Eastern Sun, 3 February 1967

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  • Title Section
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    26 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION 1T Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 196 Friday* February 3 1967. ☆MC (P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 55 cents
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    Lock icon MAO GRABS HEILUNKIANG
    611 1 Poster war goes on in Canton TOKYO, THURS. (AP) MAO TSE-TUNG has Heilunkiang province Shao-Chi's camp in a by the army and a repentant anti-Maoist party chief, Peking Radio claimed today. If this report is true, it drives a massive Maoist wedge between two areas which threaten
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    Lock icon Strike: Ho warns affiliated unions
    357 1  -  By PETER LOKE THE Singapore National Trade Union Congress today warned other affiliated unions of the Public Daily Rated Employees Unions Federation not to be involved in sympathetic strike action which would be illegal and in contravention of all existing fegisfotion. The NTUC has issued
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    Lock icon SUNNY ANG TO HANG ON MONDAY
    174 1 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Racing motorist, Sunny Ang. 27 will walk his "last mile" on Monday, Feb. 6 for the murder of a bar waitress, Jenny Cheok, on the high seas off Sisters Island on August, 1963. The Eastern Sun learnt today Sunny's last hopes were
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    Lock icon Security Council
    51 1 TAIPEI, Thurs. President Chiang Kai-Shek today ordered establishment of" a "National Security Council," a move that will allow him to declare war without first obtaining con-, sent of Parliament. The supreme power was granted the 79-year-old leader under a constitutional amendment adopted by the National Assembly in March
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    Lock icon Jackie: Bob is most compassionate
    376 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. Mrs. John F. Kennedy describes her brother-in-law, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, as "the most compassionate person I know," but also as the type of shy, proud person who is often misunderstood as "Machiavellian." The former First Lady gave her personal view of the
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      67 1 e CYMA HIGH PRECISION WATCHES AFTER-SALES SERVICE. A. L. Abdeen Ltd. 155, North Bridge Road, Capitol Building, Singapore, 6. I He said he learned from Communist officials the number of would-be defectors had reached 30.000 in Canton. Yu was formerly a student they saw posters attacking Party Chairman Mao TseTung
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  • PARLIAMENT IN SESSION
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      Lock icon Minister admits lack of directives in FAMA
      287 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. THE Minister for Agriculture and Co-operatives, Tuan Haji Ghazali Jawi, denied that the Government was using pressure to stop the registration of the plantation workers multi-purpose co-operative society. He referred to the hundreds of co-operative ventures the Government had helped
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      Lock icon More power for JB
      153 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thur s The General Manager of the National Electricity Board Raja Zainal bin Raja Sulaiman announced today that the $14.5 million extenlion work to double the capacity of the Sultan Ismail Power Station, Jnhore Bahru from 30.000 kilowatts to 60,0n0 kilowatts was expected to
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      Lock icon $7,000 for a church
      109 2 JESSELTON. Thurs The Federal Minister of Sabah Affairs and Civil Defence, Tun Datu Mustapha bin Datu Harun, who is on an extensive tour of Sabah. today made more on-the-spot grants amounting to $20,000. In Pensiangan where he spent the night last night, Tun Mustapha made a
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      Lock icon Consumers NOT interested to form an association
      512 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. An advisory committee has been set up by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to tackle the problem of the rising cost of essential commodities. This committee has been charged with the task, finding both long and short term solutions
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      Lock icon $10 lunch at Klang Istana
      129 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Tunku Ampuan of Selangor, with the help of some close friends, will contribute towards the National Disaster Relief Fund by selling lunch coupons at $lO each. Each coupon will entitle a person to a buffet currysambal lunch at Istana Alam Shah,
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      Lock icon A tale of the strong bulls and the gentle cows
      170 2 KUALA LI'MFUR, Thur§. The Ministry of Argiculture and Cooperatives, is to provide artificial insemination service for the cows in Kelantan. The Minister of Agriculture and Co-opera-tives, Tuan Hajl Gnaiali Jawi. announced this is Parliament today when winding up the debate
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      Lock icon Top priority given to padi production -Ghazali
      362 2 KUALA LITMPt'R. Thuw. The Minister of Arrlculture and Co-operatives, Tuan Maji Mohamed Gnasali bin Jawi. reiterated today that a "very high priority" was given to padi production in the country. He was replving to an oral question by Enche Ahmad bin Arshad (All.
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      Lock icon Free port status: No decision yet
      247 2 PENANG. Thurs. As long as the free port status Is beneficial to Penang, the Government would continue to make every endeavour to retain it. This was stated by the Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee. in reply to a written question made by
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      Lock icon Production of tin: 133,018 pikuls
      135 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. In December, the production of tin concentrates was 133.018 (133.046) pikuls containing 5.955 tons tin metal, based on the true assay of 75.21 per cent. The average daily rate of production was 4.291 (4.435) pikuls of tin concentrates. Deliveries of tin concentrates
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      Lock icon Ministry of Commerce to spend $5 mil. this year
      247 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, today told the Dewan Ra'ayat that ordinary expenditure for his Ministry for 1967 was estimated at t5.069.963. an overall increase of $357,487 over the figure fof 1966. The
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      Lock icon Penang Supply Bill needs $1.3 mil
      164 2 PENANG, Thurs. The Penang State First Sun. plementary Supply Bill, 1967 seeking provision for $1,307,000 was moved at today's State Legislative meeting. Mr. M.S.A. Zachariah, who moved the Bill, explained that the object was to give statutory authont? for supplementary provision of $1,3T)7,000 for
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      Lock icon 60 TV sets for kampongs
      76 2 MALACCA, Thurs. Malacca Government is to instal television sets in 60 more kampongs. This was announced by the Chief Minister, Enche Abdul Ghafar bin Baba, at the opening of a reading room and a surau costing $3,000 each in Pondok Kempan, 20 miles from Malacca
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      Lock icon Pay blood donors call rejected
      196 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs —A suggestion to pay hood donors for donating their blood to the blood bank made in Parliament tod?r by an Alliance backbencher Tuan Ahmad bin Arshari However, the suggestion was dismissed by the Gov. ernment. The Parliament Secretary to the Ministry <j?
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      100 2 Shown above are the smallest and the largest of many Bedfords which have been supplied in Singapore to meet particular personnel transport require* ments. Whether you have to transport only 4 or as many as 44 people Orchard Motors have in stock a wide range of Bedford units to meet
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  • WORLD NEWS
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • Article
    Lock icon THE OUTCASTS
    485 8 NOT so long ago the Afro-Asian nations gave the impression that they had formed a solid bloc or a third force in the world. We pointed out that Afro-Asian solidarity could not be built on the flimsy foundations of colour and mutual experience of domination by the colonial
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    Lock icon SWIFT ACTION
    281 8 TT IS the accepted belief of many people, J- especially Industrialists and business men, that the Singapore Government is encouraging trade unions to wield the big stick against all employers because of its socialist principles. It came as a surprise that the Singapore Government could so swiftly break
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    Lock icon India goes to the polls
    2116 8  -  PHOTONEWS By B. Shiva Rao New Delhi, Thurs. THE world's largest democracy goes to the polls next month. Many million Indians, men and women, will trek to over two hundred thousand polling stations all over the country in exercise of the greatest democratic choice ever
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    Lock icon Casinos earn bigger profit than industrial corporations
    544 8  -  By CY RYAN CARSON CITY, Nevada, Thurs. (UPI). The surest way to go home a wi" ner from Nevada's legalised gambling table is to tour the Casino. An accounting firm working for the State legislature has confirmed what gamblers have learned the hard
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
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      Lock icon Engineer for Seminar in NY
      124 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. A senior local engineer of Mob I Oil Malaya Ltd, will leave tomorrow for a Chief Engineers' Training Seminar in New York. He is Mr. Yong Teck Yo, aged 26. a Lubrication Kngineer, who is scheduled to go on a six-week training assignment
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      Lock icon SWEDEN'S E.F.T.A. IMPORTS UP
      166 9 STOCKHOLM, ThursSweden's trade with her EFTA partners in the first eleven months of 1966 showed an increase in imports of 10 per cent compared with Jan u a r y-November 1965, while exports were up 4 per cent. In trade with EEC. imports remained practically unchanged,
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      Lock icon Mart quiet
      26 9 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI)..— R ibber market opened quiet with No 1 RSS spot 17-15/16 18J. No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports Feb. 17-9/16 17-11/16.
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      Lock icon Bank rates cut
      27 9 BRUSSELS. Thurs. (AFP) The Belgian National Bank today announced it was cutting its bank rate from 5.25 to 5 per cent as of tomorrow.
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      Lock icon No sales
      22 9 NEW YORK. Thurs. (AP) Rubber standard futures closed quiet. No sales. Spot No. 1 ribbed smoked sheets 21-3/ IN. N-nominal.
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      Lock icon US businessmen show keen interest in investment with Indonesia
      273 9 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) U.S. Businessmen have shown "tremendous interest" in the investment possibilities of Indonesia during the past few weeks, according to the U.S. Agency for International Deve- lopment (AID). Aid officials said since Indonesia and the United States signed an
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      Lock icon Special gifts to buyers of Carlsberg
      151 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Chinese New Year celebrations will be piven an extra lift this year by the East Asiatic Company Ltd. E.A.C. is giving away special gifts to purchasers of Carlsberg Beer, which the company distributes throughout Malaysia and Singapore. From now until after
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      Lock icon Tin price
      16 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The tin price for today was $601.75 per picul, up 50 cents-
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      Lock icon Gotaverken tops the 1966 list
      146 9 STOCKHOLM. Thurs. Three Swedish shipyards are among the leading five in Europe in tonnage output in 1966, according to a survey. For the second year running, Gotaverken, Gothenburg, tops the list with 11 ships deliver ed aggregating 384,000 gross tons. In second place follows Kie
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      Lock icon Record year for world tourism
      281 9 GENEVA, Thurs. (AFP). Last year was a record for world tourism with 128 million tourists ten per cent up in 1965 spending $39,000 million a 12 per cent increase, International union of official travel organisations announced here recently. With 1967 declared "International Tourism Year" the
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      Lock icon Merlin, Rothmans, feature on Stock Market
      805 9 Bv OUR MARKET REPORTER SINGAPORE, Thurs. Trading was quiet on the Stock Exchange with Industrials remaining steady. Merlin and Rothmans staged a feature of the day's trading. This could be the reason after yesterday's announcement of a maiden dividend. The Merlin counter started the
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      Lock icon Hong Kong quotations
      23 9 HONG KONG, Thurs. (UPI) —Money Quotations: HK55.*****/5.7175 per US dollar for cash HK515.99 per pound sterling HK5264.375 per tael gold.
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      Lock icon Rubber unchanged
      325 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. February first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumplr today at 58} cents per lb., unchanged. The tone was dull. London advises were better than expected and after opening fractionally higher, the market ruled quietly steady to begin with. Trade
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      Lock icon NY mart fairly active
      128 9 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) A late wave of buying in glamour issues yesterday bolstered the market and gave the list a mixed look after a sluggish session. Trading was fairly active. Although profit-taking did have the upper hand most of the day, many Wall Street analysts
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      Lock icon ASSEMBLY PLANTS FOR PRODUCTION
      107 9 LIMA. Peru, Thurs. (UPI) Three new auto assembly plants, adding to the growing list of Japanese enterprises here, are scheduled to go into production in March. The factories, operated by subsidiaries of Toyota, Nissan, and Isuzu Motor companies, will produce approximately 200 vehicle! monthly to start.
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      Lock icon BANK RATES
      81 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Association of Banks in Malaysia today made the following changes in its rates to merchants: NEW YORK: Buying T.T. 32-3/4; Airmail O.D. 32-7/8; 90 d/st. 33-5/16 credit bills; 33-5/8 trade bills. CANADA: Buying T.T. 35-3/8; Airmail O.D. 35-1/2; 90 d/st. 36-1/16 credit bills; 36-1/8 trade
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      Lock icon TIN MART STEADY
      31 9 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Tin remained steady with a turnover of 180 tons. Spot buyers 1204 sellers 1205 business 1204J 1205 3-months buyers 1204$ sellers 1205 business 1204 1205.
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      Lock icon Port Authority makes increases
      188 9 LONDON. Thurs (UPI) Increases of between 10 and 15 per cent have been made by the Port of London Authority on some charges, it was announced. Government approval has been given for the increases, which took effect from Monday. They are to offset a possible loss
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      Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE—MALAYSIA, S'PORE
      496 9 SING \PORE, Thurs. Stock Exchange hid and offer prim officially listed at the clove of business. INDUSTRIAL Alex. Bricks Ords. Bousfead C. sugar Chemical Co. Cold Storage Dunlnp (OLD) E. Smelting Esso Onl* Fit zpn tricks F. N. Ords. Gammon Georgetown Guinness Hotel S'pura Hume < Mj
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      54 9 (Manager* Price*) First Malayan XD t.18 2.28 Second Malayan XI) 1.54 1 64 Third Malayan 1.12 1.11 The Commerce Industry Fund... .87 .98 The Saving* Fund 1.S4 1.44 Malayttlan Investment Fund .90 1 00 Sterling Commodity 3/10 4/8 First Hone Kong... 1.00 1.0 V Second Hong Kong .70
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      111 9 SINGAPORE. Thur*. Slngapore rhlnfw Prod lire Exchange noon prices today were: Buyer* Seller* Coconut oil (FOB) Bulk 45.78 Coconut oil (FOB) Drum* 48.78 Loose Copra Mixed F>b/Mar 28.28 mm Sugar (Java) exfOdown 24.80 Nutmeg* lifts 455.00 Nutmegs RAW ***** Garbled Lampong Black Pepper (FOB) 102.50 Pepper Black Special Sarawak
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      Lock icon New York rubber
      50 9 NEW YORK. Thur*. (UPI) Rubber futures yesterday close five points higher. Sales none. Mar. 67 21.25 21.75 May 21.45 22.00 July 21.55 22.05 Sept 21.55 22.05 Nor 21.55 22.05 Jan 68 21.55 22.05 Locally, the spot No. 1: RSS remained unchanged at 21J cents per pound, nominal.
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      Lock icon SHIPPING MOVEMENTS
      174 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The following ships were in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 City of Wellington 3/4 Vienne 5 Orchidea 6/7 Lloyd Bakke 10/11 Rondo 13/14 Ruys 15/16 Antilochus 18 Le Natal 19 Tatiana 23/24 Keningau 25/26 Tocansa 27/28 Golden Spring 29/30 Toyo Maru No. 2 31/32 Levernbank 33/34
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS-S'PORE, K. LUMPUR
      729 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 12 or, a.m. Airline MSA 029 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MSA 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.50 a.m. Airline JL 712 from Jakarta. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MAS 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.30 a.m. Airline ML 451 from
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  • Article
    Lock icon RESULTS OF S'PORE TTC EXAMINATIONS
    2645 10 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The following candidates have passed the re-ex-aminatlon in their referred subject(s) and have thereby completed the Professional Part I Examination for the Certiflcate-in-Edu-catlon-General (English): Peter Ang; Ang Bee Ben; Ang Thian Seng; Ang Wee Pin; Braberry Adeline Cecilia (Miss); Chan Ch*fee Cheng (Miss);
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    Lock icon Whip and 7 years each for 7 who raped girl, 16
    534 10 SINGAPORE, Thurs.—Mr. Justice Choor Singh today sentenced seven men to seven years' imprisonment each for raping a 16-year-old schoolgirl at King George V Park on May 14, last vear. He also oraered that they be given six strokes of
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    Lock icon Minister on value of educational radio, TV
    274 10 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Minister for Education, Mr. Ong Pang Boon, today said that educational radio and television could help to solve the problems of qualitative improvement and quantitative expansion which faced most of the educational systems in Asia. He noted that the countries
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    Lock icon Bank official given $20,000 to expedite shipping guarantees
    1385 10 —COURT TOLD SINGAPORE, Thurs. A District Court was told today how a bank official, Kao Chia Jen, one of four accused of cheating Lee Wah Bank of $1.2 million, was paid $20,000 to expedite the issue of shipping guarantees without any "difficult/'
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    Lock icon Shops may open on Sundays
    71 10 SINGAPORE. Thurs. In view of the forthcoming Chinese New Year, shopkeepers who normally close their shops on Sunday may open for business on Feb. 5, and Feb. 19. to enable the public to shop for the festive season. A Government statement, however, reminded that 1'
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Emergency Cleansing Corps take over
    418 11 NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF STRIKE SINGAPORE, Thurs. The full force of the Emergency Cleansing Corps, numbering 1,500, turned out this morning to take over the clearing of streets and rubbish dumps neglected by the "wildcat" strikers members of the Public Daily-Rated Cleansing Workers Union. There
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    Lock icon De-registration notices served
    464 11 WILDCAT STRIKERS HAVE SACKED THEMSELVES' SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Registrar of Trade Unions today served notices of deregistration on the Public Daily-Rated Employees Unions' Federation and the Public Daily-Rated Cleansing Workers Union. The Government is asking these two unions to show cause why their certificates of registration should
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    Lock icon S'pore for first trade fair in Africa
    169 11 SINGAPORE, Thurs.' Singapore manufacturer! will participate for the first time in a trade fair in Africa Ndola, Zambia in June, this year. The Economic Development Board hag already received confirmations from manufacturers of 18 different products. The senior economic adviaer to the Economic
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    Lock icon K. Suppiah and 14 others refused bail
    377 11 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The President of the Public Daily-Rated Employees Unions' Federation, K. Suppiah, was today charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court here with having Instigated, advised and incited public daily-rated cleansing workers to take illegal strike action yesterday. Also charged with him were
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    Lock icon Hawkers' request to Minister
    198 11 SINGAPORE, Thurs. A request has been made to the Minister for Law, Mr. C.W. Barker, to allow hawkers to occupy the public parking lots along North Bridge Road between Tan Quee Lan Street and Rochore Road for the four days immediately preceding the Chinese New Year.
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    Lock icon Judgment reserved in murder appeal
    170 11 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Federal Court of Appeal today reserved its judgment on an appeal by four convicted murderers three of whom are under sentence of death and the fourth detained at the pleasure of the President after a four-day hearing. The three are Mohamed bin
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    Lock icon 1967 S'pore-Russia cultural programme
    267 11 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Republic and Russia have agreed to a cultural co-operation programme for 1967, "in line with its policy to be friends with all and develop as many cultural and economic ties with friendly nations as possible." This was disclosed in a Government statement issued
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    Lock icon Severance pay talks break down again
    234 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. Talks over severance pay broke down here between union leaders and the management of Lian Wah Rubber Co. this morning. Later in the afternoon a spokesman for the Shoe Workers' Union of Malaya said they could not agree to the counter
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      534 11 THE PRINCESS SINGAPORE QUEST 1967 OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM 4 PPLICATIONS are Invited from SINGAPORE t\ nationals, who have reached their 17th f but not their 27th, birthday on March Ist, 1967, and who wish to be considered for selection as Singapore's con-testant-delegate to the "Queen of the Pacific" Quest to
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  • AUSTRALIAN NEWS AND VIEWS
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      Lock icon Knowledge of Asia important to Australians
      207 12 MELBOURNE, (AIS) Thurs. Australia needed many more people who could speak Asian languages, who knew something of the history and culture of her Asian neighbours and who could negotiate, explain and make judgements on human problems. This was said recently by the Vice-Chancellor of
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      Lock icon Full-course flying for Malaysians
      109 12 Melbourne, Thurs. Two Colombo Plan Malaysian student's are undergoing a full course of flying training up to twin-engine commercial standard here. They are Mr. Chen Chye, 21, of the Gurney Training Centre, Marsh Road, Kuala Lumpur, and Mr. Leng Gim Chen, 19, of Lorong Hijau Enam,
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      Lock icon More Aussie aid for South Vietnam
      342 12 (AIS) Thurs. More Australian technical and civilian aid is almost certain to be sent to the Republic of Vietnam as a result of the recent visit to Australia of the Prime Minister, Air Vice-Marshall Tun Nguyen Cao Ky. The five-day visit ended on Jan-
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      Lock icon Farm income increased
      118 12 CANBERRA. Thurs. Australian farm incomes are expected to rise by 10 per cent this year. Gross value of farm rural output for 1966-67 should be 53.264.000.000 as against $2,971,000,000 for 1965-66. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics says the rise will bring farm incomes to levele slightly higher
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      Lock icon First Turkish Ambassador
      65 12 CANBERRA, Thurs. The Turkish Government has announced the appointment of Mr. Baha Vefa Karatay as first Turkish Ambassador to Australia. Born in 1916. Mr. Karatay is a graduate of the Turkish Military Academy. Following a period of military service. Mr. Karatay joined the foreign service. He was
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      Lock icon AID FOR MALAYSIAN FLOOD VICTIMS
      80 12 CANBERRA. (AIS) Thurs. Australia will give $A25,000 towards relieving the effects of floods In northern part of West Malaysia. The Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Paul Hasluck, announced the gift, saying that almost 40 people had died in the floods, 20 more were missing and
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      Lock icon Homeward-bound for Sabre jet-fighter pilots of No. 3 Squadron
      184 12 BUTTERWORTH (Malaysia), Thu r s. RAAF Sabre jet-fighter pilots of No. 3 Squadron who, this month, will fly their aircraft from RAAF Base here to Australia discuss their proposed flight with the Officer Commanding No. 78 Fighter Wing at Butterworth, Gp.
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      Lock icon Red Cross aid for Vietnam
      149 12 SYDNEY, Thurs. The Australian Red Cross Society has sent an initial SAI,OOO in answer to an appeal by the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva to help homeless Vietnamese civilians in need of food, clothing and medical care. The League's Relief Bureau estimates that
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      Lock icon New type of classroom for New Zealand schools
      160 12 WELLINGTON*, (NZIS), Thursday NEW type of school classroom has been designed in New Zealand. It can be erected in two days. It can also be dismantled quickly and moved to any site required. The classroom shown being erected at the Johnson ville
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      Lock icon World food problem
      222 12 IIfELBOURNE, Thurs. Two-thirds of the world's poy>alation of 3,200,000.000 could not provide enough food to meet their increasing needs, and the situation getting worse. This warning was given by the Director of the Institute of Agriculture at the University of Western Australia, Professor E.J. Underwood. Professor Underwood
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  • EASTERN SUN FEATURE
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      892 13  - Fire walking HAVE YOU A THEORY By Ross Miles T*HE natives walked slowly out onto the redA hot volcanic lava. All they had over their bare feet were big leaves. He could not believe his eyes but it was certain that the natives were walking on fire and not a
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      Lock icon Ever been honest with yourself
      846 13  -  CONFIDENT LIVING By: Norman Vincent Peale THERE is a passage in Bhakespeare's "Hamlet" which goes: "This above all: to thine own self be trueyAnd it must follow, as the night the day./ Thou canst not then be false to any man." It is a strange
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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      243 13 CATHAY Phone334ool Open* Todar! 11. IJI. 4. IK, |J| Doygiji* "RAPTURE" Tomorrow Midnight Of Our Grand Chinese New Ye;»r ATTRACTION 1 Ann-Margret "THE SWfNC.EE" Technicolor >A Paramount Picture < GALA ***** Open* Today! I.JP. 4. «.:<•, 9.15 p m JEFF GORDON AND THE COUNTERFEITERS Eddie Corutantine A Rank Organisation Release!
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    108 14 STOKE (Staffordshire), Thurs. (AFP) Mel Charles the former Welsh international, who left English league football 18 months ago yesterday signed for fourth division Port Vale and will lead their attack at Crewe tomorrow. Vale paid a four-figure fee to the Welsh league club
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    521 14 LONDON, Thurs. (AFP). The third round replays of the F.A. Cup brought no surprises last night unlike Tuesday night. All the big guns got through and if Tottenham did so only by a single goal against second division Millwall, they dominated for much
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    Lock icon Pal Singh to take on 'Tiger of Berlin'
    213 14 SINGAPORE, Thurs.—Pal Singh, the Punjabi wrestling champion, who put up a magnificent performance in his first appearance in the Singapore ring last week, will be in action again at the Gay World Stadium on Friday. This time he will meet Hans von
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    117 14 TOKYO, Thurs. (AP) The manager of world flyweight boxing champion Horacio Accavallo of Argentina said today that he had agreed to a title bout in Buenos Aires against Kiyoshi Tanabe of Japan if the Japanese "clearly wins" their Feb. 20 non-title bout here.
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    92 14 PENANG, Thurs. The Football Association of Penang league soccer season this year will start sometime in March after the Hari Raya Haji. Entries for divisions, one, two and three are now invited from affiliated clubs and associations and should reach the secretary of the F.A.P.
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    Lock icon Mildenberger rises from canvas to outpoint Tomasoni
    209 14 FRANKFURT, Germany, Thurs. (UPI). West German heavyweight Karl Mildenberger climbed off the canvas after a first round knockdown last night to decision Piero Tomasoni of Italy and retain his European title. Conny Rudhof made it a clean sweep for Germany bv scoring another
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    187 14 PALM SPRINGS, California, Thurs. (AP) Little known Jay Dolan shoved such headliners as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Billy Casper into the background yesterday by shooting a six-under-par 66 in the first round of the 110.000 dollars Bob Hope Desert Gold Classic. The 27-year-old professional
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    61 14 ESSEN, Thurs. (AFP) Peter Post from the Netherlands and Swiss rider Fritz Pfenninger won their second Essen six-day cycle race yesterday. The pair had previously won the event in 1965. Second were Sigi Renz and Junkermann of Germany, and third another German pair. Dieter Kemper
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    Lock icon • JAPANESE challenger Mitsunori Seki goes down for a technical knockout after being connected with two lefts by Mexican world featherweight champion Vicente Saldivar in the 7th round of their title fight. — AP AP Wirephoto.
    34 14 JAPANESE challenger Mitsunori Seki goes down for a technical knockout after being connected with two lefts by Mexican world featherweight champion Vicente Saldivar in the 7th round of their title fight. AP AP Wirephoto.
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    127 14 LONDON, Thurs. (AFP) A Leading British football pools firm is to launch a horse racing pool based on the Football Pool system. The racing pool, which is due to start in March, will operate on six races, with three points for a winner,
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    Lock icon Invitation XI picked for cricket clash
    215 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurv The M.C.A. President Invitation XI for the oneday match against the siting Cricket Club of Ind-a will be a combination o< youngsters from Selangor Negri Sembilan and Malacl ca. The match will be piavM on Feb. 17 at the Selaneor Club
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    161 14 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Full Bore section of the Singapore Rifle Association recently held its first spoon shoot for the year at Bukit Timah Road here. On the first Sunday of competition, Lee Kian Seng with a score of 92 out of at possible
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    Lock icon Top racers from UK Japan and Australia for Singapore GP
    643 15 SINGAPORE, T ,huri. Sev.rol top-notch racing driven from Australia ana the United Kingdom and tho Japancte motorcycle "dare-devils have indicated they would be taking part In this year't Singapore brand Prix. This year's hi* show will he held from March
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    562 15 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The leader of the Republic's contingents to the Ganefo and Asian Games, Mr Chan Chee Seng, today submitted an eight-point recommendation for Implementation to rise the standard of the nations* sports participation at future international competitions. The recommendations fnro-ardPd
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    106 15 LONDON, Thurs. (AFP) Frankle Taylor, a former leading contender for the British featherweight title, has made an application to the Boxing Board of Control to be allowed to fight again following a long lay off. Taylor now a sport* writer has been out of
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    Lock icon Monte Carlo rally winners
    96 15 Rauno Aaltonen (left) of Finland and his codriver Henry Liddon of Britain winners of the Monte Carlo Rally in a British Motor Corporation Mini Cooper 'S' pose with their car on an unloading ramp at London Airport and wave their trophies to the wellwishers who greeted
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    Lock icon Soh plans to build reservoir of 'iron men'
    341 15 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The president of Singopore Amateur Weightlifting Federation, Mr. Soh Ghee Soon, who was re-elected for the seventh successive term has recommended to the new Council plans for the "mass recruitment" of 500 bodybuilders to be train- Ed as weightlifters. The
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    434 15 SINGAPORE, Thurt. The Singapore Combined Secondary Schools Sports Council will hold its first six-a-side hockey tournament on Saturday at Dover Road, here, starting at 9.00 a.m. Altogether a total number of 72 teams will compete in the three divisions, the girls' open, boys' senior
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    81 15 BANGKOK. Thurs. (AFP) The English amateur soccer team Middlesex Wanderers has offered to play against a Thai team during their forthcoming visit to the Far East, it was reported here today. A spokesman for the Thai soccer association said the offer was made through the
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    126 15 PALM BEACH GARDENS. Florida. Thurs. (UPI> Byron Nelson proved yesterday he was still king of the late 1930's era of golfers by winning the PGA quartercentury championship by two strokes. Nelson fired sub par golf all the way and posted a final
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    Lock icon Runners for Perak Amateur meet
    542 15 IPOH, Thurs.—There will be eight races in the Perak Turf Club Amateur Meeting on Saturday, Feb. 4 starting at 2 p.m. RACE 1 2 P.M. Horses MARA CI. S—IT, str. Catchueights 12st. 71bs. Trophies 1. (7) Jaya II penalty 14 lbs 2. (1) Amir's Kuda
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    127 15 IPOH. Thurs. The following will represent the Perak Chinese Football Federation in a charity match for the national Disaster Relief Fund against Kampar District Football League Invitation XI at Kampar on Sunday. Llew Keng Foo. Wong Kon Thau, Yee Seng Choy, Foo Fook
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    100 15 MANILA, Thurs (AFP; Japan and the Philippines are strongly fancied to flgnt for top honours in the first Asian Women Softball Championship scheduled to get under way here on Saturday. A total of four teams is competing in the nine-day tournament, the other two being
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    830 16  -  5,000 TREATED TO CHAMPAGNE FOOTBALL By R. Lozaroo, A. Johnson SINGAPORE, Thurs, Soccer was proven to be a many splendoured thing tonight when the dazzling Czechoslovakian side, Sparta Prague, appeared at Jalan Besar Stadium the heart of the Republic's football centre. In on e-a
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    233 16 SINGAPORE, Thurs.—Japan which captured third placing in the Asian Games soccer tournament at Bangkok "is fast moving" into the international soccer scene. This was the opinion expressed by an official of the visiting Czechoslovakian soccer team-Spar-ta Prague now in Singapore for a two-day
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    Lock icon Suggestions of Clark Committee still alive
    291 16 LONDON. Thurs. (AFP) The Clark Committees suggestions for the reconstructions of English county cricket are still very much alive despite the pessimistic forecasts here. The MCC. at their meeting at Lords yesterday not only decided to confirm Hampshire's amendment which makes this possible but
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    336 16 TOKYO, Thurs. (IPI) Japan Table Tennis Association officials were shocked and disappointed today over reports that the world champion Communist China will not compete in the World Championships in Stockholm. April 11-21. The Chinese Table Tennis Association gave no reason for the
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    89 16 STOCKHOLM, Th u rs. (UPl)—Swedish Table nis Association anno today it would "in all '3. try to persuade Ren to take part in the Table Tennis Champion wp here in April. However. Bo Bjoe General Secretary Swedish Association s■' ed he thought
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    173 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Selangor Police and Kilat Club played to a 1-1 draw in the first match of the second round. Selangor hockey league, at Gurney Road ground here this evening. Both teams played very hard in the first half but despite the increased
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    105 16 HOUSTON. Texas, Thurs. AP) The Cassius Clay camp has spotted the sign that signifies Clay is ready M ond ay night fl ht with Ernie Terrell. his workout on Wednesday. Clay continualu his neckbone where it connected with the shoulderbone. Then he would shake his head
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      59 16 TIME AND TIDE Penan;: 6.13 a.m. (5.1 ft); 7.44 p.m. (6 ft). Port Swettenham: 5.16 a.m. (6.8 ft); 11.01 a.m. (11.1 ft). Port Dickson: 12.13 a.m. (7.7 ft.); 12.19 p.m. (5.6 ft). Singapore: 4.26 am. (8.4 ft.); 5.58 p.m. (7 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 2.57 a.m. (7.2 ft); 5.06 (6.7 ft.).
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