Eastern Sun, 9 July 1968

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 698 Tuesday, 9 July 1968. MC (P) 0050 Price 15 rants
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  • 626 1 60,000 IMG workers decide to down tools on Sept. 1 if... KUALA LUMPUR, MONDAY A BOUT 60,000 workers from the Industrial and Manual Group will go on strike at midnight on Aug. 30 over the Government's decision not to implement fully the Suffian Salaries Commission's Report. The
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  • 211 1 Kuala lumpur, Mon. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, announced today a working party had been set up to sort out differences of figures relating to the cost of implementing the Suffian Salary Commission's recommendations. Tun Razak said there had been differences
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  • 730 1 Condemned six KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Attorney-General. Tan Sri Abdul Kadir bin Yusof. said today he had submitted his written opinion to the Johore State Pardons Board on the new grounds offered for the pardon of six youths condemned to death for consorting
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  • 213 1 ITUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Royal Malaysia Police Headquarters here have asked the Johore Police for clarification on a report that the Special Branch there had detained six Malaysians for allegedly con* sorting with 10 heavily-armed members of the crack Indonesian Marine Commando in Malaysian territorial
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  • 57 1 GLASGOW, Mon. (Reuter) Malaysia may order a further frigate from a British shipyard. This was evident from answers given by the Prime Minister of Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman at a Press Conference alter he had toured the Frigate K. D. Hang Jebat which is being completed for the
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  • 66 1 SAIGON. Moa. (Reuter) —President Nguven Van Thieu tonight announced he had cancelled his scheduled visit to the United States because of possible new Vietcong attacks. The visit has been pending for some time but no date had been fixed, although a senior U.S. official
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  • 87 1 BANGKOK, Mon. (Reuter) The Philippines today held up the Sabah talks with Malaysia for more than two hours. The Philippine delegation arrived at the guest house on time at 1500 local but instead of entering the conference room they retired into the adjoining room reserved for
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 1024 2 16th Day of hearing JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The Rojo Aslan Commission of Inquiry today heard about "nepotism" in the Johore Bahru Town Council. The Council's former Vice-President, E n c h e Sanuddin bin Abdul Manas and the Council’s Chairman
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    • 88 2 The Selangor Welfare Institutions held their Combined Sports Meet at the De- wan Bella groundsm, Kampong Pandan, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday. The Minis- ier or vveirare services. ia n Sri Ha.u Abdul Hamid Khan, attended the meet and addressed the gathering. At the end of the meet, the Minister's”wife Puan
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    • 135 2 Five years for raping girl 6 IPOH, Mon.—A fishermen, Bee Nguan Chu, 25, was today sentenced to five years jail for raping a six-year-old girl. Bee pleaded guilty before Mr. Justice Chang Min Tat in the Hieh Court here to raping the girl between midnight and 1 a.m. on Feb.
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    • 111 2 BATU PAHAT. Mon. The Johore State Government has set up a scholarship fund totalling $745,00 to enable the children of "have-nots” jn the State to continue with their education at different levels. This was disclosed by the Johore Mentri Besar. Dato Haji Othman bin Haji Mohamed Saat,
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    • 104 2 SEGAMAT. Mon Enehe Mohamed Khir Johan, the Minister of Education, will open three schools in the Segamat District on July 21. At 9.30 a.m. Enche Khir will open the Segamat National Lower Secondary School at Jalan Genuang. two miles from here. At 11.30 a m.
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    • 48 2 IPOH. Mon. The Commissioner of Prisons. Dato Murad bin Ahmad, was made a bankrupt before Mr. Justice Chang Min Tat in the High Court here today. In his petition last Friday. Dato Murad had stated that he was unable to pay hia debts.
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    • 260 2  -  Peace Corps teacher loses $10,635 By HOO BAN KHEE KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. An American Peace Corps teacher, Mr. W. L. Carter, 26. now holidaying in Malaysia, took perhaps the most costly dip in Kuantan on Saturday he lost all his luggage valued at U
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    • 113 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. Col. Osmundo Mondonedo, Chairman and General Manager of the Philippines Governm e n t Rice and Corn Administration, has assured Singapore and Indonesian riee dealers that Philip- pines-grown riee is of very good quality and able to meet world standards set by
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    • 100 2 SINGAPORE Mon. The Singapore Polytechnic Building Society will hold its first gold medal award presentation ceremony at the Singapore Polytechnic exhibition hall on July 20 at 10.45 a.m. The awards donated by Industrialists and the various foundations are: Humes Industries medal. Lee Foundation medal, Chou
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    • 95 2 National Art Gallery (Jalan Ampang): Exhibition of batek design and art 10 a.m to 6.30 p.m. Peninsular Art Gallery (41. Jalan Raja Muda): Works of prominent Malaysian artists 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Balai Ampang (AIA Building): World exhibition of photography 10 a.m. to 6 pm. Jalan Weld
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    • 207 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Director of the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Syed Nasir bin Ismail, tonight called on the Government to give pioneer status of up to five years to bumiputras who want to do business on their own. Speaking at a prizegiving
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    • 35 2 SINGAPORE. Mon -Fiftyseven seamen e ra duated a t a ceremony on board the training ship "SINGAPORE” on Saturday. It was the 37th batch of graduates to have completed their training.
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    • 431 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. Internationally-k n o w n authorities on South-East Asia both local and overseas will he chosen to carry out research in the newiv-formed Institute of South-East Asian Studies here. This was disclosed today by the newlyappointed Director of the Institute.
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    • 329 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Adult Education Board was urged tonight to re-direct its activities and channel its resources towards technical and industrial education to meet the need for trained technical personnel in the Republic. This call was made by the Minister for Education. Mr. Ong Pang
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    • 143 2 SEREMBAN. Mon —Over 60 civilian employees working at Rasah Military Camp are perturbed by the purported proposal of the War Department Civilian Staff Association to abolish the Pan-Malavan Pool and the creation of Station Pools for both promotion and redundancy purposes as a result of
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    • 55 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. The annual social and dance of the Singapore Malays Hockey Association will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday at 8 pm. The dance is under the patronage of the Minister for Social Affairs, Enehe Othman Wok. Highlight of the night will
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    • 21 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Teachers’ Training College has arranged a big program* me to celebrate National Day this y tag.
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    • 580 3 By H. M. S. SUTAN SINGAPORE, Mon. The Netherlands Foreign Minister, Dr. J. Luns said today that if countries in the region could form a common market, "it will facilitate its dealings with the common market coun- tries in other blocs." He contended
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    • 525 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The responsibility of keeping Singapore clean rests not only on the Government but on everybody, the Minister for Health, Mr. Chua Sian Chin, reiterated tonight. He was speaking at a victory dinner given by the residents of MacPherson constituency
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    • 109 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Enche Ahmad bin Sihmahoon was elected president of the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association at its biennial conference held lyOthers elected were: Mr. Andrew Loh Peng Hock, deputy president: Mr. Abdul Rahman s/o Maideen Marican. vice-president; Mr. P. Nagaia. vice-president; Mr. Mathiyookee N Lingam, secretary-general; Mr.
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    • 68 3 SINGAPORE Mon The Singapore Stamp Club will hold a stamp auction on Aug. 3 at the Singapore Cricket Club at 4 p.m. in aid of the National Defence Fund According to the Club’s report, the auction promises to be most interesting. The stamps range
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    • 657 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Some contractors, lawyers, doctors and architects were criticised today by the Director of the Anti-Cor-ruption Agency, Enche Harun bin Dato Hashim. He was speaking at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Pudu Rotary Club. Enche Harun spoke of three
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    • 600 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Britain will give Malaysia $52 million between now and next March as part of the £25 million ($lB4 million) aid she is giving to help offset the economic effects as a result of British troops pull-out
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    • 53 4 The Minister of Transport. Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Jubir, (right) inspecting the wheels of MalaysiaSingapore Airline’s second Boeing 707 which landed for the first time at the Subang Airport, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. On the left is the Director of Civil Aviation. Mr. C. H Moreira. Eastern Sun pix by
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    • 297 4 Two murdered in Johore: JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The town's top crime buster, ASP Omar bin Mohamed today launched one of the biggest manhunts this year, following two separate murders within the last 48 hours. In the State-wide hunt for culprits, the Police detained a man.
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    • 30 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mofi —More than 53.500 in cash and property were said to have been lost in s ix reports of theft and robbery here yesterday.
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    • 92 4 MALACCA. Mon. Malacca Police this morning cordoned off the sparselypopulated Bukit Sebukor area, three miles from here, following the discovery of a number of mortar shells. The presence of the mortar shells was first suspected yesterday bv a Police party patrolling the area. During an
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    • 355 4  -  By MAUREEN LEE KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. MalaysiaSingapore Airline's second Boeing 707 looking sleek and majestic touched down at the Subang Airport here today for the first time. The $22.5 million aircraft, painted in MSA colours, made a beautiful
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    • 224 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Four thousand Industrial and Manual Group of workers shouted “strike, strike” as trade union leaders addressed them at a rally here this evening. The rally was called for I.M.G. workers to air their views on the Government’s postponement of action on
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    • 2740 10 Madam Teng fabricated evidence for her own ends-Lee SENE AND FREDDY: THE ONLY THING IN COMMONTHEY WERE BOTH PLAYBOYS 32nd GENE KOH MURDER TRIAL By R. V. LINGAM SINGAPORE, Mon. The defence counsel in the Gene Koh murder trial today submitted that the accused
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    • 55 10 IPOH, Mon. A watchman. Abdul Fathi bin Puteh Yakob, of Messrs. Khoo Sioe bin Tin Mine in Jalan Pasir Puteh here, was shot in his left foot in a robbery bid this morning. His toe was blown off. He returned the fire and the robbers fled. Nothing
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    • 360 10 SINGAPORE, M o n. A secret society fighter. Wee Lye Heng, 29, described as a "vicious man" by the District Judge, was sentenced to seven years' jail and six strokes of the rotan by the Second District Court for causing grievous hurt
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    • 94 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Singapore Olympic and Sports Council will be organising a film premiere in aid of the Council’s Sports Promotion Fund to be held on July 19 at the Metropole Theatre commencing at 9 p.m The film is entitled “Flag Of
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    • 78 10 SINGAPORE, Mon.—The Society of St. Vincent de Paul Superior Council of Singapore will hold its annual general meetng on July 19. (Feast of St. Vincent de Paul) at 5.30 p.m. in Ozanam House, 61 Waterloo Street here, preceded by a mass at 5 p.m. at the Cathedral
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    • 245 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.-* Malaysia is determined tm destroy the small section c# the people here who hav# resorted to armed rebeß lion, the Deputy Prime Mg nister, Tun Abdul Razal* said tonight. He was speaking at a dir# ner in honour of the visitin*
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    • 170 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. A 33-year-old unemployed man, Yap Hay Lee* who claimed that “committing crimes was not his profession”, was jailed for five years by the Second District Court today for theft of $143,000 worth of textiles from the Port of Singapore Authority godowns.
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    • 60 10 BATU PAHAT. Mon The Batu Pahat District Officer, Enche Yusof bm Rahman, has been elected Chairman of the Batu Pahat District Poppy Day Fundraising Committee with Mr. Tan Suan Choon as Vicechairman. Members of the committee will sell poppy flowers from July 15 to
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    • 343 11 KUALA J.UMPUR, Mon. A conference to set up a South-east Asian regional branch of the International Council of Archives (1.C.A.) will be opened here tomorrow by the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak. The three-day conference at the Dewan Tunku Abdul Rahman will be attended
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    • 212 11 HI ALA LUMPUR. Mod For the first time this 5 year Malaysia will com- memorate her own war dead on Au? 4 to be known as “Hari Pahlai wan” Heroes’ Day. A spokesman of the Prime Minister’s Department said: “In past years
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    • 55 11 MUAR. Mon—A Telecoms Sfla. dance will be held at uie Chong Hwa High School Sail at Jalan Junid here on °uly 13 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The Malacca Kilat Band w:L be in attendance Highlights of the dance be the selection of a Miss Telecoms.
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    • 35 11 -TPOH. Mon. Perumal b Narayanan. 66, was found dead with a gunshot wound Bagan Serai yesterday. A single barrel shot gun jas found beside him No foul play i s suspected.
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    • 49 11 MUAR. Mon. The Mentri Besar of Johore. Dato Haji Othman bin Haji Mohamed Saat. will presen: cheques totalling $40,000 to two Chinese temples at Pagoh, 16 miles north of here, on Wednesday at 3 p.m The two temples are at Bukit Kepong and Kampong Raja.
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    • 88 11 \f ISS Veronica Lau Oi Kit, 22. a stenographer of the Municipality of Ipoh. who was adjudged the Beauty Queen at the Sixth Anniversary Ball of the Ipoh Municipal Recreation Cluh held at St. John Ambulance Association Hall in Ipoh on Saturday night. The
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    • 202 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Five members of the House of Representatives ana the Senate and a Minister will attena two conieienc£ r oi parliamentarians to be held in Peru and in the Bahamas. This was stated here today by toe Sec»et?ry ti. tne Senate,
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    • 470 11 SABAK BERNAM, Mon. Parents of school-going children were told today to keep a constant tab on the activities of their children after school hours and to establish close ties with the school as regards their progress The Minister of Education, Enche Mohamed
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    • 89 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The secretary of the Port Swettenham Authority Staff Union. Mr. J. B. L. Ponmah said today the union was now a member of the International Transport Workers Federation. He said the umon had just received a letter from the General Secretary
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    • 29 11 IPOH. Mon. A car stolen from Sungei Siput during the week-end was recovered at Padang Besar. near the Malaysia Thailand border, yesterday. A man has been detained.
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    • 216 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The general manager of the Malayan Railway. Enche Waad bln Jamaluddln. said today the 1.511 derailments in the past six years Included “very small ones.” He was commenting on a statement by the chairman of Gerakan Rakyat
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    • 42 11 SEGAMAT. Mon—A total of 33 men and 22 women contestants will take part in the semi-final of the Johore State Mandarin taientime contest, organised by the Bekok MCA youth section on July 12. The venue is the Bekok Community Hall
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    • 238 11 KUALA. LUMPUR. Mon.— The Federal Court today reserved judgment in the appeal against the death sentence by Hamid bin Othman, 31. who was found guilty of the murder of his uncle. Dol Ali. 43. on June 25 last year at II a.m. at Kampong Siding,
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    • 215 11 Drop the Sabah claim Geraka n leader tells Manila TTENANG, Mon. The Philippine Government should drop its claims on Sabah and the Malaysian Government should not waste time and money "dilly dallying" on the talks now taking place in Bangkok. This was slated by the vice-chairman of Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia.
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    • 99 11 BATU PAHAT, Mon. About 2,000 Boy Scouts, Scout officials and district and assistant district Scout Commissioners in Johore will attend the Johore State Annual Scout Rally here on Aug. 2. The venue is the Johore State Boy Scout Training site at Tanjong Labu. The
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    • 64 11 IPOH. Mon.—A .25 automatic pistol with one round of ammunition was seized by the police at Pantai Remis yesterday from a man after robbery bid in a sundry goods shop. The Chief of the Perak C.1.D., assistant superintendent Mr. U. Santokh Singh, said today that the
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    • 160 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Tay Kim Bock. 21. and Ng Teck Chew. 21. of Mentakab. today pleaded guilty in the Sessions Court to a charge of cheating the Hwa Foong Electric Co.. Jalan Sultan, of $1,944 worth of electrical wire. They admitted forging an order
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    • 199 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Assistant Minister of Education, Mr. Lee Siok Yew, today urged Chinese to help Malays study the Chinese language. He made the call during a- visit to the Catholic High School, a Chinese school, in Petaling Jay a. Mr. Lee said:
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    • 118 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —Three men were today committed for trial in the High Court on three separate charges of murder. Tay Sze Chye, 28, of Klyne Street, faced a charge of murdering Tan Boon Kim at Jalan Pahang at 1136 p.m. on Feb. 16.
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    • 54 11 MUAR. Mon. Enche ;Abdul Majid bin Othman, the Organiser of National Schools in Johore. died here during the weekend after a long illhess. He was 48. He leaves behind a wife and five school-going children. He was buried at the Muslim- burial ground at Jalan Bakri,
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    • 35 11 MUAR. Mon —Tunku Shariah. the Consort of the Tunku Mahkota of Johore. has been re-elected tbe chairman of the Johore State Red Cross Society. The vice-chairman is Enche Abdul Rahman bin Ahmad.
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    • 476 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. The wife of an airline’s executive told the High Court that the only time her husband stayed at heme was when he was un- employed. Mrs. Rosalind Tan Chick Nya said this during her divorce proceedings against her husband, Tan Kim Hock,
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    • 696 13  -  By PETER LOKE SINGAPORE, Mon. An assistant marketing manager of a commercial organisation in Singapore, Freddie Lee Hion Chua once told his wife that "it was born in him to like girls" when questioned of his
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    • 369 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. A 10-month-old infant. Tan Bee Hoe. died as a result of injuries sustained when an electric kettle containing boiling water toppled and fell on her. Tan was injured on May 23 this year and died on June
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    • 102 13 The El Amigo Nite Club in Kitchener Road, Singapore, raised more than $ll,OOO for the National Defence Fund on Sunday. Highlights of the night were performances by local artistes and the resi- dent hand. D’Starlights. A fashion show was also held. The Parliamentary
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    • 99 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. One hundred and sixty persons died on Singapore roads during the first six months of this year 39 more tiien the same period last year. Of this, 30 were killed last month an average of one a day. But on the
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    • 159 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. Local charities will receive more than $20,000 from the Royal Navy as a result of the Summer Fair held last Saturday at HMS Terror. Inspite of heavy rain, the fair was well-attended and itself raised more than $ll,OOO. A further sum of about
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    • 82 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. The High Court today reprimanded the petitioner in a divorce case. Quah Kay Choon —an odd job labourer —for attending Court bare-footed and wearing shorts and an open-neck shirt. Quah was allowed to continue to give evidence after he explained that he just came
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    • 54 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. An assistant postman, Lee Yee Siang, 35. was jailed for 12 months by the First District Court today for theft of a parcel containing $5,027.42 worth of watches. He was found guilty of stealing the parcel at the Parcel Basement of the General Post
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    • 135 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. Two leading cement manufacturers in the Republic today denied that there was any acute shortage of cement in the Republic. They were commenting on a memorandum sent by the Singapore Building Contractors’ Society to the Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng. Swee.
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    • 64 13 10 am. Danish food demonstration at Hollandsche Club, Camden Park (off Adam Road). 10 a.m. Blood Transfusion Mobile Blood Bank stationed at RAF Seletar. 2.30 p.m.—6.30 p.m. Annual British Army schools’ joint arts and crafts exhibition at Alexandra Junior School, Nepal Road (off South Bouna Vista Road). 7
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 367 5 PARIS, Mon. (Reuter) —France exploded a medium sized nuclear device in its Pacific testing ground yesterday an official commun- ique announced here. The explosion was the first in the current series of nuclear tests due to culminate in the explosion of France's first
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    • 341 5 South Africa: WASHINGTON. Mon. (Reuter) South Africa’s Prime Minister John Vorster said today he could not understand the U.S. attitude towards his country and accused Americans of “cutting off vour nose to spite your face.” In a wide-ranging copyrighted interview in the magazine U.S.
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    • 67 5 ADEM. Mon. (Reuter) An angry crowd yesterday killed a Yemeni who fired a bazooka at the house of Qadmi Abdul Rahman A1 Iryani. president of the three-man Republican Council. the Yemen Republic’s supreme ruling body. Sanaa radio monitored here said the Yemeni, Mohammed Abdullah Nagi
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    • 52 5 GLENVIEW. Illinois. Mon. (Reuter) A Skyhawk Navy jet crashed into a house in a residential suburb here today killing a 13-year-old girl and setting fire to two houses. The pilot ejected from his single seater plane and landed in a tree breaking an arm and
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    • 44 5 Wu Hsiang-chen, Formosa's first kidney transplant patient, meets the reporters at the Taiwan University Hospital. Wu, who received a kidney from his own father during the eight-hour operation at the hospital in May, is doing very well. PANA photo.
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    • 104 5 NEW YORK. Mon. (Reuter) An explosion blew out the windows ot the Japan National Tourist Office in New York’s Rockefeller Plaza today. Hundreds of visitors and summer strollers gathered at the scene. Early last Thursday a bomb damaged the Fifth Avenue building
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    • 83 5 WEST BERLIN. Mon. (Reuter) In separate incidents during the past 24 hours. East German border guards have shot down two reiugees on the Berlin wa 1 as they tried to escape to the West, police here reported. West Berlin police said that a man.
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    • 160 5 CAPE TOWN. Mon. (Reuter) Heart transplant patient Dr. Philip Blaiberg yesterday pulled through a major crisis threatening his life and his excited wife Eileen told reporters he had a good chance of a full recovery. “I am trying not to be too excited with the
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    • 83 5 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) Fighting among Maoists. anti-Maoists and the People’s Liberation Army go on endlessly in Canton, the Hong Kong Standard reported today. Quoting travellers from the South China city, the English language newspaper said many people were killed and sound of gunfire could
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    • 157 5 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Pro-American Premier Eisaku Sato's Liberal Democratic Party increased its lead today over the Pekingoriented opposition Socialist Party in Sunday's election of the Upper House. With 35 per cent of the votes counted so far. the Japanese voters gave the conservative party
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    • 250 5 Almost gay LBJ down San Salvador way SAN SALVADOR, Mon. (UPI) U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took to the running board of his car yesterday in a campaign-style swing through the crowded market square of this tiny coffee capital shouting “Muchas gracias. mis amigos” (many thanks, mv friends) over a
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    • 92 5 NEW YORK. Mon. (Reuter) The American Communist Party has nominated a 38-year-oid Negro mother as its candidate for the U.S. presidency. It was the first time in 28 years the party had named a candidate for the White House. The nominee. Mrs. Charlene
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    • 337 5 Another weekend huddle but no communique issued BASLE, Mon. (Reuter) —Western Central Bankers have made progress here on their plan for another support operation for sterling. But they were giving away few details. Sir Leslie O'Brien, Governor of the Bank of England, yesterday
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    • 240 5 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) Prime Minister Harold Wilson has retaken the offensive with a strong attack on his conservative opposition for allegedly sacrificing Britain’s interest In it* struggle for power. Mr. Wilson’s speech to a Welsh Labour Party ralfy on Saturday night also dismissed dissidents
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    • 42 5 NEW DELHI. Mon. (Reuter) Indian security forces have seized more than 60 weapons in surprise raids in Nagaland it was reported here today. The captured weapons included muzzle-loaders and double barrelled guns. Gunpower and detonators were also recovered.
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    • 32 5 vminTi air RASE: fll's who were in the plane detained two days by the Soviets in the Kurile Islands catch up on chow after their return to friendly soil again. UPI radiophoto.
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    • 49 6 r-r AN attractive 21-rear-old Ingrid Strengret stands atop a Rolls Royce after ohe was elected “Miss Film-Festival 1968” at the New Eden Saloon in Berlin *T*ry recently. 1 J Some 12 bikini clad girls, a few in topless costumes, competed in the finals. PANA photo.
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    • 194 6 CHICAGO, Mon. (UPI) Traffic casualties surged upward yesterday as millions of motorists headed for home at the end of the long July 4th weekend, but remained hearteningly below last year’s record death pace. A National Safety Council official noted that traffic deaths rose in
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    • 100 6 AUCKLAND. Mon. (UPI) The New Zealand Minister forjndustries and Commerce, Mr. John Marshall, today sighed an agreement with an Australian Company and-two Japanese companies to establish an aluminum smelter at the bluff on the South Island. The combine was Comalco Industries of Australia Limited,
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    • 119 6 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) President Suharto of Indonesia is to make his third regional ;tour in the middle of this month to introduoe himself to his people. r He is leaving on July 15 to visit districts in South and Central Sumatra where he will
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    • 54 6 JAKARTA. Mon (UPI) Floods in West Java have inundated about 10.000 hectares of riceland. according to press reports here today. At least two persons were believed to have drowned. The material loss was tentatively estimated at US$ 25.000. The rain-triggered floods swelled rivers and caused dyke
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    • 120 6 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) The Dutch mining company Billiton has signed a contract to prospect for tin in waters between Sumatra and Borneo, the second big mining deal to be concluded with foreign investors by Indonesia's new regime. The company, the smallest of several
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    • 106 6 SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Mon. (UPI) —lf developed in time a jet backpack might allow soldiers in Vietnam to fly over rivers and mountains or to sail individually over minefields. Major General Don R. Ost render' a vice-president of the Bell Aerosystem Co.
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    • 73 6 PASADENA. California Mon. (UPI) A “fairly strong”' earthquake jolted Southern California yesterday glong the Santa Barbara Channel, which has experienced a series of quakes in recent’weeks. Dr. Charles Richter of the seismologieal laboratory at the California Institute of technology s aid the temblor, which occurred at 733
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    • 391 6 CAIGON, Mon. (UPI). American Marines supported by tanks, artillery and planes, killed 134 Nortn Vietnamese troops in heavy fighting just south of the demilitarised zone, U.S. military spokesman reported yesterday. The Communist forces were backed by mortar and artillery
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    • 304 6 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) President Ferdinand Marcos has blamed former President Diosdado Macapagal for the embarrassment of the Philippine Government in pursuing its claim to Sabah The President also accused his predecessor of trying to make use of the issue for a
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    • 120 6 MANILA, Mon. (UPI) Forty-four persons died by the gun or by the knife in violent incident in the Philippines last week, according to a court published today. The toll surpassed the 42 deaths by violence recorded the preceding week by the Philippine News Service. The News Service
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    • 135 6 CARACAS. Venezuela, Mon. (Reuter) A Venezuelan businessman just returned from Eastern Europe today predicted increased trade between this oil-rich South American state and Communist countries. Senor Concepcion Quijada, former President of Dedecamaras the Federation of Chambers of Commerce said the Soviet Union particularly was
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    • 130 6 NEW YORK. Mon. (Reuter) Newsweek magazine has reported the missing American nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion had been checking on a Russian counterpart shortly before it vanished last May. The magazine said yesterday that after leaving Gibraltar on May 1. for Norfolk. Virginia. “Scorpion was suddenly
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    • 98 6 Belo Horizonte. Brabil Mon. (UPI) —A five-month-old Jaguar which terrorised a suburban district for three hours was in a zoo cage today. The cub walked out of the woods oa Friday and sent children and mothers screaming for help. An argument developed between police and firemen
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    • 309 6 SYDNEY. Mon. (UPI) Gunman Wally Mellish and his teenage bride Beryl today began smashing up furniture in their besieged Glenfield home to build a fire so that they could prepare a hot meal for themselyes ani Beryl’s baby son. The couple have been without
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    • 232 6 ABU DHABI. Mon. (UPI) The Arab rulers of the remotest kingdoms In the world came out of the desert and agreed yesterday to form a federation. The federation of the nine states of the Persian Gulf was supposed to have come into being last
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    • 60 6 South Korea has installed .14 Hawk missile bases around the countrv in view of the increasing threat from the militant North Korea. Six of the Hawk missile bases surround the Seoul City. The photo shows: The newly installed Hawk missiles at one of the
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    • 974 7 ‘POSSIBLE PICTURE’ STANFORD, California, Mon. (UPI). A group of China expert has given the government a report predicting that four years from now Communist China will be well along in construction of a missile system capable of threatening the United States. Chin
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    • 107 7 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI). The Japanese foreign office has protested against the French atomic test conducted on the Mururao atoll in the central Pacific. Mr. Naraichl Fujiyama, chief spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, issued a statement saying Japan opposes all nuclear test and favour nuclear disarmament. The
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    • 63 7 PARIS. Mon. U Thant, UN Secretary-General Is seen here with US chief negotiator at the Vietnam meeting, Averill Harriman (R) and Cyrus Vance (L) at the US embassy in Paris, on Saturday. U Thant also met the Hanoi representative and is reported to have
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    • 196 7 MANILA. Mon (UPI) The first Brazilian Navy warship to call on the Philippines in 60 years was docked yesterday at Manila's south harbour, its round-the- world voyage enlivened by a 12-hour encounter with a typhoon. While the crew took In the
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    • 148 7 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Japan's newest territory, an island in the Bonin group occupied by the U.S. military until last month, gave the majority of its votes in yesterday’s Parliamentary elections to Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's Conservative Party. Voting in a Japanese election for the first
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    • 64 7 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) M. Benjamin Brial brought the total number of Gaullist seats in the 487-seat National Assemblv to 358 when he retained his seat in the French Pacific islands Wallis and Futuna. Wallis and Futuna lie about 500 miles to the west of Samoa. Metropolitan
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    • 147 7 VATICAN CITY. Mon. (UPI). Pope Paul VI wished thousands of Romans and tourist a happy vacation yesterday and praised holidays as a time for admiring the handiworks of God and man “This period of escape and physical and mental recreation seems truly legitimate the Pope said.
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    • 60 7 SAIGON- A bulldozer smashes the last remnant of the US bastion at Khe Sanh as Marines pullout under harassing Red sniper and mortar fire from the abandoned city. The Marines are to regroup into more mobile” posture to defend South Vietnam’s northern
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    • 82 7 NEW YORK. Mon (Reuter) A moonlight cruise down the Hudson River came to abrupt end early when passengers “mutinied” aboard the excursion boat Baybelle, smashed windows and hurled their deck chairs overboard. Some of the 2.400 aboard apparently felt they had been cheated, believing that
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    • 45 7 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) police, reinforced from green police vans parked near number 10 Downing Street, yesterday held the thin blue line between two hostile groups of marchers, one supporting and the other opposing the Wilson government's racial policies.
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    • 111 7 AUCKLAND, Mon. (UPI) A woman with her face painted black and wearing a bandolier of cartridges kept armed police at bay today with a shotgun after barricading herself in her house. Carloads of police were rushed to the farming town of Ngapuawahia south of
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    • 180 7 HONG KONG, Mon. (UPI) A Hong Kong newspaper said today that China now manufactures aircraft modelled after Russian MiGs up to series 19 and Ilyushin-18, British Viscounts and French helicopters. “Communist China is proud of Its Independence in the manufacture of aircraft,” Hong
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    • 324 7 Bad for morale of other Asian allies MANILA, Mon. (UPI) American officials hope the Philippine Congress will decide to keep its 2.000 man non-com-batant engineering contingent in Vietnam during a special 30-day session which opened today but are worried over opposition and
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  • 769 8 AS election time is drawing closer with the passing days, the Government is facing a number of crises. The Political Secretary to the Minister of Education, Enche Shariff Ahmad, told delegates to the conference of the Kuala Pilah Division of UMNO Youth that Malaysia was facing three
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  • LETTERS...
    • 686 8 YOUR correspondent "Unhappy Patriot” (Eastern Sun 28th June. 1968) admits to being “incensed” before going on to list his comments on the various ills of the Employment Act which is to come on for its second reading at the next session of the Singapore
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    • 258 8 Call-up: What’s MID’s selection criteria ONE wonder* what the criteria of selection for MlD’s national service is. Can MID answer why are the following categories of personnel are being called up? Those whose age is near the upper limit of military age from 27 upwards? Those who are seriously underweight
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    • 140 8 DOES the building of a rugged society which is a sound idea mean so much that my nephew’, being a School Army Cadet, has to attend parades, shooting practices and the like on every Saturday. Wednesday and Sunday even when he has to prepare for his Cambridge
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    • 371 8 IN support of the recent three letters on the proposed Employment Act to be introduced by our Government 1 have a few points to bring to the attention of the Go\ernment: There are, as we are aware, three categories of workers in the Island
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  • 437 8 r FHE recent opening of International House in the University of New South Wales, Sydney, is another step towards closer understanding and friendship between young Australians and overseas students. This new building, the second International House in Sydney and the fourth in Australia, is the
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  • 638 8 From Sin Chew Jit Foh. THE second round of general elections in France took place on last Sunday as scheduled. The result was none other than what had been widely expected, that is: the Gaullists would win by an overwhelming majority, and all the leftist political parties,
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRIAL
    • 103 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Clair* Bijoux (left) of Cathay Pacific Airways, awarding one of the door prizes (two bottles of Champagne), to Rosemary Lee of M.S.A. The party was a recent Air1i n e Secretaries' Luncheon, held every month in Hong Kong. It was Cathay Pacific’s turn to be
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    • 267 9 The legal formalities under which the new British c I r“ t r Broup U being established have now been completed. International Computers and Tabulators Limited has changed its name, and with effect from tomorrow will be known as International Computers Limited (ICL). From
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    • 265 9 Massive new loan in support of sterling expected soon DASLE. Switzerland, Mon. (UPI) A massive new 13 loan in support of the pound sterling was expected to come from the Basle meeting of Western Central Bankers, informed sources said yesterday. The second day of the regular monthly meeting of the
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    • 115 9 JAKARTA. Mon. (UPI) An artificial rice factory, claimed to be the first in the world, has been opened in Bandung. The factory produces 50 tons of synthetic rice (a blend of Cassava, beans and corns) a month with the same nutritive properties as natural
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    • 190 9 CANBERRA. Mon. (UPI) Australia will open new Trade Commissioner posts In Santiago. Chile, and In Tehran. Iran, as part of an effort to build better relations Minister for Trade. Mr. John McEwen. announced today. The Government said last month Australia
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    • 119 9 WASHINGTON. Mon. (Reuter) The International Monetary Fund’s financial operations reached record levels in the first six months of 1968. when drawings of $3,200 million exceeded the totals for any previous full year. The drawings also raised the amount of fund resources in use among
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    • 100 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. BP films are now available on loan free of charge to the general public., industrial and commercial organisations. educational and charitable institutions and clubs in Singapore. These films feature a wide range of educational and entertaining subjects from sports
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    • 260 9 GENEVA, Mon. (Reuter) The number of people going hungry in developing countries is not likely to drop by 1975. according to a gloomy United Nations forecast here today. It came in a report which said the immediate needs
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    • 1176 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. A total of five suspensions of business took place today on the Stock Exchange totalling about 42 minutes to allow clerks to clear the large pile of contracts. Industrial share prices were generally improved with interest again concentrating in the selected equities.
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    • 302 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. July first grade rubber fob. closed at 5 pm. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 534 cents per lb., unchanged from previous close. The tone was steady auiet. The market was a shade easier to begin with on lower nearby London advices ana production and
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    • 320 9 SINGAPORE. Stock Exchange sold and offer prices officially listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS Borneo Bhd 205 1 70 4.44 Chemical Co. 1-69 Cold storage CD 4.10 4 80 3.42 E. Smelting 690 7.05 L VI 2.33 300 Fitzpatrick* 8.30 2.63 G'uiHtd Park 390 6
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    • 164 9 JAKARTA, Mon. (UPI) The "Compagnie Francaise De Petroles” of France next week will start an aerial survey of oil deposits over a 20.000 square kilometres of land and offshore areas In Dambl. South Sumatra. In a contract signed between the French oil
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    • 105 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The noon price* at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are:Buyer Seller Coconut Oil (FOB Bulk 54.50 Coconut oil (FOB) Drums s: oo Loose Copra Mixed June 9500) Muntok White Pepper (FOB.) 96 NIB 110 00 Sarawak White Pepper (FO.B.] 96% MW 107-50 Sarawak special Black Pepper
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    • 44 9 (Minitor Price*) FlrM Mala>an XD 2.70 J**cond Malayan XD 1*91 Third Malavan The Commerce 1.27 Industry The Saving •99 108 Fund 1.13 1.22 First H'knng .93* Second H'konz XD .62 Malaysian Investment Fund 1.20 Sterling ("modify 5/10 .66* 130 Ronr Kong Currency)
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    • 31 9 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) —Money quotations; HK*« 115 per US dollar HK56.1275 per US. dollar HK514.53 per pound sterling HK5309.5 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness.
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    • 14 9 SIGNAPORE, Mon. The tin price for to<Uy was $555.75 per picul, unchanged.
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    • 224 9 MANILA, Mon. (UPI) U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mr. Orville Freeman said yesterday the Philippinedeveloped “miracle rice” has stimulated a food re- volution in Asia. Mr. Freeman fresh from an extensive four-day tour of South Vietnam visited the International Rice Research Institute in nearby Los
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    • 164 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following ships are expceted to be in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Prometheus 3/4 Glenfinlas 5 Orinoco 8 9 Metallurg Bardin 10/11 Mississppi Lloyd 13/14 Benrinnes 15/16 S. A. Shipper 18 Yew Bank 19 Martine 23/24 Mickiewicz 25 26 Browind 27/28 Choyo Maru 29
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  • Femme
    • 623 12  -  By: Florence de Santis Cynical persons such as the late W.C. Fields are always sure that child performers are really 32-year-old midgets especially trained to steal scenes. But Bayn Johnson, who is scoring in the title role of "Curley McD i m p I e," the
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    • 50 12 knits for foil A often appear in newly softened effects. Cisa does a willowy pull of supple, flat-knit wool in white, buttoned to one side. Double layers of finest knit ruffling, in white edged with black, trim the neckline and the long sleeves. Fashion league picture.
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    • 238 12  -  By: Mary Sue Miller. FOR health and beauty you need exercise and you need rest. The less ambitious among us wish lor ways to indulge in both at the same time. Well, it is possible. All you have to do is lie down with your feet higher
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    • 100 12 AN exclusive group of Hawaiian-inspired fabrics !s now being featured at Singer Sewing Centres everywhere, plus patterns in Polynesian themes. This at-home dress with Butterfly sleeves is a MeCall pattern, and the fabric is an acrylic in colourful fruit-and-leaf print. Fashion League Photo. IIOME sewers will find
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    • 96 13 THE MOST THRILLING EXCITING ENTERTAINMENT OF THE YEAR THE GREAT ROYAL CIRCUS OF INDIA 200 Artistes 60 Animals Introducing for the first time THE LIGERS? t Breathtaking acts of the Elastic Girls. Exciting Jugglers and Acrobats, Death defying trapeze artistes and the wonders of the wild animals. GRAND GALA OPENING
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 201 13 SHAW IGAMISfITTOM L i D O Phone ***** LAST 2 DATS —No Free list! 11 a m.. 1.45, 4 00. 4.30 4 15 p m. -DRAGON INN" Scope Ac Color Mandarin with English Subtitles Opens Thursday! Burt Lancaster THE SCALPHI NTERS" Pv. Color CAPITOL Phone ***** Last t Days! 11.
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    • 392 13 ODfcON ***** I a.m.. 1.30 4 no. «.3n B..<n pm •COMMANDO ASSAULT” Mattl Oravisto Erkki Siltol* OPENS THURSDAY! “The Right To Be Born” (A Columbia Picture> A Ptlm in Black and White A P d Col °M, PALACE -*****8 OPENS TODAY! 1.30. 4 no. 0.45 #3O pm “The Tanks of
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  • 1655 14  -  New system will help the overseas visitor By Richard Lambert ON E morning in February, 1971, the British people will wake up in a world where all the old familiar coins which they have used for generations have been officially replaced. The new currency, puzzling to
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  • 671 14 SYDNEY. A party ot O Australian an hropclogists and archaeologists, creeping on all fours recently along a narrow subterranean gallery. found also that they had made a journey back through the mists of time to discover some of the world’s oldest art. They have a'so
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 513 14 Eastehn Sun Classified advertisements can be accepted at tbe foßowing addreaaea: MONT D OR MILK BAR. Ngee Ann Building. Singapore. S.S MUBARUK b Brothera. 63, Bras Basah Road, and 2. Maju Avenue, Serangoon Ga-den Estate. Singapore. TAT BUAN CUAN LTD.. SUPERMARKET. 83, East Coast Road. Singapore 15 Tel: *****9 HAMIEM
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    • 99 14 JABATAN TALIKOM KENYATAAN TAWAKAN TAWARAN2 ada-lah dijemput untok Pembekalan dan pemasangan 12.5 KVA set janakuasa disel-letrik bagi setesen2 pemanchar TV (Supply and installation of 12.5 KVA diesel-electric generating sets for TV stations). Borang2 tawaran boleh didapati daripada Pengawal Talikom (TV). Ibu Pejabat Talikom, Kuala Lumpur hanya dengan membayar $lO/- kapada
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    • 103 14 EmpText Eastern Sun unu SIT THAT 'i* COIS 10NC WAY—hclassified a»s; u. i in 21-i. CANTONMENT ROAD. SINCAPORI 2 TtUPMONU *2405/7. Ma Advertiser's Name Adless Telephone No Nueiber of Insertions..—...., Oa«e(s) Requested...——, I Cos Payment mnst uttnyut ten irttr (f.0./CMsit Cash eaelosvdl Cask mast he rrclelered. Cheeses etc. ahecM he
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  • Sun Sport
    • 415 15  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Mon. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Affairs, Mr. Chan Chee Seng, today advised footballers to live up to their big responsibility to defend the prestige of the Republic in the Merdeka soccer tournament to be
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    • 514 15 Bad light, rain hit six matches LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Sunday, the day on which many counties depend for good attendances, turned sour this weekend with all six matches affect- ed by rain and bad light. Worst hit was Gloucester, where only six balls were bowled and two run
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    • 90 15 ALOR STAR, Mon. The Keat Hwa Secondary School here scored a convincing 60-40 win over Sekolah Menengah Batu Dua of Sungei Patani in the semifinal of the Kedah interSchool under-17 boys basketball championships over the weekend. Keat Hwa’g under-17 girls team trounced Sekolah Menengah Gurun
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    • Article, Illustration
      495 15 Schlesser killed in experimental Honda ROUEN, Mon. (Reuter) French racing driver Jo Schlesser was killed and 10 spectators injured in a fiery crash during the French Grand Prix, won here by Belgian Jackie Ickx. Schlesser, 40, competing in his first Formula One Grand Prix for eight years, died instantly
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    • 191 15 SINGAPORE. Mon Albert Amey won the Swift Athletes Association’s 25 miles Open Walk held yesterday. The Walk was first held on June 30 but was stopped in the second lap (8J miles per lap) when V.T. Raj an was knocked down by a car
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    • 363 15 SINGAPORE. Mon. Following Is the Stipendiary Steward’s report on yesterday’s racing at Buklt Tlmah: Race 1: The Veterinary Surgeon reported that Lash (app. S.K. Hot returned sore in the near the foreleg and suffered a bleeding attack during the race. Lash will be barred
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    • 640 15 ALOR STAR. Mon. A record number of 130 entries has been received for the two-day Kedah Junior badminton championships to be held here on Friday and Saturday. Sixty one have entered for the men's singles. 39 pairs for the men’s doubles. 11
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    • 961 15  -  Services round-up by R. D. Selva KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Royal Malayan Air Forre Kuala Lumpur made it five-in-a-row of the major units cup in the Malaysian Armed Forces basketball championships. In the final played at the Stadium Negara here last
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    • 165 15 ALOR STAR. Mon. A protem committee of the Kedah Tae Kwon Do Association was elected recently at -a meeting of the North Kedah enthusiasts. The draft rules and constitution of the association has since been drafted and will be submitted t.o the
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    • 438 16 Selangor players scoff at it By R. D. SELVA KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Selangor players, especially Ibrahim Mydin, today scoffed at the ''hot air" emanating from Penang about their chances in the Malaysia Cup final at the Stadium Merdeka here on Saturday. “Why, Why. As far as
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    • 141 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Selangor Schools received a surprise walkover today from the Pahang Schools in the Heah Joo Seng Cup (boys) and Lee Kok Chee Cup (girls) badminton tournament organised by the Malaysian Schools Sports Council. Selangor entered the second round to meet
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    • 58 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The Selangor Schools will hold its annual athletic championships at the Merdeka Stadium here tomorrow afternoon. The championships will enable the Selangor Schools to select a team to participate in the Selangor Amateur Athletic Championships and the Malaysian Schools Sports Council’s annual championahips
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    • 604 16  -  By Windsor Lad KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Jockey Des Coleman finished tops with five winners, three seconds and four thirds at the recently concluded Singapore Turf Club’s JuneJuly meeting. Glynn Pretty was runnerup with four firsts, four seconds and two thirds. Coleman scored on
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    • 429 16 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Olympic and Sports Council have proposed that a special committee be set up to select the best sportsman and sportswoman of the year in the country. This was decided at the management committee meeting of the SOSC held here
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    • 281 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. Singapore Cricket Club today won the Slater Cup all through the toss of a coin. Meeting the Young Men's Sikh Association in their annual cup affair which was played after a lapse of II vears. the two teams wound up the
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    • 31 16 PENANG, Mon. The Governor of Penang, Tun Sved Sheh Shahabuddin. will open the Sixth Malaysian Open Swimming championships at the Chinese Swimming Club here on Saturday at 2.30 p.m.
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    • 71 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon All schoolboys are invited to compete in two track races at the Merdeka Stadium tomorrow afternoon at the Selangor Schools’ Sports Council Athletic Championship. The two track events for the cyclists are the 1.600 metres and the 3.200 metres. Intending cyclists should be
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    • 235 16  -  By CHAN KAM YAU KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malaysian team to be picked tor the Open Singapore Bowling Championships next month can be expected to keep the National flag flying. Very high standards were achieved by bowlers fighting for a berth in the
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    • 167 16 Two sports bodies get boosters KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Mentri Besar of Selangor. Dato Haji Harun bin Haji Idris, who is also chairman of the National Sports Foundation of Malaysia today presented cheques amounting to $7,087 to the Badminton Association of Malaysia and the Lawn Tennis Association of Malaysia, for
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    • 890 16 PENANG. Mon. Following are the weights for the First Dav of the Penang Turf Club meeting on Saturday HORSES CLASS 3 Div. 1 About 5-1 Furs. Sunny Heart Sri Tasek 900 813 Mata Ra]a 8 10 Melmark 809 Gold Medal 8 09 Ninja
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    • 181 16 ALOR STAR. Mon. A total of 17 records four State and 13 zone were established at the two-day North Kedah Amateur Athletic Association championships held at the Darulaman Stadium here over the weekend. The four State records broken were in the 800 metres
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    • 54 16 v V -■> TIME AND TIDE pm. Penang: 11.49 a.m. (8.3 ft.). Port Swettenham: 4.49 a.m. (14.1 (15.4 ft.). ft.). 5.04 Port Dickson: 6.13 p.m. (9.1 ft.). Singapore: 11.02 a.m. (7.7 ft.). 943 p.m. (9.0 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 9.53 a.m. (7.9 ft.), 7.18 p.m. (6.7 ft Kuantan: 8.52 a.m. (97
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