Eastern Sun, 31 August 1969

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  • 24 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY VV Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1104 Sunday Edition 31 August 1969. it MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 797 1 DAMASCUS, So*. (UPI and Reuter) —An Arab guerrilla commando squad yasterday hijacked an American jetliner, forced it to Syria and blew up its cockpit in order to bring an unnamed person before "revolutionary court.' The Syrian News Agency said government officials were
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  • 256 1 Thousands of visitors to the Transport and Communications Exposition at Kalians Park were told to go home at about 8 Dm last nisht w hen a m a j°r Sawer failure plunged the enre Exposition ground* into darkness. The power failure was caused by a short circuit
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  • 26 1 ROME. Sat. (Reuter) —A n Italian DC-8 airliner took off for Damascus today to bring back passengers and crew of the Trans World Airlines plane.
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  • 69 1 The Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. has srnt the following congratulatory telegram to the Mar laysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the Independence of Malaysia. "On the twelfth anniversary of independence, my colleague* and I send you our
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  • 107 1 ACCRA. Sat (Reuter) Dr. Kofl Busla. bitter opponent of ousted President Kwame Nkrumah, today vas assured of forming Ghana's first civilian government since Nkrumah's overthrow bv a military coup in February 1966. Dr. Busia's Progress Party (PP) gained its 71st seat in the 140-member National Assembly
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  • 81 1 MOSCOW, Sat. (Reuter) The Commander of Soviet rocket troops today accused the United States of planning a surprise nuclear attack against the Soviet Union—but said it could not succeed because of Russia's advanced warning systems. Marshal Nikolai Krilov also a Deputy Defence Minister, said the United
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  • 117 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— The ft r st multi-million dollar stud farm in Malay. s:a mooted by the Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman would be ready soon. A spokesman of the Totalisator Board, which is ander taking the project, said the stallions, broodmares and foals
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  • 242 1 Amended charfei were preferred by the prosecution against Ronald Halkerstone MacDougal when the case against him came up for further mention in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday. MacDougal, a director of the insurance brokerage Arm of Edward Lumlev and Son (Singapore) Private Ltd.
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  • 493 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Four student leaders have been detained by Malaysian Police in connection with the recent demonstrations and boycott of lectures by students of the University of Malaya. They are being detained under the Emergency (Public Order and Prevention of Crime) Ordinance, 1969. The President
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  • 88 1 KUCHING, Sat. Seventysix political detainees in Sarawak were released todav to mark Malaysia Day tomorrow. A spokesman of the detainees. Mr. Lim Soon Choong said they were well treated while in detention. He condemned the Communist activities and pledged sup. port for the government. The detainees
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  • 159 1 SINGAPORE'S Minister for Communications. Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, will head a sevenman party cm an official visit to the Soviet Union beginning next week. H A Singapore Government statement yesterday announced that the visit was at the invitation of the USSR's Minister for Civil Aviation, Marshal
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  • 102 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. The Minister of Education, Dato Haji Abdul Rahman bin Ya'akub today urged students to plan their future rather than become slaves of Western fashion. Declaring open a $336,000 secondary school, named after him. at Bota Kan an, near Ipoh, he advised students not
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  • 1662 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sot. Guilty or not guilty? T. Mohtson, 50, former Secretary of the Malaysian Government Officers' Co-Operative Housing Society charged with corruptly accepting money will find out next Wednesday. The High Court Judge, Justice Raja Allan Shah today reserved his judgment till 9.30 a.m.
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  • 749 2 Several government ministries, public and private bodies have been mobilised in full force to launch a month-long "Keep Singapore Clean and Mosquito-Free" to maintain even better and higher standards of public health in the Republic. Inaugurating the second mass health campaign Yesterday at the
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  • 689 2 At the fifth annual meeting of the members of the Insurance Institute of Singapore, held on Aug. 23 ♦he following office bearers were elected: President: Mr. N.N. Handa. General Manager of the Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd. Vice-President Capt. P J Rivers. Master Manner of
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  • 192 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. The 140.000 non-citizens seeking work permits will know by the end of next month whether their applications have been approved or rejected by the Malaysian government. This was disclosed today by the Minister of Labour. Mr. V. Manickavasagam after a meeting with
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  • 474 2 Towards the end of the year, a new $400,000 home built on a 54.000 square feet of donated land, will be completed to cater for the aged sick. Situated at JaJan Payoh Lai. off Upper Serangoon Road, the foundation stone laying ceremony was carried out
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  • 122 2 About a half million school children and 19.000 school teachers including thousands of non-teaching stall will take Part in the "Keep Singapore Clean and Mosquitofree" campaign this year This was disclosed by a representative of the Ministry of Education. Mr. Au Keng Chu. at the
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  • 336 3 SAIGON, Sat. (UFI) American 852 bombers swept in six waves over jungled Phuoc Long province northeast of Saigon to pound Communist positions with *t least 540 tons of bombs, military spokesmen said today. 1 The Stratofortress raids late yesterday and early today struck
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  • 70 3 BANGKOK, sat. (UPI) —Thais may be easy-go-ing about love and life, but not long-haired television newsreaders. The Foreign Affairs Ministry announced Friday it is moving to an off-camera job a Britisheducated newsreader whose long hair drew complaints from viewers. "He is alright." a ministry spokesman said,
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  • 55 3 KARACHI. Sat. fßeuter) Shops, cinemas and factories were shut down in major cities today as Pakistani Moslems staged a one day strike in protest against last week's burning of Al-Aqsa mosque. Traffic thinned to a trickle while the faithful attended sabbath services to prav for divine help in
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  • 355 3 WASHINGTON, Sat. (UPI) Intense official discussion of the extent and meaning of a drop in North Vietnamese infiltration into the South has obscured the fact that President Nixon intends to pursue his plan for a steadv U.S. troop withdrawal from the war. The State and
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  • 258 3 PARIS, Sat (UPI) The drop in Hanoi's infiltration into South Vietnam raises the possibility of the Paris Peace Talks becoming a sideshow with the war being ended through de-escalation insteady of negotiation, conference observers said yesterday. Western diplomats said chief U.S. negotiator Henry Cabot
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  • 111 3 HONG KONG. Sat. (Reuter) An article in the Peking® Peoples Daily today called on all people to fight against anarchism, describing it as "a reactionary tendency to the continuing socialist revolution." The article was written by workers in China's northern cities of Shanghai and Tientsin and published
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  • 278 3 NEW DELHI, Sat. (UPI) Members of Parliament began casting votes today for India's Vice President. The official Congress Party candidate, Mysore State Governor Gopal Swarup Phatak, 73, was expected to win the four-cornered contest with a comfortable margin. The 759 Members 0 f Parlia-
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  • 141 3 GEORGETOWN. Guyana, Sat (Reuter) Portraits of the British Royal family will be removed from Guyana's Parliament chamber and out in a museum when the country becomes a republic tiext year. Prime Minister Forbes Burnham announced. Guyana's first national hero will be CufTy, an
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  • 28 3 NEW DELHI. Sat. (Reuter) The Indian Prime Minister. Mrs. Indira Gandhi, will go to Kashmir on Sunday for four days of rest. official* said yesterday.
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  • 87 3 SAIGON. Sat. < Reuter) South Vietnamese army bosses are worried that Viet Cong temptresses may try to recruit spie s from home-sick joung soldiers via "Lonely-Hearts'' press columns. Newspaper* here carry lists of soldiers advertisine for girl friends and the brass fears that young Viet Cong ladies
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  • 170 3 A UCKLAND, Sat. (Reuter) New Zealand's Secretary of External Affairs. George Laking, said here today his country's foreign policy needed some reshaping to take account of changed British and American 1 approaches. Laking told the national conference of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs
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  • 49 3 MANILA, Sat. (Renter) One prisoner was stabbed to death and 11 were injured when rival gangs clasheo inside the national penitentiary in Muntinulupa, south of Manila. according to police reports here today. Nine prisoners died and 22 were wounded in riots in the prison a month ago.
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  • 51 3 HYDERABAD, India. Sat (UPI) Police yesterday fired on a rock-hurling Moslem mob demonstrating against the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. A police spokesman said the mob was stoning shops which refused to heed the Moslems' call for a strike in protest against the burning of the
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  • 41 3 CALCUTTA, Sat. (UPI) An American missionary's wife and her five children, who were arrested recently as they crossed from Burma into India without travel documents, were deported yesterday. They were put aboard a Bangkok-bound plane en route to New York.
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  • 190 3 HONG KONG. Sat. (Reuter) A pro-Nationalist Hong Kong newspaper today said the southern Chinese city of Canton was in a state of preparedness for imminent war and that wide-spread rumours were sweeping southern China that Taiwan would shortly launch an attack upon the mainland with U.S.
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  • 59 3 PARIS, Sat. (Reuter) Indonesia Foreign Minister Adam Malik arrived here last night for a visit to Paris expected to last until next Tuesday. Malik who flew to Paris after an African tour. Is due to see French government officials during his stay although the Indonesian Embassy s
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  • 26 3 MANILA. Sat. (Reuter) The Health Department has approved a World Health Organisation (WHO) plan to fluoridate Manila's water supply to prevent tooth decay among children.
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  • 356 3 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) Deposed Burmese Prime Minister U Nu yesterday called on the military regime of Gen. Ne Win to relinquish power and restore democracy in Burma. Declaring that he was still legally the Premier of Burma. U Nu told a cress conference that Gen.
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  • 107 3 MANILA. Sat. (Reuter) Seventeen cities and towns In three Central Luzon provinces were under the control of two Huk leaders. National Police reported today. Capt. Vicente Garcia, intelligence officer of the constabulary. told newsmen that so far this vear 120 people have been killed.
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  • 126 3 MANILA. Sat. (Reuter) President Ferdinand Marcos has denied police had stopped opposition Liberal Party election candidates from campaigning In a southern Philippines city although they hai been stopped for a check on their firearms and bodyguards. President Marcos was commenting on reports that police had barred
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  • 510 4  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: My husband worked with a girl for ten years. She was unmarriad and not bad to look at During the course of her employment they used to have lunch together frequently and he drove her home. I had no
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  • 505 4 "DELFAST, Northern Ireland, Sat. (Reuter) Britain last night offered Northern Ireland's riot victims a £250,000 gift and a promise of reforms to meet civil rights grievances. This was the outcome of British Home Secretary James Callaghan's three-day tour o| the province
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  • 100 4 LONDON, Sat (Reuter) A 26-year-old Briton hag be<n held m jail in Czechoslovakia 6ince the night of last week's anti-Soviet riots in Prague, informed sources reported yesterday. The Briton wag named as Graham Tope, a Londoner, He was believed to have been arrested in the region
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  • 217 4 BONN. Sat. (UPI) West Germany's social democrats have proposed the United Btates and Soviet Union remove to their own territories their poison gas and germ warfare weapons now stored In other countries. Party parliamentary leader Helmut Schmidt said the social democrats government coalition
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  • 49 4 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) Film actor Richard Harris was arrested here earlv today following a disturbance outside the popular Talk of the Town restaurant in Leicester Square. Harris Irish born star of 'This Sporting Life" and "Camelot" will appear in court today charged with assaulting two policemen
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  • 167 4 TEHERAN. Sat. (Reuter) Former Iranian Prime Minister Sayed Ziaeddln Tabatabai died at his home near here of a heart attack on Thursday night, an official communique announced. He was 81. He became active in Iranian politics during the Firrt World War and led a coup d'etat
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  • 342 4 pRANKFURT. W«t Qerr many, Sat. (Reuter) Hermann Krumey. former Nazi 58. Colonel and righthand man of Adolf Elchmann, was yesterday Jailed for life for the war-time murder of at least 300.000 Hungarian Jews. Another senior member of Eichmann's special squad m Budapest,
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  • 174 4 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Sat. (UPI) The secretary general of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) yesterday cal'.ed for a general uprising by Rhodesia's four million Africans to rid themselves of the white regime of premier lan Smith. OAU sources said. Diallo Telli. reporting
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  • 27 4 MOSCOW. Sat. (Reuter) The Soviet Union yesterday launched a new unmanned satellite. Coemos-296. to continue its soace exploration programme, the official Tass news agency reported.
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  • 67 4 LYDDA AIRPORT TWA managing director for Israel. Ed. Frankfurtes (seated), reads messages being received from the hijacked TWA jetliner on Friday. Pilots of two Israeli warplanes listened helplessly above the aircraft as Arab guerillas hijacked a TWA jetliner with 113 persons aboard. The jet fighters were scrambled as soon as
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  • 448 4 CAIRO, Sat. (Reuter) King Hussein of Jordan arrives here today for policy talks with President Nasser which could led to a fourpower Arab mini-summit including Iraq and Syria. The Jordanian monarch will fly in from Saudi Arabia where he held talks with King Faisal yesterday on
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  • 69 4 MOSCOW. Sat (Reuter) The Soviet Union alleged :ast night that Israel and her imperialist** allies bore the responsibility for the Are that destroyer part of the ancient at A 1 Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem eight day s ago. A statement issued by the official Tass news
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  • 140 4 BELGRADE. Sat. (Reuter)— President Tito of Yugoslavia ha* warned of a possible shake-Ut) among leading Communist party members because of a lack of discipline. "I think we will have to have a weeding out in the League of Communists." President Tito told
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  • 215 4 WARSAW. Sat (Reuter) Poland's leading Communist weekly newspaper. Polityka, said yesterday China was believed to possess several gcores of atomic bombs, but was unlikely to have enough nuclear rockets to threaten other continents before the end of the century. An articW by Mr.
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  • 153 4 ACCRA. Sat. (Reuter) Six hours after polling officially closed yesterday in Ghana's general elections only (our candidates had been declared elected two from unopposed constituencies. The unopposed candidated were Victor Owusu. former Attorney General of the Progress Party (PP) and Dr. G. K Agama
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 214 4 TODAY an Sunday, August 31, 1969. H JA ft r» By CLATR. FQLLAN >1 Your Dqity AeHvity Cuid* Jht Acfrdlng to Hie Stan. To develop message for Sunday, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth |iga 1 Sportlflht 31A 41 Or 2lt 32 T i hnil 62 Impotent
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  • 225 5 SA n CLEMENTE, Calif., Sat (UPI) President Nixon announced on Friday his selection of Shirley Temple Black, the onetime child movie star, as a member of the U.S. delegation to the next session of the United Nations General Assembly, opening in New York on
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  • 200 5 NEW YORK. Sat. (UPI)—A man described by a police source as a Vice President of the First National City Bank was found dead tonight in his plush upper east side apartment, apparently beaten to death. *nie victim was identified as Lincoln Nob let, who lived
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  • 131 5 MIAMI, Flo. Sat. (UPI)—A Cuban took his **vfe and their children back to Cuba with a fun Friday, apparently to see another son there, bv hijacking a National Airlines jet with 55 persons aboard. Before he pulled a gun and forced a stewardess to take him to
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  • 154 5 UNITED NATIONS, Sat. (Renter) A 15-nation committee is to study whether "ministates" should be entitled to U.N. membership, the Security Council un- animously decided today, i William B. Buffum. for the US said he hoped the committee would recommend action to the next session of the
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  • 181 5 HYANNIS. Mass., Sat. (Reuter) Sen. Edward Kennedy, again the victim of tragedy that seems to pursue his family, went into seclusion today, as his wife recovered from her third miscarriage. The blonde. 32-year-old Joan Kennedy, was reported In satisfactory condition at Cape Cod Hospital after
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  • 58 5 UNITED NATIONS. Sat. (Reuter) Cambodia complained to the U.N. Security Council today against alleged attacks by united States and South Vietnamese forces against Cambodian villages earlier this month. In a letter to tbe President of the Security Council. Cambodia s Ambassador to the UN.. Huot Sambath. said the
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  • 433 5 WASHINGTON. Sat. (UPI) Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said on Friday he found wide acceptance of President Nixon's policy of disengagement from South-east Asia durlnr a 16-day tour of the region. Mansfield Bald that in one nation only was there a desire for continued high level
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  • 276 5 WASHINGTON. Sat. (UPI) The United States indicated on Friday It may apologise to North Korea violating the demarcation line to secure the release of a helicopter crew of three shot down over North Korea on Aug. 17. State Department Spokesman Robert J. MeCloskey.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 348 5 V IF RW NOHKISTAICEN. > THERE'S ANOTHER RAN&EP WKTROL BOAT. AN'ITS COWING TO PICK us UP.' (CHftgU! 1 AN' WE DJONTFVEN i SJ3MAI rur*es NOW HOW OO YOU LIKE ITF m m 1 I V> M i K A #S A /V ON SECOND TVOU6HT, THAT'S THE GREATEST SEASCAPE YOU'VE
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  • 769 6  -  From The Heart Of A Pastor by REV. K.L WADE -IT'S A GOOD WORK but we seem to be in the doldrums. The people enjoy their comfortable ship. Yet there is a lack of real interest, a lack of outreach and vision. "Oh yes we did have
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  • 125 6 THE SU Christian Bookroom will begin a ore-month long Special Bargain Sale tomorrow lasting through the whole month of September, This is the first ever Bargain Sale offer t>y the bookroom. The special sale is divided into 3 sections: THE GENUINE GIVE-AWAY Section which
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  • 607 6  -  By GOH ENG KEE A NOTHER n a t i on-wide Gospel Crusade, "Christ is the Answer Singapore Crusade" to be held at the National Theatr e from Sept. 19-26. 1969 will feature a Jewish Christian evangelist Morris Cerullo, who has
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  • 185 6 SINGAPORE will have the privilege to hear the beautiful voice of the wellknown tenor. Mr. Paul Chan* on Friday. Sept. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Victoria Theatre. Empress Place. Mr. Chang who is from Hong Kong and now residing in San Francisco. California. U.S.A. will
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  • 399 6 THIS evening, the 150 th anniversary Con-celebrated Mass organised by the Catholic Church will begin at 5.45 p.m. at St. Joseph's Institution field on Bras Basah Road Catholic* and nonCatholics will be gathering from all over Singapore and beyond to offer this sacrifice of thanks-giving to
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  • 238 6 BOSTON. Some forms o f campus unrest should be stirred up and supported. Erwin D Canham. Editor in Chief of The Christian Science Monitor, told a large gathering of college students here on Friday. He explained: '"The exposure of evil
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  • 290 6 James To Europe America CHURCH DR. G. D. James, th« founder and General Director of the Malaysia Evangelistic Fellowship and Co-founder and Vice President of the Asia Evangelistic Commission, left for U.S. in response to an invitation to speak at the World Congress on Missions which will be held at
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 1082 7 LONDON, Sat. At the world stands on the threshold of faster-than-sound travel for the ordinary fare-paying passenger with travel to the moon and other planets already a proven possibility it is almost impossible to realise it has taken only 50 years for the man
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    • 88 7 LONDON. Sat. (AFP) The executive committee of the International Coffee Organisation. meeting here on Thursday, decided on a rise of 1.5 U.S. cent in the floor and ceiling prices of coffee, to operate from October 1, It was announced yesterday. The committee fixed
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    • 161 7 THE Japanese Government ha s awarded four-month scholarship to a Singapore engineer. Mr. Chong Kwong Fay. technical manager of Associated Technical Services Ltd. Mr. Chong left yesterday for Tokyo to receive further training on electronic equipment at the Hokushin Electric Works Ltd. Mr. Chong will study
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    • 149 7 NEW YORK. Sat. (UPI) Gold prices slipped In moderately active trading yesterday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold remained unchanged at the morning fixing but fell 9 cents for a second fixing of 40 86 dollars a troy ounce In Zurich It
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    • 298 7 TOKYO. Sat. (Reuter) The Bank of Japan today raised its bank rate to 6.25 per cent from 5.84 per cent, effective Monday Sept. ,1. The bank also announced that commercial banks' reserve ratio would be increased to 1.5 per cent from one
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    • 101 7 TOKYO, Sat. (Reuter) Japan's four-wheeled motor vehicle exports In July hit an all-time monthly high of 76.029 units worth U S $94,950,000, the Japan Automobile Industry Association said yesterday. The previous record was 74.795 units Set in June this year. The total, including
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    • 90 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. ready: Deutsche Marks $77.7975: Holland Guilders $*****0: Swiss Francs $71.8075; Belgian Francs $6.1350; French Francs *55
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    • 198 7 THE following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for Aug. 31: DEPARTURE God owns Vessels 1/2 Liepzig 3/4 Viminale N.W 5 Lipis 35 '36 Karachi EW. Jetty Caltex Kartika 18 Ranee ARRIVAL God owns Vessels 3/4 State of Mysore 35/36 Antenor 15/16
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    • 157 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The general manager of the Malayan Railway. Enche Waad bin Jamaluddin left for the Federal Republic of Germany on Wednesday to participate in an international seminar or "Modern Railway Operation and Traction." The seminar organised by the German Foundation for Developing
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    • 98 7 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) Caution ahead of the long weekend was the main influence on sentiment yesterday. Most equities drifted slightly easier on lack of buying interest. Towards the close the FT index was 1.4 down at 374.2. British funds fell back also on pre-weekend caution with
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    • 486 7 MELBOURNE, Sat. Mr. Harry Leonf Chan Hing, 26, formerly of Kuala Lumpur, has won first priae of $2,500 in an architectural competition in Melbourne, capital of the State of Victoria. The competition was staged to And a design suitable for a central city square
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    • 90 7 THK noon pilrea at tHe I wtfiym. pore CbfitM ProdOM £u IMDIC xiurdii wer»>— m tym Coconut Oti 48 50 (FOB) Balk Coconut Oil (F.OB.) Drum —> 6100 Mixed Copra SUM Muniok Uhlte Pepper (FOB.) m 145 00 Sarawak White Pepper (FOB) 142.50 Sarawak special Blue* Hepper (FOB) 96%
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    • 437 7 ARRIVALS 5 00 am. MSA 029 K. Lumpur 9.00 a.m. MSA 119 K. Lumpur 9 43 mm. MSA SSI Sydney, Jakarta 10.15 a m. MSA 112 K. Lumpur U.4U p.m. CAL CIS la)pel Hung Kong 10.25 a.m. MSA 055 Penan*, Ipoh. K Lumpur, Malacca 1.00 p.m. bAS 5K.971
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    • 55 7 HONG KONG. Sat. (UPI)— Money Quotations yesterday. HK56.085 per U.S. dollar HK56.105 per US. dollar TT HK514.47 per pound sterling HK5307.375 per tael of «old 94 5 per cent fineness HK5162.2 per 10.000 Japanese yen HK5129.0 per 100 Philippine pesos buyers HKSI3O.O per 100 Philippine pesos sellers Philippine
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    • 14 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $643.37$ cents per plcul. up $0.37J
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      • 954 8  -  A Special Exclusive Ann Moses IF Elvis Presley has his way, he'll be doing concern right round the world in the future. He told us this and much more at his hour-long Press conference directly after his pre-opening show at Las Vegas International hotel. His first words as
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      • 1364 8  -  FULL REPORT ON ANN MOSES ELVIS live again! And I < was there to see it for you! I'm so excited my hands are trembling on the typewriter kevs and my mind is iwhirt. I only hope I can do justice to this historic occasion
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    • 346 8  -  GORDON COXHILL IN The Year 2525." is a strange song, bat the story of bow it came to be recorded, and eventnallv splashdown right on the top of the American chart* is even stranger. (Dennvl Zager and Rick) Evans are two Nebra«kan-. In their
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    • 433 8 LYRICS OF PAN-AM JINGLE JJI THERE! Like Holy Wow! It's ELVISVILLE all the wa j today isn't it? That should please all the many thousands of the King's fans in Singapore including me! So who aay» Platter Pete isnt the greatest? (Ahem! Er next to Elvis, of
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    • 20 8 17 LPs To Be Won! in a simple contest STARTING FROM WEDNESDAY 3/9/69 in the EASTERN SUN DON'T MISS IT!
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    • 101 8 This Is The Album We Call "SOUL SAUCE". It's On DUGBZiI] Victor (SGS 0001). This Album Is Going To Be The Most Talked-About LP! It Has The IDALY SISTERS And The X-PERIMENT In A Terrific Combination, That Is "SOUL" All The Way! What's More, It's On Stereo! Another Reason Why
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 239 8 World Charts THE American Duo Zarer and Evans have turaed the Ubl« o n the Kolllnr Stones who displaced their ode to the •rfie Year 2525" at the top of the American charts a fortnifht This week, "2525", has dethroned the Stones' rocker "Honky Took Women" from the number one
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  • THE NEW FILMS
    • 263 9  -  By Goh Eng Kee THROUGH the years, Elvis Presley has shown that his reign as the "king" of rack and roll music is one long-playing record. Hit parade charts merely draw his lines while his personal appearances in Las Vegas record the the
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    • 488 9 CAMBODIAN Pine Arts University Dancers will display their traditional folk dances at the Victoria Theatre on Sept. b at 8-30 p.m. The show, sponsored by the National Theatre Trust, is to exchange the culture of all races through drama This Royal Cambodia Dancers comprise
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 208 9 CAPITOL ***** NOW BROWING N( f rM Li at U OJB.. 14*. 4.05, «.4S 9.30 p.m. Cheng Pei-Hl "BAW COl'BAGB" )A SHAW PRODUCTION. Mandarin In Shawaeop* Color Today 1.45 a.m. Moraing Show FASTEST BWORD" Mandarin NOW MOWING! RCX: 11. 1.44. 4. «.M 9.30 PA SRY: 11. 1.4*. 4. 8.20 ».U
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    • 198 9 LGALAXY I«<»T I h«»i: >. I p.«. la tha Tradition of "Mart Mahboob'* no* cornea flfc"BAHU BEGUM" Baataaneolor *iadi-En». Malar Subtltlaa Meena Kuman n*y Aihok Kumar A Cathay Releaaa Children l» tu All Beat* Today 11 am. "T«g VlieOfyT" Seopa Color WB&smssm 1 /•zT V -v. t ELVIS PRESLEY AlouM
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 1652 10 Race 1: CL 5 Div, 1—7 F.—2.00 pan. ($5*500) (FOR LOCAL RIDERS ONLY) X. 3SS| Golden Sua u 9.00 ft 13 Choon Guan Stable Royal Stag Stable R S Breuk Tulloh Podmore 15 I Royal Stag °y 7y 7y 4y 4y 6y *7 5y 3y 4y 4y
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    • 191 10 BIO BEN CISCO £UU 1AU RACE SHANGHAI KID Pink Rose Gilang Gumilang SHANGHAI KID Desert Terror Gilang Gumilang SHANGHAI KID Gilang Gumilang Desert Terror SPACEMASTER Shanghai Kid Gilang Gumilang RACK t TRANS IE Seajay C-L-Later CI LATER Transit Willtop TRANS IE Good For Yon Willtop RACE t JERANTUT Green
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    • 736 10 FOREST HILLS. New York. Sat (Reuter) The United States' hopes of retaining the Davis Cup suffered a morale-crushing blow yesterday with elimination of two American stalwarts from the rich U.S. Open tennis championships. Falling by the wayside in the U*****,000 event were seventh-seeded
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    • 131 10 SIR. In addition to the article written by "Fairplay" as > keen badminton fan, 1 feel that the badminton officials should go deeper into the selection of the Thomas Cup squad. I cannot think of any sound reason why Yeo Ah Seng, Omar Ibrahim. Ronnie Oon,
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    • 58 10 BRISBANE. Sat. (Reuter) Bobby Dunlop. reigning Commonwealth llght-heavy-welght champion, stopped Fred Casey in eight rounds to take the Australian heavyweight title here at Festival Hall last night. The stadium doctor stopped the bout at the end of the eighth round after hardpunching Dunlop had hammered the defending champion
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    • 28 10 HULL. England. Sat. (Reuter) Hull City beat Blackpool by one goal to zero in an English League Division Two football match played here last night.
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    • 943 10  -  Going: Good To Yielding By BIG BEN CTART the day with Shanghai Kid in Race One at Kuala Lumpur today. The Furdan mare is retaining her winning form at shown in a workout on Thursday when she galloped attractively on a heavy track. With
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    • 31 10 BIG BEN Shanghai Kid Theatre VI Silver Crown Jimmy Lad Lovable II Tinggi Harapan 111 Syndicate Cisco Shanghai Kid Ever England Deltarnews Zodiac Orchard Road Theatre VI Bambi II
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  • 1873 11  -  Doubles For Podmore, Nelson Pretty By BIG BEN KUALA LUMPUR, Sat Shaw Stable's Actdr IV with George Podmore astride created a mild upset in the class five division two here today. Neglected on the tote Actor IV paid $7O. Actor IV's wl n was a second
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  • 55 11 DARUL Afiah strengthened their lead in the FAS Division One league table when they scored a convincing 4-2 win over their closest rival. Roval Navy Wanderers at Jalan Be»ar Stadium last night Scorers: Salleh Ibrahim and Khamis Serai scored two goals eacn for Darul while Mick Hardv and
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  • 657 11 Lynda King Ling Ling smashed the women's long jump qualifying mark to earn a berth in the Singupor© contingent for the SEAP Games at Rangoon in December. Participating on the first day of the two-day Singapore Achilles Club annual athletic meet at Farrer Park
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  • 251 11 US Baseball Results Standings NEW YORK, Sat. (Reuter) —Results of major league games played yesterday:— NATIONAL LEAGUE San Francisco Giants 5. New York Mets 0. Chicago Cubs 2. Atlanta Braves 1. Cincinnati Reds 8. St. Louis Cardinals 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 4. Houston Astros 2 (10 innings), Los Angeles Dodgers 6.
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  • 217 11 HAMILTON Sport* ckb moved up to third position in th« FAS Division On* league table when they defeated Fathul Karib by two goals to nil at the Jalan Besax Stadium yesterday. Fathul who edged the Royal Navy Wanderers 2-1 on Wednesday, could not match the fast and
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  • 117 11 FOUR hundred and eight students from four language streams including a girl's team, took part in the first leg of the Bth Annual Students' Safe Cycling Rally organised by the Singapore Junior Safety First Council and sponsored bv Mobil Oil Malaysia Sdn Bhd. at the Victoria
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  • 46 11 SINGAPORE Combined Schools thrashed RAF Tengah by seven wickets in a SCA Division Two league match at the Indian Assoc'ation ground, Balestier Road, yesterday. RAF Tengah 50 (Hassan 5-19. S. Moorthy 2-8). Schools 53 for three (V. Samuel 18. Neelan 14 no).
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 222 11 Classified Ads. Houses Land For Sale DOWN PAYMENT 52.500'Immediate Occupation Katong Seaside (Opposite Shaw's Villa. 440 A East Coast Road) Freehold 2/3-storev luxury semi-detached bungalow 4 rooms. 3 halls, split leveL 3 balconies, quality equipment, large kitchen, spacious garden at Katong First Class Residential Area Hilltop facing sea Convenient transportation
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    • 20 11 TIME THE another new simple fun-to-entejr contest to begin on WEDNESDAY in EASTERN SUN 17 LP -^^7 TO BE WON!
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 48 11 810 SWEEP Total Pool: $29,474 lit Prix* No. *****3 $7,294 2nd Prize No. *****5 $3,647 3rd Prist No. *****5 $1,823 Starter*: ($lB2 oach) No*:— *****9 *****6 *****3 *****0 *****8 *****1 *****4 *****7 *****6 *****9 Consolation ($162 oach) No*:— *****3 *****2 *****0 *****5 *****9 *****2 *****6 *****8 *****9 *****5.
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    • 1409 11 *JJ b m 11 K i Pi' iLJ^E3fl| (CHANNEL 5) AM, 103 C Opening Announcements >n all Languages A Skippv the Bush Kangaroo Aunt Evelyn; 1030 The Nurses Die Laughing; 1120 Another Song Another Melody Malav Version; 11.35 Mr. Ed The talking Horse Ed's Dentist; 12 00 The Carol Burnett
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  • 337 12 SAN PEDRO, California, Sat. (Reuter) "1 thought I was going to die/' said Korean seaman Chung Nam Kim, 27, "then I saw something kicking in the water alongside me and looked around and it was a turtle." This was how the cheerful
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  • 338 12 The office of Singapore's Controller and Registrar of Imports and Exports yesterday reminded traders and carriers that the Free Trade Zones Act would come into force as from tomorrow. A statement issued yesterday also detailed some of the implications of the coming into
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  • 353 12 The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Inche Rahlm Ishak. yesterday called on the Malay undergraduates at the University of Singapore to work much harder than the students of the other races. This was due to the fact that a Malay undergraduate was an
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  • 621 12 THE island-Republic has the dubious distinction of being the second most densely populated country in the world and so the government views it as a matter of urgency to raise the standards of environmental condition of the people, Mr. Chua Sian Chin, Minister for
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  • 478 12 SKY-scraper luxury hotels are fast dominating the skyline of Singapore, such as the 18-storey majestic Sea View Hotel at Amber Close, which has opened for business, this week. Large parties of tourists and businessmen from abroad are already booked in for the first 100
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  • 323 12 MARCH OF THE AGES Cute little toddlers who were barely able to walk without a stumble in their steps, young school-children with mischievous plump faces, and highspirited teenagers, created a near "not" at the Delta Com» munity Centre in Havelock Road when they took
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  • 205 12 Tay Koh Yat Bus Company Limited will be the first local company to start a new route to serve the people living in Jurong Town. The new service No. 5 will go into operation at 6 am. on Sept 1. A total of seven buses will be
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 94 12 Time Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 0.53 a.m. (9.7 ft.), 1.17 p.m. (8.8 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 1.08 a.m. (11.4 ft.). 1.30 p.m. (10.5 ft.) Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 7.17 a.m. (1.3 ft 7.22 p.m. (1.3 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 6.52 a.m. (1.8 ft.), 7.03 p.m. (1.8 ft.) High Tide
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