Eastern Sun, 1 October 1970

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Esrd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1461 Thursday, October 1 f 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 277 1 families were trapped in the rubble of their home late last night when part of a two and a-half storey shop house collapsed. Miroculously no one wos hurt, but 30 people spent on anxious 90 minutes before they were rescued. Police hove sealed off the
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 324 2 TWO Americans and a local departmental store owner were 1 yesterday charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court after police smashed a counterfeit racket involving USs2so f ooo. The two Americans are Ken Bowen Peterson, 44, of Maryland, and Charles Francis Safley, 40, of Virginia.
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  • 203 2 A man who called himself Captain Midnight was yesterday sentenced to seven years' jail when he pleaded guilty in the Third District Court to charges of housebreaking and theft. Hussein bin Matnawl, 34, described in court as "an incorrigible law breaker" had nine pre- vious
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  • 66 2 A maid servant, Ang Ngal Cheng, 31, was given a conditional discharge after she had pleaded guilty to stealing $lO from her employer. The Third District Court was told that Miss Goh Soh wah. 17, entered her room on Bept. 29, at Gey ang Road, and found Ang
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  • 281 2 CINEMA and theatre goers are reminded not fro smoke in Hie halls today it could burn a hole in their pocket. The Prohibition of Bmoklng In Certain Places Act. 1970 la In force today. A Ministry of Health statement say® that smoking in an auditorium
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  • 79 2 An exhibition of 87 Chinese paintings by Professor and Mrs. Liu from Taiwan was held at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Immediately after th« opening ceremony. Singaporeans bought four pieces of works Prices ranged from $2OO to $2,000 and included paintings of
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  • 72 2 The police are expected to make arrests soon in the case of Lim Siong Eng who was murdered on Monday. Lim, 35, an odd job labourer was found with a stab wound in his neck in front of an unnumbered hut in Hopg Kata Drive,
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • 360 3 JgONN Prime Minister Lee Kuan Ye urged industrialists in West Germany and other European countries to set up manufacturing bases here to compete more effectively with Japan. Mr. Lee is on the third day of a 4-day visit in West Germany.
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  • 356 3 A man sentenced to death for murder has been wrongly convicted, lawyer David Marshall told the Appellate Court yesterday. He was appearing on behalf of Ong Kiang Kek, 23. The latter Is appealing against the sentence and conviction for the murder of hospital guard,
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  • 134 3 Abdul Samad Din, 17, was one of the hundreds of Singaporeans who personally went to the United Arab Republic Embassy to convey their sorrow over the death of President Nasser. An office boy employed at Parliament, Samad said he had always admired the late Egyptian leader.
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  • 130 3 Four robber 8 armed with knives tied a housewife and her 4 children and escaped with cash and Jewellery worth $3,000 yesterday The robbers went to Madam Lim Hiang Jee's residence at 12-mile Woodlands Road on the pretext of buying "fighting fish." Thfv suddenly oed
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  • 309 4 lOHORE BAHRU A spell of violence and insanity is likely to accompany a person in a pathologically drunken condition, the Esther Chan murder trial was told yesterday. This was the opinion of a consultant psychiatrist at the T am pot Mental Hospital, Dr. V. O.
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  • 133 4 KUALA LUMPUR Tunku Abdul Rahman yesterday (hanked tbo Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Rauk, for riving him a tax-free gratuity of $200,000 and a life pension of $4,000 a month, together with other amenities. "Thw is more than I had expected aud I can. of course, lire
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  • 146 4 KUALA TRENGGANU— Tan Sri Ibrahim Fikri bin Mohamed yesterday resigned as the Mentri Besar of Trengganu, after holding the post for the past nine years. Tan Sri Ibrahim has been on leave for two months on medical advice He resigned as Trengganu's Chief UMNO State Liaison
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 132 5 A Teen Princess 1970' contest will highlight a Social and Dance organised by the Young Adults' Group of the YMCA on Oct. 2 at the Ocean Park Hotel at 8 p.m. Twelve pretty and equally brainy teenage beauties of all races will vie for the
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  • 405 5 A CASHIER employed by the Public Utilities Boord thought five robbers were armed with only "toy guns" during o payroll hold-up last November. Nevertnciess, Joseph Lcc Teng Poh raised his hands up in the air_ when one of them rushed up
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  • 208 5 A school for training "mud engineers" to handle oil drilling In the region will be established in Singapore by an American firm. This was disclosed yesterday by Mr. C. P. Loucks, chairman of the IMC Drilling Mud (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. He told a Press conference
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  • 184 5 SINGAPORE'S first nuclear scientist, Dr. Tay Eng Soon, 32, returns here from Britain tomorrow to join the University of Singapore. Dr. Tay will be a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, a member of nis family told the Eastern Sun yesterday. His return was
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  • 291 5 1/UALA LUMPUR Malaysia and Thailand yesterday agreed on the importance of psychological war campaign against Communist terrorists along their common border. Both countries also agreed in principle for surrender terms for the terrorists. Leaders of both delegations expressed their views at the 11th
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  • 377 6 AMMAN Work men shovelled bodies into mass graves in two Polestinion areas of Amman yesterday while the smeH of death was everywhere. Newsmen counted mor e than 50 corpses, including women and children, in a deep trench excavated by bulldozers in the Ash- rafiyeh area. At the
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  • 256 6 WASHINGTON Congress hat approved blank cheque authority for President Nixon to supply Israel whatever arms it may need short of nuclear weapons. Members endorsed a finding that Russia's role in the Middle East presented a "clear and present danger to world peace,'' and
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • 210 7 CANBERRA Federal Attorney-General Tom Hughes crabbed a letcong flag from a student and threw »t to the ground ia angry scenes at the Australian National University yesterday. A militant university student waved the fla e over Hughes* head as he addressed a student
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  • 128 7 NEW YORK Reacting to pressure brought by a United States senator, the Coast Guard has reopened the search for three balloonist* lost at ■ea while attempting to drift across the Atlantic. The Coast Guard said It resumed search yesterday far the three who disappeared
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  • 356 7 SAIGON The U.S. Army command in Vietnom hos quietly begun limiting supplies of ommunition and most other equipment to its neorly 300,000 troop* military sources reveoled yesterday. The sources said that the most restrictive "available supply rate" (ASR) in effect, rationing system
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  • 42 7 A Cambodian soldier watches as a wooden coffin containing the bodv of a comrade is lowered Into the grave near Stem Reap. The so'dier was killed in a clash with a Vietcong unit. UPI photo. UPI photo.
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  • 46 7 HONG KONG—An American was charged with blackmail alter threatening to blow up 2 planes in mid-air i( he was not paid *****.000 He was remanded in custody for a week yesterday, Ewing Dodgson, CI was refused bail because of the seriousness of the charge.
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  • 234 7 NEW DELHI The governor of U 11 a r Pradesh yesterday recommended that the state be clamped under direct Central Government rule as the **olitieal situation in the state became even more tangled. The governor, Mr. B. Gopal Reddi. made the move after Uttar
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  • 60 7 LONDON. About 8,000 Public Service workers stopped doing the nation's dirtv work lor the second da v vesterda v in an effort to get their wage demands met. Rubbish collectors sewage workers and transport men in half of London's 32 boroughs are staging selective strikes
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  • 136 7 WASHINGTON. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu was told In a letter from tt U.S. House members that there Is a "growing sense of outrage** among Americans over South Vietnam's treatment of military and political prisoners. The group 30 Democrats plus Republican Reps. Daniel
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  • World in brief
    • 417 8 SYDNEY Australia's unlucky flagship, th e aircraft-carrier 'Melbourne/' was in another collision yesterday* However, no one wa a reported Injured. The carrier which has twice sliced destroyers In two during exercises at sea, had a brush with a ferry boat in Sydney Harbour The ferry
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  • 394 8 fpOKYO Japan today gave a strong warning against growing trade protectionism. It cited the 1930's rise of Japanese Militarism in the face of protectionist trading blocs. Klichi Miyazawa, Minister for International Trade and Industry, was speaking to a foreign correspondents' club. His ministry is responsible for
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  • 227 8 ZANZIBAR An Iranian envoy if seeking the release of 4 Persian girls who were forced fo wed Zanzibar Government officials. However, he was told that the girls' husbands would first, have to agree to let them go. Zanzibar President Sheikh Abeld Karume told the visiting
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  • 47 8 This is a demonstration to counter another protest. The above photo shows Bolivians marchins in La Pai against a pro-gucrrilla rally at San Andres University. The latter had been organised to pay "homage" to a student guerrilla who was recently slain. UPI radiophoto.
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  • 33 8 MINOT. North Vice-President S piro Agnew asserted that a precipitate U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam would greatly heighten the risk of a world war with china at the end of this century.
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  • 30 9 SHAPING I'P as an expert on passes, Jan Srhults reminds fans that football season is here. The Sunken Gardens model (36-24-36) is from St. Petersburg, Fla
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  • 338 9 I OS ANGELES, A Stole witness, o bit part cowboy moyie actor, colled Charles Manson's lawyer a "big catfish." The lawyer called the witness a publicity-seeking fabricator. The district attorney called the lawyer a liar. The judge told them all to shut
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  • 131 9 LONDON, The my mlerj of riplohioDa in the 200,000-ton oil supertankers 10 months ago remains unsolved despite Intensive international re« earch, bat an interim report said electrostatic sparks might he a common cause and this might bring changes in traditional tank design In the giant
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  • 213 9 WASHINGTON Dr. Carl Mc In tire lias predicted that his march for victory in Vietnam rally on Saturday would still attract half-a-mil-lion people, although Vice-President Nguyen Cao Ky will not participate. Mclntlre however, told a news conference: "It la not beyond the realm of
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  • 56 9 Who hasn't at one time or another felt himself the victim of a vending machine? This mockingbird, photographed at Santa Maria, California, teems to duplicate human actions right down to th e final frustration in trying to grab a quick snack on the fly. Read instructions
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  • 158 9 LOS ANGELES A spokesman for Sammy Davi# Junior (above) said Tuesday he was certain the entertainer would continue in show business despite his statement that he was coins to qnit beta use he was mentally and physically exhausted. While performing before Seattle audience on
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  • 732 10 0n visitln K the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, said that it was the muscle flexing by U.S. Navy in that area P reve nted the Jordan civil strife from becoming a major Middle East conflagration. We doubt that there is any truth in the statement but
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  • 745 10  -  By Joseph Alsop, The liberal Democratic scramble to the centre is so hasty, even so undignified, that it is extremely comic. But it is a nationwide phenomenon. It has great future significance. And it is getting less attention than it certainly deserves. The fact of the
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    • 291 10 TOKYO—The youngest daughter of Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako will soon make her debut as an employee of a Tokyo department store, the Kyodo News Agency said today. She Is Mrs. Takako 8 h 1 m a z u. the fifth
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    • 213 10  -  Wee Kim Seah, The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board in trying to promote tourism as an industry Is laudable. While it is good to have foreign tourists coming to our young Republic, it Is no good for the tourists forming bad Image of our
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 63 10 Foreign new* and features appearing In all editions of the Kastern Nun and The Sun are I from: > Reuters, United Press i International, Age n e e France Presse, Editors Press Syndicate, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Publishers Hall I Syndicate, Los Angeles i Times Syndicate. Gemini Newt Service, North 'American
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  • 625 11 'THE capture of the number two man in the Huk hierarchy has not signalled the early end of the rebel m vement in the Philippines. President Ferdinand Marcos preyed the restoration of peace in the central plains north of Manila after the of
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  • 446 11 IS Prime Minister Edward Heath the invisible man? Is the British ship of state without a helmsman, No. 10 Downing Street without an occupant? These questions are being asked by both friends ana critics of Heath. The average Briton has seen almost nothing
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  • TODAY'S WORLD
    • 401 12/13 ECOLOGY NEW DELHI New steps are bein e taken to save the Royal Bengal tiger, king of the Indian jungle, from extinction. Acting on emergency recommendations from the Indian Board of Wild Life. 12 of India's 17 state* have banned tiger shooting for periods ranging
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    • 701 12/13 MEN AT WAR I TT'S a different I kind of war at the Australian task force base at Hui Dat. The 5,000-man Australian force, including a battalion of New Zealanders, is the only allied unit in the Indochina war with tactics markedly different from those used by
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    • 809 12/13 POLITICS GAMAL Abdel Nasser's unique position in the Arab world may never be filledHis death leaves a leadership vacuum not only in Egypt: his immense stature in the Arab world made him the only statesman capable of bridging its deep divisions. Whoever succeeds him
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    • 550 12/13 MODERN LIVING RAMON Magracia is symbolic of attempts of the people of the developing world to build a better future. Magracia, like many individuals and nations, had been defeated in an attempt to pull himself out of the morass of poverty. But
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  • 1201 14 By Patrick J. Killen ILOILO, Philippines That "hippie commune" on the banks of the lloilo River belongs to the U.S. Peace Corps. Part of the new directions: Peace Corps volunteers complete with families for the first time. In June. Jerry McAdams was principal of
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  • 599 14  -  DOCTOR'S MAILBAG By Wayne G. Brandstadt, M. D. Superstitions regarding health and medicine are hardy perennials. They die hard but, for •very one that dies, three or four spring up to take its place. Here are a few that are still around in varying stages
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  • 667 15  -  "Make acting round-clock By Harold Heffernan, An eager group of little theatre hopefuls gathered on the UCLA campus to hear a lecture by one of Hollywood's top actors got the shock of their young lives. Were they hearing right? "Don't take up acting," Leslie Nielsen was admonishing
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  • 358 15 CULVER CITY "Fortune And Men's Eyes", the explosive play dealing with homosexuality in a Canadian prison, will be produced by Elgin Films, Ltd., of Canada and Cinemex International Films Inc., In association with MGM and the Canadian Film Development Corp. In an unprecedented move, the Canadian government
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 218 15 SB MM SHAW I ISATION L I D O Phone *****4 J OPENS I'ODAY! 11 MB. I.4ft. 4. ».lft Robert Ooulet *(>nder(round" Color (0A( CAPITOL Phono Oprnt Today!—No Krrr Uil II la, 1.45. 4. «.ao A S.M Anthony Hteffeo "DJango The *****" Color A Scope Saturday Midnight at CAPITOL A
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    • 234 15 ORCJ A I\ll SAT ILJ l\J CATHAY ***** (NO WEEK! No rre« List 11 am *..<« 000 A M pa MUM* "KELLY'S HfcHOES" Clint Eaatwood Panavision Metrocolor 1 QDEON ***** 1 OPENS TODAY! 11 am. «:ra, ».M "Srrrani And Scream Aiila" Vincent Price In Color SATURDAY MIDNIOHTI ODEON A ORCHARD
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  • 291 16 ADVENTURES IN A SINGAPORE KITCHEN 7 ...a- 4- r>' :-assi "WHAT a world of flavour difference a small hyphen can make! Baked-potato salad Is a potato salad made with baked, not boiled, potatoes. It's baked potatosalad (the hyphen has moved over one word,
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  • 839 16  - DO ANT HILL BEDS CURE CANCER Ann Landers DEAR ANN: 1 have a friend who knows everything. Yesterday she announced at our card club that any Illness can be cured by eating certain foods. Bhe went Into great detail about "earth remedies" which have medical science for centuries. Her grandmother,
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  • WOMEN
    • 466 17  -  The drum, the veena and bhava By Marianne Pereira necklaces and toe-rings glistened, anklets jingled and bangles jangled with each new movement, the dark eyes of the dancer flashed. Hands with long, straight ringed fingers, coloured with mehandi (a ground leaf
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    • 217 17 LOOK FOR the special Styles for the young... •..bold young corduroy, often belted and banded with wet-look black vinyl, in sturdy rain-re-pellent coats, some with Pants. 6*o ...young knits In tunics to wear as mini-dresses, over matched pants, in Finnish blue and white, abastractly patterned, a a a
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    • 171 17 IF YOU'RE a disabled housewife you needn't be totally dependent on others for assistance. Two books which have been published by the British Arthritis and Rheumatism Council 'Your home and yous rheumatism* and 'Your garden and your rheumatism" will teach you to tackle jobs you
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    • 154 17 New designer 3hail Upadhya, a United Nations official from Nepal who has lately been making a splash in New York with his ethnic-inspired fashions, thinks that longer skirts are being forced on women. So he's registering a protest by doing shorter pants for men. For Paris Fashions
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1970 18 LOOKING AND LISTENING.... fv radio guide CARROLL RIOHTER'S 992 Keselamatan Jalan Raya '*1 Won't Be Home Tonight" 1000 News (Tamil) 1015 Dial 999 "Heads Of Tails'' 10.41 Close from the Carroll Rifhter Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: You can now make progress in gaining support from one who can aid you gieatly
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  • 382 19 ONE of Hie pleasant things in this world is to travel. One can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough Therefore one 13 never alone than when alone. It is well spoken: 'The fields my study, nature is my
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  • 392 19 Singapore retains many vestiges of its colourful paj>t. The island a bustling, well-ordered Asian City, has impressed tourists with its skyscrapers, office buildings, lush parks. and gracious lawn-fringed homes. When tne setting sun which appears like a burning disc disappears, night life in the city begins. Every hawker
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  • 559 19  -  DATELINE By Ele, Walt Dulaney DEAR CLE: My boy. friend has been coming to pick me up at dance class every week. It's a great kelp because it means I don't have to wait for the bus in a rather
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  • 76 19 THE 1701 Dolphin Scout Group will celebrate Its Silver Jubilee on October 3. In connection with the celebrations, a Scout exhibition will be held on the same day (from 2.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.) at "Sands" House, Clemenceau Avenue. Later, the Group will hold a
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  • 114 19 KYOTO. Japan Workers aft a mannequin faciory la this western Japan citj are busy making dancing, talking dolls. The doUs are named "Cyborgs" after a rare of little people in a science fiction cartoon film which was popular among Japanese children. The dolls
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  • 29 19 I am persuaded that every time a man smiles but much more so when he laughs it adds something to this fragment of life. Laurence Sterne, Br.Ush novelist.
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 194 19 ESSAY CONTEST: I Rules to observe MMMMMMMSaSi The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest foe boys and girls o# 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in rtiis page from Monday to Friday. Prire money is: $lO for Seniors and $5 for |uniors i to* every
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  • 338 20 Basinets In the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday was drastically reduced to a volume of 1.2 million umts. Conditions In the market were generally cold and prices were depressed. reacting to the move made by the Exchange the previous day to act on three securities
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  • 173 20 ON October 1, 8. H. Benson Advertising will launch a new company specifically designed and staffed to fulfil 'below the line' functions which are normally beyond the scope of an advertising agency. The company, Benson Bales Promotion Bdn. Bhd. or BBP will offer complete services encompassing both
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  • 255 20 October first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 49-7/8 cents per lb. up 1 cent from Hie previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. After an unchanged opening. the market steadied some 3/8 cent during the
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  • 118 20 BONG KONG Wednesday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Bayers) (Sellers) 197 198 per 100 Strait* dollars 149 151 per 1.000 Taiwan dollar*, 6.745 6.755 per Australian dollar 340 950 per 1.000 Burmese kvau 490 510 per 1.000 Indian rupees 140 100 per
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  • 13 20 The tin price for yesterday was $6611 per picul up i.
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  • 699 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS B h Aetna 1J3 Ajinomoto 198 2.00 Ama 140 Allied Cboe 2.80 2.83 Ben. 102 1.05 Berjaya 1.00 1.10 Borneo 160 1.70
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  • 729 20 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stork Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS ACMA $1.34 (2) Ajinomoto $1 98 (2); Alcan $1.40 (2) $1.41 (4); Allied Choc.
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  • 78 20 TH* oooo prior* •I the Mtn*nporr Chlnm Produce Birbanrf yetlfrtfm) 1 ••••hi Oil (F.O.B) Bulk M 80 Coconut Oil(FOB) Drum 8700 M Copra 30-50 M lint ok W'b|te ft TO, IBB-00 Saruuitk Whit* IVpppi M 18X4)0 Sarawak wpi*claJ Black Pepper (FOB.) 187 00 Lump K Mprrigi (FOB) K&40 Black
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 282 21 Australian exports to Singapore has been steadily increased in the past two years. Imports from Australia to Singapore (or 1969 were valued at $241 million compared with $216 million in 1968. These figures released by the Singapore Department of Statistics speak for itself on the tremendous
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    • 586 21 4I(KI\ ALS I.4'' ain MSA 125 Kuala Lumpur *.«:> a m MsA 584 Co nun bo Isinm. MM 12) kuala I ii in pur llv i O M*A 4A( Ku«U Lumpur 11 o. m m MsA 454 Prnant kuala Luinpui 11 to am MsA SOU I akartn l
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    • 31 21 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange 30 Industrials 760 88 ?0 Transp. 153.14 15 Utilities 108.51 5 Stocks 245.60 40 Bonds 5.61
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    • 108 21 Mr. B. K. Kierkegaard, honorary Danish Consul for Singapore and Oeneral Manager of The East Asiatic Company Ltd., has been appointed Chief Executive of the Company In Thailand. Prior to his coming to Singapore Mr. Kierkegaard. aged 37 and married with three chl dren, was
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    • Article, Illustration
      66 21 PATRICK Scow, (above) Sales Supervisor of the Monroe Division of Eastern Agencies, will be leaving Singapore to attend the Regional Sales Managers Conference conducted by Monroe in Hong Kong. During the conference. Mr. Seow will also undergo a familiarisation course in connection with the new Monroe 1600 Series
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    • 96 21 THE Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for today, Oct. I: i DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 5 Nissho Maru 10/11 Star Aldebaran 13/14 Velay 18 Jhelutn 19 Romo Maersk 23/24 Horol 29/30 Melbourne Maru 31/32 Orianienburg 40/41 Kinrik Maru 42/43 Andrzej Strii* 44 Benarkle
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    • 337 21 SYDNEY International mining sparked the rest of the speculative nickel stocks and brought new buyers into the market on Sydney Exchange Wednesday. IMC touched a high of $7.30 midway through trading but eased near the close to $7.20. a net gain of $1.30 on the day.
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 110 21 REWARDING CAREER A young, aggressive daily newspaper in Singapore is seeking a young man or woman for the position of CIRCULATION MANAGER We prefer an experienced circulator but we will consider an inexperienced person who has exceptional energy, natural organisational ability and good language skills. The job will be to
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 986 22 CI. 1 Div. 1—9 Furs. ***** ***** 0«>i20 ***** 40 ***** ***** 01.167 ***** ***** Interact Katonc Oft*« Keep Going Man of Honour Jubilation EM* Count Ocean Olympic Flame 11 Dating fancy New Lane 8Uvcr Spray Happy Melody II Foreat Jim Flyine n»n Tangfln Height*
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    • 171 22 STATE PENSION, a newcomer with trainer Eddie Breukelen, showed good form in a trial with stablemate Kakamion here this morning. Clapping on the pace from the halt mile, the pair raced stride for stride over 3* in 38 4/5 with State Pension doing better at
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    • 231 22  -  By William Scally NEWPORT, Rhode Itland The 12-metre yacht Intrepid—twice successful defender of the America's Cup is to be sold or given away, it was announced today. The Intrepid syndicate, which campaigned the yacht against two Australian challengers, is now dissolved. Intrepid beat Pattie 4-0
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    • 177 22 THE following is the latest classification list issued by the Malayan Racing Association yesterday. CLASSIFICATION LIST PROMOTIONS:From Class 2 to Class 1:Negri Express. Sungei Wang 11. From Class 3 to Class 2 Kampong Melayu, Indian Patrol, Royal Catch, Fortune Hunter. Zaman. From Class 5 to
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  • 195 23 HONOLULU Rene Barrientos, former World Boxing Council Junior Lightweight Champion, established himself as a contender in the lightweight division Tuesday night by scoring an eight-round technical knockout orer French champion Roger Zami. Barrientos, 136. (01.5 kgms), got the TKO when the referee, on the
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  • 41 23 TOKYO—Orient featherweight champion Nobuo Chiba knocked out number four contender Anancakorn Lukumuangraj of Thailand last night with a straight right to the ja w jn the second round In the first defence of hi s crown at Korakuen Hall.
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  • 306 23 Singapore go-kart racer wins JAKARTA, Singapore racer Llem Chen Cheon won the International Go- K art race in Bandung from Asian champion Henky Iriawan of Indonesia and Joey Bundalian of the Philippines. First prize in the 25lap race over 30 kms (19 miles) at the Bandung Institute of
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  • 187 23 ALL the athletes competing in the Asian Games trials failed to qualify in their respective events at Farrer Park yester- day. However, notable mention should be accorded to policeman, Lim Boot Hiang who beat the qualifying mark in his third and
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  • 63 23 W ATKINS GLEN, New York—The world's leading race drivers begin open practice on Wednesday for the 200 miles (322 Kms) Grand Prix of the United States Sunday. Four drivers including former world champions Jack Brabham of Australia driving a Brabham and Denis Hulme of
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  • 104 23 Billie Jean King, three-time Wimbledon champion led a revolt of the world's top women tennis players against the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA) by becoming a contract professional and playing in a non-sanctioned USL TA tournament. The girls had Slims Invitational $5/000 Virginia Tennis Tournament
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  • 467 23  -  By 1 TONY COZIER GEMINI THE world's most famous cricketer, Gary Sobers, stepped off BOAC's VC-10 at Seawell International Airport here the other day and landed right in the middle of a heated controversy. Sobers, 34-year-old West Indies Test captain, was returning to his native Barbados
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  • 170 24 DA NANG An Air Vietnam DC3 aircraft crashed yesterday In fool weather in a mountain pass near Da Nang. Spokesmen for the government-oper-ated airline said the plane, on a flight from Ban Me Thout to Hue, carried 27 passengers and a
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  • 474 24 Weoring block and near collopse, the widow of President Nasser yesterday visited the presidential polace where the body of her husband lay in a simple wooden coffin. Mrs. Nasser, 48, accompanied by hsr five children and supported on either side by helpers, drove from
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  • 275 24 LONDON Russia has offered China a non-aggression pact but Peking rejected it out of hand, diplomatic sources disclosed yesterday The Russians made the offer at talks In Peking on China's demand of "rectifications" of the 4,000-mile SlnoBoviet frontier. China claims sizable parts of Soviet
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  • 34 24 BELGRADE President Nixon arrived at Belgrade's Surcin airport yesterday the first American State Head ever to visit Yugoslavia. President Tito headed a welcoming party ol top officials at the heavily-guarded airport.
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  • 94 24 NEW YORK The Malaysian Ambassador, Mr. Radhakrishna Ramani, died suddenly yesterday in his suite at the Waldorf Towers, where he was staying while in New York for the U.N. General Assembly session. He had undergone open heart surgery in New York some years ago and
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  • 207 24 PHNOM PENH Cambodian troops, celebrating a three-day religious holiday, are allowing Communists to control part of the highway between Phnom Penh and the port of Kompong Som. "We will undertake no clearing operations until the holiday ends,'' an officer told UPI. An unknown number of
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