Eastern Sun, 17 December 1968

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 856 Tuesday, 17 December 1968. MC (P) 0050 Price 15 cent*
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  • 304 1 QAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) President Nguyen Von Thieu said today his Government would never accept any Communist organisation on its territory as a price for peace. The President told 86 delegates from 31 States, attending an anti-Communist conference here that all the Government's peacemoves
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  • 85 1 MANILA, Mon. (AFP) Enraged by a police’ attempt to disarm him at a dance hall, a 38-year-old man opened tireo with his shotgun and killed five persons In the town of Banate. Iloilo Province In Central Philippines. The victims included a a
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  • 371 1 SAIGON, Mon. (I PI) The I S. Government on Monday released seven Communist prisoners in the Gulf of Tonkin, gave them a small boat and sent them home to North Vietnam 12 miles away, military spokesmen said. Release of the seamen was the
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  • 100 1 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter). The Hong Kong authorities today released 22 prisoners who had been jailed during disturbances here last year protesting against British rule The releases left a total of 370 people still serving prison terms, out of more than 1.000 convicted of
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  • 56 1 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Britain today named a senior career diplomat, Mr. John Denson, as its new acting Chaigc d’Affaires in Peking. A Foreign Office spokesirar said Mr. Denson. 42. will replace Mr Percy Cradcck who is due to leave Peking next February on completion
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  • 32 1 MOSCOW': South Vietnamese Liberation Front leader Chang Biu Kiem (left) lavs wreath at Lenin's tomb in Red Square on Dec 15 after arrival here en route to Paris peace talks. UPI radiophoto.
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  • 277 1 HI ALA Ll'MPl’R. Mon. —Selangor Police detained another five suspects over the weekend in connection with SoO.OOO robbery and the shooting of the assistant bank cashier in the Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation Branch in Klang on Wednesday. A German 22 revolver with two
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  • 198 1 Man’ s Most Dangerous Space Mission SPACE. CENTRE. Houston. Texas, Mon. (UPI) The Apollo 8 moonflight is the most dangerous space mission man has ever tried, and at three key points in the flight aside from launch and splashdown the crew and ground controllers must make decisions or take actions
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  • 140 1 PRAGUE Mon. «UPI) Ota 81k. father of Chechoslovakia's economic reform, today was urged to return from self-exue in Switzerand and was assured that the Communist Party Central Committee has taken no action to expri h:m or other reformist*, fired from top posts under Kremlin
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  • 51 1 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPIi Two Hong Kong police officers yesterday left for Sydney for the extradition of an Australian national alleged to have swindled US$lO,OOO from a Hong Kong bank. Police did not Identify the Australian. The offences were allegeed to have occurred in October last
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  • 75 1 SYDN'FY, Mon. (Reuter) A game warden at Sydney's Waragamha lion park saved a 14 vcar-old lioness s life by artificial respiration after the animal fell into a dam. Roger Murray dragged the lioness. Julirt. from the dam h\ her tail She had fled into the
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  • 46 1 ALDERSHOT. England. Mon. (Reuter) A 20-year-old man described as a Walter Mitty character" was fined £5O here today for giving the Russians secret documents about aircraft and missile research. Photo-printer Clive Edwin Bland peaded guilty to charges under Britain's Official Secrets Act.
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  • 132 1 SYDNEY. Mon (Reuter) New South Wales Police today became alarmed at reports of cars the I.ondon-Sydnev car marathon tearing through this State at speeds un to 100 miles an hour, and issued a stern warning. A police spokesman said here if any drivers break the traffic
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  • 226 1 Kl ALA Ll’MPl'R, Mon. Th P Minister for Sabah Affairs. Dato Ganie Gilong said today the “new cooling off period" between the Philippines and Malaysia would soon restore the complete normalisation of relations between the two countries. “This will allow ASEAN to
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  • 53 1 PARIS. Mon. (UPI) Prince Souphanouvong. leader ©f the Communist-domi-nated Laotian Patriotic Front (Nec Lao Haksat) reoel movement, said today the tide has turned against the American* in Laos after their decision to discuss peace in Vietnam. He urged an all-out effort to achieve a "total
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  • 132 1 MADRAS. Mon. (Reuter) A Hindu god has won a sixth share of the Madras races jackpot of 408.738 rupees (£22.707). Five punters bought 32 tickets for the Dec. 1 jackpot after praying for the grace of Lord Venkateshwara. deity of one of
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  • 73 1 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) Four arrned men broke into a warehouse in suburban Makati early today and stole 38 kilos of mercury worth some 328.000 pesos (about £33.000). Poiice said the men disarmed a security guard at the warehouse owned by Marsman Company. Inc. and escaped with their
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 604 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Minister of Finance. Tun Tan Siew Sin. today proposed the Malaysian Chinese Association launch a women’s assembly next year to strengthen its women’s section. “One of our greatest regrets is that we have never had a strong women's
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    • 351 2 IPOH. Mon. The Perak police working in close co-operation with their Kedah and Perlis counterparts believe thev have crippled, if not completely smashed, a band of heavily armed robbers who have for the past six months been terrorising the people of these three
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    • 174 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A natural rubber latex conference will be held in Britain next March to discuss the technology and uses of latex. The conference will also discuss the present status of natural rubber latex in traditional applications, including foam and thread, together with more recent and
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    • 117 2 MALACCA, Mon. Several wedding dinners and thousands of households in the town were thrown out of gear last evening due to power failure. Some parties were held In candlelight. An electric lift in the Municipal nine storey flats at Jalan Bendahara affected by the power failure
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    • 141 2 National Art Gallery (Jalan Ampang): Special exhibition in honour of British sculptor Henry Moore 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.: Film shows on the life of Henry Moore 11 a.m to 12 noon: 330 p.m. and 4.30 p m. Samat Art Gallery (AIA Building, Jalan Ampanc): Batik paintings by
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    • 92 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. All is ready for the setting up of Malaysia's first $6 5 million ammunitions factory at Batu Arang, 20 miles from here. The factory Is a five-way partnership between the Government. Sharikat Permodalan Kebangsaan. Sharikat Java Raya, Messrs Oerlikon Buhrle of Switzerland
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    • 257 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The First Malaysian Taekwando Tournament will be held In the Stadium Negara here on Jan. 12 to select a team to represent Malaysia In the First Asian Taekwando Tournament to he held in Hong Kong in March. The Chairman
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    • 115 2 JAKARTA. Mon. i Reuter)' Indonesian publishers are not yet ready to adopt the new Maiaysian-Indone-sian Joint spelling system, the Director of a big Indonesian publishing firm in Jakarta. Mr. Chalid LatifT, said today. Mr. LatifT of the Pembina Publishing Company told reporters that Indonesian publishers would
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    • 51 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Herinder Singh, 25. of United Garden was today found guilty by the President of the Sessions Court, Enche Eusoff Chin, and sent to a year's jail for cheating Chik Chum, of Jalan Sultan. Petaling Jay a by giving a forged cheque valued at
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    • 124 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon An army truck driver who was jailed three years for robbery'- had h:s sentence •'reluctantly” quashed in the High Court today. Nadarajah Ponnusamy. 28. accused of robbing A. Subramamam at Subang New Village Road, was set free because Dato Justice SM. Yong
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    • 352 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The proposed addition of 200 Thai police to the Malaysian-Thai border to help wipe out communist guerillas was today described as "a greater punch" in the operation. The Director of Operations, West Malaysia. General Tan Sri Abdul Hamid
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    • 205 2 (Bernama). KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Exports of palm oil from Malaysia the world's largest exporter have taken a big leap forward this year. Export figures for the first 10 months, compiled by the Department of Statistics, Show an increase of 41 per cent over the same
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    • 145 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Bth Battalion of the Royal Malay Regiment who took over guard duties at Isiana Negara 18 months ago will relinquish its dutiea from tomorrow. The duties will be takea over by "nd Battalion the Royal Malay Regiment at present stationed in Port
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    • 506 3 ASEAN Concept Must Be Maintained —Rahim SINGAPORE, Mon. The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Enche A. Rahim Ishak, said today «*cn l! ,a ever *6e difficulties of the moment, the ASEAN concept must be maintained even as a etate of mind”. For in the ultimate, the small nations in
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    • 204 3 —(Bernama) KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. West Malaysia's imports of rice have gone down, according to the monthly statistical Bulletin of the Department of Statistics. During the first nine months of this year, imports of the country’s staple food into West Malaysia showed a drop of
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    • 95 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Mohamed bin Leman was today fined $5O or ten day’s jail for lying to a Kathi that he had divorced his first wife before marrying again. He pleaded guilty. He committed the oftence on April 8. 1967 when he gave false evidence before a Kathi.
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    • 82 3 SINGAPORE Mon. Mohd. bin Hasim was today sentenced to one year's Jail by the First District Judge when he pleaded guilty to a car theft at the Wilkie Terrace car park. He also faced another similar charge which was taken into consideration by the Judge.
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    • 77 3 SINGAPORE. Mon A labourer on board a ship, Chua Hock Lye, alias Ah Lye. 25. was today sentenced to three years’ jail by the Second District Judge when he pleaded guilty to a charge of voluntary causing grievous hurt to his leagueHe committed the
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    • 1561 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The teaching profession should not be turned into an instructing service, said the Member for Serangoon Gardens, Mr. L. P. Rodrigo, in Parliament today. He added that teaching was vocational in which students were imbued with the values of
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    • 50 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. A man Chong Chiow Yang was today fined $l5O in the Ninth Magistrate’s Court when he pleaded guilty to a charge of exhibiting a reel of blue film in a house at Kampong Bahru. He committed the offence about 10.50 pm. last Saturday.
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    • 184 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Government will continue to encourage motor-cyclists, scooterists and pillion-riders to wear crash helmets voluntarily. But it is not contemplating legislation for the compulsory use of crash helmets as it was somewhat early. The Minister for Communications. Mr
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    • 506 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Tomorrow a drop of supplies from a Twin Pioneer of the Royal Air Force to static jungle posts of the Malaysia police field force will mark the end of an era. It will be the last time men of 389 Air Despatch
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    • 132 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Government will be mounting a sustained campaign on road safety and compliance with traffic regulations. Revealing this in Parliament today. the Minister for Communications. Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin. remarked that there were far too frequent disregard for traffic regulations and road
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    • 164 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Ministry of Communications has made provisions for the purchase and installation of an Automatic Telex Exchange at an estimated cost of $600,000 for next year. It is anticipated that the equipment will be ready for service in 1970. This equipment, together
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    • 1620 4 Businessman Who Lost His Midas Touch-Magistrate PENANG, Mon. Penang millionaire Soon Cheng Sun, termed "a haraboiled businessman, who had unfortunately lost his Midas Touch," was today ordered to pay $6OO monthly maintenance to
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    • 225 4 (Bernama). KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Malay Language Society of the University of Malaya today expressed Its support for the student leaders who were elected to an Interim Council of University of Malaya Students* Union yesterday. The president of the society. Enehe Haron bin Awal. described those
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    • 50 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon A company manager reported the loss of his $2,500 watch from his house at Jalan Bukit Kenny here yesterday. Mr. T. R A Hingerford, 42, told police he kept his gold watch in his room on Nov 21, but yesterday he found it missing
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    • 71 4 MANILA: Miss Asia of 1968, Macy Shih of Nationalist China (left), and Miss Hong Kong Sandra Chung look at a Chinese paper published in Manila which front-paged a picture of Macy crowned at the contest on Dec. 8. Macy received a 10,000 peso cash award and an Asian tour plus
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    • 282 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Mentri Besar of Selangor, Dato Harun bin Haji Idris, announced tonight that the State Government had earmarked Serdang as a location for light indus- tries. The State Executive Council, had already approved the plan and work on the
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    • 155 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A special "anti-reckless" squad from the Selangor Traffic Police will patrol the town during the coming festive season to make sure motorists behave themselves. "We want to make this festive season an accidentfree one." the Selangor Traffic Police Chief. Superinten. dent Mansor
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    • 112 4 IPOH, Mon. A party of fifty teachers, and students of the Anglo-Chmese School here will make a bus tour of 16 days from South Thailand to North Thailand. This trip is organised by the tour section of the school for the second time. The
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    • 62 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A police party pounced on four youths and recovered a dagger yesterday. Earlier the youths were seen behaving in a suspicious manner at Jalan Pahang here. Police watching them from opposite the Leng Seng Omnibus Company detained them at about 9.45 pin. On
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    • 218 4 PENANG. Mon. It wai the most memorable event for Tuan Haji Saidln bln Abdul Rahman, a religious teacher from the northern town of Kepala Batas, Province Wellesley on his return here yesterday evening He left Penang only a? a State Koran reading champion but on
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    • 123 4 KUALA LUMPUR. MotL A lecturer in the University of Malaya has warned that failure to recognise students' legitimate interests in the politics of the country would make them violent, Mr. R. Dubsky. a history lecturer, writing in the latest issue of Berita Pelajar. says students become frustrated
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    • 101 4 JIAWANG. Mon. An engine driver was accidentally shot by a tin mine watchman when he failed to identify himself last night. Police identified the driver as Loh Kim Kong, and the watchman. Mahat bln Mat, 52. both of Chuk Hing Loong Tin Mine at Sungei
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    • 36 4 TELUK ANSON. Mon A Toddy tapper, Mr Ramasamy. 23. fell from a 40 feet coconut-tree He died in the hospital here two hours after admission He was married with two children.
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    • 183 4 Kl ALA LUMPUR. Mon —Malaysians must state the colour of their natural hair when they apply for passports and identity cards, officials of the Department of Immigration and of National Registration here said today. The photographs submitted by them should also show them with their natural
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    • 584 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Churches' Counselling Service here is now developing a bronch of Somoritons International in Singa* pore. The move is being made out of the "expressed concern for persons who are facing a threatening crisis in life". According to a spokesman for the
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    • 134 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. Miss Monica Lagerstrom, an SAS air hostess puts the finishing touches to the live Christmas tree in the rain at the BP Service Station in Holland Road last night. The tree, specially flown in from Scandinavia by Trans Asian Express, is on e
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    • 79 10 SINGAPORE. Mon The drivers of the lorrv and the jeep escaped serious injuries when their vehicles collided at Upper Serangoon Road, a stone’s throw from the Government Printing Office this morning. However, one of the passengers in the jeep, was seriously injured and had been
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    • 90 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Fostal Services Department plans to establish a delivery post office In the Toa Payoh Housing Estate. It will provide a full range of postal facilities to the residents living In the Estate. The Post Office, will operate in rented premises
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    • 117 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. Sixteen persons with criminal records were recruited into the Port of Singapore Authority. The recruitment was approved only after they had satisfied the Port of Singapore Authority that they had turned over a new leaf. Another 62 persons with minor offences
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    • 104 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. Nanvang University has instituted through the Dean of Students’Office a placement service for the benefit of its graduates. It will not only work for the welfare of its graduates. but also advise prospective employers on eligible candidates as regards their academic record,
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    • 102 10 SINGAPORE. Men. No. complaints ha\e been received by the Ministry of Social Affairs that there are persons instigating members of the Muslim i on>rnunitr to oppose the Administration of Muslim Law (Fitrah). Should there be such persons there are provisions under the Fitrah Rules to
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    • 311 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. A leading Russian shipping company the Far East Steamship Line which operates a fleet of more than 200 ships, has plans to further expand its cargo operational activities to Singapore. This was stated by the president of the FESL
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    • 77 10 SINGAPORE. Mod Arrangements hare been made in Singapore to sight the new moon of Sbawal. 1388. on Thursday to determine the beginning of Hari Raya Puasa. If the moon is sighted that evening. Hari Raya Puasa will fall on Friday but if it is not
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    • 70 10 S’ PORE DIARY 4 30 p.m.: Lecture on “Radiation Protection” by Mr. H D. Jameison at Lecture room of School of Radiography. 7.30 pm.: Free film shows by Ministry of Culture at Canberra Padang (Naval Base). Pei Chai School (Trafalgar Estate). Nam San School (Chua Chu Kang Road). Min Cheng
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    • 79 10 SINGAPORE Mop- The Department of Extramural Studies will conduct a sixlecture course on “From Settlement to Nation.” commencing Jan 15. from 7.30 lo 9 Dm. at the New Lecture Theatre 4. University of Singapore. The course aims to give participants a review of some important aspects
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    • 44 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Supervisory and Management Training Association of Singapore will hold a film show on the titles. “Container Port”. “Value Analysis” and “Joe’s Party (Industrial Safety)” at Shell Theatrette. Shell House in Collyer Quay, on Wednesday from 5.30 to 7.30 p.m.
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    • 110 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. Six robbers four of whom were armed with parangs broke into a construction site store and escaped with property worth $2,000 yesterday. Earlier, they held up the watchman and four employees of the Equatorial Construction Site at dagger point. The firm is situated
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    • 168 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. The following candidates passed the examinations conducted by the Australian Society of Accountants in the Republic in October this year. Introductory Accounting: Chan Kee Yong. Goh Toh Sye. Hsieh Kwang Hwa. Tan Yeow Theng and Tang Loon Hui. Commercial Law: Chua
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    • 21 10 SINGAPORE. Mon.—There were 54 road accidents, of which six were serious, during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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    • 621 11 (Bernama). LUMPUR, Mon. The Royal Commission of Inquiry appointed to look into the collapsed building disaster at Jalan Raja Laut last October will have its first sitting on Jan. 20. Announcing this at a press conference today, the chairman of the
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    • 151 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Eight men. one armed with a pistol and the others with parangs and knives, this morning held up the watchman of the National Type English Secondary School at San Peng here and escaped with $lO,OOO worth of equipment from the school office. The
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    • 73 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon— The Treasury has again reminded those still possessing old Malayan currency notes and coins to exchange them for new ones before Jan. 16. After that date, the old currency will no longer be legal tender and cannot be used for payment of goods
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    • 258 11 THE children of the Chinese Christian Church School In Senai. Johore. now have a new nursery school and are playing on swings and in a newly laid-out playground. These new village amenities have Just been constructed for the school by a party of British Gunners
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    • 469 11 PONTAIN. Mon. Four Indonesians, who were flushed out from their lair, will be charged in court with kidnap, robbery and assault of a Pontian fisherman, Low Hav, 50. They will stand trial in an Indonesian Superior Court. according to a Johore Police spokesman.
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    • 57 11 TELUK ANSON. Mon. A caretaker of a Hindu temple near Bagan Datoh. K Muthusamy. 55. was found drowned in a well. A neighbour. Manikam saw Muthusamy's body floating in the well when he went to fetch water He reported to the police and the body was
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    • 70 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon If Hari Raya Puasa falls on Friday. Dec 20, Friday and Saturday will be public holidays. the Chief Secretary to the Government. Tunku Tan Sri Mohamed bin Tunku Besar Burhanuddin. said today. If Hari Raya Puasa falls on Saturday, Saturday and Sunday will
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    • 39 11 PENANG, Mon.—The Police Anti-vice Sauad raided an auntie's house” in Ceylon Lane and detained two young girls, aged 15 and 16, last Saturday night. The two girls were later taken to the Social Welfare Department.
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    • 33 11 ALOR STAR. Mon The Kedah Legislative Assembly will meet on Dec., 28 for four consecutive days to Rebate next year's state estimates. at the Balai Besar here at 10.00 a m.
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    • 26 11 PENANG. Mon —The State Chinese (Penang) Association will be holding a Christmas get-together dinner at the Mandarm Restaurant at 7.30 p.m. on Dec. 28.
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    • 336 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. A jubilant Che Rahmah binte Abdul Rahman, 38, was given a rousing red carpet welcome to Johore last night following a resounding victory in the National and International Koran Reading Competition for women in Kuala Lumpur recently. A religious school teacher
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    • 118 11 MUAR. Mon.; More than 1.000 people from all parts of south of West Malaysia today attended the funeral of the Late Dato Haji Kosai bin Haji Salleh a Johore State Executive Assemblyman and Johore State Alliance strongman who died of “heart attack at the Singapore
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    • 285 11  -  By YAP KOON HUI KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A 200-yard long blood trial led police to a wooden hut off Jalan Pudu here where a youth with a gunshot wound was arrested this morning. Earlier a police constable answering a shout of ‘‘car thieves! car
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    • 67 11 (Ber- nama). KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Mentri Besar of Selangor. Dato Harun bin Haji idris. will receive a donation of $450 for the National Cancer Society Fund from the District Officer of Klang, Enche Radzuan bin Ja'aar, tomorrow. Dato Harun. who is the chairman of
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    • 622 13 Malaysia S'pore Urged: Spread Concept Of Multi-Racialism To Asia SINGAPORE, Mon. Five Moral Re-Armament leaders today urged Malaysia and Singapore to spread their laudable concept of multi-racialism to the rest of Asia. The five MRA leaders Madam Irene Laure, a Socialist leader from FranceMiss Borel from Switzerland < Interpreter to
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    • 142 13 SINGAPORE Mon —The Singapore Telephone Board is currently reviewing the whole tariff structure of its facilities. Disclosing this in Parliament today, the Minister for Communications. Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin added that no changes were contemplated until such study had been competed and accepted
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    • 142 13 SINGAPORE. Mon —Parliament was told today that a senior official responsible for approving seven old buses for use as public service vehicles was retired from service in the public interest. Disclosing this, the Minister for Communications, Mr Yong Nyuk Lin. added that the buses
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    • 151 13 SYDNEY Mon (Reuter)— Dr David Nelson, the immunologist in Sydney University's transplant unit, will fly to Singapore neat month to set up an immunology centre for the World Health Organisation. His wife Peggy a trained bio-chemist. ard immunologist would go with him to
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    • 142 13 SIXGAPOE. M on. The Port of Singapore Authority is constructing a vessel to skim floating oil from the surface of the sea. Disclosing this in Parliament today, the Minister for Communications. Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin. said that the increasing oil pollution of the sea waters around
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    • 269 13 SINGAPORE. Mon.—The strict application of the citizenship laws is done so in the interest of the ma- jority. This was stated by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour. Mr 8 Rajaratnam. in Parliament today. He was replying to criticisms by
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    • 141 13 SINGAPORE. Mon.—Every effort is being made to maintain and develop the Singapore International Airport to keep pace with the fast changing modern developments. Disclosing this in Parliament today the Minister for Communications. Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin. said that a firm of consultants from the United
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    • 42 13 SINGAPORE. Mon A Chinese woman who fell to her death from Block 27. off Jalan Bahagia. died on the spot yesterday. Police gave her name as Lim Wee Hock, of Jalan Bahagia. Police do not suspect any foul play.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 216 5 MALAGA, Spain. Mon. (I PI) Doctors will give a truth serum next week to Peter Williams, the mysterious boy from nowhere, the British viceconsul in Malaga disclosed. Vice-consul Thomas Tuite added that all identifying labels had been removed from Peter's clothes. “It looks like
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    • 152 5 PUNTA ARENAS, Chile. Hon. (UPI) Flying grandfather Max Conrad postponed his takeoff to fly over the South Pole for the third straight day yesterday due to rough weather over Drake’s passage. He planned to depart «ight a.m. today, weather permitting. Conrad also changed flight plan of
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    • 39 5 DANANG, South Vietnam: Marines on Operation Mead River watch napalm strikes on NVA and VC positions 4.000 Marines were deployed in the cordon operation in area known as Dodge City. 13 miles south of Danang.
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    • 359 5 WHY? HOW? NEWCASTLE, England, Mon. (UPI). Even on trial for murder, Norma and Mary Bell look like ordinary schoolgirls. Both are far from normal. Norma, 13, and Mary, 11, are not related but live side-by-side in the "Rat alley" slum district of heavily industrialised
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    • 91 5 MANILA. Mon (UPI) Crime in the Philippines took a toll of 57 killed and 46 wounded last week with five of the fatalities mowed down inside a dance hall, it was reported today. The Philippine News Service weeklv crime report said the single
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    • 231 5 MONTEVIDEO. Mon. (\FP) —President Artur osta E Silva has finally found his true voration as Brazil's "strong man” after 20 months’ reputation in office as a promoter of detente and national reconciliation. When Marshal Ccsta E Silva assumed the Presidency in March 1967. Brazil's liberals.
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    • 258 5 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) President Ferdinand Marcos has said the Philippines intends to pursue a foreign policy independent of the United States. The President said in his weekly radio-televi-sion interview last night that he had reached this agreement with the new Foreign Secretary Mr.
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    • 47 5 MELBOURNE. Mon (Reuter) Former Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies arrived home from Britain aboard the liner Liberia yesterday. Sir Robert's return had been delayed while recovering from a stroke in London. He told reporters that he had no plans other than convalescing.
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    • 239 5 WASHINGTON. Mon (UPI) J Edgar Hoover will retain his job as FBI director, it was ’.earned today. Presi-dent-elect Richard M. Nixon asked the veteran lawman to stay on and Hoover has agreed. Mr. Hoover, who will turn 74 on New Year's Day. will serve under
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    • 107 5 LOWESTOFT. En g an d Mon. (Reuter) A lifeboat crew, police, firemen and a rescue helicopter team fought for two hours yesterday to free a man trapped by his foot in a gale-lashed sea here They failed and watched helplessly as the man was drowned
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    • 59 5 MACAO. Mon. (I’PI) A 60-year-old guard of the Cam Peak Casino woke up at 5 a.m. to find himself blind folded. his mouth covered and his legs tied, police reported. Robbers had taken one of the safe's keys from under his nillnw and escaped with HKSI3O.OOO. police
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    • 402 5 Labour In Turmoil LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Britain's Labour government faced new trouble today in uneasy relations with the trade union movement. Less than a week before parliament's Christmas recess, conflict over pay in the building industry moved to crisis stage. A special commons sitting was arranged
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    • 140 5 FLORENCE. Italy. Mon. (Reuter) About 500 rebel" parishioners defied Catho.ic Church authority by ho: ding an "assembly of prayer" in a church here yesterday in support of their dismissed priest. At the same time, about 30 students staged a sitdown protest in Saint Peter's
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    • 275 5 PALERMO. Sicily, Mon. (AFP) The Italian lira will he devalued, the Onassises will be divorced, President de Gaulle will quit political life. President Richard Nixon will escape an attempt on his life, "and all together 1969 will not be a happy year.’* This gloomy forecast was
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    • 57 5 HERE is a world's first light-house of synthetic material standing in its simole form on the River Elbe near Glucks.adt. Germany. The high tower weighs only five tons contrary to the 40 tons of a light-tower built in traditional construction. an u* ill'll- lt Lighthouse-keeper
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    • 46 6 SEVEN-year-old “King of the Jungle” from Africa called “Samson” belong* lng to the lion-park of the Graf Westerholt in Gelsenkirchen. Germany, is seen undergoing an operation on his left eye after a pink-eye “clouded” his eyesight and joy of life. PANA Photo
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    • 248 6 HONG KONG, Mon. (UPI) The government said today that there will be no exchange of prisoners to effect the release of Anthony Grey, a British newsman (Reuter) detained in Peking. The government was commenting on a proposal by a ranking Hong Kong Communist
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    • 78 6 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) An advisory body to the Ministry of Justice is expected to recommend enactment of a law making industrial spying a crime. A draft legislation drawn up by the Legal System Council would make the leaking of company secrets punishable by
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    • 192 6 Goodbye For 4 Months BANGKOK. Mon. (UPI) Lynda Bird Robb and her Marine Major husband Charles said farewell for another four months at Don Muang airport today, before he flew back to his post In the Vietnam war zone near Danang. Mrs. Robb. President Johnson’s elder daughter, drove her husband
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    • 55 6 NEW YORK Mon (UPI) Drivers of fuel oil trucks walked off their Jobs at midnight cutting off deliveries today to some 240,000 customers In New York City and Long Island. The strike came at a time when near zero temperatures hit the city following a
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    • 45 6 TOKYO. Mon (UPI) Yutaka Shimada. Chief Secretary of Japan's SelfDefence Agency, will visit military installations in Hong Kong and Europe early next year, the government announced today. Mr. Shimada is scheduled to leave on January 8. His itinerary was not announced.
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    • 31 6 THE ice-breakers are already kept busy on the nothern part of the Gulf of Bothnia Finland as the winter comes earlier (about one month ahead.) Pana Photo.
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    • 2866 6 What Ilea ahead far the tear Id in 1969? VIETNAM (MILITARY) By ALVIN B. WEBB JR. SAIGON. The military outlook for Vietnam in 1969 is heavily contingent upon what happens in the Paris talks, but meantime the war is expected to continue much as in the latter part
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    • 376 7  -  by DAVID I. DUGLAS UNITED NATIONS. Mon (UPI) One of the more sought-after jobs in New York requires a college education, charm, fluency in languages, a thorough grip on international affairs and pays less than US$lOO a week Yet about 500 girls, mostly
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    • 577 7  -  Cape and bull is not enough By Wiliam B. Lyon Madrid. Mon. (UPI) Courage aid fine capework do not Jways earn the Spanish natador ultimate tributes frm the professional critic* Generous wads of money do. Such in allegation, made by an matador against one
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    • 527 7 ‘PROPOSED ANCESTOR OF ORGANIC LIFE’ BERKELEY, California, Mon. (UPI). —Scientists have announced the discovery of ammonia molecules out in space in the direction of the milky way. Filing amrronia in space Is of'interest they saia. because it is believed to oe one cf tie “chemical
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    • 411 7 StudentGovt Contest of Strength FRANCE PARIS, Mon. (Reuter) The Gaullist regime and militant students today headed for a showdown battle whose outcome could affect the future of the franc and of the government Itself. As tough new measures to curb student unrest went into effect, officials were keeping a close
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    • 60 7 WASHINGTON. Mon (UPI) The U.S. Interior Department yesterday forecast that the tuna catch in the tropical Atlantic might total more than 10,000 tons worth about U 5.52.5 m. in the 1908 season. The department noted that its research vessel. Undaunted. has assisted the U.S tuna fleet this
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    • 39 7 BANGKOK. Mon. (UPI) Communist-led mountain tribesmen ambushed a Thai Special Forces patrol on the border of La Ei and Petchabun provinces 350 miles north of Bangkok yesterday, killing six troopers and a villager, and wounding four others.
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    • 99 7 AMMAN. Mon (UPI) Israeli artillery shelled a settlement south of the Dead Sea last night, killing a woman and injuring five other persons, a Jordanian military spokesman said today. The spokesman said the shelling started at 11 pm. and continued for about 15 minutes in
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    • 82 7 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) —Thieves escaped with gold and silver worth £lOO.OOO aftei burning their way into the strongroom of a London silversmiths during the night Using a thermic lance the gang burned through a three-inch thick strongroom door and then through the dooi of
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    • 67 7 Anti- Freese For A Cat CHESHAM England Mon (UPI). Dawn Chambers’ curiosity nearly killed the family cat. Dawn. 4. ‘hought i: would be s good idea to get glngbr the cat ready for winter, as daddy was doing with the family car So she poured anti-freeze into cat's saucer of
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    • 151 7 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI> A Japanese woman whose doctor hoped he had cured of brain cancer in August died today. The woman, whose name was not disclosed, spent 10 hours inside a nuclear reactor on Aug. 20 while her brain tumor was bombarded with neutrons. In
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    • 65 7 Pink House Red Faces NOTTINGHAM. England. Mon (UPI) Cyril Sheldon has a pink house Public housing officials ha\e red faces. Sheldon spent most of his spare time giving his house a coat of gleaming white paint When he arrived home the other day he found it pink. City officials said
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    • 328 7 LONDON. Mon (Reuter) The pop stars of today may be the tycoons of tomorrow. judging by the numbers who have recently started their own business. It began with the Beatles, of course. Ringo Starr’s ambition to own a chain of women’s hatr-dressing salons, often
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    • 248 7 MEXICO MEXICO CITY, Mon. (UPI). Heavily armed police patrols blanketed Mexico City yesterday, hunting terrorists who blasted two buildings in less than 24 hours, as a flareup of the anti-government student revolt apparently took a new turn. A pre -dawn explosion shattered windows in
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    • 104 7 CAPE KENNEDY. Mon. (Reuter) The 103-hour countdown for the Apollo eight round-the-moon flight began last night. The countdown was started at 7 pm. (2400 GMT). a day early to allow for correction of any unseen snags before the schedule liftoff on December 21. The
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    • 64 7 JERUSALEM. Mon. (UPI). Frime Minister Levi Esnkol said last night Israel expects to receive Phantom jets from the United States by 1970. Interviewed over Israel Radio. Eshkol said he based this expectation on a “promise bv the U.S president and what he told me at
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    • 222 7 RANGOON. Mon. (Reuter) A French Roman Catholic priest, who appealed against a seven-year prison sentence, was told that love and compassion are noble virtues but must not be in conflict with the laws of the state. In dismissing the appeal, the court recommended the government that
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    • 127 7 HOVE. England. Mon* (UPI) Hollywood attorney David Jacobs whose clients included the Beatles. ZsaZsa Gabor Liberate and other international stars, was found dead last night at his luxury seaside home here. He was 56. The British attorney, operating from his London and Hollywood offices,
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  • 410 8 EVERY now and then the question of water for Singapore crops up in the Johore State Assembly. Certain assemblymen are bent on cutting off Singapore’s water supply. They are very parochial minded. Some time ago, one of them suggested that the Causeway be removed. In this day
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  • 282 8 THE recent spate of bank robberies is worrying the Government. Bankers and top police officials will meet this week in Kuala Lumpur to discuss security measures taken by banks. One security measure the jaga with an unloaded shot gun is outmoded. When confronted with armed robbers the jaga
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  • 781 8 Chinese press comments (From Sin Chiew Jit Poh) Dr. lee chiaw memo, the Parliamentary Secretary for Education. In distributing prizes to the winners of the students’ walking contest sponsored by the Chinese Y.M.C.A., appealed to the students of Singapore not to Imitate the youths of other
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  • 795 8  -  By Gwendoline Jones other festival is so inextricably tied up with feasting in Britain as Christmas, and so great is the popularity of food hampers as Christmas gifts that the grocery departments of famous London stores such as Fortnum and Mason and Harrods start to
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  • 683 8 4O people are alive in London today who might have been dead, had it not been for a new treatment at the Westmi«. ;r Hospital. They were victims of the biggest single killer disease in countries with advanced economies what we call "heart attack". As
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  • 477 8 YUGOSLAVIA'S arnifd neutrality shields weak, neutral Austria much a* well-armed Sweden shields the neutral Finns At the same time Yugoslavia's self-confident armed neutrality .shields Pekingfriendly Albania and at least one flank of Greece. Yugoslavia thus covers access to the Adriatic and. indirectly, to the Aegean too. This
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  • 225 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, "handbook of Zvlijanc* for Criminal Tria.i”) OELF1V fell down the staira leading from her apartment on the second floor of a twofamily house Her infuries caused her death. Her daughter. Hina, sued Rose “Rose owns the building and occupies the ground floor
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 42 8 Eastern Sun Independent Nat tonal Newspaper TUESDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1968 24-B. Cantonment Read. Singapore 2. Telephone: *****'7 Penang Office I poh Office Cable 39. Ilian Sultan. Kuala Lumpur. Malaytia. Telephone: *****'6 8. Leith Struct. Tel: ***** 77, Brewetor Road. Te1:***** Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 434 9  -  By TAKESHI SATO TOKYO, Mon. (Reuter) Japan expects another year of good business in 1969 barring unforeseen international economic distur- bonces. Banking circles believe 1968 was perhaps Japan’s best year since World War Two from the financial point of view The simple fact that
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    • 195 9 TOKYO. Sun (UPI) The shipping firms of Mitsui Osk Lines and NYK (Nippon Yusen Kaisha) plan to place large highspeed container ships on the vital Japan-New York and Japan-Europe routes by the autumn of 1970. it w.’s reported today. The report said the
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    • 134 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The production of steel pipes for Singapore's biggest single export order worth $l2 1 million will be completed tomorrow. This was announced by Mr J. V. Williams, marketing manager of Hume Industries (Far East) Ltd. who If.id that the 5.600th pipe for
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    • 77 9 HONG KONG. Mon (UPI) —Money QuotationsHong Kong dollars 6 115 pe-- US. dollar. Horg Kong dollars 6 128 por U S dollar Hong Kong dollars 14 45 per pound sterling. Hong Kong dollars 305.75 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness. Hong Kong dollars 164.1 per
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. —:The tin price for today was $590.12-1/2 per picul, up $5 00.
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    • 287 9 Rubber Down Cent SINGAPORE. Mon. —January first grade rubber buyers f o b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 57-7/8 cents per lb., down three eighths of a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. The market eased after the opening on lack of
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    • 135 9 JAKARTA. Mon <UPI» Bonded warehouses for the tax-free storage of import and export goods will be opened at five major Indonesian ports In July next year, according to Indonesian Trade Minister Dr Sumitro Djojohadlkusumo. Warehouses In Jakarta. Surabaja. (East Java* Semarang (Central Java).
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    • 1436 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. Trading in the Stock Exchange of Singapore and Malaysia today improved on the steady conditions which developed towards Friday's close. Prices were also better and spread across the board with interest centred on blue chip counters. These counteis marie impressive
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    • 163 9 SINGAPORE. Mon—The following ships are expected to be in port today:— Godowns Vessels 5 Folga 6 '7 Anna Bakke 10/11 Prometheus 13/14 Straat Magelhaen 18 Achilles 19 Golden Moutain 21/22 Rajah Brooke 25 26 Halldis 27/28 Eckhardt 33/34 Automedon 38 39 Ferngate 40 41 Madhumatt 42/43 Friesenstein
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    • 28 9 LONDON. Mon (UPI) London Rubber Marloet opened quiet. No. 1 RSS spot 21-1/4 21-1/2. No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports Dec 20-3 16 20-3/8
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    • 541 9 SINOAPOHE Slock El rhanif *nM anrt other prl«e« nttietall* ll»ted »l the clo»* ot Dutlnrw IMH'SIBMLS t m 2 50 Ben A o 2 tin B"rn'n Bhd 1 LSI 1 *R 1 h: t 24 4 2fi (.nld storage 5 20 3 30 Oiionl' at 2 HI *.4I*
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    • 58 9 (Manairr* Price* > Fir*» Mala»au 2 #5 ifrnnd Malayan tis Ihl'il Malayan 1 28 The t omnuTt e lnrtu*tr» \D 1 01 1 10 Th* *a*tn* 1un«t i la i :a Interment 1 so 1 II 11(1 \l» 1 10 Hr‘l H kong l «»crnn»1 H Won* Xl>
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    • 127 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The noon price* me amxapnre I hinc** Hriiduc* tirhangf uv daj ar*:— Bojet kellei Coconut oil IIORi Bulk 490# Commit on (V oH) lirum 51 Ml Loo-e < opr a Mixed 89 5# Muniok White Pepper I E O B > Mi', S I. H 128.5# Mraxak
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    • 94 9 SEACOWILHELMSEH rsr> r»MBUW» *onE*n»»i BI RO. BREMEN. GOTHENBI RO. COPENHAGEN. OSLO A MALMO 8 pore Penang P S ham C blanca Rott H burg O'burg Cbagen Oslo TSITON Drr SI 31 MSO SI 1? *5 THEBEV* Jan 0 IS 91* F,k 11 U M T 1 •CALLS ANTWERP IS' From
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 1019 10 YOUR '>' V TV and Radio 4iTODAY j TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 KCALA LUMPUR and Pulan Pinang; 6 Ipoh and Melaka; 3 <fe 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. P.M 545 Opening Annct Prog. Summary 548 News Outlines in the National Language; 5.53 Waktu Berbuka Puasa
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  • Femme
    • 599 12  - Dress To Kill’ This Christimas By Pat Chan C'HRISTMAS is just a > week away. And what have you ladies prepared to capture the glamour of the festival? Christmas says It’s time to look your prettiest if you have not done so before It’s also a time for dates and
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    • 282 12  -  By Maureen Lee THINGS are lighting up for Christmas. And as the same old story goes, the shops are overloaded with all the best things In life which are too tantalising to leave out. These days few women can walk past
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    • Article, Illustration
      318 12 OVEN FRIED CHICKEN Ingredients: One threepound ready-to-cook fryer, one cup flour, two teaspoons salt, one teaspoon celery salt, two teaspoons paprika, quarter teaspoon pepper, one egg. one to two-third cups undiluted carnation (large can) evaporated milk and half cup (J pound) butter Method: Cut chicken into serving pieces. Cook
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 314 12 Tuesday, December 17, 1968, ARIES WAR. 21 APR. 19 ~5-6- 9-22 TAURUS APR. 20 WAY 20 3- 8-10-25 28-50-83-85 GEMINI WAY 21 JUNE 20 34 36-51-53 -78 fmk CANCER JUNE 21 JULY 22 13-18-30-33 49-63-84-87 LEO JULY 23 AUG. 22 On 12-16-40-42 0 VIRGO AUG. 23 SEPT. 22 4- 7-20-64
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 204 13 w Hit H*V>picano HOLHIAy" KIR HI Gneat Artiste hr special arrangement ”Mls« spring Dew Soap” Hong Kong's "Pop Quern rs h A R I S A LAM 18*21 DEC. pf,fg BIE T A VfTXHI BENS %TTOICAI. BOMBSHELL D*c. itth rhmtmo Ere Gala Dinner A Show Eat. to Jn a m
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    • 188 13 H A L A K O ENTER THE “SHALAKO” CONTEST AND triN SHARP PRIZES! WHAT DOtS “SHALAKO” MEAN? In on* of the mane thrilling scenes in th* ftim. Sean Connery •< «HU tkO explains »h»t "MHI.Akn" mean*. Be "‘■HIRP" and ll«ten carefully when this particular scene appear* on the screen
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    • 16 13 11 1 1 1 9 underground fgSSvS wF' ■**•> v with Pietro the WARLOCKS at < I Malaysia
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    • 202 13 SHAW# OpfanUatlon WELCOME TO 91NGAPOBE Shaw* Top Hongkong Film Star* and Location tnit LIDO Phone ***** SOW SHOWING No Free Uat! 11 Am 145. 400 ft ftft ft 9 Ift p m Win? Yu RETURN OF THE ONE ARMED SWORDSMAN'* A SHAW PRODUCTION' Mandarin in Shawacope. Color NEXT CHANOE' Eattt
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  • 1298 14  -  Sun Special Features By H.L. Herschensohn, M.D. IT is too bad that well meaning authors who are not doctors write about medical subjects heavily slanted to one idea without stating other essential facts. Recently, such an article appeared concerning the use of DPH tdlphenylhydantoin). commonly known
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  • 1025 14  -  By James Kim CEOUL, (UPI). The people of South Korea lived on the brink of war in 1968. Time and again, the 15 year -old Korean truce was broken by military raids and frontline skirmishes in which Korean and American soldiers died side by side.
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 546 14 Religious Announcement 20 Word* $lO/- (Minimum) CRUSADE FOR CHRIST MEETINGS Christ Methodist Church. 597, East Coast Road. Singapore. (Opposite St. Patrick School) Speaker: Rev. Ron ButlerWhite Sermon Titles Tonight at 7.45 p.m. “The Divine Alternative The World's Excuses” To-morrow night at 7.45 p.m. The Divine Incentive The World’s Rejection” ALL
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  • Sun Sport
    • 695 15 DAVIS CUP ftItLBQURNE, Mon. (AFP). Just how can Australia hope to have any chance of making a strong Davis Cup defence in the challenge round at Adelaide's Memorial Drive courts on Dec. 26, 27 and 28 next? Or worse still, can the holders
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    • 274 15 SYDNEY. Mon. (Reuter) Arthur Ashe. Stan Smith, Bobby Lutz and Charlie Pasarell were named today as the U.S. team to play Australia in the Davis Cup challenge round in Adelaide on Dec. 26, 27 and 28. The U.S non-playing Davis Cup cap’ain. Donald
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    • 236 15 SYDNEY. Mob. (L'PI) Team driver George Reynolds was admitted to Broken Hill Hospital today with head lacerations after his Holden GT rolled on a high speed dirt road in the Flinders Range. Reynolds, who had a nine Inch gash across the top of his bead was injured
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    • 60 15 RAWALPINDI. Mon. (Reuter)—Mr. Donald Carr, M.C.C.’s Assistant-Secretary, arrived here last night for talks with Pakistan cricket officials on the possibility of extending M.C.C.’s tour early next year. Since the cancellation of the Indian section of the tour, it is bored that M.C.C. will stay
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    • 204 15 Rose’ s Next Bout May Be In Bangkok MELBOURNE, Mon. (Reuter) Australia's world batamweight champion Lionel Rose- may have his next fight, a non-title bout, in Bangkok, Thailand. His prospective opponent is world flyweight champion, Chartchai Chionoi. Rose’s manager, Mr Jack Rennie, said last night he had received a cable
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    • 22 15 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Featherstone Rovers beat Huddersfield by 23 points to zero in a Rueby League match played yesterday.
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    • 96 15 ALOR STAR. Mon. The “A” and "B” hockey teams of the High School Malacca, who are making a tour of the North Malaysian States will play two matches here on Friday. They will play an Under--23 team at 4.00 pm. and
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    • 69 15 TUN Tan Siew Sin, the Minister of Finance, attended the South-east Asia “Koon tow” show organised by the Malaysian Sociological Research Institute Limited to collect funds for its endowment plan, in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday night. Pix: The arrival of Tun Tan Siew Sin, (left) the Chairman. Mr. Yap Seong
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    • 359 15 SINGAPORE. Mon The Singapore Ten-Pin Bowling Congress will hold the first junior bowling competition for children below 16 years old at Jackie’s Bowl on Dec. 21. The competition is being organised with the "catch-em-young idea in mind and in support of the
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    • 194 15 SAN JUAN. Argentina, Mon. (Reuter) Italian Andrea De Adamich clinched the driving championship and gave Ferrari the team title when he won the third race of »n international Formula Two motor racing competition here yesterday. Taking the lead on the 14th lap. De Adamich
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    • 188 15 IPOH. Mon Johnre last night collected a total of 17 points to emerge overall champions in the sixth Malaysian Judo Championships organised by the Perak Judo Association at the St. John Ambulance Association hall here. Penang and Perak gathered 16 points each while Selangor were
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    • 199 15 SINGAPORE. Mon. Soccer fans wishing to »ee football played at its best in this part of the world will be in for a treat when the Dynamo “Tbillssi’’ meet Singapore Selection tomorrow night at the Jalan Besar Stadium This will be the second tha’ the
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    • 196 15 ALOR STAR. Mon Kedah Sikhs will be a mong the record number of ten teams taking part in the Gurdwara Cup inter-State hockey competition in Ipoh from Dec. 21 to 23. Kedah Sikhs will be composed of a blend of old and
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    • 157 15 MANILA. Mon. (AFP) The joint British-Singa-pore football team, playing for 63 minutes with only ten men. defeated the All-Manila selection, 2-0, last night to win the “President’s Cup". Ace forward Colin Tltcheron, who had scored eight of his team's goals in the
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    • 152 15 LIMOGES Central France, Mon <AFP) Recovering from an anonymous knockout punch, referee Henri Delmas called a halt to a fiery Rugby Championship match between Limoges and Grenoble after 68 minutes here yesterday. Tempers between the two sids. both at the foot of Pool ”B” in the championship
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    • 91 15 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Japan's Mexico Olympic bantamweight bronze medallist. Eiji Morioka, has turned professional. The 22-jrear-old boxer wiil make his professional debut in Tokyo in a sixround bout around April, next year. Kazuo Takahashi, Morioka's manager said. Morioka is the third Japanese Olympic medallist to
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    • 119 15 COLOGNE. Germany, Mon. (UPI) Light-heavy-wetght Lothar Stengel, who lost the European title to Denmark's Tom Bogs in September, made an Impressive comeback in Cologne on Sunday with a first round technical knockout over Pierre Mlnler of France. The German had Mlnler almost out on his feet
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    • 170 15 FENANG. Mon. The first Malaysian Youth Volleyball Championship was opened by the Chief Minister. Tan Sri Won e Pow Nee. at the Han Chiang High School indoor stadium here this evening. Eleven State including Sarawak, are taking part in this championship which will be
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    • 59 15 TOKYO Mon. (AFP) A 19-vear-old Japanese boy on Sunday night set a new world weightlifting middleweight snatch for the Junior's Divison, hoisting 132.5 kilograms Sueo Fujishro a student of Meiji University of Tokyo, bettered his own previous record of 130.5 kilograms by two kilograms during
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    • 775 16 LONDON-SYDNEY MARATHON MENINDEE, New South Wales, Mon. (Reuter) Britain's Roger Clark, in a patched-up Ford Lotus Cortino, fought a bitter duel with Le Mans winner Lucien Bianchi today for the lead in the LondonSydney car marathon. Bianchi's British-entered Citroen DS 21 led
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    • 322 16 SAN REMO. Italy, Mon. (Reuter) Italy’s world middleweight boxing champion Nino Benvenuti emerged unscathed for his new role as a film star after his successful title defence here last night against American Don Fullmer. Thirty-year-old Benvenuti recovered from a surprised knockdown in the seventh
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    • 111 16 NEW YORK, Mon (UPD Jack Demosey said on Sunday night that he “was saddened’ by the death of Jess Willard, the man from whom Dempsey won the heavyweight title. July 4. 1919, in one of boxing's most famous bouts. “He was a good
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    • 54 16 BANGKOK. Mon. (AFP)— Masao Yukawa, senior VicePresident of the Japan Rugby Football Union, was elected first President of the Asian Rugby Football Union (ARFU) which was set up here on Sunday after weeklong talks among Rugby Union officials from Japan, Thailand. Hong Kong, Taiwan. South Korea.
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    • 386 16 MILDI'RA. Victoria. Mon. (Reuter) The Victorian Country Cricket XI survived an early slump to be seven for 140 at the end of the first day's play in the r match against a West Indies XI here today. The Country team at times faced barrages
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    • 135 16 Tony Maw of K.L. driving an Elfin (MK TB) won the motor car open event in the Ashby Road Circuit Meet, 1968. at Ipoh recently. He kept off a strong challenge from Singapore's Steve Harvey and Eddy Choong of Penanc to win the event in 4 mins. 11.4 secs. He
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    • 495 16 pACOIMA, California, Mon. (UPI). Jess Willard, the Kansas giant who went from the plains to the boxing ring where he became the world's heavyweight champion, died on Sunday at the age of 86. Willard’s wife, Harriet, and son, Alan, were at his bedside
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    • 1117 16 PENANG. Mon Followine are race weights for First Day X'mas New Year Meeting on Saturday, Dec21st. HORSES CLASS 2 Die. 2 About 8J Furs. Tudor Cloud 9.0Q Kuala Selangor 9 00 Brave Bambino 9 00 Kuantan 8 11 Golconda 8 11 Kebir
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    • 66 16 TIME AND TIDE *.v>. *v* *V Penang: 5.16 a.m. (2.9 ft.). 10.57 pm. (8.1 ft.). Port Swettenham: 9.33 am. (4.7 ft.), 2.36 am. (15.4 ft.). Port Dickson: 10.34 p m (19 ft.), 4.00 a m (9.0 ft.). Singapore: 2.50 pm (1.9 ft 809 a.m. (8.9 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 1.21 pm.
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