Eastern Sun, 12 January 1967

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  • 24 1 EASTERN SUN IMgj National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 176 Thursday* January 12 1967. MC(P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 678 1  -  The toll: 39 dead and 73 missing By: LIM THOW BOON: KUALA LUMPUR, WED FLOODWATERS RECEDED FURTHER lims in the East Coast to return to their Except for pockets of floodwaters in the Lower Perok area the situation in all affected regions are back to almost normal.
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  • 498 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak. today called on Malaysians to strengthen racial integrity and harmony in the nation. "Malaysia's racial harmony and religious tolerrance has brought a name to the nation in the world." he said. He reminded Malaysians that
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  • 874 1 'Our hearts are sad' Kuala Lumpur, Wed. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman exhorted all the unfortunate victims of devastation caused by the recent floods in both the East Coast States and other parts of the West Coast to "endure with patience and tolerance/'
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 242 1 Available only at Stations Selamat Hari Raya to all our Muslim friends t THE Eastern Sun wishes all Muslims y A T Hari Raya. There will be no issue of the Eastern Sun on Jan. 13, 1967. i Publication will be resumed on Saturday, Jan. 14, 1967. t >ur riends
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  • 1041 2 CONTINUOUS RAIN FLOODS MANY PARTS OF CITY SINGAPORE, Wed. Water, woter everywhere the devastating flood terror that was rampant in neighbouring West Ma* laysia during the last week, today showed its ugly head in a milder form in Singapore. Continuous rain for 15 hours throughout the Republic flooded
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  • 360 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Indian High C«nu missioner in Singapore, Mr. Surendra Sinh Alirajpur, said today that India always wanted to be friends with Pakistan. He was speaking to newsmen on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Tashkent Declaration at
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  • 122 2 SINGAPORE. Wrd-A sixteen-year-old spas' cfc. Miss Yoon Mew Git, th« best all-round progress for the year 1966 is now enjoy, lng a holiday in Bangkok with her escort. The trip made possible by Thai International Airways. The grant whirh is prov. ing very successful and has
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  • 141 2 SINGAPORE. Wed.— A fine Western with a lot o! action, that's Duel at D.abio" which made its midnight premiere in Singapore tonight at the Lido cinema. Starring two famous s'an James Garner and Sydney Poiter the film has a superb plot which will appeal
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  • 1409 3 ROTHMANS' GIFTS... KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.—The Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, has made a personal donation of $lOO to the fund He also received a cheque for $lOO for the fund from Mr. W. Wenban-Smith, of the British High Com- mission. Ong Yoke
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  • 3202 4 Asian water resources KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday, year now ending brought fro fruition ECAFE's largest regional project so far: establishment of the Asian Development Bank which officially began its activities in Manila (PhilipCines) on Decemer 19 with an authorised capital of $l,lOO million,
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  • 296 4 BANGKOK. Wed. The Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, Mr. L.HJ.B. van Gorkom. has informed ECAFE's Executive Secretary, U Nyun, that the Netherlands Government has decided in the framework of the United Nations project for
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  • 115 4 BANGKOK. Wed P r Terry T. Barrow, Director of Museum Training riogramme at the wor.a famous Bishop Museum ".n Honolulu, Hawaii. h as arrived in Bangkok as UNESCO consultant (UNDP TA> to advise the Government on the e.< ablishment of a Natural History and
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • WORLD NEWS
    • 780 5 US must face more cost, loss, WASHINGTON, Wed .(UP!) President Johnson last night told the Congress that the end of the war in Vietnam is not yet in sight and that the United States must face "more cost, more loss, and more agony." In his annual
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    • 188 5 JESSELTON, Wed. (UPI) Pamphlets calling on British expatriate law officers to go home were found today by police in several parts of Jesselton and San- dakan. The Pamphlets bore the words "Go home Silke) Jones and Hurley", Hell with silke; Jones and Hurley" and "Sabah has
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    • 263 5 FAIRFAX. Virginia. Wed. (UPI) Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy yesterday won a court case in which she had been sued for illegal possession of an ailing horse. She said she would "do it again" under the same circumstances. The wife of the New York senator
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    • 132 5 PARIS. Wed. (AFP) Sixty-nine dissident GaullUts have decided to stand against official Gaullist candidates in France's March elections. According to a commuput out after a meeting at Limoges in West-Central France, the 6 though Gaullists object tQ the "Yes-man" discipline of the official
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    • Article, Illustration
      46 5 SAIGON, Wed. Philippine prisoner of North Vietnam Mrs. Ophelia Gara whose husband died in Yietcong camp, shows scars of a skin infection on both her hands which she contracted as a prisoner. She is in Saigon staying with friends. UPI Photo. UPI Photo.
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    • 222 5 UNITED NATIONS, Wed. (UPI) —Secretary General U Thant said yesterday he does not consider the Vietcong "a stooge of North Vietnam"' and held that the Hanoi Government's latent declaration on conditions for peace talks are only restatements of its "old positions, perhaps in
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    • 62 5 Rangoon, Wed (AFP). Newly appointed Israeli ambassador to Cambodia Ben Shalom and wife left here this morning for Pnom Penh to present his credentials as the first resident Israeli ambassador to Cambodia. Up to now the Israeli ambassador to Burma has been concurrently accredited to Cambodia.
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    • 445 5 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) Crippling industrial strikes today spread to other key cities in Communist China as Chairman Mao Tse-tung's followers fought desperately to keep workers on the job. Radio Peking denounced worker walkouts in the major Manchurlan industrial centre of Shenyang, formerly known as Mukden. Dissatisfied
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    • 79 5 MANILA, Wed. (UPD Police detective Juan Cabarrubias received a belated Christmas package on Monday and in his hurry to see the contents, opened it on the wrong end. He said today he was lucky he did because the package contained a home-made bomb which would have
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    • 638 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) Who fights best, Australians or Americans? The Washington Daily News yesterday tackled the ticklish question with an anecdote of World War n. An American intelligence officer asked a Japanese POW captured in the Southwest Pacific, "Who are the best Jungle fighters?" The Japanese answered,
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    • 785 6 LONDON, Wed. (AFP). French manoeuvres to cause wide-spread speculation that the price of gold will rise brought up the gold "Napoleon" in Paris to the highest level since 1952. For the first time in modern history nearly all the mined gold last year went
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    • 28 6 KIMONO-CLAD Japanese women play the traditional Japanese musical instrument "Koto" to entertains cu tomers at a Tokyo's department store during the New Year Holidays. PANA Photo. PANA Photo.
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    • 128 6 VARESE. Italy, Wed. (AP) A group of Anglican and Roman Catholic theologians yesterday opened the first joint talks in history aimed at reuniting their churches. The talks, which end on Friday, are designed to produce a "programme for dialogue" on the many issues dividing the
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    • 198 6 LONDON, Wed. (AFP) Representatives of the newspaper proprietors and press trade unions decided after lengthy discussions to publish the Economist Intelligence Unit's report on the British press in full. Both sides had asked the research group to examine the conditions of the British press
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    • 116 6 BORDEAUX. France, Wed. (AP)—A lone runmu held up a bank branch yesterday, and then forced the cashier to take a deep breath of chloroform to cover his getaway. Jean-Pail Dejean, the cashier, was alone in the office when the gunman arrived. Brandishing hi* pistol, the gunman
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    • 86 6 MANILA, Wed. (AFP) A ranking Philippine Senator proposed the nationalisation (Filipinisation) of the country's copra and sugar industry yesterday. Senator Alejandro Almendras. chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce and Industry, said a bill has been filed for consideration in the forthcoming congressional session which aims
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    • 63 6 ANKARA. Wed. (AFP) Peasants besieged by a pack of fabout a hundred revenous wolves in the snowy mountain region of Pinarbasi. in Central Turkey, barricaded themselves in their homes and sent out a call for aid. it was learned here yesterday. Troops arrived and saved the
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    • 266 6 TOKYO. Wed. (AFP) Japanese business circles are pressing their government to relax the "Cocom" ban on the exports to the Communist bloc countries, the Nihon Keizai reported yesterday. They point out that Japan is losing "hundreds of millions dollars of trade" with the
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    • 98 6 CHAM. Switzerland, Wed. (AFP A Swiss farm worker—whose le* was virtually severed two Inches below the knee when he dropped a power-saw—has had the limb sewn on again in a "miracle" operation, it was learned here yesterday. The farm worker. 42-year-old Albert Karfmann was trimming a
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    • 326 6 NEW YORK, Wed. (AFP) American newsmen shouted down three American women pacifists, recently back from a Hanoi visit, at a stormy press conference here yesterday. The conference turned into a shouting match. Journalists interrupted the three women, insulted and ridiculed them and treated them like
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    • 714 6 PARIS, Wed. (AFP) The Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. General Lyman L. Lemnitzer declared that he will be able to make the April i deadline for moving his SHAPE headquarters from France to Belgium. In an Interview at the U.S. European Command
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    • 51 6 CALCUTTA. India. Wed. (AP) A judge who sat at the war crimes trial at Tokyo in 1846. Dr. Radhabinod Pal, died here yesterday aged 81. Dr. Pal. an internationally known jurist, was a former chairman of the United Nations International Law Commission and Permanent Court of
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    • 148 6 SAIGON, Wed <AP> Hollywood star Glenn Ford was exposed to enemy sniper fire twice yesterday while observing a US. Marine operation In the Mekong Delta, the U.S. Navy said. Mr. Ford, a reserve Navy Commander, is in Vietnam on a 30-day tour of active duty
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    • 151 6 BANGKOK. Wed. (A P» Brazilian president eiec Arthuro Costa E S (T «v m terday flew to H° ng nr *L t e after a three-day pr l%a visit here. Although the vt?it private and Mr a Silva still has to be augurated next Marcn. was
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    • 310 7 VATICAN CITY, Wed. (AP) Pope Paul VI formally announced yesterday the establishment of two new Vatican agencies, to give lay people a greater role in the Roman Catholic Church and to fight world hunger. The Pope named Caanda's Maurice Cardinal Roy,
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    • 316 7 MOSCOW. Wed. (UPI) A Soviet literary magazine described si x American military leaders yesterday a? a Rogue's gallery which induded pirate, an executioner and a murderer. The monthly Znamya (Banner), published by the USSR writers union, used tie** words in thumbnail siceches of
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    • 48 7 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) President Marcos has ordered an inquiry into the pollution of Manila Bay by waste materials from city factories and garbage dumped near its mouth. A deep-sea fishing group told Pres. Marcos the Bay's polluted waters were wreaking havoc on fish conservation efforts.
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    • 34 7 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) Pneumonia and measles were the two top killer diseases in Maniia last with a combined death toll of 39, most of them children, city health authorities reported today.
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    • 169 7 ATLANTA, Georgia, Wed. (AFP) Negro Julian Bond was sworn as a member of the Georgia State Legislature a year after being barred from taking his seat for his criticisms of United States' policy in Vietnam. One White member James Floyd left the House rather than attend
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    • 218 7 UNITED NATIONS, New York, Wed. (AP) A high U.N. official called yesterday for bigger crops to head off famine and better statistics to illuminate the world's population problem. Mr. Paul G- Hoffman, administrator of the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP), told the UNDP governing council:
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    • 80 7 THE "JOHN F. KENNEDY" steel-hulled lifeboat the first of six to be built in Britain seen during trials in the North Sea recently. Connstructed for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute by a shipbuilder in eastern England, the boat has lightweight superstructure and decking in aluminium, which, with the steel hull,
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    • 210 7 MADRID. Wed. (UPI) Spanish-Algerian relation appeared to reach a new low yesterday when the Spanish government refused to deliver an official written apology to Algeria for detaining Algeria's consular attache. The attache. Mr. Rabah Boukhalfa. was picked up by Spanish Police at gunpoint early on Sunday
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    • 342 7 LONDON, Wed. (AP) A man of the people was appointed last night as the first aide to 18-vear-old Prince Charles, heir-apparent to the throne of England. The official London Gazette announced that Squadron Leader David Checketts. 36-year-old serving officer in the Royal Air Force, has taken
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    • 183 7 BEIRUT. Wed. (AP). Lebanon's parliament passed a law yesterday that voids a bankruptcy decree given against the giant Intra Bank last week and gives Intra six months to try and refloat itself. The law lays down procedures to be followed in the event any bank
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    • 101 7 ANTWERP. Wed. (AFP) Several French. Belgian and West German firms are involved in an alleged animal food trading fraud that netted 200 million Belgian francs (U.S. $4 million) it was learned here today. An Antwerp court has been informed that the firms exported the foodstuffs ostensibly
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    • 128 7 LONDON. Wed. (AP) The British film industry, now 80 per cent financed by American capital, needs stronger government backing to retain its own identity, the British Film Institute said yesterday. The comment was contained in the annual report which urged financial
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    • 140 7 PASADENA. California. Wed. (UPI). Americas sturdy Surveyor 1 mooncraft was reactivated on the lunar surface for about 12 hours last Friday, according to a spokesman of the U.S. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The 620-pound vehicle made a historic softlanding on the moon last June
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    • 397 7 BOSTON, Wed. (UPI) Cartoonist A 1 Capp yesterday told folksinger Joan Baez to try to prove that the character "Jo a n i e Phoanie" in his Lil Abner comic strip resembles her. "If she can do it. I feel
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    • 318 7 CANBERRA, Wed. (AFP) Australian cabinet is to complete arrangements for the visit to Australia of South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky soon. But many Australian newspapers still object to the visit and urge the government even at this hour to postpone it Most emphatic
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    • 96 7 MEEKER. Oklahoma Wed. (AP) A 6-inch pipeline carrying propane exploded in a roar of flames near this central Oklahoma town yesterday while Ave construction crewmen were working on the line in a ditch. The Highway Patrol said one of the workmen was dead, one was
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    • 121 7 BANGKOK. Wed. <AP) Princess Beneditte of Denmark. accompanied by her hosts, the King and Queen of Thailand, returned to Bangkok yesterday from a twonday visit to the Northern Thai city of Chieng MaL Looking radiant, the 23-year-old princess drove from the airport to Boromphiman Palace the
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 59 6 O-T J? rnr VM f*ROM REYKJAVIK. JCELANPIO SOUTH AMERICA,THtTHFUMtf ORGANIZATION WAS STRANGE. MYSTERIOUS ACTION! something OF WORLP-SHAKING PROPORTIONS WAS ABOUT TO BREAK. 1 BUT WHAT WAS THls TOP SECRET? WHCV new AND WHERE WOULP THEY STRIKE? THESE WERE THE Vital questions ALEXANDER WAVERLY 50U6HT TO ANSWER A 5 HE LAUNCHER.,
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  • 482 8 ON the eve of this year's Hari Raya Puasa vast areas of West Malaysia are flooded, resulting in 70.000 people in several States having to leave their homes for dry land. It is estimated that another 30.000 people have suffered from the floods to a lesser
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  • 407 8 "pVURING the Hari Ray a and Chinese New Year season every year, the prices of commodities are raised so that shopkeepers can cash in on the occasion. They know the public would be prepared to pay more than usual for the goods they need for their celebrations. While
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  • Article, Illustration
    803 8  -  By* Enoc Waters NO LESS than 40 of the world's non-nuclear nations are engaged in nuclear projects intended to extend to millions of their people the benefits of the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Among them are nine in Africa, 10 in Asia and 12 in Latin America.
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  • 1031 8  -  By: Kenneth Holroyd JJANOI'S negative response to Mr. George Brown's latest attempt to persuade the parties involved in the Vietnam war to bring the fighting to an end can only serve to stiffen his resolve to seek a successful way of ending the conflict.
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
    • 153 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. forty moto dealers from S ngapore aid South Johore got 'og*th«r at a special convention in the Republic last week. The Coßverition is being organised by the Motor Division of The East Asiatic Co I<td., distributors for S ngapore and Malaysia of Bririgestone notor
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    • 284 9 SIN Wed. Jar:an first grade rubber fob. closed at 5 p.m. ir. Sirgapore and Kuala Lumpix today at 591 cents per lb, unchanged. The tone was dull. The market fluctuated narrowly around last night's final Jevels but the undertone vas steady. Trade showed buying interest for February but
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    • 453 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. THE question In many minds is what should be done about rumours and unofficial stories circulating in the market. There is always a clamour for action whenever operators feel the pinch, says Mr. Lim Chee Poe, Manager of
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    • 259 9 KIAIA LUMPUR. Wed. Tne Malayan Tobacco Comparjr last year made a consolicited trading profit '•lter providing for turnover taj) of $13,598 597. This was slightly less than tie consolidated trading prtfit for 1965. which amourjed to $14,217,955. Net consolidated profit after fex. however, increased to
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    • 166 9 TRIESTE. Wed. A new shipbuilding company, be. longing to the Institute of Industrial Reconstruction, has been opened at Trieste. It includes the shipyards of Ansaldo and Navalmeccanica and several others and the head-offices and technical departments will be located in the city. In view of- future government
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    • 54 9 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) Rubber futures yesterday closed unchanged to 30 points higher. Sales totalled 1 contract. Jan. 22.40 22.80 Mar. 22.40 23.00 May 22.40 23.00 July 22.70 23.00 Sept. 22.70 23.00 Nov. 22.70 23.00 Jan. 22.70 23.00 Locally spot No. 1 RRS remained unchanged at 221/4
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    • 55 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Association of Banks in Malaysia made the following changes in its rates to merchants today they were: Canada: Buying TT 355/16 Airmail O.D. 35-7/16; 90 d/st. 36 credit bills; 361/16 trade bills Selling T.T./O.D. ready were- Canada 35; Deutsche Marks 128-7/8; Swiss Francs 140-3/8; Belgian
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    • 14 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The tin price for today was $6OO per picul, unchanged.
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    • 76 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. Mr. Detlev Scheel. (second from right) the retiring German Ambassador to Singapore. pictured at Paya Lebar Airport, before returning to Germany. Mr. Srheel mill take up a new appointment in Madrid. Spain. To see him off at the airport were (left
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    • 179 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The followings ships are expected to be in port today:Godowns Vessels 1/2 Benhope 3/4 President Garfleld 5 Denny Rose 6/7 Thorsorient 8/9 Hoegh Elite 10/11 Star Arcturus 13/14 Vishva Mahima 15/16 Pula 18 Aeneas 19 Unkai Maru No. 6 21/22 Maxwe l Brander 23/24
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    • 866 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 7.05 a.m. Airline MSA 029 from Kuala I.umpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MSA 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MSA 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.00 a.m. Airline MSA 451 from Kuching. Time 10.55 a.m. Airline MSA 005 from Penang.
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    • 723 9 SINGAPORE. Wed —The Stock Market opened very steady but turned Arm towards the close. Main attraction today was Motor Investment and Wearne Brothers. Most probably it is because the Singapore Government announced it had decided to allow three plants to assemble
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    • 122 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. Singapore Chlneae Produce Exchange noon price* today were. Bujers bellerv Coconut oil ItOHi Bulk 41 no Coconut otl i I-'OH > Drams 4A.S0 LOOM C opra Mhfd l>er. Jan. Sugar (JITI) r\(odrtHn 17.78 2<.r»« Nutmeg* 110* 4 mum Nutmeg* H A W 22 .von Garbled 1 .am
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    • 26 9 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Rubber market opened quiet with No. 1 RSS Spot 18|, 18| No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports Jan. 18 181.
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    • 23 9 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) Money quotations: HK$5.*****/5.***** per US dollar for cash HK515.99 per pound sterling HK5266.875 per tael gold.
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  • 387 10 SINGAPORE, Wed.-The president of Japan Air Lines, Mr. S. Matsuo, today said it was their "fondest wish" to participate with Singapore in its efforts to build a "harmonious, prosperous and vigorous Republic." He added: "In this connection, we are extremely happy and grateful to
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  • 68 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. in his Hari Raya message said: "As Muslims all over the world celebrate the end of the Fasting Month, let us remember that Islam, like other great religions, represents man's eternal quest for equality and brotherhood
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  • 270 10 JOHORE BAHRL*. Wed.—A man in a black jacket is being sought here by Johore Police to throw some light on yesterday's §lO,OOO highway robbery along busy Jalan Ah Fook —a stone's throw from the Central Police Station. Johore's Deputy Police Officer, Assistant
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  • 125 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Rapid Results College. London, has announced the appointment of >lr. Soh Teow Kee of Singapore as its Area Careers Adviser for Singapore and Malaysia. The appointment, effective from Jan. 1, 1967, will bring the College closer to ambitious students in Singapore and
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  • 88 10 SINGAPORE, WED—The People's Action Party's Rochore/Stamford Branch will hold its tenth annual picnic in conjunction with a Beauty Make-up Graduation Ceremony at Tanah Merah Youth Camo on Jan. 15, Some 600 persons from the Rochore/Stamford Constituencies will attend th» picnic, including the DeDuty Prime Minister. Dr
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  • 363 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Muslim community ond UMNO members who will be celebrating the Hari Roya festivities tomorrow were today reminded not to forget "the unfortunate victims of the floods in West Malaysia." This reminder was stated todav by the UMNO Secretary-General, Tan
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  • 63 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Contribution from Governments and people from all walks of life continued to pour in to the National Disaster Relief Fund. This morning the Deputy Prime
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  • 68 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. The National Library will present an exhibition of Maori artifacts, couples with an information display dealing with the Mron people and New Zealand in general, in the library foyer from Jan. 17 to Feb. 4. The artifacts, authentic museum items, have just arrived from
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  • 171 10 JOHORE BAHKU, Wed. Dato Abdul Rahman bin Ja'afar has retired from Government Service as the State Secretary of Johore. Confirming this today, a Government spokesman told the Eastern Sun that the retirement took effect from Jan. 1. this year. A veteran civil servant. Dato Abdullah bin
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  • 51 10 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. National Library, Stamford Road: Book exhibition, by the Embassy of Japan. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Victoria Memorial Hall. Empress Place: Family Planning exhibition by the Ministry of Health. 7.45 p.m. National Theatre. Tank Road: The People's Association Concert, organised by the People's
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  • 421 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. A Director of Marketing Operations of the Rank Xerox organisation flew into Singapore last night to make an on-the-spot survey of the future potential of the Company's products in the local market. He Is Mr. Ron Walker, a leading British businessman,
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  • 195 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. An all-star Variety Show "Galaxy of Stars 1967"—wi1l be staged by the Pasir Panjang English Primary School Parent-Teacher Association at the Pasir Panjang Secondary School hall on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 7.30 p rn. The two-and-a-half hour show comprising
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  • 46 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. For serving thirty years with the Sime Darby Group of companies, Mr. Tan Thiam Hock (above) was awarded a lnog service certilcate and gold watch from Mr. D. A. Craig, General Manager of Sime Darby's kales Division. I
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  • 173 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Port of Singapore Authority announced it has appointed the Swan Hunter Group £s managing agents of its ship-repairing activities with effect from Feb. 1. 1967. A statement today said: "The Intention of this arrangement is to provide an International ship-repair service by
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  • 768 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The nation-wide operation launched by the Government to raise funds for the relief of flood victims gathered momentum as donations poured in from all over the country as well as from friendly nations abroad. The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak.
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  • 116 11 SITIAWAN, Wed. Annammal, 14. a schoolgirl here who had been reported missing from home Dec. 21 last year, was found in her friend's house at Pantai Remis on Monday. She was sent back to her adopted parents in Pek&n Gurney by the Police the following day. Annammal.
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  • 617 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. PRIME MINISTER Tunku Abdul Rahman, today described as "a magnificent gesture" the University of Malaya Students' Union's offer of its members' services in flood relief work in the affected areas in flood ravaged East Coast States. He felt that the students
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  • 145 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman will reveal to the Associated Chinese Chamber of Commerce Japanese counter-proposals on the blood-debt Issue on Jan 17. Top officials of the ACCC led by Senator T. H. Tan will meet the Tunku at the Residency at 11
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  • 201 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak today received donations in cash and kind from the people of Singapore for the flood victims. The Deputy Prime Minister thanked the people of Singapore for their generous donations to the flood victims The donations
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  • 428 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Yang di-Per-tuan Agong and the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman have sent Hari Raya greetings to the Heads of State and Heads of Government of Mus- lim countries. From His Majesty to the President of the Republic of
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  • 294 11 pour in for flood victims KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Donations keep pouring In for the National Disaster Relief Fund following the Government's repeated SOS calls to all Malaysians to contribute in cash and kind in aid of flood victims. Donations to the Eastern Sun so far tptalled $2,493. Senator Y.T. Lee
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  • 51 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Minister of Information. Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, today received £5 from Mrs. Angela Well* of Hedgerows. Long Lane. Tllchurst. Reading. England, for the National Disaster Relief Fund. The donation was handed to the Minister by Bishop Dominic Vcndargon of Kuala
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  • 75 11 SINGAPORE. Wed—The National Library will resume normal hours of service from Monday. Jan. 16. after the Puasa month. Hours of opening at the Central Library In Stamford Road will be as follows: Lending Section: Mondays Saturdays from 8.30 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Children's Section; Mondays to
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  • 174 11 KAMPAR. Wed. A labourer yesterday dived Into a mining pool fully clothed to save his two-year-old son who had fallen in but was unable to do so. The boy, Llau Kim Pheng, died in his mother's arms on arrival at the General Hospital
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  • 190 11 PENANG, Wed. The Penang Flying Club here will soon be riving flying lessons to more young Malaysians. This follows a grant of $l,OOO. made by the Royal Australian Air Force, Butterworth. during the week-end. The grant is the first instalment of a total grant
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 341 12 117E eo to school to learn, to be educated so that some day when we lea\e school, we will be somebody. We will be proud a "d happy but to make sre that we achieve such happiness we must pass examinations for it is through
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    • 169 12 UNCLE' my favourite TV programme MY NAME is Koh Chay Tiang. I am nine year* old and I have short black hair. I am quite fair but short, and thin. I live with my parents, two brothers and four sisters at 5, Hillside Terrace. I attend St. Joseph's Convent School
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    • 455 12 I live in the busiest street in town and I have many neighbours. Among these neighbours there is one I hate the most. She is called Fatimah. She is a Malay but not very dark. Fatimah is a cook of my
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    • 468 12 I AM a 'Raleigh' bicycle. I was manufactured in England and arrived in Malaya a few years before the Second World War. When I arrived in Penang you could hardly recognise me, for the various components of my frame had been packed in separate boxes.
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    • 273 12 GOOD behaviour is learnt both in school and at home. The behaviour and habits o£ parents are. as a rule, followed closely by their children who eventually copy them and behave in the same way. Therefore, as long as parents have good habits, are
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    • 580 12 MY LIFE has been and Is still a simple one. I have recalled in my diary, day after day, the incidents that happened to me, and they were more or less the same throughout. But, to my sorrow, I came across an unlucky day
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    • 266 12 THE FIRST TIME I ever visited Cameron Highlands was during the last holidays. Originally we had intended to go up to Kuala Lumpur only but then my father who always does things on the spur of the moment suddenly decided to take us to
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    • 195 12 MY PET is none other than Kitty, a cute little kitten. Kitty is handsome and is only about one and a half months old. He has soft white fur with patches of brown and black here and there. He has a very short tail. Kitty loves
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    • 183 12 AFTER hearing a lecture given by my teacher. I came home agreeing with her that money is the root of ail eviL As I meditated that night I began to think of all the things one can buy with money. I can picture
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    • 165 12 MANY people consider that travelling is one of the best form of education. The easiest way to do is to join the navy. A sailor's life is a wonderful and adventurous one! He can see the whole world. When I finished my education, I will
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 148 12 NEW ESSAY CONTEST FOR THOSE WHO ARE 14 AND UNDER THE EASTERN SUNS new essay writing: contest for boys and girls of 14 and under will begin in Page 12 this Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • 342 14  -  By M. T. Lingam SEREMBAN, Wed.—The Malaysian Schools Sports Council, in eight-year existence has played a notable part in the development of sports in this country. In all spheres of sports and games, whether in producing players, coaches or officials, M.S.S.C. has played
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  • 391 14 EAST LONDON, South Africa, Wed. (UPI). —Great spin bowling by Johnny Martin drove the Australians to their sixth first class win of the South African tour yesterday when Border were defeated 10 minutes after lunch by ten wickets. Martin, who
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  • 131 14 MANILA, Wed. (AFP) The "association for the Advancement of Amateur Athletics" (AAAA) advocated yesterday the creation of a Sports Ministry armed with full powers to develop amateurs in the Philippines. Association President Felipe Monserrat said that the "disastrous" Philippine showing at the
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  • 84 14 EAST LONDON, Wed. South Africa, Wed. (AP) The Australian cricket tourists have objected to the South African Cricket Board over the appointment of an Umpire for the Third Test at Durban on Jan. 20. The umpire in question was not named in the statement
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  • 260 14 LONDON. Wed. (AFP). The FA. Cup slaughter of non-league clubs continued last night. The last remaining amateurs. Bishop Auckland. were thrashed 7-0 at Halifax in a replay, and Ashford went out 5-0 in a first game at Swindon. These followed defeats on Saturday
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  • 269 14 SINGAPORE, Wed. Bridgestone motor-cycles dominated Forces Driving Club scramble held at Ayer Rajah Road over the weekend. Leading the Bridgestone victories was Army corporal Jim Hudson who won three of the day's races. He was first in the New Year Scramble, the Unlimited All Comers
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  • 74 14 EAST BERLIN, Wed. (AFP) The East German field hockey squad left here yesterday for a 14 —match tour of India. The players will be in India until Feb. 5. The Contingent: goalkeepers: H. D. Sasse (Leipzig), Stephan (Motor lena) backs: Vetter, A. Thieme (Leipzig),
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 537 14 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS LEMBAGA LETRIK NEG*RA PUPIL POWER STATION CHEMIST APPLICATIONS are invited from suitably qualified Ma'avsian Citizens for the post ,t Pupil Power Station Chemist The duties of the post will be to serve in any 0 f the Board's Power Stations for a period of 2 years. The genera]
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 1523 14 I %T, <* YOUR Til HI JPb M j *> WBmm TODAY (Singapore viewers, please switch to) P.M. CHANNEL 5 12.50 PROGRAMME SUMMARY in all I.OO—LOATHE PRESIDENT HARI RAYA MESSAGE. 1.15 CASPER CARTOON SHOW. 1.35 PAK AWANG BERHARI RAYA 2.30 SUGARFOOT (Hideout) Malay Subtitles. 3.20 THE NEW YEAR SHOW (Repeat).
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  • RACING COMMENTS
    • 1541 15  -  The going is YIELDING By 'Windsor L Lad' j IPOH, Thurs. Armistice will take some beating in the Class Two Division Four (Race 5) to be run ovar the 5-1 /2f. straight at Ipoh this afternoon, second day of Perak Turf Club's' January
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    • 23 15 WINDSOR LAD: First Love Lighter P. T*Ang GOLDEN SUN: Rina II P. TAng Springfield ADELINE: W. Number Landaulet Ini Satu
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    • 144 15 WINDSOR LAD GOLDEN SUN ADELINE Race L LANDAULET H. Menan* Gourmet LANDAULET Gourmet H. Menang LANDAULET Pan Rajah H Menang Race S. EASY MONEY Court's Gift Ulna tl RINA II Entertainer IV Poacher COURT'S GIFT Rina If Vilmorwin Race S. THE POINTER Paulv Pike Resourceful CONCORDE T. Harapan II
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    • 234 15 By WINDSOR LAD IPOH, Wed. Gemini II (Kang) and Dalkeith, two Class VI horses who will be running here tomorrow showed up to advantage on a yielding track here this morning when they disposed of 3f In 402 5 sec finishing with very little
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    • 111 15 TOKYO. Wed. (AFP) India, Ceylon, Iran and Malaysia have been grouped in the Section "B" and the Philippines, South Korea, South Vietnam, Indonesia and Japan in the section "A" of the Davis Eastern Zone competition for this year, according to the Japan Lawn Tennis Association In
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    • 203 15 LONDON, Wed. (AFP).— Seeded players received plenty of shocks in the third round of the British Amateur Squash Rackets Championship at the Lansdowhe Club, London yesterday. Jeremy Lyon, 30-year-old Essex farmer and a Bntisn international who is seeded No. 5 had one of the biggest frights.
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    • 1247 15 Han at 8'pore Ysarllng Div. a 6 Furs. 1.45 F.M. 1. 022 Landaulet 3y 9.00 W MCOregor Watt Dr C K. Quek Tuiioh Coleman 7 3 083 Gourmet 3v 8.11 Sonant* Stable Sullivan Colea 5 1 07ft Pan Rajah 3y 810 Y 8. Chong J Donnelly Motham
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  • 472 16 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Managing Director of Messrs. Rothmans of Pall Mall, Mr. J. M. Brown, said the Republic was fortunate that the Government had the foresight to recognise the potential importance of sport in the country. He said this together with the establishment
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  • 193 16 MALACCA. Wed. Only six entries has been received so far by the Malacca Hockey Association for the annual Open League competition which begins on Fok 1 rco. i. Mr. Kartar Singh the Secretary ol the Malacca Hockey Association disclosed that the closing date
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  • 156 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Singapore Joint Services and Commonwealth Forces North, have announced their teams for the Malaysian Rugby Union's 38th H.MS. Malaya Cup final to be plaved here nn Saturday at the Armed Forces Stadium at 5 p.m. They are: Joint Services: H. Bird
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  • 754 16 Clay loses first fight to Appeals Board FRANKFORT Kentucky, Wed. (UPI). The Kentucky Selective Service Appeals Board has refused to reclassify heavyweight champion Cassius Clay as a conscientious objector, it was announced yesterday. Back in Houston, Texas, Angelo Dundee, manager of world heavyweight champion Cassius Clay, said that Clay's lawyers
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  • 212 16 SEOUL. Wed. (AFP) Japan's Musashi Nakano was officially rated today as the Oriental welterweight chamion as the Orient Boxing Federation here issued the monthly rating list. Nakano took the title from Thailand's Apidej Sithiran by knocking him out in the third round of
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  • 79 16 SINGAPORE, Wed —The Saints annual Past v. Present rugger match will be played at 4.00 p.m. on Saturday January 28 at the School ground. It will be followed at 5.30 Dm by the Old Boys annual general meeting and by a reception for old boys
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  • 499 16  - Physical education important in schools Rahim Ishak By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Wed. The Minister of State for Education, Enche A. Rahim Ishak, has stressed the importance of a vigorous implementation of a physical education programme in schools throughout the island. He said that with sensible planning, a realistic balance between
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  • 159 16 SINGAPORE. Wed:—The Indian style wrestling bout between two wrestling giants is expected to attract a big crowd of wrestling fans at Gay World stadium —venue for the Hari Raya attraction, ori Friday. Hari Pahelwan-the Indian heavyweight kingpin will clash with Hans von Steiger the "Tiger of
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  • 170 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed A prominent Malaysian has been appointed executive director of the National Sports Foundation of Malaysia. He is Tan Sri Taib bin Haji Andak. the chairman of the Federal Land Development Authority. Tan Sri Taib will take his new responsibility with
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  • 32 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Batu Garrison, the defending champions of the last years Miisum trophy league competition, will meet tne Selangor Club Tigers in a Key' match tomorrow at the paaang
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  • 233 16 SINGAPORE, Wed Th« Singapore youth' soccer team for the forthcoming Asian soccer tournament 'a Bangkok will be trained on the same pattern adopted for the Republic squad r o the sth Asian Games. The Asian Youth focoer tournament is scheduled
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  • 151 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Selangor Hoc«cey Association Fixtures Committee has warned tne association's teams tha T -n future all request for post* ponement of fixtures wouia be "closely looked '.nto. No postponements wou.a be considered unless seven days prior notice in y r: ing
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  • 34 16 MALACCA. Wed. 1 No. 3 Squadron. Royal Co.p of Transport edged No. fantry Workshops R*- 1-0 in the semi-final of Army knock-out (M- n Units) hockey competition athe Terendak Camp grouna here.
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 113 16 TIME AND TIDE TODAY Penan*: 1.11 a.m. (8.1 ft.); 1.56 p.m. <6.6 ft.) 6.49 a.m. (14.7 ft.); 7.22 p.m. Port Dickson: 7.38 a.m. (8.9 ft.); 7.49 p.m. (8.4 ft.) Singapore: 12.39 a.m. (8.5 ft.); 11.17 a.m. (9.9 ft.) Sedili Kechil: 5.15 a.m. (5.4 ft.); 9.17 a.m. (6.8 ft.) Kuantan: 8.26
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