Eastern Sun, 27 June 1969

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY "fa Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1040 Friday* 27 June 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 432 1 THE British Secretary of State for Defence, Mr. Denis Healey, will have talks with the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew today. Mr. Healey flew into Singapore late yesterday afternoon from Hong Kong for a two-day visit. In the evening, Mr. and
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  • 143 1 CAIRO, Thurs. (UPI) Israeli shells set fire to two Greek ships in Port Suez during a five-hour artillery duel across the Suez Canal yesterday an Egyptian military spokesman said. Shells set fire to the engine room of the Greek tanker Evangelos (10.261 tons)
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  • 92 1 BANGKOK, Thurs. 'AFP)— A two-month survey by the Japanese government has shown it is feasible to run a bus and truck service from Vientiane to Singapore. However, according to the Thai Under-Secretary of State for Communications,* Dr. Sirilk Chandrangsu. many difficulties would have to be overcome
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  • 121 1 MANILA. Thurs. (UPI) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced todav the approval of a loan equivalent to USSIO million to the development Bank of Singapore Ltd. (DBS). The loan will be used by the DBS to assist manufacturing an<TService Industries in the islaM state, according
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  • 56 1 WALTON. England. Thurs (Reuter) Derik Bissell got a surprise when his wife gave birth to a firl their seyenth daughter. Derik, sure the latest addition to the family would be a boy. was so surprised that he named the girl Surprise Sarah-Jane Sujprtae Bissell will be duly christened
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  • 101 1 TOKYO. Thurs. (Reuter) Strong winds and heavv ram lashed Japan overnight killing five people. Three others were missing. The storm cut across Japan, destroying houses, twisting frames of buildings undercon. struction. touching oil landslides and flooding some 12.000 homes. A large tanker was swept from its
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  • 63 1 PARIS. Thurs. (UPI) American negotiators wrangled with Communist diplomats for five hours today but the deadlock in the Vietnam peace talks remained unbroken. Emerging from the fruitless Majestic Hotel session at which North Vietnamese and Vietcong delegates launched new attacks on President Nixon, chief American negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge
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  • 160 1 BONN, Thurs. (Reuter) West Germany will continue to track down and punish Naii killers for at least another ten years, the Bundestag (Lower House) decided today. Parliament passed in its third and final reading a Bill abolishing completely the time limit for the
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  • 79 1 DUSSELDORF. West Germany, Thurs. (Reuter) —Test fish survived a dip in the Rhine today, indicating that the poison wave which has killed millions of fish in th* past week has flowed out of West Germany. Yesterday, fish put into samples of Rhine water died in a« little
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  • 233 1 •RIVER IXFECTED' BANGKOK, Thurs. (Reuter) The Chao Phya River, which cuts across densely-populated areas of Bangkok and its twin city of Thonburi, is infected with cholera germs, the Health Department warned today. The Deputy Director General of the Department, Dr Prachoom Intharampan. said that many
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  • 57 1 HYDERABAD, India. Thurs (Reuter) Violence flared for the third day in Hyderabad todav wth a series of running battles between police and demonstrators for a separate Telengana state. Passions were fanned by the arrest last night of three of the Telengana People's Committee. bringing the number of
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  • 248 1 TEL AVIV, Thurs. (Reuter) Israel has warned the Arab countries that her army might strike harder in future to counter stepped-up Arab activity on the ceasefire lines. The warning was delivered by Information Minister Israel Galili, speaking at a luncheon here. He said the Israeli
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  • 19 1 West Indies 217 for four Davis not out 49 Sobers run out 29 Extras 0 Wicketfalls- 4-217
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  • 128 1 BUENOS AIRES. Thurs. (Reuter) Fires broke out simultaneously in nine Buenos Aire s supermarkets early todav in what the authorities regard as organised terrorist arson. Explosions were heard before every flre. Firemen rushed out their entire force to deal with the blazes, but with nine fires
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  • 52 1 NEW YORK. Thurs. (Reuter) Former world heavyweight champion Joe Louis was rushed to hospital for examination today when he became ill while travelling through the city bv car with friends. Doctors at the Beekman hospital examined the 55-vear-old boxing great in the emergency room to diagnose
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 280 2 YESTERDAY the First Lady of the Republic, Puan Noor Aishah, urged more women from the various communities to help the Government to help handicapped children to become useful citizens. She was addressing at the opening of the three-day exhibition called "For the Home", organised
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  • 193 2 ENCHE Othman Wok, Minister for Social Affairs, said yesterday that Singapore's young and quick-learning labour force had made the Republic an attractive place for investments. He said these investments were not only from the United States and Japan, but also from the countries of
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  • 58 2 A PAINT dauber. Chua Say Guan, 23. was sentenced to four months' jail and three strokes of the rotan bv the Tenth Court Magistrate yesterday for an act of vandalism in front of Siglap Market. East Coast Road on May 12. Chua was found guilty of
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  • 218 2 DARWIN, Northern Territory, Thurs. (Reuter) Castaway Ali bin Pawero, 28 from Sabah, has won his battle to stay in Australia. Northern Territory member of the Federal House of Representatives Sam Colder, said today that Immigration Minister Billy Snedden had told him Ali v/as being granted
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  • 38 2 A 22-YEAR-OLD man. Low Ah See, was sentenced to six months' jail in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday for theft of a $5OO motor-cycle at Kampong Arang Road on June 24. Low pleaded guilty.
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  • 147 2 IT WAS a pleasant surprise for 12 local trainee watch repairers yesterday when officials of the Singapore Clock and Watch Trade Association together with the Swiss Charge d'Affaires visited them at the centre io Penan* Road. Hie first batch of 12 local watch repairers
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  • 195 2 THE last of the RAF's "Flving Longhouses" is on •Is way to the RAF Museum in Hendon after bein* prepared for the trip at Seletar. The Belvedere helicopter which saw service in Malaysia and Singapore with the recently disbanded No. 66 Squadron had
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  • 121 2 THE 6th Draw of the Singapore Sweep will be held at the Kreta Ayer People's Theatre on July 1. at 630 p.m. The judges for the draw are Mr. Sam Krlshnlah. Editor-in-Chief of Eastern Bun; Mr. Ong Lok Hlan. a Singapore Sweep Main Agent, and
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  • 82 2 THE National Cadet Corps will hold a parade at the Police Reserve Unit 2 grounds at Queenstown on July 5 as part of the Youth Festival Ceremony 1969 and Singapore'* 150 th anniversary celebrations. The Corps comprised cadets and six bands from the Services and Police
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  • 64 2 THE WIFE of the Indian High Commissioner here, Mrs. Prem Bhatia. will give a teaparty in honour of the visiting world famous Indian cultural troupe, at her residence in Pierce Drive, today. The tea-party is in the ho. nour of Miss Kalyani Roy. world famous
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  • 132 2 MISS TOURISM Singapura 1969 Miss Rosalind One flies today to Chicago for a threeday visit, before she proceeds on to her Canadian tour. Bhe was In New York for one week on a promotional tour. after visiting San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Miss
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  • 79 2 COLRTS TWO men. Lok Kim Horsg and Ho Koon Nam. were charged in the Seventh Magistrate's Court yesterday for the theft of 34 chairs. They were alleged to have stolen the chairs from their firm, Khinco 'S) Ltd. in Woodlands Road on March 7, last year The
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  • 92 2 HIGH COURT Three men were yesterdav committed to stand trial in the High Court for armed robbery, after a preliminary inquiry before the Ninth Court Magistrate. Mr. EC Foenander They were; Teo Cheng Leong" 36. a labourer. Khoo Meng Hwa. 23. a pirate taxidriver and N?
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  • 67 2 THREE men were charged in the Fifth District Court yesterday with possession of offensive weapons They were Mohamed Shah bin Kamis. 20, Mohamad Zia bin Kamis. 17. and Abdul Majid bin Ismail. 31. All three were alleged to have in their possession, parangs. a two-and-half-foct baton, and
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  • 28 2 THE Youth Section of tho Singapore Malay National Organisation will hold a meeting at its headquarters in Changi Road this Sunday at 8 30 a m.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 30 2 SPORE DIARY j 2 pm.: Heats of the Ninth Annual Safety First Quiz for Schools at Shell Theatrette, Collyer Quay. 8 p.m.; Harmonica practice at National Theatre Club, Clemenceau Avenue.
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  • 327 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) A panel of prominent scientists has recommended that the army abaiMPh its plans to dump nearly 27.000 tons of obsolete nerve and poison gas in the Atlantic Ocean. It was proposed yesterday that the army dispose of the still-lethal gases at the
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  • 254 3 SACRAMENTO. Calif.. Thurs. (UPI) A Canadian lumber heiress, who fell from riches to rags and claims her family is blocking a seven-mil-lion-dollar inheritance, may soon be living in aristocratic style again. An attorney for Mrs. Diana Renwich McDonald, granddaughter of a fabulously wealthy Vancouver timber
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  • 78 3 MONTREAL, Thurs. (Reuter > The city today cancelled a traditional bonfire and fireworks display following violent demonstrations here during the annual parade for St. Jean Baptiste Quebec's patron saint. An official announcement added a public park would be closed on Friday during the visit of President Nixon
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  • 32 3 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) —The German liner Hamburg will complete her maiden voyage Thursday, arriving in New York to the traditional escort of fireboats and tugs up the Hudson River.
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  • 95 3 TENOCHTITLAN, Mexico. Thurs. (Reuter) Someone has kidnapped the rain god Maxuilxochitl and now everyone is getting thoroughly drenched. Maxuilxochitl is the rain god in this southern village near Veracruz and since his disappearance four days ago. rain has fallen incessantly, causing many floods. The Indians here
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  • 193 3 BUENOS AIRES, Thurs. (Reuter) Stringent security measures are being prepared here to counter threatened student-worker protests during the weekend visit of U.S. Presidential envoy Nelson Rockefeller. According to informed sources. the capital's 25.000-man police force will be mobilised while police and army units in main
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  • 111 3 ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.. Thurs. TUPI) Former Vice-Presi-dent Hubert H. Humphrey on Wednesday night called the MIRV weapons system "a real danger to peace" and said the U.S. should take the initiative in controlling offensive weapons. MIRV which stands for Multiple Independently-target-ed Re-entry Vehicle is
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  • 148 3 SAN FRANCISCO. Thurs. (Reuter) A national homosexual organisation based here announced today it is seeking a court ban on the use of plainclothes policemen as decoys to entrap people for morals offences. The Society for Individual Rights (5.1. R.) said the policing job In
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  • 181 3 LIMA, Thurs. (Reuter) The Peruvian military junta has announced sweeping plans to expropriate large tracts of private and foreign-owned land and hand them over to peasant farmers as cooperatives. Gen. Velasco, announcing the programme of reform over radio and television last night, promised that the
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  • 60 3 TOLEDO. Ohio. Thurs. (UPI) Three workmen were killed and five persons injured Wednesday in a chemical explosion and fire at the Interlake Steel Co. Seventy-five firemen laboured four hour s to quench the blaze, which began when sparks from a welder's torch ignited a partially-filled chemical storage
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  • 165 3 MIAMI, Fla. (UPI) A Los Angeles to New York jetliner was commandeered 13 minutes after takeoff and ordered to Cuba on Wednesday i n the second hijacking of a trans-continental airliner within eight days. The United Airlines DCB. carrying 58 persons, landed at Jose
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  • 191 3 NEW YORK, Thurs. (Reuter) Thousands of fans will pay their last respects here today to Judy Garland who died on Sunday from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills. Miss Garland's body was flown from London to New York last night. Today it will rest in a
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  • 304 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) The White House spokesman today rejected suggestions that President Nixon had spoken rashly without thinking when he expressed hopes last week for a massive American troops pull-back from Vietnam in the next 18 monins. Spokesman Ronald Ziegier told a press
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  • 167 3 NEW YORK. Thurs. fUPI) Fourteen persons were killed Wednesday in two different but similar incidents in Jersey City, NJ., and Kerhonkson, NY. In both tragedies, an enraged lather apparently killed the members of his own family. In Jersey City, Rafael Torres. 42. is accused of
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  • 142 3 NEW YORK. Thurs. (Reuter) Bruce Tulloh. a gaunt Briton who run s vast distances for the fun of it. today completed the longest run of his career a record-breaking trip from Los Angeles to New York. The sandy-haired 34-year-old schoolteacher arrived at New York's City
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  • 344 3 CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. Thurs. (UPI) Ground crewmen made final preparations on Thursday for a full-dress countdown to clear the Apollo 11 spacecraft and booster rocket for a July 16 takeoff in America's attempt to land the first men on the moon. The countdown,
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  • 122 3 HOUSTON, Thurs. (Reuter) Astronaut James McDivitt has resigned from the space flight programme and will manage lunar landing operations at the Manned Spacecraft Centre here, it was announced today. The 38-year-o'd McDivitt. Commander of the Apollo 9 spacecraft. Is to remain in the U.S. Air Force but his
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  • 79 3 OTTAWA. Thurs. (Reuter) Canada intends to allow Indians to own their lands and to eliminate all legislative and constitutional discrimination against them, Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chretien said today. Tabling the Federal Government's long-awaited statement on Indian policy in the Commons. Chretien said transferring control to the Indian
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  • 153 3 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (Reuter) The Senate last night over-rode White House objections and passed a compromise resolution to stop U.S. Presidents from making military or financial commitments to other countries without congressional approval. The vote was 70 to 16 for the resolution. Intended to reassert the Senate's constitutional
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  • 63 3 HONG KONG. Thurs. (UPI) A 27-year-old Chinese just returned from Australia with a master's degree in electronics stabbed himself to death with a knife on Wednesday. Wong Wai-Shek committed suicide In the kitchen of the police station in Cheung Chow, an offshore island west of Hong Kong, from where
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  • 358 4 SALISBURY, Thurs. (Reuter) Rhodesia made what was probably its last formal gesture of fidelity to the British Crown yesterday, as Prime Minister Icfi Smith said there was no "earthly hope" of renewed talks with Britain on the independence feud. Led
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  • 203 4 UNITED NATIONS, New York. Thurs. (Reuter) Secre-tary-General U Thant said yesterday the Peace Palace at The Hague is now totally unsuited to the needs of the World Court. He submitted to the General Assembly a proposed new item for its 24th session, opening
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  • 197 4 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Race relations deteriorated badly in Britain last year and a public show of hostile racial prejudice became socially respectable for the first time, according to a government report published yesterday. In a reference to the speeches of rightwing MP Enoch
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  • 151 4 FREEHOLD. New Jersey, Thurs. (Reuter) Late Mafia boss Vito Genovese. estimated to have been worth $3O million (13 million sterling), left his estranged wife nothing and his adopted daughter only five dollars (two sterling) in his will filed here for probate. Ninety per
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  • 78 4 LONDON, Tnurs. (Reut»r) Britain has ceased mintine the halfpenny, lowest-value coin in the currency, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins told Parliament. He announced that Queen Elizabeth yesterday made a proclamation calling in all halfpennies by July 31 after which they will not be
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  • 134 4 OTTAWA. Thurs. (Reuter) Canada will comply with U.N. sanctions against Rhodesia but does not intend to take anv unilateral military action against the breakaway British colony. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said yesterday. Answering questions in Parliament Mr. Trudeau said Canada would limit itself to
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  • 55 4 THE sport of "soaring" sailing through the skies in a powerless winged aircraft such as the one shown here is developing into a multimillion-dollar industry in the United States. Most sailplanes are towed aloft by powered aircraft and then released. The pilot, through skillful manoeuvring in air currents, sometimes can
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  • 330 4 MADRID. Thurs. (Reuter) Spain told Britain last nifht she will cancel the ferry service between Gibraltar and Algeciras tomorrow, levering the last surface communication between the British colony and Spanish territory. The measure, announced only 18 days after General Franco's government finally sealed the
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  • 216 4 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Family planning experts vesterdav demanded a change in Britain laws to allow contraceptives to be given to children under 16 years of age because schoolgirl pregnancies are booming. This emerged from the annual conference of the Family
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  • 117 4 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) A dramatic increase in the number of abortions earned out in Britain was disclosed in official figures published yesterday. During the eight months of 1968 which followed the enforcement of the Abortion Act, 22.256 officially recorded abortions were carried out. according to the
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  • 42 4 'Killer' Ice- cream WARSAW. Thurs. (UPI) Ice cream was blamed for poisoning more than 100 Poles, killing a 16-year-old youth and leaving others in a critical condition. The newspaper Zvcie War•rswy said the Ire cream was nade by an unauthorised private shop.
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  • 189 4 ROME. Thurs (Peuter) Many government ministries were semi-paralysed yesterday when thousands of state employees started a two-day strike for more pay. some taking to the streets but most heading for the beaches. The strike dealth another heavy blow to Italy'.* antiquated bureaucracy, still recovering from
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  • 47 4 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko mav visit Yugoslavia in the fall to pave the way for improved Russo-Yugo-slav relations. diplomatic sources said yesterday. Belgrade-Moscow relations reached a low following the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia which President Tito sharply criticised.
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  • 310 4 PARIS. Thurs. (Reuter) President Georges Pompidou yesterday pledged cooperation with foreign, countries, particularly in Europe, while insisting on the need to maintain French national independence. In a message to Parliament, the New French Head of State paid glowing tribute to General De Gaulle as
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  • 338 4 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) The Motor Magazine, one of Britain's leading motoring periodicals. said yesterday that Europe and the United States will have to face sooner or later an invasion by Japanese cars. Under a headline of "Export or bust for Japan,"
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  • 248 4 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) Soviet insistence Israel return to the exact frontiers held prior to the June, 1967 war with the Arabs constitutes the major roadblock to RussianAmerican agreement on a Mid-east peace formula, administration officials said today. The Soviet Union, in Elans
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  • 76 4 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Printers are Britain's highest paid manual workers, says a government report. One in everv four printers earns at least £34 a week, according to the Department of Employment and Productivity. Next in line are dockers, car and aircraft workers and airport
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  • 106 4 MOSCOW. Thurs. (UPD The belated arrival of miniskirts on Russian girls yesterday brought an anguished protest from a Soviet newspaper reader. The reader, in an unsigned letter to the Literary Gazette, denounced short skirts as "a great shortcoming and a harmful thing in our
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  • 45 4 JAKARTA. Thurs. (AFP)— Six thousand animists living at the foot of the Rindjaru mountain in Lesser Sunda Islands, have been converted to Islam. Antara news agency reported today. Previously worshippers of stones and trees, they will now confine their devotions to new mosque.
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  • 222 5 WEEKLY pictorial feature by the Eastern Sun based on the photographs taken by our cameramen at official functions, parties, exhibitions, shopping centres etc. Miss Linda Tan spots the latest guru look in shimmering silk with, full length sleeves and buttons running right down the front. Mrs.
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  • 168 5 MYAUNGMYA, Burma. Thurs. (Reuter) —Burmese troops ha\> killed or captured 60 left-wine Karen rebels and Communist guerillas i n the Irrawaddy delta region over the past four weeks, it was announced here today. The forces operating from this delta town have killed 13 Karens and
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  • 112 5 WASHINGTON. Thurg (Reuter) Cambodia his asked the United States for compensation totalling 8.684.810 dollars for damage said to have been caused by American defoliation operations along the South Vietnamese border, the State Department said today. Department spokesman Carl Bartch. said the United States would study the
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  • 47 5 SHILLONG. India. Thurs. (Reuter) Floods today isolated the northeast of Assam State for the second dav. with more than 100.000 lives disruDted by swollen waters of the river Barak and its tributaries. The area affected is the teagrowine Cachar district bordering East Pakistan, officials said.
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  • 23 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) The World Bank today announced a S2O million loan to South Korea to help expand industrial production.
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  • 435 5 1 -V War Report SAIGON, Thurs. (UPI) Government mercenaries on Wednesday reinforced the Ben Het Special Forces Camp, pushing out into nearby jungles where North Vietnamese artillerymen have been firing at will on the outpost for nearly two months. The "mike" force (Mobil* Infantry Strike
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  • 237 5 VIENTIANE. Thurs. (Reuter) Fresh fighting has broken out between North Vietnamese troops and eovernment forces in the Muong Suoi district of northwestern Laos, according to informed government sources in Vientiane. The sources said last night that fighting, which broke out on Monday night and lasted
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  • 238 5 HYDERABAD. India. Thurs. (Reuter) Demonstrators fought pitched battles with police, started fires and tried to sabotage railways today in the second successive day of violent separatist agitation here. Rioting and arson continued even after the demonstrators' leaders. Including a former Indian cabinet minister, were
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  • 75 5 BRINAGAR. Kashmir, Thurs. (Reuter) Tn* Kashmir Chief Minister, Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq, today accused Pakistan and China of collaborating to subvert Indian sovereignty, for which they were constructing the new Gilgit-Sinkiang road. Speaking at a Press Club reception here. Sadiq said th® road, which ran through "Indian territory
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  • 147 5 MACAO Thurs. (UPI) Communists In Macao are unable to run their radio station because of financial troubles, a Chinese business source reported Wednesday, Radio Vila Verde, one of the most powerful paganda houses In Maca >. will be given back to the rightful owner
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  • 30 5 ISLAMABAD. Thurs. (Reuter) A Foreign Office spokesman said today Pakistan would not extend the lease on a United States communications base near Peshawar. which expires on July 17.
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  • 127 5 JAKARTA. Thurs (CTT) Hie Indonesian film industry i s breaking an old taboo by introducing kissing and bedroom scenes in its coming productions i n an effort to survive stiff competition from imported films. Turnio Djunaidy. one of Indonesia s young film {producers, said he
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  • 148 5 OSAKA. Japan, Thurs. (UPI) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi arrived In Osaka Thursday to officiate at ground breaking ceremonies for India's pavilion in the 1970 World Exposition Expo 70). Mrs. Gandhi and her entourage boarded a super express train at 9 am. from Tokyo station for the
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  • 94 5 WELLINGTON. Th u r s. (Reuten The blantant North Vietnamese refusal to adhere to the terms of the Geneva convention '"as still a major problem, the New Zealand Minister of Defence. David Thomson, said today. Addressing an ex-prisoners-of-war Thomson said he would like each year to
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  • 481 6 rE Soviet Union might have pressured Cairo to agree to defuse the Middle East crisis but hard on the heels of the reported •'package peace plan" comes the stern Israeli warning that her army is poised to take "more stringent defensive, deterrent and punitive actions" against Arabs "particularly
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  • 356 6 r' IS beyond the Ingenuity of man to derive pure goodness out of events mundane. The ways of the world are such that good and bad are mixed up and good deal depends on the luck or chance of men making a try. If this is so
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  • 222 6 50 Years Later And The Vimy Bomber Flies Again A Vickers Vimy World War I bomber, the type In which Britain's Alcock and Brown made the first trans-Atlantic flight, make* a tree-top heirht approach to land at an English airfield. But this machine Is not a 50-year-old relic It is
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  • 856 6  -  By Richard Hall TUNIS: Only now and then at a banquet do you see a German banker take the floor with a professional belly dancer. Admittedly she was quite demure as belly dancers go, since President Habib Bourguiba decrees that midriffs must remain covered
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  • 15 6 Man Is the only cresr ture endowed with the power of laughter. Grevllle.
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  • 938 6  -  By K. K. DUGGAL LUCKNOW: June is oppressively hot in Lucknow, but the people who live there would not trade it with anywhere in the world. In tact, they look forward to it and invite friends and relatives to spend summer holidays with tnem. Few would decline
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  • 1019 6  -  By Donald May WASHINGTON, (UPI) The United States now has 2,170 military bases overseas. Questions are being asked both in Congress and in the administration as to whether all of them are really needed. The bases cover a total land area of 4,000 square
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  • 203 6 Hungarian humorists delight in brief question and answer jokes like these: "Is there a way out of the New Economic Mechaism? "Sure. The road to Vienna.'* "What Is the knottiest problem In world polities?" "Peaceful co-existence among the communist countries." t Riddle making the rounds in Warsaw;
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 305 7 JULY first grade robber buyers closed at 5 p.m., In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 7*2 cents per lb- up one and one quarter cents from the previous close. The tone of the market was steadv. Market levels opened three eighths of a cent higher
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    • 61 7 THE Association o£ Banks in Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currencv): SELLING T.T. or O.D. ready: Deutsche Marks $76.8575; Holland Guilders $84.3375; Swiss Francs $71.3000: Belgian Francs $6.1125: French Francs $51.9000;
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    • 64 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Gold prices dipped in moderately active trading yesterday on world markets. In London, gold slipped 2J cents to $40.90 per troy ounce at the morning fixing and remained at that level for the second fixing. Gold dropped 9 cents to $39.50 on the Frankfurt
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    • 184 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPT) Stocks turned lower yesterday In moderately active trading. Analysts noted that an Initial upswing, a carryover from Tuesday, lacked support and some issues thereupon sold off late in the session. Shortly before the final bell, the UPI stock market Indicator, measuring all
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    • 144 7 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) The market was firm yesterday. A moderate amount of proflt-taking on the recent sharp gains was more than balanced by continued cheap buying, and the basic undertone remained Arm. Towards the close the FT index was 15 up at 400.0. British funds moved
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    • 54 7 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) Rubber futures closed 20 points higher on no sales yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange. (Bid) (Ask) July 26.50 Sept. 25.90 26.40 Nov. 25.45 26.05 Jan. (70) 24.80 25.55 March 24.70 25.05 May 24.70 25.05 July 24.70 25.05 Locally, No. 2 RSS was
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    • 334 7 By Oar Market Reporter THE main reature in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday was Prima Ltd., which was officially quoted and had some very steady first dealings. Thus, coupled with the last two days' improved trend, the market generally continued steady. On
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    • 1081 7 BUSINESS done in and reported to the tradinf 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 $1.97 (1): Ben $2.06 (1) $2.08 (1) $2 09 (2) $2.10 (2); Borneo
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    • 13 7 The tin pric« for yesterday was $Bl9 per picul, up SO-37J.
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    • 84 7 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI) Rubber market closed quietly steady yesterday with spot 25-1/2 25-7/8. Settlement House Aug 25-3/8 25-5 '8 Sept 25-1/8 25-3/8 Oct 25 25-1/4 Oct/Dec 24-7/8 25 Jan/March 24-5/8 24-3/4 April/June 24-7/16 24-9/16 July/Sept 24-5/16 24-1/2 Oct Dec 24-3/16 24-| Jan/March 24-1/16 24-1/4 April' June
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    • 521 7 S1NUAPOKK Hfoct Ba(luoie told an 0 other price* •fflrtalty Usted at ti be CM >M o 1 oulora INDUSTRIALS R S Ale*. Brick* or as. ifi Ben Co. CO 210 Borneo CD 1-80 Boustead XD 190 ioo Camel Fl}«ood CBI 255 2.56 C. Sugar IS 3.84
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    • 42 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Dow Jones closing York averages on the N< Stock Exchange: 30 Industrie* 874.10 20 Ralls ***** 15 Utilities 121.20 65 Stocks 297.25 40 Bonds 72.74 Commedotidty Futures Index 40 Bonds 72.74 Commodity 139.35 Futures Index
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    • 58 7 HONG KONG. Thurs. (UPI) Money Quotations: HK 56. ***** per U-S- dollar HK56.***** per U5. dollar TT HK514.52 per pound sterlms HKS3O4 625 pe r Uel of gold 94.5pp r cent fineness HK5163.0 per 10,000 Japanese yens HK5134.2 per 100 Philippine? pesos buyer* HK$ 135.2 per 100 Philippines
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    • 99 7 THE noon prlcea at the Hnrspore Chinese Produce Kvrhanta > eM rrdi) were Bntei Coronat Otl (F O B Bullc 4800 Coconut Oil (F.OB.) Drum 50 50 Mixed Copra SI.00 \liintok White Pepper (FOB) ***** Sarawak White Pepper (FOB.) 120 00 Sarawak fiperial Black Pepper (FOB.) 96% N.L.W mmm
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    • 47 7 (Mtnucri Price 1st Malayan MM. 2nd Malayan 1.04 3rd Malayan 1*4 mm The Com. Ind. XD 14)1 1.11 The Sarin* Fund 1.1« lit M Invert Fund 1.25 us 1st Hong Kong 145 141* 2nd Hone Kong XD 1.00 1.05* Sterling Com 5/4 (•Hon* Kong currency)
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    • 195 7 ABK1VAL8: 5 00 a.m. MSA ML0C9 Koala Lumpor. 9.00 a.m. MSA MU1I Koala Lumpor. 1015 a.m. MSA ML121 Koala Lompor. 10.25 am. MSA ML005 Penan*. Ipoh. Knala Lompor Malacca. 1.10 p.m. MSA ML 451 Kocbing. 2 25 p m. MSA ML047 Kota Bharo. Trenggann. Kuala Lompor. 125 pm.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 472 7 SIM T.TIYT FINANCE LIMITED (ROBINSON ROAD HEAD OFFICE GCTLANG BRANCH) BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 1969. $20,000,000.00 3,000,000.00 72.842.60 38,437.90 21.***** 6,321.***** 197.492.47 9.686.550.02 Tear Ended 313.1968 37,990.00 38.437.90 76.427.90 SHARE CAPITAL AUTHORISED 20.000.000 Shares of $l.OO each ISSUED FULLT PAID 3.000.000 Shares of $l.OO each RESERVES SURPLUS Capital
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    • 12 7 International now flies to more countries in the Orient other airline m**.
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 167 8 The wife of the British High Commissioner in Singapore. Lady de la Mare will open the British Army Children's Annual Art Exhibition at the Ale. xandra Junior School at 5.30 p m. today. The works to be exhibited will range from drawings, paintings and model-making projects by
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    • 328 8 WASHINGTON An American biochemist says laboratory experiments suggest that the chemical precursors of animal lift could evolved on the planet Jupiter. The experiments, simulating Jupiter's atmosphere, were convicted at a research centre of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma reports that
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    • 484 8 OTTAWA: A modern ballet created by an international team of artists a French choreographer, Roland Petit, a Greek composer, lannis Xenakis, and a Hungarian costume designer, Victor Vasarely was the introductory work in a two-week festival of music and drama early this
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    • 232 8 THE principal of Pearl's Hill School, Mr. S. Ratnagopal has urged parents to show interest in the daily school work and activities of their children. "This sense of enthusiasm, will spur the child onwards and success is assured when the child realise®
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    • 413 8 LONDON, (BIS) For any two points in the world to communicate through space three things are necessary a ground transmitting aerial, a ground receiving aerial, and a satellite high above the Earth. In the live years of space communications to date, satellites have performed better than
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    • 139 8 WASHINGTON. 'Land for learning" are appearing at :o.tie puoi.c schools in the United States Also described as 'school 'and laboratories they offer excellent opportunities for chlldien to acquire a knowledge of soil and wa'er rela' lonships as well as plant and animal lie. Outdoor laboratories vary In
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    • 61 8 DUN EARN Secondary Technical School Advisory Board has organised a film matinee in aid of its School's Development and Building Fund at tfce Venus Theatre. Queenstown on Sunday 29th at 9.00 a m. The title of the film is "The Crazy Swordsman" in Mandarin with English sub-titles
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    • 100 8 OFFICE bearers of the Pearl's Hill School Parer.tTeacher Association for 1969. President Tan Ah Pak Vice-Presidents S Ratnagopal; Ho Tong Woh. Lim Seng Pin. Hon. Secretarv Bernard Fernandez Assistant Mrs. Ng Puay Kwang Hon. Treasurer Poh Kong Eng. Assistant Yeo Tiong Gum; Miss L
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    • 375 8 A musical fantasy called 'The Multibox" will prove to be an interesting treat for school children who love fairy-tales and music. The story takes place In an imaginery country known as Fogovia" where a super-duper duplicator called the •'multibox" is being invented. This "multibox"
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    • 285 8 WASHINGTON: U.S. researchers have developed a stronrer concrete by combining conventional concrete and plastic. Samples of the new material, -a".led concrete polymer, test four times stronger than ordinary concrete, accordinr to a research report. The report describes the material as highly resistant to abrasion and freeze-thaw damage and
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    • 56 8 THE next few reguli* performances by bands will be held at the following date* and plates* St Gabriel Sec. School Brass Band at Mcßitrhie Park on Sundar June 29th between 5.30 and 6.30 P-m Montfort Sec. School Brass Band at Botanic Gardfns on Friday August 8 between and
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    • 9 8 Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables Spanish Proverb
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 58 8 "Daddy, I've written a whole page about you in my diary, and Til let you read it for a dime."' DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saundos and AUen HMn m B A n* R 5 t--r l! 7 m i V IJ THE WBABD OF ID ptrkar sad Johnny hart i
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 3009 10 SATURDAY Race l: Class 486 Reprieve 3, 5y Dlv. 2—1 Mile—2.30 p.m. 9.00 Mdms. PH. Cheah R.S. Breuk. Rebecca Tan <n Ct->Kla Rndcers ($8,500) 1 14 445 C30 Sweet .meioay Djebelet 5y 4y 7y 7y O.IU 809 8.08 8.08 Mr. Mrs. KK. Ng Leong J
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    • 406 10 Y. HASSAN created another upset in the men's singles third round of the SB A 1969 Junior badminton championships held at the Singapore Badminton Hall. Guillemard Road, on Wednesday night. Hassan, with his accurate smashes and cross-court placings, outplayed the former Singapore representatives, Deen Abdullah 15-3
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    • 349 10 BY BIG BEN SINGAPORE. Thurs. Saya Datang shaped like a winner here this morning when he galloped attractively over 3f in 37-2/5 finishing with a lot in hand. He was ridden by Les Coles. The goine was eood. However, the best time returned this
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    • 507 10 'We Hope To Do Better At Rangoon' -Othman THE Minister for Social Affairs, fine he Othman bin Wok said Singapore hoped to do better in the forth-coming Fifth SEAP Gomes to be held at Rangoon, from December 6 fo 13. L'm I 1 Enche Othman. who is also the President
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    • 73 10 HAMILTON Sports Club an<j f r rer Y nited will clash in a n the division one semi-final of the 1969 Youth Invitation Football tournament at Geylan* Stadium on Sunday kick-off 5.00 p.m. The two teams drew 2-2 when they met in an earlier encounter last week At
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    • 320 11 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Pancho Gonzales, allowed little time to bask in the glory of his recordbreaking win over Charlie Pasarell yesterday, was back in action at Wimbledon today and cruised through his second round match against' Swede Ove Bengston. The 4i-year-©id American professional. seeded 12th.
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    • 265 11 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter)— Roy Fredericks and Steve Camacho gave the West Indies an encouraging start in the Second Test match against England at Lord's today, putting on 44 in the first hour. Fredericks wag then on 27 and Camacho 17. The pair were quickly
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    • 107 11 LONDON. Thurs. (Reutrr) A roughing epidemic in English race horse stables is causing anxiety to trainers and owners. Scores of horses have been affected and veterinary experts say it could get worse. The hardest-hit areas are asom and Yorkshire, than half the horses trained
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    • 62 11 SHIZUOKA. Japan. Thurs. (Reuter) Rocky Alarde of the Philippines won by points over a heavier Japanese boxer in a non-title, 10-round boxing match at this Central Japan city tonight there were n<> knockdowns. Alarde. 32, the Philippines No. one middleweight in the outboxed and Benkei Fujikura,
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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    • 561 11 Tuition T. H. C. MAGIC CENTRE INSTANT MACIC TUITION For Stage. Clubs Parties Easy, success guaranteed THIAM HUAT b CO LTD 26 Robinson Road. Singapore, I. Tel *****/6. Where To Stay STRAND HOTEL. Bencoolen Street. Town centre. Quiet, clean, reasonable rates Airconditioned rooms, private bath. Bar Restaurant. Homelv services. Tels:
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    • 597 11 NOTICES GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT INTEGRATION ORDINANCE. 1963 (No. 18 of 1963) Notice under Section 19 (2) NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to Section 19 (2) of the Local Government Integration Ordinance, 1963 that the Director of Public Works requires the execution of streetworks in
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    • 298 11 GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT INTEGRATION ORDINANCE, 1%3 (No. 18 of 1%3) Notice Under Section 19 (2) NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to Section 19 (2) of the Local Government Integration Ordinance. 1963 that the Director of Public Works required the execution of streetworks in respect
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    • 387 11 NOTICES MEDICAL COUNCIL REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE IN accordance with Regulation 10(1) of the Medical Council (Elect.on of Members* Regulations. 1953. as amended by the Medical Council (Election of Members) (Amendment) Regulations, 1955. I hereby declare the following registered medical practitioners to be elected members of the Medical Council. Republic of
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 924 11 ,V~ rom TV andßa (CHANNEL S) PM. 300 Opening Announcements in all Languages and Morning Star; 3 25 Health in the Home (Malavi; 3.55 It's Happening in Singapore (Chinese* (Repeat); 350 Be Our Guest •Tamil*; 4 05 Scarlet Hill; 4 55 Close. 6 00 Programme Summary in all Languases; 605
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