Eastern Sun, 21 February 1967

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  • 25 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION ■Esid. T9TS6. Vol. 1 No. 212 Tuesday, February 21 1967. MC (P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 278 1 MUAR, Mon.—The flood situation in the upper reaches of the Muar River is deteriorating. The water in the surro .nding areas of Segamat D trict is receding, re--5; ng in widespread floodlnz of the low lying areas of Muar District. The worst-hit areas in Mnr District
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  • 51 1 taipfi, Mnn (AP) a tife and dpath struggle was reported today to be ragJho Nanking area of East China between supporters and opponents of Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. Nationalist China's official Central Newt Agency said this information was disthe pro-Mao K People's
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  • 577 1 746 N. Vietnamese regulars killed in 10 of fight SAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) South Vietnamese paratroopers, aided by strikes and artillery, claimed today to have killed 746 North Vietnamese regulars in ten hours of fighting yesterday one of the heaviest defeats inflicted on Communist forces in
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  • 81 1 SAN FRANCISCO Marilyn Lew (R), 17, a Washington High School student with a 36-25-36 figure, was named "M is s Chinatown U.S.A." early on Feb. 19 (Feb. 20 Singapore time) and will reign over the city's annual Chinese New Year celebration. At left is Cynthia
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  • 85 1 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Another Roman Catholic has left the priesthood because he does not agree with the church that priests must be celibate. Father Malcolm Tudor. 30-year-old assistant priest at a church in Midlands. Wolverhampton, is the second priest within three days to challenge the rule. But
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  • 284 1 JAKARTA, Mon. (AP) —Foreign Minister Adam Malik said today President Sukarno's only alternatives were to resign from power or be dismissed when Congress meets on March 7. Mr. Malik, one of Sukarno's strongest critics, told newsmen during a Presidium meeting that efforts would continue
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  • 78 1 JAKARTA. Mon. (AP) President Sukarno called another meeting with military leaders tonight and an authoritative military sources said military authorities have alerted the Government-run radio and military newspapers to stand by for an important announcement on Tuesday. Student radios carried an announcement on Sunday night saying Sukarno had
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  • 64 1 NEW YORK, Mon. (I'PI) The Ford Foundation today announced a grant of US$l2O,OOO for management training and research in Malaysia and Singapore. The foundation said the funds would be used for doctoral study in the t'nited States for faculty members of the Universities of Malaya and Singapore,
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  • 231 1 MELBOURNE, Mon. (Reuter) Britain will always maintain sufficient forces in the Pacific area to fulfil all her commitments, Commonwealth Secretary Herbert Bowden told a Press conference here today. Mr. Bowden was closely questioned on the second day of his 10-day Australian
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  • 200 1 Pilot parachuted to safety SINGAPORE, Mon. A Royal Air Force Hunter jet of No. 20 Squadron today crashed into secondary jungle north of Pontian, some 20 miles from its bate in Tengah, Singapore. A RAF spokesman said that the crash occurred late this afternoon.
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  • Parliament round up by Lim Thow Boon & Musa Scully
    • 2155 2 Amendment to Rent Control Ordinance KUALA LUM. PUR, Mon.— The government is to moke on amendment to the Rent Control Ordinance. The proposed amendment, which was decided at a Cabinet meeting on Saturday, will provide a celling for
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    • 165 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Government is to Intensify its efforts to improve the standard of living of the rural DeoDle to make it on par with the urban people, the Assistant Minister of National and Rural Development, Enche Bulon said in the Dewan
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    • 88 2 arranged bv the New Hirh Commi«i V an ln ormal bneflng session about New Zealand and student We there bin Abdullah (Malaga* FmHviJ?k»7. ision in Kuala Lumpur just prior to their departure last week. From left. Abdul Rahim b Ste Vahva K ill il VLS" Li
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    • 1003 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Government will not allow fragmentation of its rubber estates if this will affect the country's economy, the Minister of Lands and Mines, Enche Abdul Rahman Ya'akub, told the Dewan Ra'ayat today. Officials, he said, were now studying the impact of
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    • 126 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon An Eastern Sun reader from Batu Pahat has sent 54 "A little offering" —to Chan Kam Yuen, the $3O a month maidservant who has the staggering responsibility of looking after six younger brothers and sisters. This brings the dona'inn received by the
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  • 440 3 KCALA LUMPUR, Mon. The former Chief Minister of Sarawak, Dato Stephen Kalong Ningkan was today granted leave by the Lord President Tan Sn Syed Sheh Barakbah to commence proceedings in the Federal Court on the interpretation of the Con- stitution. The
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  • 122 3 PENANG, Mon.— A hawker, Ooi Guan Hock, 27, was fined $lOO or one month's jail in the first Magistrate's Court today when he was found guilty of using criminal force on a housewife, Chang Soo Goay, 26. The Magistrate. Mr. T. Aria Rajah, told Ooi
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  • 625 3 Abdul Aziz bin Mohamed (5), Abdul Hamid/Mohamed bin Abas (5), Ainon b\ Awang (5), Ahmad bin Mansor (5), Ahmad bin '•iohd. Hashim (5), ArifTm n Omar (5), Chu Lai Wan 'i). Embi bin Abdullah (5), Fatimah bt. Abu Bakar (5), H.ssin bin Salleh (5),
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  • 442 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The mass meeting of the plantation workers jointly sponsored by the National Union of Plantation Workers and All-Malayan Estate Staff Union would urge the Government to introduce legislation in Parliament to control the sub-division of estates in the
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  • 290 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Sarawak Communists have been using: their propaganda machinery to "discredit" the Government's efforts in rural deve- lopment. We are considering how to counteract such destruction campaign. We will hit back." said the Minister for Forestry and Development, Enche Abdul Taib
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  • 149 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.—The Minister of Finance, Mr Tan Siew Sin, said today that mines which use high speed diesel oil for the production of tin would continue to pay duties at the previous rate of eight cents per gallon. His statement is in
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  • 48 3 PENANG, Mon. —Thieves broke into a house in Taman Perak and got away with $2,130 and other articles last night. Pak Wai Pang, 30, a clerk, discovered the loss when ne and his family returned from town. Entry was gained by forcin through th« rear zincdoor.
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  • 205 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Foreign Ministers of the three member countries of the Association of South-east Asia (ASA) will meet here in AugustThis was stated by the Principal Assistant Secretary of the ASA Secretariat here, Mr. Walter Ayathuray today. The meeting will discuss further co-operation in the economic-social,
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  • 67 3 KAMPAR, Mon. A public order exercise will be held throughout Perak, including the Cameron Highlands, for nine hours from 8 am. tomorrow. Military and civil departments will also take part in the exercise in support of the police. Members of the public are advised not to panic
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  • 368 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. A good civil servant is one who is "vigorous" and "dedicated" to the responsibilities entrusted to him. If he Is sloppy and Indifferent to the task before him. he then could be termed unfit for the chair he Is
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  • 120 4 Malaysia 's health projects increased SINGAPORE, Mon. There has been considerable progress made by the Malaysian Government over the last six years in the building of health centres and midwifery clinic, according to the recent report of World Health Organisation issued here. The report says that from 1960 to 1966.
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  • 44 4 SINGAPORE, Mon Miss Eileen Ong, a Lufthansa Reservations Assistant with the airline's Kuala Lumpur office, left last night to attend an advanced passenger handling and reservations course in Hamburg. She is the second official from the airline to go overseas for training this year.
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  • 54 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. Mohamed Salleh bin Dolah 37, a cleansing labourer attached to the Havelock Road Cleansing Depot, collapsed and died at 7.30 a.m. today. According to a police spokesman, Salleh. of Lorong 29, Geylang. was cleaning a drain at the People's Park when he collapsed. Police do
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  • 44 4 SINGAPORE, M on. Thieves broke into the house of Mr. Tan Soon Swee in. Armenian Street and took away $295 in cash and jewellery valued at $1,570 yesterday. Mr.- Tan later told the police that he was away when the robbery occurred.
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  • 328 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. Bridgestone Malaysia Co. Ltd. a leading pioneer industry in Singapore manufacturing rubber tyres has e x p or t ed more than $5 million worth of its products to Commonwealth and Afro-Asian countries during the past eleven months. The Managing Director Bridgestone Malaysia
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  • 121 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. A school principal here has responded to a request from two Japanese girls who had earlier written to the Eastern Sun for help from its readers. The girls, Kayoko Kurita and Miyoko Kitou. are looking for anyone in Singapore willing to accommodate
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  • 70 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. Miss Margaret E. Leitch (first from left), Principal Nursing Officer of Soldiers', Sailors', and Airmen's Families' Association, pictured at R.A.F. Changi, while on a tour of South-east Asia recently. With her are Miss B. Driscoll (right). Deputy Principal Nursing Officer, Far East, who
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  • 301 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. The World Health Organisation international advisory team will begin operations this year in the Western Pacific region to eradicate communicable disease. The team, which will consist of a medical officer (epidemiologist) and a microbiologist, will assist governments in the region in planning and
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  • 33 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Sultan of Selangor, will officially open the Art Exhibition of Enche Dzulkifli Buyon?, at the Balai Seni Lukis Samat. 4/8 Leboh Besar on Tuesday, at 5.00 p.m.
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  • 122 4 SINGAPORE Mon.— The Controller and Registrar of Imports and Exports today issued the quarterly import quotas for refrigerators, inks and certain pharmaceutical preparations for the months of February to May. During the three-month period, the import quota for electric refrigerators not over 12 cu. ft. will he
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  • 108 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The Mentri Besar, Dato Haji Othman Mohamed Sa'at, today distributed housing plots to 22 Malay squatter families here. The squatters were until recently staying at the prayer house (surau) in Majidee. Their houses were demolished late last year as they were
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  • 302 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. Mr. G. E. Bogoars, the Permanent' Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, will declare open the 10th. annual Shell Traffic Game to be held at the Government Kallang Park Road playground on Feb. 22 at 5.15 p.m. This year, a
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  • 57 4 SINGAPORE, Mon—Police are looking for the relatives and friends of Low Sing Phuan. who was admitted to the General Hospital on Feb. 14 at 1.40 a.m. but died at 7 a.m. the same day. Relatives or friends are requested to contact Insp. Chan Chie Chong of the
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  • 222 4 JOHORE BAHRC, Mon. Puan Sharifah Rodziah will accompany the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, when he make* an official visit to Johore State on Feb. 23. it uai announced here today. A tight programme has for her beginning from been drawn up that day 7.20
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  • 331 4 KUCHING, Mon. Telecommunication progress in the Sarawak telephone service in Sarawak's rural areas have been greatly improved, as many of tne old manual exchange have now been replaced automatic systems. The Government. under the First Malaysia Plan, has commissioned ten new automatic exchanges in
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  • 92 4 MANILA. Mon. (UP 1 Four students from tttt u versity of Singapore left today for Northern Luzon begin a month-long resCti and study tour on PhilipP l history as guests of the P lippine International Frie- ship Organization. The four, Lee So Jm.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 263 5 JAKARTA, Mon. (UPI) Highly informed sources told UPI today that a special presidential jet is now being readied for a possible trip to Japan. The sources said an Indonesian Airways jet was being redecorated "on orders of the palace." Indications were that Indonesian
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    • 209 5 CHICAGO. Mon. (UPI) —Fathers may be wearing modified versions of I their sons' "mod" clothi mg next year, according Ito Mr. Louis Rothchild. executive director of men's wear retailers of America, meeting here vesterday. "The 'mod* itself is dead, as far as we're concerned, but
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    • 165 5 CALCUTTA. Mon. (UPI) Wall posters demanding a China-type "cultural revolution" in India appeared yesterday when Indians voted in Calcutta and its state of West Bengal on the fifth day of India's week-long general election. five other states and two federal territories also voted yesterday.
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    • 150 5 RANGOON. Mon. (Reuter) Over 300 Chinese recently crossed into Burma to escape persecution by Red Guards, the official Working People's Daily reported today. The rerugees, mostly from villages along the SinoBurmese border, entered the Burmese areas of Panknong Panlon and Hopaan about 500 miles north-east
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    • 44 5 ISTANBUL. Mon. (UPI). Seventeen persons were killed and 12 injured on Sunday in a bus-truck collision on the Ankara-Kirsehir highway in central Anatolia, Police said. Three of the injured were in critical condition. Both drivers were among the dead, Police said.
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    • 63 5 BONG SON. Mon. (AP) A Vietcong prisoner is hit by right fist of U.S. First Air Cavalry division soldier after two Vietcongs were flushed from underwater hiding place. The guerrillas had been breathing through bamboo tubes wh en found by troops on operation pershing near Bong Son. The battalion that
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    • 55 5 MRS. JOHN F. KENNEDY brushes back her hair as she chats with Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie outside her 5th Avenue apartment in New York recently. The Ethiopian Emperor, concluding a State Visit to the United States, paid a 20-minute call on the former First Lady and brought gifts for Mrs.
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    • 306 5 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) An authority on China said yesterday Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung may be losing his mind. It's not unknown to have mad rulers, and there are visible symptoms in Mao's behaviour pattern", said Dr. L. La Dany, editor of "China News Analysis", a respected
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    • 87 5 BRISBANE. Mon. (Reuter) A Malaysian education officer today urged the teaching of Malay in Australian schools. He is Mr. Teoh Chai Chin, the education attache of the Malaysian High Commission. Canberra. Speaking on behalf of the Malaysian High Commissioner in Australia, Enche Mohammed bin Baba. at
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    • 130 5 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Delegates from 20 teaproducing and teadrinking countries open a seven-day conference her c today under pressure to declare a sales war on coffee. India, Pakistan and Ceylon three of the world's biggest producers want the conference to consider ways of ousting coffee
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    • 83 5 SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, Mon, (UPI)- A Vitenam war veteran was crushed to death on Sunday by a 500-pound slab of ire which dislodged from a hillside and fell on him. Donald Duncan, 20 Scranton, was pronounced dead at Scranton State General Hospital. An autopsy was scheduled
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    • 217 5 MANILA, Mon. (AP) Mayor James Gordon of Olongapo City, just outside the U.S. Navy's big subic base in the north-western Philippines, was shot dead today by an unidentified assassin inside City Hall. Press reports reaching here said a suspect has been arrested. The Mayor of
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    • 69 5 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) Japan will make her third attempt to orbit a man-made satellite on April 6. Tokyo university's Space and Aeronautics Research Institute said today. Professor Tamiya Nomura of the institute said a four-stage Lambda 4S-3 would be launched from the Unchinoura Space Centre
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    • 333 5 PEORIA, Illinois, Mon. (UPl)—Richard Franklin Speck, a tattooed Dallas, Texas, drifter, goes on trial today on charges of fatally stabbing, strangling or slashing six American and two Filipino nurses in their Chicago dormitory last Summer. The trial was moved here from Chicago on
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    • 147 5 LONDON, Moo. (Rooter) Mr. Han-toon Salisbury, assistant managing editor of tho New York Times, said hero last night the p«uo In U.S. bombing of North Vietnam diving the four-day knar How year truce was too Short to expect a peace response from Hanoi. Mr. Salisbury,
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    • 127 5 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) Princess Margaret, only two weeks out of her first stay in hospital, was ill with a chill and temperature yesterdev. She cancelled a visit to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne today at doctor's advice. Princess Margaret was spending the weekend with her mother Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother,
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    • 37 5 KARACHI, Mon. (Reuter) Tunisian Justice Minister Mongi Slim left here for Singapore and Kuala Lumpur to day after attending the centenary celebrations of the High Court in the West P»» kistan capital of Labor*.
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    • 257 6 JAKARTA, Mon. (AP) President Sukarno has Again rejected demands he resign and showed letters of support from around Indonesia to Military leaders who are pressuring him, reliable sources said early today. Army strongman General Suharto and Armed Forces commanders met yesterday with Pres.
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    • 72 6 WASHINGTON, Mon. (AP). —The National Gallery of Art has purchased a painting by Leonardo da vinci—the coveted "Portrait of Ginevra Dei Benci" for some US$5 to 6 million the Washington Sunday Star *eported yesterday. There was no direct confirmation of the purchase, but informed sources here said
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    • 112 6 NEW DELHI. Mon. Photo shows last-minute team of campaigners In white hooded gowns on the centre of busy shopping area in Delhi sent by Inder Varma. But his opponents just could not stand the attractive idea of his campaign, they counter acted with their men in black-hoods carrying placards "Don't
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    • 51 6 DAYTONA BEACH, Florida, Mon. (Reuter). American racing driver Johnny Roberts, 37, was seriously injured yesterday when his car somersaulted into a pile of wreckage during the 2:>o- automobile Racing Club of America championship here. He was taken to hospital with internal injuries, concussion and multiple
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    • 219 6 Floods in Rio: RIO De JANERIO, Brazil. Mon. (AP) Rains darkened the horizon again yesterday afternoon as Rio de Janerio struggled to dig itself out of Saturday's mud and avoia a repetition of last years raincaused trageCry that took 184 lives. Crumbling shack homes
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    • 162 6 WASHINGTON, Mon. (AP) A high-level Federal Health official said yesterday the infant mortality rate in the United States is "a disgrace to the country.** Without giving specific figures. Dr. Philip R. Lee, an assistant secretary of the Health and Welfare Department, said 24 other
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    • 57 6 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mon. (AP). A man was shot to death and at least seven others wounded on Saturday night in continuing bursts of political violence that have marred Jamaica's pre-general election period. Two other persons were hurt when rocks were hurled at a political meeting and
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    • 281 6 NEW YORK. Mo n (AP) Around the world, friends and associates of Doctor J. Robert Oppenheimer received the news of his death with shock and grief, remembering him as "a noble spirit, a genius, a humanitarian, a fine and wonderful man." Praise of the
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    • 664 6 HONG KONG, Mon. (UPI) China today said the main condition for Vietnam peace talks is the withdrawal if American troops from South Vietnam. It said that a halt in U.S. air attacks alone would not be sufficient to get negotiations started. Observers in
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    • 92 6 LOS ANGELES. Mon. (AP). —The Fire Department said a rescue squad was summoned to the home of Actor Spencer Tracy yesterday to administer oxygen when the actor became ill Officials said houseboy summoned help to the home when he thought that Mr. Tracy was having a
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    • 280 6 WASHINGTON. Mon. (AP) Development of a simple, all-glass partial substitute for the human lung, which shows promise of aiding children desperately ill from various kinds of lung crises, was described by a Philadelphia doctor yesterday. Essentially a glass tube about a foot long and halfinch in
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    • 379 6 (BT DANIEL SIRE) Madrid, Mon. (afp> Shops In Spain selling instruments of penance hair shirts, whips and the like are doing a good trade this year, during the "Lent" season, according to reports from various religious centres. Tougher self mortification appears to be catching on
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    • 296 7 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter). The Guardian (Liberal) said today though Britain had a real interest in preventing an economic crisis in Singapore it did not follow that keeping troops there was the only wav to sustain the island's economy. "It is certainly not the
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    • 73 7 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) A Special Military Court in Sourabaya, East Java, has sentenced to death two Army Officers for complicity in the 1965 attempted Communist coup. They are ex-Captain Sumbodo and former first lieutenant Subono. The sentences were passed last night. The officers were also
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    • 310 7 NEW DELHI, Mon. (Rrdter) Police shot one person dead when an unruly crowd set fire to a polling booth at Surajr»rha, in the North Eastern State of Bihar on the fifth day of India's general elections yesterday. A report from Patna. the
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    • 279 7 MIAMI FLORIDA, Mon. (Reuter). A Cubanborn private detective disclosed today that he was helping New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in an investigation into an alleged Kennedy assassi- nation conspiracy. Mr. Garrison yesterday rejected the Warrent Commission's conclusion
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    • 90 7 CAGLIARI, Sardinia. Mon. (Reuter) Twelve young children and a Sunday school teacher were injured when a hand grenade exploded in a church here yesterday. Francesco Sorighe found the grenade near the church. He took it in and said to Signorina Antonia Messina.
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    • 152 7 TOKYO. Mon. (AFP) Japan will not detonate nuclear devices, even for peaceful purposes, Prime Minister Eisaku Sato hinted at a press conference yesterday. He was commenting cn recent statements by high government officials on the possibility of Japan not waiving the right to detonate nuclear
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    • 103 7 BASEL. Switzerland. Mon. (AP) Mr. Carl Stemmler. former head keeper of Basel zoo, was seriously ill in hospital yesterday after being bitten by Nico, the zoo's prize Orang-outang. Mr. Stemmler's thumb was amputated in an emergency operation on Saturday night and he was still in
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    • 166 7 WASHINGTON, Mon. (AP)—The executive director of President Johnson's Crime Commission said yesterday the nation's system of law enforcement and justice "Needs major surgery and a major transfusion of money, people and new ideas." But Mr. James Vorenberg, a law professor on leave from Harvard
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    • 97 7 JERUSALEM. Jordan, Mon. (AP). —Bomb detection experts combed the tomb of Christ yesterday a s Britain's Prince Philip crossed over the River Jordan and took communion in and toured the holy city of Jerusalem. The Duke devoted the second day of his three-day stay in Jordan
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    • 94 7 LONDON. Mon. (AFP). Charlotte, a valuable West Highland White Terrier *****, due to be mated shortly is in disgrace because she swallowed six of her mistresses birth control pills. Charlotte ate the pills after stealing them from the bed-side table while her owner Mrs. Pat
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    • 75 7 VALLETTA. Malta. Mon. (Reuter) —Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker, British Minister without portfolio, arrived here yesterday to try to get talks started to settle the differences between Britain and Malta. Mr. Walker is making a two-day visit to the island to find a basis for full-scale discussions
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    • 71 7 BICESTER, West England, Mon. (Reuter) Nearly 100 men of Number 26 Squadron of the British Royal Air Force regiment have Just returned home from Singapore and will be shortly re-assembling at a new base here. The squadron manned guns around the R.A.F. base at
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    • 139 7 MANILA, Mon. (Reuter). —The Philippines Herald today frontpaged the first of two articles on the coming visit to Manila of Thailand's Miss Hongsakula, chosen Miss Universe of 1965. The morning English-lan-guage newspaper said Miss Apasra would be in Manila on Wednesday next week to participate in
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    • 35 7 BONN, Mon. (Reuter). Dogs bit 2.000 West German postman in 1965, the Post Office announced today. About 400 of those attacked had to stay off work for more than three days.
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    • 649 7  -  By Barbara Frye PALM BEACH, Florida, Mon. (UPI). Florida Gov. Claude Kirk Jr. married jet-set Princess Erika Mattfeld in a Pink Society Palace by the sea on Saturday with a small army of security men guarding them. The setting rivalled an old the
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    • 296 7 After Bonn's No' to £3.5 m BONN, Mon. (Reuter).— Substantial British troop withdrawals from West Germany were seen as inevitable here today with the news that the Bonn government no longer feels bound bv its last offer for relieving the foreign exchange burden of maintaining
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    • 75 7 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Thunderstorms, whirlwinds and snow lashed parts of Britain yesterday. A 30-second whirlwind hit the midlands town of Stock-on-Trent damaging more than 30 houses. The only casualty a budgerigar. Snow blocked roads in the Lake District of Northern England and from Central Scotland came reports
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 127 6 The Pixilated PUZZLE AFFAIR i.VAUV.V.\".V\ YrA r SUDDENLY... I TOURI6TS THEY ARE NOT/ V HIT THE DESERT... LET'S TRY TO USE THIS HAWKER'S STAND FO* A BARRICADE. 1 in®,* a J2 M > w ?>> i it A y tes 1 SB Vs. t» AWRE GAS WEAPONS/ THEY SEEM MOST
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    • 20 7 /[/_("_(+*}*<$`{)=)<-}`*@"[?}@, by Johnny hart ..AND MAVEG^JseOOEMTU/\ ...So FROM Now < CONSTRUCTED A CALENDAR EVERYBODY' G&T OcMFCSgD OF 26 MONTHS. FDR A MONTH
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  • 863 8 BOTH in Malaysia and Singapore, tenants and squatters have made money out of louse owners and developers by merely refusing to budge. Tenants of shop premises in town centres can easily get tea money ranging from $50,000 to $lOO,OOO just to give up their tenancy. This is
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  • 1616 8 VIEW ORDER' MAKES LITTLE HEADWAY CHINESE Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-'tung's "Cultural devolution" has run into a great wall of resistance. His campaign to tear down existing party and governmental institutions and create a "new order" seems to be making little headway. Some veteran China watchers
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  • 872 8  -  by: LOUIS HALASZ THE Christmas and New Year season at the United Nations was characterised by a new series of intense efforts to bring the Vietnam from war to peace. The first assessment of observers here around the middle of Jannuary, following a
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 317 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. March first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 54£ cents per down 1$ cents from previous lose. The tone was easier. Opening quotation was marked slightly lower on disappointing London advices. First business was
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    • 172 9 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) The Japan Automotive Industry Association estimates demand for motor vehicles excluding midget cars during the financial year starting April at 2.294.000 units. Including domestic demand and export. According to an association survey, 1,962.000 cars will be sold domestically and 332,000 cars will
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    • 23 9 HONG KONG, Mon. (UPI) Quotations. HK55,735/5.7475 per US dollar for cash. HK$ 15.99 per pound sterling. HK5264.375 per tael gold.
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    • 26 9 LONDON, Mon (UPI). *he rubber market opened very quiet. No- 1 RSS spot 16-15/16 174. No. 1 RSS CIT basis port# March 16* 16|.
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    • 565 9 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter). The immediate outlook for rubber prices is decidedly bleak and until there is an improvement in the general economic situation prices are unlikely to recover, The Times said today. The paper said in an article that one of the prime
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    • 57 9 FLENSBURG, West Germany, Mon. (Reuter) A total of 85.478 motor vehicles *ere newly registered in west Germany last month 7- 21.9 per cent fewer than January 1966, the Federal Registration Office announcGermany's motor industry has been hard hit by falling sales since last autumn and several companies
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    • 940 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. —Conditions on the Stock Exchange were fairly active. Most equities on the industrial section gained higher. The reasons for such rise could be the report in a newspaper today that Singapore and Indonesia have signed a memorandum of understanding which offers
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    • 126 9 LONDON. Mon. (AP) The government unveiled a £2OO-milllon <UB$56O million) plan to reorganise and modernise Britain's shipyards, once the world's leaders In shipbuilding but now virtually profitless. The money will not be lent or granted outright to ships or to British shipowners for orders placed
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    • 93 9 VANCOUVER. Mon. (Reuter) Canada stepped up her exports to Japan in 1966 by 42 per cent over the previous year, according to statistics given here. Mr. Robert Houston. Director of the Canada-Japan Trade Council, said Canadian exports to Japan last year reached $450,000,000 while
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    • 217 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. A delegation of Singapore Building Contractors left recently by Qantas on their first stage of a journey to New Zealand to attend the 7th Convention of International Federation of Asian and Western Pacific Contractors' Association Congress which is being held in Wellington from 18
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. —The tin price for today was $604,13} per picul, down 62$ cents.
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    • 861 9 AIR MOVEMENTS S'PORE, K. LUMPUR ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 12.05 a.m. Airline MSA 029 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MSA 019 from Kuaia Lumpur. Time 9.15 a.m. Airline Garuda 992 from Jakarta. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MSA 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.30 a.m. Airline MSA 451 from
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    • 415 9 STOCK EXCHANGE MALAYSIA, S'PORE SINGAPORE Sat— Stock Exchange old and offer prices officially listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIAL B 8. Bou«tead 1.56 1.60 C. Sugar 2.29 Chemical Co. ISO 1.84 Dunlop (Old) 2.42 2.46 E. Smelting 4.40 4.46 Esso Ords 3.30 Flt/.pat ricks ISO 1.66 F. N. Ords.
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    • 49 9 (Managers Price*) First Malayan 2.24 2.33 Second Malayan 1.59 1.69 Third Malayan 1.16 1.27 The Commerce Si Industry Fund... .89 1.00 The Savings Fund 1.38 1.48 Malaysian Investment Fund .90 1.00 Sterling Commodity 4/4/7 First Hong Kong... 1.00 1.63* Second Hong Kong .70 .74* Hon* Kong Currency)
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    • 111 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. Sinc*pore Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices todav were: Buyer* Sellert Coconut oil (FOB) Bulk 44.00 Coconut oil (FOB) Drums 47.00 Loose Cop^a Mixed Feh/Mar 27.75 Sugar (Java) exgodown 28.25 Nutmegs no* 435.00 Nutmegs B A- W 202.50 Garbled Lampong Black Pepper (FOB) 100.00 Pepper Black Spo* cial
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    • 31 9 LONDON. Mon. (UPI).— Tin was steady and turnover was 160 tons. Spot buyers 1199 sellers 1199$ business ***** Three-months buyers 1202 sellers 1202} business 1202J 1202. Settlement 1199}.
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    • 161 9 SINGAPORE, Mo n The following ships are expected in port today. God owns Vessels 3/4 Pridne Provsk 5 Silver Peak 6/7 Rhexenor 8/9 Straat Lombok 10/11 Bendearg 13/14 Straat Fuji 15/16 Achilles 18 Tigre 23/24 Rajula 25/26 Bencleuch 27/28 Yamahana Maru 29/30 Makati 31/32 Nicoline Maersk 33/34 Schwabenstein
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    • 2397 10 Remarkably economical and comfortable THE new Fiat 124 model offers substantial progress in performance, comfort, safety and economy. It can really accommodate five adults and plenty of luggage for them all. Disc brakes on all four wheels. No greasing points less maintenance headaches. Coming
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    • 2213 11 SINGAPORE, Mon. The 13th Tokyo Motor Show was held at the International Trade Centre at Harumi, Tokyo, for two weeks recently. This motor show has been held annually since 1954 and is the biggest yearly event of
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    • 244 11 SINGAPORE. Mon—Everything about the Colt 1100 is BIG and that can easily become the catchword for this superb, ultra-modern and reliable car. A drive In the fascinating Colt 1100 is really a big car ride. It has lots of legroom, head room, shoalder
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    • 163 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Motorcycle enthusiasts in this country can now avail themselves of special kits developed by the Bridgestone Tyre Co. Ltd., to modify standard Bridgestone motorcycles into racers. This was disclosed by Mr. Tasuku Kakuma, a senior executive of the Bridgestone Company from Japan.
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    • 346 11 SINGAPORE, Mon. SINGAPORE has the highest figure for car ownership in South-east Asia. More than 31% of the people are car owners with another 8% intending to buy cars in the near future. Eighty one per cent of the people own a car, 16%
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  • 174 12 SINGAPORE, Mon. The 18th Singapore International Salon of Photography will be held here in May this year. This annual International Salon of Photography is presented by the Photographic Society of Singapore. It is expected that there will be a very large participation this year.
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  • 114 12 SINGAPORE. Mon. The MP for Anson, Mr. P. Govindaswamy, will question the Minister for Finance in Parliament at its sitting on Feb. 27 on whether the price of soap produced locally has risen because of duties levied on imported soap. He will also ask for
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  • 88 12 SINGAPORE. Mon. Singapore businessmen have been invited to attend eight international trade fairs to be held in Italy this year. The trade fairs are at Milan (from April 14 24), Florence (from April, 24 May 7), Padova (from May 31 June 13), Milan (Oct. 4 10),
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  • 68 12 SINGAPORE, Mo n Members of the China Society in Singapore will meet on Sunday for a conducted tour of the Mariamman Temple at 242, South Bridge Road. During the tour of the temple, members will also witness a Hindu wedding ceremony. After touring the temple,
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  • 458 12 NOMINATION DAY ON FEB. 24' SINGAPORE, MON. SINGAPORE Police today warned that it was an offence for any person to operate a loudspeaker or other sound-producing instrument which interferes with any political meeting or causes annoyance to persons conducting or attending such
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  • 93 12 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. A jumble sale will be held at Diamond Jubilee Hall here from 8.30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Mar. 17 to raise funds in aid of those who are chronically ill. They are being housed at Cheshire Home along Jalan Larkin here. Mr.
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  • 1098 12 SINGAPORE, Mon. When a "plot'' to cheat Lee Wah Bank was exposed and the bank was contemplating legal action. Sim Boon Chuan, manager of Chop Keet Sang, and Koh Cho Phuan, one of the accused persons, repeatedly approached the bank for a settlement. This
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  • 141 12 Boys Town OBA's scholarships SINGAPORE, Mon. The Boys' Town Old Boys' Association is offering several scholarships to its members and the pupils of Boys' Town for the academic year 1967. The scholarships are:- Two open scholarships worth $450 each; one Higher School Certificate, $360 two Secondary Four English, $l2O each;
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  • 582 12 SINGAPORE Mon. A four-and-a-half inch kitchen knife and a ballpoint pen saved a Colonel's life when two of his colleagues, both medical officers, operated on him in his bedroom recently. Working literally against a two-minute deadline, they saved the life or Lt Col.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 743 12 TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 Koala Lompur and Pnlan Pinang; 6 Ipoh and Melaka; 3/10 Johore Bahrn; 4 Taiping; 7 Batn Pahat; 9 Kluang. (Singapore viewers, please switch to channel 3 for T.V. Malaysia programmes). OPENING ANNCT Prog. Summary NEWS OUTLINES in the National Language. National Songs NEWS in Tamil. THE
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  • THE NEW FILMS
    • 382 13 TAMES MASON, an ageing lawyer in his latest film, "STRANGER IN THE HOUSE', hit out recently at the kind of character he himself plays in this de Grunwald film a film which highlights the conflict between the new and the older generations. "There are
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    • 205 13 HOLLYWOOD. Mon. "Tora, Tora, Tora," story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, will be produced by Elmo Williams as a roadshow film for 20th Century-Fox, It was announced yesterday (8) by Richard D. Zanuck, executive vice-president of production. Larry Forrester has been signer to write
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    • 585 13 HOLLYWOOD, Mon. Paramount Pictures' pledge to expand production and build a dominant position for itself within the motion picture industry came closer to realisation with the announcement of the most ambitious programme of films in the company's history embracing the foremost creative talents in the entertainment
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    • 126 13 Curvaceous Raquel Welch Is an up-and-coming young actress who is fast gaining popularity in Hollywood these days. Ever since she appeared in nearly 100 magazine covers in Italy, every film producer has set his eyes on lovely Miss Welch. She was last seen in an American
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    • 250 13 HOLLYWOOD. Newcomer Tony Seotti has been set by producer David Weisbart and director Mark Robson to make his motion picture debut in a starring role in 20th Century-Fox's "Valley of the Dolls." The young actor was signed to a studio contract just two months ago when he entered
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    • 41 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The president of Paramount films Mr. < George> Weltner (right), welcomed at Subang airport, by the Chairman of C atha> O g tion, Mr. Choo Kok Leong, when he arrived here recently for a visit.
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    • 175 13  -  By: T. S. O. Kuala lumpur, Mon. "THE APPALOOSA" to those of you gringoes who don't know the lingo is a horse. In this Universal film it is a piebald horse. You well know the chant in one of William Shakespeare's play "A Horse, A
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    • 307 13 '3 SHAW OHGANISATTON D O Phone ***** Last 1 Days! 11, 1.45. fi.W 9.15 Yui Brvnner "RETI'RN OF THE 1" in Panavision Color <UA» Thursday—One Day Only Premiere 3 Shows! 11. 1.30, 4. 6.30 9.15 Cash Book Now—No Free List' Chnt Eastwood <fc Lee Van Cleer •FOR A FEW DOLLAR*
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    • 299 13 Organisation GALA ?7287 Open* Today I I.lft, A3* ft 1* "CHALLENGE OF THE GLADIATOR" NEXT CHANOE* Color Scope "MAN ON THE SPYING TRAPEEE" Wayde Pre*ton Antonio Duran I ODE ON ***** 1 14th Day! 11. 1.30. 4 Oft. A.M. ft.SO •'THE PROFESSIONALS" BURT LANCASTER Panavmion Technicolor iSo Free U*t> I
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  • 683 14 MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Mon. (Reuter) Organisers of the Olympic Games to be held in Mexico City in October 1968 claim that the revenue from foreign visitors will reach about £28,500,000 and will cover the total outlay in sports site construction. Estimates of how
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  • 268 14 SALISBURY, Maryland, Mon. (UPI). Charley Pasarell of Santurce, Puerto Rico became the first man in 31 years to successfully defend the U.S. Indoor Tennis Singles title yesterday by beating second-seeded Arthur Ashe, Richmond, Virginia, 13-11, 6-2, 2-6, 9-7, in the final. Pasarell got
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  • 92 14 TUCSON, Arizona, Mon. (Reuter). Arnold Palmer won the US$6O,OOO Tucson Open Golf Tournament here today with a 72-hole total of 273. Palmer, four strokes ahead after the third round, faltered yesterday and was only level with Chuck Courtney at the last hole. Both players sent
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  • 238 14 LONDON, Mon. <AP) Argentine heavyweight Eduardo Corletti Is being given a build-up in London as a "white hope" to beat world champion Cassius Clay. Corletti, a 25-year-old boxer who has been fighting out of Milan, Italy, is to be managed by Sam Burns the
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  • 49 14 SINGAPORE. Mon.—The Minister for Culture and Social Affairs, and Chairman of the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council. Enche Othman Wok. will attend a dinner to be held in honour of the visiting Indian Cricket Club at the Singapore Indian Association in Balestier Road on February 26.
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  • 34 14 MALMOE, Sweden, Mon. (UPI) —Denmark beat Sweden 5 —4 in the Thomas Cup badminton European Zone semi-final. Denmark will face the winner of England and South Africa in the final.
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  • 210 14 ARCADIA. California, Mon. (UPI) What hid been scheduled as the final major workout for 1966 "Horse of The Year" Buckpasser before the U*****,000 Santa Anita Handicap proved a failure yesterday and delayed a decision on whether the star will run in next Saturday's
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  • 62 14 TOKYO, Mon. (Reuter) The Japan Boxing Commission has ruled out the reported plan to stage a world heavyweight title bout between champion Cassius Clay and Floyd Patterson in Japan, a spokesman for the commission said today. The Commissioner, Mr. Yachiyo Man a be, said he
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  • 504 14 MANILA, Mon. (Reuter) The 1967 Far East Golf Circuit opens in Manila on Thursday with the Philippines Open Championship. A total of 96 professionals and ten amateurs from 14 countries and Hong Kong have entered for one or more of the tournament
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  • 164 14 WELLINGTON. Mon. (Reuter) A combined New Zealand universities rugby football team left here yesterday to begin a nine-match tour of Japan on February 23. Team manager Mr. Bill Clark, former New Zealand international forward against South Africa and the British home unions said the
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 524 14 CLASSIFIED ADS. TUITION 20 Words $5/- (Minimum) NEW RADIO T.V. servicing classes for beginners commencing Ist March 1967 Covering both theory and practical. Apply 352 Geylang Road, Singapore 14. Tel: ***** or *****. TOURS 20 Word* $5/- (Minimum) ORIENT TOURS Hongkong, Taiwan, Japan, $1,790/- 12/4/67 (Few more seats vacant), 31/7/67,
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    • 741 14 Tenders will be received in the Ministry of the Interior and Defence, Pearl's Hill, Singapore 2, up to 12 Noon on 28.2.67 for the supply of:(1) Jungle boots, jungle green canvas, rubber sole. (2) Combat boots, leather, for the Singapore Armed Forces. A tender deposit of $2OO/- payable to the
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    • 126 14 SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIPS Applications are invited m Singapore and Malaysian Citizens for postgraduate awards tenable in the U.S.A. in the following fields: (a) South-East Asian Studies leading to a higher degree. (b) Actuarial Science. Applicants should possess a good honours degree from University of Singapore or any other recognised University
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    • 79 14 CLASSIFIED ADS EACH WORD 50 or 25 ctftto (se« above) PLEASE WRITE IN CAPITAL LETTERS Advertiser's N«w* Addreis. Telephone M* Number of Insertion*. Oate(s) Cost (PA/CkHM/Guk Cub sail km CI »MI U crMMtf. Classified advertisements may be handed at the following addresses: KUALA LUMPUR: 39 |ALAN SULTAN, TELS: *****/6 IPOH:
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  • 474 15 BY WINDSOR LAD. KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Chukell Stoble's Champagne, a six-year-old Australian bred gelding by Rasleigh (Precipitation) from Red Garter put up a fluent staying performance when he won the $l5/000 Tunku's Gold Cup over lOf at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Carrying 9.00
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  • 199 15 CHRISTCHURCH. New Zealand. Mon. (Reuter) Canterbury today became the first New Zealand cricket team to beat an Australian touring side this century. The Canterbury provincial team, captained by Graham Dowling. beat Les Faveil's touring Australians by wickets at Lancaster Park on the final day
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  • 225 15 NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) Abe Hack. Johannesburg promoter, said yesterday world lightweight champion Carlos Ortiz has signed for a bout in late April or early Mav in Johannesburg against Willie Ludick of South Africa for the South African version of the world welterweight
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  • 109 15 MALACCA, Mon. Kilat Club beat Municipal Sports Club by six runs in a cricket match at the Malacca Club ground here. Kilat Club taking first lease of the wickets hit 129. Suppiah hit a forceful 50 which included seven fours while other double figure
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  • 216 15 WINCHESTER. Massachusetts, Mon. (UPI) Billie Jean King repeated as U.S. Women's Indoor Tennis Queen yesterday but was denied in her bid for a unique second successive triple indoor crown. Mrs. King. 23. soundly beat Dutch champion Trudy Groenman, 6-1, 6-ft, in the featured
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  • 87 15 SINGAPORE. Mon.—The following were elected offi-ce-bearers of the Singapore Cricket Association at the annual general meeting held recently. President: Dr. Ong Swee Law; V i c e-Pres dent: Messrs. Chen Jan Jee and H. F Sheppard; Hon.-Secre-tarv:'— Mr\ J. R. Martens; Hon.-Treasurer: Mr. P. Gatha. Individual Members'
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  • 62 15 MADRID. Mon. (AP). Results of yesterday's 21st round of Spain's major league soccer championship were (home teams first): Hercules 1, Zarngoza 1. Valencia 5. Elche 0. Barcelona 3. Espanol 1. Cordoba 3. Sabadell 2. Athletico de Bilbao 2. Granada 1. Coruna 1, Pontevedra 2. The Real Madrid-Sevilla and
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  • 556 15 SINGAPORE, Mon. Japanese ace rider. Y. Shigeno will make his debut when he competes in the 1967 Singapore Grand Prix to be held from March to 27. Shigeno described as one of the most skilful riders in Japan will be astride a
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  • 45 15 LISBON, Mon. (Reuter) Results of soccer matches in the Portuguese first division today: Sanjoanense 1, Sporting 1. Setubal 0, Leixoes 0. Benfica 6, Varzim 2. Braga 1, Academica 3. Porto 3, Atletica 1. Beira Mar 2, Cuf 0. Beleneniei 2, Quimtraei 1.
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  • 101 15 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Leading goalscorers in English League and Cup matches this season are: Division One Geoff Hurst (West Ham United) 39. Ron Davies (Southampton) 32. Allan Clarke (Fulham) 23. Bobby Tambling (Chelsea) 23 Derek Dougan (Leicester Cit y> 2l Neil Martin
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  • 681 15  -  By Don C. Becker MANILA, Mon. (UPI) One of the pleasures of the Philippine Open or any of the golf tournaments on the Far East Golf Circuit is watching Peter Thomson with his placid approach to the game. Thomson walks around the coif
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  • 536 15 PENANG, Mon. Following are the race weights for first day of the Penang Turf Club spring meeting on Sunday Feb. 26. Class 3, Div. 1 Abt. Furs. Oisin 9 00 Big Job 8.13 Nice Fellow 8 12 Attractive Lad 8.12 Born Free 8
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  • 265 15 PFNANG, Mon. Following are the rare weights for second day, March 1 (Wednesday). Five races only. Class 3. Div. 3 Abt. Furs. Kings Row 9 00 Rubber Planter 111 8.11 Just William 809 Mount Illona 809 Nyonya Ipoh 808 Free Bid 808 Reganda 8.06 Kellet 806
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  • 140 15 CLEVELAND. Mon. (UPI) Bob Seagren of Southern California broke his own world indoor pole vault record last night with a leap of 17-feet-3 Inches in Cleveland's 27th annual Knight of Columbus Track Meet. Seagren. who set the previous world mark of 17-2 in the Albuqueraue Invitational
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  • 246 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Mori. Polly Umrigar. the skipper of the Cricket Club of India now touring Malaysia, is unlikely to play in the remaining two matches at Penang commencing tomorrow against the North Malaysian team, and against the Malaysian Government Services here this weekend. He
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  • 130 16 SEREMBAN, Mon. Negri Sembilan Ceylon ese Youth Forum, last year's Division One champion, today scraped through to a 1-0 win over a nine-man Negri Sembilan Club XI in the opening match of the N S.H.A. league. Ceylonese forwards though having territorial advantage, could not
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  • 128 16 SINGAPORE. Mon.—The following were elected officia! for 1967 of the Singapore Billiards Association at IoM an n U al general meeting held at Siong 800 A.A. premises. President:- M r K. E. Meyer; Vice-Presidents:- Mr n W Mr Wee r 'mi, r Ch 2
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  • 38 16 r®P" GA *!P RE Mon.— The up C y clin Club will hold a 31 -mile hill time--rL Wednesday. V? r .ace will be timed off ft the junction of Ayer Rajah Road/N. Buona Vista
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  • 584 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malaysian Hockey Federation Executive Council which met here yesterday has tentative plans to stage an International Pesta Hockey at Kuala LUMPUR sometime next year. If the necessary funds could be raised M.H.F. plans to invite leading international teams from
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  • 120 16 TAIPING. Mon. The Taiping and District HockeyAssociation Committee has appealed to all its affiliates to start collections for the Perak Flood Disaster Relief Fund. This was disclosed today by the secretary of the Taiping H.A., Mr. Joe Francis who said
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  • 109 16 SEREMBAN, Mon. The Ceylonese Youth Forum Bachelors took their first defeat In three years in their annual cricket match against the Married here yesterday when they lost by 28 runs. Married batting first totalled 112. S. K. Ramalingam. last year's Bachelors' skipper, top-scored with 47. V. Ganeson was
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  • 75 16 SINGAPORE. Mon.—The following were elected offi-ce-bearers of the Football Referees' Association of Singapore at the annual general meeting held recently. President:- ASP T. S. Zain; Vice-President:- Mr. G. M. Mohan; Hon.-Secret-ary:- Mr. H. S. Dhillon; Asst. Hon.-Secretary:- Capt. Ong Eng Yong, Hon. Treasurer Mr R. Kalimuthu. Committee
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  • 141 16 SYDNEY, Mon. (Reuter) Australia is unlikely to accept an Invitation to compete in the Merdeks Soccer Tournament in Malaysia In August. Lan McAndrew, secretary of the Australian Soccer Federation. said today. (An official of the Malaysia Football Association said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday Australia
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  • 224 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Is Rudy Nio, Indonesia's 17-year-old badminton star a threat to unofficial world champion. Tan Aik Huang? This was the question on the lips of most badminton fans after the conclusion of the Pesta Badminton. This question arose after Aik
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  • 154 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Otahuhu Rugby Football Club of New Zealand will play three matches in Singapore when they visit the Republic at the end of the month. The team is expected to arrive in Singapore around the last week of February and their
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  • 59 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. —The Singapore District Open Individual Boxing Championships will be held at the Crest Road dining hall. Nee Soon Garrison on Friday, at 8.00 p.m. Major M. C. Gould, hon. s< .retary of the Singapore District Boxing Committee said locally engaged Malay soldiers as well
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  • 288 16  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Amateur Weightlifting Federation is to work-out an "insurance plan" to provide adequate protection for weightlifters selected for future regional and interna- tional competitions. The Federation will shortly table this move at its next Council meeting
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  • 191 16 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Cricket Association will not grant postponements in the tournament fixtures unless on very good grounds in the 1967 cricket leagues. The hon. secretary of SCA. Mr. J. R. Martens, has sent circulars to all affiliates Informing them
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  • 349 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Selangor Police beat Selangor Club 3-1 in a division one hockey match played at the padang here this evening. Today's game was played at a slow pace from beginning, and there were even exchanges for the first 15 minutes. In
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  • 49 16 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) Kiyoshl Tanabe of Japan scored a surprise victory here tonight against reigning world flyweight champion Horacio Accavallo of Argentina. The referee stopped the non-title fight in the sixth round after consulting with a doctor about an injury over the veteran Argentinian's rieht eye.
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