Eastern Sun, 5 June 1969

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1018 Thursday* 5 June 1969. MC(P) 0737 Prica 15 cents
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    Lock icon 92 Detained In Preventive Swoop Here
    644 1  -  By ALBERT JOHNSON IN o two-pronged security operation police detained a total of 92 suspects yesterday following a big search of squatter huts and an open-air amusement park, on both sides of Bukit Timah Road. Troops of the Reserve Unit and two platoons of
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    Lock icon Father Survives Son In The Sinking
    622 1 Death In The Games COSTA MESA, California, Wed. (UPI> Because he wanted to serve with his son >'n the navy. Chief Gunners Mate Lawrence John Riley postponed his retirement and signed on for two more years. Both were aboard the destroyers USS Frank E
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    135 1 TAIPEI, Wed. (UPI) An aborigine housewife at Kaohsiung. southern Taiwwan. strangled her two sons to death and then tried to commit suicide because her husband refused to buy her pet dog a bed, police reported. They said Mrs. Kuan AhShul. 36, bad a bitter quarrel with her husband
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    Lock icon BLAKENEY'S DERBY
    80 1 EPSOM, England. Wed. (Renter) English colt Blakeney won the English Derby classic here todayShoemaker finished second and Prince Regent third. Ernie Johnson rode Blakeney, Brian Taylor Shoemaker and Jean Deforge wan oa Prince Regent. Official starting prices were: 15 to 2 Blmkeney, 25 to 1 Shoemaker, 13 to
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    Lock icon Australia To Help On Sabah Anytime
    204 1 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) Australian External Affairs Minister Gordon Freeth said today Australia was willing to help Malaysia and the Philippines settle their Sabah territorial dispute. But he declared he did not want to anticipate any mediation moves. Freeth arrived in Manila at 3 p.m.
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    Lock icon Ties Uncut
    29 1 BONN. Wed. (Reuter) The West German government today decided against stopping all diplomatic activity in Cambodia in retaliation against Phnom Penh's recognition of East Germany last month.
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    Lock icon Nixon REbuffs The Neo-Isolationists
    226 1 Nixon REbuffs The NeoIsolationists COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. Wed. (UPI) President Nixon has attacked "The new isolationists" and advocates of unilateral disarmament. The chief executive addressed commencment exercises at the Air Force Academy here before continuing on to California and a Sunday meeting on Midway Island with President Nguyen Van TTiieu
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    Lock icon K.L. EXPRESS SATURDAY
    52 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. —The Kuala LumpurSingapore Express Bus Services will resume on Saturday the information control centre said today. The Kuala Lumpur to Singapore service will leave the Pudu Road bus station here at 9 a.m. dailv and the Singapore to Kuala Lumpur service will leave at
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  • Article
    Lock icon Training Set For Lunar Landing
    312 3 HOUSTON, Texas, Wed. (Reuter) Civilian astronaut Neil Armstrong will make two flights later this week in the vehicle that will train him for the landing he and another Apollo 11 erewman will make on the moon in mid-July, the Space Agency announced. r Armstrong, commander
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    Lock icon Explosions Injure 15 In Indiana
    189 3 GARY, Ind. Wed. (Reuter) At least 15 people were reported injured and six houses destroyed yesterday by a series of gas explosions followed by fires which ripped through a residential area on Gary's south side. The homes were on the route of a gas pipe
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    Lock icon Wife Murderer Gets Life Term
    97 3 EDINBURGH: Scotland. Wed '(Reuter)—A man who murdered his wife and then dismembered her body with a saw has been jailed here for life. James Keenan. a 34-year-old lorry driver, had pleaded guilty in the High Court to murdering his 29-year-old wife. The court heard that
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    Lock icon VENEZUELA'S students are seen turning over a truck during anti-American demonstrations on Tuesday in Valencia in connection with the South American tour of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller as a representative of President Nixon. The rioting students also stormed a supermarket owned by Rockefeller. Three of the rioters were wounded when police tried to put an end to the violence.
    61 3 VENEZUELA'S students are seen turning over a truck during anti-American demonstrations on Tuesday in Valencia in connection with the South American tour of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller as a representative of President Nixon. The rioting students also stormed a supermarket owned by Rockefeller. Three of the rioters were wounded
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    Lock icon SATURN TO HAVE EXTRA SENSORS
    255 3 CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. Wed. (UPI) The Space Agency said on Tuesday it has added extra sensors to Apollo li s Saturn 5 rocket in an attempt to detect vibrations reported by the Apollo 10 pilots when they streaked toward the moon, i The vibrations did
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    Lock icon Argentine Troops Ready For Riots
    173 3 CORDOBA. Argentina, Wed. (UPI) Army troop* hovered on the outskirts of Cordoba yesterday ready to move back in If student-worker rioting flares again. Labor leaders in the Industrial citv met secretly Monday night to plan for a general strike to protest government repression of anti-govern-ment
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    Lock icon DUTCH W. INDIES PARLIAMENT OUT
    145 3 THE HAGUE. Wed. (Reuter) Parliament of the Netherlands Antilles will be dissolved and new elections held followinf last Friday's riots on the island of Curacao. The Antilles Pnme Minister, Clro de Kroon. announced the decision in Willemstad todav after a resolution calling for the dissolution
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    Lock icon Court Bans Mail Order Ordaining
    154 3 BTOCKTON. Calif., Wed. (Reuter) A Judge here has ordered self-styled Bishop Klrby J. Hensley to stop ordaining ministers Into his "universal life church** by mall order. The ban was sought by the State Attorney-General's office on the grounds that the "Bishop' was violating state laws
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    Lock icon Gunman Shoots At Arab Policemen
    66 3 TEL AVIV, Wed. (Reuter)— An unidentified jjjnman flred a number of shots at three Arab policemen in Jenin near here at midnight, an Israeli military spokesman said today. Nobody was hurt in the Incident. and the lone attacker managed to escape. Bullet jackets found on
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    Lock icon Romania, China Sign Trade Pact
    66 3 VIENNA. Wed. fUFI) Roman, a and Communist China signed a trade and payments agreement in Bucharest yesterday* the Romanian News Agency Agerpres reported. Under the agreement. Romania will ship to China machine tools, lorries and sDare ">art». cargo boats, steel, oil. cner.iical products and various
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    Lock icon Nixon Denounces Moral Arrogance Of Students
    355 3 MADISON, S.D., Wed. (UPI) President Nixon on Tuesday denounced "the self-righteous moral arrogance" of college extremists but urged the nation to heed the demands of the young for honesty in American life. In a pronouncement balanced between condemnation and conciliation, the President warned youthful
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    Lock icon SWINGING ESCAPEES
    54 3 TOPEKA. Kan. Wed. (Reuter) Seven Rhesus monkeys who picked the lock on their cage to escape from the local zoo here on Sunday were today swinging' from the tops of trees in a nearby public park. So far. they have defied all attempts by the keepers to lure
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    Lock icon LIFE LIKELY ON OTHER PLANETS
    208 3 Moon Pictures Show LONDON. Wed. (UPI) An American space scientist said yesterday close-up photographs of the moon have reinforced the belief that life may exist on other planets. Dr Robert Jastrow. Director of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York, said photographs taken
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    Lock icon Burglars' Haul
    40 3 PARIS, "Ved. (Reuter) Burglars broke into the Nepal Embassy here during the night and escaped with iewels belonging to the ambassador's wife. Mrs. Shardul Shumsher Rana. police said yesterday. The jewels were reported to be of considerable value.
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    Lock icon Haiti Reds Liquidated
    116 3 PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti. Wed. (UPI) The government yesterday reported "liquidation" of the entire Central Committee of the underground Haitian Communist Party saying 22 activists had been killed on Monday in a pitched gunbattle with army troops. A Haitian army communique, headlined "Liquidation of the Central Committee
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    Lock icon Poher Determined To Stay With Election Battle
    461 4 PARIS, Wed. (Reuter) Centrist Alain Poher yesterday refused to bow to pressure to withdraw from the presidential battle and vowed to press an active campaign apainst "the methods and excesses of Gaul I ism.' Mr. Poher's chances of winning the decisive second round
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    Lock icon 3 Frenchmen Exchanged For 2 Spies
    244 4 PARIS. Wed. (Renter) Three Frenchmen Jailed in East Germany have secretly been exchanged for two convicted East German spies, informed sources said here last night. The exchange took place following a recent agreement between the two countries, the sources said. Two of the Frenchmen
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    Lock icon Hard Facts Of Life
    99 4 NtfWSTLE. England, Wed. (Reuter) Pandy the cat'j four kittens discovered the hard facts of life as soon as they were born. For their mother gave birth to them on top of an open bag of cement in a builder's yard. Soon after they were born the
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    Lock icon Brave Conduct Medals For 7
    98 4 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Seven British soldiers, who demolished 200 tons of badly deteriorating picric explosive found among mines and torpedo warheads in a tunnel on Penang Island, Western Malaysia. have received Queen Elizabeth's commendation for brave conduct. The official citation, published last night, said of
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    Lock icon APPEAL FOR STRUGGLE AGAINST STALINISM
    340 4 MOSCOW. Wed. (Reuter) Ten Soviet dissidents yesterday appealed to the World Communist Conference to help them in their struggle against Stalinism. A spokesman for the 10 said their appeal had been sent to foreign communist delegations to the conference, due to open here tomorrow. The
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    Lock icon Cosmos 285
    45 4 MOSCOW. Wed. (UPI) Russian scientist* yesterday launched another unmanned earth satellite in the Cosmos series Cosmos 285 the Soviet Tass News Agency announced. It was the first cosmos launched this month. The last was launched May 29 and there were four in May.
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    Lock icon MISS LOVELY LEGS
    48 4 JANIE MARSHALL, a 24-year-old secretary, wat voted 'Miss Lovely Legs' at a fashion garden party at the Hulingham Club at Putney, London recently. The garden party was one of the events of the Festival of London Stores now being staged in London. UPI UPI picture.
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    Lock icon Best Periods For Soviet Moonshot
    190 4 BUCHCM. West Germany, Wed. (Reuter) The Director of the Buchum Observatory and Space Research Centre said yesterday that there would be two possible periods for a Soviet moonshot before next month's scheduled American Apollo moon landing. Director Kleins Kaminski said that if the Russians allowed
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    Lock icon JORDAN DISCUSSES ISRAEL'S WARNING
    201 4 AMMAN, Wed. (UFI) Jordanian army officers have been meeting at the highest level during the past 24 hours to discuss warnings from Israel of new military action, informed political sources reported yester- day. The officers met secretly in Amman amid persistent reports that Israel had said
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    Lock icon Police Arrest Priests la Bishop's Office
    298 4 BILBAO, Bpaln. Wed. (Reuter) Church officials said yesterday Spanish police entered the offices of the local Roman Catholic bishop here without his permission last nlsht and arrested five Basque priests staging a sit-in hunger strike. The police acted despite Spain's 1953 Concordat with th*
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    Lock icon Strougal Is Named Deputy To Dr. Husak
    339 4 PRAGUE, Wed. (Reuter) Mr. Lubcmir Strougal, the key man in the pro-Soviet wing of the Czechoslovak Communist leadership, was named yesterday to a new post as deputy to party leader Dr. Gustav Husak. The announcement was made after a meeting of the party's
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    81 4 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) When Douglas Taylor left prison he stole the wife of a friend and fellow convict who was still inside. Then he stole the friend's car and sold it. And finally he stole from the wife, the Appeal Court here heard yesterday. But Lord Chief Justice
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    Lock icon Fancy This
    83 4 PARIS. Wed. (Reuter) A Paris court has awarded a 21-year-old model custody of a ?>iece of her bottom and 30,000 rancs (2.500 sterling). The award was made here to Mile. Claudme Perot, whose bottom was decorated with a tattoo of a rose and an Eiffel Tower for a
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    Lock icon MYSTERIOUS BOMBING...
    48 4 JERICHO, Jordan. Wed. Arab-owned shops here are In nMns recently after a mysterious bomb attack In which one Arab resident of the city was reported to have been killed. The bombs thrown, at midnight, were believed to be Russian-made Katyusha rockets. United United Press International picture.
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    Lock icon BOEING 747 MAKES DEBIT AT PARIS AIR SHOW
    387 4 PARIS. Wed (UPI) —The world's largest commercial airliner, the Boeing 747 jumbo-jet. made its debut before the International Aviation Industry yesterday at the Paris Air Show. The Anglo-French supersonic transport Concorde has been the centre of attraction at this year's show but
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    Lock icon Nixon Adviser Gets Cold Reception
    94 4 BOSTON. Wed. (UPI) Nearly two-thirds of the 900 graduating seniors at Brown University gave President Nixon's national security adviser a cold reception during commencement exercise s on Monday. the students stood up and turned their backs on Henry A. Kissinger, who was being awarded an
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    Lock icon 36 Detained In The Transvaal
    112 4 CAPE TOWN. Wed. (ReuterV South Africa's Police Minister. Mr. Lourens Muller. told a questioner in Parliament yesterday that 36 people had been detained in the Transvaal during the last three weeks In connection with "underground political activities." Mr. Muller would give no further details, apart
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    Lock icon 'CAR OR WIFE MUST GO'
    96 4 /CANTERBURY, England, Wed. (Reuter) Ken Shaw's wife was always cemplaining that his sports car was too draughty. Everytime they went out in it there were arguments. Now Ken is hoping to end the dispute by selling the car, or his wife. Ken's advertisement in a
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    Lock icon THE THAI HEADACHE
    539 6 rE key factor that has to be borne in mind in considering the stability of Southeast Asia is the opportunistic advantage which Communist elements can gain from any breakdown of law and order. A war has been going on in Vietnam for five years and though it
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    Lock icon SAIGON COUP?
    209 6 SAIGON, Wed. (AFP) A Saigon newspaper today asked whether American troops would stir-up a coup d'etat in Saigon if South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu refused to give way to President Richard Nixon during their talks this Sunday. The paper, Xay Dung, (Reconstruction), which reflects the opinion of
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    Lock icon The Tired Americans...
    273 6 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) In a sharp retort to Korean President Chung Hee Park's recent speech on the U.S. role in Vietnam, Republican Congressman Donald W. Riegle Jr. said on Tuesday the American people are tired of "fighting wars the Asians will not fight for themselves." In a
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    Lock icon Ship Collisions Since World War
    301 6 UPI. Following is a list of ship collisions since the end of World War Two. Jan. 27, 1949 600 killed when passenger liner Taiping collided with collier Kienyuan off South China. Jan. 12. 1950 65 killed when Swedish tanker Divina struck British submarine Truculent in
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    Lock icon U.S. Professor Says: Return Okinawa To Japan
    115 6 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) A Princeton professor has urged the return of Okinawa to Japan. In a letter to the New York Times published on Wednesday, Marius B. Jansen, Professor for Japanese history at Princeton, New Jersey University said: "It is Inconceivable that
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    Lock icon The Normandy Invasion
    1568 6  -  By Joseph W. Grigg OMAHA BEACH, France, Wed. (UPI) Time and the lush green foliage of Normandy have covered over the battle scars, but a quarter of a century later the memories terrible and glorious remain. Here, at 6.30 a.m. on June 6, 1944. after a passive
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    Lock icon Trump Card Of Papadopoulos
    620 6  -  By Noel Hudson ATHENS. Wed. (Renter) Greeks face a long hot summer aware that their military-back-ed rulers, who seized power more than two years ago. are digging in for a protracted stay in office. Since the regime of Prime Minister George Papadopoulos celebrated the second anniversary
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    Lock icon Mideast: China Accuses U.S. And Britain
    138 6 HONG KONG, Wed. (Reutcr) The New China News Agency today accused the United States and Britain of trying to keeo control over the Middle East and the Arabian Gulf area. The Chinese attack came in a despatch commenting on a Ministerial Council meeting of
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    Lock icon • For dumping grain swiftly and efficiently, this vehicle is tilted by a combination lift and scale. A 245-hectoliter cargo of wheat is weighed and emptied in five minutes at St Louis, Missouri flour mills. (IPS)
    35 6 For dumping grain swiftly and efficiently, this vehicle is tilted by a combination lift and scale. A 245-hectoliter cargo of wheat is weighed and emptied in five minutes at St Louis, Missouri flour mills. (IPS)
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    Lock icon TODAYS QUOTATION
    13 6 Heaven never helps the men who will not act Sophocles. I
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    Lock icon NATO And U.S. Failure —China
    216 6 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) The United States has failed to persuade members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to increase their military budgets, the New China News Agency claimed today. The agency commenting on NATO meetings in Brussels and London last month said: "The
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Slight Improvement On The Stock Exchange
      582 7 By Our IViarket Reporter openetTq^tly^n^a ster h»t g6 °J Mala >' sia Md Singapore yesterday to close barely steady. Ds but perked up on resumption in the afternoon The active stocks covered a Wide range of issues and many iriade marginal recoveries on the
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      508 7 T>t SINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS Acma $1.91 (3) $1.92 (3); Ben $2.05 (2) $2.06 (1); Borneo $1.70 (12)
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      36 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York stock exchange: 30 Industrials 930.78 20 Rail® 232.71 15 Utilities 128.99 65 Stock* 318.44 40 Bonds 73.18 Commodity Futures Index 139.04
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 71 Cts
      256 7 JUNE first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m., in Singapore yesterday at 71 cents per lb., uo one cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was firm. The market ruled steadier once more on improved London advices and continued shortcovering whilst slow pro-fit-taking
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      Lock icon Exports Of Raw Silk Down
      112 7 YOKOHAMA, Wed. (UPI) Japan's exports of raw silk through the ports of Yokohama and Kobe in May totalled 2157 bales, the Japan Raw Silk Exporters' Association announced yesterday. The announcement said this was a 99 bales decrease from the previous month and a sizeable decline
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      253 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for June 5: DEPARTURE: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Adelaide Maru 8/9 Akibasan Maru 19 Thorscape 23 Hyoyo Maru 31/32 Oaa Maru 35/36 Centaur 45 State of Punjab 46 State ol Madras 47 (North)
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      Lock icon SMR Business Transacted
      141 7 THE Singapore Rubber Brokers Association has supplied the following in respect of business transacted In SMRs for the week ending May 30: SMR 5 CV (Heveacrumb) June Pallets 4 cents premium traded to Si cents premium traded. SMR 5 L (Heveacrumb) June Pallets 3* cents premium buyers
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      Lock icon Britain's Gold, Dollar Reserves At Lowest Level
      248 7 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Britain's gold and dollar reserves have slumped to their lowest level since the month before devaluation in 1967, it was disclosed here yesterday. But the latest monthly fall of 33 million sterling, taking the total down to 1,006 million sterling,
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      Lock icon N.Y. STOCK PRICES SOFTEN
      148 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Stock prices softened yesterday, again reflecting concern over a possible Increase in prime lending rates and the uncertainty surrounding the forthcoming meeting between President Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. There has been speculation that Washington may be figuring on
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      Lock icon London Stock Mart Firm
      123 7 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The market yesterday maintained Monday's firmer tendency and was featured by oils, led by BP following its deal with Standard Oil Ohio. Towards the close the FT index was 4.5 up at 423.6. BP, alt*-'- gh paring its Initial s'- .> fall, was
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      Lock icon World's Smallest Tape Recorder
      67 7 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) Olympus Optical Co., makers of the popular half size 135 ram Pen-F cameras, announced yesterday It has developed the world's smallest tape recorder. Named "Zulko Pearl Corder," it Is so small it can be put in a match box. Yet the recorder, which
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      452 7 ARRIVALS. 6 00 a m. MSA MLO29 Kuala Lumpur. IS am. LTA LT 1575 United states. Papeete. Pacific. 800 am MSA MLII 9 Kuala Lumpur. B*3 am- GAKCDA GA9B2 Jakarta 10 15 am. MSA MLI2I Kuala Lumpur. 10 25 a.m. MSA ML o<)s Penang, lpob, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca.
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      Lock icon Award Winning Film Now Available For Group Showings
      210 7 EASTMAN Kodak Company's award-winn-ing motion picture "Worth How r Many Words" Is now available for free showing to churches, schools, camera clubs, and other interested organisations in Singapore, according to Mr. Fred B. Powers, Managing Director of Kodak (Malaya) Limited The 8-minute,
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      50 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged and untraded yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange. July 28.00 2875 Sept 25.25 25.75 Nov 24 80 25.00 Jan (70) 24.10 24 25 Mar 24.10 24.60 May 24.10 24.60 July 24.10 2460 Locally, No. 2 RSS was 26} cents.
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      Lock icon Stock Exchange Closing Prices
      550 7 blltUAPOKK. tutor* Kxmange Mild and i ot ber prlcea iiftlimil.» lined at the clot* of lui-lnrsi INDUSTRIALS AC M A 192 1 95 Ben Co 2 06 2.10 Borneo Bh<l. 1.70 1 72 Boustead 1.95 2 05 t amel Pit wood 2 30 2.34 i MJjar
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      125 7 The Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made toe following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING T.T. or O.D. ready: Deutsche Marks $77.0400; Holland Guilders $84.3950; Swiss Francs $71.2850; Belgian Francs $6.1225; French Francs $61.9125;
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      53 7 Manajrrt Price* I 1st Milivin 2 90 2nd Malayan 210 3iu .Malax a a 1.28 The Com lad. \D 101 The having Fund I.1A M. Invest Fund \D 130 Kt Rone Konft 1-45 2nd Hong Kunf \D 1.0<l sterling Tom. Ml 1.2S 1 «0 1 91 1 01
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      96 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The noon price# at the 8ln*apof« Chinese Produce Excbuct today art RIKM »lta» Coconnt Oil (F.O B P i ik Coconut Oil (FO.B.) Drum Mixed Copra *1-0® Muntok white Pepper (FOB.) 96% N.L.W. Sarawak White Pepper (F.OB.) Sarawak Special Blaek -PP«-r iroA) Larapont Special Black Pepper (FO-B.)
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      Lock icon H.K. Money
      74 7 HONG KONG. Wed (LTD Money Quotations: Hong Kong dollars 6.105 US. dollar Hong Kong dollars 6.***** per U.S. dollar TT Hong Kong dollars 14.51 per pound sterling Hong Kong dollars 313.125 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness Hong Kong dollars 162.5 per 10.000 Japanese yens Hong
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
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      Lock icon Too Many Cooks Spoil The Soup
      491 8 INDIVIDUALS all over the world, rich or poor, celebrate their birthdays with parties and gatherings. The rich people celebrate their birthdays lavishly and on a grand scale. As for the poor, they gather their few close friends together and form a small gathering. Usually,
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      Lock icon MY HOBBY
      243 8 THERE are many kinds of hobbies for children such as collecting stamps, sewing, shell collecting and many others. But mine is an unusual one. It is collecting matchbox labels. Some match-boxes are common. some are rare. I get the rare ones from different big hotels, such as the
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      Lock icon The Postman
      201 8 THE postman's work is to deliver letters and parcels. He gets the letters and parcels from the General Post Office. .He wears a khaki uniform and a cork hat. He is given a bicycle for his work. A bag is fixed in front of the bicycle for putting
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      Lock icon Women Can Be Better Leaders
      518 8 FOR the purpose of this essay, we may divide the leaders into two groups, namely, men and women leaders. We shall also discuss their characteristics. Opinion is sharply divided on this question. Those who hold the view that the leader of a country should not
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      Lock icon Top Place For S'pore
      505 8 SINGAPORE was founded in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles. From then on for hundred and fifty years, Singapore has developed rapidly and has become the 4th largest port in the world with a population of 2.1 million people. In Asia, she is second only to Yokohama
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      Lock icon Don't Waste Water
      219 8 THREE quarters of the earth's surface is water; eighty-five of the human body is water; and we cannot live for more than a few days without water. This shows the important part water plays in our lives. Water is a tasteless and colourless liquid which may appear
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      Lock icon The Wooden Tablet
      650 8 DURING the last Chinese New Year, I went to a friend's house in Chinatown. When I was in his house a few of his relations came to visit him. I noticed that they were told to light two joss-sticks each and were asked to pray before a
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      Lock icon Hawkers
      297 8 FROM the small lonely streets of the countryside to the wide busy streets of the city, we can see hawkers selling their wares along the roadside. There are many types of hawkers in Singapore. Some prefer to sell food while others deal in cosmetics and household materials. Although there
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      184 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this page every Thursday One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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      167 8 AMY By Jack Trppit ft m V \V DC Tll thank you not to speak to Agnes 1 ike that againP DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and AldenMcWKans LOOK, MP LAKE ..DAN "N AND I HAVE LIVED OUT OF A SUITCASE FOR J SIX MONTHS/ J TROTS RIQHT SIR WET)
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    730 9  -  By Sheilah Graham HOLLYWOOD, Wed. (NANA) "Now that you are a mother, will you cut down on your career?" I asked Jane Fonda on the set of her film. "They Shoot Horses Don't They?". The set is the old Aragon Ballroom at
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    Lock icon THE STARS ARE CHANGING OUR CHARACTERS
    987 9  -  By. ELIZABETH SHERRY DO YOU read your stars every morning? Then you might be reading the wrong ones. You might not be a domineering Leo at all, you could be a romantic Cancer. For the stars have changed their positions If you were born
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    265 9 CANBERRA, Wed. (UPI) The Swedish film entry in the 1969 Melbourne and Sydney film festivals has been banned as obscene, by the Commonwealth Film Censor and the Minister for Customs. Senator Malcolm F. Scott. The ban was disclosed here on
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    Lock icon Objection To Picture
    58 9 DAR ES SALAAM. Wed. (Reuter) Tanzanlan 100 shilling notes depicting a Masai warrior In his traditional loin-cloth are to be withdrawn following complaints about the propriety of the picture. From July 8. the old note will be replaced by a new one with a picture of Lake
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    91 9 DINGLE. County Kerry. Ireland British director Charles Frend has been signed as second unit director on MGM's "Ryan's Daughter," currently filming here Frend who has directed such classic aetlon films as "The Cruel Sea," "Scott of the Antarctic" and 'The Long Arm' will be of particular help
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    Lock icon A Walkout By 700 Showgirls
    72 9 LAS VEGAS. Nevada, Wed. fUPI) A walkout by 700 showgirls at the pluah hotel* on the Las Vegas strip was averted on last Wednesday night when owners signed a new three-year contract with the American Guild of variety artiatea. 'Misunderstandings over new pay scales hive
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    165 9 Producers Ralph Nelson and Jame s Lee Barret signed Anthonv James for a major role in MGM's "Tick ..Tick Tick." currently shoctin* In Colusa, California "Tick .Tick.. Tick." directed by Nelson from Barrett's screenplay, stars Jim Brown. George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin. Don Stroud, Janet MacLanchlan. Clifton James.
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      18 9 TODAY and YOU... Thursday, June 5» 1969. m ft 74-78-84-8? rrrrn T» > v < 22®* ra.it *uuL*% liazcii I
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      168 10 By BIG BEN IPOH, Wed. Trainer Rinus van Breukelen's Derby hope, Joint Command, with Rod Dawkins astride, impressed in a two-round trial on yielding track here this morning. After going the first time round at a steady pace he clapped on the pace to run the last
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      912 10 TH E PERAK DERBY Horses CU ISS i Div. l-iy 4 MUss 421 912 715 844 111 100 138 MS 52* 730 651 323 391 897 784 November Sua 7y 812 M C Stable R Breuk Treble J 5y 810 Goldmine Stable Spencer You Asked
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      187 10 NEW SOCCER POOLS LONDON, Wed. Britain's big six football pools promoters are to introduce a revised points system for the eight-match treble chance when the new soccer season starts on August 9. Ten million people who participate weekly will have a chance of a bigger dividend a single winner could
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      195 10 PARIS, Wed. (Reuter) Number one seed Margaret Court powered her way to a 9-7. 6-1 win over fellow Australian Kerry Melville to enter the semi-finals of the Wonven's singles in the French tennis championships yesterday. Miss Melville gave Mrs. Court a tough battle in
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      88 10 ABOUT 20 Tae Kwon-Do experts will give a free demonstration at the Queenstown Lutheran Church, in Commonwealth Drive on Saturday, June 7 at 7.30 p.m. Tae Kwon-Do classes will also be held at the above venue commencing June 16. The classes will be conducted by Mr. Frankie
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      169 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. Alter eight action packed programmes, the Singapore professional wrestling season comes to an end with the final card at the Gay World Stadium on Saturday (June 7th) with a programme headed by a double Tag-Team match. There will be a one-hour time limit
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      484 10  -  By MICHAEL HAYES GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Wed. (Reuter). World champions England, masquerading under the title of an English F.A. XI, crushed Mexico 4-0 here last night in a display only marred by the sending off of Tottenham Hotspur wing-half Alan Mullery in the last few minutes.
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      69 10 WELLINGTON. Wed .(Reuter) Though fielding a makeshift team, th® Australian Rugby League touring team swamped Wellington 48-7 at the Basin Reserve here today. For Australia. Clearly (4), Denis Manteit (4), Ron Coote and Ron Costello scored tries and Les Johns kicked eight goals and a 50-yard penalty goal
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      28 10 DUN ED IN. Wed. (Reuter) The Welsh Rugby team won the third match of their New Zealand tour when they beat Otago 27-9 here yesterday.
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      241 10 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Ray lllingworth, the new Leicestershire skipper was last night named England captain for the first cricket Test against the West Indies on June 12. The MCC selectors announced their decision after a long wait trying to contact lllingworth. the 36-year-old all-rounder
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      144 10 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Rain dominated the dav's English County cricket Drogramme as has been its habit all summer. Only In the most westerly venue. Bristol, did cricket continue throughout the morning. In the match between Gloucestershire and Essex which the home side eventually won by
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      301 10 LONDON, Wed. (Renter) England's rapidly shrinking list of senior Test batsmen took another knock Yesterday when opener Geoff Boycott hurt his left wrist In the final over of the drawn match between the M.C.C. and the tourist West Indian cricketers at Lord's. r~~~" Boycott struggling
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      112 10 THE Undecided are now in top position in the mixed league tournament now being held at the Jackie'* Bowl, Katong. They have won 14 games out of the 16 played so far. The Imps are close behind with 13 wins, followed by the Checkers with 12 wins. In
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      156 10 BUENOS AIRES. Wed. (Reuter) Police went into action with tear gas at two Argentine football grounds yesterday to control unruly crowds. At least 22 people were arrested In Buenos Aires when BOAC Junior supporters invaded the field at the San Lorenzo Stadium near
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      192 10 LONDON. Wed. Only once in the past 14 years has a British motor-cyclist on a British machine won the coveted Isle of Man tourist trophy senior (500 cc) title. That was in 1961 when Mike Hail wood, the former world champion crossed the line first
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      792 11 C. Jayapandian of Ylo Chn Kang Secondary School toppled another record his third on the Anal day of the four-day Seranfoon District Secondary Schools' annual athletic meet held at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre yesterday. The new record set by Jayapandian was in the boy's 'B'
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      213 11 NAGOYA, Japan, Wed. (Reuter UPI) Fighting Harada of Japan, who i.« scheduled to meet world Boxing Council featherweight champion Johnny Famechon of Australia next month, scored a unanimous decision over Vil Tumulak of the Philippine* in a non-title, 10-round boxing match here tonight. Harada. ranked world
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      251 11 US Baseball Results Standings NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter) —Results of last night'® major league baseball games: NATIONAL LEAGUE New York Mets 5. Los Angeles Dodgers 2. Chicago Cuba 4. Houston Astros 2, St. Louii Cardinals 5. Atlanta Braves 2, Cincinnati Reds 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 3, San Diego Padres 6, Philadelphia
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      Lock icon Loh Tipped To Win Bowling Title
      258 11 S. P Loh, the Singapore champion, is top favourite to win the Cathay Pacific-Bruns-wick Far East Bowline grand final at the Yuan-Shan Recreation Centre, Taipei, on July 5 and 6. In the Singapore national final held last week, Loh won the title when he
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      99 11 TOKYO, Wed. (Reuter) A Japanese horse will leave next month for London to take part In the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in Ascot on July 26. Mr. Tomohlro Wada owner of the Speed Symbol!, fifth place winner in the Washington DC. International race
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      62 11 TOKYO. Wed (Reuter) Japanese challenger Yoshlaki Numata left for Los Angeles today to fight world lightweight boxing champion Armando Mundo Ramos of the United States In a title match in Los Angeles on June 13. Numata. the former Junior lightweight champion and now ranked world No. seven
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      60 11 NOTTINGHAM. England. Wed. (Reuter) Ken Buchanen, the British champion, and Carlos Teo Cruz of Santo Domingo, the former world champion, will meet here on July 14 In a final eliminator for the world lightweight boxing title. Nottingham promoter Reg King said the winner woulc 4 be matched against
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      492 11 EPSOM, England, Wed. (Reuter) Blakeney, ridden with faultless judgment by 21-year-old jockey Ernie Johnson, raced home to a £63,108 win in the Epsom Derby todayJohnson, a lightweight carrying 21 pounds dead weight to make up to the stipulated 9 stone, brought Blakeney with a tremendous run
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      144 11 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Fifteen acceptors were declared yesterday at the four-day stage for the English Oaks to be run over one and a half miles at Epsom (1435 OMT) on Saturday. June 7. The race Is worth a total of £45.030 with the winning owner
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      129 11 LONDON. Wed —When the Formula 5.000 cars go to Silverstone In Northamptonshire. England, on June 15 for the Vanwall trophv race, driver Peter Gethin will go all out for his fifth successive win in the Guards F 5.000 championship. After races at Outon Park. Brands
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      112 11 Tennis Tourney CHELTENHAM, Enflattd Wed (UPI) —The entire Japanese team yesterday walked out of the Cheltenham lawn tennis championships after a row over expenses. The four Japanese playert. including Davis Cupper Keishiro Yanagi. returned to London after the tournament organisers had refused to pay their expenses. Tournament
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      81 10 Time And Tide TODAY SINGAPORE Town: 1.16 a.m. (9.2 ft): 830 am. (-0.2 ft.); 3.36 p.m. (7.4 ft); 8.35 p.m. (4.3 ft.). NAVAL Dockyard: 1 27 a.m. (10.3 ft.); 7.51 a.m. (0 2 ft); 3.22 p.m. (9.5 ft); 8.20 p.m. (5.1 ft). TOMORROW SINGAPORE Town: 2.10 a.m. (8.8 ft); 9.24
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      1052 11 (CHANNEL 5) PM- 300 Opening Announcements in all Language* Morning Star; 325 It's Happening in Singapore English; 3.40 House and Home Malay; 345 A Diary of Events in Singapore This Week Malay: 3 50 Health tn the Home Chinese; 358 Housewives Matinee Part 2 of a Hokkien Film. "The Taiwan
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    176 12 THE RAF's "twice-the-speed-of-sound" Lightning fighters of the Singapore-based 74 Squadron will fly 2,000 miles non-stop to Darwin on June 16 and 17 to participate in one of the biggest air defence exercises code named "Town House/' ever held in Northern Australia. During the
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    232 12 Ismail KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Minister of Home Affairs, Tun (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman tonight scortched rumours that fresh disturbances were being planned on Friday or Saturday. The Government, he said, in a broadcast over Radio and Television Malaysia was aware of such
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    48 12 THE Singapore Armed Forces will conduct demolition exercises at the Southern Island ranges at Pulau Senang and Pulau Pawai from June 9 to 15. These exercises will take place daily from 8 a.m. to 12 midnight. The public are warned to keep clear of these islands.
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    169 12 TWO men who held up the occupants of hair dressing saloon in Geylan* at revolver point and rot away with $1,240 in cash and anotner 51.950 in Jewellery were sentenced to ten years'imprisonment each in the High Court yesterday. In addition, one of them was
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    113 12 The freedom of seamen Ong Yew Lee. 22. lasted onlv a few minutes, after his acquittal on a charge of rioting with a dangerous weapon As he walked out of the Fifth Magistrate's Court yesterday morning two detectives from the Criminal Investigation Department, arrested him. His bewildered
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    230 12 THE First Chamber Quartet of New York will arrive next week to give two performances at the Victoria Theatre on June 12 and 13. It consists of young soloists from major American ballet companies now on a tour of the Near East
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    261 12 Disturbances FOUR men one on an attempted murder charge and three youths were remanded by the Ninth Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Foenander, yesterday on charges in connection with the current disturbances. Koh Lee Bing, 22, was chorged with attempting to murder Axeman bin
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    118 12 PUBLIC relations officers in all cities of tbe United States. Eastern Canada. United Kingdom and Europe have mobilised to brief Miss Tourism Singapura. Rosalind Ong. during her round-the-world trip to publicise Singapore. This is being done to obtain the best possible exposures In television and
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    93 12 A 21-YEAR-OLD youth. Loh Hui Bah, was jailed for 18 months yesterday in the Fourth Criminal District Court on «ix charges of theft of four motor-cycles and two scooters. Loh. alias Ah Par. admitted that he stole the vehicles valued at $6,350 between Dec. 8. last year,
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    23 12 THE M P. for Katon«, Mr. J. F. Conceicao. will officially open the Maju Secondary School on Friday at 2 p.m.
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    401 12  -  By HELEN TAN A WELL known Paris couturier said yesterday that he was anxious to watch the reaction of the public here to his approach towards elegance. He is none other than Pierre Balmain who is here to show his spring and
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    150 12 A DISTINGUISHED American scholar. Professor William Jay Smith, will five > lecture on "The Making of Poems' to University of Singapore students and faculty members today at 4.30 p m Tomorrow, Proressor Smith will give another lecture on "Children and Poetry at the University
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    83 12 THE Singapore After-Care Association will hold its annual flag day on June 14 with a difference. Instead of selling usual paper flags, this year the Association will sell match folders. Mr. P. Athisdam. Secretary. Appeals and Fund Raising Committee of the Association, said: "Thia selling of the folders
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    164 12 Undergrads at the University of Singapore are now busy preparing 20 colourful floats to tour the City on Friday in conjunction with the Students Union's annual Rag and Flag Day. The theme of this year's Rag Procession will b« "Singapore Yesterday, Today and
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    101 12 A 14-YEAR-OLD bov who plucks coconuts for pocket mo. ney, paid with his life when he slipped and fell 15 feet down the tree This was told at a Coroner's inquiry into the death of Wee Boon Pok. The accident occurred on May 2 at
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    38 12 The Corpus Christi celebrations at St. Joseph's Field on Sunday. June 8 at 6 p.m. will not be held as previously announced. The morning and evening masses will be held as usual in all the churches.
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      33 12 SINGAPORE DIARY FOR JUNE 5: 1 p.m.-2 p.m.: Rotary Club of Singapore-West's weekly luncheon at Hollansche (Dutch) Club, Camden Park off Adam Road. 8 p.m.: Malay dance at National Theatre Club, Clemenceau Avenue.
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