  • 431 15 SINGAPORE, Mon. A new course record was t»et up by B.K.S. Maniam, of the Swifts in the Swift A th 1 e te s Association's Open Six miles road walk held here yesterday. B. K. S. Maniam who returned a time of 48 mins. 13
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  • 39 15 KL'ALA LUMPUR, Mon. —Vietnamese skipper Tam Lang receiving the coveted trophy from the Yang di-Pertuan Agong after Vietnam beat Burma 1-0 in the finals of the Merdeka Football Tournament played at the Merdeka Stadium last night.
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  • 138 15 SINGAPORE, Mon. 32 Regiment R.C.T. defeated Army Dept Police 7 —l in the finals of the Malayan Amed Force., Badminton Championships played yesterday at Nuffield Hall, Portsdown Road. RESULTS: (32 Regt first): Singles: Drv. Samion lost to P. C. Omar 5 —15, 4
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  • 167 15 HOUSTON, Texas, Mon. (UPI) A fight manager who says his fighter can cut down Cassius Clay with either hand contended on Saturday any fight between the two must guarantee his fighter a million dollars. Hugh Benbow, manager of the heavyweight Cleveland (Big Cat) Williams said
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  • 62 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. In a friendly football match played at the Methodist School grounds here this evening to celebrate the fifth annual Old and Present Boys Games carnival. the present boys defeated the old boys 5-0. At half time, the score was 2-0. Earlier in
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  • 118 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The total gate receipts for the ninth merdeka soccer tournament fell short of $15,500 compared with last year's collections. Stating this today, Mr. Kwok Kin Keng, the secretary of the Football Association of Malaysia, said that this year's collection amounted to $366,350. Of
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  • 104 15 SINGAPORE Mon.—Vietnam, champions in the re-cently-concluded Merdeka soccer competition, drew with Singapore 2—2 in their encounter at Jalan Besar stadium tonight. Kim Swe*. scored Singapore's first goal in the 15th minute and Hussein Aljunied in the 38ih minute. Tran Chann scored both goals for
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  • 33 15 TOKYO, Mon. (AP) I Won-Sok, So'ith Korea's orient bantamweight champion, was defeated by Yoshio Nakane of Japan by unanimous decision in a 10-round, non-title bout at Korakuen Hall here last night.
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  • 412 15  -  By JOHN KAM KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Courage, determination, and a rigid semi-military schedule of training paid off handsomely for South Vietnam's football team when they won the Merdeka Soccer championships for the first time last night. Although they were the underdogs, facing a muchfavoured
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  • 205 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Malaysian Amateur Athletic Union is to hold two trials to select athletes to represent the country at the Asian Games at Bangkok this December. Sixty-nine have been selected to undergo the trials and it is expected the first trial will be
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  • 262 15 SINGAPORE, Mon. —Two top softball teams here will clash at the Port of Authority Recreation Club's Sports Carnival at Bukit Chermin here tomorrow. The match is part of the club's programme for the week-long Sports Carnival, which began last Saturday. The clash will be
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  • 355 15  -  By Low Teo Ping SINGAPORE, Mon.—Two shooters made the 580-mark in the Asian Games trials for the 50 metres Small Bore Prone shoot held at Gimson School Rifle Range here yesterday. The shoot was the first in the three-stage final round trials
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  • 143 15 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Civil Service Association will hold a tennis tournament for all civil seravnts, starting from Sept. 17. The tournament will be held at the Association's courts and they include the following events: Men's Open Singles, Men's Open Doubles. Ladies Open Singles,
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  • 231 15 SINGAPORE. Mon. Illtrained sportsmen will no longer represent the Republic abroad. As Chairman of the Singapore Sports Council, Enche Othman Wok, Minister for Social Affairs strongly opposed the sending of ill-trained participants to represent Singapore aboard. He said it was a wastage of funds.
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  • 122 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Results of the clay pigeon and the standard rifle events held at the national shooting range here: Clay Pigeon (individual): 1. Siow Shu Nan (N.S.) 150/, 200: 2. M«>e Fu Kiat (Sel). 135/200; 3. Soon You Sin (N. 5.) 131/200; 4. Khoo Soon
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  • 112 15 WASHINGTON. Mon. (UPI). —lf world heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay wins a conscientious objector exemption from the draft, the odds are that he will spend his civilian service in hospital work. A Selective Service survey showed on Saturday that about two-thirds of the 4,554 conscientious
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