Eastern Sun, 27 September 1966

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  • 28 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. \ol. 1. is ot 79. Tuesday, September 27 1966. ft MC (P) 1942 ft KDN 2309 Price 15 eenfs
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  • 565 1 United Nations, New TUN ABDUL RAZAK Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, asked all other n the conference fable 'the im war in Vietnam. Speaking in the Assembly's general debate he also urged U Thant of Burma to continue as U. N. SecretaryGeneral, hailed
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  • 125 1 HONG KONG Mon. (UPI) A total of 116 fires of all sorts broke out on Saturday and yesterday setting: a new record in Hong Kong and 900 auxiliary Are fighters were ready to go to the aid of the exhausted firemen. Mr. Joseph Milner, director or
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  • 185 1 PES AS G, Mon. Police fcere made several raids in the city yesterday, the last day of the Selangor Turf Club meeting, in an all-out effort to stamp out the illegal operation by "bookies" in the three and four digits' character lottery. As a result of
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  • 215 1 NLFCS owns 12 mil. estates KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak turned down a request by the Minister of Works Posts and Telecommunications, Tan Sri Sambanthan for a year's leave from ministerial duties. Disclosing this here today. Tan Sri Sambanthan said he made the request to
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  • 219 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin. will make an address at the Joint annual discussion of the Boards of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and its affiliates (the International Finance Corporation and the International Development Association)
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  • 84 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman yesterday returned to Kuala Lumpur after attending the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in London. To welcome him at the International Airport were the Minister of Home Affairs, Tun (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, who had been acting
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  • 109 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A lottery in aid of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Eduration Fund Foundation is now on sale. Tickets at 50 cents each can be ordered from ErineEnterprise, No. 5. Jalan Raja Uda; or No. 11-A, Jalan Merak off 2} mile lpoh Road here. The
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  • 56 1 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marsoc is scheduled to arrive in Tokyo at 3 p.m. (0600 GMT) tomorrow for a five-year State visit. According to the official itinerary issued by the Philippine Embassy today. Pres. Marcos will meet with the Emperor Hirohito, Prime Minister
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  • 140 1 STONELEIGH, England, Mon. (UPI) Enche Mohamad bin Jamil. Malaysian Director of Agriculture, expressed "serious concern" today over world food production, especially that of rice. Enche Jamil, speaking a3 chairman to an international conference on "Mechanization and the world's rice," said "The present outlook on
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  • 34 1 KARACHI. Mon. (AFP)' Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister N. P. Firyubin flew into Rawalpindi on an unexpected trip this morning which observers linked with Soviet efforts for peace between India and Pakistan.
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  • Local News
    • 91 2 MUAR, Mon. A student of the Chung Hwa High School here, Mr. Soo Yong Teck, 20, is among a group of 35 students from Muar leaving for Taiwan for further study. Mr. Soo will do a fouryear B.Sc. course in Chemical Engineering at the Cheng
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    • 311 2  -  By MUSA SCULLY KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The ASA Customs study team will be here on Oct. 3 for a detailed study of Malaysia's Customs administration and procedures. The team comprising nine top Customs officials from the three ASA countries (Malaysia, Thailand and the
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    • 134 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Methodist Afternoon School Old Boys' Association (MASOBA) has opened its new clubhouse to members and friends. The clubhouse, at 12-C Jalan Berumi, off Treacher Road, was acquired at a cost of $19,000 more than half of which has been paid out from previous
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    • 162 2 SEREMBAN, Mon. The sending-off ceremony to bid farewell to the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan was held at the Istana Hinggap this morning. About 100 people, including members of Negri Sembilan Royal Family, the ruling chiefs. State Assemblymen. MPs Senators and senior government
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    • 159 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Chief of the Armed Forces Staff, General Tunku Osman bin Tunku Mohd. Jew a, will be viaiting the Malaysian Infantry Brigade in Sabah from tomorrow to Oct. L While in Sabah, General Osman will be making a courtesy call on
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    • 77 2 IPOH, Mon. Dato Chan Swee Ho, President of the Lions Club of Ipoh pre. senting a football, to the boys of the Salvation Army Boys' Home in Tambun Road, Ipoh, last Saturday, as a September project of the Lions Club of Ipoh. The boys totalling 67 also received
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    • 109 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. An 18-year-old mechanic from the Ampang new village was today found guilty in the Sessions Court here of having committed an offence under the Internal Security Act by having in his possession subversive documents near the village market on Jan. 8 at
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    • 85 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. About 600 men of the National Service Corps, comprising recruits from Sarawak, Sabah. Johore. Malacca. Negri Sembilan and Selangor will hold a passingout parade at the National Service Training Centre, Siginting Camp, Port Dickson tomorrow, commencing at 9.00 a.m. Commander, Headquarters Port Dickson
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    • 82 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Three Malaysian Armed Forces officers will bt leaving Kuala Lumpur by air tomorrow for further staff training in Britain They are Majors Abdul Hamid bin Ibrahim. Mokfa. tar bin Ismail and VL Mathews. These officers wiil flnt be attached to the British Army
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    • 264 3  -  FIRST ONE SINCE RESUMPTION OF TRADE By PETER LOKE SINGAPORE, Mon. The first Indonesian ship I* due in Singapore within the next twenty-four hours with a full load of cargo from Jakarta. This will be the first vessel to arrive from Indonesia since the
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    • 118 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Increased sales of Australian apples In Singapore are expected when Australian growers step up their effort* here. This was the opinion of two leading growers, Mr. C.R. Frankcomb and Mr. E.W. Seabrook, after their recent tour of Singapore, Manila and Hong Kong
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    • 309 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. An American science degree was useless because it was not recognised here. So Mr. Charles Chan Cheok Wah. 29, grabbed the first job that came his way. That was about two years ago when he joined the Bata Shoe
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    • 356 3 —Court told PENANG, Mon. A 23-year-old seamstress, Lee Gaik Lan, was in a state of severe shock when she was attended to at the General Hospital after receiving a stab wound in the abdomen in front of the Rex Tailor Shop in
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    • 134 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Construction work has starton the last four barges ordered by the Pakistan Government at the Jurong Shipyard here. They are scheduled to be completed and launched within the next two months. A spokesman from the Shipyard said that it had already completed half-the-order of four
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    • 55 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Minister for Education, Mr. Ong Pang Boon, will inspect the sth annual Inspection and Presentation Parade of the Police Cadet Corps on Wednesday, at 5.30 p.m. at the Police Training School ground. The parade will be formed by 63 officers and 289 Second
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    • 215 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A youth told the Sessions Court today that he pleaded guilty to the charge because the Police Constable who arrested him asked him to do so 'in order to be freed'. Yew Peng Keong, 17 pleaded guilty to the charge of
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    • 98 3 PENANG, Mon. Four snatch thefts and two house breakings were committed during the week-end here, according to the Police. A student, Nazir Ariff, of Green Lane, reported that a television set, valued at $BOO, 15 bottles of liquor, valued at $220, and other personal belongings to the
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    • 313 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The University of Singapore Socialist Club will hold a three-day seminar on "Communalism and National Unity'* from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2. The seminar will be held at the university's cam- pus at Bukit Timah. The seminar will be divided into three
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    • 116 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Adult Education Board will organise a course to prepare students for the Part One Examinations of the Institute of Bankers to be held in September, next year. The course will be conducted over a period of three terms, totalling 42 weeks, and will
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    • 174 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. A hijacked priy*te i i* as used as a get away car in a daring daylight robbery in busy Rochore Road at 10>15 a.m. today. Madam Chee Hoe Kuan, proprietress of Hock Tong Bee and Co., left her shop with $7,500
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    • 306 3  -  By SUHAIMI BIDIN SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore's former Thomas Cupper and Champion, Ismail Marjan, whose name at one time was a household word is today lying in hospital pending a heart operation. The former badminton star was admitted to hospital three weeks ago after he
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    • 37 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Highlight of this year'# Children's Day rally at the Stadium Negara on Oct. 3 will be the presentation of the Pingat Hang Tuah to the child hero by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
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    • 137 3 SINGAPORE, Mo n. Particia Loke, 15 of Tiong Bahru Secondary School, won the first prize of a Lady Seiko watch in a safety first Quiz organised by Thong Sia Company today. The second prize, a Seiko world traveller alarm clock, went to Hardev Singh of
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    • 82 3 PENANG, Moil. The Controller of Telecommunications, Penang, Mr. V. A. Thomas, said here today that there had been a rumour going round that a free local call could be obtained by first dialling "849" followed by the number required. He said that this was not
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    • 152 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Two ships of the same shipping company, Salvage Engineers of Singapore, have met with disaster in the Danang River of South Vietnam, the Eastern Sun learnt yesterday. The "Salvaray" was declared a "total wreck" and lies submerged In the Danang River, while the "Salvana"
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    • 74 3 KUALA KANGSAR, Mon. A housewife, Teh Sariah binte Kulop Mohd., was awakened from her sleep at 1 30 a.m. yesterday by a thief who snatched away her $2OO necklace. The woman told the Police that she was disturbed in her sleep by a noise in her
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    • 195 4 KAMPAR. Mon. An right-year-old school girl told the Magistrate's Court here today that a 68-year-old farmer gave her live cents after she had seen with her elder sister sitting in a clearing in a tapioca plantation. The girl was testifying against Chaw Lin, who
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    • 172 4 KUCHING, Mon. A doctor, attached to the sth Battalion, the Royal Malay Regiment in Sibu, saved the lives of four seriously injured Iban children last week bj giving immediate first aid treatment on the spot. He was Captain Gurmit Singh who was rushed by R.A.F. helicopter
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    • 106 4 MALACCA, Mon. Miss Malaysia Day, 1966, Fauxiah binte Hussein, is among the several contestants vieing for the Miss Malacca contest on Oct. 1. Miss Fauziah, though only 18, is an active and popular social worker in Malacca. Of the coming beauty contest, she said that it is
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    • 327 4 PENAN G, Mon. Two Malaysian fishermen, Ooi Eng Hwa. 27, and Ong Hooi Seah, 19, who served prison sentences in Indonesia during confrontation, returned here today with five others in a cargo boat for a happy re-union with their families. The other five, also
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    • 74 4 MALACCA, Mon. The sunken half of the 500-ton Indonesian cargo boat. "Selat Sunda", damage and stricken here since July 27, was surfaced yesterday after repairs carried out to the damaged hull. The boat is expected to be towed to Slngaoore In the next few days for fuller
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    • 420 4  -  By HOO BAN KHEE KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong will attend the First Night (Oct. 2) of Malam Irama Malaysia. The two-night concert wilil be staged in Dewan Tnnkn Chancellor in the University of Malaya here
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    • 216 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, Mr. Yeap Kee Aik, has denied that he has given authorisation for the merger of a large Federation of Transport Workers Union. In a statement today, Mr. Yeap referred to an article in the Straits Times
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    • 435 4 IPOH, Mon. A police informer, Singaram s/o Kanagasabai, was sentenced to three years jail when he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide, not amounting to murder in the High Court here today. Singaram, a granite labourer, was charged with causing
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    • 192 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Greater prosperity in rural areas could be achieved through co-ordination and efforts, said the Minister of Lands and Mines Enche Rahman Ya'akub. He was speaking today at the opening of a three day course on community development for District Officers held at Government
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    • 94 4 KUCHING. Mon. (AFP)— One case of smallpox was admitted to the general hospital here, the Medical and Health Department reported today. A spokesman for the department said that the patient a girl from Kuching was believed to have contacted the disease in the border
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    • 73 4 KUALA LUMPUR Mon.— The Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Jubir, had a lengthy meeting with members of the Railwaymen Union of Malaya here today to discuss problems arising between the Railway Administration and the Union. After listening to explanations given by the Minister,
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    • 127 4 KUCHING, Mon (AFP) Sarawak's Chief Minister, Penghulu Tawi Sli. said today that his Government is a multi-racial and democratic government. "Our Alliance Government is a multi-racial Government. We will do our best for the people of Sarawak. We seek to work with everybody. We are not anti-anybody,
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    • 392 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The gaiety of this year's Press Ball "will surpass" that of any other party oI its kind, Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Prime Minister, said in a message to the National Union of Journalists here today. The Prime Minister who returned home
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    • 78 4 MALACCA, ia only winner in the Eastern Sun Qn»*J 1 1 test No. 6. is S. Somu who said that n he s? w his name a®*" the winners he rece> pleasant shock. "While I would much to win a Pr»* c 1 j not for a while
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    • 188 5  -  By Peter Loke SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Government has nominated Dr. Won? Lin Ken to be its Ambassador to the United Arab Republic, the Eastern Sun learnt today. Dr. Wong is the chairman of the Adult Education Board. He is scheduled to
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    • 109 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Marine Manager of the Perolin Co. Ltd., London, Mr. Reyer H. King, will arrive here in mid-October. Mr. King is on an extensive tour of Europe. Africa, Australia and the Far and Middle East. In Singapore. Mr. King will visit local shipping companies. He
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    • 62 5 IPOH, Mon. Mr. Ng Chong Fatt. General Manager of Shaw Organisation in Perak, has been appointed chairman of the goodwill of the General Hospital here. Other members of the committee are: Mr. Cheah Toong San (Secretary), Dato Tahwil A'sar bin Ahmad (Orang Besar Jajahan. Klnta).
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    • 40 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. A 13-year-old student, Tan Kee Tat. was drowned when he accidentally fell mio a canal behind the Great World Amusement Park yesterday. Police who recovered the body three hours later did not suspect foul play.
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    • 133 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Singapore Traffic Police will step up action against the owners of vehicles which are emitting excessive and obnoxious fumes, as from Nov. 1. In the meantime, the public are asked to assist the Government In Its campaign against these vehicles. They are requested to
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    • 95 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. —The registration of new identity cards for residents in Serangoon Gardens will begin from Oct. 4 to 14 at two registration centres. The registration centres will be at the P.A.P. branch premises at 64, Yio Chu Kang Road, from Oct. 4 to 10,
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    • 129 5  -  PETER LOKE. SINGAPORE, Mon. The Economic Development Board will set up a trade promotional and investment office in Hongkong before the end of this year. This was disclosed today to the Eastern Sun by a ipokesman for the EDB. The
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    • 105 5 IPOH. Mon. The first iecretary of the Republic of Korea Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Mr. Tae Hi Nam, with four other Koreans, will give Tae Kwon-Do demonstration at the Young Men's Christian Association here at 8 p.m. on Saturday. The other demonstrators •re all masters
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    • 43 5 TAIPING. Mon. A 16-year-old girl, Lee Soo Har, is reported missing from her home at Kampong Pinang Kamunting since 6ept. 15. Taiping Police, seeking information of her whereabouts. described her as 4 ft. 10 in. tall, fair complexion and wearing spectacles.
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    • 255 5 By K. G. THARAN SINGAPORE, Mon. The British Government's defence policy in east Malaysia remains unchanged. This was stated today by the British Army spokesman. Col. R. C. Laughton when asked to comment on reports reaching here from Sarawak that British troops would
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    • 199 5 SINGAPORE, Mon—A girl who became an accomplished pianist at the age of four, will perform noted classical pieces at the Singapore Conference Hall •n Wednesday at 8.45 p.m. She is Miss Ruth Slcnc*>nska, who is currently giving recitals all ovei the World. Her repertoire for
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    • 76 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. Three masked men, one of *'hom was armed with a knife, held up a housewife and got away with cash and Jewellery worth $825 in Boon Teck Road yesterday. The robbers entered the Bouse through the front door about 3 a.m. and confronted Madam To w
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    • 318 5  -  By KALWANT S. SIDHU SINGAPORE, Mon. Korean and Japanese nightclub entertainers practically monopolised the business in Singapore and Malaysia, said the manager of a leading local nightclub. According to him next come the South Americans. New Zealanders. Australians. British and Germans. They
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    • 66 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. Mr. George Milne, General Manager of Hotel Singapura Intercontinental, and his wife, Peggy (above) have returned here recently after completing a six-week round the world trip. The Milnes, also spent a week's vacation at Western International's Ilikai Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mr.
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    • 175 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. The $98,000 fountain at Tanglin Circus was opened by the Minister for Culture and Social Affairs Enche Othman Wok, tonight. The fountain was the third of a series of big fountains to be commissioned this year. In declaring the fountain open, Enche Othman
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    • 87 5 SINGAPORE. Mon Boys between the ages of 16 and 20 can now apply lor a three-month basic training course in seamanship. Announcing this today, Mr. Lua Cheng Eng, of the Seafarers' Welfare Board, said the training would be given aboard the training ship, in Singapore. He urged
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    • 118 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. Mr. D. Fleming (pointing), a Public Relations Officer, indicates something of interest to three visitors from Singapore during their recent tour of East Kilbride New Town in Scotland. The visitors (from left) are Mr. Lee Wun Lang. Head of Chinese Programmes
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    • 201 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The British High Commissioner to Malaysia, Sir Michael Walker, will present a $33,000 worth of equipment to the University of Malaya's Physics Department on Wednesday at 10 a.m. there. The gift is being made on behalf of hte United Kingdom Government under
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    • 36 5 TAIPING. Mon. Abdul Rahman bin Haji Said. 30. a religious teacher from Jelutong. eight miles from here, was today admitted to hospital with a slash wound on the neck. His condition is fair.
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    • 26 5 TAIPING, Mon. Cheah Ah Yen, 37, a housewife, was struck dead by lightning while cooking in her kitchen at 49$ Milestone, Simpang Road yesterday.
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    • 152 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. Mrs. Vivien Hew, (above) a ticketing and reservations agent of Lufthansa, has been selected to undergo an advanced tariff course at the airline's training school in Hamburg. She leaves Singapore on Thursday and will be away for a month. This is Mrs. Hew's
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    • 133 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. A two-day seminar on International Marketing will be held on Oct. 18 and 19 from 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce's Lecture Hall, Hill Street here. It is being organised by the Supervisory and Management Training Association of
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 62 2 K.L. Diary Muzium Negara 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.; Zoo Negara 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Jalan Weld Swimming Pool 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.; "East Coast in Sketches" Exhibition at Samat Art Gallery 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 640 4 CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Penang; 6 Ipoh and Malacca; 3 and 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 1 Batu Pa hat: 9 Kluang. P.M. 5.45 Opening Annct, Prog. Summary; 5.50 News In the National Language, 5.55 National Songs; 6.00 News in Tamil; 6.10 The Magilla Gorilla Show; 6.35 A Man
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    • 394 4 Why crack your head when you can tackle easier quiz like ours; EASTERN SUN 3,000 Contest Quiz for September 27 1966. 1. Who writes "Popping Around" in the Sunday ion of the Eastern Sun? 2. What is a Diatom? 3. Which is the highest cloud found in the earthy atmosphere?
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 57 5 TIME AND TIDE Jenang: 11.42 a.m. (7.2 ft). or t Swettenham: 4.35 a.m. (12.4 ft.), 4.51 p.m. (11.9 ft). Port Dickson: 5.16 a.m. (7.7 ft), 5.52 p.m. (7.7 ft.), f'ngapore: 10.28 a.m. (7.5 ft), 9.48 p.m. (8.2 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 8.59 a.m. (7.2 ft.), 8.03 p.m. (5.9 ft.). KuanUn; 8.09
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    • 47 5 STORE DIARY 6 p.m. Victoria Theatre Empress Place: "Perauuan Bintang Radio 1966" in Malay. Admission fee. $1 and $2. 7.30 p.m. Free film shows at Lorong Fatimah; Nam Chong School Culegar Road; Kampong Chia Keng, Track 8, Yio Chu Rang Road; Church ground, Stephen Lee Road, Mandai.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 332 6 ST. MAWGAN, England, Mon. (UPI). A Royal Air Force Shackleton Plane took off early today to search for two British newsmen who are rowing across the atlantic from Virginia. The four-engine reconnaissance plane was ordered to search as long as its fuel
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    • 134 6 BLANCO, Texas, Mon. (UPI) President Johnson atattended two Church worship services yesterday before preparing to return to Washington for talks with West German Chancellor Mr. Ludwig Erhard. The Chief Executive arose early to take his daughter, Luci, and her husband, Patrick J. Nugent, to an 8
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    • 71 6 ACCRA, Mon. (UPI) Ghana has abandoned a plan to switch to driving on the right-hand side of the road. The changeover from the British left-hand system was proposed three years ago by the regime of ex President Kwame Nkrumah. But sources said yesterday that a committee in
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    • 74 6 ROME, Mon. (AP) United States Defence Secretary Mr. Robert 8. McNamara flew to Wash ington last night after two days of rest following a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) working group on nuclear planning. The Nato nuclear session In Rome has brought together Mr.
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    • 64 6 WASHINGTON, Ml on. (AFP) The Ministers of the "Group of Ten" world's richest nations today elected British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. James Callaghan as their president for six months. Informed sources said his successor in six months' time if lively Jo be Mr. Henry Fowler, UJS. Secretary
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    • 108 6 IPSWICH. England. Mon. (AP) Billy Smart, cigarpufllng circus owner and one of Britain's most flamboyant showmen, collapsed and died yesterday after conducting a band in his favourite tune "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts." Smart, who weighed 280 pounds and always wore a huge white
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    • 68 6 GATWICK, England, Mon. (AP) Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth 11. left by plane for Buenos Aires yesterday for a visit to Argentina. The Prince who is President of the International Equestrian Federation, is to attend the World Show Jumping Championships in Buenos Aires. He wUI visit
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    • 60 6 TORONTO, Canada, Sun. (AP) United States Navy flier Lt Commander Richard Oliver of the Blue Angels Flying team, puts his plane into a dive (top) seconds before crashing, bottom at the Canadian National Exhibition air show at Toronto recently. The plane trails coloured
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    • 105 6 MINNEAPOLIS. Minnesota, Mon. (AP) Mrs. Catherine Papachristou, a Greek mother of three, boarded a plane for Greece yesterday following recovery from heart surgery by University of Minnesota Medical School Physicians. Mrs. Papachristou underwent ODen heart surgery on April 29. Dr. C. Walter Lillehei performed
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    • 87 6 NEW YORK, Mon. (AP) Sardar Swaran Singh, Indian Minister of External Affairs, arrived last night from India to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting now in session. Mr. Singh, who spoke briefly to reporters as he walked to a waiting automobile, said he considered
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    • 63 6 CARACAS. Mon. (AFP) The bullet-ridden body of Alfredo Jose Seijas, legal advisor to Venezuela's police headquarters, was found this weekend In Maracuay suburb, police announced tonight. They said Seijas was murdered on Friday night. One week ago the Venesuelan police chief was seriously hurt in an attempt
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    • 251 6 DALLAS TEXAS, Mon. (AP) —Dr. Martin Luther King charged yesterday that the high proportion of Negroes among American combat troops in Vietnam reflects "the deep pattern of discrimination in our country." SpeaKing at a news conference prior to addressing a night session of the S£° U
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    • 680 6 PARIS, Mon. (AP). AFTER three weeks of hearings In an Orante high-ceilinged court room, the controversial Ben Barka trial seems as far as ever from the key question In the case: Were high-ranking officials of the French Police system
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    • 62 6 BRITAIN'S first Polaris submarine, HMS Resolution hits the water after she was launched by H.M. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at the Vlckers Armstrong: Yard in Barrow-in-Furness, England recently. The new Polaris submarine, HMS Resolution, is about 7,000 tons and is one of the four
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    • 133 6 ESPANOLA. New Mexico. Mon. (AP) The Chairman of the Republican Party's foreign policy committee. Mr. Roobert C. Hill, says the United States must use its power to crush North Vietnam "before Red China has the atomic bomb." Speaking at a political rally
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    • 75 6 HONOLULU, Mon. (UPI) President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines received an enthusiastic welcome yesterday from about 3,000 Filipino-Americans when he arrived from Los Angeles. Many in the crowd at the airport waved Philippine flags and banners inscribed "Mabuhay, President Marcos." Mr. Marcos was on
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    • 24 6 BUDAPEST. Mon. (UPI) Soviet Communist rarty leader Mr. Leonid Brezhnev arrived for a "friendly visit" yesterday the official news agency MTI announced.
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    • 73 6 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) Mrs. Winston Churchill, wife of the grandson of the late statesman, gave birth to a daughter prematurely yesterday in Westminster Hospital. The baby is the couple's second child. Their son was born prematurely a few days before Mr. Churchill's death. Mr. Churchill,
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    • 100 6 CAIRO, Mon. (AFP) Yemeni President, Mr. Marshal Abdullah Sallal said in Sanaa tonight that Yemen needed the United Arab Republic by its side "to face reactionary and imperialist forces." In a speech reported by the Middle East news Agency on the fourth anniversary of the Yemeni Revolution,
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    • 53 6 BERLIN, Mon. (UPI) East German President Mr. Walter Ulbricht left yesterday for a one-week State visit to Yugoslavia. He said in a brief speech carried by the East German news service ADN that his visit was aimed at tightening ties between the two nations and securing
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    • 204 6 Minister Gen. EnS? Perez Y Perez has sgg a full investigation int? reports of an alleged S3 to overthrow the govern! ment Sept. 28. era The Investigation prompted by an article J! the newspaper El naril! nal on Saturday, w k£; listed this
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    • 175 6 Buenos Aires, Mon. (UPD —Japanese Foreign Mini* ster Mr. Etsusaburo Shiini arrived here yesterday for a four-day official visit. The minister, his wifi and a delegation of sj top government officials were greeted by Argentine Interior Minister Mr. Enrique Martinez Paz, who also is Foreign Minister,
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    • 74 6 TEHRAN, Mon. (UPI) Police have ordered tne rest of Czech Commercial Counsellor Josef Kotval iot careless driving which ie suited in the deaths of thret Czech women Embassy P er sonnel and one Iranian :n a road crash near here ca Friday, the newspaper K
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    • 27 6 PORT AU PRINCE. Haft Mon. (AP) A daughter President and Mrs. f* rarH aJ Duvalier, Francoise. married yesterday to Jerome Max DominiQ je the Presidential Guard.
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    • 179 7 LOS ANGELES, California, Mon. (AP). Mrs. Ferdinand E. Marcos, wife of the Philippines Pre•idpnt. left the United States yesterday with several »IUCUV, gifts for her children. Foi her 7-year-old boy, Ferdinand Jr., she was bringin" a James Bond type car for him to
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    • 106 7 MOSCOW. Mon. (AFP) Marshal Georgi Zhukov, the "Conqueror of Berlin", accused Joseph Stalin today of having committed a "serious error" during the World War II Battle of Moscow. Zhukov said that Stalin wasted Soviet army reserves by ordering a counterAttack against German forces massing outside
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    • 109 7 HOUSTON, Texas. Mon. (AF). —Maria (Ria) Franklin Gable, second wife of the late actor Clark Gable, died on Saturday in a Houston hospital. She was 76. Mrs. Gable.at the time Ria Langham. married the actor in 1931, a relative said. Her age was listed then
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    • 125 7 MANDRID, Mon. (AP) A special judge on public order has ruled Ihat an editorial which resulted in police seizure on July 21 of the Monarchist newspaper "ABC" Spain's largest daily contained nothing illegal, it was announced. The ruling was dated Aug. 16. "ABC" reported the
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    • 69 7 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Mon. (AFP) The Portuguese Charge D' Affaires at the United Nations. Mr. Antonio Patricio. tonight handed to U.N. Secretary General U Thant a copy of his government's protest to the Congolese government. Earlier. Mr. Patricio had given the original copy of his protest on
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    • 32 7 CHAMO N I X, France, Mon. (UPI). —Two Almphinists were killed yesterday when they fell 2,000 feet from near the top of Auguiile Du Chardonnet in the Mont Blanc massif.
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    • 101 7 THE pretty Japanese girls in Kimono offers bouquet of flowers to the captain of the U.S. nuclear submarine Seadragon in a welcoming ceremony shortly after the submarine docked at Yokosuka Port, the largest U.S. naval base in the Fareast, some 25 miles south of Tokyo
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    • 288 7 JOHNSON CITY, Texas, Mon. (AP). T UCI and Patrick J. Nugent are the stars in a new White House colour film given a special "world premiere'' in an airplane hangar at the LBJ ranch. The hour-long documentary. entitled "The Golden Chalice" depicts their wedding
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    • 65 7 MEXICO CITY, Mon. (AP). Mexico City's Tacubaya Seismological station reported a mild earth tremor in Mexico yesterday. Jesus Figuero, chief at the station, said the tremor was recorded at three minutes after midnight and measured four on the mercali scale of 12. He said the tremor was
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    • 137 7 Show to aid hole-in-heart girl HOUSTON. Texas. Mon. (AP) A benefit show will be held here to aid Lam Kit-Chung, a nine-year-old Hong Kong girl scheduled for heart surgery at Methodist Hospital next year. The free variety show at a local hotel will last about two hours. It is sponsored
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    • 114 7 LIVERPOOL, England. (UPI) Police today were looking for a suspected arsonist who allegedly set fire to a hotel room next to Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Wilson's suite here early on Saturday. A police spokesman they wanted to interview a middle-aged man who was seen in Liverpool's
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    • 188 7 SALISBURY, Rhodesia, Mon. (UPl).Rhodesian Premier Mr. Lan Smith and British Commonwealth Secretary, Mr. Herbert Bowden were expected to resume their discussions today following a homebase check by both sides. Mr Smith was to return to Salisbury this morning after attending his party's three-day congress at
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    • 120 7 WASHINGTON, M on (UPl>—Thomas E. Shields, 36. a United Press International press photogra pher. died on Saturday at the National Institutes of Health. He had been treated there for cancer during the past seven years. A native of Washington. Shields began his news photography career with
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    • 36 7 TUNIS, Mon. (AFP) King Faisal of Saudi Arabia left here by air for Riyadh today after a seven-day visit. President Habib Bourguiba saw him off. The two nad a final private conversation this morning.
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    • 154 7 MOSCOW, Mon. —A model of the proposed new centre of Tashkent, capital of Soviet Uzbekistan, which suffered great damage in recent earthquakes. The project is now being drawn up by a group of Architects of the Tashkent Town Planning and Building Office and the Moscow Town Planning
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    • 191 7 NEW YORK. Mon. <AP> Newsweek magazine has quoted French President Charles de Gaulle as saying that the "excessive power" of the United States is the chief threat to world stability. The magazine said in its Oct. 3 issue that de Gaulle made the
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    • 125 7 KINSHASA, Congo. Mon. (UPI) Congolese government troops today captured Kisangani airfield from Katangese gendarmes after four days of fighting, army officials announced. About 900 gendarmes surrendered to the roops. reinforced by white mercenaries. There was no immediale casualty report. Fierce fighting was reportedly still going on
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    • 48 7 NEWARK. New Jersey, Mon. (UPI) Four children and their step father were burned to death early yesterday as flames swept their apartment on the top floor of a four-storey tenement in Newark. The mother who had iled the apartment screaming, was treated for shock.
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    • 38 7 SEOUL. Mon. (AP> The South Korean National Assembly has accepted the resignation of opposition lawmaker Kim Du-Han, who touched off a government crisis by spraying human waste on cabinet ministers during an assembly session on Thursday.
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    • 152 7 CHARLESTON. South Carolina. Mon. (UPI) A navy petty officer from the Philippines was shot to death early on Saturday at a North Charleston night spot and two other Filipinos were held in connection with the slaying. At the same time. Charleston City Police were investigating the
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    • 77 7 RIO DE JANEIRO. Mon. (AFP) The present demonstrations in Brazil are Communist-inspired, the Minister of Education, Pro fessor Moniz de Aragao, said today. He said that documents seized at Santos by the Security services proved this. They came from the Communist-inspired antidictatorship movement. According to the Minister,
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    • 252 7 BREMEN. Germany. Mon. (AP> v— Prince Michael of Prussia. 26-year-old great grandson of the last German Kaiser, and commoner Jutta Joern were marred yesterday in a private Protestant ceremony held two days after a civil wedding that was marred by dissonance. Scene of the religious
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  • 371 8 ACCORDING to the new Chief Minister of Sarawak, Penghulu Tawi Sli, certain foreign diplomatic personnel have been fishing in the troubled political waters of Sarawak In the light of this, the public may wonder whether these people were using Dato Stephen Kalong Ningkan to stir up the Chief
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  • 455 8 VEARLY 200,000 rubber plantation workers are now fighting to keep their jobs which are being threatened by the sale and fragmentation of large estates. The secretary of the National Union of Plantation Workers, Mr. P. P. Narayanan, has warned the Government to recall the committee set up
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  • Letters...
    • 713 8  -  ALBERT TEOH. I wish to borrow a smoll column of your newspaper to voice my opinion on the ban, imposed by the ViceChancellor of Malaya, on the political leaders and Parliamentarians to speak or take part in debates or forums organised by the students in the
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    • 118 8 I hove been waiting for more than two months now to receive a reply from the Postal Services Dept. regarding my request to trace a lost registered letter. I submitted the enquiry form, attached the registration number and receipt and paid the required fee. I wonder how
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    • 65 8  -  C. P. THANE. THE July published figures of 106,424 unemployed persons (holf of which ore youths) on the Registers of Malaysia's Labour Exchanges and thousands more not registered pose a potential danger to Malaysia. Can the Alliance Government not see this and what are they doing about
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    • 171 8  -  Kochu Mary. THE DECISION of the Singapore Government to ban all imports of toy guns, pistols and revolvers is a step in the right direction. Let us hope that the Malaysian Government also will legislate against the import, sale and use of these dangerous "toys." Nowadays, toddlers
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    • 281 8  -  O.F.D, IT IS very well for 'Henry Wong' of Ipoh to praise the US for its aggression in Vietnam (E.S. 20.9.66). But I am afraid he has got his facts wrong. He asked the Eastern Sun readers if they had forgotten Dien Bien Phu. Dien Bien
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    • 81 8  -  HENRY WONG. Please, may I take this opportunity to congratulate Dr. Underwood on the occasion of his being honoured by the Sultan of Perak. Dr. Underwood is really a dedicated man. I hope more people will follow his shining example by giving free anti-cholera injections to the public
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    • 355 8  -  S. G. S. I WOULD be grateful if you could kindly allow me to say through your columns a few words of appreciation to Miss Y. G. Srimati. She is a talented young musician and painter from South India, who, on her way to America
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    • 221 8  -  T.V. GOMEZ With reference to the letter by Merlyn Mah in the Eastern Sun on September 13, 1966, I would like to clarify my position as follows:(1)1 am still the Secretary General of the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers Union. However, as result of
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    • 266 8  -  K. H. YAP. IT CAN BE encouraging to have the assurance again from the Central Government that according to your paper's report that "Parliament had not amended or tampered with the Sarawak Constitution." The admission that it did not tamper with the State's Constitution Implies the respect
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  • Commercial and industrial
    • 162 9 WASHINGTON, Mon UPI) United States Business reported yesterday that a poll of U.S. business leaders showed that one in flve foresees a downturn in the economy next year. The magazine, in its regular quarterly poll said that nearly half of the businessmen responding
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    • 59 9 NEW YORK. Mon. (AP) More than 2.000 U.S. businessmen. government officials, foreign diplomats and educators are expected to attend the 53rd National Foreign Trade Council Convention, which convenes here on Oct. 31. Speakers during the three-day meeting will include ambassador B.K. Nehru of India, and Baron 6:gmund
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    • 30 9 TOKYO. Mon. (AP) Bouth Korean and Japanese experts will open a one-week shipping industries conference here tomorrow to work for closer co-operation in solving various Japan-South Korea problems.
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    • 295 9 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI). The world's financial powers last night reiterated their intention of giving poor countries a say in reforming the international monetary system. Finance Ministers of the "Group of 10" industrial powers again instructed their deputies to collaborate with the 20 executive
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    • 15 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The tin price for today was $605-1/8 per picul, down 7/8.
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    • 69 9 An entirely new self-lock-ing, all steel construction system is being introudced by Diethelm Co. Ltd., the distributors for Dexion in Singapore and Western Malaysia. Called Dexion Speedlock. the product is designed for the construction of all types of storage equipment. A range of accessories also enables the rapid construction of
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    • 163 9 SINGAPORE The following ships are expected to be in port:— Godowns Vessels 1/2 Straat Fiji 3/4 Broholm 8/9 Tidra 13/14 Astyanax 15/16 Tarantel 18 Nicoline Maersk 19 Sir Lancelot 21/22 Wakamatsu Maru 23/24 Olympia Maru 25/26 Talamon 29/30 Straat Clarance 81/32 Hai Ya 33/34 Glenlyon S5/36 Bombala 38/39
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    • 235 9 TOKYO, Mon. (AFP) The Ministry of Transport has completed drafting its new five-year ocean-going shipbuilding programme starting April, 1967 and ending March, 1971. According to the Ministry's announcement, the total tonnage to be built under the programme is nine million gross tons and the funds
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    • 288 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. Oct. first grade rubber buyers f.0.b.. closed at 5 p.m. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 58} per lb., down cts. The tone was uncertain. A lower opening followed disappointing advices from Loncion, and speculative selling predominated Initially. Later, trade covering stabilised the market; buyings
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    • 77 9 TOKYO. (KYODO) Mon. The Japan-Russia-East Europe Trade Association, headed by Tokutaro Kitamaru, will be disbanded shortly after 10 years of existence during which time it played a big role in promoting trade between Japan and the Soviet Union and East Europe. The formal decision on its
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    • 452 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. After a slow start in Industrials, last week's better trend extended further and most leading counters showed further gains, particularly Dunlop to $2.35, Guinness to $2.21 and Rothmans to $2.56. Esso waws again steady around Saturday's level. Small interest was shown in property shares,
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE-MALAYSIA, S'PORE
      • 215 9 B S Soustead 1.52 1.54 C. T. S. Ords 47/9 Chemical Co 1.39 1.40 Cola Storage 2.72 Dunlop 2.35 2.36 E. Smelting 3.94 £sso Ords. CR 2.86 2.87 United Holdings CCR 1.85 Fitzpatricks 1.55 F. N. Ords. CDCB 3.48 3.52 Gammon CD 1.91 Georgetown 1.25 1.30 G. E. Life
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      • 42 9 Batu Lintang 1.66 Borelli (New) 2.10 2.20 Kempas 1.89 KeDon.tr Plant. 1.75 Kluang Ord 1.75 1.80 Kundong Tg. Pau Kuala Sidim 1.65 New Scudai 4.10 4.50 Riverview 2/5 Sungei Tukang 1.03 Temerloh 1.90 Ulu Benut 1.40 United Malacca 1.68 1.80
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      • 32 9 Anglo-Asian XD Anglo Oriental 1/1 3/6 3/9 Bk. S'bawang 5/3 Chemong 1/2 1/4 Cicely 2/4 2/6 Craizielea 1/3 I K.L. Kepong 2/1 Kulim 1/8 Merlimau Peeoh 1/U Strs. Rubber 1/U
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      • 28 9 First Malayan 2.14 2.24 Second Malayan 1.52 1.62 Third Malayan 1.11 1.22 Malaysian Commerce .88 .99 Mai. Savings Fund XD 1.27 1.37 Sterling Commodity 3/11 4/6
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    • AIR MOVEMENTS – SINGAPORE, KUALA LUMPUR
      • 151 9 TIME: AIRLINE FROM 8.20 a.m. MAL 019 Koala Lumpur. 9.30 a jti. MAL 121 Kuala Lumpur. 10.30 a.m. ML 451 Kuching. 10.55 ajn. MAL 005 Penang, Ipoh, Kuala LumpurMalacca. 2.45 p.m. MAL 045 Kota Bahru, Kuantan, 3.30 MAL 453 Kuala Lumpur. p.m. Jesselton. 5.00 p.m. MAL 613
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      • 186 9 TIME: AIRLINES: TO 7.00 ajn. ML 034 Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh. 7.00 ajn. BA 789 Penang, Alor Star, K. Bahru. K. Lumpur, Colombo, Bombay 7.00 a.m. ML 452 Cairo, London. Kuchine. 7.31 a.m. ML 122 Kuala Lumpur. 8.00 ajn. Thai 402 Bangkok. Hongkong, Taipei. 8.00 am Tokyo
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      • 141 9 TIME AIRLINES FROM 7.45 a.m. BOAC (BA 789) Singapore. 8.15 a.m. MAL (ML 122» Singapore. 8.25 ajn. MAL (ML 034) Singapore, Malacca 9.15 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Penang, Ipoh. 9.40 a.m. Cathay (CX 574) Singapore. 10 05 am MAL (ML 042» Singapore. 12.30 pm MAL (ML
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      • 136 9 TIME AIRLINES TO 8.25 a.m. BOA.C (BA 789) Colombo, Bombay. Cains London. 9.30 a.m MAL (ML 005) Malacca, Singapore. Bangkok, Taipeh, Osaka. Tokyo. 10.05 am Cathay (CX 574) 10.20 a.m. MAL (ML 042) Kota Bahru. 1.05 p.m. MAL (ML 512) Bangkok. 12.50 p.m. MAL (ML 008)
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    • 121 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore Chinese Prodace Exchange noon prices today were: 4 4 Previous Today's Sellers Sellers Coconut oil (FOB) Bulk 42.75 Sept Coconut oil (FOB) 44.25 Drums Sept 44.25 Sugar (Java) ex-godown. 26.00 26.00 Nutmegs 110s 475.00 485.00 Nutmegs B W 250.00 240.00 Garbled Lam pong Black 130.00 Pepper
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  • News in words and pictures from Australia
    • 544 10 CANBERRA, Australia, Mon. More than 100 international experts on water and its uses are meeting in Canberra, the national capital of Australia, from September 19 to 26 to discuss the water resources of the countries of South-east Asia and their neighbours. They are
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    • 142 10 CANBERRA, Mon. A group of about 50 overseas students studying in Australia, accompanied by 35 Australian students, spent a day touring Canthe Australian national capital during the September vacation. The students, who are studying at colleges and universities in Sydney, capital of the State of New
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    • 95 10 PERTH. Australia. Mon. An exhibition presenting the arts and crafts and way of life of Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan was arranged by overseas students at Perth Technical School. It was a part of the school's fourday exhibition to mark the Western Australian Technical Education Year.
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    • 437 10 MELBOURNE, Australia, Mon. Secretary of the Automobile Association of Malaya. Mrs. Kay Lim of Penang has been Impressed by driving standards in Australia. Mrs. Lim, who is on a six week's tour of Australia and New Zealand as guest of automobile associations, believes that
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  • 831 12  -  By ROSALIE CHAN SINGAPORE, Mon. Thousands of Chinese in Singapore will once again celebrate the annual mid-autumn festival on Sept. 29. The focus of attention and interest will be the moon, which reach the height of its lunar luminosity and radiance. In one
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  • 1274 12  -  By TAN PENG SIEW MILLIONS of Chinese throughout the world will be celebrating the birthday of the Moon Goddess on September 29 (15th day of the Chinese Eighth Moon). To the scientists and the students of scienece and even to the spacemen the moon is a
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  • 568 12  -  By Choo Teck Mau. MUAR. Mon. CHINESE in Malaysia, Singapore and throughout the world will celebrate the Moon Cake Festival on September 29. The celebrations will be basically the same everywhere offering or prayers, moon cakes,, yams, groundnuts. pomeloes and other Chinese delicacies. The
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  • 224 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malaysian Chinese Footbail Association has named 18 players to take part in this year's Ho Ho Cup match to be played at Hong Kong on Oct. 16. The MCFA Team, which will* leave here on Oct. 14 will also
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  • Article, Illustration
    522 13  -  Wok praises Han Seng and Goodwin By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Mon. The Minister for Culture and Social Affairs, Enche Othman Wok, today paid tribute to two local drivers who participated in the 1966 Grand Prix for their high standard and calibre of motor racing. The Minister said
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  • 331 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Chef-de-Mission of the Singapore contingent to the Kingston Games in Jamaica. Mr. Tang Tuck Wah, has laid down three vital commandments if Singapore were to achieve recognition in future international competitions. In his two-page "postmortem" report on the trip to the
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  • 80 13 MALMOE. Sweden, Mofl. (AP) Fight fans yeiled in disapproval and hurled bottles, tomatoes, beer can* and hats into the ring at a Malmoe meet when a visiting boxer was ruled outpo'nled by a local man. The crowd thought Peter Cobblah of Ghana was a clear winner
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  • 485 13 SINGAPORE. Mo n Raffles and St. Andrew's, the two top school-boy rugby teams Jn will clash tomorrow far tne 1 second time thls*se%ftm W Woodsville here. if m In the first encounter' earlier last month. Raffles won 9-points to nil on home ground. This
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  • 314 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. Top-level moves have been Initiated to invite the Persatuan Bulatangkis Seluroh Indonesia (Indonesia Badminton Association) to send a team to participate in the forthcoming 7th Singapore Open International Badminton championships to be held here on Oct. 7 to 9. Disclosing
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  • 83 13 ODESSA, Mon. (AFP) The Soviet Union, with 11 gold medals, were the big success at the European un-der-20 athletics meet which ended here today. Over 400 athletes from 19 countries took part in the two-day event, and from the high level of performance it was an
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  • 269 13 PENANG. Mon. Eleven men and nine women players have been selected for centralised training in Penang during November by the selection and training committee of the Badminton Association of Malaya. The B.A.M. Selection and Training Committee net for two and a half hours' at
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  • 26 13 TAIPING, Mon. Perak beat Penang, Kedah, Perils combined by 99 runs in a police inter-contingent cricket match played on the Esplanade here yesterday.
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    • 237 13 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD, SINGAPORE APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Applicants are invited for the appointment of CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER in the Public Utilities Board in the salary scale sl,B2oxA 100-2,120 plus variable allowance as payable from time to time and Central Provident Fund benefits. The commencing basic salary
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  • 67 14 The Silver Laurel Leaf, awarded by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, was the honour accorded to World Cycling Champion Rudi Altig after his great triumph on the Nurburgring, the worldfamous German motor race-track. Federal Minister of the Interior Lucke (left) made the presentation. Altig's wife (centre) took
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  • 206 14 EVERETT, Washington, Mon. (UPI) Homero Blancas won the US$5O,OOO greater Seattle-Everett Open Golf tournament yesterday with an 18-under par total of 266 and a final round of 70 which barely withstood the late charge of Jack Cupit. Cupit shot a five-under par 66, finishing at 267.
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  • 77 14 MEXICO CITY, Mon. (AP) World bantamweight champion Vicente Saldivar says he is interested in a return fight with Japanese Mitsunori Seki, and that negotiations are under way for a fight in Mexico City next year. It has been reported that Saldivar has been offered US$6O,OOO to
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  • 56 14 MOSCOW, Mon. (AP) Soviet Olympic champion Alexei Vakhonin set a world weightlifting record of 141.5 kilograms in the bantamweight clean and jerk yesterday. Vakhonin. who held the previous record of 141 kilowJSht'i amon B toe Soviet weightlifters training at Duwnrin ne 2 r Moscow for the
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  • 467 14 MEXICO CITY, Mon. (AP) Foreign started testing Mexico City's climate in preparation fjy fheUecond international sports week, but so far Hie to be getting the hardest workout. This meet, popularly called the "Little Olympics," is an experiment to give athletes—and their doctors
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  • 298 14 pOBMUND. Germany, Mon. (UPI). Natalia !n?» i n 5 tln Russian school girl with nerves M CS y t k swcet r ven £e for her narrow defeat in the combined exercises by winning three out of possible four singles titles from Vera Caslavska e wor,d
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  • 81 14 LONDON. Mon. (AP)—The World Cup soccer tournament staged in England this summer is likely to show a record profit of more than one million pounds, a spokesman of the English Football Association (FA) said. The profit is estimated at around £1,050,000. The Association is due to
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  • 30 14 ROME, Mon. (AFP; World bantamweight boxing champion Salvatore Burruni hammered Spaniard Felix Alonso into a fifth i Hind submission in their scheduled 10 rounder contest nere last night.
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  • 459 14  -  BY LUCIAN PETER TAIPING, Mon. Lack of enthusiasm, co-operation and insufficient financial and support are the four main factors that could one day cause the "death" of sport in Malaysia. This is the candid opinion of one of the country's well known sporting personalities,
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  • 98 14 COPENHAGEN, Mon. (AFP) A woman made history in very much a man's world by convincingly winning the world go-kart championships for the first time. Vivacious dark-haired 23-year-old Italian Susanne Raganrtli took the title by winning all three heats. This Is the third time in three
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  • 202 14 NEW YORK, Mon. (AP). Curtis Cokes makes his first start since winning: the world welterweight title in a highlight of this week's boxing programme. The 29-year-old fighter meets Enrique Cruz of Mexico in a non-title. 10 rounder at Corpus Christi, Texas, on Tuesday.
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  • 352 14 SINGAPORE, Mon. Soccer tactics adopted by leading teams in the World Cup series will be introduced in the training programme of the Singapore national football team to the Asian Games in Bangkok. writes Albert Johnson. The Singapore national football squad will commence intensive
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  • 115 14 MANILA. Mon. < AFP) South Korea's lightweight champion Kang Bu Yung spars at the Besa Boxing Stadium here this afternoon in a press-public pre♦viewr^or hls fi Sht against the Philippines Pedro Adigue on Friday. The two lightweights meet at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum over 12
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  • 257 14 ATLANTA, Mon (UPI) Hank Aaron hit two solo home run s and Mack Jones nit a two-run homer yesterday to power the Atlanta Braves to a 6—2 victory over Pittsburgh, preventing the second-place Pirates from gaining ground in the national league race The
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  • 268 14 TRENTON, New J*. Mon. (AP) Mario Andretti suS* pit stop a few miles 51* the end to win the 200$S feature race at Trem™ speedway yesterday and .S but clinch his £l5 straight U.S. driving S pionship. naa Andretti. in his rear engine Ford,
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  • 128 14 MEXICO CITY. Moa. (AP) World lightwei&V. champion Carlos Ortiz is expected in Mexico City toward the end of this wee* to prepare for his Oct. 22 title fight with Ultiminio (Sugar) Ramos. Ramos, a former Cuban shoeshine boy who now lives in Mexico, once
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  • 147 14 SINGAPORE. Mon. Veteran, E.H. Sheares gave fir* seeded and last year's champion, Wilfred Wee a very good fight in the seconc round of the Singapore vil Services Association ope° singles tennis tournamen held at the associations courts today. Although Sheares was leading 5-4
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  • 141 14 OSAKA. Japan. Mon (UPI) Japan's Yoshio Nakane, World Boxing Association's sixth ranked bantamweight, last night decisioned Chung Wang Kang, orient junior featherweight champion of South Korea, in a 10-round main event at the Osaka Prelectural Athletic Hall. Nakane floored Chung in the 10th round but aside
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  • 378 15  -  But Coles still heads jockeys' list with 51 winners By WINDSOR LAD KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Des Coleman was in brilliant riding form at the recently concluded Selangor Turf Club's September meeting. He took the honours with six wins, two seconds and one third. Coleman
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  • 83 15 BARCELONA, Spain, Mon. (AP) Andres Gimeno of Spain won the world's professional tennis title on Sunday by defeating ROD LAVER of Australia. Gimeno won 6-4, 10-8, 3-6, 4-6 6-2 in a match that lasted more than three hours and was played before an estimated
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  • 42 15 DRESDEN, Mon. (AFP; East Germany scored a double victory over Czechoslovakia in a two-day trick and field match which ended here yesterday. The Germans won the men's match 143 to 91 and the women's by 75 to 53.
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  • 274 15 IPOH, Mon. A Royal charter has been conferred by the Sultan of Perak, Tuanku Idris Shah, on the newly-formed Perak Archers and Shooters Club here. The club, which is rapidly having Increased membership, will now be known as the Royal Perak Archers
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  • 246 15 HONG KONG, Mon. (AP) The English-language Sunday Post says that the Thais are playing Russian roulette with Asia's major sports festival the Asian Games to be held in Bangkok in December. The Post devoted more than half a page to story written by
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  • 101 15 BANGKOK, Mon. (AFP) —Thailand's No. 1 singles Sangor Ratanusorn will meet the All-England runner-up Massao Akiyama of Japan in the opening match of a five-match badminton series between Japan and Thailand here tonight. The Japanese, who are on their way home from the recent Malaysian Championships,
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  • 45 15 DUBLIN, Moil. (UPI) Sunday's League of Ireland Shield soccer results: Dun walk- 1, Waterford 0 Shamrock R. 6, Shelboume 0 Limerick 0, St. Patrick's A. 2 Drumcondra 3, Cork Hibs. 1 Sligo R. 0, Bohemians 1 Cork Celtic 0, Drogheda J.
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  • 227 15 ALBI, France, Mon. (UPI). Jack Brabham of Australia added another Laurel to his crown of successes this year when he won the Grand Prix de France Formula 2 here on Sunday. World champion Brabham, driving a BrabhamHonda, covered the 309.072 kilometres in 1:54:32.2 at
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  • 129 15 LOS ANGELES, Mo n (UPI) Unheralded Allen Fox claimed the 40th annual Pacific Southwe*t Tennis Tourney crown on Sunday by upsetting Roy straight sets at the Los Angeles Tennis Club. Fox, performing before a partisan crowd of 3,500 in his hometown, played near flawless tennis
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  • 227 15 DUBLIN, Mon. (UPI). Galway won their third all-Ireland senior football final in a row yesterday when they defeated challengers Meath by one goal and ten points to seven points. Galway went in front after two minutes and led from start to finish. Meath playing against
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  • 106 15 DIVISION 'A 1 svt FURLONGS. Csetoors 8 04 TWT Kong*i Allan Fteniae Buil 8 04 Heaithy Stable E.G. Donnelly Ttlkaf Ti r o.w oniwi kll*n* KM \fil isv Stahl® Tulloh Strairht r \tfh~ ana M»t'&v«<an fitfthlA Sullivan Covrf'a Gift 8 04 Pucbong Stable J.F. Donnelly Tlncr* Haraiva®
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  • 218 15 MOSPORT. Ontario, Mon. (AP) Mark Donahue of the United States on Saturday won the 212-mile Canadian Grand Prix for sports cars, a race that saw the starting field cut to less than half by crashes and mechanical thoubles. The 28-year-old engineer covered 85 lap s
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  • 256 15 MALLORY PARK. England. Mon. (AP>—Giacomo Agostini, Italian world motorcycle champion, won the "Race of the Year" here on Sunday, giving him three straight victories in his first races on the British mainland. His big race victory —i. the richest in motorcycling £*ped him more
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  • 243 15 TOKYO, Mon. (AFP) The Three Indian Davis Cuppers today began train inf for their encounter with the Japanese counterparts in the Eastern Zone Davis Cup final to be played at Tokyo's Denen Clay court from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2. The three Indians are Ramanathan
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  • 40 16 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) Tough bar examinations for young Filipino law graduates took an unusually high toll yesterday. The chairman of the examinations reported that about 30 examinees had either fainting or vomitting spells throughout the day.
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  • 97 16 MANILA. Mon. (AFP) The Philippines, now reeling under a critical rice shortage, must prepare a stockpile of 200.000 meteric tons of imported rice for 1967. National Economic Council sources said this weekend. The shortage for next year has been certified by the council, as a preliminary step
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  • 138 16 ERNAKULWM, India, Mon (AFP) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi met demands to "nationalize" banking at the Indian Congress Party Congress today by saying "It is not the word which is important but how we interpret and what we do in the future." Speaking at the close
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  • 62 16 TOKYO, Mon <UPI> A two-man delegation from the Iceland-China Cultural Society flew into Peking yesterday to attend China s National Day celebrations at the inyitation of the Chinese government, the New China News Agency reported today. The far off visitors were identified as Sigurdur Robertson, a
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  • 269 16 SEOUL. Mon. (AP). South Korean President, Mr. Park Chung Hee today turned down the en masse resignation of Premier Chung 11-Kwon's 17-man cabinet ending a four-day government crisis that stemmed from a controversial smuggling case. Mr Park, however, replaced two cabinet ministers who had been
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  • 51 16 NEW DELHI. Mon. <AP) The Municipal Corporation announced plans to set up a food testing laboratory in New Delhi to speed checks made on foodstuffs suspected of being adulterated. The corporation announced that 32 per cent of all milk samples tested during the past 12 months had been
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  • 71 16 TOKYO. Mon. Police drag one of a group of nine protesting North Korean Communist seamen to aa immigration camp jn Shimonoseki. Southern Japan, last Monday for detention until officials decide their fate. The seamen were kept prisoners aboard their fishing boat "Pyong Sin Jonr 4-034." The four of their shipmates
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  • 90 16 MANILA, Mon. (IPDA Filipino newsman, aided by a keen memory and a knowledge of karate, arrested a robbery suspect yesterday. Manila Times reporter Cecilio T. Arillo was waiting for a ride when Dionisio Garabel 32. bumped into him. Arillo remembered Garabel as one of those in
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  • 652 16 A NEW FILIPINO LANGUAGE... MANILA, Mon. (AP> The voluble Filipino, word for word probably one of the most talkative people in the world, is busy fashioning a new language out of some of his favourite foreign tongues. The language has no name as yet. But basically it
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  • 283 16 lAK VRTA, Mon. (UPI). President Sukarno will be asked to give a written testimony in the forthcoming trial of former Indones.an Foreign Minister Dr. Subandrio for his alleged part in the abortive October first Communist coup, the IndeDendent newspaper "Ampera" reported here
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  • 38 16 SAIGON. Mon. (AFP) The bodies of an American woman, Mrs. Regina Palams. 52, and of a Frenchman, Mr. Maxime Sabatier, 44, were discovered on Friday in the flat they occupied here, it was learned today.
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  • 105 16 MANILA, Mon. (AFP) Philippine Labour Secretary Mr. Emilio Espinosa today declared that "all doors had been closed" to labour recruitment here by two Vietnam-based American firms, and would stay closed until justice was done to Filipino labourers there. In an interview with AFP
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  • 592 16  -  By Kenneth L. Whiting SAIGON, Mon. (AP).— The curtain rises tomorrow on the next act of Vietnam's tortured political drama. A 117-member constituent assembly will meet to draft a new constitution and they hope lay the foundation for a return to some kind
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  • 168 16 UCHINOURA. Japan. Mon. <UPI) Japan failed in her first attempt to put a satellite in orbit today when the fourth stage of the Lambda-4 rocket fell short of its target. The rocket was fired into space at 11.58 am. (0258 GMT) from the space centre
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  • 167 16 MANILA. Mon. «UPI) The Dutch vessel "Neder Rljn" arrived in Manila yesterday with a tale of how its crew rescued from hungry sharks two Chinese fishermen who had been adrift in the South China Sea for nine days. The ship's First Officer, Mr. Allen Leverignton,
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