Eastern Sun, 23 March 1967

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  • 24 1 Eastern Sun Independent] National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION l»flb. Vol. 1 IMo. 241 Thursday, 23 March 1967. ☆MC (P) 2251 KON 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 739 1 But LBJ will continue to seek honourable peace in Vietnam WASHINGTON, Wed. (AP UPI) PRESIDENT JOHNSON decla* red off his return from the Guam conference tast night that he will continue to seeh an honourable peace in Vietnam despite Mr. Ho Chi Mi n h 's *regrettable
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  • 107 1 AUCKLAND, Wed. Sir Walter Scott, chairman of the Australian Decimal Currency Board, was presented yesterday with a cheque dated November 10, 1824 and signed by his illustrious novelist namesake. The donor, an Auckland couple who wish to remain anonymous, said they were given the cheque in London 40
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  • 37 1 A young Muslim boy greeting the Yang di-Pertuan Agong at the National Mosque where the King attended Hari Raya prayers yesterday. A young boy's dream comes true. EASTERN SUN Picture. EASTERN SUN Picture.
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  • 101 1 NEW YORK Wed. (Reuter) The Ford Foundation today announced a grant of US $633,500 to help India increase her food production. An announcement by the foundation said the money would be used to support the Indian Ministry of Food and Agriculture's efforts to step up production.
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  • 177 1 ABOARD H.M.S. Protector, off Cape Horn, Wed. (Reuter) Sir Francis Chichester was at grips today with the old foe loneliness on his round-the- world voyage. For several days while he was rounding the treacherous, gale-lashed Cape Horn he had 'company' the British Navy's ice patrol
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  • 108 1 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) An intruder broke into Kensington Palace, home of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon, early today and removed gold coins, jewellery and binoculars. Police said later they had recovered the property and that a man was at the local police station being questioned. The intruder
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  • 236 1 TOKYO, WEDNESDAY The Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew last night criticised American policy in Southeast Asia, the Japan Times headlined. Mr. Lee, accompanied by his wife, was guest of the Tokyo Foreign Correspondents Club where he spoke briefly about developments in Southeast
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  • 57 1 HONGKONG. Wed. (Reuter) Miss Tourism Singapore, pretty 20-year-old Wee Hong-Neo, today impressed newsmen with her charm and ability as a "walking advertisement" for the island Republic. The way she handled Press conference led a newspaper. STAR, to remark: "She wasn't afraid of meeting a lot
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 184 2  -  Bv WEE HOCK CHYE MALACCA, Wed. Malacca like a woman out to S lease is all dressed and set to welcome tomorrow ie visit of the Yang dl-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong. The National and State flags and buntings are
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    • 446 2  -  5L CHOP TECK MAU MADAM Khoo Geok Khim, "the Muar Widow" has stopped three of her daughters from going to school this year because she cannot afford to buy text books for them and pay for their school fees. "It is impossible to
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    • 156 2 PENANG, Wed. —The Penang Eurasian Association, today unanimously passed a resolution to fully support the Government's stand on the National Language Bill in accordance with the association's constitution. The motion was moved by the association's president. Mr. W.M. Sarr.son, at Its annual meeting held at
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    • 197 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong today called on the people to co-operate and support one another in building a peaceful and prosperous Malaysian society. A progressive nation like Malaysia needed its people to have a feeling of realisation and responsibility towards themselves,
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    • 33 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Burglars broke into the house of Enche Abdul Aziz, Inspector of Machinery, Ministry of Labour, at Jalan Selangor yesterday and took $2,000 worth of jewellery and $5O cash.
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    • 63 2 IPOH. Wed. Ong Neo. 73. died in the General Hospital yesterday after she was knocked down by a motor-cycle at the Hugh Low Street bridge on Monday evening. Another woman, Teng Mooi San. 74. also died in the Lumut Hospital following an accident at Puir Panjang
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    • 310 2 I£OH, Wed. The Mentii Besar, Perak, Dato Ahmad bm Said, has received further donations J or the Perak Flood Relief 'und:- Teachers and pupils. Sekolah Menengah Kebangaaan. Teluk Anson $42.50, UMNO Chawangan Perr.andu Kereta Sewa, Hilir Perak $25.00, Employees of State Store. PWD Perak,
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    • 469 2 KUCHING, Wed The Minister of COmfttufllC*' tion and Works, Dato Teo Kul Seng has announced that an eight-man team of port consultants and engineers hare arrived in Kuching to carfjr out investigations Into the feasibility of constructing additional port facilities at
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    • 79 2 PENANG, Wed. A new radio set, costing $2OO was presented as a Hari Raya Haji gift to the Muslim Community Club at the leper camp in Pulau Jerejak by the Malayan Leprosy Relief Asaociation, Penang branch, yesterday. The presentation wa a made by the
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    • 37 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The seven-member Montagnard delegation from South Vietnam left for home yesterday after a short visit to Malaysia. The group, led by Mr. Paul Nur, Special Commissioner for Montagnard Affairs. visit aborigine settlements.
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    • 77 2 Raja Saldatul Akmar binte Raja Haji Ahmad, wife of the State Secretary, Perak, Raja Mohhtar bin Raja Yaakob, presenting a cheque for 52.847.45 to the Mentri Besar, Dato Ahmad bin Said, for the Perak Flood Relief Fund. The amount represented donations from the
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    • 369 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The purchase of raw river water and re-selling of treated water from and to the Johore State Government have involved the Public Utilities Board in Singapore to the extent of 51,014.150. during the year, 1966. This sum of money
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    • 272 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. More than 5,000 lowergraded chickens in the Republic have been slaughtered during the past two days in a bid to prevent further drops in the prices of eggs. These chickens are purchased and slaughtered by the Agricultural Fund Action Committee—which
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    • 145 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The famous Chamber Orchestra of Tuebingen students will visit Singapore tomorrow and will play in aid of the blind at the German Club under the patronage of the German Ambassador. Baron Oswald von Richthofen. The German community and the members of the German
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    • 410 3  -  By PETER LOKE SINGAPORE, Wed. One of the interesting personalities among the Indonesian trade delegation now in Singapore >s that among its 24 members is one who is called Dr. Soekarno, an engineer. When the delegation arrived in Singapore on Sunday morning,
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    • 55 3 Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew waves back to crowds of Singapore students who turned up at the airport to greet him on arrival (March 20) to attend a seminar for Asian Socialist leaders. Accompanying Mr. Lee is Singapore's Minister of State for Culture, Mr. Lee
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    • 457 3  -  By MARTIN LIM SINGAPORE, Wed. Mr. John Cardenzana, Public Relations executive, and his fishing companion houseboy, Karim, returned to Singapore late last night after being missing for the last ten days. Mr. Cardenzana is the manager of Eric White Associates here. Speaking
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    • 189 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. A French mission of industrialists and bankers will arrive in Singapore on March 27 to look into investment possibilities and study the market for capital goods here. It Is sponsored by the Federation of French Industries (Consefl National du Patronat Francais)
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    • 162 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. A medical student of the University at Singapore, Mr. Ong Leon* Boon, has been chosen to participate in the Asian student leader project In the United States this year. He is scheduled to leave this week. Mr. Ong is President of
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    • 118 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Dale Carnegie Rock Chapter elected its Executive Committee for the year 1967 68 at their annual general meeting on March 16. They are. Mr. Charlie C. L. Low, President; Mr. William Ng and Mr. Chia Yee Kim, Vice-Presidents; Mr. Lim Soo Ann,
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    • 153 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malaysia will send a trade mission to the Philippines in the near future to reciprocate the two-day visit of the 15-member delegation from the Philippines Chambers of Com- merce nere. This was disclosed by the deputy leader of the delegation,
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    • 56 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. John Le Cain, presented High Commendation Certificates, Commendation Certificates and Valedictory Letters to 25 members of the Force at a presentation parade held at Thomson Road at 5 p.m. yesterday. Seven officers received High Commendation Certificates. 11 Commendation Certificates while
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    • 80 4 Thousands of Muslims yesterday celebrated Hari Raya Haji in Sinfapore. Mosques in the Republic were packed with Muslims offering prayers. The President, Enche Yusuf bin Ishak, and the Minister for Culture and Social Affairs, Enche Othman Wok. went for prayers at the Sultan Mosque in
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    • 123 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The sixth session of the F. A.O. Plant Protection Committee for South-east Asia and Pacific Region will be held here from March 27 to April 3. The member countries invited by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations to participate are
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    • 153 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Government will spend $1 million to improve the Siglap drainage system which involves about 615 acres north of Chang! Road. Through a system of subsidiary drains, the run-off from Kampong Kembangan, Kampong Pachitan, Kaki Bukit and part of Kampong Chai
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    • 207 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. How pineapples can be used in international diplomacy was explained to the Johore Legislative Assembly here yesterday. Speaking during the committee session on this year's expenditure of $4 5.234.010. the Alliance member for Pontian Dalam. Enche Abdullah Suddin, said: "Malaysian
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    • 319 4 —Assembly told JOHORE BAHRU, Wed- Rats have overlapped the human population in Johore, the Alliance-con-trolled State Legislative Assembly was told here yesterday. The assembly was also told how the rats have become familiar with traffic regulations and adhered strictly to them. This statement by
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    • 28 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Singapore International Chamber of Commerce will hold their annual general meeting tomorrow (March 23) at the Auction Room, Denmark House, at 2.30 pan.
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    • 146 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. A 10-lecture course on "Business Organisation and Management," organise*] by the Singapore Institute of Management will start at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce on April 6, from 7.39 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. The lecture will be conducted in Chinese on Thursday Th« fee
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    • 40 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Two teachers. Aliaa Ja'afar, 29. and Mohd. Karim. 25, were killed when the motorcycle they were riding On was involved in a collision with a bus along 11th rtiile, Jalan Puthong, two days ■fo.
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    • 41 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Rotary Club of Singapore will elect new office beartrs for the current Rotary Year at their weekly luncheon meeting on March 29. The speaker will be RotariAn J.A.M. Ede whose talk will be "Singapore—A Horticultural Desert?"
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    • 31 4 SINGAPORE. Wed Mr. Oon Guan Ek, D.C. (Chicago) Chiropractor and Med Herbalist, will give a talk on "Nature Curt" At the Theosophicil sdcitty pttmiMt at ft. Ctirftfcill Road. tortt6rrow.
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    • 158 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. Poetry lovers will be able to see "Poetry Festival '67" by Centre 65 at the Cultural Centre on March 30, 31, and April 1 from 8.30 pm with a special performance for schools at 7.30 p. m on Mar. 29th. The poetry
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    • 65 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. Mr. Thong Foong Leong xai elected President of the Cornmonwealth Close 16-storey Building Residents' Association recently. The association also e'ect. Ed Mr. Wong Sene Wah, Vice-President: Mr. T a y Cheow Chai. Hon. SecretaryMr. Ong Geok Teng. Hon! Asst. Secretary; Mr. Ronnie Hoo, Hon.
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    • 545 10  -  $142 MIL. BATANG PADANG HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME NEARING COMPLETION TAPAH, Wed. By Ken Stanley After three years of bock-breaking and bone aching labour blasting, tunnelling and excavating the $142 million Batang Padang hydro-electric scheme has taken shape and is expected to be ready by the end
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    • 208 10 KUCHING, Wed. The Commander of the Cadet Training unit of the Thai Navy Rear-Admiral Smut Shanawin, who is now here said today, that it would be a good idea if Malaysia and Thailand could have joint naval operations in their waters to
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    • 72 10 KUCHING. Wed. The Minister for Development and Forestry. Enche Abdul Taib Mahmud has urged Bumiputras of Sarawak to follow the example of the hard-working Bugis settlers who were able to turn primeval forests into flourishing plantations. "The Bugis peoples were ready to leave their homes, full
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    • 294 10 KUALA LUMPUR. WedAs a student, young artist Lee Kian Seng fought and won his first battle in life when he overcame the prejudices of his family against artists. His father, like any ordinary father in this country, had long prepared his
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    • 392 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The National Union of Teachers will seriously consider intensifying its industrial action as the Government's "delaying tactics" over the claims of teachers leaves it "no choice". In a press statement, NUT General Secretary Mr. John Gurusamy, today called upon all teacher
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    • 251 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed It will be a happy Easter vacation for Malaysians. With confrontation a thing of the past and prospects of a more buoyant economy, fancies can turn to pleasure, fun. Indications are that Malaysians will go to the sea or up mountain
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    • 93 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— The Mentri Besar Dato Haji Othman Saat has announced that the Federal Government has formed a committee to review and study Government departments in West Malaysia so as to find whether they were over-staffed or under-staffed. The committee is headed by Enche
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    • 110 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Permanent Secretary. Prime Minister's Department, Tan Sri Abdul Jamil bin Abdul Rais, will open the first seminar on Land and District Administration to be held from April 3 to 5 at the Selangor State Legislative Council chambers The purpose of this seminar
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    • 81 10 KUALA LUMPUR Wed, The altertness of a maidservant prevented two youths, armed with daggers from ransacking her employer's house at Talan Pekililing yesterday. The maidservant was taken 'prisoner' by the two youths when they entered the house, but she managed to free herself and slip away
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    • 144 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Six officers and two armv sergeants from the Malaysian Artillery Regiment have been selected to attend a two and a half month course at the School of Artillery, Manly. New South Wales in Australia. The officer, Second Lieutenants Chin Kai
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    • 214 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. An expert in employment service of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Mr. Maurice J. O'Connell, has arrived here. Mr O'Connell, who will serve here for an initial period of one year under the United Nations Develpoment
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    • 169 13 Rotary International President, Rotarian L. Evans together with his wife Rotary Ann Mrs. Evans, who is on a visit to Penang paid a courtesy call on The Governor of Penang, Raja Tun Uda Al-Haj bin Raja Muhammad, recently. Picture shows Rotarian L.Evans being introduced to The Governor of Penang, during
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    • 209 13 PENANG, Wed. The giant "Industrial Housing Project," the first of its kind undertaken by the Central Government at Rifle Range is expected to be completed in 1969. This $2O million scheme will involve the construction of almost 4,000 units of
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    • 89 13 SITIAWAN. Wed. Two men. one armed with a revolver, waylaid a sundry shopkeeper, Seah Tong Tia. at Bruas Road last night, and robbed him of $7OO. Seah was returning home to Kampong Koh on his motor-cycle when reaching 56i mile Bruas Road, he was overtaken
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    • 747 13  -  BY PERCY JOSEPH KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The saying that the things that men do, the women do after them, teems to have been the pattern of things in the past But when ft comes to accepting a challenge or picking up the gauntlet,
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    • 434 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The rich and developed countries were today urged by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, to adopt a more realistic attitude and make good their promises to help the developing countries achieve economic growth. Bpeaklng before
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    • 29 13 KUCHING, Wed.— Another adult education class, the sixth this year, has been opened at Kampong Pangkalan Nawa. at Limbang. Fifth Division, by Orang Kaya Yassau Anak Manggie
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    • 40 13 HOUR DELAY KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Malayan Railway Administration announces that on Saturday, the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore Express which leaves Kuala Lumper at 8.30 a.m. will on that day only leave at 9.00 a.m. and arrive Singapore a t 4.52 p.m.
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    • 262 4 Is Your at Here lies not my 300 taels of silver Long ego. Farmer Chang San had saved up a small fortune of 300 "lath" of silver and was soon in a dilemma as how to conceal h. After much fruitless thought, he follow ed the age-old idea of burying
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    • 42 4 STORE DIARY 7.45 p.m. Victoria Theatre; "Nora", stage play by the Singapore Amateur Players. 7.30 p m. Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture: RAF Seletar Quarters; Jalan Sagu, Chinese Temple: Kampong Chia Keng, Yio Chu Kang Road; and Tuas Village.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 457 5 I ndonesian on way: Co continues in Manila JAKARTA, Wed. (Agencies) An Indonesian observer team has left North Borneo to observe the referendum slated to be held in Malaysian Sabah and Sarawak next month, the official Antara News Agency said today. The agency quoted Brig. Gen. A. Satari,
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    • 68 5 Ratna Sari Dewi, Indonesian President Sukarno's Japanese wife, coaxes her 2-week-old daughter, "Kartika Sari (Essence of the Star)" in her private suite at the Keio University Hospital in Tokyo on March 18. For first time since she grave birth to a daughter by a caesarean operation on March 7, Dewi
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    • 230 5 JAKARTA. Wed. (AP) Ousted President Sukarno has divorced his fourth official wife, a 20-year-old Central Javanese girl, it was disclosed on Wednesday. The girl. Haryati, gave newsmen a photocopy of Sukarno's letter to her on Jan. 20 declaring he divorced her. "My divorcing you
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    • 58 5 CANBERRA. Wed, (Reuter) The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt, said today he would confer with President Johnson in Washington and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in London during June. Mr. Holt told a Press conference that the U.S. President had invited him to stop in Washington from
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    • 416 5 PANAMA CITY, Wed. (Reuter) Panama's soaring crime rate has now reached a point at which victims of burglars and robbers despair of recovering their losses and do not even trouble to report the crime. They feel that the chance of recovery through detectives of the
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    • 27 5 LONDON, Wed. (AFP) NATO is to have a <£loo Million Early Warning System stretching from Norway to Turkey, it was announced here yesterday.
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    • 287 5 MANILA, Wed. (Reuter) President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines has stressed the need for a stronger South-east Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) in the face of increasing Communist threats in South-east Asia. The President in a speech read by Defence Secretary Ernesto Mata at the
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    • 210 5 MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Wed. (UPI) A Roman Catholic priest has revealed he plans to marry a former Catholic nun next Saturday in a ceremony conducted by a Lutheran minister. The Rev. Edmund Kurth 35, a slight, balding, bespectacled member of the Pallotine Fathers, applied for a
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    • 76 5 CANBERRA, Wed. (AFP> Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt today described his forthcoming trip to Asia as "a further process in my education of countriea that are likely to loom larger in Australia's future." Mr. Holt leaves on March 28 for official visits to Singapore. Laos, Cambodia,
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    • 566 6 Military victory... not in our lifetime' says Schlesinger WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI).— In a rare public statement Mr. Harry S. Truman has called the nation to rally round President Johnson on his Vietnam policy. The former president asked the nation not to "throw away gains
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    • 313 6 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) Following is the text of President Johnson's address yesterday upon his arrival from the Guam conference: "As I said upon my departure from Guam, we discussed seven of our major concerns at our meeting there. **First. the military progress of the war. both in
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    • 92 6 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) The standard of No. 28 Squadron. Royal Air Force, which was disbanded In January In Hong Kong aftei long servlee in the Far East, will be "laid up" at a ceremony at the RAF Church of St. Clement Danes In London
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    • 353 6 UNITED NATIONS. Wed. (AP),—U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg declared yesterday that apartheid the racial segregation policy of South Africa constituted one of the greatest offences against human rights existing in the world. Mr. Goldberg made the statement in a speech on
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    • 109 6 SYDNEY, Wed. Renter Ships between Sydney and Wellington, New Zealand, have been warned to keep clear of what Is believed to be an underwater volcanic disturbance 120 miles South-East of here. A commercial aircraft flying the Tasman sea yesterday ha s reported signs of a
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    • 153 6 COLOMBO. Wed. (Reuter) A court here yesterday awarded Ceylonese Minister of State Mr. J.R. Jayewardene damages totalling 100.000 'rupees (about £7.500) against a Trotskyist newspaper. Mr Jayewardene brought the case against the printers and publishers of Jana Dina (Peoples Daily) after an article in the newspaper
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    • 177 6 SAIGON, Wed (I Pi) The South Vietnam resort city of Vung Tau was placed "off-limits" to all "non-offi. cial foreigners" because rtf an outbreak of bubonic pfc. gue that already has cost two lives. U.S. officials said. The restrictions were ordered by the Mayor of Vung Tau. a
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    • 441 6 JAKARTA, Wed. (UPI). —Dr. Sukarno's "tactful dismissal" by congress is being taken calmly in East Java, long considered the strongest bulwark of proSukarno sentiment according to an army newspaper. The paper "War news" said the only sign of dissatisfaction in Surabaya, the province's
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    • 214 6 PORTAGE, Wisconsin. Wed. (UPI) Thieves burned open a safe and stole $lOO from an implement company over the weekend. They used the firm's acetelyne torch. CARMEL. California. Wed. (UPI) Girls wearing high heels better watch their step in Carmel. City officials are enforcing a statute prohibiting
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    • 282 6 DETROIT. Wed. (UPI) Jack Ruby's heirs have agreed to give the pistol with which he killed Lee Karvey Oswald to the National Archive* in Washington. Earl Ruby, brother of Jack and newly-named executor of the will, said the National Archives also would be
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    • 137 6 BEIRUT, Wed (AFP) UAR President Oamal Abdel Nasser castigated the Americans as "very rich, very strong and very stupid." in an Interview published In the Beirut newspaper "A 1 Chaab." President Nasser said that Americans do not know what is going on around them. "They are
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    • 253 7 BANGKOK, Wed. (AP) A Bangkok paper said today the Thai cabinet yesterday decided to allow American Air Force 852 bombers to use Utapao airbase at Sattahip in South Thailand. The daily English Language newspaper Bangkok pos t said an announcement
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    • 152 7 CAPE KENNEDY. Florida, Wed. (AP) A new Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSA) satellite is to be launched here tonight to provide a second commercial space communications link "between North America and Europe. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to launch the satellite aboard a Delta rocket
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    • 162 7 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Scotland Yard detectives pressed on the search for 26 snakes, including a deadly 3s-foot Gabon viper and seven poisonous adders, which were stolen from London Zoo. There was little help from the public in the search. Police said only two calls have
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    • 184 7 LOS ANGELES. Wed (UPI) A young man and his wife, natives of Thailand. will be given a certificate of merit on Monday by District Attorney Evelle Younger for helping an elderly woman who was knocked down by three juvenile purse-snatchers. Decha Sorasithi. 25, and his wife,
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    • 86 7 Former Indonesian President Sukarno (right) and his second wife (centre) visit their new house which is now under construction near Bogor, Indonesia. Thi s picture was taken after he was stripped off his all nowers as president by MPRS (the Indonesian Peoole's Consultative
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    • 670 7 BONN, Wed. (AFP).— Chancellor Kurt-Georg Kiesinger is using his Easter holiday to prepare the ground for a two-pronged foreign policy offensive by West Germany Westwards and Eastwards, observers said here yesterday. His first aim, according to his entourage, will be to improve ties with the
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    • 236 7 LUSAKA. Zambia. Wed. (AP) Zambia has refused to sign an agreement with Britain guaranteeing the position of British officers seconded to Zambia's defence forces. This was disclosed yesterday by President Kenneth Kaunda when he addressed officers at the military training school at Ndola,
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    • 240 7 PARIS, Wed. (AFP). Thousands of strikers and locked-out workers demonstrated at Lyons and St. Nazaire yesterday to press wage claims as social un1 rest mounted in France. In the big industrial area of Lyons 8.000 to 10,000 workers paraded through the streets at the
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    • 74 7 SEOUL Wed. (Reuter) A police officer killed his wife and three children with a pistol and then shot himself in a murder-suicide pact in a taxi cab near Chonan, 50 miles South of Seoul, it was reported today. Patrolman Keh-Shik Choe, aged 32, committed the crime in
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    • 166 7 Speck trial PEORIA. Illinois. Wed. (AP) Twenty jury prospects were screened yesterday in the Richard Speck murder trial, but efforts to seat the third and last July panel were unsuccessful. Three men retained at the end of Monday's session were excused by Gerald Getty, who
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    • 55 7 SYDNEY. Wed. (Reuter)— The township of Coraki, about 500 miles north of here, was isolated by floods yesterday and roads in the area may not not be open for several days. Water up to 10 feet deep has formed a lake seven miles wide along on
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    • 166 7 MADRID, Wed. (AFP) Personal secretary of Princess Maria Beatrice de Savoye daughter of ex-King Umberto of Italy today said the Princess was in "excellent health" and at the moment was travelling abroad. The secretary who refused to be identified denied reports that the princess had been
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    • 102 7 PARIS. Wed.—At least 11 people were killed and 22 wounded in a demonstration, against the result of Sunday's referendum in which French Somaliland voted to continue its ties with France. PEKING, Wed.—China has protested strongly to Britain about visits by United States warships to Hong Kong, and
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    • 76 6 1 It Hotly pukoucd ti rmutH asbvts, napoleon and hum fbona CRASH LANOnta TO BSCApe MIH THE VITAL MICROFILM PLANS. M/T.. ts 3 as s rt« !tfc T» i tr AM J r jy 1 f.'-rV A *'h Y'J ft Vi f. 1 va r i*! T>--v i --V 1
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  • 833 7  -  'Federation must come' By William Purves WELLINGTON. New Zealand, Wed. (Reuter) The recent visit to New Zealand by Mr. Harold Holt. Australia's Prime Minister may mark the start of an era of closer relations between the two countries. The visit, the first
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    • 26 7 1I BBBP p9JHNPW SH HkPii IISS \b LOADS OF SEEDS. 12 CARRfrfeoF KA7U&\ E<2kSS«.. #;L bjr Johnny hart ..THIS. ISNT A LIST; rfs a suicide Noifc!
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  • 789 8 THE era when the teaching profession was known as a noble profession has passed away. In tune with these days of financial predilections, teachers are more concerned with what they can get out of their profession than what they can put in. The days, when Malaysians could
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  • 1816 8  -  By: SALIM AHSAN Mohammad Ayub Khan's rule has been the longest stretch of stable and fruitful government Pakistan has seen. It is also the first that has been manifestly successful. The secret of it is the new (1962) Constitution, whose corner-stone is the system of basic democracies.
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  • 1501 8 fPHE following is a brief outline of the newly approved projects, showing the amount earmarked by the United Nations Development Programme. The figure in parenthesis is the dollar equivalent of the Government contributions. In each case, the name of the Executing Agency is
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 202 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. United Industrial Paper irinf Co. Limited f ab.:.-hcd in Singapore by y.-sui and Hong Leong Company has proven sucessful in the two and a half years since it began fulls"a.6 operations. As its paper bag joint vent ;r in Singapore and Malayc
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    • 136 9 NEW YORK. Wed. (AP) The Stock Market continued to pull back Irregularly in moderately active trading early yesterday. Most losses were fractional as the list resumed an adjustment from the super-heated rise of Friday when the market rose on the second highest volume in history. Auto
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    • 109 9 MEXICO CITY, Wed. (-PI) A four-nation market surve> meeting confided here yesterday that r;n America is losing $2O billion (B) a year because high prices of manufactured goods and low prices 01 raw materials. r Among those at the gathe°f Marketing Technique ''fpssionals were Mr. Luis
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    • 231 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. Qantas' .first Boeing 707/1 338 C with convertible passenger/cargo cabin arrived In Bydney recently on its delivery flight from the Boeing Company in Seattle. The new aircraft is VH-EBT, "City of Bendigo". It is the first of five of the big Boeing 707s to
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    • 170 9 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) A sharp reduction in Ghanaian harvesting caused the U.S. Agriculture Department to revise downward yesterday its estimates of world cocoa bean production for the current crop year ending Sept. 30. The Department said the 1966-67 crop is now estimated at 1,327,000 metric
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    • 103 9 KARACHI, PAKISTAN, Wed. (AP) Thailand and Pakistan signed a bilateral air agreement here yesterday allowing Thai Airways and Pakistan International Airlines to extend their services to the other country. PIA will extend its Lon-don-Dacca service to Bangkok from April 1 while Thai Airways will extend its
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    • 194 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. Bauxite handling facilities shipped to Australia last July from Japan have gone into operation sueessfully. The bauxite handling facilities, consisting of a stacker and a ship loader, were supplied by Hitachi, Ltd. for Common Wealth Aluminum Corporation Ltd. of Australia (COMALCO). The
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    • 129 9 BANGKOK, Wed. (UPI)— The influential Bangkok Bank charged today that Thailand's industrial investment promotion act is doing the local economy no good and may be harming it. The Bank,-in the latest issue of its monthly review, said that although the investment act has brought
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    • 60 9 HONG KONG, Wed. (Reuter) China and Cuba today signed a trade protocol for 1967 in Peking The New China News agency reported tonight. Under the protocol China will supply Cuba with rice, soyabeans, lard, canned pork, cloth, rolled steel, machinery, instruments, consumer goods, chemical products and medicine
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    • 137 9 MELBOURNE. Australia. Wed. (UPI) British Commonwealth Relations Secretary, Mr. Herbert Bowden has said British investment in Australia "has not stopped, just slowed down during the squeeze." He said investment would accelerate again once Britain has solved its economic problems. The Commonwealth Secretary flew to Tasmania yesterday
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    • 121 9 ROTTERDAM. Wed. (UPI) Two high officials of the Unilever industrial concern will leave for Indonesia shortly to bring the firms factories there up to date. Dr. K. H. Veldhuis, present technical Head of Unilever factories in West Germany, will be accompanied by the Chairman of
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    • 65 9 TOKYO, Wed. (AP) Nichimen Company of Japan announced it has signed a contract with the Unitility Enterprise Company of the Philippines to erect a paperproducing plant on Cebu isIt said It has applied to the Japanese government for export approval for the contract. The plant will
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    • 75 9 B 4 N KOK Wed (UPI) n,. 20 -man French trade EE? 11 has arrived U P contacts made naturalHHel e A* l3ll Interlast n a! Trade Falr h ere «st December. A he mission, led by Mr. Emmanuel Mayolle, ViceChairman of t,he Federation of French
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    • 301 9 LONDON, Wed. Britain earned a surplus of £l2l million on current and long-term capital transactions in the fourth quarter of last year by far the best result since 1959. i The deficit in 1966 as a whole, at £lB9 million was just over
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    • 104 9 KARACHI, Pakistan. Wed. (AP) A Japanese trade promotion delegation has submitted its preliminary report to Pakistan suggesting ways and means for stepping up Pakistani exports tj Japan to remove the trade imbalance. The delegation, led by, Mr. Matsujiro Ikeda, held detailed discussions with government and
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    • 154 9 GENEVA, Wed. (UPI) Another round of talks aimed at getting a new international sugar agreement ended inconclusively recently. This time it was the Kennedy round of trade negotiations which prevented any basic progress being made on the sugar problem. The European Economic Community, according to
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    • 138 9 HONG KONG. Wed. (AFP) China's exports to Hong Kong have dropped since the beginning of the year, as banks, factories and commercial undertakings became involved in the Cultural Revolution. trade sources reported today. According to official figures, the value of imports from China in January
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    • 885 9 AIR MOVEMENTS S'PORE, K. LUMPUR ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 7.05 a.m. Airline MSA 029 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MSA 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 9.20 a.m. Airline GIA 982 from Jakarta. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MBA 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.00 a.m. Airline MSA 451 from
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    • 143 9 WASHINGTON, Wed. (AP). Corpoiations earned record profits for the sth consecutive year in 1966, the U.S. Department of Commerce confirmed last night, but the first half of the year was a little better than the second, r The Department's office of Business Economics figured the after-tax
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    • 144 9 JAKARTA, Wed. (AP)— A Chamber of Commerce was formed between Indonesia and Malaysia to speed up trade between the two countries, the official news agency Antara reported. Indonesia ceased its trade with Malaysia when ousted President Sukarno declared confrontation against it four years ago. Trade relations
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    • 127 9 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPIV Hong Kong grown tea will soon make its appearance in the consumer market in the United States. An agreement was concluded recently between the U.S. Treasury and the Hong Kong Department of Commerce and Industry, permitting the import of Hong Kong
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    • 78 9 SEOUL, Wed. (Reuter) South Korea's third fertiliser plant, a $44,200,000 joint U.S. South Korea venture, was dedicated today at the Ulsan Industrial Centre, near Pusan, after 20 months of building. The U.S. agency for international aid provided $24, 200,000 million as a soft loan, and the Korean
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    • 24 9 HONG KONG. Wed (UPI) Money Quotations: HK55.*****/5.7475 per US dollar for cash. HK$ 15.99 per pound sterling. HK5263.25 per tad (old.
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  • PARTS BURNING? FEATURE
    • 500 11 'IS PARIS BURNING?'... Where —Paris is the hero itself gay Paris, blossoms a gripping film IS PARIS BURNING? A Paramount Pictures Seven Arts-Ray Stark presentation, it has rocked London, shocked Berlin, stunned Paris, astounded Tokyo, and now it is "biasing" in Singapore.
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    • 221 11 Morandat JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO Monod CHARLES BOYER Francoise La be ..LESLIE CARON Henri Karcher ..JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL G.I. in Tank GEORGE CHAKIRIS Jacques Chaban-Delmas ALAIN DEL ON Patton KIRK DOUGLAS Bradley GLENN FORD Von Choltitz GERT FROBE Bizien YVES MONT AND Warren ANTHONY PERKINS Cafe proprietress SIMONE SIGNORET Sibert ROBERT
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 223 11 RECORDS THE WORLD'S BEST'- SELLING RECORDS Lawrence Welk and Johnny Hodge Rhythm and Blues-Steve Allen Terry Gibbs Memories-Pat Boone Alfie-Billy Vaughn (Dr. Zhivago) Original Guitar Boogie-Arthur Smith The Golden Millions-Lawrence Welk The Sensational Mike Minor Raggin' The Hits-Johnny Maddox When I was Young-Eddie Fisher My 10th Anniversary With Dot Records-Pat
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    • 84 11 Ask any Frenchman (and whc gets mere cut cf life?) why "White Label" Is the tcast cf France! In Montmartre's shadow, along the Champs Elys£e, ask a Frenchman about "Whit* Label" Scotch Whisky. He'll tell you about its clean, masculine taste—and its stimulating strength. No wonder young-in-heart Frenchmen, of all
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
    • 223 12 EVERYONE has an ambition. Some like to be nurses, doctors, engineers, lawyers, or teachers or. at least someone In the world. I am sure you, like any other person, have an ambition too. I once had an ambition. My one and only dream was to become
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    • 272 12 I AM a lion cub of a few days old. There are five of us and I am the youngest. My parents love me very much. In the day my father goes into the forest to find food for the family. My mother stays in the
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    • 264 12 GERARD and Dennis, two unfortunate hunters, were ascending madly up two separate trees. The angry mother bear looked at them and snarled evilly. She left the scarlet carcass of her cub and charged towards the tree, where e trembling Gerard was standing on a weak bough. Gerard
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    • 368 12 "MORE PEOPLE ARE KILLED" the headlines of newspapers report daily. A day never passes without some incident of deaths incurred by war. Vietnam in particular. We know that war is bad, and yet it is still allowed to prevail why? Human beings first Invented weapons to hunt
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    • 385 12 FLOWERS ARE fine ornaments as jewellery is to any pretty girl. They are far cheaper than gold. Flowers are the most beautiful things that decorate places of interest and make the place pleasant to lire in. They are like sunlight that shines
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    • 241 12 I WAS born in a tailor's shop. I was very dirty wheja I reached my first master. He send me straight to a washerman. The washerman did not use any bleaching powder or caustic soda for cleaning the clothes brought to him. He put
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    • 404 12 IT was hardly down when I suddenly sat up with a surprise. Someone was crying and it sounded like a baby. I looked around and saw with surprise that I was not in my bedroom. Everything was strange thick jungle was on all
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    • 306 12 AT NIGHT, in the town of Kuala Lumpur, I can see neon lights shining, gleaning and glittering like diamonds In the dark, making It glamorous and Inviting. During the day, I find the town crowded with people and customers, purchasing and bargaining for goods,
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    • 329 12 MALAYA Is a country which Is still considered backward regions of undeveloped lands. Here local beliefs and superstitions still play a part in the everyday life of the people, especially those living in the rural areas. These people believe in the existence of ghosts
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 147 12 NEW ESSAY CONTEST FOR THOSE WHO ARE 14 AND UNDER THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears la this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 176 13 f SHAW ORGANISATION LIDO Phone *****1 NOW BHOWINO —No Free Ltot Ua m 1 IS. 4.00. (1.30 9.15 p.m. Zero Mo-le! Phil Silvers A Funny Thine Happened On The WaT Tn The Forum' Color (UAi CAPITOL Phone *****1 N'OW SHOWINO —No Free Li»t U am. 1.45. 4.00. 6.30 9.30 p.m.
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    • 246 13 lE3EE3II ORGANISATION ''!■«#<. ORCHARD 321b 1 8.1 *T .4 NOW showing: Daily S Shews Show Starts: 1 no, B.M l.»ui. 'Grand Prix' Start*: 1.15. 8.15. |.W Sun. Holidays Extra Show At 9.30 am. Admission: 11.50. 12 M 84,00 IN M PER CINERAMA "GRAND PRIX" James Garner Era Marie Saint Metrocolor
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  • SUNSPORT
  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 538 14 Classified Ad FOR HIRE JO Words $5/- (MinimumJ RENT-A-CAR, Ring Everflne *****, Airconditioned Cars from $23. daily. $154. weekly, Non-airconditioned from $2O. daily, $lO5. weekly. Free Mileage. PUBLIC APPOINTMENT BINGAPORE GOVERNMENT VACANCY Applications are invited from Singapore/Malaysian citizens:Appointment: MANAGER, Toa Payoh Sewage Treatment Works. Salary: $680x36A-750/785x 35A-1.030 p.m. Probation: 3
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    • 666 14 NOTICE CHAPTER 195 (Pawnbrokers) Unredeemed Pledged Goods and Jewellery from the following Pawnbrokers' Shops. Lam Joon Siong (Chop Sem Foh), 135 New Bridge Road; Ho Yan Kee (Chop Heng Fatt) Yong Kee, 255 South Bridge Road; Seow Kian (Nam Cheong Pawnshop Ltd.), 287 South Bridge Road; Lam Joo Onn (Chop
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    • 75 14 NOTICE Take notice that the Annual General Meeting of the People's Progressive Party of Malaya will be held on Sunday, the 2nd April, 1967 at 10.00 a.m. at the Jubilee Dance Hall, Brewster Road, Ipoh. Only members may attend. Current membership cards must be produced at entrance. Agenda: 1. MINUTES
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    • 135 14 I V". m CLASSIFIED x, :V x 23-B, CANTON MINT ROAO. SINCAPORI X TILIPHONIS 9M05/7. ANNOUNCEMENTS. MARRIACES. BIRTHS. DEATHS. ENCACEMENTS. PERSONAL. IN MEMORIAM ETC. VEHICLES FOR SALE. SITUATIONS VACANT. ACCOMMODATION VACANT. FOR SALE. WANTED KTC. $lO |ss FOR A MINIMUM OF TWENTY WORDS EACH ADDITION At WORD SO CENTS FOR
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 60 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 11.32 a.m. (6.4 ft.); 11.20 pm. (7.4 ft.). Port Swettenham: 3.05 a.m. (12.9 ft); 3.47 P« (13.9 ft.). Port Dickson: 4.35 a.m. (7.4 ft.); 4.45 p.m. (7.4 ft.). Singapore: 8.15 a.m. (8 ft.); 10.14 p.m. (8 ft). Sedili Kechil: 5.39 a.m. (5.5 ft.); 8.39 p.m. (7
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