Eastern Sun, 4 April 1967

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  • 25 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION TV Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 253 Tuesday. 4 April 1967. MC(P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 818 1  -  -By CHAN KAM YAU Kuala Lumpur, Mon. LEADING unions in Malaysia evening their weig hind the 10,000 striking mem* be r so National of Teache declaring the teache struggle "is now a struggle of all work" More than 3,000 people who turnecf up at a mass
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  • 281 1 DARWIN, Australia, Mon. (UPI). A middleaged French couple were rescued from the Timor Sea north of Australia on Saturday after spending two months on a deserted island and for days adrift on a waterlogged raft. When found by a coastal vessel. Captain Henri Bourdens,
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  • 80 1 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. More than 25 people including at least two top leaders of the Labour Party here were arrested under the Internal Security Act tonight They were among more than 300 who demonstrated along the streets of Johore Bahru carryins "antiGovernment" and antiAmerican placards. Riot policemen were
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  • 150 1 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI)— North Vietnam's official newspaper, Nhan Dan. charged today that United Nations Secretary General U Thant's latest peace proposal "constitutes in itself an encouragement to the U.S. aggressors In Vietnam." The Hanoi daily said Thant's proposal for a prenegotiation standstill truce between the Communists
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  • 246 1 PENANG, Mon. The English language, recognised as an international language, will be the second language in schools in the country. This was stated by the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, when he opened the Sekolah Abdullah Munshi in Jalan Caunter Hall here today.
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  • 216 1 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Philippines ConsulGeneral in Singapore, Mr. Mariano R. Logarta, who set off a diplomatic rumpus by writing a controversial letter to a local newspaper was today ordered to take "the first available plane home". An Associated Press report from Manila said a Foreign Office spokesman
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 376 2 COUNTRY NEEDS NEW KIND OF ADMINISTRATORS TAN SRI JAMIL KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Economic and Social Development in Malaysia now require a new kind of administrator! as well as administrative organisation, said Tan Sri Jamil Rais, Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister's department today. i A re-examination of the present administrative structure
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    • 90 2 IPOH, Mon. Silver cups and trophies worth $8.(500 were stolen from the Perak Turf Club here, the Magistrate. Enche Abdul Hamid bin Yunos. was told today. Ibrahim bin Ahmad. 2«. Cbet bin Ismail. 19. and Wah Shee Seng. 10, pleaded guilty to stealing the trophies
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    • 86 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Fifteen official observer! from Ave countries Ceylon, India, Indonesia. Japan and Thailand who have been invited by the Malaysian Government to witness the general elections in Sabah. paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Enche Senu bin
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    • 151 2 KUANTAN. Mon. The advance party of the Royal Malaysian Air Force strike base in Kuantan arrived here today. The party, consisting .of administrative, technical and supply staff was led by squadron leader Abdul Ajziz bin Haji Ismail, the Officer Command i n g Administrative Wing.
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    • 225 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Moo. The timber exoort industry in West Malaysia witt come to a standstill unless there is farsightedness on the part of the Government in dealing with the sawmillers, loggers and exporters. This warning is given in; the latest issue of "Forest Employees." official
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    • 113 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Five officers of the Malaysian Armed Forces have 1 been selected to attend a three-month senior foreign. > officer intelligence course at athe United States Army Intelligence School, Fort Holabird, Maryland in America. The course will begin on J Friday.
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    • 91 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Director of Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka. Syed Nasir bin Ismail, said today the Dewan was not responsible for translating the laws of the country into the National Language. The translation of the law as well as
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    • 244 2 MALACCA. Mon. The Defence Counsel suggested in the High Court here today that the Minister of Finance. Mr. Tan Siew Sin," is a miserly and tight-fisted man." Mr. Karam Singh was defending Inche Hasnul bin Abdul Hadi, a detainee and former President of
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    • 178 2 r¥o, Malaysian journalists, Mr. Mum Scully (centre)* and Mr. Jeffrey Francis, left Kuala .Lumpur. on Sunday to join the East Asia and Pacific Journalist tour of the United States, sponsored Jointly by the U.S. Departments of State and Defence and Information Agency. The group visit began
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    • 160 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Guinness Malaysia Limited has announced the appointment of the Rt. Honourable the Viscount Boyd of Merton, P.C. C.H. as its new chairman. Lord Boyd, formerly Mr. A. T. Lennox-Boyd, who recently retired from the position of managing director of Arthur Guinness
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    • 58 2 MALACCA. Mon. A lightning procession by 10 people including 10 women was staged here this mornprocession started from the New Market and went along Bunga Raja Road. However, on seeing the police at the Riverside Circus, they quickly dispersed. The demonstrators were seen
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    • 69 2 RAISE PADI PRODUCTION MINISTER IPOH, Mon. —The Minister of Agriculture and Co-opera-tives. Tuan Haji Mohamed Ghazali bin Haji Jawi today called on padi planters to increase their production a nd reach self-sufficiency in rice. Speaking at Kampong Bukit Nangka near Lenggong, the Minister said Malaysia produced between 75 to 80
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    • 481 2 Wanted men who can make quick decisions Khaw TANAH RATA, Mon. Malaysia, as a young nation, needs men who can analyse problems, make quick decisions and produce re- suits. This was said by the Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Khaw Kai Boh, at the inauguration of the ESSOsponsored
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    • 191 2 IPOH. Mon. Two se. parate agreements one csalary schemes and the other on conditions of g e vice, benefiting 14.000 nual workers in 60 Euro.* pean-managed tin mines n West Malaysia, were signed today at the State? of Ma. laya Chamber of Mines
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    • 387 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman will lay the foundation stone of the $49 million new Kuala Kumpur General Hospital complex on Friday. Construction of the whole complex is being carried out in four phases at the site
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    • 125 2 JOHORE. BAHRU. Moil The co-operative movement had been misused by a large section of the people, the Mentri Besar. Dato Haji Mohamed Sa'at said to ay He was speaking at the progress exhibition today n the west coast town of o®" nut 63 miles from
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    • 67 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Mwj. Teachers in several in the State down-tool** again today. They are members of National Union of Teachers. At the Johore Eng College. 32 teachers. mosi£ graduates, went on a lig^ l ing strike this morning The striking teachers pitched placards in f
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    • NUT chief: No turning back now
      • 1766 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The ministrikes by the National Union of Teachers entered its eighth day today with almost every school in every town m West Malaysia being affected by ir. The NUT's General Secretary. Mr. John Gurusamy today described its industrial action as "the road
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      • 441 3 KI'ALA LUMPUR, Mon. Educationist Mr. Teerath Ram today appealed to the government and the National Union of Teachers to climb down from their adamant attitude in strike crisis. The strike, he said, was not doing anyone any good and was having a very demoralising influence
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      • 147 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Hundreds of teachers and sympathisers went to the Residency to appeal to the Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, to-intervene in the present dispute between the National Union of Teachers and the Ministry of Education. This was after an on-the-spur-of-t he-moment resolution adopted after a
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      • 162 3 Malacca. Mon. The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak, said here today that the teachers. by their strike action, was injuring the children's education. Tun Razak felt the teachers should instead accept the newly appointed Salaries Commission and call off their strike. The teachers'
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      • 60 3 KL ALA LUMPUR, MOB. Latest figures of the teachers' strike situation riven bv the Ministry of Education: STATES Schools Teachers on Strike Selangor 139 1753 Negri Sembilan 32 371 Malacca 43 540 Johore 10 197 Pahang 16 120 Trengganu 6 67 Kelantan 3 19 Perils 9
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      • 228 3 PENANG, Mon. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, today urged teachers to co-operate with the Salaries Commission for smooth and quicker results. He said this when asked whether he would step into the teachers' dispute with tne Ministry of Education and find a solution for
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    • 220 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. Three people died in three separate incidents yesterday, according to a Police spokesman. Of these, one was a labourer who fell from a height of 80 feet, another one was found hanging in a house at Cheng Cheok Street, while the third,
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    • 430 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. A four-member Czechoslovakia!) trade mission, headed by Mr. V. Rudolf, arrived here this afternoon for trade negotiations and to secure landing rights for its airline to operate here. Mr. Rudolf is Chief of the Department at the Ministry of Foreign Trade
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    • 122 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. A youth. Ctaua Poh Sun, 17. was today charged in the Ninth Magistrate's court with assaulting a Police sergeant at the junction of Jalan Jurong Kechil and the 7 ms. Bukit Timah Road last night. Chua was alleged to have committed the offence with
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    • 64 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. Mr. Geoffrey Abisheganaden was elected President of the University of Singapore Society at its annual general meeting held recently. Other office-bearers elected were, Vice-President: S. Rajendran, Secretary: Miss Juliet Ang. Asst. Secretary: Tee Tua Ba. Treasurer: Edmund Chia Committee members: Prof. Kiang Ai
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    • 145 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Adult Education Board is organising a 10-week course in the "Motor Car and Repair" for car-owners and amateur mechanics. The course will be held everv Saturday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Motor Workshop of the Singapore Vocational Institute, Balestier
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    • 89 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. —Mr. K. T- San was elected Chairman at the 14th annual general meeting of the Singapore Association of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries on March 30 at the Adelphi Hotel. Mr. Koh Bee Chye was elected Vice-Chairman, while Mr. M. N. Campos
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    • 132 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. Three persons were today charged in the Ninth Magistrate's court with possession of subversive documents. Lim Lye Hock, 17, and Choo Heng Kok, 24, were charged with possessing 25 handbills at Anson Road at about 4 p.m. yesterday. Choo was also charged
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    • 86 4 The Little Folk together with Stan and Mack, the Kinsmen, the Dixielanders, Mike "Twine" Toze, Mandy, the Bia T show band and others put on a seven-hour long folk and iass festival
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    • 210 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. —Mr. Lim Cheng Lock, the Member of Parliament for the River Valley Constituency. will officiate at the opening ceremony of the new bridge and the installation of street lights at Ellis Road on April 8 at 4.30 p.m.
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    • 47 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Old Bartleyans' Association will hold its annual dance on April 30 at the St- John's Ambulance Hall from 8 p.mto 1 a.m. All OBA members are urged to attend the dance and to obtain their tickets from the Committee members.
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    • 80 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. —Some 45 branches of the Singapore Commercial House and Factory Employees Union staged a one-day strike in various parts of the Republic today, a union spokesman said. The sympathy strike was in protest against the three ordinances passed by Parliament Society's Ordinance.
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    • 232 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following candidates have passed the professional examinations of the Institute of Book-Keeping held in Singapore in December, last year:— FINAL Loh Nam Khiong (Bookkeeping it Accounts). Lum Ah Har (Company Law Practice), Lee Thiam Foo (Book-keeping Accounts Commercial Law). INTERMEDIATE N| Thye
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    • 509 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. It will be a big step forward if all parents could spend a little time daily with their children so as to make them feel at ease. The Principal of the Pearl's Hill School. Mr. 8. Ratnagopal, said this when he addressed the
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    • 596 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Parliamentary Sectary to the Minister for Labour, Mr. Sia Kah Hui, today spoke of fche important role supervisors could play in the country's economic progress. Mr. Sia was speaking when he presented certificates to participants of T.W.I. (Train-ing-Within-Industry) Basic Courses at
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    • 507 5 SPORE GOVERNMENT MAINTAINS.. SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Government today maintained that a discussion between the former Malaysian InspectorGeneral of Police and the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Interior and Defence did toke place on Dec. 14, 1965, on the question of Malaysian citizens in
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    • 537 5 EACC's Consultative Confab SINGAPORE, Mon. Christian youth in na-tion-building and service to the Church is the main theme of the East Asian Christian Council's Young Churchmen's Consultative Conference which opened at the University of Singapore this afternoon. The Singapore Prime Minister.
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    • 106 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Malaysia today signed a trade agreement with Soviet Russia after two weeks of "hitchless" negotiations here. The two Governments also agreed, in principle to the exchange of diplomatic missions. This was announced In a Joint communique after a brief visit by a
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    • 156 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Adult Education Board will conduct an 8-week course in "Portrait Painting:" for beginners and for those who have some basic knowledge of drawing and painting portraits. The course will be held every Saturday from 2 pjh. to 4 p.m. at the Lecture
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    • 80 5 hat should one wear when one attends a sports ®«et such as the Grand Prix? Something comfoTtle» attractive and easy to get along in, of course! With
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    • 257 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. An 18-year-old boy died after he was attacked by a gang of about four youths who inflicted a total of 52 injuries of which fixe were fatal on him, the High Court was told today. The DPP, Mr. N. Ganesan, said
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    • 135 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Brigadier General Edwin Black. Commander of the U.S. supporting forces in Thailand, today said the disappearance of Mr. Jim Thompson in the Cameron Highlands was "very strange." Mr. Thompson, he said, had a knowledge of jungle law and this would enable him- to
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    • 243 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. Tht Blood Debt All Races Joint Action Committee today set "P > ~"Working Sub-Com-mittee to study and recom> mend to the Republic's Government how best the $5O million compensation paid by the Japanese Government could be utilised. This sub-committee was set up
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 40 3 L. Exhibition By Sallty Arden Eden at Balai Ampang; Exhibition by Phoon Poh Hoong at Samat Art Gallery, 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.. Exhibition of child art by Children's International Art Class at Galeri II 9.30 a.m. to 7.00 p.m.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 643 5 CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Patau Pinanr; 6 Ipoh and Melaka; 3/10 Johore Bahru: 4 Talping: 7 Batu Pahat: 9 Kluang. (Singapore viewers, please switch to channel 3 for T.V. Malaysia programmes). P.M. 545 OPENING ANNCT Prog. Summary 5.50 NEWS OUTLINES in the National Language. 5.55 NATIONAL SONGS. 6.00 NEWS
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 774 6  -  By Douglas B. Cornell SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Mon. (AP). Th Roman Catholic Archbishop of Son Antonio told President Johnson and visiting Lotin American ambassadors yesterday that the war in Vietnam is mortify And he lauded Mr. Johnson's Feb. 8 peace bid
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    • 352 6 NEW YORK, Mon. (AFP) Tbt VletnAmeea wtr is today the eiuN of ft phenomenon which h»d not been teen for 150 years, namely, an Increase in American emigration towards Canada. The progressive American review "Ramparts" (which broke the news of the
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    • 133 6 JAKARTA, Man. (U PI) Prominent government leaders here said that "circumstances'* might force an indefinite postponement of the first ever Indonesian elections scheduled nest year, UPI learned today. The circumstances involved were not given. In Bandung, Congreft Chairman G*n. Abdul Hans Nasutien was quoted by official
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    • 134 6 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) Vice President Fernando Lopez has called on the Philippine government to use its entire resources to increase food production. Mr. Lopez in a speech here over the weekend said food self-sufficiency was the answer to most countries economic and social problems He
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    • 145 6 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Mr. David Bnnals, Minister of State for Home Affairs, today promised the Sikh community of London hi* full support in their efforts to stop a compulsory purchase order on a building they planned to turn into a temple. The Sikhs
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    • 344 6 WASHINGTON. Mon. (AP) FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover says that "MacBird" authoress Barbara Garson and others are part of a small but vocal minority 'determined to destroy all acceptable standards of personal conduct and sane behaviours". His charges are in the forward to the FBl's monthly
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    • 55 6 SEOUL, Mot (AP) Thai Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn today conferred with Korean Premier Chung 11-Kwon for an hour on hjs sfec©nd-dajr of activities in Seoul. The two leaders exchanged views on various subject* of common interest ranging from the Vietnam war -to economic co-opera-tion between the two
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    • 245 6 YELLOWKNIFE. w west Territories. Men. (Ap A 39-year-old bush pilot missing since his i' rt went down Feb 2 found alive on Saturday after surviving blizztrti and temperatures near M below zero fahremheit 59 days. Robert Gauchie was re. ported in good
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    • 85 6 OLDHAM England M* (AP) A three-year*-girl is being cared for ia» hospital yesterday an* being alone in a house her dead mother for The girl, Susan lived on biscuits and jw drinks and instant <•<**• with sugar and milk Peii£e said she to think
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    • 58 6 The visiting General Secretary of ECAFE U Nyun (left) talk with Japan's Prime Minister Eisako Sato at the Diet building in Tokyo when he paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sato. The ECAFE General Secretary is now visiting Japan to attend the 23rd general meeting of ECAFE to be
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    • 514 6 Move to Thailand begins. SAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) Guam-based Amw can B-52 bombers flew into South Vietnam t*i during the night to strike with 30 ton bomb ioa2 at Vietcong base camps in the Northern provinj, before moving from today to their new
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    • 381 7 WASHINGTON. Mon. (UPI) All right, men, at ease. Smoke if you wish. This may take quite a while. The reason I have called you all together is to outline the situation, which now stands roughly as follows: The United States, on the one
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    • 70 7 NEW YORK, Mon. (AP) The temperature soared to a record 81 degrees (27.2 C) yesterday and 600.000 persons flocked to Coney Island. Some 5.000 went swimming at the Coney beach but members of the Polar Club sadly took their last dip of the year. 'lt's getting
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    • 118 7 ST. IVES, Cornwall (England) An anti-oil boom is laid across the harbour here in an effort to prevent further oil from the tanker "Torrey Canyon* washing in. After the bombing with rockets and napalm no oil was coming from the American-owned vessel. There was none
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    • 275 7 TOKYO, Mon. (ReuteT). Mr. Takeo Mikl, the Japanese Foreign Minister, said the key to successful economic development in Asia lay in accelerated agricultural development. "The task of agricultural growth and expansion of food production in this region is becoming all the more urgent
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    • 149 7 MANILA, Mon. (Reuter). The Philippine Press Institute has opposed a bill filed in Congress which seeks to impose the death penalty on anyone who kills a newspaperman. Mr. Joaquin Roces, PPI Vice-President ahd publisher of the influential Manila Times, expressed appreciation for the legislators'
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    • 130 7 BAD NAUHEIM, West Germany, Mon. (AFP) Low price "throw-away" artificial kidneys will be on sale to the public by 1970. Dr. Willem Kolff of Cleveland (Ohio) told a congress here yesterday. He predicted that within a few years nobody would die of kidney illnesses. The artificial
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    • 123 7 MANILA, Mon. (AP) A new daily newspaper called the Philippine Daily Star began publication today. Its appearance brings the total of English language daily newspapers in Manila to seven. including two afternoon papers. The newspaper is published by Andrew Go and Joaquin C. Roces Jr.
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    • 105 7 LOUGHTON, England. Mon. (AP) A 21-year-old girl was critically ill today after opening the door of her home to a man who hurled acid in her face. Carol Anne Denmy fell screaming in convulsions of pain after the attack. The man dropped the acid jar
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    • 95 7 ADEN. Mon. (Reuter) A tnree-man United Nations mission arrived here last night in the midst of a na-tionalist-called general strike and continuing violence and unrest. The mission, assigned the task of finding peaceful ways of bringing troubled South Arabia to Independence promised by Britain by 1968.
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    • 44 7 NUKU ALOFA. TONGA. Mon, (Reuter) —Tonga switched to decimal currency today, replacing the pound with a unit called the pa'anga. The pa'anga equivalent to the former Tongan 10 shillings comprises 100 Seniti and is the same value as Australian currency.
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    • 226 7 TOKYO. Mon. (AP) Peking's University and College Red Guards issued an "urgent mobilisation order" yesterday to "thoroughly, totally and resolutely repudiate" President Liu Shao-Chi, Radio Peking reported. A Chinese-language broadcast, monitored here, said the Red Guards issued the order as "hundreds of
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    • 375 7 LONDON, Mon. (Reutcr). Britain's decision on whether to seek membership of the European Common Market will overshadow all other issues in a busy new session of parliament opening here tomorrow. Whichever way the decision goes, It will spell trouble within the ruling
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    • 186 7 WASHINGTON, Mo n. (AP) Bulgaria is becoming the first of the Soviet-bloc countries of Eastern Europe to remove a requirement for visas, or entry permits, for tourists. A spokesman for the Bulgarian Embassy said that from now through the end of this year, tourists will
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    • 109 7 HAMBURG, Mon. (AFP) Parliamentarians of the three parties in the Bundestag yesterday backed Israel's wish for an association with the European Common Market (EEC). Statements to this effect were published in the newspaper "Welt Am Sonntag" by Christian Democrat foreign expert H. Majonica, FDPLiberal parliamentary
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    • 110 7 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Customs men at London airport seized a massive haul of hashish, worth nearly £lOO.OOO to addicts, over the weekend The 96 pounds of Indian hemp were in packages hidden in orange boxes which arrived aboard a Pakistan International Airline flight on Saturday
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • 365 8 BRITAIN has frozen wages to counter her adverse financial position. This step has an ironic ring as it has been taken by the British Labour Government, which introduced the Social Security Scheme when it was returned to power immediately after the second world war. Now in the Democratic
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  • 346 8 again the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East has reported that Asian countries have failed to produce enough rice to feed their peoples. It says the most pressing job of the rice producing countries is to fill the Asian rice bowl. This is quite a
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  • 1420 8 'THE official opening by The Queen on Thursday (March 30) marked the completion of the South East Asia Commonwealth cable system (SEACOM), itself the third link in the Commonwealth Comprehensive Telephone Cable Plan. SEACOM's third and final section, newly completed, covers a distance of some
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  • Letters...
    • 287 8  -  TA' PATUT. Penang. rpHE statement released in the name of the Hon. Secretary, Enche Abdul Rashid Khan, Malayan Teachers' Union, Penang State Branch, made very amusing reading. Enche Abdul Rashid Khan accuses a number of teachers' union which have pledged to dissolve
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    • 332 8 OECENTLY quite a lot has been said about the frustrated Govt, stenographers in your paper. They have to pass one examination after another to become permanent. Like responsible Government servants we try our best to pass these examinations but, unfortunately, the wav the Government Stenography
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    • 222 8  -  B. W. Oei. Singapore. IN recent months, the rate of delinquency in Singapore has risen considerably. One of the causes of this alarming rate of delinquency is the lack of co-operations between the various sections of the people dealing with youths. It is the duty
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    • 189 8 I UNDERSTAND that the Registrar of Vehicles 15 amending the rule on licenced Selfdrive Cars so that on r tourists would be allowed to hire licenced selfdrive cars In other words, commercial firms, factories and local people will be in future not allowed to rent licenced
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 231 8 Bjr Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, "Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials") LMRTHA received a silver-anniversary weddine "present" from Dudley, her husband, that was a i6sl shock. Now that their two children were grown, Dudley said, he wanted a divorce Eartha did as Dudley directed. She flew to a lawyer's office
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
    • 77 9 Mr Edward Giam a technician. will be leaving for Hong Kong this week on a six weeks IBM training course, Mr. Giam is the first technician in Malaysia and Singapore who will be trained on the IBM 72 Composer which is a new way
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    • 311 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. In full recognition of the need of an efficient service. Public Bank Berhad one of Malaysia's newest bank has adopted progressive policies in its management. are put through the various stages of work ur.-.er the close supervision of an officer and given careful
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    • 67 9 STOCKHOLM. Mon. (AP) In spite of reduced profit figures the Volvo Board o: Directors have recommended a raise in dividends 0 its shareholders from to seven percent. The reason for the recommended raise is reported to be ne changed rules on the taxation of stocks. Ihe
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    • 221 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malaysia-Singapore Airline will resume flights to Jakarta in May, the Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Haji Sardon bin Haji Jubir, said today. This operation will be part of MSA's extension services to Sydney from May 5. The company is
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    • 131 9 WUPPERTAL. West Germany, Mon. (Reuter) West German trade with Communist countries excluding East Germany rose by 870 million (nearly 80 million sterling) to 6.500 million marks (nearly 600 million sterling) last year, the Secretary General of the German Eastern Trade Committee. Jans Kirchner, said
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    • 94 9 LUSAKA. Mon. (Reuter) An Italian firm has been awarded a 2,000,000 sterling contract to build a new cement factory at Indola on the Zambian copperbelt. The contract was awarded to Federici Construction Company's Zambian subsidiary by Chilanga Cement Limited, a public company in which the government
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The tin price for today was $600.50 per picul, down 12 cents.
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    • 731 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. It was a Quiet day today on the Stock Exchange with prices holding steady in the industrial section. Being a Monday, activity in this section was rather limited. Central Sugar showed little activity with business taking up from 51.89 to $1.91 to
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    • 276 9 SINGAPORE. Mon— April first grade rubber f.o.b. buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 55) cents per lb., down k cent from previous close. The tone was quietly steady. Opening quotations were marked down fractionally on lower London advices. Upcountry selling
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    • 84 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Glen Line's 9061 gross ton "Breconshire" left London's King George V Dock recently for Singapore, carrying a double-ended, propel lor-ope rated, wire-rope guided vehicle passenger ferry. The ferry, measuring 43 ft. 8 ins. by 23 ft. 3 ins. by 9 ft. was ordered by
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    • 99 9 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) Hong Kong and West Germany signed a three-year woollen quota agreement. The agreement covered Hong Kong's trade in knitted woollen outer-wear with West Germany during the three years from Jan. 1, 1967 to Dec. 31, 1969. It was signed by T.
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    • 127 9 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) One of Britain's major copper firms which makes solid drawn tubes in copper and its allays and various fittings reported higher turnover in the halfyear ended January. It was nearly £23.6 million ($66.08 million). This was an increase of nearly £3 million
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    • 96 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. Swissair, the Airline of Switzerland, has ordered a flight simulator for their Douglas DC-8-62 aircraft from the Canadian Electronics Industries Ltd. (CAE) of Montreal. This is the second digital flight simulator that Swissair has ordered from CAE, the first having been a DC--9 simulator which
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    • 81 9 STOCKHOLM. Mon. (AP) A twenty-man trade delegation from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council arrived here yesterday for a one week tour in Sweden. The group is led by the head of the council's European office in Brussels, Mr. John Leckie. About 200 Swedish businessmen have
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    • 21 9 HONG KONG, Mon. (UPI) —Today's money quotations HK55.73/5.7425 per TT HK515.99 per pound sterling. HK5262.875 Der tael gold.
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    • 484 9 YOUR SHARES UP-DOWN UNCHANGED SINGAPORE —Stocfc Kirhanir hid and offer prices officially listed at the close Of bUNOCM. INDUSTRIAL. Boustead 1JU 1.53 C. sugar 1.90 1.94 Chemical Co 1.78 1.79 Cold storage 3.36 3.46 Dunlop (Old) 2.32 4.44 E. Smelting 4.42 Esso Ords 3.30 3.32 Fltzpat ricks 1.56 1.65 F.
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    • 53 9 (Managers Prices) First Malayan 2.26 2.36 Second Malayan 1.61 1.71 Third Malayan XD 1.12 1.23 Tbe Commerce A Industry Fund &9 LOO The Savings Fund XD 1.33 1.43 Malaysian Investment Fund .95 1.03 Sterling Commodity 3/10 4/5 First Hong Kong XD .95 1.00* Second Hong Kong .69 .T3«
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    • 111 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. Sin rapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon price* today were: Buyers Seller* Cooonat oil (FOB) Bulk 45.00 Cooonat oil (FOB) Drums 47.50 Loose Copra >tl*ed Apr/May 27.50 Sugar (Java) exgodown 25.00 Nutmegs 110s 400.00 Nutmeg* B W Garbled Lam pong 185 00 Black Pepper (FOB) 102.50 Pepper Black
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    • 31 9 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) Tin was steady quiet and turnover was 85 tons. Spot buyers 1204-1/2 sellers 1205 business 1204-1/2 Three months buyers 1200 sellers 1200-1/2 business 1200-1/2. Settlement 1205.
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    • 132 9 SINGAPORE, Mon The following ships are expected in port today:1/2 Priam 2/4 Fernstate 6/7 Bankura 8/9 Golden Spring 10/11 Benlomond 13/14 Amerigo Vespucci 15/16 Breconshire 18 Comorin 21/22 Van Neck 27/28 Halldis 31/32 Denachie 33/34 Schiekerk 35/36 Velebit 40/41 Mombasa Mara 42/43 Tagaytay 44 Flavia 46 Bawean 47
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    • 882 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 11.18 a.m. Airline MSA 029 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MSA 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 9.15 a.m. Airline Garuda 992 from Jakarta. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MSA 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.30 a.m. Airline MSA 451 from Kuchinf.
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  • PUBLIC BANK BERHAD
    • 175 10  -  Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra PRIME MINISTER. T AM pleased to be able to send this message of congratulations ant! good wishes on the occasion of the official opening of Public Bank Berhad. Public Bank Berhad, I am told, was incorporated on December 30, 1965, with an
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    • 247 10  -  soys Tan Sri Nik Ahmed Kamil, Chairman of Public Bank Berhad AN a memorable occasion like today, when Bank Berhad has its official opening, may I take this opportunity of thanking our shareholders tor the trust and confidence they have placed in my
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    • 191 10  -  Tan Siew Sin, Minister of Finance TT gives me very great pleasure to send q message to the Public Bank Berhad on the occasion of its official opening by the Prime Minister. This Bank is the latest one to open its doors, and although the number of
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    • 831 11 rpHt Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, hat always maintained that he is the "happiest Prime Minister in the world" especially when he is opening factories and commercial enterprises. For tht Tunku, the establishment of factories reflect* the great strides made
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    • 909 11  -  By ANNE TAI II7TTH a burgeoning eeonomy and the end of eonfrontation, Malaysians are on a saving spree. ft is save, save for a brighter tomorrow. And where else do they save but in banks. The old story of hardsaved money lost because of its being
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    • 248 11 the auspicious occasion of the official opening of Publie Bank Berhad, may I take this opportunity of sending greetings and best wishes to members of the public and business communities. We take prkle in announcing that we are' local bank and express our sincere
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 113 10 m r:> PiMc Bank Berhad Is Incorporated in the States of Malaya, Malaysia. Head Office, No. 4 Jalan Gereja, Kuala Lumpur* Telephone: *****-4 (3 lines) Malacca Branch, No. 9 Jalan Kampong Pantai. Telephone: 5454-6 Ipoh Branch» No. 46-48 Jalan Yang Kalsom Telephone: 3701-2. -a# 1 It, ■,x, >: v fe♦:••••
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 5 11 Congratulations PUBLIC BANK BERHAD !ai
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    • 165 11 CONGRATULATIONS and Best Wishes THE PUBLIC BANK BERHAD on the official opening of their Head Office in Kuala Lumpur by the Prime Minister of Malaysia Tengku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-haj NCR are very proud once again to have bean selected to provide yet another banking institution with their complete range
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  • EASTERN SUN FEATURE
    • 1620 12 TI7OMEN always talk more even from tender age. That is one ace they have over men. When it comes to power, they are always found trailing the men. Will this domination by men continue forever? Here, a science writer, DERMOT CANNING, reveals some startling
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    • 1000 12  -  -By H. L. Herchensohn, M. D. A DOCTOR concerned with the medical care of diseased and physically dirty delinquents wants to know whatever became of the word, "Bum"? He is particularly concerned with the hundreds of articles written, purporting to show how parents are responsible for
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    • 685 12  -  I ALL ABOUTj i PETS—i By J.J. McCoy 17"EEPING on aquarium of tropical fish or goldfish is an ideal hobby for those people who cannot own a more active or demanding pet. With the exception of the investment for equipment (and this can be modest
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  • 148 13 BOW. Mon. This was probably the only thing thai dismayed Kurt Georg Kiesinjrer when he became German Chancellor In early D p rerrber 1966: his move to the very modern house situated in the nark of the Palais Schaumburg, Not that he has anything against living in
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  • 1042 13 BONX. Mon. When ten years ago. on March 25. 1957. the six foreign ministeri of Belgium, the German Federal Republic, France. Italy. Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed the Treaty founding the European Economic Com- ty on the CaDitol in Rome high-point in
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  • 211 13 FRANCE, Mon.—Preoccupied by the necessity of harmonising the decor with the general architecture of the pavilion, the organisers of the Trench display at the French Pavilion of the Montreal Universal Exposition have carefully chosen the works to be shown. The interior colour pattern
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  • 103 13 BONN, Mon.—The Federal government's guarantees for the export projects of the Krupp combine are a move to improve export financing rather than government help over financial difficulties. It is well known that other industrial nations' possibilities of export financing are largely better than those of the German Federal
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  • 142 13 FRANCE. Mon. The Societe du Canal de Provence et d'Amenagement de la Region Provencale has just decided to instal an extremely modern centralised supervision system on the network of irrigation canals running from the Verdon River. The equipment for the teletransmltting network is
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  • 452 13 "FRANKFURT, Mon. He Is zoo director, university professor, researcher, author, television producer and television star. Experts and laymen alike applaud him and give him their highest praise: Professor Dr. Bernhard Grzimek. "Animal father" Grzimek recently celebrated a special event. His programme
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  • 299 13 FRANCE, Mon- The 27th International Aviation and Space Show which will open on 26 May 1967 at Le Bourget Airport will be considerably larger than preceding shows and will cover a much wider area. In addition to the three traditional exhibition halls covering 15,100 square meters.
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 181 13 ISHAW, ORGANISATION LIDO Phone ***** Owim Today! 11. 1.4*. 4. 0.80. 0.18 School Children 85 eu. to any »«at at all ahowa durinf *ea»on Don Knotts Joan Staley r.HOST A MR CHICKEN" Color CAPITOL Phone 297 59 Opetn Today! 11, 1.30, 4, 0.4*. #3O 'THI FMR LADIES" in Color ''andann
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    • 85 13 COURTROOM fiy Harry B. Rethblatt (Author* "Handbook ©f I*ld«B«« Tor Criminal Trials YES. "By signing, the plaintiff satisfied the Mexican residency requirements and submitted herself to the jurisdiction of that court," the local judge decided. "Residence of any particular length does not appear to be a requirement of Mexican law.
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    • 345 13 E3SE£] OfOi N I AT IOH ORCMARD-J^ioi uraad Prix" Start*: 1.15, B.IS, I.U Bub. k, Holiday® Extra Show At t.SO a m AdmuttOß II 50. 12.60 $4OO IN SITE® CINERAMA << rn k vir nnrv IN SITE® CINERAMA "GRAND PRIX" Jame* Garner Eva Marie Saiat Metrocolor No Frta Lift [ODLON
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 71 16 Wt\ AND TIDE p®" an M Pm. (5.4 ft.); 10.07 p.m. (5.9 ft.). rort Swettenham: 1.1 l a.m. (10.4 ft.); 2.37 p.m. I H a ft.), Si > nL«l CkSOn i 304 am < s B ft >J 310 P- m < s 4 ft Sedfll i (7ft olam >»
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    • 42 16 SPORTS DIARY Soccer: Tampenis Rovers vs. Telok Kurau A2A Geylan g Sukaramai vs. Kota Rajah 2B Farrer Park Darul Afiah vs Singapore Recreation Club 2C SRC RAF (Changi) vs Seletar Young Indians 2D Farrer Park Stable Boyj* vs. Bintang Bulan 2A MFA.
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