Eastern Sun, 22 August 1969

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY •fc Eitd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1099 Friday,. £2 August 1969. •fr MC(P) 0737 Prica IS cnb
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  • 302 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Notional Operations Council said today that there was no indication that Communist China had sent shipments of arms, and no ammunition to terrorists along the Malaysia-Thai border have come in. The council was commenting on a Hong Kong
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  • 85 1 MESSINA. Sicily. Thurs. (Reuter) A 30-year-old French geologist, Rene Neunier, was killed yesterday- by an eruption when he visited the island volcano of Strom boli, north of Sicily. According to friend# who were with him. Neunier timed the intervals between the periodic eruptions of the volcano's three
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  • 71 1 CANBERRA. Thurs. (Reuter) Australia's first "drugsniffing" dog is almost ready to start work with Customs and Excise officers in the search for prohibited drugs The Minister for Customs and Excise, Senator M.F. Scott, said i n th Senate today that several dogs were sent to a trainer
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  • 284 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Tun Abdul Razak today described the Communist threat along the Indonesia-Sarawak border as "very serious and intense." The Director of Operations was speaking to reporters at the end of his first visit to Sarawak since the disturbances. He attributed the increase in the
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  • 124 1 JAKARTA. Thurs. (AFP) Indonesia has refused automatic renewal of the fishery agreement with Japan, which expired on July 27. Antara news agency reported today. The Foreign Ministry declined «to state the new conditions required by Indonesia. But officials said that Japan had failed to fulfil all
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  • 56 1 CAPE TOWN. Thurs. 'ATP) All 29 members of the crew of the Greek freighter Agias Asteriades which was shipwrecked yesterday in the South Atlantic near Dassen Island have been rescued, informed maritime sources said here today. The freighter, which left here yesterdav. afternoon bound for Canada, was
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  • 79 1 GENEVA. Thurs. (Reuter) The Geneva Disarmament Committee today changed its name and kept its dignity. The committee. formerly called the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee (ENDC). has since been enlarged to 26 nations, and will henceforth be known as the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament (CCD). Originally
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  • 369 1 JERUSALEM, Thurs. (Reuter) Israeli Security Forces backed by armoured cart kept a tense vigil over Jerusalem's sacred temple mount area today after firemen put out a three-and-a-half hour blaze that gutted part of the El Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam's holiest shrines. A
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  • 144 1 HOLLYWOOD. Florida. Thurs. (Reuten Police today said a 20-year-old Are guard on the liner Queen Elizabeth started three fires on the vessel so he could claim credit for discovering them Anthony Romeo is being held on US$3,OOO bail after being arrested last night and charged with third
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  • 139 1 GRENOBLE. France. Thurs. (Reuter) The double life of Adolphe Bauer ended in a gunbattle in the streets of this alpine sports centre yesterday, police reported today. By day, 60-year-old Adolphe was official photographer at alpine sportinf events and was named Grenoble's photographer for the
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  • 43 1 TOKYO, Thurs. (Reuter) A weak tremor was felt in a wade area north of Tokvo today but no casualties or damages were immediately reported. The meteorological agency said the quake had it* epicentre deep beneath the Pacific northeast of Tokyo.
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  • 37 1 KCMLA. Sweden, Thurs(Eeuter) A group of car owners here have asked police to arrest a crow which attacks and severely damages chrome plate on vehicles because it is maddened by the reflection of the tan.
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  • 148 1 JAKARTA. Thurs. (AFT) Lieutenant Colonel Shigeyuki Ochiai. Defence Attache of the Japanese Embassy here, today denied reports that four Japanese destroyers which are cruisinr in South-east Asia would hold Joint manoeuvres with navies of this region. The visit, including that to Indonesia, was to strengthen friendly
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  • 384 1 PRAGUE, Thurs. (Reuter) —Thousands of young people started marching slowly through Wenceslas Square today chanting "Long live Dubcek Russians out." The crowds, estimated at between two and five thousand strong, headed towards the statue of King Wenceslas at the top of the board square. They
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  • 75 1 LONDON.. Thurl. (AFPI The 1.300 blast furnacemen who have been on strike at the British Steel Corporation's works in Port Talbot. Wales, for the past 56 days decided to go back to work today. The strike cost an estimated £7 million and forced the laying off of
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  • 80 1 PARIS. Thurs. (ATP)—The U.S today accused North Vietnam of continued neglect of commonly accepted standards" in its treatment of American prisoners of war at today's session of the Vietnam peace talks The United States denied a charge that it was now bringing the Vietnam war "to a
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  • 30 1 HONG KONO. Thurs. (Reuter) Talks on China's economic and military aid to North Vietnam for 1970 have been held in Peking, the North Vietnam News Agency reported today.
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  • 173 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) Defence Secretary Melvin Laird today announced cots of up to US$3,OOO million in 1969-70 military spending, including: a reduction of 100.000 in the armed forces and laying up of over 10(^hips. He told a press conference that the slashes, made partly In
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  • 527 3 SAIGON, Thurs. (UPI and Reuter) Vietcong saboteurs yesterday detonated a 450-500 pound explosive attached to the hull of the Japanese freighter "Hikari," in Nha Be Port nine miles south-east of Baigon. The explosion killed one crewman and ripped open a hole in the vessel's
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  • 231 3 PANMUNJOM, Korean Ar mistice Village Thurs. (Reuter) The United Nations Command today asked North Korea to return three Americans who were aboard a helicopter which was shot down last Sunday after straying across the North Korean border. Major-General Arthur Adams of the U.S. Marine Corps, Senior
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  • 55 3 TAIPEI, Thurs. (Reuter) Taiwan's birth rate has dropped bv 0.68 per cent to 288 per cent in the four years ended 1968. according to the Interior Ministry, the Central News Agency said today. The population growth rate has a'.so dropped 0.5 per cent. The figures last year were 2.88
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  • 664 3 NEW DELHI, Thurs. (Reuter) V.V. Girl, a 75-year-old Independent backed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was elected President of India yesterday after a dramatic re-count of the votes. Girl beat the official Congress Party candidate, Sanjiva Reddv, in the nation's most hard fought Presidential
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  • 103 3 TOKYO. Thurs (Reuter) The Bth International Symposium on Space Technology and Science will be he'd in Tokyo beginning August 25. The Japan Rocket Association said 122 foreign scientists from 19 countries and about 250 Japanese space experts would take part in the six-day meeting. Foreign countries represented at
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  • 48 3 LUXEMBOURG, Thurs. < Reuter) Police said thieves had broken Into the house of Luxembourg Prime Minister Pierre Werner and his wife and stolen about 100.OftO Belgian Francs (£830) worth of jewels. The theft is believed to have taken place last week while th#» Werners were on holiday.
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  • 251 3 LONG BINH, South Vietnam. Thurs. (Reuter) The preliminary hearing into murder charges against eight members of the American Green Beret Special Forces in Vietnam ended to-day and defence counsels said they were confident the charges would be dismissed. The hearing, which opened yesterday, lasted
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 117 3 B X swa X X y£s? Singapore Wonderland Amusement (Pte.) Ltd. proudly announce the Official Opening of their Amusement Park (At end of Old Kallang runway) Datin LEE CHEE SHAN 5 p.m. on Friday 22nd August, 1969. 38 HI ififll II I k I v r I I J J*
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  • 744 4 PRAGUE, Thurs. (Reuter) Two people hove died in demonstrations marking the first anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Interior Ministry announced this morning. clock strike the hour while about 40 army lorries carrying an estimated battalion of men stood nearby. Strong forces
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  • 46 4 ADEN. Thurs. (Reuter) Southern Yemen has joined other Arab countries in condemning Rumania's full diplomatic recognition of Israel. Mr. Abdel Bari Kassem. Minister of Culture and Guidance. said his country regretted Rumania's decision to raise its relations with Israel to embassy level.
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  • 30 4 KHARTOUM. Thurs. (Reuter) Major-General Jaafar Mo hamed El-Nimeiry. chairman of Sudan's Revolutionary Council. said a recent plot aimed at returning former Prime Minister Saadik El Mahdi to power.
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  • 158 4 TEHERAN. Thuri. (Reuter) The Teheran newspaper, Kayhan yesterday published a letter from an American embassy official in Athens asking an ardent Iranian admirer of Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis to forget her and find himself another wo man. The newspaper said that Abraham Simounian, an Arme-nian-Iranian former oil
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  • 111 4 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Gold prices were mdstly unchanged yesterday in routine trading on world markets. In London, gold remained unchanged at US$4l.lO per troy ounce for both the morning and second fixings. In Zurich gold slipped 5 cents to U5541.05 while on the Paris open market
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  • 556 4 'Belfast's PeaceKeeping Deal With London Not A Sellout' BELFAST. Northern Ireland, Thurs. (Reuter) Northern Ireland Premier James Chichester-Clark appears; to have rallied his unionist party backbenchers behind him and convinced them his peace-keeping deal with London was not a sellout. Former Home Affairs Minister William Craig came out of a
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  • 134 4 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter)— Pioneer heart transplant surgeon. Dr. Christian Barnard said last night he hoped to perform two more of the operations within the next few months. Dr. Barnard, who was interviewed by telephone in Capetown for the British television programme "Tomorrow's World," said two
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  • 67 4 TRIPOLI, Libya. Thurs. (Reuter) —United Nations Secretary General U. Thant will begin a two-day visit to Libya on Sept. 5 at the invitation of the government, it was officially announced here. He is due to have talks here with Premier Warns Gaddafi and will be
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  • 45 4 PRAGUE. Thurs 'Reuter)— President Ludvik Svoboda has announced appointment of the Czechoslovak ambassador in Cambodia. Mr. Zdenek Karmelita. as concurrent ambassador to Laos. Dr. Karel Petrzelka. the present ambassador in Vientiane, is being moved to other duties, last night'g announcement said.
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  • 197 4 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Britain s labour relations looked decidely more cheerful last night after three industries had settled their strikes and two more were moving towards settlement. Most Important to the nation's economy is the eightweek long strike of blastfurnacemen which has closed down the
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  • 227 4 CAIRO, Thurs. (Reuter) An Arab girl student told a United Nations Investigating team yesterday Israeli soldiers tortured her on suspicion of collaborating with Palestinian guerillas in occupied West Jordan. Miss Faiha Abdel Hadl. 13. said she was one of many girls and women
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 362 4 —OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM FOR 'SINGAPORE HER PEOPLE' COLOUR PHOTO CONTEST JOINTLY ORGANISED BY EASTERN SUN/BEHN MEYER CO., LTD. IN COMMEMORATION OF SINGAPORE'S NATIONAL DAY 150 th ANNIVERSARY In accordant* with the rules of this Contest, I submit herewith my entry end confirm that it has been printed from i AGFACOLOR
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  • 266 5 WEEKLY pictoriol feature by the Eastern Sun based on the photographs taken by our cameramen at official functions, parties, exhibitions, shopping centres etc. MRS. Marguerite Heppell (left), here in a Thai cottcn shirt shift with full length cuffed sleeves The softly hued floral motifs dominate the
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  • 328 5 LOS ANGELES, Thurs. (UPI) Police, breakinf their silence in the murders of actress Sharon Tate and fonr others, confirmed yesterday that narcotics were found at the Benedict Canyon death site but denied rumours that the victims had been sexually mutilated. A spokesman said that
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  • 140 5 MIAMI. Fla. Thurs. (UPI)— Planes bombed Hurricane Debbie with another dose of chemicals Wednesday, but, the twister kept on lashing open seas 1 000 miles east of Miami with winds up to 125 miles an hour. Navy jets began seeding the hurricane's chimney wall of clouds
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  • 84 5 DARIEN, Connecticut. Thurs. (Reuter) At least three people were killed and 34 Injured when an electric commuter tram collided head on with an empty train here Passengers leaped from shattered windows after the crash on a single track line through a residential are a of this
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  • 83 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (ATP) The moon Is 1312 feet nearer to earth than was shown In earlier calculations, according to Information released here yesterday Texas University's McDonald Observatory reported the new measurement after successfully reflecting a laser beam back from the moon via a reflector placed on
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  • 103 5 WASHINGTON. Thurs (UPI) Secretary of State William Rogers during a news conference flatly denied yesterday that there was any agreement between Thailand and the United States which would involve the United States in another Vietnam-type war in Asia. It was not an Agreement, but a Military Contingency Plan,
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  • 79 5 SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs. fßeuter) Black Panther Party Chairman. Bobby Seale. was arraigned today on charges of taking part in the murder of a former Panther member in New Haven, Conn., last May. Seale, 32. did not enter a formal plea, but denied through his attorney any knowledge of
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  • 83 5 VITORIA, Brazil. Thurs. CReuter) A crack veteran Rio de Janeiro police chief has taken over investigations here into the deaths of 11 persons believed killed by a police-controlled "Death Squad". Meanwhile military police and soldiers prepared to dig up a nearby beach in a search for further victims.
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  • 123 5 SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Thurv (UPI) President Nixon has set aside next Wednesday for a special birthday salute to former President Lyndon B. Johnson with a luncheon at his villa and dedication of the "Lady Bird Johnson grove" in the Bedwood National Forest. The western White House
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  • 224 5 CARMEL, California. Thurs. (UPI) President Park Chung Hee of South Korea arrived yesterday for talks with President Nixon regarding his country's military security in a post-Vietnam Asia. Park, his wife and top aides flew from Seoul in a chartered Pan American jetliner to
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  • 508 5 PASS CHRISTIAN. Miss. Thurs. (TJPI) Hurricane Camille's death toll rose to 240 in the chaotic remains of the Gulf Coast on Wednesday and in Virginia, as dying remnants of the savage storm spawned flash floods that killed nine more. The stench of death and
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 937 6 VV. Giri was elected the President of India. and it came as a resounding victory not for him but for Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who pooh-poohed the mandate of the Indian national Congress, backed her own chosen candidate and installed him on the gadi at Raj Bhavan.
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  • 693 6  -  By ARNOLD DIBBLE MANILA (UPI) broken kernels of rice, a deportation denfond, a shooting in the lobby and a movie-type mauling n a coffee shop has made the friendly American innkeeper's life in the Philippines anything but friendly. The management contract of the Sheraton chain was
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  • 575 6  -  By EDSON, Gemini News Service BLANTYRE, Malawi The waiting lists of Malawians who want work in the mines of South Africa grow longer by the day. Applicants must often wait half a year or more. Every month 1.200 Africans leave Malawi, clad
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  • 18 6 The true way of softening one's troubles is to solace those of others. Francotse de Maintenon
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  • 243 6 WASHINGTON American wood industries have been watching recent Canadian experiments using highfrequency sound waves to locate defects in wood. Flaws such as knots, rot. pitch oi shakes (cracks usually along the grain of the wood), impair the strength of wood end lower its value
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  • 156 6 PERTH. Australia Partial pre-fabrication is cutting construction time in half on buildings planned bv a voung Western Australian architect. He is 28-year-old Graham Harler. one of the pioneers in the use of pre-fabricated building parts in Australia. Mr. Harler has found that pre-fabrication produces higher standard buildings
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  • 780 6  -  By Hari Hartojo TJIANDJUR, Indonesia (UPI) Dadang Djuanda, a 19-year-old Indonesian, may soon have reason to be grateful for his recent decision to get his first revaccination against smallpox since infanthood. But it took some persuasion to make him take the
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  • 672 6  -  By K. K DUGGAL GEMINI NEWS SERIVCE NEW DELHI. Varahagirl Venkata Girl is a rebel by temperament and training. He rebelled against British rule when he was 20. And the same streak came out more than 50 years later when a few weeks ago the
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 182 7 By Our Market Reporter TRADING in the Stock Exchange yesterday steadied on more active speculative support and effected marginal improvements in most share prices. And seemingly stimulating the rally are reports that West Malaysia's favourable trade balance in the first six months of this
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    • 120 7 THE Association of 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 currency): SELLING T.T. or O.D. readyDeutsche Marks $77.6800"; Holland Guilders $85.4300; Swiss Francs $71.7200; Belgian Francs $6.1525; French Francs $55.5800; Danish
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    • 54 7 HONG KONG. Thurs. (UPI) Money Quotations: HKS6 0925 per U.S. dollar HK56.1075 per U.S. dollar TT HK514.46 per pound sterling HK5308.25 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HK5162.3 per 10,000 Japanese yen HKSI2O.O per 100 Philippines pesos buyers HK$l2l.O per 100 Philippines pesos sellers Philippine pesos
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    • 13 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $639.50 per picul. down $0.50.
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    • 125 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Mr. Richard Soo, 34, has been appointed sales supervisor for Rank Xerox, effective from July 1. In this new position, Mr. Soo will be responsible for Rank Xerox's sales for the whole of Malaysia. He joined Rank Xerox in July 1966 as a
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    • 173 7 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) Profit taking yesterday snapped a four-day stock market advance in moderate trading. Declines topped advances by around 150 Issues. But pressure was light as most traders appeared to be consolidating their positions after recent big gains. Shortly before the final
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    • 82 7 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Rubber market closed steady yesterday with spot 28-3/8. 28-3'4. SETTLEMENT HOUSE Sept- 28-3/8, 28-3/4 Oct. 28-1/2, 28-3/4 Nov. 28-5/8, 28-3/4 Oct./ Dec. 28-11/16, 28-3/4 Jan./ March 27-15/16. 28-1/16 April /June 27-9/16 27-3/4 July/Sept. 27-3/16, 27-7/16 Oct./ Dec. 26-7/8, 27-1/8 Jan./ March 26-11/16,
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    • 380 7 A LEADING stock and sharebrokers' firm in Singapore says that Increasing Interest is being shown in rubbers, both local and sterling. The reasons are numerous but the five most important are: 1) A rise in most rubber companies' profitability brought about by an overall
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    • 92 7 LAWRENCE Wong of the Borneo Company (S) Sdn. Bhd. has Just left on an extensive six months training programme with the manufacturers of Johnson Outboard Motors at their factory in Sydney, Australia. This is in line with the Borneo Company's persistent efforts in putting local
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    • Article, Illustration
      72 7 MR. John Ngoei joined Air-India recently as a sales representative. He was formerly attached to Satrya Travel Service, where he was In charre of handlinr tours and reservations. Havinf been in the sales line for a number of years. John Ngoei has decided to settle for sales career in
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    • 351 7 NEW YORK. Thura. Dally service between New York and Tokyo via Fairbanks. will be Inaugurated by Pan American World Airways on Bept 1. The new service will almost be Ave hours faster than Pan Am's existing New YorkTokyo flight via the West
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    • 125 7 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) The market held steady yesterday. The overnight Wall St. gain made for a firmer undertone but in the absence of trading volume equities failed to hold initial scattered gains. Towards the close the FT index was 0.9 up at 377 0. Unilever went
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    • 899 7 "BUSINESS 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 Ben 51.82 (2) $1.83 (2) $lB4 (2); Camel Ply-v-ood $lBB (8) $1.89 (2) SI
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    • 318 7 SEPTEMBER first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 78-5/8 cents per lb. down one cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was easier. Quiet and uncertain conditions ruled throughout the morning after the market opened slightly
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    • 252 7 The following is the berthing list issued by the Port of Singapore Authority for Friday, Aug. 22: DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 1/2 Frieden 3/4 Maron 5 Evergraceful (barge) then Kyomei Maru 13/14 Eumaeus N.W.4 Hu a Li N.W.5 Bidor 23/24 Shlkiharu Maru 33/34 Compass 38'39 Texaco Bahrain 40/41
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    • 642 7 Ul»(UrOU Iter* bfeoaiaw gto Borneo R UITM ax TBA CITO— of INDUSTRIALS 1-ft 1J0 CO. 134 1*3 Bhd. 1.7* 1.74 I 1»n »-88 Camel Plywood \BI 1.A9 1 »n C Suttr 3 46 3-45 Cold Morale 2.1/1 Onalcal Co. 1-00 p'le Carriage 1M 167 OjJ 174
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    • 50 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Rubber futures closed 40 to 55 points higher yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange. There were no sales. (Bid) (Ask) Sept. 31.25 Nov. 30.75 Jan. 30.50 March 30.25 May 29.85 Ju!y 29.75 Sept 2950 Locally, No. 2 RSS was 293/8 cents per pound.
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    • 94 7 TUB Boon pftro at parr Chinese Produce LBe CinuDia it*trr<v ««>- B) u« UMier Coconut Oil (FOB.) Bulk 4*7S tm-onui Oil (FOB.) Prom mm— Si ss Miird Copra Muniok wuit Pepper 30-SO (f O B.} 147-AO MriMk White Pep pet iFO.tki ***** Sarawak #pertaj Black IfPW lF.O-B-1 96% ior»
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    • 64 7 Prim for Aut ASM UNIT TBrSTS zn M*l, larnt road 125 SjNGAPOBf UMT TRC5: !»t Malayan XD T 71 1 35 r» 2nd Mala ran XD 196 3rd Malayan 125 The Com- tnd 1 nj Hi The ftarlne Tnnd l.dft 1.18 ttHltai Com. 8/7 ■u H K TRUST
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  • 545 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: A while back a mother wrote to you about her young daughter who had become involved with a college professor. The girl, age 19, was sent home from school because she became so infatuated with a professor she flunked everything.
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  • 258 9 HOLLYWOOD. ThursThe Bronson Avenue Gate, famous throughout the world as a symbol of Hollywood, will be recreated by Paramount Pictures to serve as the entrance to the Cinerama Dome Theatre in Los Angeles for the West Coast premiere of
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  • 154 9 NEW YORK. Thurs. Two of the screen's most exciting young personalities, Michael Sarrazln and Barbara Hershey. have been signed to star in the David Susskmd production of "The Pursuit of Happiness." to be produced by Susskind and directed by Robert Mulligan for Columbia Pictures In "The
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  • Article, Illustration
    1695 9  -  HAVE TICKET WILL TRAVEL—4 by gloria-mae BOUGHT myself a skipping rope and diet chart to trim down the 'spare tyre' at the waist and an exercise chart to cut down the 'fat' on my cheeks and hips. Remember the "gorgeous" food I had in Hong Kong! So I sat
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 186 10 LOS ANGELES. Thurs. (Reuter) The odds on Australian Lionel Rose retaining his world bantamweight title against hard-punching Mexican Ruben Ollvares have shortened considerably this week as the champion Impressed in his final sparring sessions. The quiet 21-year-old aboriginal champion finished off his training
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    • 329 10 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) New Zealand recovered slowly from the earlv loss of opener Bruce Murray for two on the first dav of the third and final cricket Test against England here at The Oval today. Glenn Turner and Bevan Congdon set about rebuilding
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    • 64 10 LA ROCHELLE. France, Thurs. (AFP.) The British class three yacht Trocar took over from Frenchman Andre Viand's Espirit De Reuil a 5 the handicap winner of the Plymouth to La Rochelle race, after an official correction to the British craft's time. But Mr. Viand Immediately protested at
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    • 519 10 Lewis Scores 100 th VORK, England. Thurs. ■I (Reuter) Australian jockey Ron Hutchinson was suspended for flv e days for interference after a stewards' enquiry into the Great Volitigeur Stakes here yesterday. Hutchinson's mount. Intermezzo, was first across the line but was later disqualified and placed fourth. The
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    • 396 10 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers continued their unbeaten run in the English First Division to join leaders Everton with maximum points from four games. Liverpool were particularly impressive with a 2-0 away win over the Football Association Cup holders Manchester City with both goals
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    • 36 10 TAIPEI. Thurs. (UPI) China defeated Singapore ***** in the men's division and China trounced Vietnam 94-10 in the women's division in the opening night of the 2nd Asian youth basketball invitational tournament last night-
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    • 33 10 GRAAFF REINET. South Africa. Thurs. (UPI) The Australian Wallabies Rugby Union touring team beat North East Cape by 12 points to 11 here yesterday. At half-time the scores were tied six-six.
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    • 81 10 REGINA KRAUSE of Munster (Federal Republic of Germany) was clearly superior to the Russian women in high-diving during a diving competition between Germany and the Soviet Union recently. With 323.75 points she finished ahead of the Olympic silver medallist in Mexico, Natalia Lobanowa (310.95 points). Regina had less luck in
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    • 695 10 NEW YORK. Thurs (UPI) Rico Carty slammed three hits, including his 10th homer of the season, and knocked in two runs yesterday to lead the Atlanta Braves to a 6*2 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Ron Reed scattered nine Cub hits
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    • 115 10 TOKYO, Thurs. (AFP) Japan have dropped 'their plan to send their national "A" team to the 12th Merdeka soccer tournament to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 30 Nov. 9. the Japan Amateur Football Association announced today. The tournament had originally been scheduled for Aug.
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    • 347 10  -  By R. Nathan T OCAL fans can look forward to some excit- ing cricket when Singapore clash against Malaysia in their first three-day 'Test' match at the Padang starting today at 11.00 a.m. This is the first time the teams clash with each other since
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    • 137 10 LONDON. Thurs. AFP) Although rain on the Saturday of the Trent Bridge Test hit the New Zealand touring team's finances heavily, there is certain to be a useful profit from their nine-Test tour of England. India and Pakistan. The total cost of the New Zealand's
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    • 120 10 LONDON. Thurs. fUPI) Money provided by Warwickshire County Cricket Supporters' Association has enabled the MCC to go ahead with their tour of East Africa and the Far East next wiiiter. A statement from Lords said: "There was doubt as to the viability of the tour
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    • 224 10 MILWAUKEE. Wisconsin, Thurs. (AFP» United States will start firm favourites to eain their 20th victory in 22 meetings with Britain in the Walker Cup amateur golf competition which begins here tomorrow. Since the creation of th« event, held every two years, in 1921. Britain
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    • 49 10 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Results of Rugby League matches played last night were: Castleford 11 Leeds 2. Halifax 5 Featherstone Rovers 13, Huddersfield 6 Keighley 11. Rochdale 10 Barrow 4. Warrington 8 Hull 12. Widnes 17 St. Helens 5. Wigan 24 Leigh 8. York 10 Bradford Northern 5.
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    • 271 10 NAPLES. Thurs. (Reuter) A title fight between Italy's world middleweight champion Nino Benvenuti and American Fraser Scott will not be held here because of a disagreement with financial backers, Benvenuti's manager said yesterday. Signor Bruno Amaduzzi said the flght would be beld in Italy on September
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    • 81 10 MANCHESTER. Thurs (AFP) Manchester United, the 1968. European football champions, today paid out £Bo.ooo for Arsenal's Scottish international centra half lan Ure. The transfer, which was negotiated by Sir Matt Busby, is Intended to plug United's leaky defence. Yesterday they lost 3/0 to Everton, despite the
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    • 59 10 MONIKA HAVLICEK, 18, from Kornwesthelm won the high jump with a Flosbury flop and a height of 1.62 metres at the Wurttemberg athletics championships in Metzingen (Federal Republic of Germany) recently. She not only won the title of junior champion but also had a better height than Heidi Hummel, seventh
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    • 433 11 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Rod Laver of Australia and Ann Haydon Jones of England were selected as the top seeds for the U Open Tennis championships on Aug 27 to Sept. 7. the U.B. Lawn Tennis Association announced yesterday. The defending champions Arthur
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    • 277 11 CHESTNUT HILL. Massachusetts. Thurs. (UPI) Unseeded Roy Barth upset second-seeded foreigner BUI Bowrey of Australia yesterday to lead American tennis stars into the quarter-finals of the U.S. national cham- pionships. Bsrth. continued his string of upsets with s hard-fought 6-4. 2-6, 7-5, victory over Bowrey. Australia'*
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    • 118 11 Gordon Morias 21st (7) BOLZANO. Italy, Thurs. (Reuter) —Yugoslav swimmers arrived here yesterday for the European diving championships on Friday. defying an East European boycott on the meeting. The boycott followed a decision by the organisers to cut out flag-flying and anthem-playing to prevent nationalistic feelings and
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    • 303 11 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Glamorgan, hard on the heels of English County cricket championship leaders Gloucestershire, were checked by Middlesex yesterday. Middlesex held third-placed Surrey to a draw Tuesday. and their batsmen were again in form yesterday despite losing two wickets before scoring. Clive Radley hit 101 and
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    • 356 11 Lee Mun Chew, who was once a star member of the Malaysian table-tennis team, is now dominating the table-tennis scene in Sydney. The slightly built Malaysian recently won the New South Wales title for the second successive vear. Lee. 26. from Ipoh. came to
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    • 134 11 Badminton MANILA. Thurs. (Reuter) The entire Japanese team have entered the finals of all fod| events in the 1969 internatioriW students badminton championships being held in Manila. Except in the bovs' singles where the title will be disputed by Shoichi Washio and Bandid Jaiyen, a
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    • 280 11 TENDER P.W.D. SINGAPORE TENDERS are invited from P.W.D. Registered Contractors lor the following Work:Altorations and Additions to BalMtier Hill. Dunearn. Kim Seng. Serangoon Garden, Tanglin and Upper Serangoon Technical Schools at Balestier Road. 5 ma. Dunearn Road. Kim Sear Road. Bnrghley Drive, Commonwealth Avenue and 4i m.s. Upper Seranfoon Road,
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    • 441 11 NOTICES NOTIFICATION Withdrawal of notice under Section 19 (2) L.G1.0. In respect of the maJdn* up of Reserve Road (2) off Teo Kim En* Road It Is hereby notified for general information that the making up of Reserve Road (2) from Teo Kim Eng Road to Lot 129/88 which appeared
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    • 60 11 TENDER P.W.O. SINGAPORE TENDERS are invited from P.W.D. Registered Contractors for the undermentioned work:1. Construction of Orange Grove Road (Part I) from Fern hill Road to Anderson Road. "Civil Engineering" or "Roada" Contractors Closing Date:. 5.9.60 at 10.00 a.m. Full particulars may be seen and obtained at the office of
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1089 11 (CHANNEL 5) P.M 300 Opening Announcements in all Languages and Morning Star: 3 20 Health in the Home (Malay. 3 40 It's Happening in Singapore 'Chinese version* <Reo*at>. 3.55 Be Our Guest (Tamil Version); 405 Scarlett Hill; 500 Close: 600 Trog Summary in all Language.-; 6 05 Luckv Dip: 6
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  • 306 12 MALAYSIA-Singapore Airlines new Boeing 737 took off for Bangkok yesterday on its inaugural flight with a full load of 85 passengers. This is the first 737 aircraft to replace the Comet on the Singapore- Bangkok route. On Sunday, Aug. 24, the second Boeing
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  • 114 12 SINGAPORE'S National Productivity Centre is planning a three-week course for managements of enterprises in the Republic to assist them in attaining maximum results over minimum time from their limited resources. The course, designed for management personnel involved in large scale and intricate decision-making and planning, is named PERT
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  • 142 12 A prominent stock-broker, Mr Don Sinclair, yesterday dispelled popular illusions that a small amount of capital will eventually bring them a great fortune through investments in stocks and shares. Speaking at the weekly luncheon meeting of Rotary Club West. Mr. Sinclair, said no fortune can be
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  • 68 12 AN unemployed man from Kluang. Johore, Michael Kwan Lim Kwong. who had been placed under detention and later permanently prohibited from entry into Singapore in 1968. re-entered the Republic illegally and committed theft and armed robberies. Yesterday Kwan was given a total of 26 months'
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  • 254 12 About 125 released National Servicemen who have completed two years of full-time service have found career opportunities in the shipbuilding industry in the Republic. Of this number, 45 who have been taken in by Jurong Ship, builders (S) Pte. Ltd.. will be sent to Japan
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  • 88 12 The Singapore National Orchestra of the National Theatre Company will present a "Orchestral Concert" at the Singapore Conference Hall on Aug. 30. The programme for the evening will include: Four Sinkiang Folk Songs; Butterfly Lovers (violin concerto) by Chen Kang and Ho Chan Hau; Unfinished Symphony
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  • 605 12 SINGAPORE'S national shipping line, Neptune Orient Lines Limited, will go public as soon as the profitability of the Company has been established. The shipping line, now wholly owned by the Government, will also venture into the burgeoning tanker trade in the near
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  • 338 12 The Republic's own shipping lines, Neptune Orient Lines Limited, will need some sophisticated fast cargo vessels not only to meet the advent of contalnerlsatlon but also greater trade with America. Europe and Far East. This was stated yesterday by the Company's Chairman, Mr. Hon Sui Sen.
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  • 76 12 A tripped-off burglar alarm foiled a robbery at the offices of the Keppel Bu» Company at Tanjong Pagar Road, yesterday. The robbers, who had earlier tied and gagged the watchman of the office building, took to their heels and drove off in a car when an
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  • 54 12 A ROBBER was yesterday jailed for three years' and given four strokes of the rotan for committing armed robberies. extortion and failing to register for a new identity card. Pek Geok San. 29, had earlier pleaded guilty to six charges of robbery and extortion involving $209
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  • 117 12 The Government yesterday reminded every holder of the new laminated identity card that the law required any change of residence to be reported within 14 days. A statement issued bv the Ministry of Labou r said that hitherto the National Registration Office. Police Stations and Post
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  • 73 12 THE 12th Singapore Company of the Boys' Brigade will hold a "Trooping the Colour" ceremony at the Police Academy. Thomson Road, on Sunday. Aug. 24, to mark Singapore's 150 th anniversary and its own 15th anniversary. The Minister for Social Affairs. Enche Othman Wok w:ll review
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  • 70 12 The Police yesterday made a further appeal to the public to dial 999 if they see anyone tampering with any coin box of public telephones. At the news conference, a police spokesman said everything had been done to stamp out this crime. It was reported that two
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  • 172 12 SEVEN newly arrived additions to the group ol United Kingdom's Voluntary Service Overseas per* sonnel serving here will be given a two-dav fcriefinf today before they commence their assigned tasks in the Republic. The briefing course hai been arranged jointly by the British Council the
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    • 35 12 TOTO DRAWS The following numbers were drawn in last night's "midweek Toto Pools" 12 41 15 29 34. The additional number drawn was 8. Ln the "three-efrcle draw." the numbers drawn were:— 7 45 8.
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