Eastern Sun, 24 December 1966

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  • 24 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 159 Saturday, December 24 1966. MC(P) 1942 KDN 2309 Price 15 cents
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  • 837 1 Goodwill holds the key to peace it must be turned simultaneously' Vatican City, Friday (UPI) POPE PAUL VI, in a Christmas call for peace in Vietnam, warned last night that uncontrollable circumstances' could trigger In a Christmas message broadcast over the world-girdling Vatican Radio, the Pontitf reiterated
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  • 510 1 JAKARTA. Fri (UPI)— Storm clouds of political discontent loomed once again over Jakarta Freedom Palace as pressure continued to mount against President Sukarno to explain his role in last year's Communist coup attempt. Army strongman Cicn. Suharto, fo r the first time in months, appeared
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  • 154 1 TOKYO. Fri. After three years of negotiations, iipm is expected to offer Malaysia's -blood debt'' settlement of >ls2s million in the near future. =r Sri Fumi'niko Kai, Ambassador to *"-.layt returned here to- *o participate in con with other Japaoff a!s on this problem.
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  • 32 1 LONDON. Fri. —A commuter train and a tram of empty passenger coaches collided today in North London. One report said 20 persons were trapped and one girl was seriously injured.
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  • 395 1 SAIGON, Fri. (I'PI) I .S. Marines cornered a large Communist force in rugged country north of Hue and slugged it out in a fight that lasted most of the night, a military spokesman said todav. The Communist, force, at least a company and possibly
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    • 121 1 311^1 with m 2 the quality drink for all the family! Something new for your Xmas reading... DID you know the Queen Mother has never owned a mink coat** Or that Queen Flizabeth often washes her own hair? Or that her sister, Princess Margaret, once tried to break the cigarette
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  • 521 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. Books published in the notional language should also be an important medium in the efforts to introduce the various cultures found in the multi-racial society of Singapore. The call was made by the Minister of State for Culture, Mr.
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  • 311 2 SINGAPORE Fri.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kur.n Yew. will declare open an Fducation Seminar at the Singapore Conference Hall on Tuesday. The them* the threeday seminar will be "F.ducaMon and Nation Baildintr". The participants will include principals of primary and secondary school? (all
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  • 66 2 SINGAPORE. Fri. A 40-year-old man. Mohamed Said bin Hitam. was killed on Wednesday when his scooter skidded near his house at Pender Road. He was carrying hi? two sons. five and seven years of age respectively, at the ti-re of the accident. Both of them suffered
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  • 125 2 SINGAPORE. Fri. Mr. Robert Maxwell, a leading British publisher of educational books, will visit Malaysia and Singapore in January. He is currently engaged or. a tour of all overseas offices of Pergamon Press Ltd. in connection with the launching of the fourth edition of
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  • 67 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. The whole amount of currency note* in circulation on Nov. t J D Sinjapore and Malaysia more than 81.311.2 million. The figures were disclosed to the latest report from the chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo, Mr. Tan Siew
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  • 47 2 SINGAPORE. FrL A watchman. Karnel Singh, was today tentatively charged with the murder of Narian Kaur, 69, the Ninth Magistrate's Court. He was alleged to have committed the offence in the Public Works Department sub-store in Anthony Road k on Dec. 22 at I a.m.
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  • 278 2 CIXGAPORE. Fri. A former Criminal Law (Trmv porary Provisions) detainef and police supervisee, was today sentenced to 34 years' imprisonment by the Second Criminal District Court Judge for the theft of a car. The offence was com- mitted when he absconded
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  • 50 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. Five armed men, two of whom were masked, broke into the house of Lee Eng Teck, at Joon Tnon Road, off Jurong Road, last night and got away with $7,345 loot They took away $3,250 in cash. $4,000 in cheques and a camera yalued at $95,
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  • 129 2 SINGAPORE Fri. The Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association will be celebrating its 20th anniversary with a dinner and dance at its premises over the Christmas season. The dance will be held on Christmas Eve and will be from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Tickets are
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  • 192 2 SINGAPORE, Fri.—The Survey of Households, which began in October this year, is scheduled to be completed in a few days' time. This is the first systematic sample survey of households being undertaken since the la*t large-scale population census was conducted in 1957. The project
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  • 774 2 SINGAPORE. Friday. rail started with a joke which led the Malaysian Prime Minister, T un k u Abdul Rahman, to write a novel entitled, "Raja Bersiong" (The King with the Fangs). The story of the novel is connected with the ancient civilisation
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  • 212 2 gINGAPOR E, Fri. Three ships of the Royal Navy hased here were involved reeentlv in a drama in the South China Sea when an emergency operation had to he undertaken on a young rating. Able Seaman Bernard Andrews, of Rochester (Kent), serving in the frigate Londonderry
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  • 98 2 SINGAPORE. Fri. Mr. Tan Teck Seng was reelected President of the Old Bartleyans' Association at the annual meeting held recently. Mr. Tan Slak Hoe was reelected vice-president, while Mr. Tan Chee Telle, was re-elected hon. secretary. Other officials are Messrs. Oopinath Menon. asst. Hon. secretary s Leong Hein
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 282 2 Christmas services for churches in Singapore CHRISTMAS SERVICES FOR PROTESTANT CHURCHES A LL Protestant churches will join together for a Mass Carolling Rally at the Presbyterian Church grounds. Orchard Road in Singapore at 11.15 p.m. on Christmas Eve. CHRISTMAS DAY SERVICES IN CHCRCHFS Presbyterian Church. Orchard Road: Communion Service 8
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 40 2 SINGAPORE DIARY 10. a.m. to 6 p.m. National Library, Stamford Road: Exhibition of Paintings, organised by the Modern Art Society. 7.30 p.m. National Theatre, Tank Road: Teochew Opera. 7.45 p.m. Victoria Theatre, Empress Place: "An Evening •X Music and Dance.*
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  • 203 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. Three men in an unidentified ear waylaid the f a>hier of Muller and Fhipps (F.E.) Ltd. at Shenton Way at 8.30 a.m. today and got away with $10,059.42 in cash and >3.096.45 in cheques. The cashier. Wee Chye K on. and two other
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  • 180 3 Singapore, f r i. Another 19 sections of roads and streets in the City area hive been acquired by the Government for use as payin? parkin? lots. The order, made by the V raster for Law and Natior. Development. was anr. _r. Ed in the Government issued
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  • 31 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. The Adult Education Board tocay announced that registration for the 1967 secondary evening classes at Raffles Institution will close at p.m. on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
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  • 710 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. 'JpHE Singapore Government has today decided to refer the claims made by three of the 13 unions in the Public Daily-Rated Employees' Unions Federation to arbitration. The daily-rated workers concerned are those who belonged to the water, electricity and
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  • 340 3 SINGAPORE, Fri.— The Minister for finance, Mr. Lim Kim San, has reiterated that industrialisation could only succeed if manufacturers *ould try for an increasing share in the local market and strive to find new markets abroad. Mr. Lim said this in his foreword to
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  • 365 3 OINGAPORE. Fri.— The president of the Public DailyRated Employees' I'nions Federation, Mr. K. Suppiah. today hit out at the Government for discriminating between the daily-rated workers and those of the Health Ministry's Emergency Cleansing Corps. Mr Suppiah said: *The Minister for Health has
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  • 247 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. The role of a town planner takes many forms, according to Mr. A. G. S. Danara.i. editor of the Town Planning Institute Malaysia and Singapore Branch's Newsletter. Mr. Danaraj explained: "Principally, he serves the society, he advises and guides the ordinary citizens and members
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  • 38 3 LOS ANGELES, Fri. Vince Edwards, Television's 'Dr. Ben Casey,' won a court dispute yesterday to keep his former wife, actress Kathy Kersh. from taking their 1-year-old daughter to Las Vegas. Nevada, during a six-week nightclub engagement.
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  • 119 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. The R.A.F. Shackletons of No. 120 Squadron took part in a 10-day joint exercise with ships of Royal Navy in the Far East recently. During the exercise, crew members of Royal Air Force maritime reconnaissance aircraft were based in the Cocos Islands, a palm fringed
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  • 34 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Registrar of Societies in a Gazette announcement today. recorded the registration of another three societies. They are: Singapore Ruby Union. Seletar Malay Club and Kim Tian Gospel Mission.
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  • 103 4 Two Malaysians were among: the first students to graduate as Bachelors of Medicine from Monash University, in Melbourne. Australia on Dec. 14. Thev are Dr. Chan Soh Hah of 5-2. Jalan Mohd. Akil, Batu Pahat. Johore, and Dr. Chen Lai Chin of 36 Blacksmith Road. Sibu. Sarawak.
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  • 296 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. One of Singapore's 10 most wanted men finally fell into the hands of the police when he was caught by special investigations section detectives here. The man, later identified as Ang Teck Ai alias Ah Boon, however, put up a
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  • 30 4 PEN ANG. Fri. A 12-year-old Chinese school student, Foo Chin Thye, was drowned off Gurney Drive yesterday afternoon. Foo was swimming with some friends when he got into difficulties.
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  • 158 4 KUALA Ll'MPl'R, Fri. His Majesty the Yang Di-Pertuan \gong has sent the following message to His Majesty King Idris (I) Al-Mahdi As-Sanusi, King- dom of Libva:— 'The Raja Permaisuri Agong and I take this opportunity to extend to Your Majesty and to the
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  • 105 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Lim Peng Hun, an odd-job labourer was charged in the Sessions Court this morning for extortion and possession of ammunition without a licence at Jalan Bot market on Jan. 30. He was alleged to have handed an envelope with a threatening letter and
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  • 196 4 BRUNEI TOWN. Fri. The Singapore ship 'Tivoli', aground since November 30 in the Brunei River, -r.ay not be able to free itself until the middle of next week. It is in no danger and clear ol the channel. 'Tivoli's' master. Captain Mahani bin Ahmad, is offloading its
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  • 190 4 TAPAH, Fri. —A comparison of estate schools in West Malaysia being like cow sheds was made by the ExCo member of the Legislative Assembly here. Mr. V. Poonusamy Pillai. today. "Although the Government had contributed liberally to these schools, they are still in a deplorable
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  • 253 4 MUA R. Fri. Two months ago. the Muar Rotary Club embarked on an ambitious project to convert a disused mining land at Bukit Bakri, eight miles from here, into a camp site to enable youths to while away their time usefully. The construction of a hut
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  • 221 4 TAIPIXG, Fri. Tan Hock Hoon. leading suspect in the 542.000 Account General's office pay roll grab in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, figured in one of the most sensational jail breaks in Malaysian history, last year, Tan who was serving a 10-year jail term for
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  • 108 4 KUCHING, Fri. The Commander of the Indonesian Mandau Task Force, Brigadier General W. Sujono. arrived in Kuching today for a two-day visit. He wa s accotnpanied by his Chief of Staff officers of headquarters Mandau Task Force and 'headquarters Kodam Twelve. He was received by Lieutenant
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  • 131 4 PENANG, Fri A shop keeper. Ooi Siew Giam. told the Sessions Court today that a customer tried a wrist watch on his hand and then ran off w h it to a waiting motor-cyclist, who rode off with the customer. Wong Yau Choy. 19. the motor-cyclist, was
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  • 193 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. THE Selangor State Assembly today passed a $l,OlO- Supplementary Supply Bill for next year. Two Bills, giving the Mentri Besar and State Assemblymen of Selangor "death and disablement" benefits were also passed at the last meeting of the current Budget session
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  • 130 4 Kampar 's landmark axed KAMPAR. Fri. One of Kampar's oldest landmark a 100-rear-old casuarina tree was finally felled and It brought traffic along the Kampar-Teluk Anson Road to a standstill for more than four hours. The tree, which stands on the property of the SEK. Tin Mine, was felled to
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  • 479 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Eleven Malaysian naval cadets have just returned to Britain from a threemonth training cruise with ships of Britain's Roval Navy. Thev are: Ahmad Yusof, 14. Jalan Siputeh, Batu 3. Jalan Klang, Kuala Lumpur; Haji Abdul Samad Idris, Kampong Awat,
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  • 94 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Frt. The newly promoted Lt. Colonel Haji Syed Harrzah bin Syed Abu Bakar who has been appointed the new Service Adviser to the Malaysian Embassy in Thailand will leave by air tomorrow to take up his first overseas appointment. He will take over from Lt.
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  • 135 4 KICHING. Frl The FederaJ Assistant Minister of Culture. Youth and Sports. Dato Ungku >lohsf:n bin Abdul Kadir, arrived in Kuching this afternoon for a week's tour of the First and Third Divisions. Speaking to ri press conference a: the export the Minister said tilt he would hold
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  • 42 4 MUAR. Fri. The Serr-i Local Council has called n residents not to rear pigs the town. In notices issued toaay. the Local Council called 0". the local residents to rerr P their pigs from the town area immediately.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • WORLD NEWS
    • 629 5 GENEVA. Fri, (UPI) The U World Council of Churches, ristmas message, yes- demanded an end to e Vietnam war which, it could at most lead only '"an empty victory, '"one cannot pray worthily Christmas unless one presses all parties tc violence, the Council added: "We earnestly In
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    • 428 5 Washington, Fri. (UPI) 'JpHE United States announced yesterday it had agreed to ship 900/000 tons of food grains to droughtstricken India. A Government source said the shipments would provide an interim answer to India's food problems while the United States reviews long
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    • 185 5 Rhodesia a Republic It's ILLEGAL More British sanctions T ONDON, Fri. (UPI) The government said last night that the declaration of a republic by anyone in Rhodesia would be "unconstitutional, illegal and ineffective." The statement was issued by Commonwealth Secretary Mr. Herbert Bowden in reply to the announcement by Rhodesian
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    • 70 5 MADRID, Fri. (AFP) The Spanish Government has decided to extend the territorial waters limit for fishing boats from 6 to 12 miles, Information Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne announced last night The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting presided over by General Francisco Franco. Mr. Iribarne said Spain
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    • 206 5 WASHINGTON. F ri. (UPI) Almost half of all female juvenile cases handled by the courts in 1965 involved sex related offences, a report by the health, education and welfare department showed yesterday. The report also noted a sharp increase in juvenile drug cases. In
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    • 96 5 LO NDO N, Fri. (UPI). Prime Minister Mr. Harold Wilson plans a new reshuffle of his Government early in 1967, informed sources said today. The sources said it may be announced in the first two weeks of the new year. Among the ministers expected to be
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    • 87 5 LONDON. fri. (UPI) Earl Mountbatten of Burma said yesterday there is no really escape-proof prison in Britain. He said Soviet master spy Mr. George Blake brokeout of Wormwood Scrubs Prison on Oct. 22 by kicking out an Iron window frame. He needed no secret radio communication
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    • 88 5 WU PAO, 52, of Shanghai, a columnist of the proCommunist New Evening Post in Hong Kong arrived in Taipei recently with his family. He had been writing for the Communist paper for over 15 years before he re- jected Communism. Mr. Wu is the second
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    • 42 5 GEORGE TOWN. Frf. (AFP) A Negro engineer was killed and an East Indian assistant critically injured yesterday in a mystery explosion at Skeldo. a Bri-tish-owned sugar p.«n*s .on on the Surinam-Guyana border. 120 miles East of GeorgeTown. police reported nere.
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    • 552 6 BRUSSELS, Fri. (AFP) A Common Market for fruits and vegetables will operate within "The Six" from January 1, it was announced early today. Meanwhile it was also announced that the Common Market countries were close to a final agreement on
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    • 245 6 HOUSTON. Fri. (AFP) Houston space centre yesterday named the crews of the second and third Apollo spaceships used in America's effort to conquer the moon. The first trial flight will take place for 14 days in the first quarter of 1967. The crew, previously named, will be
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    • 297 6 PARIS, Fri. (I'PI). French Communists and moderate leftist parties have announced an election alliance pledged to the overthrow of the Gaullist regime and a drastic overhaul of France's domestic and foreign policies. The first voting pact of the French leftist parties since the Socialist-Radi-cal-Communist "Popular
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    • 119 6 LONDON. Fri. (AP) Jack Scamp. the British auto Industry's special labour disputes mediator, said yesterday he fears the Industry will soon be In a state of anarchy. "Men have used stoppages of work as a normal rather than exceptional means of gaining priority attention to their grievances,
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    • 175 6 GENEVA. Fri. (AFP> Western Europe's coal industry will be faced with increasing competition from liquid fuel in the future, according to investigations made by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's sub-committee on coal markets. Europe's coal production will go down by five per
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    • 62 6 BRUSSELS. Fri. (UPI) Indian ambassador T. Swaminathan was received yesterday by Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns, chairman of the Common Market Council of Ministers, and by Professor Walter Hallstein. President of the Common Market Executive Commission. Mr. Swaminathan handed them his credentials as head of the Indian
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    • 83 6 LOS ANGELES. Fri. (I'PI) For the second consecutive year the California Adult Authority <CAA> has declined to consider parole for wealthy Timothy W. Nicholson, imprisoned for manslauehter in the shooting of his twin brother. Todd, it was learned yesterday. A spokesman for the CAA said Nicholson. 23,
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    • 261 6 NEW YORK, Fri. (AFP) The American Jewish Congress today congratulated the Roman Catholic Magazine "Commonweal" for condemning as "unjust" the war in Vietnam. The lay Catholic Magazine called for a United States withdrawal from Vietnam "even at the cost of a Communist
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    • 69 6 KAMPALA. Fri. (AP) An African herdsman was saved from a hungry lioness when the wife of a local chief killed the animal with one blow from her home-made club. Mrs. Mbuga heard the animal's roar and found the man holding the lioness off at spearpoint. She promptly
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    • 398 6 LONDON, Fri. t (AFP)—New cabinets have been announced in Jordan and Greece. In Jordan Premier Wasfi Al-Tal announced yesterterday the formation of the new Jordan government The most significant omission from the new list was the name of Foreign Minister Akrum Zuaiter. replaced by Abdallah
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    • 177 6 WASHINGTON. Fri. (I'PI) A food 'consortium' has suggested to help feed starving Indians. Secrftarv of State Mr. Dean Rusk, when asked about food aid to India, said more nations must help the Vnited States bear the burden of feeding that nation br supplying grain, fertiliser
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    • 97 6 MADRID. Fri. (AFP) Head of State General Francisco Franco is drafting legislation to guarantee religious freedom to all Spaniards, a Foreign Ministry source said yesterday. The source said that William Wexler. World President of the Jewish Organisation B'nai B'rith. called on Gen. Franco on Wednesday and
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    • 148 6 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) Beginning Feb the Defence Department accept for military service volunteers who have certa" physical defects that pre viously would have rejected them. Mental standards also be lowered. The new programme permit entry into service o. men who had been unao.e to
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    • 52 6 MOSCOW, Fri. (AFD Marshal Kiril Moskalenko has been appointed Sov Deputy Defence Tass News Agency announced yesterday. The 64-year-old occupied tne same post ire 1960-62. During this peno« was a strategic rocket u commander. Before his present app^ ll ment the general member of the Vefenct Ministry
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    • 96 7 PLEIKU, South Vetnam, Fri. Looks like Bob Hope, done up like a golf caddy, is waiting his turn. Actually no, for our photo shows Miss World (India's Miss Reita Faria) getting a kiss from a US soldier while touring South Vietnam with the Bob Hope team. Miss Faria, the controvesial
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    • 204 7 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) Seven firemen were trapped under tons of rubric last night when a blazme four-storey building in midlown Manhattan collapsed Within two hours si x ■ud be*»n rescued and there wj* hope the seventh would be brought out alive. T-.e trapped men were
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    • 325 7 LONDON. Fri. (AFP). —Not one of Britain's prisons is completely escape proof, according to a government report published here today. The report was made by a commission headed by Lord Mountbatten. created after the sensational escape of Soviet spv George Blake in October. It strongly criticised
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    • 80 7 SEOUL. Fri. (UPI) The Vice Minister's council yesterday passed a status-of-forces agreement with South Vietnam touching on government criminal jurisdiction and civil claims over Korean troops stationed in the South East Asian republic. Highlights of the draft agreement: Vietnamese government waives its claims against Vietnamese casualties
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    • 213 7 THE HAGUE, Fri. (AFP). The order of submarines by South Africa "could not be considered a threat to-non-Whites inside the nation*'. Apparently this is the reason why the Dutch government will not modify its policy of supplying military equipment to South Africa. The Dutch
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    • 110 7 VATICAN CITY. Fr (AFP) Pope Paul the sixth today received Yugoslav special envoy Jaroslav Cvrlje and hailed "the resumption of relations between the Holy See and your noble country." The Pope said: "We do not doubt that the Yugoslav Catholic community, with its rights and freedom
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    • 172 7 PARIS. Fri. <AP> Concern with the effects of the war in Vietnam runs through a year-end survey of the American economy prepared by the 21-nation organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Rising defence expenditures related to the war have driven up prices, created
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    • 37 7 BERLIN, Fri. "Hope for re-unification" is the title of this statue which frames a Christmas tree in front of the Communist-built wall in Berlin. The location is near the Chaussesstrasse crossing point in West Berlin. AP Photo.
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    • 220 7 BAGHDAD Fri. (AFP)— The Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) may resume pumping oil to Banias, in Syria, and Tripoli, in Lebanon. next week, the Iraqi newspaper A 1 Manar said here today, quoting well informed sources. Syria recently seized IPC assets on its territory following a
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    • 186 7 LOS ANGELES. Fri. (AP). —The wife of Marine private Raymond Escalera has known for a full day that her husband had a live grenade removed from his throat by a doctor in Vietnam. So far she has been unable to tell his mother and father
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    • 400 7 TEL AVIV. Israel. Fri. (AP). Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol said last night his country had "new. most important sources for weapons/' He did not identify them. He said Israel's military power was steadily increasing, not leastly through the efforts of her own military industry and
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    • 117 7 PARIS. Fri. (AP) An 18-month proeramme to evaluate the water resources of the Lake Chad basin has been announced by the U.N educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation. The project will be financed by a U*****,200 contribution from the U.N. devclooment programme and $130,498 from the participatinc
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    • 44 7 BAY St. Louis, Mississippi, Fri. (UPI) Space Agency officials cancelled plan s for another test of the Saturn S2 rocket last night because one of the booster's five engines failed to fire. The cause of the failure was not' immediately determined.
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    • 65 7 LAGOS. Fri. (AFP) Nigeria's federal leader Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon met constitutional advisors to the nation's four regional military governors yesterday in the first of a series of talks aimed at breaking the constitutional deadlock in the country. Other regional advisors also expressed the hope that
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    • 76 7 BONN, West Germany, Fri. (AFP) The West German Foreign Ministry said today 144 Germans have been killed trying to escape from East Germany since the Communist built Berlin Wall was erected on August 13, 1961. In a year-end report, the ministry said that
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    • 118 7 NEW YORK. Fri. (AP). Record company executive Mr. Murray Deutch was quoted by the show business weekly "Variety" as saying in Tokyo that Japan will soon overtake England and become the world leader in music revenue yield. "Japan is a fantastic market." Variety quoted Mr. Deutch
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    • 116 7 WINNIPEG. Canada. Fri. (AP) A few of the 340 Chinese students at the University of Manitoba have gone home for Christmas but the majority will spend a holiday season in dormitories. Peter Lam, Vice-President of the Chinese Student Association, said: "You feel pretty lonely in
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    • 67 7 TEL AVIV. Fri. (AP) Paquita Torres, 22, a ravenhaired Spanish beauty, won the "Miss Mediterranean" beauty contest here last night. Michaele Boule, 19, from France, was second and Katja Belfouta, 21, from Greece, third. The contest. 4n whieh girls from Turkey, Italy and Israel took
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 285 5 I I M BBS wantiamam MALAYSIA PARK All the 60 single-storey terrace houses in this low cost housing scheme have been successfully sold and are now in an advanced stage of construction. When tompleted, the purchasers, like thousands of other home owning jfamilies in Malaysia and Singa»pore, will move into
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 169 6 FROM REYKJAVIK ICB-ANP TO SOUTH AMERCA.THE THRUM 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 WOULP THEY STRIK6? |THES6 WERE THE VITAL QUESTIONS »ALEXANDER WAVERLY' SOUGHT TO ANSWER AS ME LAUNCMEP... After renting a
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  • 408 8 Goodwill seems to be in short supply in the world today. In his Christmas broadcast to the world, Pope Paul VI hoped for a miracle of goodwill to move both sides to end the war in Vietnam. Goodwill, he said, would hold the key to peace.
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  • 379 8 WHEN an American President fell victim to an assassin's bullet, his death opened the flood gates of books and controversy about him. Every American who could string words together started to write about him and the circumstances surrounding his assassination. Each author tries to best the other
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  • 2421 8  - 1967 —crucial year for Indonesia... but with brig By: Richard I. Stone Jakarta. Friday, (UPI). THE expression "ringing out the old ond ringing in the new" holds a speciol meoning for Indonesia this year. For the first time in its 21year history, Indonesio enters a new year without the guidance
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
    • 239 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. This Christmas set your loved one the Carmen Hair Curler that is sweeping the world. Hie Revolutionary New Home Hair Curler that shapes and sets your hair instantly. This wonderful Carmen is a brand new way to groom your hair at home in between visits
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    • 509 9 SINGAPORE. Frl. mere was no feature on s- ck Exchange which still .ed quiet on small trad,ng on the eve of Christinas. On the whole, the total .mover for today was of which industrials as against 608.000 inted for 511.000: pro- > 25.000;
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    • 80 9 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) he rubber market closed 9 el with spot 18-1/16 185 6. SETTLEMENT HOUSE: J t deleted Feb 18-3/8 18-9/16 -larch 18-9/16 18-3/4 Aoril 18-13/16 19 March deleted April June 19 19-1/8 I y Sept 19-7/16 19-1/2 0 Dec 19-11/16 19-7/8 Jan
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    • 27 9 London, Fri. (upi) Rubber market opened Quietly steady with No. 1 R SS spot 18-1 8-18-5 16. No. 1 RSS cif basis ports 17-7/8 18.
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    • 271 9 OSLO. Fri. (AFP) The biggest industrial transaction in postwar Norway was made known here today, when it was officially announced that Parliament, in a secret meeting, has consented to selling 50 per cent of the shares of the AARDAL plants, Norway's biggest aluminium concern, to the
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    • 64 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. Association of Banks in Malaysia made the following changes in its rates to merchants today. They were: Canada: Buying T.T. 333/8; Airmail O.D. 35-1/2; 90 d/st. 36-1/16 credit bills; 361/8 trade bills. Selling T.T./O.D. ready were: Canada 35-1/16; Deutsche Marks 128-5 8; Holland Guilders 117-1/4; Swiss
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    • 35 9 NEW YORK. Fri. (AP) Standard and poor's 500 stock index: Close Net Change. 425 Industrials 86.85 up .33 25 Railroads 41.98 up 46 50 Utilities 69.33 up .21 500 Stocks 81.69 up .31
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    • 15 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. The tin price for today was $602-3/4 per picul, up 5/8.
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    • 22 9 NEW YORK. Fri. (AP) Rubber standard futures closed quiet. Np sales. Spot no 1 ribbed smoked sheets 22 1/BN. N-nominal.
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    • 215 9 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) The Export-Import Bank said today it has authorised a U555,031,731 loan to Zambia to help finance the purchase of 26 General Electric Company diesel locomotives, with spare parts and related equipment and services. Total cost of
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    • 83 9 LONDON. Fri. (AP).—The coming holidays dominated yesterday's session of the London Stock Market. Sellers were few. Volume was low and the trend was firm. Secondary issues moved ahead from selective buying. Banking stocks were in investment demand and television items were firm. Gold shares were only mildly
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    • 40 9 WASHINGTON. Fri. (AP) The U.S. government sold 25 long tons of tin from its surplus stocks yesterday, 20 tons of grade B at 1.5275 dollars a pound and 5 tons of grade C at 1.5225 dollars a pound.
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    • 282 9 Rubber up cent SINGAPORE F rf.'January first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 59| cents per lb., up i cent from previous close. The tone was very quiet. After an unchanged opening the market steadied on trade buying against reported overseas
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    • 71 9 WASHINGTON, Fri. (AP) The U.S. Department of Commerce yesterday announced that plans have been completed for the release of 150.000 short tons of copper from surplus stocks owned by the government The release was approved by President Johnson on December 1. The General Services Administration will sell
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    • 27 9 HONG KONG. Fri. (UPI) Money quotations: HK55.720 5.***** per U.S dollar for cash. HK$ 15.99 per pound sterlin 2- i u HK5267.125 per tael gold.
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    • 34 9 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) The First National City Bank of New York has announced it has opened a second branch in Bombay, making the banks sixth branch in the Republic of India.
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    • 151 9 NEW YORK. Fri. (AP).— The Stock Market rally rolled on early yesterday. Trading was fairly active. Key stocks were up fractions to a point or better on a fairly broad front although there was a good representation of losers. General Electric was unable to overcome
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    • 49 9 NEW YORK. Fri (UPI) Rubber futures yesterday closed unchanged and un traded. Jan. 22.10 22.70 Mar. 22.40 22.90 May 22.40 22.90 July 22.40 22.90 Sept. 22.40 22.90 Dec. 22.40 22.90 Jan. 22.40 22.90 Spot no. 1 RSS held steady at 22 1/4 cents per pound, nominal.
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    • 15 9 NEW YORK, Fri. (AP) Preliminary Dow Jones closing industrial arer&ge 797.43 up 2.84.
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    • 211 9 UNITED NATIONS, Fri. (AP) —Philippine Ambassador, Mr. Salvador P. Lopez urged the U.N. economic and social council to make every effort yesterday to achieve an "historic break-through'" in the field of development financing. Mr. Lopez asked for harder action by the world
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    • 522 9 INDUSTRIAL Rniiktrad 1 3K <rnlr.il >unar«« CD 1^1 lielineal til 1.58 Cold sionttr CD... 3.08 Duiilop < R 2.62 K. siiK'IIInK 4.02 F.fc*o Onl- 3.04 KhMt Pref 1-06 I ii/|i.iirlri>« l.in V. N. Orel* a 10 < taiiiiiuHi 1 .12 CI.K. U(f fiUinne«.«. CD 2.85 Hume Pref
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    • 48 9 (Minanfri' H. 9. Hr«l NlHlioAn 2.It M.tla*.in 1.51 161 Third Mi«ta>nn 1.07 Ml M-ilat<tan rnmnirrw \f» N.1 .•I Mai. s*\lngs I unrt 1.27 I.;H fcterllns CiMtmuMtitv H i i Flrit H»n| Kong 1 00 Second H<mg knn* 74« M;<Indian Invnl* inrnt Pnnd 1.00 (•Hong Kong Currency)
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    • 115 9 MINOAPORK. Frl *ln«ap«»rr Chlnew Produce K%«hun*« noon price* todav were. Bu> era SOlrra Co«*nntil nil <F<»B> Bulk A'i Coconut nil < FOB) Brums mm 41.00 LO«M* Copra MUed U+4 Jan. *7.50 Sugar (Java) niwhmi 24.25 Nuinier* 1 !0« nam Nntmee* R a- Yt mm 2.ir,.oo Qarltled amponi Black Pepper
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    • 162 9 SINGAPORE, Fri. The following ships are expected to be in port today:Godowns Vessels 1/2 Trst 3/4 Waitaki 5 Golden Phoenix 6/7 Ellen Bakke 8 9 Nestor 10/11 Menestheus 13/14 Glenogle 15/16 Calchas 18 California Mail 19 Leoville 21 22 Arakan 23/24 Daepori 25/26 Keningau 27/28 Star Alcyone 29
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    • 847 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time a.m. Airline MAL 019 from Kii.il:i Lumpur. Time 9.30 a m. Airline MAL 181 from Kuala Ltipmur. Time 1030 am. Airline ML 451 from kuehlng. Time 10.55 a.m Airline MAL 005 from Penang, ipoh. Kuala l.iimpur, Malacca. Time 11.1.1 a.m. Airline Thai
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  • 319 10  -  By Choo Teck Mau MITAR, Fri. A fragile 10-day old baby who had only a fraction of a minute to live because her breathing stopped on three consecutive occasions due to heart trouble, was last night miraculously saved by a young medical officer
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  • 160 10 MALACCA, Fri. Malacca is synonymous with West Malaysia. With this statement. Mr. Yur i n Yasnev, the visiting Russian journalist and Pravda representative in Australia. began his press conference a few hours after his arrival in this ancient town yesterday. "My visit to Malaysia would not be
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    36 10 Freeze the over-«upply of parsley, minus long stems, in an ice cube tray filled with water. Ice must be melted from parsley that's used for garnishing, but still-frozen cubes can be dropoed into soup.
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  • 214 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. In connection with a news agency report from London about increased tuition fees at universities, etc. in Britain, published in this morning's newspapers, the British High Commission wishes to make the following points clear: The new rates of tuition fees will
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  • 67 10 TELUK ANSON. Fri Police have detained a man in connection with a robbery in Novia Scotia Estate on Wednesday night. Six youths, two of them armed with daggers, held up a sundry shop owner. Mr. Tan Jee Huan. 62. on the estate, five miles from here and escaped
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  • 358 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Trustees of the Lai Yoke Heong 5200,000 Trust might reconsider their decision to allow the armless girl to continue her studies in the United States if a request is made. The Public Trustee, Mr. K. Paramalingam said, however, that
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  • 135 10 MALACCA. Fri. Pravda's correspondent in Australia. Mr. Yurin Yasaev, let out a life-and-deatn secret when he arrived hfit yesterday for a one-day visit. The aircraft which was to fly him from Brisbane to Singapore suffered a broken wheel axle as it was taxing onto the main
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  • 169 10 KANGAR, Fri.—Enche Abdullah bin YusofT, 32. of Simping Empat and Puan Norshaha binte Darus, 25. of Mata Ayer. will represent Perlis in the National Koran Reading Competition this year. They won the State Koran Reading Competition held at the Stadium Dato Sheikh Ahmad. Kangar. last
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  • 28 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Minister of Works. Posts and Telecommunications. Malaysia, announces that a new postal agency will be opened at Kampong Terap. in Kedah. tomorrow.
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  • 449 10 Kuala Lumpur, Fri. THE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, today decided on behalf of the Government, to give $20,000 to the fund to buy an artificial kidney machine to save the life of Mr. Harry Kydd, a school teacher at the Methodist
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  • 322 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Amalgamated National Union of Local Authorities Employees (ANULAE) has called on the Central Government and the State Government of Negri Sembilan to look into the state of affairs of the Local Council of Bahau. The call was made by
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  • 48 10 MALACCA. Fri. A 19-year-old youth was killed in a hit-and-run road accident at the third mile Klebang Road early last evening. The victim. Lim Tian Lye. a labourer was walking home when he was hit by a car. He died on the way to hospital.
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  • 111 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A Valuation Department has been formed by the Petaling Jaya Town Board to revaluate all the properties in the town. Mr. Chang Yaw Hong the Town Board Secretary said today. This department will be responsible for revaluing all the properties in the town
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  • 110 10 JESSELTON. Fri.— Twenty-three blind trainees at the Wallace Training Centre for the blind at Tuaran have earned certificates for having successfully completed their course. They will return to their homes to carry on the craft and skills which they have learned at the training centre. Of
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  • 41 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra will broadcast a Christmas message on Dec. 25, at 10 a.m. over the English ond Indian services and at 11.30 a.m. over the Chinese service of Radio Malaysia.
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  • 130 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Jefferson Fellowships, a new programme for Asian and American journalists, will be launched early next year by the East-West Centre and the University of Hawaii. EWC Chancellor Howard P. Jones and University President Thomas H. Hamilton announced that plans for the programme have been
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  • 359 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Selangor State Legislative Assembly today passed the Selangor State Development Fund < Amendment) Enactment amounting to $2 million. The motion was moved by Mr. S. Murugesu and was seconded by Enche Mahayuddin bin Zakaria. both Alliance back-ben-chers. The Development Fund, which was
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    • 730 10 YOUR TV "W> T» I 1 4 J J 1.25 WONDERS OF THE WORLD. 1.50 BELAJAR-LAH BAH AS A KEBAXG SAAN. 1.55 HULLABALOO David McCallurr. 2.20 HAWAIIAN EYE (The Koa Man CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Pulau Pinang, fi i|K»h and Melaka; 3 10 Johore Batiru; 4 Taiping: Batu Pahat:
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  • 182 11 MUAR, Fri.—Five Labour Party officials/ detained under the Internal Security Act have been officially told by the Ministry of Home Affairs that their detention has been extended for a further two years. Le Beon Pin. 30, secretarv of the Muar branch of the Labour
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  • 145 11 PEXAXG, Fri. Two armed youths jumped from a height of about 25 feet when they found themselves cornered by a police partv in the early hours of this morning One of them, aged 17, was trrested, while the other r.sde good his escape. Thev
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  • 164 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Assistant Minister of Finance, Dr. Ng Kam Poh, returned by air last night after attending the meeting of the Board of Executive Directors of the Asian Development Bank and the ceremonial opening of the ADB. Dr. Ng is an executive
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  • 266 11 P E X A X G, Fri. The Penang Anti-Tuberculosis Association has now finalised its plans to start a tuberculosis insurance scheme in close co-opera-tion with the City Council of George Town. This was disclosed by the association's chairman. Dr. Cheah Cheng Poh, here
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  • 103 11 MUAR. Fri. The Religious Department at Jalan Petrie here this morning warned that it would take "drastic action" against Muslims found smoking, drinking or eating in public places in the town during the fasting month. An official said that the department will be sending investigators to
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  • 82 11 MUAR. Fri. Shopkeepers in Bukit Kepong. 42 miles from here, have been warned by the Local Council not to turn their shop-houses into casinos. The Local Council. at lts monthly meeting yesterday, disclosed that it had received reports that local 8 keepers were turning their shop-houses
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  • 404 11 KUALA LUMPUR, FRI. THE second ministerial meeting of ASPAC (Asian and Pacific Council), of which Malaysia is a member, is expected to be held m in April. At its third meeting in Bangkok on Wednesday, the standing committee of ASPAC, instructed the sub-committee to
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  • 31 11 AVER TAWAR, Fri. A rubber tapper of Lim Swee Aim Estate near here, Taritan so Rakan, 24, was found hanging early this morning at the back of his house.
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  • 185 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. Two Malaysians who spent two weeks touring agricultural machinery and fertiliser manufacturing plants in Britain explained to the engineers they met exactly what was required for rice cultivation, a representative of the British National Export Council told an LPS correspondent. Their visit
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  • 91 11 IPOH. Fri. Mr. Ee Chin Seng, interpreter attached to the Sessions Court here will be leaving for London to read Law at Lincoln's Inn on a Federal scholarship on Jan 2 next year. Mr. Ee who is 29 years of age will be away for
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  • 32 11 IPOH. Fri. A nine-year-old girl, S. Saroja was knocked down by a lorry while crossing the road at Changkat Kinding Estate in Tanjong Rambutan yesterday. She was killed instantaneously
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  • 181 11 PENANG, Fri. The pro-tem chairman of the Penang Press Club, Mr. Chuan* Kens Poh, at its inaugural meeting here, said that the setting up of a Press Club in Penang has been a long-felt need. He stated that pressmen in this State badly needed a place
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  • 275 11 JESSELTON, Fri. Mrs. Tom Harrison of Ruching has left here after a six-week stay in Sabah where she has been giving technical guidance to a Sabah museum field party working In the Lahad Datu area. The party has been conducting archaeological investigations in the lime-stone
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  • 213 11 SINGAPORE. Fri —The chairman of Vosper Ltd.. Mr. David Brown, recently said that the possibilities for shipbuilding in the Far East were most encouraging. He said this in his address to shareholders at the firm's annual meeting in London. Mr. Brown added that because of the
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  • 150 11 SAIGON. Fri. (I'PD General William C. Westmoreland ordered American troops to be particularly alert tonight in the final hours before the Christmas truce He said the Communists mi?ht try to sneak in a last minute major attack and depend on the Americans to fail to react because
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  • 27 11 BELGRADE. Fri. (UPI)— A measles epidemic in the southern Yugoslav province of Kosovo and Merohija has killed 56 children, th« Daily Politika reported yesterday.
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  • 55 11 MUAR, Fri. The Muar District Officer, Enche Talib bin Abu, who is also the President of the Muar Town Council, has been transferred to Johore Bahru as President of the Johore State Religious Department. Enche Mansor bin Sohor, the Muar District Collector of Land Revenue, is temporarily
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  • 247 11 BUTTERWORTH, Fri. A coffee shop proprietor in Haadyai, Lui Hsin Chieng, 41, was fined $5/000 or one year's imprisonment when he was found guilty in the Sessions Court here on a charge of attempting to evade Customs duty on Oct. 9 last year. Two other
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  • 35 11 PENANG, Fri. Thirteen baby crocodiles valued at $390 were reported stolen from a pond in Pulau Tikus yesterday. The owner, Chen Sea Chong. 50, a business mai\ lodged a report with the police.
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  • 81 11 SINGAPORE. Fri —Happiness is shown on the faces of these children of the Salvation Army Children's Home in Pasir Panjang at a Christinas party recently. The party was organised by 4 Company. Women's Royal Army Corps at the HQ Far East Land Forces. At this party, the
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  • 475 11 SINGAPORE, Fri. Hardened attitudes and disregard for Justice have led to a situation where Government as an employer has lost its dominent position of being a model employer. The journal of the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees (AUPE), "Mimbar", made this comment in
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  • 81 11 SINGAPORE. Fri. (AIS) A group of 12 travel agents from Singaoore and Malaysia has advised Queensland authorities on tourism. The agents visited the Gold Coast tourist resort south of Brisbane at the invitation of the Gold Coast City Council. They were shown ail types of accommodation,
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    • 464 12 fHRISTMAS is here. So, enjoy yourself to the fullest this festive season. And the Yuletide. nightclubs hotels and shopping centres are making special offers to make the festive season one of the most unforgettable. The famed-orchestra leader, Lionel Hampton arrives here soon for
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    • 131 12 Kuala lumpur, Fri. The Battle of the Sound is on and like all battles the "din" is real hot. Notwithstanding the noise and "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" accompaniment of the crowd (that's the way pop bands' popularity are judge) the Secret Agents won the
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  • 429 14 NEW YORK, Fri. (UPI) The United Press International 1966 National Football League All-Star team (with number of votes from a total of 45 in parenthese): First team: offence —SE Bob Hayes, Dallas (35)'. T Bob Brown, Philadelhpia (32); G Jerrs Kramer, Green Bay
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  • 20 14 Japan's best gold medal getter Miss Michiko Kihara holds a pet cobra during her sightseeing tour of Bangkok. PANA Photo.
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  • 117 14 TAIPEI. Fri. (AFP) Nationalist China will send her promising athletes for training in West Germany rather than the United States, it was reported here today. According to General (retired) Yang Sen. president of the Nationalist Chinese Olympic Committee his organisation will shortly send
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  • 95 14 JOHANNESBURG. South Africa, Fri. (AP) There are two new caps in the Australian cricket team to play South Africa in the first Test (international of the current series at Johannesburg) starting today. They are wicket-keeper Brian Taber and the pace bowler Dave Rennenberg.
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  • 47 14 PARIS. Fri. (UPI) The French field hockey team has cancelled a planned tour of India in February because the Indian Federation failed to gain Government permission to the tour. India's National elections are being held at the time the tour was planned.
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  • 236 14 In what was perhaps the closest finish at the 3th Asian Games at Bangko*. the order of finish for 3rd and 4th places in the 1.600 metre cycling massed start finals was shown by the Seiko photo finish camera to be 1
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  • 59 14 HONG KONG. Fri. (UPI) The Philippines women's Softball team swept its twogame series here, beating Hong Kong's champion team South China. 19-6 last night. The Philippines won its first game on Wednesday against the Abos team of Hong Kong. 19-1 in a oneside match. The
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  • 216 14 LONDON, Fri. (UPI) Spains's Manuel Santana and Billie Jean King of the U.S., the reigning Wimbledon champions, yesterday were named as the top rankers in lawn tennis by an Internatioal Jury of Sportswriters. The ratings, published in the Evening Standard, list 15
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  • 117 14 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) Newly crowned light heavyweight champion Dick Tiger was offered a minimum of USS 100.000 yesterday to defend his crown here against Washington's veteran Bob Foster. Vincent J, McMahon, a wrestling and sport promoter. wired Lew Burston. Tiger's business manager, ot
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  • 59 14 HONOLULU. Fri. (UPI) Fred Hemmings of Hawaii yesterday won his second senior men's title in three years in the 11th Makaha International Surfing Championships. Hemmings. who was second last year and first two years ago, chalked up 348 points on six to 10-foot waves in beating
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  • 129 14 MIAMI BEACH. Florida. Fri. <UPI> The top-seed-ed players, with a single exception, moved ahead yesterday in the first round of the annual Orange Bowl International Junior Tennis Championships. The exception was Italy's seventh-seeded Mario Caimo, who fell to Carlos Deswarte of Argentina 6-3, 9-7.
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  • 245 14 MELBOURNE, Fr«. (AFP) The Austra. lian and Indian rivals for the lawn tennis Davis Cup challenge round starting in Melbourne on Monday will use the Kooyong centre court for practice for the first time tomorrow. They will have another practice on the centre
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  • 126 14 LONDON. Fri. (AFP) A football pool is to be run to help British athletics through its present financial difficulties. It is expected to bring in between £40.000 and £50.000 a year. Agreement was reached in London yesterday between officials of the British Amateur Athletic
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  • 171 14 New idea to improve PI sportsPeace Corps MANILA, Fri. (AFP) A Filipino Congressman yesterday came up with the idea of utilising the American Peace Corps to improve the quality of Philippe amateur sports. Representative Jose Cojuangco of the opposition Liberal Party broached tra idea in a comment on the "debacle"
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  • 96 14 NEW YORK. Fri. (LTD Don Schollander the swimmer who won four gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, will leave on Monday for a one week visit to Northern Ireland. Schollander, who holds the world's records in the 200 and 400-metre freestyle, will swim in 100 and
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  • 48 16 KUALA LUMPI'R. Fri. Two-year-old, Sallehuddin grabs the hockey stick from "Grand Pa"— Tan Sri Jamil Rais as he steps out of the Customs check point. The hockey stick was presented to the Malaysian chef-de-mission by the Pakistan hockey team manager at Bangkok.—Eastern Eastern Sun Pix.
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  • 112 16 ADELAIDE. Fri. (AFP) South Australia collapsed on a good wicket in their Sheffield Shield cricket match with Queensland in Adelaide today. Jhey were all out for 167. but recovered some ground before the close when they had taken four Queensland wickets for 71.
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  • 403 16 NEW YORK. Fri. IUPD Mike Rolf had two for the road and Lew Alcindor provided the chaser. Rolf, a 6-6 senior forward for seventh-ranked Cincinnati, suffered one of life's most embarrassing moments yesterday when he tipped in two points for the visiting Texas
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  • 17 16 A keen tussle at the net in the Malaysia-Ceylon volleyball match during the Asian Games. UPI Photo.
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  • 293 16 SINGAPORE, Fri. The newly-elected vice-president of the Asian Football Confederation, Mr. Soh Ghee Soon today described the Malaysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, as ''the beacon of soccer in South East Asia." Mr Soh, who attended the AFC meeting as an
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  • 498 16  -  THEY HIT NEAT TOTAL OF 27 GOALS By Kalwant S. Sidhu SINGAPORE, Fri. Singapore Sikhs, the defending champions this morning thrashed Kelanton Sikhs 16-0 in the annual "Gurdwara Cup" Sikh Hockey Tournament held ot the SRC ground. Singapore Sikhs who ore hosts this
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  • 59 16 KAMPAR. Fri. Kampar Chinese will meet Ramblers "A" in the Perak Chinese Football Federation's soccer competition for Dato Leong Kee Nyean Cup to be played at Ipoh on Sunday. The winners will meet Cheng Wah in the final. Kampar Chinese who had a week's
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  • 455 16  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Fri. The President of Singapore F. A. Tuan Hj Abu Bakar bin Pawanchee, said major plans had been drawn up to produce a bumper soccer attraction in the New Year. The football chief expressed optimism that the current plans envisaged in
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  • 260 16 SINGAPORE, Fri. A two-man tion is expected to arrive here shortly to finalise arrangements with the Singapore F.A. for the staging of the "Pesta Bola' soccer tournament sometime in the 1967 season. The two representatives are Mr. Peter Clarke, an executive of
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  • 125 16 PRAGUE. Fri. <AP» Czechoslovak boxers w..i return to the ring next February after a ten-m^n** 1 suspension of all compe*> tions ordered by authorities after two fatal accidentThe Central Boxing Commission has adopted rules to make fight- sal Fighters will be reque-T-a to
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  • 62 16 MUAR. Fri. Kiuan? District Chinese capture a the Dato Teoh Sze Chong Challenge Cup when tnpv beat Batu Pahat Chined 2-1 in the final of the n ter-district soccer tournament on the Kluang Padang at weekend Three districts Muai Batu Pahat and Klane took part in
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    • 63 16 TIME AND TIDE V'. 'V -jRv, *,*>•:>C%*!<§■ 10.23 a.m. (5.6 ft.), 10.52 p.m. (7.3 ft.) Port Swettenham: 2.23 a.m. (12.1 ft.), 2.54 p.m. (10.3 ft.) Port Dickson: 3.50 a.m. (8 ft.), 4.10 p.m. (6.5 ft.) Singapore: 8.02 am. (8.2 ft.), 9.31 p.m. (7.4 ft.) Sedili Kechil: 5.57 a.m. (7 ft.),
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