Eastern Sun, 1 March 1967

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    26 1 EASTERN SUN Independent) National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION V Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 220 Wednesday, March 1 1967. ☆MC (P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon 'REBUILDING TRUST' TUNKU LEAVES BY CAR
    586 1  -  IMPROVED RELATIONS Razak: Once political air is cleared it will help us to get along together By Musa Scully, KUALA LUMPUR, TUES. THERE has been some improvement in Malaysia-Singapore relations, as a result of the Cameron Highlands ''golf summit", the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun
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    Lock icon Firearms issued to students in Jakarta
    199 1 JAKARTA, Tues. <AP) Military authorities in today issued rifle and machineguns to a para-military students eroup. charging them to help defend the city. Si-r.ilar student groups he. e already been armed in Bandung, a nearby univers:*y city, student sources ia id The deliverance of
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    Lock icon Prince Philip at RAF Changi
    84 1 SINGAPORE. Tues. H.R.H. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who arrived here last night will stay in Singapore for two days as guest of the Air Commander, Air Marshal Sir Rochford Hughes and Lady Hughes at Air House. Prince Philip will leave for Australia tomorrow
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    Lock icon LBJ: Latest military steps to hasten end
    353 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. (Reuter) The broadened American military steps now being taken against North Vietnam are calculated, says President Johnson, to hasten the end of the war, but do not constitute escalation. A Congressional critic. Senators Stephen Young, of Ohio, charged last night, however,
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    Lock icon Burglars take away $40,000 in valuables
    251 1  -  'NO SHOP IS SAFE NOW,' SAYS P.H. HENDRY MANAGER By HOO BAN KHEE ITUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A gang of burglars stole $40,000 worth of valuables from a jewellery shop at Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman here early this morning. Three collapsible iron gates and seven
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    Lock icon THAI BEAUTY QUEENS TO PAY TAX
    110 1 BANGKOK. Tues. (AP) Thailand's Revenue Department ha* decided to tax Thai beauty queens, it was reported Tuesday. The Department served notice to the girls that they will have to pay income tax on prise money they received in beauty contests since 1965 the year
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  • Article
    Lock icon Chamber calls for 'blood debt' meeting
    171 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Selangor Chinese Chamber of Commerce will call a meeting in the first veek of March to discuss the "blood-debt" issue. An informed source said that further steDs would be charted out as the sixmonth ultimatum has only two months to
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    Lock icon 5 – minute news
    82 3 5 minute news KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. As from tomorrow, the Chinese service of Radio Malaysia will be broadcasting a five-minute news bulletin In Mandarin at 12 05 p.m. This news bulletin will be carried by the normal medium wave and shortwave services together with four other frequencies 5965 KC S.
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    Lock icon Razak-Malik talks on ASA
    181 3 XTUALA LUMPUR, Tues.—The DeC Prime Minister, Abdul Razak, said in the Dewan Ra'ayat today he had had unofficial talks w th Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr. Adam Malik, on ASA and other regional matters. He was replying to the PMIP member for Bachok, Haji Abu Bakar bin
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    Lock icon Clerks cable Tunku
    132 3 KAMPAR. Tues. The Union of Clerks in fullyassisted schools has cabled the Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman seeking his "good offices" to solve its two-year-old grievances. This was disclosed today by the Secretary General of the Union Mr. Lee Chun Wah. Mr. Lee alleged that the union
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    Lock icon Malacca CM for Cabinet post?
    113 3 MALACCA. Tues. Malacca's Chief Minister, Enche Abdul Ghafar Baba Is reluctant to discuss a reported offer to him of a Cabinet appointment. After persuasion for a definite answer one way or the other, he made only this comment "I don't expect to asked to join
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    Lock icon Flood donations
    328 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. More donations to the National Disaster Relief Fund: Through Deputy Prime Minister donations from people of Pahang through the Menteri Besar of Pahang $3,000; Through Minister of Welfare Services from members of the staff of the Malaysian Embassy in Jeddah, Dato Haji Kamaruddin bin Haji
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    Lock icon 2 skirts in hand picked 'commando'
    402 3  -  BOAC launches 'Operation Handshake' today By: PERCY JOSEPH Kuala Lumpur, Tues. A HAND picked "Commando" of eight men and two women will gather here tomorrow for their final briefing before they launch a high speed drive on key points throughout Malaysia. The raid is
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    Lock icon N-Language Bill will benefit all
    139 3 MALACCA. Tues. The Chief Minister of Malacca. Enche Abdul Ghafar Baba said here today that the Language Bill was the "fruit of the labour of the three major communities" in the country and that the legislation was intended to benefit everyone as a whole. Enche
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    Lock icon spotlight: Habibah 1st woman TA officer
    389 3 Promoted to 2nd Lieut. 17" UALA LUMPUR, Tues. A woman, Che Habibah bte. Boharom, who joined the Women Auxiliary Corps of the Territorial Army in October 1965, has been promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant today. She is attached to the Malaysian Signal
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    Lock icon English official language in E. Malaysia till 1973
    111 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. English would be used as the official language in East Malaysia until Aug. 31. 1973. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak. said this in the Dewan Ra'ayat today in reply to an oral question by Haji Aba Bakar
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    Lock icon PC ('NOBODY LIKES ME') found shot at Subang Airport
    145 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A Police Constable who recorder in his pocket book that "Nobody likes me" was found shot in the toilet at Subang Airport last night. He is PC Harun bin Saileh. 23. He brought his wife and child from
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    Lock icon Underwood: Lie about the Bumiputras
    198 4 KUALA KANGSAR. Tues.—One hundred and fifty houses were swept away with 469 others having collapsed in the recent disastrous floods in this Royal Town, the Town Council here was told today. Independent Councillor Dato (Dr.) S. Underwood, speaking during adjournment. said: "The people in the
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    Lock icon Police raid
    25 4 PENANG, Tues. A party fo C.I.D. officers raided hut In Perak Lane and recovered a serviceable .22 pistol without ammunllon early this morning
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    Lock icon National Road Safety campaign
    137 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The Road Safety Council of Malaysia will launch a national road safety campaign this year for a period of six weeks, beginning from June 21 to July 29. Announcing this today, the chairman of the Council. Tan Sri Haji Sardon bin Haji Jubir.
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    Lock icon Florence Pong for Malaysia at Madam Butterfly contest
    232 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. —A well-known Malaysian soprano, Miss Florence Pong, will represent Malaysia at the first world-wide Madam Butterfly Competition to be held in Tokyo next month. The competition is held to commemorate the works of world-famous, the late Ta maki Miura.
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    Lock icon Detainees on hunger strike
    203 4 KUCHING. Tues (AFP) A number of political detainees at the Sixth Mile Detention Centre here have been on hunger strike for the past five days. Kuching Municipal Councillor Chan Siaw Hee disclosed at a Municipal Council meeting today. The detainees went on hunger strike because of
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    Lock icon Scout rally
    21 4 MUAR, Tues. The three-day Johore State Scout Rally wwlll be held In Johore Bahru during the August school vacation.
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    Lock icon Counsel objects to admission of alleged confessions
    284 4 RAPING CASE KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Defence Counsel for six youths charged with raping a 27-year-old tapper, today objected to the admission of alleged confessions of their clients recorded by two magistrates as evidence on the grounds that they were not made voluntarily.
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    Lock icon SOON IT WILL BE NUEPACS
    152 4  -  By PERCY JOSEPH KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Mr. T. Karendran. president of the Congress of Employees of Unions in the Public and Civil Services, said today that a special committee was working on amendments to the draft constitution for the formation of one national union. This
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    Lock icon All set for the Luebkes
    252 4 KUALA LUMPI'R. Tues— The President of the Federal Republic of Germany and Frau Luebke. will pay a State visit to Malaysia from March 8 to 11. The President and Frau Luebke, who will be accompanied by an official suite of 15 headed by the Federal
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    Lock icon Kidwai's farewell visit
    77 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The High Commissioner for India, Mr. M.K. Kidwal. will leave tomorrow by sir for a three-day farewell visit to Sarawak. He will meet Btate dignitaries and others In Kuchlng to say goodbye to them before relinquishing his post. He will return to Kuala Lumpur
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    Lock icon Tun Razak receives $30,000 cheque for N-Fund
    79 4 KUAIA LUMPUR Tues The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, yesterday received a'cheque for 530.000 for the National Disaster Relief IFund from the Mentri Besar, Pahang. Dato Yahya bin Haji Mohd. Seh, at Sri Taman here. The monev represents the first donation from
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    Lock icon 6 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS FOR U.A. RELEASE
    454 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. United Artists release won six Golden Globe Awards of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Four of the statuettes went to Mirisch Corporation Presentations, while the other two went to Claude Lelouch's "Un Homme Et Une Femme". Best original musical score;
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    Lock icon German scholarships for young Malaysians
    243 4 KCALA LUMPUR, Tues. The German Federal Government is offering 10 scholarships to young Malavsians who wish to study at schools of engineering 1 1 and mining in Germany. The award, which is for a period of about five to six years, beginning on Nov. 1,
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    Lock icon CM's traffic date today
    112 4 PENANG. Tum. The Chief Minister, T»n Sri Wong Pow Nee, will officially hand over the new Traffic Garden at Bodhi Avenue to the Road Safety Council of Penanr at 4.30 p.m. torn or ow after declaring it open. Apart from equipment which have been presented by
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    Lock icon Varsity exam results
    296 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The University of Malaya (Faculty of Agriculture) today announced thr results of the Intermediate Examination (First Year) for the degree of Bachelor of Agricultural Science 1966 67 session (subject to confirmation by the University Senate). The following candidates have passed the Intermediate Exeminatlon for
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      87 4 .An invitation .ffto our women readers All our women readers are invited to send in their views on the kind of dress they like best in Singapore and' Malaysia. Please send a copy of your photograph together with your views. (Not more than 500 words)..-_ They will be published In
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      62 4 KL DIARY One-man Art Exhibition by Dzulkifli Buyong at Bamat Art Gallery 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Art Exhibition in honour of Cheong Soo Pieng at National Art Gallery 10 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. Zoo Negara 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club Weekly Luncheon Meeting at Le
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      Lock icon Primitive weapon used in Vietcong attack
      219 5  -  By JAMES PRINGLE SAIGON, Tues. (Reuter) Vietcong guerrillas used simple metal tubes mounted on wooden boards to fire rockets into Da Nang Airbase and kill 42 Vietnamese civilians and American servicemen, a U.S. military spokesman said today. The primitive weapon rained shells Into the
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      Lock icon Telstar station for Jordan
      71 5 AMMAN. Jordan. Tues. (APi Jordan is contacting foreign firms to set up a ground station to be linked u*h the Telstar communications satellite, the Minister of Communications announced yesterday. Cost of the project is estimated at £3 million. Preliminary studies have proved the benefit of the
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      Lock icon TWO OLD MEN OF EUROPE
      65 5 PARIS, Tues. (UPI) Former West German Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, looks skvwards as he stands with his host, General Charles De Gaulle (right) on the steps of Elvsee Palace here recently, when he attended a luncheon given in his honour. Also a guest at the
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      Lock icon US aid to Indons
      216 5 WASHINGTON. Tues. (AP) The United States has agreed to aid the financially hard-pressed Government of Indonesia with about US$66 million In 1967 to meet urgent loreign exchange requirements. State Department officials reported yesterday the United States would make available one-third of Indonesia's US$2OO million foreign exchange
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      Lock icon Colour issue raised in Parliament
      225 5 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Britain's Chief Law Officer, Attorney-General Sir Elwyn-Jones, has told Parliament charges had been dropped against a hotel proprietor alleged to have discriminated on grounds of colour. A Labour Member. Mr. Gordon Oakes. claimed in the House of Commons there had been racial
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      Lock icon Fire mishap delays project Apollo
      96 5 Cape Kennedy (Florida), Tues. (AFP). The sudden fire in an American space cabin on January 27 in which three astronauts lost their lives is likely to delay the next National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) space flight seven to nine months. It will also involve
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      Lock icon German beauty's $2.5 mil. suit dismissed
      143 5 TUCSON, ARIZONA, Tues. (UPI) A Federal Judge yesterday tossed out a German beauty's US$2.5 million breach of promise suit against a multi-millionaire rancher who "leased" her from ber husband. The U.S. District Judge, presiding at the trial of the suit, dismissed tbe case on
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      Lock icon DIAMONDS ON MOON SURFACE
      165 5 SCHENECTADY. New York, Tues. (Reuter). A team of American scientists say diamonds may be found on the moon's surface but not enough to make outer space prospecting worthwhile. The findings of Dr. E. Haneman. Dr. H.M. Strong and Dr E.P Bundy, of the General' Electric Company's
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      Lock icon Call for S.E.A. treaty to halt Red China's expansion
      263 5 JAKARTA, Tuesday (AP) TNDONESIA'S Deputy Army Chief continued pressing a call for a South-East Asian Defence Treaty aimed at blocking Communist Chinese expansion, it was reported yesterday. Lieutenant General Mohammed Panggabean said in nearby Bandung that there would be no necessity
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      Lock icon Demonstrators shout threats at Bottomley
      249 5  -  By GEORGE SPRINGER BASSETERRE, St Kitts, Tues. (Reuter) Some 6.000 placard-waving demonstrators shouted threats and shook their fists as Britain's Overseas Development Minister Arthur Bottomley attended independence ceremonies on the neighbouring island of Anguilla yesterday. Flag-raising ceremonies g reclaimed the State of ome rule for
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      Lock icon Bata ownership returned
      53 5 JAKARTA, Tues. (AP) The Indonesian Government will today officially return to its original owners the Bata Shoe Company seized two years ago, economic sources said. The shoe factory will be turned over to Noco Limited of St. Johns, New Foundland, Canada, which Is the largest shareholder In
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      Lock icon Mao's 2nd thoughts
      46 5 LONDON, Tues. (AP) The London Sun said yesterday a current Joke In Peking is the Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, alarmed by the violent reaction his thinking, has caused among Red Guards, plans to bring out a new book called "The Second Thoughts of Mao".
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      Lock icon French experimental aerotrain
      203 5 TRANSPORTATION PARIS, Tues. Boosted by a proDulsion rocket, the half size experimental aerotrain recently reached a speed of 303 kilometres per hour on the 6-kilometre testing runaway at Gometz-le-Chatel in the presence of M. Olivier Guichard, deleKate for Physical Planning, and M. Andre Segalat, President of the
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      Lock icon Speculation on Vietnam's peace talks
      237 5 RANGOON, Tues. (Reuter) Fresh speculation that United Nations Secretary-General U Thant may be holding: Vietnam peace talks here was aroused last night by the news that three senior North Vietnam diplomats are now here. U Thant is here on a short holiday, and rumours that
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      Lock icon Healey denies Br. killing
      78 5 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Defence Minister Denis Healey last night denied a charge that British soldiers in Aden killed 50 Arabs earlier this month. The charge was made during the weekend by Mr. Peter Benenson. founder of Amnesty International, which seeks to free political prisoners. Mr. Healey
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      Lock icon People's rights stay —Judge
      138 5 NEW DELHI, Tues. (Renter) India's Supreme Court has ruled that Parlia* ment is not entitled to make any amendment to the country's Constitution which takes away the people's fundamental rights embodied in it. The court yesterday decided the Constitution gave transcendental place to these fundamental rights
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      Lock icon Maoists: Class struggle must go on
      371 5 HONG KONG, Tues. (Reuter) The Maoist "Shanghai Municipal Revolution Committee" has called on its supporters to carry on the class struggle in China's biggest city, according to a New China News Agency dispatch monitored here today. A draft resolution read out at a rally
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      Lock icon BOOM IN JAPAN ARMS INDUSTRY
      242 6 'With Washington's blessing' WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI) A Japanese firm will begin selling lightweight rifles this year to the Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea and other Asian countries, U.S. News and World Report said today. In its latest issue, the weekly news magazine said the sales were
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      Lock icon Ex-minister loses 3 sons in blast
      104 6 ADEN, Tues. (Reuten Three sons of former Aden Chief Minister Abdul Qawee Mackawee and two policemen were killed when an explosion damaged the ex-Minister's house here last night. Mr. Mackawee was Aden's Chief Minister until he and his cabinet were ousted by the British
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      Lock icon Little Red Soldiers
      105 6 MOSCOW. Tues. (Reuter Chinese school children may soon be enrolling in a new organisation for "Little Red Soldiers" called to "defend chairman Mao Tse-Tung to the last breath." Tass reported yesterday. The Soviet News Agency said the organisation was to be formed in all primary schools, which
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      Lock icon A case of vital 'parallels'
      120 6 GENEVA, Tues. (Reuter) Defence of the 17th parallel dividing South and North Vietnam was as fundamental to United States policy as the 38th parallel in Korea or Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. Mr. John S. Hayes, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, said here yesterday. He told the
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      Lock icon American 'hypocrisy and falseness'
      97 6 MOSCOW. Tues. (Reuter) Bovlet President Nikolai Podgorny last night accused the United States of "hypocrisy and falseness" and said this had been proved by U.S. land and sea shelling of North Vietnam and the demilitarised zone between North and South. The Soviet President was speaking at
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      Lock icon Rangers to kill off 600 wild elk
      231 6 YELLOWSTONE National Park, Wyoming, Tues. (UPI) Forest rangers, armed with heavy hunting rifles and riding snow vehicles, were moving into snowclogged Yellowstone National Park at dawn yesterday to begin the slaughters of 600 wild elk. State leaders, who protested to Federal officials in
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      Lock icon US$6 million portrait
      56 6 Leonardo da Vinci's painting "G'nevra de Benci" (photo) was recently sold by Prince Frani Josef II of Liechtenstein to the United States National Gallery of Art in Washington at a reported price of some U.S. 56 million. the highest sum ever pvd for a single painting in
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      Lock icon Russians renew search for $50m. treasure
      278 6 MOSCOW, Tues. (Renter) A search for a rSSSOm treasure burled by the German Army reopened yesterday after new clues volunteered by a Nazi war criminal. Work squads with special drills were reported probing in a suburb of Kaliningrad, formerly the East Prussian city of
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      Lock icon 'I should know' —Snowdon
      192 6 NEW YORK, Tues. (Reuter) Lord Snowdon said here last night that reports of a breakup with Princess Margaret took him by surprise. "It's news to me and I would be the first to know", he said when questioned about rumours of a rift in the royal
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      Lock icon Wilson back from Holland EEC talks
      114 6 THE HAGUE, Tues. (Reuter) Prime Minister Harold Wilson flew back to London last night after receiving strong backing from the Dutch government for any new British attempt to join the European Common Market. British officials said that Mr. Wilson's probing talks here yesterday with
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      Lock icon Top scholar award to Singaporean
      64 6 SYDNEY. Tues. (Reuter) The first Asian student to study pharmacology under a new scholarship scheme arrived in Sydney yesterday by air from Singapore. He is Mr. Foo Jong Wee from Singapore, who was selected from more than 800 applicants for the scholarship sponsored by the
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      Lock icon More Far East Forces rundown is planned
      302 6 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Britain hopes to reduce her Far East Forces by between 18,000 and 23,000 by the end of next year, Defence Secretary Mr. Denis Healey told the House of Commons last night. Speaking in a twoday bebate on defence, he said
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      Lock icon Youth on trial for death of Errol Flynn's mother
      123 6 BRIGHTON. England. Tues. (UPI) Brian Peter' Dale yesterday was committed for trial on a charge of dangerous driving, which resulted in the death of Mrs. Lily Flynn, mother of the late actor Errol Flynn. Mrs. Flynn. 77, wife of Australian zoology
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      Lock icon Sharpest US gold drop in 7 years
      175 6 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Reuter) United States holdings of gold and convertible foreign exchange reserves fell sharply by US$7O9 million in January to a total of $13,847 million, the government reported yesterday. The drop was the largest for any single month since records started in
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      Lock icon Attitude towards foreign aid 'full of paradoxes'
      239 6 HARTFORD, Connecticut, Tues. (Reuter) Professor- Arthur Lall, the former Indian ambassador to the United Nations, said last night that aid "cannot be any substitute for the sweat and toil of the less developed countries." "It is high time that the leaders in the
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      Lock icon 'Sukarno cannot quit Indonesia before March 7'
      166 6 TOKYO, Tues. (UPI) President Sukarno pl*ns to remain in Indonesia at least until after March 7 when the powerful Congress meets to decide his future, the Kyodo News Agency reported today. Kyodo said Indonesian military sources have pointed out that Pres. Sukarno has
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      Lock icon G.I.'s deliver a baby
      100 6 SAIGON, Tues. (UPI) A 28-year-old Vietnamese woman rushed into a Saigon suburban street before dawn today and hailed an American military police jeep. She was about to have a baby and needed help Immediately. Sgt. William P. White. 39. and Larry H. Lambertus, 21, were about
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      Lock icon Sino-Jap trade accord signed
      133 6 HONG KONG, Tues (AFP) Japan and China signed a friendship and trade protocol in Peking yesterday. New China News Agency reported today. The two countries agreed to hold comprehensive Japanese industrial exhibitions in two Chinese cities next year, said the agency. Chinese trade exhibitions will also
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      Lock icon Posthumous victory for Pasternak
      171 6 MOSCOW, Tues. (AFP)— An autobiography by Boris Pasternak, author of the novel "Dr. Zhivago" and winner of the 1958 Nobel prize for literature, is published in the January issue of the magazine "Novy Mir" (New World), which has just appeared. Dated 1957 and entitled "Men and
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      Lock icon US-UK need German support to keep Forces in Europe
      346 7 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) us and Brltaln are reported to have to cut down their troops in Europe unless greater German Forces subsidy is forthcoming. The Vnited States, Britain and West Germany began a new round of troop strength talks yesterday under
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      Lock icon Back to work
      19 7 PARIS. Tues. (UPI> Most French railroads were back to normal today after a three-day nationwide strike.
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      Lock icon Goldberg in Korea to visit DMZ
      128 7 SEOUL, Tues. (UPI) U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur J. Goldberg today met with South Korean leaders and then planned an afternoon visit with Gl's near the demilitarised zone. A helicopter will take Goldberg to a military base near the 38th parallel where
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      Lock icon Brando to visit Malaysia
      67 7 KARACHI, Pakistan, Tue«. (AP) Marlon Brando left here yesterday for Dacca, East Pakistan, on his way to South Korea. Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia and South America. He is on a world tour for the United Nations to spot artists, musicians, dancers and sports stars to stage a
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      Lock icon Soviet tanker sinks
      56 7 COPHENHAGEN. Tues. (AFP) Danish Maritime authorities reported yesterday that the 2,300 ton Soviet tanker Tukan sank in the North Sea during the night causing the death of at least 20 of its 80 members. The Skagen Radio Station said the shipwreck occurred about 15 sea miles North
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      Lock icon P.I. to buy 'HK' rice – regardless
      219 7 P.I. to buy 'HK' rice regardless MANILA, Tues. (UPI) Foreign Secretary Narciso Ramos said today the Philippines is prepared to buy rice from Hong Kong, even if it comes from Communist China. Mr. Ramos returned from a surprise weexena visit to Taipei, including a stopover in Hong Kong, but denied
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      Lock icon Luther – sinner or saint?
      170 7 Luther sinner or saint? CHICAGO. Tues. (UPI) A Paulist priest told Chicago's oldest Roman Catholic congregation on Sunday that Martin Luther might have been one of Catholicism's greatest saints. Mr. Harry McSorley, C.S.P., professor of ecumenical theology at St Paul's College, Washington, DC., said at old St. Mary's Church here
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      Lock icon Couple choked on meat
      90 7 FORT COLLINS, Colorado, Tues. (UPI) A woman whose husband choked to death on a piece of meat suffered the same bizarre fate while eating at a fashionable restaurant here. The victim was identified as Mrs. Margaret Schneider. 58, a native of Russia. She died on Friday
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      Lock icon LONDON, Tues. — To go with changing times, "Queen Victoria" with ropes around her Queenly neck and encircling her stately regal hips is being lifted for her 50 meters trip in London. Seventh years ago, a bronze statue weighing 51/2 tons of Queen Victoria was set on an Island site at Blackfriars on the Thames embankment in London which was named after her. But now to relieve traffic pressure an underpass is being built and Queen Victoria had to be moved to a new place 50 meters further down.
      91 7 LONDON, Tues. To go with changing times, "Queen Victoria" with ropes around her Queenly neck and encircling her stately regal hips is being lifted for her 50 meters trip in London. Seventh year s ago, a bronze statue weighing 51/2 tons of Queen Victoria was set on an Island site
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      197 7 HONG KONG, (Renter) Radio stations In East and Central China have reported calls to troops and Maoist revolutionary rebels to "prepare for war against famine." Klangsi radio last night said military headquarters In Kiangsl province, East China, had directed troops on "to carry through spring farming
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      107 7 CINCINNATI. Ohio. Tues. (AP) Several years ago Charlie Y.O. Yee helped start a young Cincinnati singer on her way to fame. He billed her a s the "Shanghai bird" in the Shanghai Inn restaurant' he operated. The singer is now known as Doris Day. Mr. Yee,
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      148 7 PARIS. Tues. (AFP)—Mr. Paul Marc-Henri, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) deputy-directoi said here yesterday that after operating for 20 years the international aid system for developing countries had reached an Impasse. Mr. Henri was summing up the conclusions of a conference on development strategy
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      249 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (AP) A nuclear attack against Europe or America would would be "Instant suicide," according to Sir Alec Douglas-Home. In a speech to the Pilgrims of the United States, a patriotic group, the former British Prime Minister said last night, "There is
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      135 7 LONDON, Tues. (AFP) Actress Elizabeth Taylor curtsied here last night to Princess Margaret at the royal film performance the world premiere of the film version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," in which Miss Taylyor and her husband Richard Burton play the leading
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      95 7 JAKARTA. Tues. (UPI)— The casuality toll from last week's earthquake in the Malang region of East Java today rose to 51 dead and more than 370 injured. The official Antara News Agency said the material loss was estimated at one and a half million U.S.
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      203 7 GUESTS TAKE 36 COPS CAMBRIDGE. Massachusetts, Tues. (UPI) A gypsy wedding went along smoothly enough on Sunday, but the reception turned Into a Donnybrook which took three dozen club-swinging police to quell. John Evans and Donna Demetro. both of Charlestown. West Virginia, were married In typical gypsy
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      85 7 MOSCOW, Tues. (UPI) British seaman John Weatherly went on trial in Leningrad today for beating up members of a Russian wedding party and breaking the bridegroom's nose when he objected to Weatherly kissing the bride. Weatherly, 22, of New-castle-on-Tyne, could be sentenced to up
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      70 7 NATCHEZ, Mississippi, Tues. (Reuter) The local treasurer of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People was killed last night in an explosion near a factory where he worked, police reported The dead man was 37-year-old Wharlest Jackson. In August 1965, the Natchez president of
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      138 7 HALIFAX, CANADA Tues. (AFP) —Violent storms which raged all week off the Canadian coast wrecked three trawlers and claimed 35 sailors, the coastguard announced here yesterday. It was feared too that a fourth trawler, the Polly and Robbie, was lost with its seven-man crew, no news
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      199 7 MANILA, Tues. (AFP) Filipino woman senator Maria Kalaw-Katigbak sharply assailed the U.S. Department last night for assigning "small people" to the task of handling America's diplomatic affairs in the Philippines. The senator made the statement in a speech in Congress in which she openly named
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      83 7 MANILA, Tues. '(UPIV Apasra Hongsakula, Miss Universe of 1965, is scheduled to arrive in Manila from Bangkok tomorrow to appear in a benefit fashion show here next week. She will be the star model in the March 7 Paciflca Fashion Show to raise funds for the
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      210 7 SAIGON. Tues. (UPI) South Vietnam can win the war against Communism sooner if it receives increased help from its allies, foreign minister Mr. Tran Van Do told a seven-nation Ambassadorial conference yesterday. "We thing that if the free world nations espacially our Asian neighbours,
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      61 7 PARIS, Tues. (AP) French singer Dalida was found unconscious in her room in a Paris hotel last night and was transferred to hospital, where doctors said she was in a serious condition. Dalida, whose real name Is Yolande Gigliotti, was born in Cairo on Jan. 17, 1933, of Italian
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      44 7 THIS steel container, 36 meters in height and 21 meters in diameter, will house a 650-ton atomic reactor now under construction near Ontario, USA,. The reactor will produce 600,000 kw output, equivalent to that obtainable from six-million-ton coal, when completed in 1968. PANA Photo.
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      87 6 THE MAN FROM U.M.C.L. E. the Pixilated puzzle ANPNErr MORNING AT 11AM mr. m ■A IT ■Tn w m "m Mi as K i >r„' TP IVT »> o S'•v V <~7' s><\--?y* c; n„ d tLiW aLi^Zr N r* Li«e TRKCMOmN6 APt*. THE Mtt SWINGS DOWN TH6 CLIFFM*... 1
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    485 8 IN THE political changes that have occurred in Malaysia and Singapore, many people in both territories have found themselves stateless through a series of circumstances over which they have no control. There seems to be an underlying eagerness to deny citizenship to as many persons as pos'sible though they
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    291 8 AN ALLIANCE M.P., Dato Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman, said in Parliament that the Government should not build too many luxurious hospitals in the towns but should use the money to establish more hospitals in other parts of the country. The millions of dollars spent on one luxury hospital are
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    3472 8  -  By: SIM BOON PENG, Director of People's Association in a talk at the "Summit Meet" organised by the Nanyang University Students' Fellowship, held at Tanah Merah Holiday Camp on Monday. I 7WT ANYANG University Is Having \A. w its first vacation of the year
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      242 8 COURTROOM Henry B. Rothblatt \Authori Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials") JJRET was a convict assigned to garbage detail rpmnvi a Governr "ent air base. Bret decided to remove a cardboard carton used to bfriJfpr tras J. fro truck. As he started up the ladder on the back of the
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      173 9 SINGAPORE. Tups. Mr. Gan Eng Joo of the Singapore office of Messrs. Hagemeyer Trading Co. >l>Ltd.. has left for Tokyo for a period of 2 months. Mr Gan is Deputy Manager of the Olympus Microscopy Department of Haeemeyer. He is the first man in this department
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      134 9 NEW YORK, Tues. (AP) The Stock Market closed h a sharp loss yesterday. Trading was active. Discouraging economic new s slumps in orders for machine tools, rail equipment, steel and autos. as well as endorsement by the afl-cio of big wage increase this year
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      35 9 NEW YORK, Tues. (AP) Standard and poors 500 stock index: Close Net Change 425 Industrials 92.40 off 1.04 20 Railroads 45.62 off .51 55 Utilities 69.68 off .52 500 Stocks 84.46 off .95
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      15 9 NEW YORK, Tues. (AP) Preliminary Dow Jon«s closing industrial average 336.63 off 10.70.
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      362 9 WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI) a Chicago business executive has pinpointed Malaysia as a better place for foreign Investors than either Sinaapore or Thailand. Mr. E. Cress Fox of the Central Soya Company, Inc., of Chicago, was speaking at the recent Chicago World Trade Conference.
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      Lock icon Director on sales tour
      109 9 LONDON, Tues. (UPI> Mr. Bren (CQ) Whelan, world sales director of Latraset (Export) Ltd., left London today for Tokyo on the first leg of a sales tour which will also include Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia. Mr. Whelan also Is Chairman of Letraset Japan Ltd.,
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      16 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. The tin price for today was $604.50 per picul, down 75 cents.
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      852 9 SINGAPORE, T u e s There was no feature again on the Stock Exchange which still continued quiet on moderate trading. Industrials were again easier in the absence of any incentives and meagre buying support. The largest turnover for the day was returned by
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      84 9 ACCRA. Ghana. Mon. (UPI) The Nationalist Chinese government has donated its £25.000 ($70,000) pavilion at the just ended International Trade Fair to Ghana. Pavilion Director Nan Wan Yang said his government also would give Ghana a power plough exhibited by Nationalist China. Britain said she would donate
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      24 9 HONG KONG, Tues. (UPI) Money Quotations: HK55.***** 5.7475 ?er US dollar for cash HK--15.99 per pound sterling HK5264,5 per tael gold.
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      22 9 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Rubber market opened very quiet with spot 17-1/16 17No. 1 RSS CIF basis porta March 16-7/8. 17.
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      212 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. With the increasing emphasis on industrial development in Malaysia, the the National Electricity Board i s playing its part by providing more power for rapidly growing industries. The NEB's most recent project, the Batang PadangPrai Power Development which is nearing completion, will almost
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      Lock icon Rubber quiet but steady
      323 9 SINGAPORE, Tue s. March first grade rubber f.o.b. buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 56J cents per lb.,up J cent from previous close. The tone was quiet but steady. The market was idle for most of the morning and tended
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      94 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Association of Banks in Malaysia today made the following changes in rates to merchants: New York: Buying T.T. 32-11/16; Airmail O.D. 32-13/16; 90 d/st. 33-1/4 credit bills; 33-9/16 trade bills. Canada: Buying T.T. 35i, Airmail O.D. 35J; 90 d/st. 36J credit bills; 36-3/16 trade bills.
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      Lock icon Heavecrumb output rises
      177 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Rubber Research Institute of Malaya's newly formed New Rubber Development Unit in London rePorts that January 1967 shipments of Heavecrumb from Malaysia rose to 1,200 tonsIt forecasts a total monthly output of 5,000 tons before the end of the year. Heveacrumb, a new
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      474 9 SINGAPORE —Stork Exchange bid and offer price* officially listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS B. Boustead 1.57 1.58 C. Sugar 2.06 2.07 Chemical Co 1.76 1.77 Cold Storage 3.24 3.28 Dunlop (Old) 2.35 2.39 E. Smelting 4.42 4.60 Esso Ords 3.26 3.30 f'ltzpat ricks 1.55 1.65
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      56 9 A (Managers Price*) First Malayan 1.25 2.35 Second Malayan 1.60 1.70 Third Malayan 1.17 l.?8 The Commerce Industry Fund... .90 1.01 The Saving* Fund 1.40 1.50 Malaysian Investment Fund .90 1.00 Sterling Commodity 8/11 First Hon* Kong... 1.00 4/6 1.05* .73* Second Honr Kong .69 uvvuuu nuiig IVU|||
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      113 9 SINGAPORE, Tun. pore Chinese Produce Ex 8injrtchange noon prices today were; Coconut oil Buyer* Seller* (FOB) Bulk 44.75 Coconut oil FOB Drum* 47.25 Loose Copra Mixed Feh/Mar 17.75 Sugar (Java) exgodown tmm 20.25 Nutmegs 110s mmrnrn 433.00 Nutmegs Riff mmrn 202.50 Garbled Lampong Black Pepper (FOB) Pepper Black Spe-
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      178 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. The following ships are expected in port today:Godowns Vessels. 1/2 Utrecht 3/4 Centaur 8/9 Glenfinlas 10/11 Yashinosan Maru 13/14 Tugela 15/16 Benavon 18 Arendskerk 19 Empire Gannet 21/22 An Tung 23/24 Kinsei Maru No. 11 29/30 Telamon 31/32 Demodocus 33/34 Glenorchy 35/36 Murrayeverett 40/41 Wairata 42/43
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      933 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 12.05 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 JAL 712 from Jakarta. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MSA 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.30 a.m. Airline MSA 451 from Kuching.
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    Lock icon Ex-detainee condemns Barisan's activities
    330 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. Singapore Police today released another political detainee, Ow Kee Kheen, a former member of the Anti-British League (A.8.L.), a Communist Party of Malaya (C.P.M.) satellite or- ganisation. In a statement today, the Police Secretary, Mr. T. Chelliah said Ow was misled by Communist propaganda.
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    148 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. Candidates who wish to offer the Chinese language at principal level for the Higher School Certificate Examination this year may have to take an optional Oral Test on July 3. Candidates offering Malay language at principal level may enter and present themselves
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    55 10 SINGAPORE Tues —The Singapore Red Cross Society will hold their Flag Dav on March. 4. Some 600 members of the Society are expected to be on the streets selling flags that day. The Red Cross Society has also printed some 25,000 car labels at $1 each
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    26 10 SINGAPORE. Tues —Singapore Traffic Police recorded 108 road accidents, of which two were classified as serious, during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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    185 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. A male Chinese, aged about 48, fell to his death from the top floor of the Housing and Development Board flats at Upper Pickering Street on Feb. 25 at 2 a.m. He was about five feet five Inches tall and had thick greyish
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    47 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. —Mr. Kenneth Morris, Thoracic Surgeon of the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, will speak on "Surgery of the Aortic Valve" on March 3 at the Pathology Lecture Theatre, General Hospital, at 8.15 p m. He is here with a team of Australian open cardiac surgeon*.
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    84 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. Police said this evening traffic was passable although several low-lying areas in the Republic were under six inches of water, resulting from the afternoon's downpour. At the 12 J milestone. Woodlands Road, heavy rain caused a small landslide but there was no damage. The water
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    119 10 Malaysian students attended an Overseas Students' Transition Course being held by the Government of the State of Victoria. The course, designed to introduce them to the Australian way of life through lectures, discussions, social gather- ings and excursions, was held at the Royal Melbourne Institute
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    195 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. The first executive meeting of the newly-formed Law Association for Asia and the Western Pacific was held in Sydney, recently. Two Asian executive members attended. They were Mr. C.C. Tan, a Vice-Presi-dent of the Association and Chairman of the Singapore Bar
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    Lock icon New appointment for R.A.F. No. 224 Squadron's A.O.C.
    174 10 SINGAPORE, Tues, Air Vice-Marshal Christopher Foxley-Norris will leave Singapore on March 4 to become Director General of Organisation at the Ministry of Defence in London. He has been Air Officer Commanding No. 224 group of the Royal Air Force since 1964. His
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    192 10 SINGAPORE, Tues Mr. Behram R. Vakil", the zone chairman of the Lions International In Singapore, announced the results of the Peace Essay Contest on behalf of the three Lions Clubs In Singapore as follows:Lions Club of Singapore Host: Ist Prize: Wong Tuck Yin, 15-D Redhill Close,
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    43 10 SINGAPORE, Tues.— Mr. Lan Hope of Radio-T.V. Singapura will be giving a talk at the Lodge premises, 8 Cairnhill Road, Singapore, on Thursday, March 2. at 6.45 p.m. He will speak on "Madame H.P. Blavatsky Her T if* anti her Work",
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    Lock icon Siglap Post Office wins trophy
    212 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. The" Siglap Post Office today won the trophy for the best maintained post office for 1966. Second place went to the Still Road Post Office and third was the Thomson Road Post Office. The trophy was presented to the Acting Postmaster of the
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    Lock icon 6 new classrooms for St. Andrews School
    69 10 MCAR, Tues. Six new classrooms, costing $50,000, have been built at St. Andrew's School in Jalan Hashim here. Half the cost of the building was a grant from the Government, while the other oortion was a donation from the staff, pupils and well-wishers
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    55 10 SINGAPORE. Tues Mr. T. Chelliah. the Police Secretary, will take ud his new post a« Acting Deputy Secretary (Law> In the Ministry of Law from March 1. Mr. H.L. Boudwyn, Staff Officer One. Police Headquarters, will cover his press duties until his successor assume
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    Lock icon Bus conductor awarded $18,500 damages
    220 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. A former bus-conductor, Yeo Koon Beng, 49, who is suffering from a permanent noise in his head after he had been thrown off a bus three years ago, was today awarded $18,500 by Mr. Justice Buttrose. The incident occurred on June 4, 1964,
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    Lock icon Varied programme in fifth Wonderland Food and Fun Fair
    209 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. The fifth annual Wonderland Food and Fun Fair in aid of the Spastic Children's Asscociation of Singapore will be held on the grounds of the Old Admiralty House in Grange Road on Saturday (March 18). The Fair, will be
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    128 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. Mr. Edward Lindsey, of Lawrenceburg. Tennessee, who was elected President of Llong International at the annual Convention In New York last year, will arrive here on March 7. for a visit He will be accompanied by his wife and they will be here
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    119 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Adult Education Board will conduct a course In pastel drawing. The course is designed for beginners who wish to learn and develop the use of pastels as a medium of expression. Students will be given both theoretical and practical training which includes selecting materials
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    87 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. —The Singapore Boy Scouts of the Tanjong Pagar District Association will hold a charity film show on March 5 at the Lido Cinema at 8.30 a.m. to raise funds for its training programmes. The show. "Secret Invasion", in technicolour, stars Stewart Granger and Mickey Rooney.
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      67 10 By Herry B. KothtUtt (Author, "Handbook of Evldeno# Tor Crlmlru 1 Trl«l»") YES. "The doctrine of assumption of risk does not apply to convict labour," the judge held. "The doctrine of contributory negligence which bars the recovery by a plaintiff presupposes that there is a freedom of choice in the
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      170 12 T>RISBANE. Tues. A Fijian chieftain's daughter and an Australian have been married in Australia's first Fijian-style wedding. The bride and her attendants wore traditional Fijianstyle gowns and frangipani lois. The Lord's prayer was sung at the church in Fijian and many of the 115 guests danced the
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      183 12 MELBOURNE. Tue (AIS)-—Gross value of Austfalia's rural production in k ,ike, y to be about $A3,592.000.000, almost ten per cent above that in *****6 and more than four per cent higher than the previous record set in 1964-65. The Federal Minister for Primary Industry, Mr. C.F.
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      218 12 CANBERRA, Tues. (AIS) rPHE 1967 Moomba Book Fair, a growing feature of Melbourne's an- nual Moomba Festival, is going international. Publishing houses in the Pacific-South-East Asia area will be showing what they can do. Seven countries India, the Republic of China. Indonesia, Japan, New
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      133 12 CANBERRA, Tues. (AIS) Ansett-ANA and TransAustralian Airlines (TAA), Australia's independent and Government-owned domestic airlines, will befin regular Boeing: 727 Jet services to New Guinea in April. Each airline will operate four Sydney-Port Moresby Boeing 727 flights a week on a staggered schedule These will replace
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      Lock icon BOOSTER STATION FOR RADIO AUSTRALIA
      190 12 MELBOURNE, Tues. The Federal Department of Works has let contracts worth more than $A1,000,000 for the major buildings of Radio Australia's booster station on Cox Peninsula near Darwin. The booster station will have three 250 kilowatt transmitters. It is planned to use them simultaneously, broadcasting
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      Lock icon Tenders for Talbingo Dam
      222 12 CANBERRA. Tues. (AIS) The Australian Government is about to invite tenders for the construction of Talbingo Dam the largest dam in the Snowy Mountain Scheme and possibly the highest dam in the southern hemisphere. The dam will be situated in the lower end of the Tumut
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      Lock icon New method to help asthmatic sufferers
      266 12 WELLINGTON, Toes. (NZIS) With growing population and increasing; air pollution all over the world today, inherited forms of asthma and bronchitis are killing more and more people. A new treatment for sufferers from asthma and bronchitis developed by a physiotherapist, Mrs. Bernice Thompson of
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      369 12 TVfELBOURNE, Tues. Australian physicist Dr. a"1 Peter Eccles recently disclosed results of experiments on a "very puzzling phenomenon that has intrigued him for 10 years: the invisible car". He told delegates at the recent 39th Congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the
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      325 12 MELBOURNE. Tues. A Japanese professional photographer has won important section of an international photographic competition in Australia that attracted 4.000 entries from 18 countries. He is Mr. Hiro Yoshikawa, of 45 Chome, Shinon Machi, Kochi City, Kochi Ken, Japan, whose portfolio of six photographs was
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      125 12 Negotiations are in progress for raising the Royal Military College. Duntroon. Australian Capital J Territory, to degree status as a college of the University of New South Wales. THE first Australian Universities Arts Festival will be held in Sydney from May 25 to June 3. There will
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      105 12 CANBERRA, Tues. A total of 4,265 students from Malaysia and other countries are at oresent studying or have completed studies, under the Australian Correspondence Scholarship Scheme. The scheme is part of Australia's Colombo Plan programme. Malaysian students participating in the scheme so far total 2,198. Of
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      270 12 WELLINGTON, Tues. A leading New Zealand authority on seed testing and research, Mrs. Margot E. H. Johnston, will visit Malaysia from Mar. 16 to 23 in the course of a tenweek tour of nine South. South-East and East Asian nations on behalf of the International
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      308 12 WELLINGTON, Tues. If the activities of a sample number of people in St. Albans, a Christchurch suburb, can be taken as representing the taste of the average New Zealander, then watching television is the most popular pastime. Gardening and reading newspapers come next. According to a
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      998 13 BATTLE FOB THE MIND rpHE battle it on for your mind because the people who tell you things know it it the key to your pocket. Market research organisations are always watching to discover why you act like you do when you shop, why you
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      712 13  -  CONFIDENT LIVING Bv Norman Vincent Peale HERE Is a story about what you can do with your mind. It is also a story of what faith can do. I was in a hotel about to go to a hall where I was scheduled to
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    247 14 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Amateur tennis was yesterday described as "a living lie" by Mr. Herman David, chairman of the all-England Club which stages the Wim- bledon championships. Mr. David, in an interview published in the magazine 'British Lawn Tennis", said: "To my mind
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    134 14 TOKYO, Tues. (UPI) Featherweight champion Hiroshi Kobayashi last night scored a knockdown in the fifth round and won a unanimous non-title 10-round decision over Argentina's Vicente Derado. Kobayashi connected with a straight right to the chin and Derado tried to back away in the centre
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    52 14 MANILA, Tues. (AP) The Philippines will send a two-man squad to the second Asian Junior Lawn Tennis Championships in Kuala Lumpur Aug. 4 to 11. The team is composed of Alexander Marcial and Ramon Funtera. A third member may be added, the Philippine Lawn Tennis
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    39 14 MUAR, Tues. Muar district will meet Segamat district in a charity hockey match in aid of the Muar district Poppy Fund at the St. Andrew's Secondary School field at Jalan Hashim on March 9 at 5.15 p.m.
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    380 14 SEREMBAN, Tues. Negri Sembilan's new soccer chief, Enche Shaari B. Harun will head three of the major sub-committees of the N.S. Football Association. Enche Shaari heads the Rules, Finance and Selection sub-com-mittees. The rules of the N.S.F.A. are being closely studied
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    123 14 TOKYO, Tues. (AFP) Orient bantamweight boxing champion Won Suk Lee of South Korea will defend his title against Japan's Eigo Takagi in Tokyo on March 30, it was announced today. The 12-round title match will be held at the 3,000seat Korakuen Boxing Hall. Won
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    222 14 TOKYO, Tues. (UPI) Herbert Muhammad, manager of Cassius Clay, said last night before departing for Chicago that Clay will make a title defence in Tokyo on May 27, despite opposition from the Japan Boxing Commission. Muhammad arrived in Tokyo last Wednesday at
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    229 14 SINGAPORE. Tues. Sapper John Branscombe. of Balgowlah Heights, New South Wales, is really "on the ball. He is attached to the Australian Army Force Headquarters in Singapore. A 13-and-a-half stone six footer, Sapper Branscombe plays Rugby Union for Army Singapore a composite
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    63 14 WASHINGTON Tues. (AP) Light heavyweight Bobby Foster, taking little time to solve his opponent's crouching style, knocked out Argentine's Andres Selpa last night in 2.30 of the second round of their scheduled 10-rounder. Foster, ranked second by the World Boxing Association, caught Selpa with a hard left
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    37 14 MALACCA, Tues. The 34 Squadron Gurkha Transport Regiment from Johore beat Malacca's No. 3 Squadron Royal Corp of Transport by one-nil in the Commonwealth Forces Minor Units hockey final at the Terendak Camp ground here.
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    145 14 BOMBAY, Tues. (Reuter) Bombay, seeking their ninth successive victory, reached the final of the Indian cricket championship for the Ranji Trophy when they trounched Mysore by an innings and five runs in the four-day match which ended here yesterday. The match was highlighted by
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    57 14 MUAR. Tues.—A businessman, Dato Teoh Chze Chong. of Kluang has been re-elected president of the Johore State Football Association for the 16th successive year. Vice-president are Enche Mohamed Said bin Mohamed Tahir and Enche Sanudin bin Manas, secretary. Mr. Peter Danker (reelected),
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      1952 15  -  The going is Good AN OPEN EVENT BUT... 'Windsor 4 PENANG, Wed. Lotus Lamp ponds o good each way proposition in a wide open ;race the 6f for Class Three Division Three j(Race 7) at Penang this afternoon, second day of the Penang
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      22 15 Windsor Lad: Sister Cavil Ringgit Lotus Lamp GOLDEN SNU: Gemini I Eleho Prince Golden Sun ADELINE: Ringgit Reganda Bronx
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      93 15 WASHINGTON. T u e s (UPI) Heavyweight Ernie Terrell said yesterday h« may have to undergo another operation to repair damage to his eye suffered during a losing championship fight with Cassius Clay "I'm going to see my doctor in a few days and
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      100 15 SINGAPORE. Tues. Mr. Siow Watt Soon, was re-elected President of tha Singapore Civil Service Association at the 30th annual general meeting held recently. Other officials elected as office-bearers for the year 1967 were Vice-President; Mr. Phang Soon Hock Hon. Secretary: Mr. Chng Chee Yong< re-elected) Hon.
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      1614 15 Race l: Horses Clan 6 Abt. 5Furl- >.00 PJI. 1. 107 Blur Martial 7y 9 04 H«ck Huat Stable Baapy Jnr Katii 9 I inn V imp f'^ 11 *H. K»1H>" fl 3. 810 nalrrftni- t y 9 02 M.W Anthonux E Donnelly- Harbridie 1 1 195
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