Eastern Sun, 21 December 1966

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  • 26 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily i SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 156 Wednesday, December 21 1966. ☆MC (P) 1942 KON 2309 Price 15 cents
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  • 629 1 US welcomes negotiations without i preconditions and in South-east Asia UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. TIES. U.S. Ambassador Arfhur Goldberg has personally delivered to U.N. Secretary General U. Thant a U.S. request that he c cussions which could lead to a ceasefire in Following is the text of the
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  • 73 1 The most sought after prizes in the five-dav Peter Stuyvesant-sponsored Second Open National Tenpin Bowling Championships at Jackie's Bowl in Kuala Lumpur were the Men's and Women's Masters Trophies. Two worthy howlers who emerged as man and woman Masters at the tournament which ended yesterday were Lavis Lim
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  • 138 1 PARIS, rues (UPI) News that the United States has asked United Nations Secretary General U Thant to "take whatever steps necessary" to start lasting discussions on a Vietnam cease fire was greeted with cautious optimism in Paris, official quarters today. The Foreign Office declined comment pending official reports
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  • 53 1 SEREMBAN. Tues. A youth plunged 14 storey to his death from a multistorey building at Jalan Templer here today. He has not been identified. Police found a pair of rubber slippers on the 14th storey. A five-dollar note and a handkerchief were found in the pocket
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  • 437 1  - Accountant— General's Dept. robbed by armed men lr_ Ben D'Cunho KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Accountant-General's office here was robbed of $42,000 by four armed men this morning. The lightning robbery took place at 10.30 a.m. when the 170 workers of the A.G.'s Department were about to be paid their Christmas
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  • 220 2 TO SET UP REPUBLIC'S OFFICE THERE SINGAPORE, Tues. A four-member liaison team, led by Enche Ridzwan Dhassir, left for Jakarta this evening to set up the Republic's liaison office there. Enche Ridzwan told newsmen that one of their tasks is to implement the $l5O million
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  • 134 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Ministry of Health Special Cattle Disposal Squad yesterday seized one cow found straying along Jalan Tehu. The animal was slaughtered this morning and the meat distributed to six charitable institutions. This brings the total number of straying animals which have been seized and disposed
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  • 111 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. Reclamation works are in progress to build a bund on the eastern side of East Lagoon, extending 3,000 feet from the original shoreline east of the line of wrecks. The bund will initially be built to a height of five feet above chart
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  • 29 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. A woman, Leong Ah Moi, 59, of Duxton Road was found hanging in her room on Sunday morning She was dead whan the Police arrived.
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  • 85 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. Air Marshal SWR. Hughes (right). Air Commander of the Far East Air Force, presents the Groves Second Memorial Award to Wing Commander John R. Howling for designing an ap- proach lighting system to enable helicopters to land at night. Wing Commander Dowling ii the Ofttcer
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  • 421 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. A National Arts Council will be set up in 1967 for the promotion of creative arts. such as music, dances, dramas, paintings. and sculptures. This was disclosed in Parliament yesterday, by the Minister of Btate for Culture. Mr. Lee Khoon Choy. when
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  • 207 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The revenue collected from advertisements over television and radio by the Singapore Government for this year totalled $4,629,000. This was disclosed by the Minuter of State for Culture. Mr Lee Khoon Choy. in Parliament yesterday during the debate in the Committee
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  • 276 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. Motivated by the cinemagoers' insatiable demand for first class cinema halls, the Cathay Organisation has. since the past few years, embarked on a multi-million dollar programme in an endeavour to meet this demand. And in line with this policy. the New Alhambra Theatre
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  • 48 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Minister of Education. Enche Mohd. Khir Johari. will hand over to the Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak. a cheque for $5OO for the National Defence Fund from the Day Training College. Kuala Lumpur, after the Cabinet meeting at Parliament House tomorrow.
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  • Article, Illustration
    28 2 Before inserting candles, dip rr-. #*ta 1 candlesticks in boiling water. Softening of wax by the not metal helps the randltt to fci tad hold securely*
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  • 99 2 SINGAPORE. Tuei Fire broke out today at 12.4 ft p.m. at the Singma Trading Co., in Woodlands Road and destroyed property estimated at $20,000. One of the employees of the Arm Kwee Kim Seng, 35, was seriously injured and admitted to the General Hospital. where he
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  • 21 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. There were 75 road accidents of which five were serious, during the past 24 hours in Sin«apar%
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  • 324 2 SINGAPORE, Tues.—A five-member Thai delegation headed by the t'nder-Secretary of State, Ministry of Communications Mr. S a w a r n g Sa-Nf uanwongse, arrived hert this afternoon for negotiations on a Thai-land-Singapore air services agreement scheduled to begin tomorrow. The other members
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  • 326 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Primary Production Department has found a suitable insecticide which is effective against the Diamond Black Moth a pe<t which has been attacking vegetables, particularly "choy sam" and "kai lan". The discovery was the result of a series of tests using various
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  • 92 2 SINGAPORE. Tues A pantomime. "Vie Whittington and his Two Cats" will be stager, at the Sultan Cinema aboard the HM S. Terror on Dec 27. 28 and 29. Performances will start at 4 p.m. on Dec. 27 (mainly for children), and at 8 p.m. on the
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  • 286 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. Two members of the Rumanian trade delegation, who arrived last night, called on the Minister for Finance. Mr. Lim Kim San. today to exchange ideas on trade that would benefit both countries. They are Mr. Stefan Voinov. Director, Minstry of Foreign
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 72 2 S'pore Diary 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Y.r Memorial Hall, E.npr* Place: 'Book Exr.o:'. r 7.45 p.m. Victoria Theat: Empress Place: An Eve: ing of Music and Dan 8.45 p.m. National Thea'r Tank Road: Barangg —Philippine Folk Dan 7.30 p.m. Free film sh r by the Ministry of Cu ture:
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  • 386 3  -  Technological university in near future By r Loke ond Mortin Lim Our Porliomentory Reporters. SINGAPORE, Tues. The Singapore Government plans to set up a technological university in the near future. The Education Minister, Mr. Ong Pang Boon made this announcement in Parliament today. He was speaking in
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  • 75 3 JESSELTON. Tues. The Specialist Trade Centre in Sandakan will next month a two-year whole time course in motor vehicle mechanics work, a part-time evening course in electric arc and acetyelene welding and a Dart-time evening course in motor vehicle mechanics work. The part-time courses will •e held
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  • 176 3 SINGAPORE, Tues.—An air sen-ires agreement between Singapore and the Scandinavian countries was signed this morning at the Malayan Rubber Export Registration Board Conference Room, granting air rights to Scandinavian Airlines System to operate to Singapore. The Scandinavian countries Denmark, Norway and Sweden are the first group
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  • 398 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Education Minister. >lr. Ong Pang Boon, today said that sixteen secondary schools would be built next year. Most of them, said the Minister, would be sited in rural areas. The Minister was replying to complaints by Members of Parliament
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  • 234 3 SINGAPORE. Tues.— The Singapore Parliament today approved in its Committee of Supply session the sum of $580,000 for the development of vocational institutes in the coming year. The Education Minister. Mr. Ong Pang Boon said that more than $300,000 would be allocated for the near
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  • 28 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Thirty-five members of the University of Malaya Tamil Language Society will leave Malaysia in February for a six-week tour of India.
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  • 261 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The full-time teachers Gaining course at the Teachers Training Colmay be extended from two to three years. Education Minister, in Waiting the announcement Parliament, said that with introduction of the expended course, there would a marked improvement the quality of the
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  • 308 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Singapore Parliament was today told that it was an offence for moneylenders to harass their customers either at their place of work or in their homes. The Minister for Law and National Development, Mr. E. W. Barker, made this
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  • 238 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Singapore Government is building a new home for the Ist Singapore Infantry Regiment. At the present, pending the completion of the new barracks, the men and officers of the Ist S.I.R. are making temporary improvements in the barracks at Ulu Pandan.
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  • 47 3 IPOH, Tues. A motorist, M. Subrayan, 33, was convicted in the High Court here today on a charge of negligent driving at the 8J milestone, Ipoh-Kuala Kangsar Road on March 6. Subrayan was fined $l5O Or one month's jail. His driving licence was also endorsed.
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  • 661 4 'We're not passing the buck, dailyrated have SINGAPORE, Tucs. The Notional Trodes Union Congress today maintained that the public daily-rated workers have a case for wage negotiation and an ultimate revision of wages "as of right". In a statement issued late this afternoon, the Secretary-General,
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  • 103 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. A 700-bed General Hospital is being planned for the eastern pan of Singapore somewhere in Bedok. This was disclosed by the Minister for Health. Nlr Yong Nyuk Lin. in Parliament today He was replying to a query by the Member for Kampong Kembangan.
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  • 134 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. The MP for Mountbatten, Mr. Ng Yeow Chorg. today asked in Parliament if the Social Affairs Parliament if the Social Affairs Ministry would build more beach-huts or chalets for the benefit of picnickers along Changi Beach and other beaches. Mr. Ng said that those who
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  • 341 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. Year in, year out. the most «ought after gifts for Christmas are toys... the joy of Christmas for children. Singaporeans are very lucky in that Singapore is without doubt one of the most attractive shopping centres in the world, and anyone intent on a
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  • 70 4 MALACCA. Tues Annother piracy ha? "r>een reported in the Straits of Malacca. Two fishermen from here who returned yesterday, reported to Police that pirates robbed them, off Pulau Undan. last Saturday afternoon. Goh Hong J;n and Goy Sang Kua said they were confronted bv 11 uniformed men.
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  • 30 4 MUAR. Tues Mr Mok Teck Cnai. Post Master of the Parit Jawa Post Office, nine mi es from here, went on transfer to the Kluang D"strict Post Office today.
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  • 57 4 IPOH. Tues. Bed-ridden Miss Maria Lee. 30. pictured with her new chroniumplated wheel-chair presented to her at Our Lady's Hospital by the Lions Club of Ipoh yesterday. From left: Lion president. Dato Chan Suee Ho. the Rev. Mother of the Ipoh Convent. Lion Dato Chonc Kok Urn.
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  • 498 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. A Criminal District Judge today told three convicted robbers that they were "lucky" not to receive caning, after one of them had pleaded to him not to impose Police supervision. The Judge, Mr. Liew Nfik Kee. rejected his plea and
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  • 117 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. There is a tendency for people to abuse free services. This charge was made by the Minister for Health, >lr. Yong Nvuk Lin. during the debate on the Development Estimates for his Ministry today. He added that this was the reason why
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  • 57 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The University of Malaya Music Society ha s started a small musical group. The society hopes that more musicians in the campus would come forward and join the group so that there coujd be a "decent orchestra" by next year. Activities are presently hampered
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  • 38 4 MALACCA. Tues. Police have recovered a car reported stolen over the weekend. It was found in Tampin. 25 miles from here. The recovered car. a Morris Minor, belongs to Chong Heng Weng, of Heeren Street.
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  • 192 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Singapore Government will give priority to build a mul-ti-storey car-park at the present rar parking site outside Clifford Pier. The Minister for Law and National Development, Mr E. W. Barker, said this when he gave details of the Government's plans on
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  • 489 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Minister for Health. Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, today said that the time had now come for the setting up of a separate teaching hospi. tal for the University of Singapore's Medical School, He was replying to the Member for Joo
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  • 113 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. A $200,000 Junior Approved School will be built by the Government at Clement! Road, next year. The new school, for boys under 14 years of age. will be able to house some 80 juvenile deliquents. The Minister for Culture and Social Affairs. Enche Othman
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  • 166 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Minister of Interior and Defence. I)r. Goh Keng Swee, yesterdav urged youths between 16 and 25 years to enlist themselves with the Vigilante Corps to help the Police in maintaining peeace and order. He said the train;.-.? would offer them the
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  • 25 4 MUAR. Tues The Tohore State Veterinary Department yesterday distributed 50 pigs to in villagers n f Ren gam under the Pavah system.
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  • 97 4 TAIPING, Tues. A widow with eijjht children. Madam Ranjitham. 28. received a cheque for S2O contributed by Eastern Sun readers. Her husband, a Telecoms linesman, Thanimalai, 47, was killed In a railway accident between Taiplng and Padang Rengas on Aug. 13 this year when he was
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • WORLD NEWS
    • 411 5 NITED NATIONS, Tues. (UPI) The General Assembly yesterday reaffirmed United Nations commitment to peaceful reunification of Korea through free, internationally-supervised elections by a vote of 67-19. The move came as the General Assembly took up the recommendation of the main political committee on the
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    • 101 5 LISBON. Tues. (AP> Portugal has marked the fifth anniversary of the Indian takeover of the conclaves of Goa. Damao and Dio with a rally and a solemn mass. At a rally yesterday held in front of the monument of the navigator Alfonso de Albuquerqe. discover and
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    • 67 5 KLEIXNG. FORMOSA, Tues. (L'Pl). There will be no more hugging and kissing on the docks of this port city when American sailors take leave of their Chinese girl friends. Keelung Harbour Police have decided that *uih displays are "counter to Chinese traditions." They said they
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    • 63 5 JAKARTA. Tues. (L'PI) The wife of Indonesia's former Communist party boss Mr. DN. Aidit was captured today. Mr Aidit's wife, one of the leaders of Indonesia's Com m u nist Women's Organisation had been watched by intelligence agents since last year's coup. A dedicated Communist, she had
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    • 112 5 JERUSALEM. Israeli Sector. Tjes. (AP> Heavy ic.r.s have soaked the holy .=r.d in the last few days *r.z a white Christmas can expected in Galilee and of Judea and Be*.-..ehern, the weatherman Predicted yesterday. Israeli officials are now prefer.::;; for the thousands of vis.tor- who will be trekking
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    • 68 5 LOS ANGELES. Tues. (AP) —Actress Chris Noel, who's had a long-distance love affair with American troops in South Vietnam, talks with newsmen at Los Angeles International Airport recently as she left for Saigon under sponsorship of Uncle Sam. Her daily record show from Hollywood, broadcast by the Armed Forces Network,
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    • 143 5 MEXICO CITY. Tues. (LTI) Diplomatic sources say the Red Chinese lost their foothold in Mexico because the Mexican Government found them engaging in spy work, according to the Cuban Exile Press Service. A IP. AIP, run by anti-Castro Cuban newspapermen in exile, quoted diplomats in Mexico City
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    • 129 5 CHICAGO, Tues (ITI) The trial of Richard Franklin Speck on charges of murdering eight student nurses in Chicago last July was ordered today to ie held in Peoria. Illinois. ISO miles from the scene of the crime. Peon a was chosen in the belief* that Speck
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    • 87 5 TAIPEI, Tues. (AFP). The Eng Aun Tong Tiger Brand" pharmaceutical factory of "Haw Par" brothers of Hongkong was opened in suburban Taipei today. The Minister of Economics Mr. K. T. Li officiated at the opening ceremony. President Chiang Kai Shek this morning received
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    • 320 5 UCHINOrRA, Japan, Tues. (UPr> Japan failed to join the world's "space club" for the second time this year today when the last part of a four-stage rocket failed to go into orbit. The Lamda 4S-2. named after Greek alphabet and made up of three-stage rockets
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    • 321 5 WASHINGTON. Tues. <UPI) Korean Foreign Minister Dr. Lee Tone Won told Secretary of State Mr. Dean Rusk todav that other Asian nations besides his own should send more troops to South Vietnam. In his remarks to newsmen following his hour-long conversation with
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    • 161 5 Reunion aboard "Gipsy Moth IV" for Britain's lone sailor FRANCIS CHICHESTER and his wife SHIELA when his 53-foot ketch arrived in Sydney, Australia recently Mr. Chichester landed in Sydney having taken 107 davs to cover the 13.750 miles from the port of Plymouth on the English south
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    • 188 5 SAIGON. Tues (UPI) Evangelist Billy Graham said today on the sixth anniversary of the National Liberation Front'that Americans pray for the Vietcong even while they are fighting and killing them. Dr. Graham, in Vietnam for a week-long Christmas visit to U.S. troops, was asked whether he
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    • 560 5 WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI) The Pentagon said yesterday it had "no information" that the U.S. Government had bought steel from Communist China for use in South Vietnam. A statement was issued answering questions about a report published in London to the effect that Communist China had sold US$1
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    • 389 6 WASHINGTON. Tues. (AP) King Hussein of Jordan says he believes the Soviet Union is trying to gain control of the Middle East and would "go very far" in this attempt. In a copyrighted interview published yesterday in IS. News and World Report, the King
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    • 180 6 RIO de JANEIRO. Tues. (AP) At least 19 persons perished when a flashflood swept down on a mountain village 190 kilometres West of here, according to reports reaching the capital yesterday. Residents said two homes housing 14 persons were washed away after private dams across the Rio
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    • 159 6 PARIS, Tues. (AFP) The Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth, will today become France's first foreign guest at what the government claims is the most luxurious and distinguished residence in the world. The residence Is the socalled "Grand Trianon", built by the
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    • 143 6 LONDON. Tum <AP) The House of Common)* last night aDproved a bill lega--1 sin? homosexual acts between consenting male adults in private The action culminated a lons campaign in which supporters claimed the exist ng law placed practicing homosexuals open to blackmail. Mr. Leo Mabse,
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    • 110 6 NEW YORK. Tues. (AP> An 18-year-o'd girl arrested in an anti-Vietnam war demonstration is "doing well" in the fifth day of a hunger strike, a jail officer said yesterday. Suzanne Williams ha.s not eaten since she and 59 others were arrested last Thursday in front
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    • 146 6 ALTHOUGH there was a full charge of radioactive fuel in the core, a team of British engineers recently crawled through a manhole into the heart of a reactor at the 10 million Windscale atomic energy plant on the Cumberland coast in North West England. By doing so they proved the
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    • 437 6 LONDON, Tues. (AP) Two young Japanese who have set up the first office in London of a Japanese pet company reported yesterday that many British do? breeders are refusing to sell to them. The Japanese, Mr. Osami Yotori. 29 and Mr. Ken Sakurai. 26,
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    • 183 6 LAS VEGAS. Nevada. Tues. (AP) A big nuclear devioe perhaps the largest ever detonated in the I'nited States is expected to tear a huge underground cavern inside Pahute Mesa today about 85 mile s North-West of here. The intermediate yield with energy equal to
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    • 92 6 UNITED NATIONS, Tues. (AP) The General Assembly yesterday averted a threatened showdown on controversial peacekeeping guidelines by shelving the problem until next April. The move was launched by a group of non-aligned nations after the Soviet Union and France charged that a resolution sponsored by Canada, Ireland
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    • 459 6 New guess at evolution: WASHINGTON. Tues. (AP) A new theory offered yesterday that life began from a "thin soupin the primitive ocean with help from carbon monoxide gas, frequently a killer in man's modern world. The concept, offered by a Carnegie Institution
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    • 201 6 LONDON. Tues. (AP> The Foreign Secretary Mr. George Brown refused calls from members of his own Labour Party that the United States be branded guilty of deliberately bombing civilians in the Vietnam war. Mr. Brown told questioners in the House of Commons that civilian
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    • 74 6 BUDAPEST, Tues. (UPI) A mass rally staged in Budapest yesterday to mark the sixth of the formation of the South Vietnam Liberation Front "condemned the barbarian aggression of the American imperialists," the Hungarian news agency reported. The rally, staged by the Hungarian Patriotic Front, the trade
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    • 211 6 WASHINGTON. Tues 4P» A hemisoher.c conference to uodate the slowmoving Organisation of American States (OAS) was summoned for Feb. 15 in Buenos Aires yesterday. Secretary of State Mr. Dean Rusk is expected to join the Latin Amer c;<n Foreign Ministers who would establish three
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    • 42 6 AARAU, SwitzerlandTues. (UPI).—A deer a scooter driver here yesterday. When it tried to cros- a highway, it was bit fu speed by a car and V. against scooter driver rich Schlatter 54, who w killed on impact. po*i<* reported.
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    • 396 7 WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI). Informed sources indicate that the United States is stepping up its drive for a share of exports of farm produce to Europe—this time to East European marts. The emphasis follow the indeeisive "Kennedy rounds trade talks with the
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    • 128 7 TOKYO. Tues. (AFP) Japanese-made commercial aircraft may be exported to Latin America for the first time. The Lineas Aereas Nacionales S. A. (LANSA) of Peru is reportedly to conclude a contract with the Nippon Aeroplane Manufacturing Company to acquire three YS-11 twin-turboprop
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    • 149 7 New York. Tues. (AP) A Catholic weekly edited by laymen published here said the United States should "Get out of Vietnam., even at the cost of a Communist victory."' In an editorial in the Pec. 23 issue. The Commonwealth which is not an official
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    • 172 7 LONDON. Tues. <AFP) A new non-stop 18-hour prorramme lasting wellinto the nisht will give pop music a place of honour in British Broadcasting. government White Paper announed today. In setting up the programme. the government will come to the rescue of all those millions of pop
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    • 157 7 The Cunard Line has announced that Captain William E. Warwick seen here on the bridge of the liner Queen Elizabeth has been appointed Master of their new £25.000.000 liner (at present known as the Q. 4.) now being bu It in Scotland. The Q. 4.
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    • 470 7 BALTIMORE. Maryland, Tues. (AP) A technique changing the sex of a chicken has reduced the rooster once the proud, cocky king of the barnyard to a cowering, hen-pecked bird. And it has placed him in a neither world between the sexes, neither
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    • 193 7 DAVENPORT. lowa. Tues. (AP) An angry school bus driver left eight of his children sitting in a U.S. internal revenue service (tax collector) office here for several hours yesterday before officials gave him US$lOO. Raymond Haley. 36. said he could not afflord to
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    • 96 7 INDIANPOLIS. Indiana, Tues. (API Flaming gasoline pouring down a storm stewer after a massive fourdeath traffi* crash yesterday sent residents fleeing from their homes in a five-mile strip across Northern Indianpolis. Fight schools were evacuated. Civil Defence authorities sounded the "all clear" shortly after
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    • 153 7 UMEA. Sweden. Tues. (AP» Thirteen Greek crewmen were lost with their 1.000 ton ship Sinerag Asia of Pireus which broke up in a blizzard off here. Swedish coastal authorities said last night. Ten of the 13 bodies were recovered on reefs near the grounded wreck.
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    • 176 7 MANILA. Tues. <AFP> Manila Mayor Antonio Vlllegas struck hard at American business yesterday by ordering the closure of all American-owned establishments in the city engaged in the retail business. The Mayor's order, which may affect gasoline firms and other big establishments. came on the heels
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    • 328 7 TOKYO. Tues. (AFP) Japan's second attempt to place a satellite on orbit failed today. Three quarters of an hour after the "Lambda 4-S* Japan-made rocket had raised itself successfully from its pad at the Uchinoura Space Station on Kyushu island, word came officially from
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    • 121 7 NEW YORK, Tues. (AP) About 150 Chinese art objects from the collection of King Gustaf VI of Sweden will be shown at the Asia House Gallery here from Jan. 5 through Feb. 12, 1967. The exhibition, organized under the auspices of the International Exhibitions Foundation
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    • 53 7 BAGHDAD. Iraq. TuM. (AP) The Cnited States will supply Iraq with 25.000 tons of wheat under an agreement signed last night by U.S. Ambassador Robert Strong and Tnder-Seeretary of the Iraqi Foreign Mini, stry Mr. Nuri Jamil. Payments is to be made within five years of
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    • 70 7 PART of a three-dimensional. 40-foot high, cut-out l T nion Jack symbol is hoisted into position at the top of the 200-foot tower of the British Pavilion at EXPO '67 the Universal and International Exhibition to be held in Montreal, Canada, next year. During the six months
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 156 6 7T FSOM REYKJAVIK ICEIANP TO SOUTH A*\ER£A,THe TWRUSH ORGANIZATION WAS IN STRANGE. MYSTERIOUS ACTION something OF WORLP-SHAKING PROPORTIONS WAS ABOUT TO BREAK.' BUT WHAT WAS THIS TOP SECRET? WHO, HOW ANP WHERE WOULPTHEY STRIKE? THESE WERE THE VITAL QUESTIONS ALEXANDER WAVfRLY SOUGHT TO ANSWER AS WE LAUNCi-iEP... Mm AMMiiT MUJOJ
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  • 754 8 ONE of the reasons why U Thant at first refused a further term as Secretary General to the United Nations was that no attempt was made by this world body to halt the Vietnam war. When he at last consented to continue in this post, he declared that
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  • 1048 8  -  By: Louis Halasz WHEN the usual General Assembly debate on Chinese representation ended on November 29, and the vote was taken, most observers were surprised over the results. The surprise was not that Communist China remained barred from an invitation
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  • 661 8 Saigon, Tues. (AP) T'HE problem of illegitimate children fathered by American servicemen in Vietnam i$ being attacked with solutions learned in Korea. Officials are trying to strengthen child welfare programmes throughout Vietnam instead of placing illegitimate children in orphanages or for adoption. "Illegitimate
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 186 8 V" COURTROOM W; By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, "Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials") TT was a hard decision indeed for Maureen to A advertise for sale her beloved Irish setter. Corky, but she had to move to very small Quarters. Oscar answered the ad and she gave him her
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
    • 498 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. q <.» conditions prevailed nroughout the Stock Exchange with prices mostly i r. hanged or small improverent on selective counters. Chemical being improved s'ightiv with business done from $153 to 51.59 up 6 certs. Es«o Ords. dealt from $2.99 $3.02. improved 6 cents v,r
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    • 25 9 HONG KONG Tues. (UPI) "_loney Quotations: HKSS.-"-25 x 5.7325 per US dollar for cash HK515.99 per pound "erling HK5266.875 per tael gold.
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    • 24 9 NEW YORK, Tues. (AP) Rubber standard futures closed quiet. No sales. Spot No. 1 ribbed smoked sheets 22 1/4 N. N-nominal.
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    • 23 9 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Rubber market opened Quiet with spot 18| 18-9/18. No. 1. RSS CIF basis ports 4an 184 184.
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    • 700 9  -  Bv Robin Pringle T OXDON, Tues. The Pounds, Shillings and Pence currency system that has served Britain well for many centuries is now scheduled to make way for m currency more in line with modern practice. Last March the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the
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    • 96 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. Association of Banks in Malaysia made the following changes in its rates to merchants today they were: New York: Buying T.T. 32-11/16; Airmail O.D. 3213/16; 90 d/st. 33-5/16 credit bills; 33-9/16 trade bills. Canada: Buying T.T. 357/16: Airmail O.D. 35-9/16; 90 d/st. 36-1/8 credit bills; 36-3/16
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    • 49 9 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Rubber futures closed yesterday unchanged with no sales. Jan. 22.20 22.70 Mar. 22.40 22.90 May 22.40 22.90 July 22.70 22.90 Sept. 22.70 22.90 Dec. 22.70 22.90 Jan. 22 70 22.90 Spot No. 1 RSS remained steady at 22-1/4 cents per pound, nominal.
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    • 15 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. The tin price for today was $602 per picul, down $l.
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    • 52 9 NEW YORK. Tues. <AP>. Dow Jones stock averages (Openi (High) (Low* (Close) (Changes) 30 Industrials 801.83 807.48 703.70 798 99 Off 8.19 20 Railroads 206.58 208.37 205.81 207 36 Up 0.45 15 Utilities 136.88 137.84 135.51 136 08 Off 0.67 85 Stocks 286.44 288 60 283.92 285.92
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    • 35 9 NEW YORK, Tues. (AP) New York stock exchange closing index: Market down 12 cents Index 44.22 down 0.12 Industrials 43.84 down 0.18 Transportation 48.58 up 0.18 Utility 44.83 up 0.04 Finance up 0.17.
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    • 574 9 pENEVA, Tues. A wide range of standard and optional safety equipment is available for the 1967 Chrysler Corporation passenger cars marketed by Chrysler International. Some of the items are new while others, offered in the past, have been redesigned to
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    • 53 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Danish Trade Officer in Singapore, Mr lb Hundahl. has returned to Copenhagen for a short vacation before taking up a new appointment. He has been appointed Middle East representative of the Danish Agricultural Marketing Board He will be In Beirut. Lebanon from
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    • 63 9 NEW YORK, Tuei. (AP) —The Stock Market dropped sharply yesterday in a slump apparently touched off by reports that General Electric Co. 1966 earning would fall below last year's record level. At noon, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks was off 10.69 at
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    • 36 9 NEW YORK. Tues. (AP) The Dow Jones spot commodity price index advanced 0.11 to 140.72. The Dow Jones commodity futures index closed 139.05 off 0.42. Index: (Open) 139.60; (High) 139.60; (Low) 139.05; (Close) 139.05.
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    • 30 9 LONDON. Tues. (UPH The tin market was steady Turnover 325 tons. Spot buyers 1205, Sellers 1206, Business 1205 3-months buyers 1203, Sellers 1204, Business 1203. Settlement 1206.
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    • 310 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. January first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 60| cents per lb up i cent from previous close. The tone was very quiet but steady. After a very slow and unchanged opening the market ruled
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    • 234 9 SAN FRANCISCO. Tues. (UPI) —Trans International Airlines (TIA), the United States second largest supplemental air carrier, has announced that it plans to offer tour fares 30 per cent lower than th« new rates agreed on by the world's major intercontinental airlines. Mr. Lenn A. Cramer, President
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    • 464 9 INDUSTRIAL Bow trad CD Central fiugara CD Chemical Co Cold storage CD... Dunlop K. Smelting Esso Ords Fsso Pref Fit/Patricks F. X. Ordk. (•amnion Oeorgetown OF.. Fife Oulnne** CD Hume Pref. \D Hotel S'pnra Hume <M) Ltd. Jf. Waugh M.B.B.S W. M. (Malaysia)... M Hanking .M. Breweries
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    • 45 9 (Manager®- prices) First Malayan Second Malayan Third Malayan Malaysian fomnnrrp \|> Mai. Savings Fund Merlins Commodity First Hong Rone Second Hong Kong K 2.1 t 1.51 1.07 .84 1.28 3'8 1.00 .70 8. 2.22 i!«2 1.18 .95 1.58 4'5 1.05* .74® (•Hon* Kong Currency)
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    • 112 9 ftlXOAPOXF. Tups. Slns.»pore Chinese Produce Kxchange noon price* today were. Buyeri Sellers Coconut oil (FOB) Bulk 42.50 Coconut oil (FOB) Drums n. 45.00 Lno-e Copra Mixed Dec Jan. 27.50 Sugar (Jaia) e\gndou n 24.25 Nutmeg* 110s 4?»5.00 Vutmeg* B W 235.00 Garbled l.ampong Black Pepper (FOR» 111.50 Pepper Black
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    • 173 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. The following ships are expected to be in port today:Godowns Vessels 3/4 Benartv 5 Hero 6/7 Nestor 8 9 Sumatra 10/11 Mohammedl 12/13 Kosovo 15/16 A.iax Oceania Maru 19 Sir Lancelot 23'24 Daepori 27/28 Caledonia Maru 29/30 Suceava 31/32 Ozarda 33 34 Yarra 35/36 Benloval 38/39
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    • 863 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 6.0.% a.m. Airline ML 029 from KuaU Lumpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MAL 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8..V) a.m. Airline JAL 712 from Jakarta. Time 9.30 a m. Airline MAL ISI from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.30 a.m. Airline MAL 451 from
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    • 736 13  -  By Jane Singer one has ever seen Queen Elisabeth powder her nose in public. She learnt a drastic lesson when, as Princess Elisabeth in her early twenties, she visited Canada for the first time. The occasion was a luncheon reception given by Canada's leading women's
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    • 727 13 TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Pulau Pinang. 6 Ipoh and Melaka: 3 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. (Singapore viewers, please switch to channel S for T.Y. Malaysia programmes). P.M. 5.45 OPENING ANNCT Prog Summary 5.48 NEWS OUTLINES IN THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE 5.53 ANNOUNCEMENT
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    • 133 13 COURTROOM By Kt-ry B. *otr.bi«tt (Author, "Handbook cf Evidence for Criminal Trials") YES. "The modern conception of dogs is that they are domestic animals and as such are clearly the subjects of property or ownership," the Judge ruled. "A pedigreed dog is 'unique chattel' and Oscar cannot dispose of Corky
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  • 458 15  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Tues. The president of Singapore F.A., Enche Abu Bakar bin Pawanchee said though the national soccer team would return home "minus" the medals—the squad had acquitted themselves creditably and set an "exemplary conduct" at Bangkok. Enche Abu Bakar who
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  • 1761 15 THE GOVERNOR'S (UP Horses Class l Div. 1—Abt. F. 331 C.rrnadler 6y 1001 LK Ng H Bkelen 710 flnknru 6y 9 07 Chukell Stable R Bkelen 998 Credit 103 Balance III 6y 9 04 Roval Syndicate R. B kelrn Champagnr 6v 9 02 Chukell Stable
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  • 320 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Next month promises to be one when rugger fans here can be assured of some very good rugger when three rugby clubs the Malaysian Rugby Union. Malaysian Armed Forces and the Royal Malaysian Air Force hold their fixtures. The
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  • 203 15 BANGKOK. Tues. (AFP) The Asian All-Stars, a team comprising the cream of hockey players from Asia, will be making tours to the Far East, India and Pakistan, commencing early next year. This was decided last night by the Executive Council of the Asian
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  • 171 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Third in the Men s Tram Event (Open) at the Seeond Open National Tenpin Rowling Congress sponsored by Peter Stuvvesant at Jackie's Bowl here was the Eastern Sun Team. Shown here receiving his trophy from Mrs. Albert Hee is E. C. Lim. who also
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  • 272 15  -  By WINDSOR LAD PENANG, Tucs. —Lotus Flower, a recent Ipoh winner, did the fastest time of the day at Batu Gantong this morning when he easily reeled off three furlongs in 39-2/5 sec. in the company of Daendels. Lotus Flower, who strode out smoothly
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  • 103 15 BANGKOK. Tues (AP)-Thal organisers of the Fifth Asian Games said today they were investigating a news report that a South Korean official complained about the organ sation of the sport championship. He also reportedly accused Thai poiice of siding with Thais, in a bloody free-lor-all
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