Eastern Sun, 3 September 1968

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  • 22 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 752 Tuesday, 3 September 1968. MC(P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 608 1 TEHERAN. Iraa. Mon. (UPI Reuter) Government teams reported today more than 20.000 persons were killed in twin shocks which levelled 1,300 square miles of Northeastern Iran ‘like an atom bomb’” in the nation's worst earthquake disaster. The trams dispatched to the area by
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  • 268 1 SINGAPORE. Mon. An odd-job labourer today filed a writ In the High Court against the Singapore Pools (Private) Limited for $171,557 being payment due for the first prize in the 10th Toto Draw. The labourer. Ng Soo Yuen, is claiming the
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  • 405 1 Reds rocket South Vietnam's second largest city for first time SAIGON, Mon. (UPI) troops today blasted rockets into the heart of Danang, second largest city in South Vietnam, for the first time in the war. But an anticipated weekend attack on Saigon failed to come off. At least
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  • 92 1 HONG KONG. Mon tUPI) —lmmigration authorities today agreed to permit 26 refugees from Red China to remain in this British colony. The 26 were among 234 persons captured by police while fleeing from China last month in 18 fishing junks. So far, a
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  • 131 1 BARCELONA. Bpain, Mon. i UPI». The Olympic torch exploded in flames on Sunday, seriously burning two Spanish runners relaying it through Barcelona on the way to the 1968 Olympic Games at Mexico City. It was believed the first accident involving the torch in the 72-year history of
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  • 83 1 BERES. Kentucky. Mon. (Reuter) Seven Negroes and six Whites were charged with murder today following a 30-mmute gun battle between Negroes and Whites near this eastern Kentucky community. Sheriffs officers said one White and one Negro were killed and five other men were injured in the shooting
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  • 414 1 Tunku rejects petition to meet detainees representatives KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, today rejected a petition to meet representatives of families *of political detainees in Muar and Ratu Gajah and Labour Party officials to discuss the hunger strike by the detainees, which entered its 19th dav.
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  • 108 1 BANGKOK Mon. (Reuter) Thai Government forces last week captured nine guerillas and a jungle camp. Prime Minister Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn said today. Marshal Thanom told reporters that police in Yala Province on the Malaysian border routed about 20 Communists and captured their camp stocked
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  • 29 1 TAIPEI. Mon. (Reuter)— The spread of Asian flu on Taiwan may soon reach an “explosive stage." Dr Yang Su-piao of the Taiwan University Hospital warned today.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 722 2 Target: 50,000 members in 3 months KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malaysian Chinese Association today launched a massive membership drive aimed at getting 50,000 new members in the next three months. A national committee, headed by the MCA Youth National Chairman, Mr. Lee San Choon, has been
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    • 771 2 JOHORE BAHRI', Mon. Chief Inspector George Barnabas of the Special Investigations Section of the Johore CID today testified before the Raja Aslan Commission of Inquiry about a telephone conversation he had with Mr. T. M. Yong, Director of Woh Hup Ltd. of Singapore.
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    • 65 2 TAN Sri Dr. Lim Swee Alin, Minister of Commerce and Industry and acting National President of the Malaysian Chinese Association, speaking at the MCA membership drive launching ceremony at the MCA Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. On his right is Lnche Mohamed Khir Joharl. Minister of Education and Secretary General
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    • 118 2 Chewing gum was bitter for Gan KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A businessman who “bought” $14,191 worth of chewing gum for $2,200 was fined $l,OOO and sentenced to a day’s Jail in a Magistrate's Court here today. Gan Si Chin, 38. of Jalan Raja Laut. pleaded guilty to a charge of dishonestly
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    • 219 2 SINGAPORE Mon. The President of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Soon Peng Yam will lead a fiveman delegation to meet the Government soon to discuss ways and means of bettering the existing trade relationships with Indonesia. The other members are
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    • 51 2 KUCHING. Men (Reuter) The Governor of West Kalimantan Indonesian Borneo Mr. P. C. Oevaang Orey today urged Sarawak businessmen to invest in his country. Mr Orey. who led a 20member Indonesian trade delegation to Kuching, told the businessmen investors in West Kalimantan would enjoy a five-year tax
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    • 142 2 KUALA LUMPUR Mon. The International Labour Organisation Asian Regional Conference in Tokyo will be urged to set up a committee to study “Why Asian countries which recently became independent curb human rights.” The Malaysian Trades Union Congress Secretary-Gen-eral. Mr. S.J.H. Zaidi. told
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    • 93 2 Peninsular Art Gallery: Exhibition of works by prominent Malaysian artists. 41 Jalan Raja Muda. 9 a m. to 6 P-m. Samat Art Gallery: General exhibition of paintings by Malaysian artists 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. National Art Gallery: lltn National Art Exhibition 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. Jalan
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    • 38 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon:— Tan Ah Boh. 32. was crossing a railway track at Jalan Tepi. Sungei Klang over the weekend when she was knocked down by a railcar. She died on the spot.
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    • 27 2 IPOH, Mon. A labourer Pitehay Muthu. 61. was killed after he was run over by a train near the railway gate in Lahat Road yesterday.
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    • 217 2 M-Day: KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has received more congratulatory messages from world leaders on the occasion of Malaysia Day. Among those who sent greetings were Qahtan Muhammad A'-Shaabi. President of the Republic of Southern Yemen. Mr. Gama! Abdel Nasser. President of the UA
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    • 685 2 PENANG, Mon. The executors of the estate of the late multi-millionaire. Lim Teng Hin, appeared in the High Court here today to contest a 8160,000 claim by a former school clerk, Mr. Ooi Choon Lye. Mr. Ooi, represented by Dato Eusofee Abdoolcader, brought about the
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    • 117 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Malaysia will be represented at the first International Ministerial Conference on Welfare Services i n New York beginning tomorrow. The Malaysian Ambassador to the United States. Tan Sri Ong Yoke Lin. will head the four-member delegation at the 10-day conference
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    • 258 2 The patriotic spirit KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. About 60 workers of Tangkak Estate, near Muar, Johore. refused to accept overtime payment on Merdeka Day when delegates to the natural rubber conference visited the estate factory The Chairman of Harrisons and Crosfields. which manages the estate. Mr. Philip Gunton said: ■"The workers
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    • 526 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Potential schoolleavers and their parents were today told by the Education Minister Mr. Ong Pang Boon to discard their prejudices against "bluecollar'' jobs. Unless they discard such prejudices, the Minister stressed, all the Government's efforts in providing technical education and vocational
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    • 307 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. A husband's best friend a. id known to him for over 20 years was today c ted as a co-respondent in a divorce proceedings before Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah in the High Court today. The petitioner. Roland
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    • 121 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Twenty-five girls will take part in the "Miss Camera 1968” contest in conjunction with the Photo Picnic 1968 organised by the Singapore Photographic Trade Association at the West Point Gardens on Sunday. Sept. 8. The organisers have planned a varied
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    • 103 3 SINGAPORE Mor, A 19-year-old youth, dressed in sarong-kebaya. appeared in the Ninth Magistrate's Court today on a theft charge. Sved Abdoilhadi bin Sveri Mustafa Alsagoff was fined SI.SO for stealing S2O from the pocket of European. Nothcutt Thorny, at Bugis Street at
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    • 178 3 SINGAPORE, Mon —Mrs. S. Chinnamah of 27E. Jaian Bangsi, Singapore 4. has received a letter from U Thant, the Secretary General of tne United Nations. regarding the death in Cyprus of her brother, from Singapore, Private B. K. Kannan. who died
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    • 59 3 SINGAPORE Mon. Professor Lim Kok Ann has been re-elected Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for a term of three years. A senior lerturer in Clinical Medicine. Dr Charles Toh Chai Soon ha= been appointed as the Faculty’s new Vice-Dean. Dr. Charles Toh will also
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    • 365 3 SINGAPORE. Mon.—A general plan for the vocational guidance movement in the area of manpower development, training and utilisation was put forward today by Mr. Chan Keng Howe, the immediate past chairman. Vocational Guidance Steering Committee. He has divided the plan into seven stages
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    • 203 3 SINGAPORE. Mod. Plans are now afoot for the setting up of a grand "Permanent Exhibition Hall” to commemorate the founding of Singapore in conjunction with the Republics 150th anniversary celebrations next year. This will be the major contribution by the commercial and
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    • 111 3 10 a.m.-6 p.m Thomas Yeo's art exhibition at National Library lecture hal’., Stamford Road. 7.30 p.m.: Free Slat shows by Ministry of Culture at Kampong Sungei China (off Marsiling Road). Ping Min School (Yan Kit Village), Tho Mor- School <ll m.s. Yio Chi Kang Road), Jaian Bahtera Cpen
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    • 198 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Three men, two armed with revolvers, made a daring early morning raid at Cathay Hotel and took away $6,700 from the reception counter. The robbers held up the cashier. Mr. Wong Toh swee, and a reception clerk, Mr. Richard Hoo, at gun-point.
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    • 292 4  -  $13,000 jewellery gone: By KEN STANLEY GOPENG, Mon. Four youths, two armed with glstols, today held up a goldsmith’s shop at Market treet here and got away with $13,000 worth of jewellery. They made their escape in a black Mercedes taxi which they had earlier
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    • 78 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon: The money in the Red Cross charity box in the passenger waiting lounge of the Snbang International Airport was stolen last night. The box was not locked, and the lid was sealed only with adhesive tape. This had been removed by the thief, who
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    • 202 4 SINGAPORE, Mon—The Port of Sngapore Authority has taken strict measures to prevent oil pollution in local waters *s well as air pollution by excessive smoke emitted by vessels In the Port Area. The Port Master. Mr. R.L. Bird said the Port was deeply concerned
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    • 369 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. A man from Kuala Lumpur. Lee Keh Tham was today fined $15,006 in default two years' imprisonment by the President of the Sessions Court here Mr. T. Ariarethnam, Lee was found guilty of knowingly concerned in
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    • 406 4 LADY ESCORTS SERVICES: KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Chairman of the Kuala Lumpur Tourist Association. Mr- A. J. M. Ruiter, today described the starting of lady escorts services for tourists as “a terrific idea”. Mr. Ruiter, who was commenting on the recent establishment of
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    • 451 4 IPOH. Mon. The People’s Progressive Party’s Opposition Assemblyman for Pusing, Mr. Khong Kok Yat. will move a motion at the Perak State Assembly meeting here on Wednesday, for the pardon of two Perak men. condemned to death for consorting with armed Indonesians
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    • 216 4 KUAIA LUMPUR. Mon. The Anti-Corruption Agency will be re-orga-nised and strengthened, the Director of the Agency, Enche Harun bin Dato Hashim, said today. The regional set-up. in which the six anti-corrupt-ion branches had served the needs of the whole country, will be abolished and
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    • 125 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The Ex-Services Association of Malaya has amended its constitution to admit serving members of the Armed Forces as associate members The Secretary of the ESAM.. Major Ismail Babu. told Bernama today: “It will enable them on their retirement or discharge from service
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    • 86 4 PENANG. Mon An exhibition of books and periodicals on the teaching of science and mathematics will be shown at the Penang Library from Wednesday. to Sept. 10. Arranged by the British Council, the exhibition is designed to illustrate some of the recent work done in Britain to
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    • 32 4 PETALING JAYA. Mon The Assistant Minister of Education, Mr. Lee Sink Yew. has been admitted to the University Hospital here today where he will undergo a minor operation.
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    • 42 4 The visiting Indonesian Cultural Troupe staged a performance at the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday night as part of the Merdeka Day celebrations. Pix: A dance item by members of the troupe. Eastern Sun pix.
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    • 436 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Malaysia is eager to do her utmost towards fostering “new and better” relations with the Soviet Union. This was said by the Charge d’Affaires of the Malaysian Embassy in Moscow. Enche Ahmad Zainal Abidin, in a broadcast over Soviet
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    • 179 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon, A cheque of §5.367 was handed over to Tun Sir Henry H. S. Lee, Chairman of the Appeals Committee of the Lady Templer Hospital by Mrs. John Annesley, hero today. The money was raised through a successful “bring and buy”
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    • 133 4 IPOH. Mon. A Tan Sri and six Datos are among 13 people who will be honoured at the 63rd anniversary dinner of the Perak Chinese Amateur Dramatic Association in Osborne Street here at 7.30 p.m. on Oct. 13 They are Tan Sri Runme Shaw. Dato Lau
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    • 193 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. The 27-yeor-old wife of o police detective was found dead with three gun-shot wounds in her flat at Wallich Street early this morning. The Acting Police Secretary, Mr. Lionel Chee. gave her name as Loh Ah Mol. According to Police
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    • 184 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Sree Narayana Mission today announced the list of 20 recipients of its $lOO scholarships to deserving students in the Republic. The awards will be given during the 114th Birthday Celebrations of Sree Narayana Guru at the Mission Hall on Saturday.
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    • 24 10 SINGAPORE, Mon—There were 76 road accidents of which one was fatal and four serious during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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    • 96 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Adult Education Board will start a new course for students to prepare them for the Part One examination of the Institute of Bankers to be held in Sept 19*9 It will be conducted over a period of three terms (42 weeks) beginning
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    • 108 10 Cadets of the Singapore Air Training Corps who have just concluded their summer camp at the Royal Air Force station. Changi, were reviewed at their final parade by the Senior Air Staff Officer. Headquarters Far East Air Force. Air Commodore T. R. Pierce. The
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    • 186 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ylk Lun Fun of Chancery Lane were married simultaneously In one of the Republic’s brightest “double wedding of the year.” They were married at the Singapore Registry of Marriages recently. Mr. Ylk Pak Yeong. a second son
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    • Cultural and Music Corner
      • 473 10  -  By AYAKO A packed audience was delighted and charmed at his performance which Included works In operatic arias
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      • 57 10 SINGAPORE. Mon Tay Boon Kwee. 40, was jailed for two years by the Ninth Magistrate's Court today for theft of $14.75 from a hawker. Tay. who had five previous convictions, pleaded guilty to snatching a tin containing the monev from Yeo Cheng Hwa along the
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      • 53 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Adult Education Board will soon be organising a fourmonth course in “Elementary Drama". The instructress for the course will be Mrs. Gracia Tay-Chee The course will be held every Tuesday and the tuition fees per student is S15. The closing date for applications
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      • 127 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Chinese Young Men’s Christian Association will introduce a new programme entitled “Learning for Living” this month. This is an informal education programme designed to achieve a three-pronged objective. They are: To assist people in their individual growth and development through
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      • 54 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. Military personnel will conduct a street clearing exercise in the early hours of Sept. 4. between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m in the following streets’ North Bridge Road from Capitol Building to High Street/Hill Street to junction Coleman Street and Hill Street The public are advised
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      • 40 10 SINGAPORE. Mon—Are Hong Soo. 20. was fined $5O by the Ninth Magistrate's Court today for selling 10 copies of obscene photographs to an unknown European passer-by at Sembawang Road early this morning Ang pleaded guilty.
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      • 36 10 SINGAPORE. Mon.—Angus and Robertson (Publishers) Pty. Ltd. will mark the opening of their Singapore branch with a cocktail reception and book display at the Australian Trade Commission’s Display Room on Friday at 7 p.m.
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    • 157 10 One killed 5 injured in crash SINGAPORE M«n. A 55-year-old pedestrian. Loh Hee Tai died on the way to the General Hospital after she was knocked down by a car at the 54 m.s Rukit Timah Road yesterday. In the accident five other people were injured. They were treated as
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    • 263 13 PORT DICKSON, Mon. General Tunku Osman bin Tunku Mohamed Jewa today reminded recruits at q passing-out parade that their most important duty was to "defend the sovereignty of the State, nation and religion from our enemies, be it from within or without. He
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    • 174 13 PENANG. Mon. A labourer. M. Shanmugam, was today freed on an attempted robbery charge when it was conceded that he was under the Influence of drinks and was in high spirits at the time of the alleged crime. The Judge. Mr H.S. Ong, quashed a 18-month
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    • 86 13 FIVE of the 18 Shell “Zoom Girls" who will he taking part in the Cavalcade of Wearne's Saloon Cars during the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sept. 7 and 8 at the Selangor Racing Circuit, Batu Tiga, near Kuala Lumpur. There will be nine locally assembled saloon cars
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    • 309 13 Kuala lumpur. Mon lhe use of appropriate iertiliser on rubber trees can increase profit by $l4 to $BO an acre a year, according to trials conducted by the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya. However, the application of Inappropriate fertiliser reduces yield and consequently profit
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    • 159 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Five civilian employees of the Roval Malaysia Police were presented with the Inspector-General’s Letter of Commendation in recognition of their excellent work. The presentation was made this morning by the Inspector-General of Police. Tan Sri Mohamed Salleh bin
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    • 155 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Non-bumiputras have given full co-operation in the implementation of resolutions of the first Bumiputra Economic Congress, the Executive Secretary of the Congress. Enche Ishak Tadin, said today. At a press conference today. Enche Ishak said the non-bumiputras had given co-operation in the
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    • 68 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A Traffic Inspector of the Malayan Railway. Mr. R. Ramakolunthu has left under a Colombo Plan study award made by the Government of Pakistan. Mr. Ramakolunthu. who has been working in the Malayan Railway for 22 years, will join the Regional Railway Training
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    • 108 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. There have been inquiries from overseas about the Malaysian batek the Managing’ Director of the Malaysian Batek Sendlrian Berhad. Raja Abdul Aziz bin Raja Musa, said today. He told Bernama the inquiries came from Australia. England, Japan and Thailand. Raja Abdul Aziz
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    • 62 13 PENANG. Mon. The Penang Division of the Labour Party today expressed full support for the hunger strike by detainees at Muar and Batu Gajah detention camps It urged the Government to settle the hunger strike as early as possible and warned that if any of the
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    • 104 13 MUAR. Mon. Enehe Jafiar bin Y'ahaya of Telok Mas captured the championship title in the men's section of the Tangkak District Koran-reading competition at the Local Government mosque. Second was Enche Othman bin Salleh from Bukit Gambir. Che Zaitun binte Abdul Ghani won the women's championship title.
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    • 241 13 MANILA, Mon. (Reuter) President Ferdinand Marcos will wait until a congressional Bill annexing Sabah as part of Philippine territory is brought to him before he decides whether to sign it into law. The President said this last night in answer to questions by newsmen
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    • 100 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Telephone wire thieves struck in two places in Selangor during the weekend and got away with 830 lbs of telephone wire valued at $2,200. A Telecoms linesman. Enche Omar bin Yabaya. 24. of Ulu Yam Bahru discovered the theft of 630 lbs of wire
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    • 61 13 KUALA LUMPUR. MonMr. N. V. Podeorny. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, has sent a congratulatory to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on the occasion of Malaysia Day... Similar messages were also received by the Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, f-om the Russian
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 539 5 ...only one known hard-liner in new Czech Presidium J) RAGUE, Mon. (Reuter) Czechoslovakia's leading Communists yesterday elected only one known hard-liner to a new party presidium despite Soviet pressure backed by 600,000 occupation troops. Informed sources said the new presidium had been increased from 11 to 20
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    • 45 5 Surgeons at Methodist Hospital in Houston, U.S., are shown during heart transplant of William Carroll. 50, of Scottsdale, who got the heart of Mrs. Nelva Hernandez. 20. Three other patients received her lungs and two kidneys in multi-trans- plant effort. CPI radio- photo.
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    • 542 5 SAIGON. Mon. (UPI) The North Vietnamese are recruiting 10 and 11-year-old children in South Vietnam and sending them north for long terms of guerilla training, top U.S. sources say. “This is not a new procedure. Something similar has been going on since 1965.’* the
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    • 64 5 Where clothes are concerned the approximately 350-man team of the Federal Republic of Germany at the Mexico City Olympics have nothing to fear. Their 60-item wardrobe for all weathers and occasirns is fitting, fashionable and inexpensive manufacturers charge cost price. The women will enter the arena
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    • 167 5 PRAGUE. Mon. (Reuter) An official Government spokesman today denied a Reuter report on Friday quoting Prime Minister Oldrich Cemik as saving he could not guarantee the safety of members of Czechoslovak's Communist Party and Government. The report was based on an account by Czechoslovak journalists
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    • 168 5 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) Hong Kong Governor Sir David Trench today called on employers throughout the world to think of the talents of disabled people when offering jobs. Sir David. addressing over l.ono delegates to the fourth Pan-Pacific Rehabilitation Conference here, said the object
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    • 78 5 KARACHI. Mon. (Reuter) An armed gang killed 10 people, including a woman and six children when they set fire to a house and shot at its occupants near Hyderabad. north of here, on Friday night, an official report said today. Two more people were seriously hurt.
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    • 386 5 r PEHER.\X, Mon. (Reuter) A second earthquake hit Northeastern Iran yesterday as horror-stricken rescuers counted thousands of dead and injured from the first disaster which devastated 100 towns and villages. Not a single wall was left standing at Kakhk, a town
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    • 198 5 HONG KONG. Mo n. (Reuter) China's leaders warned the Vietnamese against the “plot for peace talks" being pushed by the United States imperialists with the collaboration of Soviet revisionists, Radio Peking reported. It was quoting a message sent by Chairman Mao TseTung. Vice Chairman Lin Piao
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    • 129 5 ARIS. Mon. (Reuter) A 55-year-old Roman Catholic priest. Father Damien Bouligne. who underwent a heart transplant operation on May 12. said here today such operations pose no moral problems for Christians. Father Boulogne, a Dominican. who received the heart of a 38-year-old
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    • 123 5 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) The Chinese Government has granted two more exit visas to members of the British diplomatic mission in Peking, a Foreign Office spokesman said here today. The spokesman said that these two visas had on Saturday been given to Miss Emerita Joan
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    • 102 5 SANTA MONICA. California. Mon. (Reuter) Stage and screen star Dennis O'Keefe had died here at the age of 58. Mr. O'Keefe real name Edward James Flanagan wrote for the “our gang” movie series while a university student and began his film career in 1937. He starred
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    • 657 6 CHICAGO, Mon. (UPI) Senator Edward M. Kennedy's campaign for the Presidency in 1972 began this week in Chicago. It may never be known who master-minded the brief but explosive boomiet for the 36-year-old surviving brother of the triumphant and tragic Kennedy clan.
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    • 229 6 NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) Vice President Mr. Hubert H. Humphrey arrived last night after a day spent with friends and neighbours in Minnesota to be greeted by hecklers, pickets and heavy security The Vice President is expected to make an appearance in the labour day
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    • 159 6 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) A mass purge of student Red Guards is taking place in the South China City of Canton, a Hong Kong newspaper reported today. ‘Everyday, lots of people are paraded in the streets,” the Sing Tao Jih Pao said.
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    • 358 6 SAN SEBASTIAN. Spain, Mon. (Reuter) —The Roman Catholic Bishop of San Sebastian caused a storm in Spain this weekend by charging that General Franco’s Police were breaking the Vatican Concordat by staging unauthorised searches of religious houses in his diocese. His
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    • 72 6 THE first orbital flight by a manned space-craft in the Apollo scheme has been tentatively set for Oct. 11th. Walter Schirra (centre) will head the three-man team, astronauts Donn F. Eisele (left), command module pilot, and Walter Cunningham, lunar module pilot, for the first manned Apollo
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    • 105 6 TOKYO. Mon. < Reuter) Japan’s first fully containerised ship, the 15.800 deadweight ton Hakone Maru. left today on her maiden voyage for Los Angeles and Oakland to open a new trans-Paclflc container ship service. Its owners, the Nippon Yusen Kalsha (NYK). said It was carrying
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    • 73 6 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) A Japanese Communist Party delegation completed its visit to North Korea and left for home by ship yesterday, the North Korean Central New* agency said today. The delegation, led by Party Secretary General Kenji Miyamoto, had visited North Korea at the Invitation of
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    • 55 6 This charming girl, Christine Binchindari tz displays a most beautiful pearl which to her surprise she discovered in one of the oysters served in her sea-fruit dish that she ordered at one of the restaurant in Biarritz on the French south-western coast during her summer holidays
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    • 171 6 TOKYO. Mon. (Reutetr) Japan's foreign exchange reserves are estimated to have Increased by $144 million during August to total $2,216 million, which was an all time record figure, local banking circles said today. This was the largest monthly Increase in the nation’s foreign exchange reserves
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    • 109 6 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) Tropical Storm Bess bufletted Hong Kong with fringe winds and brought light rain today. Storm signal number three (No. 3) was hoisted throughout the day but the storm posed no serious Immediate threat to the British colony of four
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    • 370 6 WASHINGTON. Mon. (UPI) The Soviet border with Communist China is Moscow’s Vietnam, a prominent Austrian journalist said yesterday. In a copyrighted interview with U.S. News and World Report. Mr. Hugo Portisch. widely read Viennese journalist and television personality, said that the Soviets
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    • 107 6 JAKARTA, Mon (Reuter) About 100.000 people, including the Foreign Minister Mr. Adam, Malik and Parliamentary Speaker Haji Achmad Sjaichu. were disappointed last night when a lion brought into a fully packed stadium refused to fight a man. The contest was to have been the first
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    • 88 6 CANBERRA. Mon. (UPI)' An Australian Government course in Agricultural extension services for Asians and Africans began in Canberra today. External Affairs Minister Paul H. Hasluck said the 12-week course was being attended by 22 agricultural and livestock extension officers from Botswana, Ceylon. India, Indones’a, Kenya.
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    • 38 6 HONG KONG, Mon. (Reuter) The Britishowned Hon? Kong ar.d Shanghai Banking Corporation is to reopen its branch In Jakarta. A bank announcement here said all banking services would be available in the new premises.
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    • 704 7 Army regulars show no surprise at his possession of submachine-gun A MMAN, Jordan, Mon. (UPI). He might hov e been any teenager but for the Soviet submachine-gun in the crook of his left arm. On the east bank of the River Jordan, he
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    • 223 7 BRUSSELS, Mon. (Reuter) NATO Is preparing a military study of the new military situation created by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, informed sources said here today. They said the study, initiated by the NATO Military Committee and services chiefs, would go before the Permanent
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    • 65 7 AMMAN. Mon. (Reuter)— Presidents Ayub Khan of Pakistan and Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr of Iraq have assured King Hussein that their countries support Jordan completely and would "exert all possible efforts to back its just cause," it was announced here today. These assurances came in two separate cables
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    • 48 7 This is the man in Amsterdam. Holland, who wished to drive two bicycles at the same time or does he want to have a clear sight along the overcrowded roads.... Wondering, yes. we are still wondering too PANA Photo.
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    • 345 7 KINSHASA. Mon. (Reuter) Congo-Brazzaville's army leaders today confined the country's forces to their barracks as they grappled with the crisis resulting from two days of bloody fighting between troops and youths. Diplomatic circles here speculated on the fate of President Alphonse
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    • 97 7 HONG KONG, Mon. (Reuter)— Hong Kong-based Indian astrologer Professor E.V. Shastri said yesterday Republican candidate Richard Nixon will win the United States Presidential election this year. “It will be a close neck-and-neck election fraught with terrible tensions throughout the American nation.” he said today.
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    • 73 7 CANBERRA. Mon (Reuter) —Mr Leslie Bury. Minister for Labour and National Service, will lead the 11-man Australian delegation to the Sixth Asian Regional Conference of the International Labour Organisation beginning in Tokyo today. While In Tokyo. Mr. Bury will also attend a meeting of ministers
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    • 103 7 JAKARTA. Mon (Reuter) North Vietnam has released an Indonesian sailor eft'-r detained him for 21/2 year near Hanoi. Antaia news agency reported today. The sailor. Hjong Hassan. was captured by North Vietnamese Coast Guards in March 1966 when they sank his ship, the SS. Valente. owned by
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    • 55 7 JAMESTOWN. North Dakota. Mon <UPI) —Eight North Dakota teenagers were killed in a two-car collision near Jamestown earlv yesterday. One 16-year-old girl survived the collision. The North Dakota Highway Patrol said the two cars collided in the westbound lane of interstate 94 rear an exit
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    • 475 7 TOKYO. Mon (UPI) Asian labour experts, told that the region Is on the threshold of a “powerful economic take off,” were urged today to take a new look at the problems of the working man. The
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    • 268 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) A socio-medical conference devoted to helping the handicapped in the Asian and Pacific region opened here today. Doctors and social workers from 34 countries and territories were on hand for the fourth Pan Pacific Rehabilitation Conference. The week-long conference is
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    • 202 7 TOKYO. Mon (Reuter) The Japanese Steel Industry is hoping to arrange orderly exports of its products, in order that they may not disturb the importing nations, Mr. Shigeo Nagano. President of the Fuji Iron and Company, said today. Replying to
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    • 169 7 MANILA. Mon. (UPI I—The Philippine Constabulary turned over today to the Malaysian embassy two youths from Sabah who were rescued a week ago at sea after drifting off Sabah for nine days. Michael Chin. 22. and Tai Nuyk Sang 2d. both tractors repairmen,
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    • 46 7 MANILA: Michael Chin. 22. (right) of Lahuan. Sabah and Tan Nyk San. 20 (centre) of Sandakan. recounts to Philippine Constabulary Chief Brigadier Gen. Vicente Raval (left) their nine-day ordeal adrift in Philippine waters. They were rescued by the fishing vessel Anastacia. CPI Photo.
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    • 74 5 The Great, Grim Famine That Wasn t I,ast year tn India, death tame close for millions of people. as large part* of the country were turned into a du*tbowl by the worst drought In a century. Then, suddenly, trom the American Middle West, began a massive flow of grain Here
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  • 650 8 A T the five-nation conference in Kuala last June, Britain advised Malaysia and Singapore to sink their differences and to regard their defence as indivisible. Since the conditions in South-east Asia are constantly changing, what obtained in 1964 and 1965 is no longer valid now. Time has
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  • LETTERS...
    • 136 8 REGARDING the letter by Mr. George Chen of Kuala Lumpur on EPF and the married women, in your paper on August 27. 1968, I would also iike to ask why the Government does not pay back the EPF contributions made by a probationer like a
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    • 126 8 WHAT Is all the furor over the Warsaw Pact Nations’ troops entering Czechoslovakia? Isn’t there an outstanding precedent where the drama Is still going on? As a matter of fact the show seems unended. What are the American, Australian. New Zealand, Thai. South Korean and Philippine forces
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    • 133 8 ‘Death houses ON the subject of tourism. I don’t know If It Is still the practice now but at one time tourists were brought to see the death houses of Sago Lane. No doubt such a visit would leave the tourists deeply depressed but being polite they would probably choose
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    • 597 8 pENANG on the brink of total economic collapse has no need or use of the new wharves at Butterworth. The present port facilities on the island and the lighterage companies ore more than adequate to handle what is left of Penang's diminishing trade.
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    • 102 8 I SUPPORT the suggestion of a National University with the National Language as its medium for instruction. The existing University of Malaya cannot be deemed to be National because Its medium of instruction is not the National Language. As so much can be learnt, achieved and accomplished through
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    • 258 8 FOUR armed robbers shot dead a brave policeman and robbed $452,000 in Johore Bahru. The Police offered a reward of $5,000 to anyone giving information leading to the arrest and conviction of the robbers, and the Johore State Government offered $20,000 more. I do
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    • 161 8 OF LATE, although it had not been publicised, socalled tourist escort services have mushroomed iu Singapore. The idea is fast catching on in Kuala Lumpur The question is: Are these female tourist escorts rendering professional service by taking clients to places pf tourist interests? What worries
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    • 57 8 THE words Bumi Putra are of Indian origin. In Tamil, Sanskrit and Malayalam it means a son of the earth or land. Indians use the expression to describe one possessed of a Universal outlook —a son or citizen of the world. The expression was never intended to denote
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    • 84 8 TH E authorities concerned have been very unfair in terminating the supply of water from Public stand-pipes in the kampong at Jalan Ampas. The residents there, who are very poor, depended solely on these standpipes for their daily water supply. They can hardly see themselves
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    • 131 8 THE water supply was ‘horrible’ in Dungun and Kemaman. Though water was brought dally by lorries from Kuala Trengganu It was in insufficient amount. I came to realise that water is wasted in Kuala Trengganu. Piped water has been supplied to every village. So far as I
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    • 88 8 THANK you for the wonderful article “Tourism in Singapore after the 70’s" I am very impressed by the ideas of “Citizen’’ especially with regard to the converting of Raffles Institution Into a Cultural Institute. I feel. too. that Singapore is In too much of a hurry to pull
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  • 254 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author. "Handbook of Evld«oe« for Crlnina 1 Trials") ROBERT decided to do a pood deed for his friend, Pierre. He drove Pierre and Pierre s son to the hospital to visit Pierre's wife. Robert tripped and fell while in the parkinq lot. Robert
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  • 667 8 The absurd conduct of Filipino Congress From Sin Chew Jit Poh NO so long ago at the ASEAN conference, the leaders of Malaysia and the Philippines agreed to shelve the Sabah issue for the time being so as to afford both sides a cooling off period But
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 237 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Celebrating the end of an Intensive familiarisation course on A B. Dick Company's new 385 offset printing machine are seven selected employees from Singapore. Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. They are. from left to right: Paul Loke. Lee Tok Meng, Wong Cheak Wan,
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    • 55 9 HONG KONG, Mon. (UPI) —Money Quotations: HKS6.1062 per U.S. dollar. HKS6.120 per U.S. dollar TT HKS14.54 per pound sterling. iIK$301 75 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness. HKS161.6 per 10 000 Japanese vens. HKS149.2 per 100 Philippine pesos buyers. HKS149.4 per 100 Philippine pesos sellers. Philippine
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    • 243 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. By supplying four process computers to the cement industry in various European countries, Siemens has assumed a leading position in this field. The main Job of the computers consists of auto mating the preparation of raw materials. In which accurate proportioning Is
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    • 137 9 SINGAPORE, Mon.—Three electronic computers of the IBM System* 360 Model 65 are linked, for the first time in airline history, with three hundred and fifty IBM 2915 ‘video’ enquiry stations all over the world. This is the Automatic Reservation and Communication System or the ARCO
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The tin price for today was $550.25 per picul, up 25 cents.
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    • 205 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following ships are expected to be In port today: Godowns Vessels I'2 Radnorshire 3 4 Carron Bank 5 Triaina 6 7 Golden Spring 8 9 General Sikorski 10'll Mombasa 13 14 Autcmedon 15/16 President Polk 18 Cnakla 1* Kunak 21 22 Etsuzan Maru 23
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    • 101 9 BANGKOK Mon. <UPI) Thai Airways Corp will Increase its flights to North and Northeast Thailand next year with the purchase of three new twinengine Avro aircraft at a cost of $4 5 million, the airline said yesterday. Air Marshal Perm Limptsawad Manager of the
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    • 172 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. Three Esso employees from Singapore are attending a management planning and control seminar in Bangkok as part of the Company’s training programme to broaden the competence of local staff in the petroleum industry. They are Mr. Balan Sundrain, Economics Planning Section Head:
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    • 266 9 Rubber down cent SINGAPORE. Mon. September first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 53-1 cents per lb., down five-eighths of a cent from previous close. The tone was dull. London advices were about as expected and the market opened fractionally higher.
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    • 117 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The CKxin price* at tne nlngapurr Chineae Produce Kirhafttt to da.) are Bum Hallo Coconut Oil (FOB) Bulk 51 25 Coconut Oil (F. 0.8) Drum 53.75 Loo*e Copra Mum Sept 31.00 Muntoa White Pepper U t) B i NL B 110 00 Sarawak White Pepper <1 OK)
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    • 1202 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. A slightly easier tendency developed on the Stock Exchange today and conditions were quiet. Towards the afternoon, selling was moderately well absorbed and as a result some equities showed a mild rally then steadied till the close. In industrials: PMC. Malayawata
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    • 137 9 BANGKOK. Mon. (UPI)— Colour television sets will be assembled in Thailand and sold on the local market by the middle of 1969. a Bangkok businessman said yesterday. Ichai Malinont. who heads a firm which is building an assembly plant outside the ci.y
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    • 91 9 Japanese Malaysian joint venture formed (Bernama). KUALA LUMPUR. Mon A Japanese-Malayslan Joint venture the Toshiba <M> Sdn. Berhad has been formed for the production of TV receivers electric fans and other home appliances. The new firm with a capital of $1 million 85 per cent Japanese, and 15 per cent
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    • 380 9 SINGAPORE Slock txchange sold ud ofter prices officially lined at the close of business INDUSTRIALS Ben A Co \B! 2.80 Borneo Bhd. !.M 2.0.> 4.10 Chemiial Co. Cold storage E. smelting 1 87 476 6.60 6 65 2 65 S 86 2.90 Fitzpatricks F A N Ords 2
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    • 47 9 tManarerr Hr«t Mala\an 2.71 Second Mala'an 1 >13 Third Malayan The Commerce 1.24 Industry The Savina 1.01 110 Fund \n 1.12 1.21 Urst H’kong 1 07 1.12* second H'konc .75 .79* Malavsian Inveatment r unrt 1 20 1 30 Sterllnj C’modltv S/R Honr Ron* Currency >
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    • 50 9 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPIV —Currency Rates. HKS197.8 per 100 dollars. Straits HKS146.2 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars. HKS6.79 per Australian dollar HK$300 per 1.000 mese kyats. BurHKSS20 per 1,000 Indian rupees. HK$150 per 10,000 Indonesian rupiahs. HKS298 per 10,000 Vietnam piastres. South HKS291.2 per l‘,000 land ticals. Thai-
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 861 10 YOOK ■MM w I .y,V •ICJte.- TODAY Wmrn J il«u TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL S KUALA LUMPUR and Pulao Pinang. 6 Ipoh and Melaka; 3 A II Jobore Bahru. 4 raiping; 7 Batn Pahat; 9 Kluang. P.M. 545 Opening Annct. Prog. Summary; 5.50 News Outlines in the National Language; 5 55
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  • Eastern Sun new weekly feature
    • 525 11 Graduation Day last Thursday at the Schools of Nursing, General Hospital. In Kuala Lumpur, was a big moment for Miss Lee Koon Fong. She was awarded the Gold Medal for the best student nurse in 1967. At a prise and certificate presentation ceremony, the Minister of Health,
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  • Boutique
    • 605 12  -  By Florence de Santis AT TOO long last, the mini shift has ron its breathless course and died. Oh. it may lurk yet in corners reserved for young juniors, but the mini madness is dead. As designers should have known, too
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    • Article, Illustration
      168 12 LE M O N-Llme Parfait. (Makes 14 to 16 servings). Ingredients: One package '(3 oz.) lime gelatine, one package (3 oz.) lemon gelatine, two cups hot water, one cup cold water, half cup pineapple juice. Also needed are half cup orange juice, two to three cups (small can) chilled
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    • 132 12 Recognising that hat wearing today is solely a matter of fashion not necessity, more millinery designers are doing other accessories to go right with their hats. Some are also venturing Into separates, such as Adolfo’s skirts in off-beat fabrics, which have scored with his wealthy customers
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    • 48 12 NEWS from R'viera are fall sunglasses which don’t collide with even sweeping false eyelashe-. Called Telesol. the lenses are deeply inverted inside bold frames of tortoise. The big size is deliberate, and there are various colours for both lenses and frames. Fashion League Photo.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 306 12 TODAY and YOU... Tuesday. September 3. 1968. ARIES MAR. 22 2O Q 4- 5-10-24 31-42-74 TAURUS APR. 21 o MAY 21 3- 6-17-19 S/22-28-85-87 GEMINI MAY 22 JUNE 22 ,41-45-51-551 61-67-70 CANCER JUNE 23 JULY 23 7-16-20 25-63-65 D£ LEO JULY 24 AUG. 23 44-47-53-58 1-78-83^9, VIRGO AUG. 24 SEPT.
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    • 170 13 G A L AXYlffl Today 3 Shows: SOO 6 00. 9.00 p m Tha Ist and Beat Action Film From Indonesia With 3 .Melodious Kronchongs “MATJAN KEMAJORAN” •Indonesian Dialogue In Scope) THE SENSATIONAL GREAT ROYAL CIRCUS or INDIA Kallang Park (tel: *****6) LAST 13 DAYS FINAL CHANGE OF PROGRAMME Star
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 188 13 SHAW# *Btion NOW SHOWING N© Free Lint! 11 am., ISO 4 00. 0.30 915 pm Clint Eastwood. Inger Stevens “HANG EM HIGH'* Color (DAI CAPITOL Phone ***** LAST 2 DAYS No Free List! 11 am. 1.80. 4.00, 0.45 930 pm. Yu Chien Yueh Hua in Shaw Production* “Death ValleyMandarin In
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    • 211 13 Showing 11. 2.30 0.00 900 Truman Capote’t'ln Cold Blood' TOMM Panarlslon Columbia Picture NEXT CHANGE! "BLUE" iTar.) Terence Stamp. P'Vision. Color ORCHARD-***** Opens Today! 1 30. »0. 15 •SECRET AGENT TIGER" Roper Hanin. Daniela Bianchi Next Chanae Tom Courtenay In Fora Day The Fish Came Ont" Color Opens Today! 1.30.
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  • NEWSFEATURES
    • 1067 14  -  By Mike Rosel THE coming of the southern hemisphere spring is bringing the spectacular golden wattle, the national floral emblem, into flower on Australian hillsides. Australian sports fans are hoping another golden blossoming; successful A u s tralian competitors at the Mexico City Olympics. But their
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    • 331 14 AIELBOURNE. Mon. An unusual building, a centre for all religions, was opened in June at Monash University, Melbourne. It has been designed as a place of worship for students of all faiths and is available for use by the university chaplains for formal counselling
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    • 260 14  -  By Joong Sup Bae C EOUL (UPI). The short, grayhaired man spoke a combination of English and Korean. "Right, go ahead/' "P pal i, ppa I i (quickly, quickly)." "Oh, too lote." Once again Sammy Lee had come home to the land of his ancestors to
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    • Article, Illustration
      36 14 The 36 Atomic Girls, the beautiful dancing girls of the Tokvo’s Shochika Dancing Troupe form a perfect line on the beach at Takeshiba Pier to launrh a campaign for their summer revue. < PANA photo.
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    • 426 14 Eastern Sun Cliuifwd tdvcrtitcment cam b« accepted at tha following addraase*: MONT DOR MILK BAR. Ngee Ann Building. Singapore S.S. MUBARUK b Brother*. 63. Bras Basah Road, and 2. Maiu Avenue. Sortngoon Carden Estate, Singapore TAY BUAN GUAN LTD.. SUPERMARKET. 83. East Coast Road, Singapore 15 Tel *****9. HAMIEM STORE,
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    • 363 14 TENDER NOTICES PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD SINGAPORE TENDER FOE DISTRIBUTION FQHPMLM Manufacturers interested in tendering for the following item* are invited to submit their applications in writing to the Chief Electrical Engineer. Public Utilities Board. City Hall. Singapore 6 The deposit for the tender documents of each item is SSI.OOO Manufacturers
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    • 122 14 KENYATAAN TAWARAN J K R JOHOR TAWARAN daripada pemborong2 yang berdaftar dlJ.K R. Kelas ‘D’ dan ke-atas. akan di-terima dl-Pejabat Jurutera Negeri. J.K.R., Johor, hlngga jam 2.30 petang pada llhb September. 1968 untok:— MEMBENA DAN MENYIAPKAN MUKA JALAN. PARIT TANAH, DAN PEMBENTONG R.C. DIJALAN HER ETA LEMBU. MUAR. Segala butir2
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    • 212 14 TENDER PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD. SINGAPORE TENDERS ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT: (Room 232, 2nd Floor. City Hall) (a) Supply of 270 Pieces Group B’ Street Lighting Lanterns (Side Entry). Tender Deposit $lOO/-. Close at 2.15 p.m. on 10-9-68. (b) Supply of Single Brackets for Group ‘A' Street Lighting Lanterns. Tender Deposit $lOO/-. Close
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  • Sun Sport
    • 326 15 SAWLF will not appeal for his inclusion SINGAPORE, Mo n. The Singapore Amateur Weightlifting Federation will not appeal the case of weightlifter Tan Howe Liang for inclusion in the Olympic team to Mexico. The President of SAWLF. Mr. Soh Ghee Soon, said: “We’ll not appeal
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    • 356 15 ELKHART LAKE. Wisconsin, Mon. (UPI) New Zealanders Denis Hulme and Bruce McLaren picked up where they left off last year, sweeping to first and second yesterday in the Inaugural of the 1968 Canadian American Challenge Cup road races at Road America. Hulme. who
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    • 92 15 CALGARY, Mon (UPI) Carol Mann continued her par breaking ways here yesterday to win the 15,000 collars Willow Park Ladies Invitational Golf Tournament. Miss Mann, a tall swinger from Cincinnati. Ohio carded a two-under-par 09 to finsh the 54-hole tournament at eight under 205. The
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    • 218 15 SINGAPORE. Mon. Mr. Lim Joo Hock. Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Social Affairs will represent Singapore at the meeting of the Economic Commission for Asia and Far East to be held in Bangkok this month in conjuction with ECAFEsponsored motor rally from Vientiane to
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    • 329 15 CLIFTON. New Jersey, Mon. (UPI) British Open Champion Gary Player did some more running yesterday, mostly around in circles, but still led by two strokes at the end of a wild roller coaster-like third round in the $150,000 Thunderbird Classic. Player, the inexhaustable little physical
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    • 93 15 Hickcox wins again LONG BEACH. California, Mon. (Reuter) Charles Hickcox. 21-year-old Indiana University student, won his third race in three nights of competition at the US. men’s Olympic swimming trials here last night. But he failed to break the 58 4 seconds world record in the 100-metre backstroke event, pceting
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    • 60 15 SHOWING avid concentration. Gunner Colin Houde moves into a backhand stroke during the final of the Far East Land Forces individual tennis championship at Tanglin. An Australian artilleryman with 107 Field Battery based at Terendak Garrison, Malacca, Gunner Houde won the final from New Zealander, Captain John West, 6-4, 6-3.
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    • 176 15 MELBOURNE. Mon. (Reuter I— World bantamweight boxing champion Lionel Rose of Australia is expected to receive an ASBO.OOO (37.331 sterling) offer to defend his title in South Korea this year. Rose* manager-trainer. Jack Rennie, said here today he understood the offer would be
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    • 88 15 IPOH, Mon. Colony Surf of Colony Stable, which won In Race Four for horses Class 2. Division 1 on the Second Day of the Perak Turf Club's August/ September meeting yesterday. has been promoted to Class 1 Another promotion to Class 3 was for Djebelet, which won
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    • 808 15 IPOH, Mon. The following is the Stipendiary Steward's report on the First Day of the Perak Turf Club's August September Meeting on Saturday. Going-good Rare 2 soft after heavy. 1 SECOND DAY RACE 1. Scottish General (Annuar) was slow to begin. Cato could
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    • 970 15 IPOH. Mob. Weights for the Third Day of the Perak Turf Clnh'e Aufuet/ September Meeting m Saturday. THIRD DAY HORSES ClaM 4 Die. 1 Furlonge Smoko 8.00 Dollar Seeker 812 Roan Prince 8.10 Wisdom 807 Brilliant Prmeeeg 8.06 Rayto.ne 8 06 Professional 8
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    • 103 16 Light-flyweight Nguyen Si Nguyen (right) of South Vietnam ducks from a left hook by Boev Su Siong of Malaysia in the sth Malaysian Open Boxing Championships at the Stadium Negara in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend. The Malaysian won on points. Sunsport pix by Mok Voon. Indonesia’s
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    • 49 16 PENANG. Mon. The Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee. will entertain participants of the Malaysian Open Tennis Championship to dinner at his residence on the night of Sept. 12. The Malaysian tennis championships will be held here from Sept. 12 to Sept. 15.
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    • 282 16 FOREST HILLS. (New York). Mon. (Reuter) Rod Laver, the world’s leading tennis player, who had a desperate fight to reach the third round of the men’s finals yesterday, should have an easier time in the U.S. Open Championships today. The Australian professional, current
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    • 345 16 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) A shy. soft-spoken Chinese with a deadly eye will be slipping quietly out of this colony shortly, bound for Mexico City with a valuable collection of rifles in his baggage. Joseph Lei Won’t be gunrunning. He’s heading Hong
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    • 34 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The rugby match between the Selangor Rugby union President's XV against the State XV scheduled to be played at the Selangor Club padang here this evening was called off.
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    • 284 16 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The State Government has allotted $lOO,OOO towards the 10th Johore Grand Prix to be held on the 2.5 miles "circuit'' here on Sept. 14 and 15. The Chairman of the Grand Prlx Organising Committee. Enche Sairan Sabtu told a Press
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    • 202 16 YORK. (Pennsylvania' Mon. (UPli Joe Dube o? Doctor’s Inlet. Florida, who set one world record and lifted a total of 1.266 pounds in heavyweight competition here, was one of seven U.S. Olympic weightlifting team members named yesterday. Dube, who set a two-arm press record
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    • 56 16 HONG KONG. Mon. <UPI>. A star of the South Korean soccer team in Malaysia's Merdeka tournament last month may be playing for a Hong Kong team soon. Joseph Hsu. an official of the Sing Tao soccer team, said Korean centre-forward Huh Yoon Jung had
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    • 458 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Malaysia is to put herself on the world motor racing calendar within the next three years. “We have one of the best circuits built to international requirements in V s part of the world and ur paddock and pit facilities
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    • 465 16 SINGAPORE, Mon. The F.A. of Singspore ore now working on a big project to boost football in the island-Republic. Top level moves are now underway to introduce an International U n d e r 23 soccer tournament in Singapore in conjuction
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    • 220 16 NAIROBI. Mon. (Reuter). —Kipchoge Keino will try for three gold medals the 1,500, 5.000 and 10.000 metres events —at the Mexico City Olympics next month. A Kenya Amateur Athletic Association official said today that Keino would definitely be entered for the three events. Only
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    • 53 16 The captain of the Malaysian Motor Sports Club, Tony Maw, and his wife Linda lead the way in the trial run for the ‘Trisha Derby’, which will be a special feature of the 1968 Malaysian Grand Prix at the Selangor Racing Circuit on Sept. 7 and 8 at Batu Tiga
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 52 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 10.19 a.m. (6.6 ft.). 11.14 p.m. (6.4 ft.). Port Swettenham: 2.34 a.m. (12.1 ft.). 3.01 p.m. (12.7 ft.). Port Dickson: 3.05 a.m. (5.9 ft.). 4.23 p.m. (7.1 ft.). Singapore: 9.31 am. (7.0 ft 7.27 p.m. (7.4 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 7.40 a.m. (7.3 ft.). Kuantan: 6.25 a.m.
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