Eastern Sun, 4 June 1968

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 Mo. 665 Tuesday, 4 June 1968. VV MC(P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 247 1 Raja: No more misunderstanding between Singapore Malaysia JTUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Singapore's Foreign Minister, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, emerged beaming from a two-hour meeting with Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and said there was no more misunderstanding between both countries. Others at the meeting were Deputy Premier, Tun Abdul
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  • 107 1 IPOH, Mon. A huge tree fell on a bus at the 61st mile. GrikLenggong road in lp- per Perak, yesterday, killing seven of the passengers and seriously injuring three others. The tree was uprooted during a heavy rain storm. The three seriously injured persons
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  • 80 1 TAIPEI. Mon. (UPI) A Nationalist Chinese Air Force transport plane crashed near Tainan today killing at least 13 military personnel and dependents aboard. The Air Force declined to disclosed the type of plane or number of crewmen and passengers aboard. UPI correspondents at Kaohsiung, Southern
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  • 156 1 CANBERRA. Mon. (Reuter) Australia would support a non-aggression pact between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Prime Minister John Gorton indicated tonight. Mr. Gorton, who leaves for a tour of Indonesia. Malaysia. Singapore and Vietnam on Wednesday, wae speaking in a television interview from the Prime Minister's
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  • 145 1 PERTH. Western Australia, Mon. (Reuter) A Qantas airliner flew out to Singapore tonight after a delay when it turned back following a telephone report that there was a bomb aboard. The Boeing 707 (flight Ql 731) was half an hour out of Perth earlier
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  • 252 1 Yf ANILA. Mon. (Reuter) President Ferdinand Marcos said today that only a partnership of militant economic cooperation could provide basis for any regional defence arrangement in this area. The President made the statement in a message to an eight-nation seminar sponsored by the
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  • 247 1 "OANGKOK, Mon. (UPI) A terrorist band ambushed a p o li c e patrol in Betong District along the Thai-Malaysian border on Sunday morning, killing three policemen and wounding three others, officials said today. It was the biggest Communist action in
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  • 348 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Two men who walked into the Malaya Optical Co. in Jalan Bandar hrre this evening in an extortion bid never bargained for what followed. A shop assistant swung a chair at one of the men who sustained a cut on the left
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  • 156 1 New antiUS feeling in Japan TOKYO. Mon (Reuter) Extremist Japanese students today threatened to storm the United States Embassy in Tokyo and the Consulates in Kobe and Fukuoka as new anti-American feeling burst out in Japan. This coincided with a protest demonstration by about 300 university students earlier today who
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  • 148 1 T>ANGKOK, Mon. (Reu- ter) Thai Government forces had killed 378 Communist guerillas and captured 3.042 more in the past one-and-a-half years, Prime Minister Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn said today. He‘ told reporters the guerillas suffered their heaviest casualties in North-eastern Thailand. A
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  • 60 1 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter)* —President Suharto's 18-year-old son. Sigit, has been injured in a road accident. An eye-witness said Sigit was driving a car which was in collision with a British Embassy Land Rover in Jakarta last Saturday. Sigit’s injuries were not serious. The British Embassy
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 414 2  -  RONN TO PROVIDE: By JAMAL ALI KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. —The Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Haji Ghazali bin Jawi today disclosed West Germany would soon provide training in trawler fishing for Malaysian fishermen. Germany will provide two trawler boats with some experts. He was speaking here
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    • 208 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Inspector-General of Police, Tan Srt Mohamed Salleh bin Ismael today presented special awards to ASP M. Govindasamy and six junior police officers at a ceremony at the Police Headquarters here. ASP Govindasamy. head of the Special Investigation Section, received a letter
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    • 205 2 Official birthday of King: PENANG. Mon —More thgn 5.000 gue.U ta»v« been invited to the garden party at the Residency on Wednesday in commemoration of the official birthday of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. An elaborate programme has been drawn up by the working committee
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    • 135 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Assistant Minister of Culture. Youth and Sport. Engku Muhsein bin Abdul Kadir. said today his Ministry planned to start workshops for journalists at the Youth Training Centre at Pertak in Kuala Kubu Bahru. He was speaking at the opening of a workshop for
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    • 79 2 IPOH. Mon. The Democratic Action Party. after their electoral understanding with the People's Progressive Party of Malaya. will be fielding three candidates in the general elections in Tapah district. This was disclosed by the chairman of the D.A.P., Tapah branch Mr. Lob Jee Mee
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    • 356 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Democratic Action Party today urged Malaysia and Singapore to “hammer out” a common strategy in their defence plans before the Five-power defence talks here next Monday. Mr. Goh Hock Guan. the Secretary General of the party, in
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    • 227 2 IPOH. Mon. The Chairman of the Malaysian Chinese Association, Terak State branch. Senator Veoh Kian Tcik. today expressed confidence the Government would implement the SufTian Salaries Commission report, "as and when it can do so without throwing the country into economic chaos.”
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    • 56 2 SINGAPORE. Mon—The Malay Affairs Bureau of the People Action's Party will hold a Prophet Mohammad's birthday celebration at Victoria Memorial Hall on Sunday at 2 p.m. Among the speakers at the gathering will include Prof Annuar Musadat and Tuan Haji Salleh, Singapore's Chief Kathi. More than 2.000
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    • 255 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. The High Court today awarded §24.858 to a car-wosher. P- Thurajsami as general damages for injuries he received in a motor accident in February, 1966. The award also covered the plaintiff's loss of earnings during the period of his disability and the future loss
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    • 73 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Malayan Association for the Blind is organising an international banquet in aid of the blind at Parliament House, here, at 8 p.m. on Saturday. The banquet, under the patronage of Toh Puan Rahah. wife of the Deputy Prime Minister, will be
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    • 94 2 IPOH. Mon. Police arrested a robbery suspect and recovered firearms and ammunition during a raid at a dwelling house in Pasir Pinji here in the early hours of this morning. Recovered were a .38 revolver. three rounds of 38 ammunition and one round of 9
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    • 151 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Executive Secretory of ECAFE, U Nyun, today called for the setting up of huge regional power plant to serve countries in the region. He was speaking to reporters at the airport before returning to Bangkok after attending the opening session of
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    • 130 2 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Painting exhibition by Mr. Lee Leong Looi at National Library. Stamford Road. 10 am. Jumble sale in aid of the Singapore Association for the Blind at Presbyterian Church, Orchard Road. 2.15 p.m. Jaycees’ "Leaders of Tomorrow” oratorical contest for secondary schools (heats) at Cultural Centre
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    • 40 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. A Bill authorising the Finance Minister to borrow up to $l,OOO million by the issue of Treasury Bills will be introduced in Parliament at its next sitting. It will be moved by the Minister.
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    • 239 2 PENANG. Mon. Tfcf Governor of Penang. Tan Sri Syed Sheh Shahabuddin. today advised farmers and fishermen In Balik Pulau District to train themselves in the use of modern methods and equipment to better their income. He was speaking at a tea-party held at tne
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    • 52 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. A youth, Yeong Cheong Yew, who snatched chains and lockets from six housewives, was jailed for nine months by the Ninth Magistrate’s Court today. Yeong pleaded guilty to committing the offences between March 24 and April 21. The chains and lockets are valued a
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    • 127 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. Kelab Burong Singapura will hold its 1%8 Merbok Bird Singing contest at National Youth Training Centre, South Bouna Vista Road, on June 30 The contest is held under the patronage of the Minis ter for Social Affairs. Enche Othman H’ok Entry forms for
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    • 443 3 Mon.—The plastics industry in Singapore is being expanded in a bid to capture a major portion of the local market Th.c cxport trough the help of the Light Industries Services. The expansion plans were announced today at a press conference called by the LIS during
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    • 163 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Singapore student were today urged to continue being restraint and responsible but progressive in thinking. This call was made today by Mr Chan Chee Seng. Parliamentary Secretary (Social Affairs*, when he spoke at the finals of the 6th Annual Safety First Oratorical Contest
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    • 58 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. A man with previous convictions dating back to 1946 was today jailed for a year by the Ninth Magistrate’s Court for picking the pocket of a passenger on a bus. Tan Ah Hai pleaded guilty to stealing the passenger's pay packet containing personal papers on board
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    • 51 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Transport Division of St. John Ambulance Brigade is launching a recruitment drive from today. For further details please report to the Officer-in-Charge. 420 Beach Road, Singapore 7. between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. from Mondays to Saturdays, and between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. on
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    • 213 3  -  By R S. SIDHU SINGAPORE. Mon. The Orchid Lantern, Trnpicana’s theatre-restaurant, will feature a versatile European group of entertainers who will be showing in Singapore “almost everything there is in entertainment.” The group, billed a s the “Peter Jackson Revue.” includes
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    • 295 3 Week-long trek through Malaysia 's trackless jungle SINGAPORE, Mon. When men usually spend their working days behind desks feel the call of the wild what con be better than a wee k-long trek through some parts of Malaysia's trackless jungle. This was what an eight-man party of Singapore-based British Army
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    • 92 3 SINGAPORE. Mon.— Explosive charges of up to five ibs. in weight will be used in the removal of high spots on the sea-bed near the Western end of Berth No. 5. Damar Laut Channel, from June 5 for about a month. When blasting is taking place,
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    • 39 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. There will be no delivery of mail and parcels on Saturday —a public holiday i Prophet Mohamed's Birthday). The hours of business at the General Post Office will be from 9 a.m. to noon.
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    • 215 3 SINGAPORE. Mon.—Some 69 Muslim and non-Muslim students will receive letters of confirmation for financial assistance from the Prophet Mohammad's Birthday Memorial Scholarship Fund Board on Thursday at 7.30 p.m. at the Overseas Pakistan League in Serangooa Road here. They are students of secondary and technical
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    • 656 4  -  By Hoo Ban Khee KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The business community here today backed the Government's decision to freeze the Suffian salaries report in view of the present "national financial stringency." They felt that if the recommendations of the commission were to be implemented in
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    • 350 4  -  By BEN D’CUNHA KUALA LUM**Tm Mon. The public would be financially rewarded for concrete suggestions for the improvement oi railway services here. Disclosing this here today, the Minister of Transport. Tan Sri sardon bin Haji Jubir said the suggestions should be submitted to the
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    • 169 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon— A forum on “efforts to unite Muslims so that they wiU become strong and progressive” will be held here on Saturday as part of the celebrations of Prophet Mohamed’s Birthday. The forum will be at the Lecture Room of the National Mosque at
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    • 57 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Government was today urged to hold discussions with the Thai and Indonesian Governments to ascertain their territorial limits for fishing. The call was made at a seminar on fis h marketing, attended by fishermen and officials of the Ministry of
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    • 82 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon A youth was today detained by police after a short chase here on suspicion of robbery. Idris bin Saad. 25. was walking along High Street when he saw a youth who. he said, had robbed him of a watch and 513 in cash
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    • 342 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon The Port Swettenham Authority Staff Union has agreed to suspend for a month the two-week ultimatum which it sent to the Ministry of Transport on May 21 to open negotiations on certain issues it had raised. The extra month's grace
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    • 87 4 Tough work but BATU GAJAH Men. The Perak Mentrl Besar, Dato Haji Ahmad Said, toiled for hours with 24 youths under training at the Tegong Agriculture Station, 14 miles from here today. The visit at the agriculture station was the highlight of his tour here. Earlier, he urged tha unmarried
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    • 41 4 KAMPAR. Mdn. Thieves broke into the h6use of Dr M. Ramanathan here and stole $1,940 from the safe last night. Dr. Ramanathan who returned at 3 a.m. after a dinner party, found the rear door of the Kitchen broken.
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    • 686 4  -  By Ben Variyan KUALA LUMPUR, Man. Anti-corrup-tion Agency officers made a surprise check on Saturday at the Tumpat Land Office, Kelantan and arrested two clerks, caught red-handed accepting money from farmers "to speed up" receipts for tax payments. Disclosing this
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    • 118 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon— An American, residing at Petaling Jaya. Leonard M. Pilcher. 39. claimed trial to two charges of assaulting and causing hurt to two Policemen on May 31. Pilcher was alleged to have assaulted P.C. Nagtiman bin Sarpan at No 13 Jalan 21-4. P.
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    • 83 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Men Miss Lau Yoke Chin. 20, one of the victims of an assault by a woman yesterday morning at Sungei Best, eight miles from here, was discharged from the hospital this morning. Conditions of two otner victims of the assault are reported to
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    • 546 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. All is set now for the trooping the colour ceremony which will be held at the Mcrdeka Stadium here on Wednesday, as part of the ceremonial birthday celebrations of the Yang di-P ertu a n Agong. A full dress rehearsal
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    • 91 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Two girls have been awarded scholarships by (Esso Standard Malaya Berhad for two years of study at Higher School Certificate level. They are Miss Goh Sween Tee, daughter of Mr. Henry Goh, Credit Manager of Esso, and Miss Lau Pliaik Har, daughter
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    • 246 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The High Court today declared the marriage of a local businessman and a Taipeh actress null and void on the ground of nonconsummation. The businessman. Wong Teck Lim. 32. said he had made numerous attempts during the past
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    • 172 4 KUALA LUMPUR M on. In another divorce case. Chua Wai Ching was granted a decree nisi on the ground of adulterv by her husband. Koh Hung Khoon, the order to be made absolute in three months. The couple were married on June 1. 1963. Chua
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    • 241 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mdn.— The Government today had very useful" discussions with officials of the Staff Side of the National Whitley Council (Divs. 1 to 4). Stating this, the Director of Establishment. Tan Sri Abdul Kadir bin Sharfiiuddin said: "We had a better understanding of
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    • 2003 10  - Few pathologists would have done what Dr. Lee did —Judge Dr. Lee: There was brain but it was liquefied By R. V. LINGAM SINGAPORE, Mon. The whole of todoy's hearing in the Gene Koh murder trial was taken up by the defence counsel's crossexamination of Dr. Lee Yoke Thay, a
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    • 106 10 SINGAPORE. Mon An artist at work not painting on canvas, but on a living “psychedelicious doll:’’ This enviable artist (above) Sunny Wee, is painting psychedelic designs on Jenny Chia’s legs which attracted large admiring crowd outside the Bata Premier Store this afternoon. When Sunny's
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    • 77 10 SINGAPORE Mon. A 32-year-old woman. Sin Puay Eng. was today fined $2OO or one month's jail by a District Court for having 78 counterfeit EP records for sale at her shop. The Court found Bin guilty of the offence committed at Ee Huat Electric Record
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    • 61 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. Two men challenged each other to a fight in front ot Kandang Kerbau Police Station on Sunday afternoon. Today, in the Ninth Magistrate's Court. the two— Goh Kim Teck, 27, and Chung Kwang Kia. 38. were each fined $l5 for behaving in
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    • 74 10 SINGAPORE Mon. A five-year-old girl. Tan Geok Lian. was killed in an accident at the junction of River Valley Roaq and Kim Sene Road vesterday. Tan. who w’as in the company of two other females, was then about to cross the road when she was knocked down
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    • 38 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. A cyclist. Wong Shuen Kum, died after he was involved in a motor accident at 8 m.s., Bukit Timah Road yesterday. Wong sustained head injuries and died soon alter arrival at Thomson Road HospitaL
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    • 539 11 Azlan Inquiry Commission JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The AntiCorruption Agency is probing into a Johore Bahru Town Council project carried out by a Kuala Lumpur contractor in 1965 for which he was "grossly overpaid" for uncompleted work. In revealing this to the Azlan Commission of Inquiry
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    • 234 11 Ip °H. Mon. A fisherman. Tan Ni Hoa. 18. rave an undertaking before Mr. shan«5 han Min Ts *t in the High Court here today would not have any Be al relationship with his bride elect. a 13-year-old wts married to her. Tan further
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    • 83 11 BANGKOK. Mon fßeufer) —Customs officials at the southern seaport town of Songkhla yesterday seized goods made in China which were believed to have been smuggled into Thailand from Malaysia, press reports said today. The goods worth about 20.000 baht (about 400 pounds sterling) were found
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    • 103 11 MALACCA. Mon. Stop and grab robberies here prevalent for some time now •how no signs of abating During the weekend two shopkeepers fell victim to such robbers. Khoo Teck Wee. of Bunga Raya was held up by two men near his house On Saturday night and
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    • 51 11 MUAR, Mon. The Johore State branch of the St. John Ambulance Association will simultaneously hold “Flag Days” at eight districts in aid of their funds from June 24 to July 4. The districts are Muar. Batu Pahat, Segamat, Mersing, Pontian. Kluang, Kota Tinggi and Johore
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    • 47 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. A German technician. Gerd Boesecke. 26. has been reported missing. Police here said today Buesecke. employed at the Pekan Nanas Pineapple Cannery, was sick when he was last seen boarding a taxi for Johore Bahru from Fekas Nanas on May 21.
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    • 93 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. —The Johore Police today flashed to all States, particulars of a notorious gangster who is wanted in connection with the murder of Koh Kim Lim. 20 Koh was stabbed to death outside a shop at Pekan Nanas on May 29
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    • 32 11 MUAR. Mon. —The Batu Pahat District Officer. Enche Yusof bin Abdul Rahman, will officiate at the opening ceremony of a Batu Pahat trade fair starting from Saturday at 4 p.m.
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    • 140 11 Reason for Sabah claim outdatedMinister KUALA LUMPUR. MOn The Minister of Land and Mines. Dato Haji Abdul Rahman Yakub said today the people of Sarawak felt it was “no business of the Philippines” to make claim on Sabah. “If they can do that then Brunei can also claim Limpang and
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    • 120 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Kaum Ibu UMNO Malaysia today appealed to the Government to review the women's salaries as recommended In the Suffian Salaries Commission Report. The UMNO Central Executive Committee held its extraordinary meeting here on the Suffian report and praised the Government for
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    • 28 11 MUAR. Mon.—The Muar Town Ward ”A” branch of the UMNO youth section will hold its annual meeting at its headquarters at Jalan Meriam here on Friday.
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    • 358 11  - Showbiz is tough hut Theresa knows what she wants.. By: CHAN KAM YAU KUALA LUMPUR. Mon —The road to the top ts an arduous one for a singer but Theresa Wong appears to be equipped with enough determination and talent to make it there. Theresa, a former teacher from Singapore,
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    • 89 11 A science student. Miss Chong Chooi Yin. 18, was crowned “Freshie Queen” at the University of Malaya Hall at the Dewan Tunku Chancellor on Saturday night. Miss Chong (above) seen with that winning smile with her trophy, crown and sash. She won a return
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    • 186 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Juhir. today had a half-an-hour's ride In a “De Havilland Canada Twin Otter Aircraft” here. The SI .Z million aircraft, which is on a world wide demonstration tour, was designed to
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    • 143 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Raja Muda of Selangor will from tomorrow visit po’.ice formations and training establishments in Selangor. Object of the exercise is to familiarise himself with the overall functions of the Royal Malaysia Police. Tomorrow he will call on the Chief
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    • 35 11 KUALA LIPIS. Mon —The Muslim community in Kuala Lipis district will hold a mass procession to celebrate Prophet Mohammed's birthday on Saturday. The highlight of the celebration will be the Koran reading competition.
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    • 257 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. A Chinese schoolgirl recounted in the High Court here today how she was raped twice while on her way home after school on July 11. last year. in the dock was Khoo Kim Toon. 27. charged with raping the
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    • 251 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, hoped more international tours would be organised for Malaysian arts. Such tours, he said, would make other countries realise that our artists had an interesting cultural contribution to make to the world. The Tunku,
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 365 5 IyASmNCTON, Mon. (UPI). A Defence Department official indicated on Sunday c Chinese Communists may be making faster progress on their nuclear delivery system than the United States is making in its defence against it. Lt. Gen. Austin Betts, Chief of Army Research and Development,
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    • 340 5 T>ARIS, Mon. (UPI). President Ho Chi Minh is sending one of his closest collaborators to Paris, sparking speculation that Hanoi may be ready finally for business at the Vietnam peace talks. Seasoned observers cautioned. however, that Le Due Tho—who is scheduled to arrive
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    • 263 5 EASTON, Connecticut Mon. (I'PI) Funeral fccrvices will be held in Washington's National t athedral this week lor Helen Keller, who won love and admiration throughout the world for the indomitable spirit with which she fought the limitations of total blindness and deafness to
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    • 427 5 VATICAN CITY >lon. (CPI) Pope Paul VI is still far from any decision on the birth control question, a full two years after his special commission to study the issue submitted its recommendations, Vatican sources said today. Only a few weeks ago. the sources
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    • 146 5 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) Indonesian troops have killed 138 Communists and their supporters this year in West Borneo, scene of a Chinese-led insurrection since the middle of :ast year, according to the West Borneo military command. Several hundred and their supporters were also killed last
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    • 93 5 HONG KONG, Mon. (Reuter) China has warned the United States for violating her air space and territorial waters on four occasions in the past two days, the New China News Agency reported. The agency aid one US. warship intruded into Chinese waters yesterday northeast of Pingtan
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    • 122 5 JAKARTA. Mon. (I PI) The one-horned rhinoceros which is believed to exist only in Indonesia, is facing extinction, according to Indonesian conservation officials. Officials blame poachers w ho sell parts of the animal’s body to quack doctors. Local belief has it that extracts made from these
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    • 69 5 SOUTHAMPTON. England. Mon. (Reuter) A Government Minister has said some Britons have been scared into believing that Britain is being flooded with coloured immigrants. Figures showed this relief was wrong. Mr. David Ennals. Minister in Charge of Immigration, told a conference of youth clubs here yesterday. He
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    • 533 5 TIOSCOW Mon. (FPI) The Russian Communists on Sunday in effect called Mao Tse-tung a paper tiger who wants other nations to sacrifice themselves fighting China's wars. In a blast of invective in the Soviet theoretical Journal. KommunLst. the Communist Chinese Chairman was accused of:
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    • 414 5 FUKUOKA, Japan, Mon. (UPI). A U.S. Air Force jet crashed on Sunday night into the steel framework of a new six-storey technological institute building of Kyushu University here that was in the process of construc- tion. Police said the crash occurred at 10.20 p.m.
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    • 169 5 NEW DELHI. Mon. (Reuter) India’s Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi said yesterday the situation in Southeast Asia was changing fast and India could not afford to ignore it. She was addressing the Congress Party executive following her return on Saturday from a tour of
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    • 144 5 WASHINGTON. Mon. (Reuter) World Bank President Robert S. McNamara anonunced today he will visit Indonesia next week to discuss how the Bank can best “assist in the economic recovery and further development of the country.” Indonesia will be the main stage of the first overseas mission
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    • 409 6 PARIS, Mon. (Reuter) Hopes of a swift end to the strikes in key sectors of French industry were dwindling today as negotiations dragged on and unions in many cases hardened their stand. Talks between Railway Unions and new Transport Minister
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    • 98 6 SEOUL. Mon. (UPI).— The Government plans to dispatch two diplomatic missions to Southeast Asian countries in July to sound out the possibility of forming an Asian Common Market, Foreign Ministry official said today.* One team headed by Korean Ambassador to Japan Uhm Min-Young will visit
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    • 344 6 DETROIT Mon. (UPI) Backers of Vice President Mr- Hubert H. Humphrey claimed 67 of the 102 delegates to the National Convention chosen at the Michigan Democratic Convention which ended last night supported or learned to their man. tUliTCiivtvu v**v*vw shortly after
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    • 126 6 LONDON. Mon (UPI) A willowy blonde in one of the season's shorter miniskirts smiled sweetly as she hugged and kissed two passing nuns A young man with a beard stroked a grandmotherly woman lovingly on the cheek. “The English”. beamed the blonde, “don’t touch enough.
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    • 60 6 BEIRUT. Mon. (Reuter)— Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders arrived here today for direct negotiations on the Cyprus problem. The delegates are Mr. Glafkos Clerides, President of the Cyprus House of Representatives and Mr. Rauf Denktash, President, of the Turkish Cypriot Communal Chamber. Both men
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    • 25 6 TEMUCOH, Mon. (Reuter) A woman who died at an Indian reservation near this southern Chilean town is believed to have been 125 years old.
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    • 113 6 TOKYO. Mon (Reuter) One of 361 Taiwan racing pigeons released in Hiroshina on May 30 for a 950-mile race to the island has come down on a Japanese taker It has been brought back to Ichikawa, near Tokyo, after being cared for
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    • 133 6 CALGARY. Alberta Mon. (Reuter) William Holmberg was working on his lawn during the weekend when geese started falling all around him. He said he heard honking overhead of a flight of Canada geese, “and the next minute they started to drop.” Eight of the birds
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    • 85 6 NAIROBI. Mon. (UPI) President Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya was to open the International Press Institute (IPI) general assembly today attenaed by delegates from 30 countries. After report on IPI training schemes in Asia and Africa, the Congress was to hear an address by Robert
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    • 261 6 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) N*w Ydrk police last night arrested a young man and a young woman in the death of 17-year-old Nancy Perri, whose naked body was found in a trunk on Thursday. Pblice said the couple told them Nancy
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    • 141 6 AMERSHAM England. Mon (Reuter) Blonde Bobbie Wolseiy. 22. went hitch-hiking in the nude here to test drivers' reactions They reacted but with true British calm. One even asked for her autograph. She stopped 20 motor ists. stepping out of bushes on a country lane,
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    • 121 6 MANILA. Mon (Reuter) A seven-nation Seminar sponsored by the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO), opened In Manila today to discuss security in the regions rural areas. President Marcos in a message to the Seminar said that the meeting was timely because the danger that faced
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    • 234 6 AUSTIN. Texas, Mon. (Reuter) A teaching career is becoming more and more probable for President Johnson when he leaves the White House next January and it appears it will be in his home state at the University of Texas. The White House spokesman confirmed
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    • 140 6 WASHINGTON. Mon, (Reuter) —The Soviet Union has a new aircraft which American aviation experts believe is "far superior" to any yet developed by the U.S.. the magazine Aviation week said today. In a copyright article, the Magazine quoted U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff. General
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    • 97 6 HOBART. Mon. (Reuter)— A shooting party 0 f 250 Tasmanians organised by a football club, has shot 1.200 Wallabies —smaller relatives of the Kangaroo—despite a furore of public protest. The shoot at Avoca 50 miles (80 kms) Southeast of Launceston, was carried out. under supervision by police,
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    • 61 6 RANCHI. Bihar, India, Mon. Reuter) Six people were killed yesterday when police opened fire on several thousand tribesmen armed with bows and arrows who attacked the house of a Hindu money-lender and set it on fire at Chiri village, 40 miles from Ranchi The authorities have
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    • 42 6 BUDAPEST. Mon. (Reuter) Hungary is to boost its beer output by 20 per cent with a new brewery to be built near Bocs. in the northeast. Output will be 22 million gallons (100 million litres) a year.
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    • 54 6 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) More than 100 firemen fought for two hours today to save neighbouring flats as a fourstorey department store was destroyed by fire in central Paris. People were evacuated from the flats shortly after the fire broke out but were later allowed to
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    • 26 6 BEIRUT Would-be assasin Nabin Akhari after being arrested for attempt on the life of former President Lebenon Camilli Chamroun on, Friday UPI radiophoto
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    • 292 6 SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Mon. (UPI) The Republic of China's Hemisfair exhibit is more than a bridge between the cultures of the East and West It’s a gold mine. The pavilion was literally created by Prof. Grace Tao, a veteran of two other Texas
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    • 448 6 WASHINGTON. Mon. (UPI) The new Field Commander of the Poor People's March, declaring "the picnic is over.” pledged a step-up in demonstrations starting today. He hinted strongly of civil disobedience. Hosea Williams, chosen last week to replace the Rev. Jesse L Jackson as
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    • 65 6 KINGSTON. Jamaica. Mon. (Reuter) A severe drought affecting Jamaica for more than a year has finally been broken by heavy rain resulting in floods. A girl was drowned trying to cross a swollen river. Heavy rain fell in Kingston yesterday and there were reports today
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    • 248 7 on eu er^. Violence broke our during elections in 20 people* cr^°v re *ulting in seven deaths, and injuries to at The deaths occurred in knife and gun battles in scattered parts ot the country. Two candidates were unconscious after being gunned down by
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    • 221 7 ISTANBUL, Mon. (Reuter) Knife and gun battles flared throughout Turkey leaving at least seven dead and 20 injured, as millions voted in central and local elections. According to unofficial returns the ruling Justice Party, which sought a vote of confidence in its policies of
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    • 83 7 PARIS, Mon. (UPI) Police yesterday ordered Paris motorists to quit using their horns to blast our political rallying calls and to let people get some sleep. Ever since President Charles de Gaulle's “I will stav” speech last Thursday night, pro-Gaullist motorists have kept
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    • 230 7 JAKARTA, Mon. (Reuter) One Communist detainee was killed when a band of prisoners, headed by a dismissed Army lieutenant, tried to seize weapons from a military police arsenal at their camp in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia's Antara news agency report- cd today. The
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    • 55 7 ATHENS. Mon (Reuter) An Athens lawyer has been banned by the Lawyers Association from practising i n court for six months because he failed to turn up for his own wedding The Association announced its decision but withheld the name of the man who left his
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    • 74 7 JAKARTA, Mon. (UPI) World Bank Vice President Mr. Mohammad Shoaib is expected to arrive in Indonesia later today to discuss with Indonesian Government leaders World Banlc assistance for Indonesia s Economic Department schemes. Mr. Shoaib and World Bank projects Director Bernard Bell who arrived on Sunday night,
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    • 193 7 QUITO. ECUADOR Mon. (Reuter) Former President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra today appeared certain of becoming Ecuador’s Head of State for the fifth time. Partial results from the the Province of Guayas a n d the City of Guayaquil in yesterday’s presidential
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    • 89 7 CANBERRA, Mon. (Reuter) A South-east Asian expert was today appointed as Australia's new Ambassador to Thailand. He is Mr. David McNicol. 55. a Career Officer with the Department of External Affairs. who has previously represented Australia in Cambodia. Laos, Vietnam and Singapore. Mr. McNicol has also
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    • 27 7 SAIGON A near-hysterical Vietnamese woman carrying her belongings in a bundle flees the area of house-to-house fighting in Saigon s Cholon section UPI radiophoto.
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    • 601 7 SAIGON Mon. (UPI) In just a few blocks Saigon changes from a city of Sunday strollers and bustling traffic to a no man’s land of smoky burned-out buildings and deserted streets. Within a few moments, the time of a quick jeep ride through
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    • 130 7 CHICAGO. Mon (UPI) The nation's four-day Memorial Day holiday traffic death toll mounied toward the 600-mark on Sunday night. In the early part of the 102-hour holiday period, the highway death rate ranged from one-third to one-fif h below the rate for last year's
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    • 103 7 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) Crime and violence took a toll of 244 killed and 210 wounded throughout the Philippines in the month of May, according to a nationwide tabulation of the Philippine News Service (PNS). The news service said the May toll was the highest
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    • 102 7 SAIGON. Mon. (Reuter) Death toll in the command post blast here rose today to four colonels and two majors as conflicting reports came in on how the centre was hit. Saigons tough wirv Mayor. Colonel Van Van Cua, two other officers were injured
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    • 507 7 yyASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI). —Tht mystery of the missing U.S. nuclear submarine Scorpion and her 90-man crew was as deep on Sunday as the Atlantic across which the search spread, turning up one false clue after ano- ther. The nuclear submarine Pargo found
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    • 171 7 ROME. Mon. (UPI) Italian cities brace today for possible further violence. Political leaders sought a solution to a Government crisis caused by the Socialist walkout on the centreleft coalition. Three days of left-wing student violence in as many different places put officials in most
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    • 56 6 Major Surgery for Mini-Patients This is the story of Nancy, born 3 months early with a deadly abdominal defect, and of Tommy, only 5 hours old and suffering from hernia. Read how they were saved by “fingertip" surgery, using mirroscopes. mini-machines and a fascinating array of delicate new techniques. J-
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  • 437 8 A NEW FEDERATION THE Gerakan Ra’ayat Malaysia Chairman, Dr. Syed Hussein Al-Atas, has suggested that Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei should form a loose federation as the best solution to the defence and economic problems of this region. He said the leaders of these countries should eliminate the causes of previous
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  • 301 8 IT is an encouraging sign that an Institute of Technology will be established by private interests in the Genting Highlands now being opened up. Since the Minister of Education has been suggesting that the public should contribute more funds to education, this enterprise is an answer to his
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  • LETTERS...
    • 950 8 IN Mr. Chen’s reply to my letter (E.S. May 14), he seems to be more interested in creating unsuccessful humour than to write substantially. I must say, without prejudice, that Mr. Chen is one of those few fellow Malaysians I admire, and much more, for his
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    • 186 8 ¥T is significant that x neither Mr. V. David nor any Transport Workers’ Union official has replied to a query raised by your correspondent Hong Onn’ in your columns on May 21. Hong Onn’ had asked whether the Transport Workers’ Union had called a general meeting
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    • 75 8 I REFER to the letter from “Scorpion” in the Eastern Sun dated 10.5.68. The Police is aware of the illegal practice of re-selling cinema tickets by touts and has constantly taken action against offenders. In 1967, 106 offenders and in the current year to date. 60 of
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  • 898 8  -  By Edward Ashpole A S THAT great American the late Adlai Stevenson once said, the major problems of our time arise from the revolution in science and technology, and nothing less than a revolution in politics can hope to tolvi them. Presumably such a political revolution
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  • 288 8  -  BY Henrry B. Rothblatt -w j m. (Author, Handbook of Evidence War Crlßlnal Trial*") Y|4J?Y’ Jane u-ax driving I*l her station wagon through town when she suddenly heard the crash of glass. Her husband, Ben, who had been sitting in the rear of the car, was hit
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  • 568 8 DECAUSE of the strikes of students and workers, turmoil is rampant in several countries in Europe and America. How things are to develop hereafter, they do not know themselves. Although the peace talks on Vietnam War are now going on in Paris, everybody knows that Paris serves
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    • 42 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newspaper TUESDAY, JUNE 4. 1968 23-B. Cantonment Road. 39. |alan Sultan. Singapore 2. Kuala L“'"P“ r Malaysia. Telephone: *****/7 Telephone: *****/6 Penang Office 8. Leith Street. Tel: ***** Ipoh Office 77. Brewster Road, Tel: ***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 158 9 TOKYO. Mon. Rising exports by developing nations are earing into the overseas market share of Japanese products. This has been revealed in a survey conducted recently by the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In the survey, questionnaires were sent to a total of 2.000
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    • 125 9 CANBERRA, Au s tralia, Mon A National Export Week sponsored by Australia's Export Development Council will be held throughout Australia during October. The week will be aimed primarily at an expansion of exports of manufactures. There will be seminars, practical “workshops" and
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    • 176 9 TOKYO, Mon. A Japanese Company recently has begun marketing a new construction material employing rice or wheat stalks as its basic material. The company is Nippon Stramit of Tokyo which acquired know-how for such production from To m o Trading Co. of Britain. The
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    • 23 9 HONG KONG, Mon.(UPI) ■-Money Quotations: HHstj.lo7s/6.1125 per US dollar for cash. T K514.50 per pound sterling £KS3UAI6 per tael gold.
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    • 387 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The De Havilland Canada Twin Otter demonstrated here today provided an outstanding display of the capabilities of modern Stol (short take off and landing) aircraft Designed to All the need for a short haul STOL passenger or
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    • 246 9 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) The Sunday Times (Independent) newspaper today heralded Hong Kong’s new bond deal with Brltian as marking a radical change in the basis of the sterling area. Financial Editor Charles Raw. in a front page article in the business news
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    • 102 9 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Britain's top-selling Daily Mirror said today that a Bri-tish-Hong Kong financial agreement meant the sterling area club had "finally broke n down.” In a news article headed. “Spotlight on the falling popularity of the pound”, the mass-circulation tabloid said the breakdown
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    • 118 9 NEW YORK. Mon (UPI) Negotiators were reported deadlocked yesterday over a new contract for 17.000 striking aluminum workers who have closed 15 plants across the United States. Talks between the Aluminum Workers International Union (AWIU) and two major producers, the Aluminum Co. of
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    • 77 9 CAIRO. Mon. (Reuter) Egypt is facing what may be its worst cotton pest infestation i n 50 years. Minister of Agriculture Sayed Marei warned today. In a statement to the newspaper A1 Ahram. Mr. Marei said 801 l Worm damage this year might be
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    • 1188 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The industrial section of the Stock Exchange opened steadily today but eased towards the afternoon, mainly due to profit-taking. However, support was better for the quality stocks. Altogether 28 counters had drops, 12 had gains and five unchanged. Shares which were fairly active recently
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    • 292 9 RUBBER UP CENT SINGAPORE. Mon—June first grade rubber f ob. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 57J cents per lb., up threequarter of a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. Bull buying on lower upcountry stock and production figu re* for April issued
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The tin price for today was $557 per picul, down 62J cents.
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    • 412 9 SINGAPORE. Stock Exchange sold and offer prices officially listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS Ben A Co 3.44 Boustrad XBI 1-81 C. i u*ar 4.68 4.70 Chemical Co. 1.56 1.57 Dunlop 3-38 E. smelting 6.65 F. Deb 1.00 Es«« Ord« 2.84 Fitzpatricks 2.43 F. N. Ords. 4.34
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    • 44 9 (Managers* Prices) First Malayan 2.75 Second Malayan 1.97 Third Malayan 1.25 The Commerce Industry XD .98 1.07 The saving Fund 1.11 1.20 First ll’kong 85 .90« Second H'kong XD .60 .64* Mala>sian Investment Fund 1.15 1.25 Sterling C’modlty 5/2 <• Hong Kong Currency)
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    • 103 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are:Buyer Seller Coconut Oil (FOB.) Bulk 67 00 Coconut Oil (F. 0.8.) Drum* 69.50 Loose Copra Mixed June 40.00 Muntok Wmte Pepper <F0.8.) 96*7 N.L.W ***** Sarawak White Pepper (F. 0.8.) 96% N.L.W 112.50 Sarawak Special Black
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    • 276 9 CANBERRA. Australia. Mon. The Australian. Minister for Trade, Mr. John McEwen, believes substantial progress had been made in four weeks towards overcoming many of the problems which faced the International Sugar Conference in Geneva. Mr. McEwen has been leading the Australian delegation to
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    • 139 9 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) Hong Kong’s exports to the six common market countries in the first quarter of this year rose by 12 per cent compared with the corresponding period last year. The value of exports in April was 44
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    • 198 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following ships are expected to be in port today:Godowns Vessels 1/2 Millstar 3/4 Centaur 6/7 Orient Explorer 8/9 Kama Maru No. 3 10/11 Pacific Breeze 15/16 Traviata 18 Carronbank 19 Sir Lancelot 21/22 Sea Express 23/24 State of Madras 25/26 Sansho Maru 27/28 Nelly
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 1505 10 YOUR TV and TODAY TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 KUALA LUMPUR and Pulao Pinang; 6 Ipoh and Melaka; 3 A 10 Johore Bahru. Taiping; 7 Batu Fahat; 9 Kluang. P.M. 5.45 Opening Annct. Prog. Summary; 5.50 News Outline in the National Language; 5.55 National Songs; 6 00 News in Tamil; 6.10
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    • 60 11 Good-By Childhood Try to recall that mysterious moment when, for the first time in your life, you felt yourself no longer a child. If you can’t do it this unusual “First Person” Award fe atu r e may jo* your memory. A fresh, fascinating interpretation of what it means to
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  • Femme
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      19 12 JAPANESE model display the latest in Jpeachwear during the Tokyo Swimming Suit show re- cently. PANA Photo.
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    • 124 12 TV/lISS Eileen Seah. (above) I*l a Singapore beautician, has bee n appointed beauty counsellor for Oußarry cosmetics in Singapore and Malaysia. MiSs Seah, who has had more than ten years experience in cosmetics, will give lectures and conduct demonstrations on skin care, treatment
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    • 420 12 FEMININE FANFARE TH E fascinating world of cosmetics is placing a new accent on make-up. Now it is exit for the pale, gaunt, and hungry look, the stark make-up which dramatises the female face. And entree —a look of transparent natural beauty. Yes the
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    • 283 12 Grand Vatel Chateaubriand with Bearnaise Sauce. First cut a thick slice from the middle of a fillet of beef of about four inches thick or more. Grill it carefully, for if the meat is sealed too soon a hard coating is formed on both sides and the
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    • 75 12 Mr. Bill Hersey, a fashion director of Japan’s weekly Playboy magazine will be visiting Singapore on assignment from June 8 to 10. Accompanied by Satoshi Ebato, one of Japan's top fashion cameramen, they will photograph men's fashion using Singapore's land- marks as background. Bill Hersey is a member of the
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    • 253 12 Brenda (left) looks slim and suave in “Psychedelic Black’’ a creation by Anne Loo. This sophisticated hostess gown in black and white has pailette running down the front like a dragon. This is one of the seven outfits to be presented
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    • 233 12 A LOVELY writes: I have realised for some time that my legs needed a slimming and Arming treatment I put off the job and now that I have a new bathing suit. I'm sorry. Is there a real quick acting exercise that trims the legs, particularly the
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  • Eastern Sun Special
    • 1550 13  -  By ROBERT C. MILLER, United Press International TT is almost’ a miracU that Burma survive. No emerging nation ever suffered more agonising birth pains or was born at such a wrong time and in such a wrong place. "If only there was on atomic device that
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    • 200 13 SHAW tGANISATTON LIDO Phone ***** f>P'H' Today! 11. 1.45. 4 •.SO. 9.15 Doug McClur* At Nancy K*in In "NOBODVS PERFECT Co:or with James Shigeta (Dl-SB) NEXT CHANGE! 2 James Bonds for ONLY ONE PAYMENT! Sean Connery "THI N'PERBALL" Plus "TOC ONLY LIVE TWICE" Both In P»naVi*ion At Color <UAI CAPITOL
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  • NEWSFEATURES
    • 735 14  -  By KEE FLETCHER ooming high Lj above the bustling Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront a slim ash-grey building commands a spectacular view of Hong Kong ’s famed *frag rant harbour From its tallest point one surveys an unbroken panorama of this tiny British Crown Colony.
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    • 160 14 PLYMOUTH. England, Mon. (Reuter) Frenchman Eric Tabarly. favourite in the 3,000 mile single handed trans -Atlantic yacht race, has turned back, British coastguards said last night. Steering trouble with his giant 65-foot ketch-rigged trimaran. Pen Duick IV, biggest craft in the race, was believed responsible.
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    • 75 14 LEWES. Delaware. Mon. (Reuter) Harry Hinken, the long distance swimmer whose legs are crippled by polio, -said he planned to make a second attempt to swim the channel next month On Saturday, he swam 11 of the 17 miles of Delaware Bay as a warm-up
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    • 468 14 Eastehn Sun Classified advertisements can be accepted at the following addresses: MONT D OR MILK BAR. Ngee Ann Building, Singapore. S.S. MUBARUK b Brothers. 63, Bras Basah Road, and 2, Maju Avenue, Serangoon Carden Estate, Singapore. TAY BUAN CUAN LTD., SUPERMARKET. 83, East Coast Road, Singapore 15- Tel: *****9. HAMIEM
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    • 216 14 TENDERS KENYATAAN TAWARAN IBU PEJABAT. J.K.R TAWARAN daripada pemborong2 yang berdaftar diJ.K.R. Kelas C’ (Head II Sub-Head 2) dan kaatas akan di-terima di-Pejabat Pengarah Kerja Raya, Ibu Pejabat J.K.R.. Jalan Maxwell. Kuala Lumpur hingga pukol 12 tengah hari pada 17hb. June 1968 untok:-RE-TENDER FOR THE ERECTION AND COMPLETION OF A
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  • Sun Sport
    • 396 15 o Pok°om M M.'.Jh R t CI,,Cr 1 i T En9land boUm Colin Wilburn and Narthnml? Mushtaq Mohammad delighted a Sunday crowd at c r ,wi oH Derby hi in Both were run out for 100 by direct throws from John Harvey. Derbyshire’s bowlers
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    • 203 15 MUAR, Mon. The twoday Johore Intcr-District Table Tennis Championships. scheduled to be held In Johore on July 6 and 7. has been brought forward to June 22 and 23. Mr Tan Hong Chiang. the chairman of the organising committee, who announced this
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    • 74 15 MUAR, Mon. Primary schools of all language media in the Rluar district are invited to take part in a inter-primary school basketball tournament organised by the Muar branch of the Johore State Basketball Association from July 13. This was decided at the committee meeting of
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    • 247 15 MI'AR. Mon. About 190 basketball stars from eight districts in Johore wfll once again vie for the State’s premier basketball attraction the Johore Inter-District Gold tup basketball championships to be held from June 15. The districts are Muar. Mersing. Pontian, Segamat. Kluang. Kota Tlnggi.
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    • 243 15 HANOVER, West Germany. Mon. (Reuteri Chastened and somewhat dispirited by their 1-0 defeat by West Germany on Saturday the English soccer team left here yesterday for the European championship finals in Italy. The English party laced a long tiring trip by air and
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    • 178 15 IPOH. Mon. Precautionary measures to prevent any likely acts of hooliganism on a sports field have been taken by of the Ipoh and District Football league’. They have decided to hold some Division I and II fixtures at Perak Stadium instead of on the
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    • 92 15 VIRGINIA Wade proudly displays the women's singles trophy after retaining her British hard court championship to become the first woman in the world to win an “Open’' tennis event. She secured her place in the history books of sport with a 6-4. 6-1 win over Scotland's H'innie Shaw at Bournemouth,
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    • 284 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. M'ith local weather experts promising dry and warm weather for the sth Malaysian Hockey Federation six-a-side championships at Sercmban this weekend everything points to a razer keen interest in the competition. The series which began only in 1964 has provided keen
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    • 136 15 MUAR Mon. Local swimmers in the Batu Pahat District have been invited by the Seaview Swimming Pool Committee to take part in the Batu Pahat District Swimming Competition on June 29 from 10 am. The aims of the competition. according to a spokesman of
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    • 99 15 ALOR STAR. Mon A. S Fadzil. the Malaysian international cyclist won the 100 kilometres cycle race here recently in a time of two hours 45 minutes and 10 seconds. Out of the 13 senior cyclists who took part in this race only seven completed the
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    • 167 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Malaysia Fencing Federation will hold their 1963 Master’s Prize fencing competition at the University of Malaya i n August. The competition is open to all institutions of learning in Malaysia. There will also be a team competition in which the team
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    • 68 15 MUAR. Mon—Batu Pahat Chinese Recreation Club captured the men’s championship title in the Batu Pahat District basketball tournament organised by the local branch of the Johore Slate Basketball Association. Runners-up were Nan Tai and Hwa Yen Secondary School The women’s section title was won by the
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    • 445 15 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) A capacity 12.000 centre court crowd saw Texan Cliff Richard *ive professional Roy Emerson a memorable duel in the French Open Tennis Championships here yesterday. Erqerson, who w’on the men's singles title as an amateur last year, spent three gruellin e
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    • 144 15 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Singapore Tabic-Tennis Association will hold its National Open Table-Tennis Championships at the Khee Fatt School Hall, commencing on June 11. The STTA have received a record number of entries i n both the singles and doubles events for this year’s
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    • 314 15 IPOH, Mon., The following is the Stipendiary Steward's report on the third dav of the Perak Turf Club (Derby) meeting on Saturday. Going yielding. Race 1: Tallette (Kingston) faltered shortly after the start he returned sore in
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    • 193 15 ALOR STAR. Mon Kedah Police with 42 points and unbeaten in their three outings are strongly fancied to win the Kedah Cricket league honours this season. Over the weekend at the Sultan Abdul Hamid college ground Police trounced their close rivals. Hindu
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    • 390 16  -  ‘We must not completely break close links’ By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Mon. The Minister for Social Affairs and SOSC President, Enc h e Othman bin Wok, has urged local sports associations to foster and maintain the existing fraternal ties with sports bodies in Malaysia. Speaking to
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    • 329 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Ministry of Social Affairs has rejected the nomination list submitted by the Football Association of Singapore on the new officials to the Council. In making this shock announcement at the Emergency Meeting here. Mr. Woon Wah Siang. Chairman of the
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    • 210 16 SINGAPORE Mon. The Minister in-charge of sports, Enche Othman Wok. said the “Sports Seminar” to be held soon would help to “open up new horizons" In sports development in the Republic. Talking to newsmen here today Enche Othman said the two-day seminar orginally
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    • 89 16 HOCKEHEIM, (West Germany). Mon (Reuter) Two West German motor cyclists were killed yesterday on the Hockenheimring Circuit at almost exactly the same spot where British world champion racing driver Jim Clark had his fatal crash two months ago Alex Ludwig and Helmut Ramann were taking part in
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    • 122 16 WEST BERLIN. Mon. (Reuter) Tom Okker of Holland and Spain's Manuel Santana qualified for the final of West Berlin’s International Whitsun Tennis Tournament here yesterday. Okker defeated the West German Harald ELschenbroich 6-4. 6-1. 6-0 and topseeded Santana, a former Wimbledon champion, beat Martin
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    • 29 16 MUAR. Mon The Sultan Abu Bakar Second Primary School here will hold its annual athletic meet on its school ground on June 13 starting from 2.30 p.m.
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    • 88 16 SINGAPORE. Mon.—Thirteen teams will participate in the Singapore Billiards Association’s 1968 Novice Inter-Club Semi-League Championships, which commences on June 10. The teams are grouped under the sections the "A” and “B” section. The teams in section “A” are: University “B”. NAAFI Imperial Club. Rubber Sports
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    • 32 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Bukit Timah District Primary Schools Sports Council will hold their 9th. annual athletic meet at the Bukit Batok East and West School ground from tomorrow till Thursday.
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    • 320 16 ATLANTA. (Georgia) (UPI) Husky. 23-year-old Bob Lunn became the second back-to-back winner on the pro tour this year when he captured the $115,000 Atlanta Golf Classic yesterday by three strokes over runner-up Lee Trevino. The 220 pound Lunn, winner by a single stroke
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    • 152 16 MUAR, Mon. The headmaster of the Segamat Seg riwa National Type Secondary School, Mr. Woo Seng Hwa, has been appointed the first chairman of the newly-formed North Regional Sports Council of Johore. The north region consists of three districts: Muar. Tangkak and Segamat
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    • 332 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Top athletes who are bidding for places in the Malaysian Olympic team for Mexico City in August would provide the main attraction in the all-comers athletic meet organised by the Selangor Amateur Athletic Association. The meet is scheduled to take place
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    • 161 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. Kampong Kapor. suspended for two years have made a comeback to the FAS league championships this season. Kampong Kapor will open their 1968 outing with a match against Medium Security Prison in the Division 111. A league at Geylang stadium here tomorrow. Kampong
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    • 35 16 MUAR. Mon. The Lower Secondary English School here will hold its annual athletic meet at the Muar High School rugger field at Jalan Abdul Rahman here on June 20 starting from 2.30 p.m.
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    • 47 16 A dramatic moment in Sunday night's soccer match between Arsenal Football Club of London and FAM President's Asian AI IStars at the Stadium Merdcka in Kuala Lumpur. Arsenal won 6-2. Sunsport pix by Mok Voon shows a scramble for goal at the Asian All-Stars goalmouth.
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    • 185 16 PLYMOUTH. (England), Mon. (UPI) Australian Bill Howell was reported among the leaders in the singlehanded sailboat race from Britain to America today. Howell, piloting his Golden Cockerel, was placed at the head of the contest, along with Britons Leslie Williams and Geoffrey Williams. Leslie Williams was
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    • 180 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. Singapore will send a team to the 9th Asian Table-Tennis Championships to be held in Jakarta from September 22-30 this year Mr. Tang Tuck Wah, secretary-general of the Table Tennis Federation of Asia said circulars will be sent out shortly
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    • 57 16 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) —Alan Connolly, the Australian medium fast bowler, will be fit for Thursday’s first Cricket Test against England at Manchester. Connolly was forced to withdraw from the Australian team against Surrey on Saturday because of severe gastric trouble. He has now been declared fit
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    • 26 16 MUAR. Mon. —The Kluang District Youth Club will hold a district open badminton championships at the Malay Club at Jalan Lambak on June 14.
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    • 130 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Entries opened today -for Selangor schools wanting to take part in the heats of the annual athletic meet of the Selangor Schools Sports Council to be held either at the Merdeka Stadium or Kampong Pandan from June, 24 to 27. Entries
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    • 56 16 EAST BERLIN, Mon. (Reuter) —Christoph Hoehne of East Germany yesterday claimed a new world best performance for the 50-kilo-metre walk with a time of lour hours six minutes and 23.4 seconds. Hoehne was taking part in an East German-Swedish walking competition at Langburkersdorf. near Dresden, the
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    • 56 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 7.15 a.m. (6.4 ft.). 6.11 p.m. <7.0 ft.) Port Swettenham: 10.58 a.m. (13.3 ft.), 11.03 p.m. (12.0 ft.) Port Dickson: 11.34 a.m. (7.1 ft.) Singapore: 3.15 a.m. (7.5 ft.), 5.27 p.m. (6.6 ft.) Sedili Kechil: 1.33 a.m. (5.1 ft.). 3.59 p.m. (7.0 ft.) Kuantan: 1.19 a.m.
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