Eastern Sun, 30 August 1969

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY. Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1103 Saturday, 30 August 1969. it MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 512 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. More than 3,500 students of the University of Malaya who boycotted lectures this morning staged another demonstration in the campus in protest against yesterday's police action. The students who gathered at the "Speakers Corner" of the university shortly after S a.m. took the
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  • 172 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.—An extra-ordinary general meeting of the University of Malaya Students' Union was called off this afternoon when some students tried to introduce a motion calling on Tunku Abdul Rahman to step down as Prime Minister. The UMSU meeting, attended by more than 1.000
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  • 289 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Professor Ungku Abdul Aziz today assured his students and staff that the University of Malaya despite yesterday's intervention during a student demonstration was "as autonomous free and independent" as it had always been. In a signed message he said he was satisfied
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  • 127 1 TEL AVIV. Fn. (UPI) Israeli ground and air forces lashed Out at Egypt and Jordan Thursday, blasting an Egyptian Army Headquarters on the Nile with powerful mortars and striking with jet fighters at Jordanian positions near the Damya bridge. Israe'.i military spokesmen said the commando forces
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  • 432 1 The future enlargement and improvement of Singapore's laudable achievements were dependent on one primary precondition the security of the Republic's political independence. This was emphasised by the State's Minister for Science and Technology. Dr. Toh Chin Chye. at a dinner and ball of the
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  • 54 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A seven-hour curfew was imposed today in certain districts of Alor Star in the State of Kedah. The curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. will be imposed until further notice, the Malaysian Police Control Centre said. However, the curfew hours in the
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  • 264 1 The floating nightclub and restaurant, the 30-ton "Sea Dragon (seen above) suddenly took in water early yesterday morning and began sinkint Just alongside the waterfront sea wall at Clifford Pier. There was panic among the few caretakers of the vessel who just could not decide which
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  • 116 1 MANILA. Fn. (AFP) Police fired into th« air as a mob of Filipino Muslim students attacked the Israeli Embassy building today, smashing glass walls and burning down the Israeli Ambassador's car. The young demonstrators, numbering about 300, were protesting the burning of the A 1
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  • 215 1 CANBERRA, Fri. (UPI) Australia's reply to Soviet overtures would have considerable influence on the reactions of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia to Russian requests for bases, the parliamentary leader of the minority Democratic Labour Party, Senator Vincent C. Gair, said Friday night. In a speech
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  • 46 1 BEIRUT. Fri. (Renter) A TWA airliner hijacked while flying from Rome t% Athena has landed in Damascus, Beirut airport sources announced here. Meanwhile, sources close to the popular front for the Liberation of Palestine said Front Commandos were responsible for the hijacking.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 427 2 For those who have seen French ballerina Llane Dayde dance at the Victoria Theatre some five years back, the memory of this petite, agile *nd brilliant dancer should be all too clear. Today, a return performance by Liane Dayde partnered by the lamed
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  • 134 2 THE "jackpot prize" for this Sunday'# Toto Draw has snowballed to a new high of $lOO,OOO for winnerg who will strike all the five numbers correct. The announcement was made by the Singapore Pools (Pte) Ltd. yesterday. The Industrial Manager oi Prison Industries. Prisons Department, Ministry
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  • 239 2 THE First Lady, Puan Noor Aishah. will launch a $150,000 Donation Draw in aid o«* Children's Charities on Monday at the Istana at 5 p.m. The draw for the winning numbers will take place on Dec. 6 at the Automobile Association House. River Valley Road.
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  • 103 2 The Central Provident Fund Board yesterday warned all employers in the Republic that contributions must be made to the Fund for all domestic servants irrespective of age or citizenship An employer who fails to pay contributions when they are due is liable to be prosecuted and. if convicted,
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  • 78 2 THE Sree Narayana Mission will hold two day s of celebrations to mark the 115 th birthday anniversary of Sree Narayana Guru at its Mission Hall at 48 Soon Kiat Road, tonight and tomorrow. Each night there will be speeches from guest speakers followed by
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  • 1464 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. T. Mahesan today told the High Court that the sums of $82,000 and $40,000 ha was alleaed to have corruptly accepted from S.M. Manickam were paid into an account standing in his noma without his knowledge. Mahesan, 51, who
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  • 357 2 A delegation of Singapore journalists who toured Indonesia for a fortnight have returned here with a "better and deeper understanding of the problems and aspirations of our close neighbour.** Summing up the delegation's Impressions on its tour, the leader of the group said, "There
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  • 96 2 MR CHOY HON TIM and Mr. Wee Berg Sing, two ergineers of the Public Utilities Board, have been s®*".T TO Vienna. Austria, to atten-i the International Survey Course on Economic and Techm r al Aspect? of Nuclear Power to be held Sept. 1 to 12. The course
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  • 362 2 The success of the Singapore Government's plans at developing education in the Island-state was clearly evidenced In the fact that a quarter of the Republic's population was at present attending school. So said a Member of Parliament, Mr. N. Govindasamy. at a ceremony
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  • 150 2 Police have found the getaway car used by the three robbers which held up a lorry driver and his assis'ant along Pasir Panjang Road, on Wednesday afternoon. The car wa# found abandoned at Jalan Kachau. some 600 yards from the scene of the robbery. The lorry
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  • 222 2 Three persons were charged In the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday for posing as officials of the Ministry of Culture, inducing and cheating local commercial houses to subscribe to advertisements in a souvenir magazine, and collecting money for these adver- tisements. The accused are: Mohd Ali
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 96 2 Time tfc Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 0.08 a.m. (10.1 ft.), 12.50 p.m. (8.8 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 0.27 a.m. (11 6 ft 1.02 p.m. (10.6 ft.) Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 643 a.m. (0.7 ft 6.39 p.m. (1.6 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 6.16 a.m. (0.7 ft.), 6.27 pjn. (2.0 ft.)
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  • 440 3 EDGARTOWX. Mass. Fri. (TJPI) A District Court Judge Thursday denied the pleas of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's lawyer to examine and cross examine witnesses at the inquest Into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne on grounds the proceedings were not of a criminal nature.
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  • 117 3 WASHINGTON, Fri. (Reuter) A social scientist told a meeting today that the youth who are now protesting against society mav, when they grow old. continue their protests in a fight for "age rights." Miss B.L. Neugarten, of the University of Chicago, said the western world, having
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  • 65 3 ASHINGTON. Fri. (Reuter) Tricia Nixon. 23-vear-old daughter of President and Mrs. Nixon, was discharged from Walter Reed Hospital and returned to the white House to rest She had been admitted to the hospital on Tuesday after complaining of abdominal pains. Her condition is Improved and she
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  • 104 3 SAN CLEMENTE, California. Fri. (Reuter) President Nixon today named former F. 8.1, agent Joseph S. Farland of Washington. D.C.. a 55-year-old company lawyer, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan. Farland was a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1942 to 1944 and after World
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  • 62 3 BERMUDA, Fri. (Reuter) The American Air Base here has asked the U.S military to send out four million gallons of fresh water to this holiday island stricken by drought for aoout six weeks. One million gallons will be taken by the Bermuda government and the rest by Kindley
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  • 69 3 HYANNIS. Mass.. (UPI) Mrs. Joan Kennedy, wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, suffered a miscarriage Thursday night at Cape Cod Hospital. She had entered the hospital shortly before 8 p m., and Dr. Leonard Smith performed the operation about an hour later, according to hospital officials. Smith
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  • 130 3 FORREST CITY. Ark.. Fri. (Reuter) A curfew was clamped on this town tonight for the third night in a row as national guardsman and state troopers patrolled the street to prevent racial violence. Police Chief Marvin Gunn ordered the curfew starting at 7 p.m. As he did so,
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  • 69 3 CAPE KENNEDY. Florida. Fri. (Reuter) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced today that Edward H. Mathews is to replace Rear Admiral Roderick O. Middleton as ADOIIO Programme Manager for the Kennedy Space Centre. Admiral Middleton is returning to active duty with the United States Navy after joining
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  • 258 3 SAN PEDRO. California. Fri. (UPI) A South Korean sailor, who has been suspected of telling one of the biggest fish stories of all time, insisted Thursday he survived more than 15 hours on the high seas by swimming and clinging to the back of a
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  • 261 3 CHICAGO, FrL (Reuter) Mrs. Rosemary Bauer Bull, brewing tea on the top floor of her mansion, decided to take the lilt down to the ground floor to get a lemon. It took her Ave days. Yesterday she sued the Otis Elevator Company for $lOO,OOO for
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  • 59 3 UNITED NATIONS. Fri. (Reuter) Cuba today protested to Secretary General U Thant against the explusion from the United States of two members of its U.N. mission. The two diplomats. Senor Lazaro Eddy Espinosa Bonet and Senor Alberto Boza Hidalgo-Gato were expelled on Aug. 21 for alleged activities
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  • 324 3 SAN DIEGO, Calif. Fri. (UFl)—Giant meteorites striking the moon at terrific speeds created "Instant mountains" daring the formative period of the Lunar body, a University of California scientist said Thursday. W. C. Van Dorn. whose specialty i s oceanography and tidal waves or Tsunamis
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  • 74 3 OAKLAND, California. Fri. (Reuter) Charles Bursey, 23-year-old national secretary of "the Black Panther Party, was sentenced to from one to 15 years in prison today for his part in a Panther shootout with police here in April of last year. Bursey had been convicted of attempted murder in the
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  • 311 4 FRANKFURT. W. Germany, Fri. (Renter) Former S.S. Colonel Hermann Kramer, on trial for the wartime murder of at least 300,000 Hungarian Jews, faced judgment by a Frankfurt court today. Alongside Krumey. righthand of Adolf Elchmann, former SS. Captain Otto Hunsche is charged with complicity in
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  • 116 4 BUENOS AIRES. Fri. (Reuter) Buenos Aires lawyers yesterday declared a strike for today in protest at the government's current nationwide state of siege and the arrest of some barristers who have defended opponents of the military government. rhe City Bar Association Issued a communique stating that
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  • 40 4 LA BUISSIERE. France. Fri. fUPT) —lt really is a small world for Remy Bellot, who celebrated his 102 nd birthday osn Wednesday. He has never set foot outside this tiny French Alp village, where he wa« born.
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  • 415 4 PARIS, (Reuter) The French government has made a firm start in its battle to make devaluation work, but many major moves still lie ahead before President Georges Pompidou can claim economic victory Btern measures to reduce buying on credit announced yesterday are
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  • 412 4 CAIRO, Fri. (Heater) Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq are to hold a summit meeting in Cairo shortly to discuss key military matters, Cairo's authoritative A 1 Ahram newspaper said today. The newspaper wUd the meeting between the Heads of States of the four states
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  • 68 4 \¥ISS Malaysia PauiTl line Chai (left), Miss Singapore Jenny Wong (right) and Miss Ceylon Shirlene Berera (centre) wave their hands upon their arrival at the Tokyo International Airport late Aug. 27. The beauties, among the delegates from 50 countries throughout the world, will compete In the
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  • 88 4 WASHINGTON, Frl. (Reuter) The American hot dog a traditional must at every picnic and baseball game had Its ingredients officially changed today, but but not its name. The Agriculture Department ruled that the Frankfurter sausage, which has captured millions of devotees among the traditionally beef-eating
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  • 82 4 BELGRADE. Fri. (UPI); Indian Foreign Minister Dinesh Singh will pay an official visit to Yugoslavia in early September at the invitation of Foreign Minister Mirko Tepavac. it was officially announced yesterday. No exact date was giver.. But unofficial sources said the visit would be Sept.
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  • 78 4 NEW IBERIA. Louisiana. Fri. (UPI) More than half of the white students st New Iberia High School boycotted classes yesterday, while speakers at an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) youth rally asked balky young blacks to return to school to proceed with their education.
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  • 211 4 PAULS. Fri. Reuter)—'Two English-speaking men and a pretty blond* in mink coat dole a diamond necklace worth two million francs (£150.000) from one of Pari*' top jeweller» in broad daylight police said yesterday. While two of the thieve* attracted the attention of a salesman. th«
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  • 80 4 ACCRA. Fn. (Reuter) More than two million Ghanaian# go to the polls tonay to elect 140 national assembly members, in the first national elections since the coup which toppled Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's regime three and a half years ago In i radio and television broadcast
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  • 89 4 LONDON. Fri. (UPI) Pub owner Richard Bird shrugged and went along with it when his wife left him because of h: 8 dog. The dog, a hu*e Alsatian named Sheila, was Bird's hired watchdog at the nub. Trouble was, it bit guests and Mrs. Bird, who went to
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  • 176 4 UNITED NATIONS. Fri. (UPI) —Israel, fearing retributions against the remaining Jewish communities in the Arab world, yesterdav asked Secretary General Thant to u«e the influence of his offices in saving them. Israeli Ambassador Joseph Tekoah told newsmen after a meeting with Thant that he asked the
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  • 59 4 ATLANTA. Georgia. Fri. (Reuter) About 50 Negro students and their parents occupied an all-black school today to protest against its closure, ordered to meet federal desegregation regulations. Under th® order, Negro students would be transferred from Eva Thomas Hi*h School to an all-white school to comply with desegregation
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  • 517 4  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: lam 18 and pregnant, lordy and I talked about getting married when we were going together, but when told him I was in a fix he said he wasn't going to let a dumbbell like me ruin his
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  • 247 4 VIENNA. Fri. (UPI) Czechoslovak President Ludvlk Svoboda hu personally blocked attempts to arrest and try his colleagues of the pre-invasion reform period, reports reaching here from Prague said yesterday. "As lonsr as I am President, there will be no political
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  • 324 4 BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Frl. (L'PI) British Home Secretary James Callaghan yesterday told Protestant leader Rev. Lan Paisley to stop enflaming religious tensions in Northern Ireland. In a half-hour meeting, the British Minister told Paisley that as the leader of a political. as
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 217 4 TODAY and YOU... Saturday, August 30* 1969. m 1 V > rftfc m m it Your Doify Activity Guido >< According #e tho Star*. To develop message for Saturday, nod word i correspond ing to numbera of your Zodiac birth siga 1 Prefect 31 Seen c <1 Piriu'l'' 2 Build
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  • 689 6 mHERE are a few points which emerge with J- unwelcome clarity from the staging of demonstrations in the University of Malaya campus. Thursday's demonstration was not an isolated incident but the repetition of a previous one with forebodings of others. Second, it was distinctly anti-Tunku Abdul Rahman. Third,
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  • 206 6 IF politics is a game of blowing hot and cold, then the adepts should be around Moscow. Discussions on ideological differences confined to elites, then the war of words for mass consumption and the border clashes are the graduated series on Moscow's 'hot' line. Almost in the
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  • 1941 6 Anatoie Shub. Moscow correspondent of the Washington Past until his recent expulsion fo» alleged anti-Soviet writings, has summed up two years personal observations in the USSR in a series of ten widely discussed articles published by his newspaper recently WASH I N G TON; "For rwo years,"
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  • 22 6 A man cut retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. Bernard Baruch.
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  • 886 6  -  By JOSEPH ALSOP EL KANTARA, Sinai Hereabouts, the Suez Canal unexcitingly resembles an outsize irrigation ditch. Bichlel, the captain commanding the little Israeli stronghold, will not at first display the water that he watches over because the afternoon light favours the Egyptian snipers and 'They're about
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  • 352 6  -  By YUKO NARAMIKADO TOKYO. (Reuter) Recent invitations from the Kremlin or leading Japanese Cabinet Ministers to visit Moscow have resulted in speculation here over Russia's intentions. Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi will visit Moscow early next month. Mr. Aichi's visit had been in the wind for some time
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  • 401 6  -  Kellers... MOHD. YUNI BIN AWI Singapore I HAD the pleasure of watching recentlv the play "Ribut** (Thunderstorm) successfully staged by the Perkumpulan Seni under the auspices of the Central Council of Malav Cultural Organisations at the Vic- toria Memorial Hall for I two successive nights (23rd
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 492 7  -  "By OUR MARKET REPORTER STEADY conditions prevailed in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday after a quiet and slightly easier opening. The better sentiment was helped bv some speculative buying and week-end covering demand which erased the initial deficit and pushed sha»-e prices
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    • 897 7 TJUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS Acma 51.85 (1); Ber. $1.82 '(1); Borneo 51.75 (1): Boustead SI.BB (1) $1.87 (1);
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    • 120 7 NEW YORK. Frl. (UPD Gold prices were unchanged to slightly higher in routine trading yesterday on world markets. In London, gold remained unchanged at $40.95 per troy ounce for both the morning and second fixings Gold In Zurich remained unchanged at $40.90 per ounce, while In Paris
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    • 64 7 HONG KONG. Fri (UPI)— Monev quotation Friday: HK $6.0875 pe r U.S dollar HK $6 105 per US. dollar TT HK $14.47 per pound sterling HK $307,875 per taei of gold 94 5 ner cent fineness HK $162.2 per 10.000 Japanese yen. HK $125.5 per 100 Philippine pesos
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    • 223 7 The following is a berthing list released bv the Port of Singapore Authority for Aug 30: DEPARTURE Godowns Vessels Pando Cove 8/9 Star Bete'.geuse 13' 16 Bayernstein N.W. 4 Riau I N.W. 5 Petaling 23/24 Gunung Tambora 25 Kimanis 29 Yosei Maru 29/30 Dongbang 40'41 Rio Grande
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    • 222 7 ABOUT $1,000,000 worth of machinery has arrived f Or installation at the welding electrode plant of Oregon Industries Far East Ltd. at Bukit Timah. Planning of the plant layout is now being undertaken by Mr. G. E Saur, engineering
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    • 119 7 NEW YORK, Fri. (UPI) 1 Stocks closed slightly higher yesterday in light turnover. Shortly before the close, the UPI market-wide indicator showed a gain of 0.21 per cent on 1,508 issues crossing the tape. Of these, 669 advanced and 551 declined. Turnover of about 7.5 million
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    • 82 7 LONDON. Frl. (UP I) Rubber market closed quiet yesterday with spot 27|, 28$. Settlement House Oct. 27-15/16. 28-3/16 Nov. k Oct./ Dec. 28. 28-3/16 Jan /Mar. 27-5/16. 27-1/2 April/June 28-1/8, 27-1/4 July/Sept. 26-7/8. 27-1/16 Oct./ Dec. 26-9/16. 26-3/4 Jan./ March 26-7/8. 26-s'B April' June 26-5 'l6.
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    • 276 7 THE past week has seen even quieter conditions as the tempo of trading has died down. The market drifted downwards and the price range has been considerably narrower, from 78i to 77i cents, signifying the calmer mood state Holiday. Cutler. Bath Co., in its rubber market
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    • 144 7 SANDAKAN. Frl. In keeping with Far East Motors' expansion programme, following the recent establishment of its new Penang branch, the company has now expanded its operations to East MalaysiaFar East Motors' new branch, the first in the region will commence operations in Sandakan
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    • 139 7 TOKYO. Fri. (UPI) Japan had a total supply of 63.924 bale? of raw silk in July, the Ministry of Agricutural and Forestry announced yesterday. This total was made up 26.649 bales of carry-overs. 33.669 bales produced and 3.607 bales imported. The July output
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    • 268 7 SEPTEMBER first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 pm.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur Yesterday at 7" cents per lb, down five eighths of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was easier. Quiet conditions ruled throughout the morning with level* slightlv steadier
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    • 105 7 MR MAX BISSEY has been appointed regional manager. Cosdel Singapore (Sundry Division). Mr. Blssey was formerly In charge of Cosdel operation* In the Republic of Korea. In Singapore. Mr. Bissey's appointment will cover Cosdel's Hallmark and Cosmetic departments. The new regional manager has a host of educational
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    • 51 7 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged to 10 points lower on the New York Commodity Exchange yesterday* There were no sales. (BID) (ASK) Sept 30.75 Nov. 30.50 Jan 30.25 Mar. 30.00 May 29.50 July 29.50 Sept. 29 35 Locally No. 2 RSS was 297/8 cents per
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    • 12 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $643.00 per plcul, unchanged.
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    • 125 7 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) The market yesterday closed around overnight levels. Equities opened higher, mainly reflecting the latest developments in the Pergamon/ Leasco affair, regarded by most circles as bullish. Dealers however, were unwilling to follow through on initial firmness ahead of the long weekend and most
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    • 312 7 W.M. (M'ala) t» 7 mm U Jacka 1.92 193 Yeo Hiap 8en< HOTELS 167 1 68 Ajmbasaador Hotel 73 74 Hotel Malayala 161 1 62 Hotel Negar* 98 Hotel S'para Imperial Hotel King's Hotel :!1 .70 mm Merlin Hotel .89* 90 Ming Court Hotel Ro>al 1*7
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    • 58 7 The Association of Banks tn 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 TT. or O.D ready Deutsche Marks $77.8375; Holland Guilders $85.5700; Swiss Francs $71.8075; Belgian Francs $8.1375; French Francs
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    • 37 7 NEW YORK. Frl. (UPT) Dow Jones closing averages on the New Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 828.41 20 rails 199 65 15 utilities 115.57 65 stocks 280.44 40 bonds 7180 Commodity future index 139.70
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    • 85 7 THB noon price# at por« Chine** Prodw yeeterday wera>— at itva* Kxebanso Coeonot Oil (FOB.) Bulk Coconut Oil (FOB.) Dram Mixed Copra Mantok Whit* Pepper (FOB.) Sarawak ffhlt* Peppct (FOB.) Sarawak Special Blaca f'rpper (FO B.) »6% Lam pon* bpedal Blaei Pepper (FOE) Lam pong Black Pepper ABTA (FOA)
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    • 56 7 OUBacetv' meet lor lag. W) ASIA WIT TSCITS Mai iDwit. road 115 1-SS SINGAPORE UNIT TBOm l>t Milinn 17* !Bd MlU.TlO 1<M >nl Mtlajin l.!i Tbc Com Ind. M 141 Tb* Marine Fund 1-08 8t«Uai Com 5/5 til MS TBC ST rCNDS lit Root Koac 1-S1 Sod H«ng
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    • 386 7 ARRIVALS 500 a m. MSA 029 K. Lumpur 9-00 a.m. MSA 119 K. Lumpur 9-35 a.m. MSA 529 Phnoni-Penh 10.15 am. Ms»A 121 K. Lumpur 10 25 a m MSA 005 Penans, Ipoh, K. Lumpur. Malacca 10.50 a.m. THAI 1U428 Bangkok 12.30 pm. UAKLDA GASO6 Medan 1.10 pm.
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  • 598 8  -  By Lemmy Pinna KARACHI, (UPI) The Farakka Barrage will enable India to control the flow of the world's 10th largest river into the East Pakistan. India claims the barrage. constructed a few miles upstream from the border of East Pakistan, is needed to divert waters
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  • 356 8  -  By JOHN WASILIEV SYDNEY, (Reuter) Australia, the world's smallest continent and the least populated, wants to boost immigration to reach a "reasonable" population of 20 millions by the year 2,000. Much of Australia's three million square miles (7.770.000 square kilometres) is unsuitable fox
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  • 103 8 one of the world's great rivers, waters portions of eastern India and East Pakistan along its route of 1.560 miles. The Indians are constructing on the river an irrigation dam named the Farakka Barrage. India says the barrage is required to flush silt out of Calcutta port through
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  • 490 8  -  By PETAR HADJI-RISTIC HONG KONG (Reuter) It may be the traditional call of the East, or a fascination with what is happening in the Orient, that explains why so many young people want to learn something about China and the Chinese Language. Almost incongruously,
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  • 748 8  -  By ROBERT CRABBE TOKYO, (UPI) Japan has become the second most powerful economy in the non-Communist world, and she is paying one of the prices of success. The United States, long impatient with trade restrictions that kept many U.S. goods out of Japan, Is demanding that
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  • 563 8 NEW DELHI, (UPI) The green woters of the sacred River Ganges on the border between India and East Pakistan are being pushed back by the world's longest barrage. The 7,365 foot long Farakka Barrage is designed to divert the Ganges waters to flush the
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  • 608 8  -  By JOHN ORGAN MADRID, (Reuter) A big financial scandal, Involving alleged misuse of government export credits by a leading textile machinery firm, has rocked Spain this month. Spanish newspapers have branded it as the biggest economic scandal under General Franco's 30-year-old regime, and have demanded
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 110 8 'Sorry, we're all soldout.. lu DATELINE: DANGER! P® i,HAL/\ JUIET MORNING, HAL HAVE A QUIET NIGHT W ni 2* mgr. LIKE A GRAVEYARD, MR. NAPOLI NUTHIN' BUT A KID LOOKIN' PER OLEGS RAVEN/ THZ WIZARD OF TV CPE's \MX ftCFAH IT4LI4M mUTEK WHO IS ICCIA\MBP "THE OVSfZ HE WAS A
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  • Article, Illustration
    1251 9 HAVE TICKET WILE THAVEL 1 M (This is the concluding article In Glorie-mee's travel series) LUV hire, luv there, luv almost everywhere That's how friendly the Perthians are. In fact, people are more at ease with one another than In the big cities on the "other side" of Australia.
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  • 125 9 NEW YORK. Fri. "Oliver!" and "Run Wild. Run Free" tw<> mueh honoured films Iron Columbia Pictures, collected a slew oi new swards at the just concluded International Film Festival in Moscow. "Oliver!", the worldwide multiple prize-winner. was the recipient of honours awarded by the
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    • 1087 10  -  GOING: Soft To Heavy By Big Ben GIFT showed a return to form when second to Four Withes over 9f ot Ipoh lost month. With John Sellers in the saddle ond with o track to his likina the Court Feathers gelding should
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    • 82 10 TAIPEI. Fri. (Reuter) South Korea's mens team yesterday beat Singapore 108-57 to win their fourth straight victory in the second Asian Youth Invitational Basketball tournament here. According to the Nationalist Chinese Central News Agency, the Koreans, superior in speed and skill, completely overpowered Singapore. South Korea
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    • 139 10 KUALA LUMPUR, M. Love and Joy with apprentice Rao up did a smart 3f workout in 39 3 5 here this morning. The going was soft Kingford (John Sellers) sprinted up the straight in fine style. Gilang Gumilang (Lyle Harbridge) went out
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    • 54 10 SAO PAULO. Fri. (Reuter) Former world bantamweight champion Erier Jofre of Brazil made a victorious return to the ring after three years' absence here last night. Jofre. 33. knocked out Mexican featherweight Rudy Corona in the sixth round and said afterwards he was confident he could capture
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    • 573 10 FOREST HILLS. New York, Fri. (Renter) Australians Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall and Roy Emerson rave textbook demonstrations of power tennis vesterdav to reach the third round of the US$ll7,OOO U.S. Open championship. Joining the Australians in the last 32 with victories on the
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    • 177 10 FOREST HILLS. New York, Frl. (Reuter) Negro tennis star Arthur Ashe said yesterday he had talked antiapartheid groups out of picketing the opening of the VS. Open championships, whose director is South African Owen Williams. Talking to reporters after a second round victory over Dick
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    • 166 10 LONDON. Frl. (Jleuter) A call for a new method to decide tournament soccer matches which are still draw n after extra time is made in the latest news bulletin of the International Football Federation (FIFA). In an article in the bulletin. Mr. Michael Almog.
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  • 199 11 SINGAPORE have named the Thomas Cup team for their encounter with New Zealand in the Australasia Zone final at Christchurch, New Zealand,on Sept. 12 and 13. They are Chan Kheng Guan, Gan Kok Peng, Lim Cheng Yew, Wee Choon Seng, Wee Kin better known
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  • 193 11 US Baseball Results Standings NEW YORK. Frt. (Renter) 7 iewrtta of yesterday's major league biaeball games: AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston R3. 9, K.CT Royals D Tigers 5. Oakland Ath 3 Balti. Orioles 4. Seattle Pilots 3 (11 innings) (Only games scheduled) NATIONAL LEAGUE C. Cubs 3. Cincinnati Reds 1 ST. Giants
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  • 149 11 FOUR athletes who have qualified to represent Singapore at the forthcoming SEAP Games will be seen in action at the Singapore Achilles Club two-dav annual athletic meet at Farrer Park Athletic Centre, today a n< tomorrow commencing at 2.00 p.m. The athlete» a
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  • 226 11 Police trounced Special Con. stabulary 10-nil w <> tries and two goals) in the final of the Police Military knockout rugger competition at the Padang yesterday. The Police outplayed the SCs in all department!, taking the lead in the fifth minute of the first half
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  • 23 11 All Blacks of Singapore will meet Singapore Recreation Club in a friendly rugger match at the Padang «t 3 p.m. today.
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  • 28 11 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Featherstone Rovers beat Hull Kingston Rovers by ten points to nine points in an Rugby League Yorkshire CUD semifinal match played last night.
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  • 590 11 ASHA Man*, daughter of Singapore* throwing the hammer champion, Eknath Mane, took top honours at the Mount Vernon Secondary School second annual athletic meet at their school ground, yesterday. She won the Best Performance Trophy in the girls' section for her record-break-ing performance in the
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  • 81 11 Five hundred cyclists from 77 team* will compete in the eighth annual students' Safe Cycling Rally a t the Victoria School ground, today at 1.30 p.m The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Aflairs. Mr. Chan Chee Seng, who is the guest-of-honour. will give away
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  • 59 11 CHESTERFIELD. England. Fri. (Reuter) Derec Morgan. the Derbyshire County cricket captain. Is to retire at the end of the season the club announced yesterday. Morgan, who Is 40, made his County debut In 1950 mnd has since scored almost 18.000 runs and taken over 1.200 wickets His
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  • 71 11 LONDON. Frl. (Renter) Basil D'Olivelrm, the South African-born English Test cricketer, has been advised to take a complete break from cricket Worcestershire, D'Oliveira's club, announced yesterday that D'Ollveira has been under medical supervision for insomnia for the past month during which he has played in
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  • 238 12 A RARE treat will come the way of Singapore's dance fans when the worldrenowned London Festival Ballet visits the Republic for a two-day stand at the end 1 of October. The full complement of the 85-man troupe, travelling with their own musicians,
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  • 74 12 "Keep Singapore Clean and Beautiful Lucky Draw" to commemorate the Fourth National Day and the 150 th anniversary of the founding of Singapore will be held this Sunday at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Auditorium at 10 a.m. More than 54,000 participants throughout the island have taken
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  • 171 12 THE First Lady, Puan Noor Aishah. Patron of the Society for the Aged Sick, will lay the foundation stone of the Society's new Home today at 4.30 pjn. The Home, to be built on land donated by Miss Ursula Khow, has been made possible
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  • 265 12 THE 82-year-old Havelock Police Station, a reassuring and familiar landmark to residents in the Tiong Bahru and Bukit Ho Swee areas, will be demo- lished early next month. The police station which stands at the Junction of Havelock Road and Outram Road has to
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  • 101 12 The forme r general manager of Imperial Hotel, Taipei, Mr. Hugh S- L. Hsieh has been appointed executive manager of Sea View Hotel, Singapore The Managing Director, Mr. Lim Sin-Hoa, announcing this yesterday said Mr. Hsieh has been chosen to run the 460room luxury
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  • 135 12 AN advisory committee was formed recently by the Residents' Welfare Association of Alexandra, Delta and Queenstown to look into problems faced by its members in the field of housing ana other matters. The Chairman of the Advisory Sub-Committee, Mr. Francis Kok Hark Jin. said a meet-the-member
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  • 133 12 The Chung Khiaw Bank, Klang Branch (pictured right), will open for business on Tuesday, Sept. 2. This is the 28th branch to be opened by the Bank to serve the people of Singapore and Malaysia, and even Hong Kong. At present there are 13
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  • 39 12 CANBERRA, Fri. (Reuter) Eleven senior engineers from Burma, India, Kenya, Malaysia. the Philippines. Singapore and Thailand will attend a course on the construction and maintenance of roadg and bridges which will begin in Brisbane on Sept. 1.
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