Eastern Sun, 3 August 1969

Lock icon This issue may only be viewed from the multimedia stations at NLB Libraries. See FAQ for more information.

Total Pages: 12
1 12 Eastern Sun
  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1077 Sunday Edition 3 August 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
    23 words
  • 640 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The Minister of Home Affairs tonight hit out at the extremists and ultras in the ruling party who were making a desperate bid to topple the present leadership. The Minister, Tun iDr.) Ismail bin Dato ■flaji Abdul Rahman warned them that if
    640 words
  • 31 1 ENTEBBE, Uganda. Sat. (Reuter) Pope Paul left here tonight at the end of his historic pilgrimage to Africa in which he attempted to bring peace to troubled Nigeria.
    31 words
  • 152 1 JAKARTA, Sat. (Reuter) The situation in Malaysia will become more chaotic if Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns, an Indonesian Moslem leader told reporters hereDjamaluddin Malik, Deputv Chairman of the big Mahdatul Ulama Moslem Party, said yesterday the Tunku and his deputy
    152 words
  • 448 1 BUCHAREST, Sat. (Reuter) Huge crowds of Rumanians estimated at nearly a million turned out to welcome President Nixon as he drove into Bucharest today for his 27-hour visit to Rumania. People standing 10 deep or more in the sweltering summer heat lined the 11mile
    448 words
  • 89 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Sat. (UPI> Thousands of males and a handful of professional topless dancers showed up Friday for what was billed as an "Anti-bra day" rally in the San Francisco financial district. Alerted by handbills distributed by topless nightclubs, the financial district males gathered In anticipation of watching
    89 words
  • 112 1 CALCUTTA, Sat. (CFI) The Communist West Bengal government has dismissed 11 of the hundreds of policemen who stopped the state legislature Thursday, it was announced today. An announcement said four of the 11 had been arrested but did not say what charges were levelled against them. The policemen
    112 words
  • 484 1 A LARGE patch of oil, which poured out of the damaged hull of the 12,900-ton Japanese tanker, Showa Maru after its collision with a Liberian cargo tramper, Bethlehem, at about 1 a.m. yesterday, is believed to be a threat to the beaches of the southeastern
    484 words
  • 85 1 MARSEILLES. France. Sat. (Reuter)—An Italian Alitalia Caravelle airliner with 41 people aboard crashed into a lake near runway at Marseilles airport today —but the iilane stayed afloat and according to first reports, everyone vas rescued Police said the airliner, believed to have 35 passengers and six
    85 words
  • 35 1 COPENHAGEN. Sat. (AFP) Two Danish fishermen were killed today when their boat blew up and sank after apparently hitting a mine in the Baltic offshore from the Danish port of Roedbyhavn.
    35 words
  • 146 1 LAKELAND. Florida. Sat. (CPI) Police are holding four teen-age boys they sav were involved in feeding LSD to two girls. ace 12 and 13, and their rape. All four were charged with possession of a hallucinogenic drug, and two of them with criminal assault of
    146 words
  • 123 1 BOSTON, Sat. (UPI) A Massachusetts District Attorney is exploring the possibility of exhuming the bodv for autopsy of a Washington secretary killed in the auto wreck involving Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. District Attorney Blythe Evans of Luzerne County. Pennsylvania confirmed today he talked with
    123 words
  • 95 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The Malaysian Bar Council's call to the government to convene parliament "forthwith" was rejected by Tunku Abdul Rahman today. "As the situation in the country is far from normal, parliament cannot meet," the Tunku said. When parliament meets, some member? will speak irresponsibly
    95 words
  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 27 1 Protein 8-B£%, Suitable for making biscuit noodle, dried noodle, cakes, PRIMA LTD. (FLOUR MILLS) ITS REFRES AND NUTRITI f Ms «fc. i products of YEO MIAP SENG
      27 words
    • 56 1 I TORCH SWEETS m <>* m When In Hong Kong Stay In at HOTEL ROYAL 380 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hongkong. Telephone: K-*****1, Cable: 'Hotelroyal' Hongkong's First Class Hotel. All Rooms Fully Air-Conditioned f With Private Telephone. For Those Who Seek Superb Food, Good Wine And Courteous Service. At Reasonable Rates.
      56 words


  • 249 3 TOKYO, Sat. (UPI) The Japanese government said on Saturday the United States is willing to reach agreement on the return of Okinawa but the question of American nuclear bases remains open. Japanese newspapers said the United States was prepared to meet Japan s request that Atomic
    249 words
  • 59 3 Biak Votes Yes' BIAK, West Irian. Sat (Reuter) The Act of Free Choice today went off smoothly in Biak, northern West Irian, when 130 delegates voted unanimously for the regency to remain part of Indonesia. Biak was an expected trouble spot and some 150 security officers and Indonesian troops in
    59 words
  • 145 3 MELBOURNE. Sat. (Reuten America would be immediately informed that all Australian forces would be withdrawn from Vietnam when Labour became the government. the Party's Federal Conference decided today. The policy plank calls for the withdrawal of Australian forces after the United States
    145 words
  • 152 3 Manila, s at (upd a fovernment patrol killed one o. six armed Communist Huk organisers during a gunbattle x rid ay i n Cadiz city, some 300 miles south of here. ii F u U I other m embers of the riuk band were captured
    152 words
  • 44 3 BHOPAL. India. Sat. (Reuten Police shot dead 18 pandits in the jungles of Central India today, officials in this state capital said. The gang was killed in an encounter early today in the notorious Bhind-Morena area of Madhya Pradesh state, they said.
    44 words
  • 41 3 BHUBANESWAR, India. Sat. fßeuten Tidal waves, fanned by cyclones, have flooded paddy fields along part of the coastline in Balasore district of Orissa state, according to a delayed official report received here today. No loss of life was reported.
    41 words
  • 37 3 CHAMONIX, France. Sat. (Reuter) Three British climbers fell 1.000 feet to their death in the Mont Blanc range near here yesterday. police said. Rescue workers said the three crashed onto a glacier when they fell.
    37 words
  • 181 3 CALCUTTA, Sat. (Reuter)—The provincial Parliament of West Bengal, stormed by some 3,000 uniformed policemen on Thursday, was in uproar again yesterday as members accused each other of complicity in the raid and almost came to blows. The row came as the Communist dominated provincial government
    181 words
  • 342 3 TOKYO. Sat. (UPI) U.S. Ambassador to Japan Armin H. Meyer said on Friday the Thursday's assault by a Japanese youth against him at the Haneda international airport was his first such experience in his 27-year diplomatic career. "It seemed as if he (the
    342 words
  • 135 3 WASHINGTON. Sat (UPI) "A new fever that sometimes afflicts American Presidents travelling in Asia" has afflicted President Nixon, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota told the Senate on Friday. He said in the past week Nixon has made these observations: The Apollo 11 crew has accomplished a feat
    135 words
  • 80 3 OSAKA. Japan. Sal. (t'PI) A Soviet plane took nfT from the Osaka International Airport Friday on its first chartered flight since the conclusion of a charter agreement last April between Japan and the Soviet Union The plane, a propellerdriven U.vushin of Aeroflot, was chartered by the
    80 words
  • 49 3 BANGKOK. Sat. (Reuter) Hundreds of homes and four bridges have been destroyed by heavy flooding in Chantaburi District on the Gulf of Thailand, according to reports reaching here today. The floodwaters have also caused damage estimated at more than 10 million baht to fru:t plantations In the area.
    49 words
  • 354 3 SAIGON, Sat. (UPI) Waves of air force 852 bombers attacked Communist bunkers and weapons sites just 17 miles from Saigon in a strike that rattled windows in the capital, military spokesmen said on Saturday. U.S. officers said the eightengine Stratofortress flying up to
    354 words
  • 113 3 SAIGON, Sat. (Reuter) The United States Navy has rescued a second group of five North Vietnamese fishermen from storm tossed seas in the Gulf of Tonkin. The American Command in Saigon announced today that the fishermen, four men and a boy, were spotted waving for help
    113 words
  • 81 3 PARIS. Sat. (Reuter) A group of South Vietnamese exiles met here last mght to try to form a move installing a government of reconciliation in Saigon and negotiating with the Vietoong. a spokesman for the group said The spokesman. Ngu\en Thai Son. said r.oth.r.fi concrete haa
    81 words
  • 672 3 LAHORE. Sat. (UPI) White House sources said on Friday that President Nixon's no-more-Vietnams policy would not bar future U.S. military intervention in Asia if Communist aggression gravely threatened to change the balance of power there. The White House sources said Nixon had
    — (UPI Radiophoto).  -  672 words
  • 142 3 WASHINGTON. Wed (Reuten The United States has never proposed partitioning of South Vietnam the Saigon government and the National Liberation Front (NLF). the State Department said today. The spokesman, asked to comment on a Los Angeles Times story that Washington was prepared to give the NLF control
    142 words
  • 69 3 NEW DELHI. Sat (Reuter) The Indian government is to hold new talks with Indian princes and Maharajas on abolition of privy purses and privileges of the former rulers. Parliament here was told terday. The government decided last year to do away with the privy purses and special privileges
    69 words
  • 57 3 MANILA. Sat. (Reuten The Soviet Union has offered to establish diplomatic relations with th* Philippines with no strings attached, according to a leading Filipino politician. Senator Benigno Aquino Jr.. Secretary-General of the Opposition Liberal Party, stated this to newsmen last night on his return from a three-week trip
    57 words
  • 52 3 SEOUL. Sat (Reuter) Po ice today announced the arrest of two North Korean agents who arrived here last month to organise student riots. Chung Kil Han, 22. and Sang I Cho. 20. came to Seoul by train after landing on the southwest coast bv boat from North Korea,
    52 words
  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 154 3 o\ \W^ g JJBS^ V- i^PSI JflftYcr Af/^JcT AtSA ~O^L rs£t.oc^ cv^sl^ ••"*uv I f- C i .V V J:/; "> u igrotfi IL~^\ —^r \i> j 1 ■-'i^ rr<^2: rz^JL* ■jrfrT^^--4^ ,-4 1,, mill# "1 art J—BM^— CHINA AIRLINES IS JUST A CALL AWAY There will be no itineraries
      154 words

  • 625 4 KAMPALA, Sot. (Reuter) The two missing members of Biafra's delegation arrived Here yesterday afternoon to take part in talks with Pope Paul and the Federal Nigerians. The talks may lead to negotiations to end Nigeria's civil war. The two Biafrans are Professor Eni Njoku,
    625 words
  • 157 4 ROME, Sat. (Reuter) Italian Premier designate Mariano Rumor last night gave up his mandate to form a new government after failing to muster enough support for one-party rule by the Christian Democrats Mr. Rumor reported his failure to President Giuseppe Saragat who immediately arranged fresh
    157 words
  • 68 4 KINSHASA. Sat. (Reuter) President Joseph Mobutu of the Congo (Kinshasa) yesterday carried out the most sweeping changes in his government since he took power in 1965. Nine ministers and ten vice ministers leave the government including Mr. Justin Marie Bom boko. Foreign Minister practically without interruption since
    68 words
  • 285 4 LONDON, sat. (UPD The Berkeley Hotel was more proper than opulent, a discreet yet friendly sanctum where David Lloyd George hatched political intrigues and the Duke of Windsor courted Wallis Warfield Simpson at Sunday dinners. The Berkeley (pronounced Bar-Clay) closed yesterday after more than a
    285 words
  • 35 4 TRANQUILLITY Base, The Moon. Astronaut Edwin Aldrin prepares to take his first step onto the lunar surface to begin his historic walk on the moon. Photo was taken by fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong. UPI Photo.
    UPI Photo.  -  35 words
  • 184 4 NEW YORK. Sat. (UPI> The papyrus raft Ra. once skippered by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl. is still afloat in the Atlantic, and though partially damaged may yet reach the new world. The reed boat abandoned by Heyercahl and his multi-na-tional crew on July 19. could
    184 words
  • 85 4 MOSCOW. Sat. (Reuter) Soviet scientists have discovered diamonds formed in outer space in a meteorite which was found in western Australia in 1961 the Soviet news agency Tass reported yesterday. The meteorite, named North Halh and weighing just over two pounds was sent here for
    85 words
  • 312 4 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) A group of Soviet scientists today told of a new technique they have developed for the treatment of Leukaemia which they said had "excellent" results. Writing in the British science magazine Nature, the scientists said they tested their technique on six
    312 words
  • 46 4 BUCHAREST. Sat. (Reu'er) Rumania's population has passed the 20 miil.on mark, it was officially announced here. President Nicolae Ceausescu has personally backed antiabortion and anti-contracep-tives law* in oroer to push up the birthrate in the interests of an ambitious long-term plan of economic expansion.
    46 words
  • 60 4 PRETORIA. Sat. (Reuter)— South Africa's white birth rate is showing a small decline despite government exhortations for more white babies. Latest released by the Bureau of Statistics show there were 81.525. white births last year compared with 82.548 two years earlier. No figures were given for
    60 words
  • 351 4 MOSCOW, Sat. (Reuter) A Soviet journal yesterday charged the United States with trying to weaken the East European "community of socialist states'' by encouraging nationalism and economic discontent. The attack appeared in the weekly foreign affairs Journal, New Times, the day
    351 words
  • 320 4 II7TST BERLIN. Sat. (Renter) If More than 1,000 police early today fought a pitched battle with 500 demonstrators along the Kurfuerstendamm West Berlin's main shopping street in the city's worst outbreak of violence this year. A number of police and demonstrators were injured in the fierce
    320 words
  • 27 4 MANCHESTER. England. Sat (Reuter) Innkeeper Stanley Godfrey was killed yesterday when a barrel of beer exploded at Ye Olde Cock inn, near here.
    27 words
  • 75 4 ALGIERS, Sat. (Reuter) Algeria's biggest mosque 15 to be built at Constantine. 250 miles east of here, at a cost of 10 million dinars (£845.000). the semi-official daily El Moudjahid reported yesterday. The mosque will be named after Algeria's national hero. Emi r Abdel
    75 words
  • 55 4 WEST BERLIN. Sat. (Reuter) About 80 prisoners, rrotesting over the quality of their ration, hurled food and sprayed fire hoses at their warders in West Berlin's main jail on Thursday night. Police reinforcements vere railed in to Tegel Jail and ordered the rebellious prisoners back into
    55 words
  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 228 4 m *1 V 11 \T W 5K /I '>4 /R 'J Pi TR »R SHE TOOK A SANDWICH AND SALAD OVER TO THE PROFESSOR/ HE HASN'T EATEN ALL. PAY/ > I®#*?-, V IT? PROFESSOR? THAT BOY YOU PUT IN THE HOSPITAL ISN'T < DOLHG SO GOOD! RU 7D WHOM AM
      228 words

  • 406 5 HOLSTON, Texas, Sat. (Reuter) Two technicians were put into quarantine at the lunar receiving laboratory here early today after a rubber glove used to handle lunar material inside a vacuum chamber developed a leak. They bring to 19 all men the population of
    406 words
  • 158 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Sat (UPI) A fcabv girl was born in a jet plane crossing the Pacific ocean Friday. A doctor and nurse w ho happened to be on the flight, helped deliver the baby. The baby girl, Hung Oh. was mothered by Mrs. Kan Yu Wong
    158 words
  • 194 5 SAN FRANCISCO, Sat (Reutcr) Scientists today bounced a laser beam to the moon and back by using an 18 inch wide reflector left on the lunar surface by the Apollo 11 astronauts. The experiment was carried out by scientists at the Lick observatory on
    194 words
  • 54 5 WASHINGTON. Sat. (Renter) The Intelsat 111 communications satellite in orbit over the Atlantic ocean was restored to service today after a one-month blackout, the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) announced. Intelsat 111. the latest and largest of the Atlantic communications satellites, went out of action on June 29 when
    54 words
  • 61 5 WASHINGTON, Sat. (Reuter) A State Department spokesman said today he knew of no plans for President Nixon and Soviet Premier Alexei Kcsygin to hold a summit meeting in Vienna in October The report of a proposed 6ummit meeting appeared in a London dailv newspapei this morning and said
    61 words
  • 149 5 CORDOBA. Argentina. Sat. (Reuter) Strict security measures were clamped on this industrial city yesterday as officials investigated an abortive plot to overthrow the government of President Juan Carlos Onganla. Police armed with bayonets guarded key positions throughout the city after a radio station was taken over
    149 words
  • 89 5 SAN SALVADOR. Sat. (Reuter) El Salvador expects to complete by Sunday the withdrawal of troops from Honduran territory occupied during last month's border war. Defence Minister Fidel Torres announced last night. Gen. Torres told a press conference that Salvadorean troops had taken 30(1 prisoners He said
    89 words
  • 181 5 WASHINGTON, Sat. (UPI) The United Nations Should not limit the use of seabeds exclusively for peaceful purposes, according to a high defence depart- ment official. "There are those who would wish to ban all military uses of the seabed," G- Warren Nutter. Assistant Secretary
    181 words
  • 148 5 BOSTON. Sat. (Reuter) An effort to re-open the Kennedy ease was rejected today when Superior Court Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro turned down a formal request for an inquest made by District Attorney Edmund Dinis. Dinis yesterday had asked for an inquest into the
    148 words
  • 103 5 ANN ARBOR. Michigan. Sat. (Reuter) A 23-year-old student was charged today with the murder of the eighth girl fonnd slain in the Ann Arbor area in t«o year* John Norman Collins, arrested on information provided by his policeman uncle, wag accused nf killing
    103 words
  • 50 5 WASHINGTON. Sat. (Reuter) The U.S. Navy yesterday ordered anti-submarine jet aircraft designed to meet what the Pentagon regards as a threat from Soviet submarines. Lockheed aircraft was awarded a five-year 461 million dollar contract to develop the S3-A aircraft, which the Navy hopes to have flying by 1972.
    50 words
  • 384 5 WASHINGTON. Sat. (Reuter) The Director of the U.S. Apollo Space Programme predicted 'Oday that in future voyages to the moon astronauts may b- able to walk as five rii.cb away from their moon landing; craft. On. Samuel Phallips said that Apollo ll astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the
    384 words
  • 85 5 NEW YORK. Sat. Police have seized a film called "Blue Movie" made by underground director Andy Warhol which includes a scene showing a couple having sexual intercourse A deputy police inspector, armed with a search warrant, entered the New Andv Warhol Garrick Theatre in Greenwich Village last night
    85 words
  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 277 5 toyf WHAT A 6*£Ar DAY TO GO BOATING, EH, YOGI? < OKAY. PUT IT IN HERE YO6I/...AND KEEP IT CiOS£ TO THE,6AN K WHILE TGET \W,SGCff A 2 DAY 1 > 3, EH, >1 r Hi/**Vl/P, y\ YOG/.' BOV. A*£YOl/ I'LL BET SIOHYS YOU'RE 6LAO K I INVITED I —XT
      277 words

  • 564 6 CHURCH sm ]Vf ANILA, PHILIPPINES A national congress on evangelism, the first of Its kind and magnitude In this country where evangelicals are estimated at a little less than a million of the nation's 35 million population, will be held in
    564 words
  • 202 6 CHRISTIAN Business Men's Committee i« keeping pare with urban growth spurt points in the United States. In most cases, according to a comparison made of committee growth records with latest U.S. Census Bureau results. Of the 23 fastest-growing urban areas based on percentage growth in
    202 words
  • 629 6 A condensed perephrese of the Word of God, prepared by DECISION for Bible study groups THE MAN ON THE BEACH: A further appearance of Jesus to his disciples occurred on the shore of the Sea of Galilee after seven of his disciples had gone out on a
    629 words
  • 257 6 •JESUS SAVES MISSION born, bred and spread as a result of prayer will be celebrating its sth anniversary with a thanksgiving service at its headquarters, 39 Pesiaran Keliling tonight at 7.30 p.m. Rev. Yap Kok Hu will deliver the message on the night. Other
    257 words
  • 405 6 ZURICH. SWITZERLAND Twenty thousand teenage youthg heard a German physician describe materialism. sex and dope addiction as major problems confronting the youth of the world today. Addressing the International Youth Congress of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Zurich's main convention hall. Dr. L. Trader said
    405 words
  • 26 6 THE mid-year marriage toufie organised by the St. Joseph's Church wa s reported having a big euccess There were 69 regular attendants.
    26 words
  • 82 6 Rev. Kauffman of the World Outreach (late Slavic and Oriental Mission) Hong Kong, who arrived here on Friday, will be speaking at the Glad Tidings Church. 1 Valley Road, off Upper Seranfoon Road, (6 m.s.» this morning at 10.30 a.m. Rev. Kauffman, on a three* day
    82 words
  • 48 6 THE Good Shepherd Cathedral will commemorate the Republic's 150 th Anniversary with a Mass on Aug. 31 at the St Joseph's Institution field at 545 p.m. There will he no Masses in the evening that Sunday in all churches in the town area.
    48 words
  • Briefs
    • 53 6 DR. SNG EWE KONG officially took office as the General Secretary of FES Singapore as from 9th June, 1969. For the time being, be and his family are staying at 192 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 9. Telephone *****6 His wife. Dr. Ivy Sng. Is working with the
      53 words
    • 43 6 MR. CHOONG CHEE PANG has arrived safely in Australia and has begun studies at the Moore Theological College. Those who wish to write to him can send their mail to: Moore TheO'ogical College. Newtown. Sydney, New South Wales 2042, Australia.
      43 words
    • 137 6 The old copies of the Way magazine will be sold at 10 cents each. Also. for every new subscription to the Way, four of thesg old copies will be given away free. The latest issue has just arrived Some of the articles included are: —Can Factory
      137 words
  • 209 6 AN international television personality. George Knowles. most recently of LdndOn. England, Is presenting a threeweek series of public lectures on science and the Bible starting Friday. Aug. 1, according to an announcement released here. The free lecture series was inaugurated on Fridav night with the address. "Science and
    209 words
  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 595 6 RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS CHINESE PKESBYTERIAM TRUE WAY CHURCH 154-B. Stirling Road. Off Commonwealth Ave_ Singapore wore hit Wore nip servioe ft Sunday School LENG KWANG BAPTIST CHURCH iTioctmr <fe Kngilib) 865 Buklt Tim ah Road. 31 bu. Singapore 10. Bonday 8-30 a.m. English Worship 0-30 a.m. Sunday School 10 30 a.m.
      595 words
    • 559 6 PULAO TERONG GOSPEL CENTRE Puiau Tefcong. Spore. 2JO D-ox Hokklen/Hakka Service PENTECOSTAL EVANGELICAL CHURCH L Jalao Sendodok. (Off 12i mile*), sembawang Kd. Singapore, »7. Saturday 7.30 pj&. X. Psllowshlp Sunday 7-30 dul Evangelistic lIM> Inff QUEENSTOWN BAPTIST CHUBCB 495 Margaret Drive 900 &.m. Sunday Scnooi 10.00 a-m. Worship Service 11.15
      559 words
    • 450 6 RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS INTERNATIONAL BAPTIST Church 90 Kins'* Road 58. (Ages 3 ft up) 9:45 am. Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Evening Bervicp 6:00 p m. for Information: Phone *****0 6:00 p m. LUTHERAN CHURCH OP UtK REDEEMER SO. Uusea Road, b pur*-10. S.BO a.m. English Service 9-30 am. English Sunday School
      450 words

  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 175 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Miss Shirley Goh has been appointed travel assistant in the East Asiatic Company's travel department in Kuala Lumpur. In announcing the appointment. Mr. N. Borglum, the manager of EAC's ShipPin? and Travel Department. said that thij followed the recent expansion and reorganisation of the
      175 words
    • 60 7 THE Association of Banks tn Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in its rateg to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): Selling T.T. or OD. ready: Deutsche Marks 177.0850; Holland Guilders $85.0275; Swiss Francs $71.6150: Belgian Francs $6 1475; French Francs
      60 words
    • 549 7  -  *Weehend Review Of U.S. Stocks By Richard Rossi TW'EW YORK, Sat. (UPI) Stock prices were higher this week for the first time in nearly a month. But there were those who saw dark clouds on the horizon. Prices had fallen for seven
      549 words
    • 74 7 LONDON, Sat. (UPI) Rubber market yesterday closed neglected with spot 27-3/4. 28-1/8 Settlement House Sept and Oct 27-3/4 28 Nov and Oct/D«c 27-3/4, 27-15/16 Jan/March 27-5/16. 27-1/2 April/June 27-1/16. 27-5/16 Julv/Sept 26-3/4 27 Oct/Dec 26-9/16. 26-13/16 Jan/March 26-7/16. 26-5/8 April/June 26-5/16. 26-1/2 July/Sept 26-3/16, 26-3/8
      74 words
    • 259 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Two service mechanics from a Malaysian Motor Company have been selected to attend a six-month long training course In Japan. Mr Tang Wang Hong and Mr. Yip Aun Eng left Kuala Lumpur by air recently for Tokyo where they will undertake
      259 words
    • 142 7 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) The market enden the account on a firm note yesterday. The sharp rally on Wall St. on Thursday, combined with bear covering initially lifted equities slightly higher over a wide front. However, towards midday buying slackened off and prices lost most
      142 words
    • 146 7 NEW YORK. Sat. (UPI) Gold prices c.csed mixed in routine trading yestercay on market* here and abroad. In London, gold was unchanged at the morning fixing, but rose 4 cents for a second fixing of 41.43 U.S. dollars a troy ounce. The closing range wa s
      146 words
    • 12 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $643 per picul, unchanged.
      12 words
    • 467 7 LONDON. Sat. (UPI) The stock market spent the latter part of this week trying to climb above its 1969 low and it finally succeeded with a little help from Wall Street. There was not much zest about the buying and the vacation
      467 words
    • 273 7 The following is a berthing list released bv the Port of Singapore Authority for Aug. 3: DEPARTURE: God owns Vessels 9 Pres. Madison 19/10 Benalligin 19 Angelina JC.W. Jetty Caltex Kartika 29/30 Aliakmon Progress 33/34 Rajah 35/36 Pleiades 42/43 Hatasia (tanker) 25 New Teh Hu 46 Oriental
      273 words
    • 136 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. A total Of 1.066 active tin mines were operating in West Malaysia at the end of June this year, showing an increase of 23 mines more than the previous month. A statement issued yesterday by the Mining Statistics said at the
      136 words
    • 38 7 NEW YORK. Sat. (UPI) Dow Jones closing average* on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrials 826 59 20 Rails 199.31 15 Utilities 117.72 65 Stocks 280.66 40 Bonds 72.23 Commodity Future* Index 130.95
      38 words
    • 54 7 NEW YORK. Sat. (UPI) Rubber futures closed 10 points lower on no sales yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange. (Bid) (Asked) Sept 29.55 Nov 28 75 Jan 70 28.15 Mar 2740 27.90 May 27.15 27.85 July 2890 2740 Sept 26.65 27.15 Locally. No. 2 RSS was 27-
      54 words
    • 206 7 fPWO Singapore companies last week signed a contract for the construction of the first of two vessels specially designed to serve the drilling rigs involved in South East Asia's off- shore oil operations. Vosper Thornycroft Uniteers Pte. Ltd. are building the two rig service
      206 words
    • 77 7 TUB BOOS prtffi tfef RtntBpore hinw Prodooa Exrhantr >esterday merm>— Vara Coronal oil (FOB.) Balk 48.88 Coconut oil "ram 88.78 Mixed Copra SO 80 M urn ok Hbil* Pepper 5/OB-) ***** 8«f»»m Wlllr Prppft (FOB-) 1ST.SO Sarawak cpeciai Black Pepper iFoai wfi* KL.w rrso Lamponi Hprctai Black Prpjvr tsTA
      77 words
    • 50 7 iManiim l»t Malayan XD fS" i) 2nd Malayan XD 1 9t 3rd Malayan 1.22 The Com. Inn. 98 1 08 The Saving 1 und 104 114 M. Invent und 1.20 1-30 1M llont Hons 1.50 1 56» 2nd Hons Kong 1.02 1.07* Sterling Com. 5/S I'HOAI Ron* currency)
      50 words
    • 266 7 NEW YORK. Sat. (UPI) Institutional investor! and bargain hunters helped push prices higher on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday in fairly active trading. Extension of the income tax surcharge lent encouragement to Wall Street. Some had feared that failure to extend the
      266 words
    • 84 7 KUALA LUMPUR *6t Malaysia exported three million case* of pineapple* earning over S4B million foreign exchange. the Assistant Minister Of Finance. Enche Ali bin Haji Ahmad, disclosed yesterday. Enche Ali who visited the National Pineapple Cannery in Johore said the government was encouraging the people to plant more
      84 words
    • 413 7 ARRIVALS 6.00 am. M?<A MLU29 koala Lumpur 0.00 am MsA MLII 9 kuala Lumpur 9.45 a.m. MM >***** Sydney. Jakarta 10 15 a.m. MSA MLII 2 kuala Lumpur 12.40 p.m. C'Al 115 Taipei. Bong kong 10 25 a.m. MSA MLO.YS Penang. ipoti. Kuala Lumpur. Malacca 1.00 p.m. HAS
      413 words

  • POPPING AROUND with Platter Pete
    • 98 8 FRANCIS Albert Sinatra in the process of doing his thing and doing it his way! "My Way," is now nestling comfortably in the charts. And coming at the end of the month, a new LP with Frank singing everyone's songs his way. Called, of course,
      98 words
    • 291 8 MICKY DOLENZ. Monkee extraordinaire, will soon take up a serious acting career especially If his wife. exEnglish model Sammy Juste, has anything to do with it! 6ammy is currently visiting her parents in Manchester to show off their new grandchild. Ami, aged six months. "At
      291 words
    • 213 8 JJI THERE! Like the grooviest! I hope all of you hep-type cool cats saw KING ELVIS' first ever movie on TV yesterday. It may not be his best movie ever, but "Love Me Tender" certainly brings back memories of the good ole' Elvis, and certainly it must
      213 words
    • 295 8 IT'S thack skin that has kept the Kinks going for the last five years. Being a Kink hasn't always been an easy and rich life They have been banned from English and American stages, there have been complaints galore. Now the group still retains three of
      295 words
    • 135 8 AC BOSS: 1 Ronettes; 8 Su*arpie (De*anto); 10 Gene Pitney; 12 Newport; 14 Taste; 15 (Jefferson) Airplane; 19 Marc (Bolan); 20 Herd: 21 Dec; 23 "My Way"; 24 >andpipers; 25 Len (Barry); 26 Tunes; 28 PatU (Harrison); 30 Oboe: 31 "Open"; 33 Animals; 34 Harp: 36
      135 words
    • 210 8 JOHN AND YOKO LENNON: "Unfinished Music No. 2 Life With The Lions." Cambridge 1969; No Bed For Beatle John; Baby's Heartbeat; Two Minutes Silence; Radio Play. (Zapple). Side one of this remarkable album features Yoko, and the sleeve note says **vocal" after her
      210 words
    • 133 8 A GREAT new one from the Supremes! Their discs are always exciting and punchpacked. but this Is their most exhilarating for some time. After a startling opening, it explodes into a surging uptempo beat, with dancing strings, pungent brass and some fantastic drumming in
      133 words
  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 102 8 /'/n John Meet you Every Saturday,2.oop.m. Radio Malaysia This show is a real k ft Brought to you by BRYLCREEM Beginning Saturday August 2nd you share one full hour of "happenings" the latest and greatest in music, interviews with celebrities, international pop stars and Malaysian students in Australia —with a
      102 words
    • 177 8 When You A "TRANSPORT COMMUNICATION EXPOSITION" visit: Mcwi, SfICUJu and get the best in town on IMM] ATLANTIC WW RECORDS MARBLE F I n ov^n II ii i T monument CAMDEN SPECIAL OFFER? To commemorate Singapore's 150 th anniversary during the month-long exhibition, we are civin> awn records at FANTASTICALLY
      177 words
  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 230 8 PLATTER POPWORD ACKOSS I. "Be My Why" hit makers Si Snol songstres* with sweet but odd name K». American *h« tours here annually (4. U Famous venue for lis 14. Rory Gallagher's blues trio, 15. A San Prandao flier? 39. Poet and half duo 30. Lost alii iter to Humble
      230 words

  • 1095 9  -  By John Hanafin THE Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO), first formed in 1957, is hand-picked every year from the cream of Australia's young instrumentalists. Its guiding hand is the National Music Camp Association, founded in 1948 by the late Professor John Bishop
    AISP by J. Tanner.  -  1,095 words
  • 485 9 LONDON, Sat They say Steve McQueen Is planning to make fewer films in order to spend more time behind the camera. What a pity. Producers are a-dollar-a-dozen; anyone who can run an office can produce. But where can you find a face
    485 words
  • 509 9  -  By Sheilah Graham T ONDON, Sat. Lillian Gish made a best seller of her life story and now Norma Shearer (who came after Lillian in Hollywood and who more or less entered with talking pictures) is writing her autobiography. This should explain
    509 words
  • 48 9 PALMA. Majorca. Sat. (Reuter) —A Spanish judge announced that he would give a verdict next week in a case against actress Zsa Zsa Gabor. who was tried in her absence here on Thursday o n charges of disobedience to police authority.
    48 words
  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 103 9 WHAT'S ON FM TODAY? FM STEREO BROADCAST 8.30-9.00 a.m. ALSO CHINESE PROGRAMME FROM 7.00-7.30 p.m. MODEL CMS 400' BEST SELLER IN STEREO SYSTEMS Soto Agents: •ingtpar* Kuali luMpur >7 V-. w .1 ;v= f :s> •*> u V y I GREAT NEWS FROM RAFFLES VILLAGE TODAY Mum Dad, Bring The
      103 words
  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 386 9 IB SHAW I EMEEf TION LIDO Phone ***** LAST DAT! tl I B 1.45. «.M. 6.30 #l5 l Suzanne Pleshette. Lan McShane If Ift Tuesday Thit Moat Be Belgium" Color <UA) CAPITOL Phone 2975' NOW SHOWING! 11 am.. 1 30. 4.00. 6.45 A 930 p.m. Ivy Ling Po St Yanj
      386 words
    • 162 9 TODAY and YOU... Sunday* August 3, 1969. jf n m r.r. >•+ 11-13-25-37 46-58-69 8. UO JULY 23 AUG. 22 mm u KM2 8 Com** 9 To lOTrovel 11 Don't 12 Nothine 13 Forget 14 Just 15 Credit 16 For 17 Busy 18 Yourself 19 May 20 A 21 Woman
      162 words
    • 275 9 ORGANISAT IO N MH ODEON 2 1116 LAST 4 DATS! DAILY 4 KHOWI: U a.m.. 2.15 5.30 A 8.45 c m NO INCREASE IN PRICES In 70 MM Si Stereophonic Sound Fox 5 "THE LONGEST DAY" John Wayne Richard Burton School: $l/- to any seat 11 a m 2.15 <Sr
      275 words

  • SUN SPORT
    • 1456 10 Race l: Clan a. Dlv. 4—6 Furs—a.OO p.m. ($S,OOQ) V 007 Oar Coco 7y 900 R. Breuic 2. 008 Cbo Cho San By y oo S K. Quek J. Donnelly Nelaon 14 S. 079 Pui r Bogak 8v 9 00 Wan Stable Rodgen 4. 544 Shillelagh BOT
      1,456 words
    • 928 10  -  GOING: GOOD By Big Ben T ETTER OF CREDIT con moke this three in o row by outsprinting the opposition in the Closs Two Division Two six furlongs (Race Seven) ot Ipoh today, concluding day of the Perak Turf Club July/August meeting. An improving four-year-old.
      928 words
    • 31 10 Big Ben Song of Love Theatre VI Letter of Credit Jimmy Lad Dendrobium Theatre VI Norvic Cisco Song of Love Firecracker Theatre VI Zodiac Japak Cum Dividend Phar Pal
      31 words
    • 191 10 WESTCHESTER. New York. Sat. (Reuter) Bert Greene shot a three under par 69 here yesterday to earn a «ne stroke lead at the half way point of the U*****.000 Westchester golf classic. Playing consistently and putting superbly on the 6.677 yard Westchester Country Club course.
      191 words
    • 34 10 SYDNEY. Sat. (Reuter) New South Wales scored and upset 2-1 win over the touring Greek national soccer team at the Sydney sports ground today. New South Wales led 1-0 at half time.
      34 words
    • 30 10 BRISBANE. Sat. (Reuter)— The touring Fijian Rugby Union side trounced Australia by 26 points to 3 at Ballymore Park, Brisbane, today. The Fijians led 11-0 at half time.
      30 words
    • 144 10 London, Sat. (Router) BRITAIN'S Royal and Ancient Golf Club have revoked the continuous putting rule and the provision that a ball lying on the green may only be lifted before the first P ut t. The rules were introduced just last year at the suggestion of
      144 words
    • 171 10 BIG BEN JIMMY LAO CISCO ZODIAC RACE JAPAK Bambi II Hearsay JAPAK Deltarnewg Bambi II BAMBI n Shillelagh Boy Japak JAPAK Bambi II Charman Rose RACE t B. BUNTY Cannon Fire Happv Melody II CANNON FIRE Bernadette Bunty Wodnnga WODONGA Bernadette Bunty Star Lustre CANNON FIRE The Bliss Fighting
      171 words
    • 146 10 EDINBURGH. Bcotiand, Sat. (Reuter) Unbeaten British lightweight champion Eddie Buchanan rocked the boxing world yesterday with his announcement that he was quitting the ring In bitter disappointment because he could not get a crack at the world title. Manager Eddie Thomas learned the shock news
      146 words
    • 104 10 ACCRA. Sat. (Reuter) A Ghanaian referee who allowed an equalising goal in a friendly soccer match here last Sunday when the scoring team had 13 players on the field was yesterday suspended for 12 months. The Ghana Amateur Football Association took this action against Anthony Quaye
      104 words
    • 340 10 LONDON, Sat (Reuter) England's cricket selectors, ignoring widespread clamour for an injection of new blood into the Test team, last night named a largely unchanged squad for the Second cricket Test against New Zealand. Apart from shuffling fast bowlers David Brown and John
      340 words
    • 91 10 NEW YORK. Sat. (Reuter) The results of yesterday's major league baseball games: NATIONAL N.Y. Mets 5. Atlanta Braves 4 Chicago Cubs 5. S.D. Padres 2 Houst. Astros 5. Mont. Expos 3 Cincinnati Reds 7. P. Phillies 6 S.F. Giants 5, Pitts. Pirates 1 St.L. Cardinals 7. L
      91 words
    • 115 10 LINCOLN. England, Sat. (Reuter) New Zealand's Second Test hopes received a nasty knock yesterday when Glenn Turner, their batting hero from the First Test, broke a finger in the match against Minor Counties here. Turner is almost certain to miss the Second Test starting next
      115 words
    • 163 10 SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, Sat. (UPI) Cane Graebner of New York avenged his defeat in last year s eastern grass court tennis final to Charlie Pasareil by defeating his Puerto Rican Davis Cup teammate, 11-13. 6-4. 7-5. yesterday in a quarterfinal match at the Orange Lawn Tennis
      163 words
  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 54 10 bnsdecittun Rapidly restores vim vigour vitality every day in every way. BueHecithin with its especially high percentage of lecithin has a quick strengthening ettect on the nervous and muscular system as well as on the organs. Also lowers the cholesterol level of the blood. Distributor: Central Union Co., 100, Robinson
      54 words