Eastern Sun, 10 December 1966

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  • 25 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966 Vol. 1 No. 145. Saturday, December 10 1966. MC (P) 1942 RUN 2309 Price 15 cents
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  • 987 1  -  Daring gunmen successfully snatched nearly s2oo^ooo Singapore and Kuala Lumpur By MARTIN LIM SINGAPORE, FRIDAY: Two men at 11.00 pulled off one of the armed robberies in recen snatched a cash box c0n5156,492.30 from Securicor guards National City Bank, Raffles Quay. It wos a "shoot-first-q uestionslater" affair
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  • 75 1 Manila. Fri. <ap> Philippine Foreign Secretary Xarciso Ramos yesterday earned there had been a resurgence" of Communism in the Philippines, backed br Communist China. Those complacent in the thought that the Communist threat in the Phi-I'-PPines had been broken in the early 1950s have been jilted by the
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  • 212 1 AT STIN. Texas, Fri. The I'nited States will give "sympathetic consideration*' to Pope Paul's proposal for an extended Christmas ceasefire in Vietnam. White House Assistant Presidential Press Secretary George Christian, asked about the Pope's proposal, told reporters today "The United States Government fully shares the
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  • 29 1 NEW DELHI. India. Frl. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has been forced to cancel a news conference scheduled for tomorrow because of a severe cold affecting her voice.
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  • 521 2  -  By Peter Loke SINGAPORE, Fri. The "giants" of the aviation industry Concords or Jumbo Jets they all can be accommodated at the Singapore International Airport when its development programme is completed. These were the views of the Director of Civil Aviation, Mr. Tan
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  • 210 2 SINGAPORE, Fri.—The Director and Head of the Department of ExtraMural Studies, University of Singapore, Mr. Maurice Baker, has been appointed as Singapore s First High Commissioner to India. Mr. Baker is also the President of the University of Singapore Academic Staff Association. The
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • 92 2 KLCHING, Fri. The Chief Minister, Penghulu Tawi Sli, has told the people of Kampong Peruan, near Simanggang. second Division, that the development plan represented the "corner-stone" on which are based all efforts to raise the living standards of the people of this country. He said that the
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  • 218 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. Two leading executives of Goruda Indonesian Airways ore expected in Singapore tonight. They are M/s Rochmad Bubagio and Sujud Adiwikarta. Mr. Subagio who is here on appointment as Station Manager for Garuda Indonesian Airways, has been in service with the organisation
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  • 63 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. The eight-year-old daughter of the Commander of H.M.S. Aisne. Corine Gueterbock (2nd from left) giving the cook-in-charge, Petty Officer Alfred Whitehead, a hand at their annual Christmas pudding stirring ceremony held here recently. Corine is here on holiday from school in England. Looking on are:
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  • 566 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. Defence counsel Mr. Freddy Yin today alleged in court that Yeo Ah Swee, 24, was in a habit of making false reports against people, particularly about the Police. This allegation arose out of a cross-examina-tion in which Yeo was testifying the fifth day of
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  • 128 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. The end of confrontation has allowed the Commando carrier HMS Bulwark to "make friends more widely with the military and civil populations of South-east Asia and Australasia. Captain Desmond Bernard Law in command of the carrier said with friendlier relations established the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

  • 267 3 GANG OF FIVE NABBED IN RAID ON SINGAPORE, Fri.—Police today arrested five wanted men when they raided a house in Beatty Road. They are suspected to be connected with a number of armed robberies and other criminal activities in the country. One of the men, who
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  • 170 3 SINGAPORE, Fri.—The Minister for Finance will give an answer to the progress of trade between Singapore and African countries since the former's trade mission to Africa, at the Parliament sitting on Dec. 14. The question has been submitted by the MP for Jurong, Mr. Ho
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  • 67 3 BATU GAJAH. Fri. The Mentri Besar of Perak, Dato Ahmad bin Said, today presented a cheque for $20,000 to the Sikh temple at Changkat. The money is for the construction of new premises to replace the 50-year-old temple here. Pato Ahmad also laid the foundation stone
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  • 163 3 Seen leaving Trinity Church, Roval Air Force Changi, amid a shower of confetti is Flying officer John Curnow with his bride. Flight Officer Mary Ferguson. Flying Officer Curnow is a pilot with No. 48 Squadron which flies Hastings transport aircraft from R.A.F. Changi. Mary is a nurse
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  • 156 3 SINGAPORE, Fri.—The Minister of Defence. Dr. Goh Keng Swee, will be asked in Parliament whether he is aware that some entertainment programmes presented in nightclubs are contrary to the Government's policy on "healthy culture". The question has been submitted by Madam Chan Choy Siong, the MP.
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  • 164 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. A course on "Introduction to Business" for junior executives will be conducted at the University of Singapore from Jan. 3 to 21, next year. The course is introduced by the Singapore Institute of Management, in co-opera-tion with the Department of Business Administration, University
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  • 27 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Old Bartleyans' Association *'ill hold their annual general meeting on Dec. 17 at 4 pm. at the Bartley Secondary School.
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  • 133 3 MR F. E G. ROTHWELL. Managing Director of The National Cash Register Co. (Malaya) Ltd., has announced that Mr. Yong Wah l.oong has been appointed a member of the Company's "sard of Directors. Educated at the Methodist School. Kuala Lumpur, Mr. Yong joined NCR Kuala Lumpur Branch
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  • 159 3 SINGAPORE, Fri.—The Minister of State for Education and MP for Siglap, Enche Rahim Ishak, and the Siglap Citizens Consultative Committee will distribute foodstuffs as a gesture of esteem for their Muslim colleagues tomorrow. The distribution will be made to mosques at Kampong Siglap.
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  • 33 3 SINGAPORE. Fri.—There will be no water and poor pressure from 9 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. tomorrow in Jalan Membina Barat house Nos. 225 to 335 ground to sth floor (odd numbers).
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  • 58 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. Mr. Mrs. C. K. Tseng were married recently at the Registry of Marriages. The bridegroom, son of Mr. Mrs. K. H. Tseng of Opera Estate, is the Public Relations Executive for LPE, Singapore Ltd. The bride is the former Miss Arlene Seow, daughter el
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  • 155 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. The two naval ratings of the submarine depot ship Forth, who were reported missing and later found to be "safe and well", have been identified by the Admiralty here. Mr. T. Pearse. Fleet Public Relations Officer, said that they are Able Seaman Robin
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  • 134 3 KAJANG. Fri. Enche Zainuddin bin Salleh, a student of the Arabic School here, scored a "double" in the Ulu Langat District Koran Reading Contest concluded here recently. He came out firs: in the men's section to win the challenge trophy presented by Dato Abdul Rani bin
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  • 95 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. —An air services agreement was initialled here today between the Republic- of Singapore and Japan folowing negotiations which started on Dec. 5 between the delegations of the two countries. The agreement will enable Japan Air Lines Co. Ltd. to continue to operate air services
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  • 198 3 SINGAPORE, Fr i. Qantas will fly home four of its Y r -jets stranded at overseas airports by the current pilots' strike. The jets are two Boeing 707s at Hong Kong and two bigger Boeings, one at Mexico City and one at Karachi. The aircraft
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  • 111 3 KAMPAR. Fri. Three men, two armed with dangers. held up a van salesman at Tronoh Mines Village, eight miles from here, yesterday morning and robbed him of $l9B. Wong Chal. alias Wong Chen Peng. 24. of Malayan Tobacco Company, and his assistant, a 12-year-old boy. was
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 236 5 UNITED NATION, FRI. (AP) THAILAND charged yesterday that Communist China and North Vietnam are "the enemies of peace" in Asia and said the Peking regime was "sowing the seeds of trouble and hatred and discord" in many other areas of the
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    • 275 5 United Nations, Fri. (AP) THE Soviet Union yesterday condemned western powers that continue to trade with South Africa and recommended that the U.N. Secretary Council impose mandatory economic sanctions aimed at weakening the Sou*h African government to eliminate its racist policy of apartheid.
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    • 91 5 JAKARTA, Fri. (AFP) Four girls, one of them stark naked, caused a sensation riding huddled upon one scooter in the streets of Bandung, the capital of West Java, earlier this week, Antara reported today. The report said the pedestrians were breathless and flabbergasted and policemen transfixed
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    • 57 5 NEW YORK, Fri. (AP) A Women's Wear Daily photographer took this picture of Jacqueline Kennedy coming out of a New York restaurant last Friday. The trade paper described her apparel this way: ''Her dress is short a few inches above the knee shorter than she has
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    • 37 5 PARIS, Fri. (AFP) Soviet Premier Mr. Alexei Kosygin left here today by air for Moscow at the end of his nine day official visit to France which further helped to strengthen Franco-Soviet relations.
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    • 79 5 PARIS, Fri. Soviet Prime Minister Mr. Alexei Kosygin (secondfrom left), behold* the famous statue of Venus de Milo during his hourlong tour of the Lttuvre Museum in Paris recently. At left is the museum curator M. Chatelain. During his tour of the museum, Mr. Kosygin,
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    • 366 5 LONDON, Fri. (AFP). —The Bank of England today warned Prime Minister Mr. Harold Wilson's government that a too early easing of present economic restraints could lead to another "crisis of confidence in sterling". At the same time it said it was "vital" that
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    • 131 5 SAIGON, Fri. Highlljia; iis2 bombers today pounded a juncle base 25 miles north-west of Saigon from which the are believed to mount terror and infiltration attacks against the capital. The raid was the start of a fresh campaign to clear the enemy from around Saigon, following
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    • 248 5 Of TOKYO. Fri. (UPI) The hot war and the cold war racing ever more fiercely in the Orient dominated the list of the 10 biggest stories of 1966 chosen by editors in Asia. United Press International announced today. The editors were unanimous in choosing the
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    • 50 5 ISTANBUL. Fri. (UPI) Sixty-eight Turkish soldiers were killed when fire caused by a gas stove explosion razed an army barracks in Eastern Turkey, the Defence Ministry announced last night. Of more than 100 soldiers Injured in the blaze 24 were in "critical condition" the announcement said.
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    • 896 6 UNITED NATIONS, Frl. (UPI). Efforts to impose world economic sanctions against Rhodesia shows that Prime Minister Harold Wilson was "not very smart," former Secretary of State Mr. Dean Acheson said yesterday. Britain has asked for sanctions, excluding oil, but said that
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    • 329 6 MIAMI, Florida, Fri. (UPI). A Cuban exile organisation said yesterday that the Soviet Union has shipped "small and portable nuclear devices" into- Communist Cuba. The group, the Christian Nationalist Movement (MNC), said a special unit of Soviet technicians headed by Gen. Jaroslav Valenkeszky, has exclusive charge
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    • 73 6 MARSALA. Sicily, Fri. (UPI) 1 A lioness clawed tamer Waiter Nones In the neck during a circus performance here on Wednesday night, but the show we»»t on. Nones. 32. bleeding from a rash in the neck, managed to scare the animal away, urred the public to
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    • 83 6 LONDON, Fri. (UPI) Gunmen forced three cashiers at the newspaper Daily Mail offices to open a safe early yesterday and then at gunpoint while they scooped up £17,000 in cash. Newspaper employees said four men, armed and masked, knocked nightwatchman Geoffrey Payne unconscious as they
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    • 320 7  -  By DONALD H. MAY WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI).— The United States, Russia and other U.N. members have agreed on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons from space and establish new International law on peaceful exploration of space. The agreement was announced by President Johnson at
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    • 134 7 SUDBURY, England. Fri. (»UPI) Seven English School boys yesterday accused the future King of England of entering Cambridge University by "blatantly"* misusing his Royal position. The boys at Sudbury Grammar School said they objected to the fact that Prince Charles, 18, was being admitted to
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    • 279 7 WASHINGTON, Fri. (DPI). The Space Agency yesterday released highly detailed and clear picture by Lunar Orbiter-2 proving that the moon's mysterious rearside is puzzlingly different from the familiar side always turned toward earth. Soviet spacecraft and America's Lunar Orbiter 1 had made Dictures of the moon's hidden
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    • 133 7 OSLO. Norway. Fri. <AP) A Norwegian pilot died of heart attack as he tried to bring a Scandinavian Airlines System <SAS> Convair Metropolitan plane down at the Oslo Fornebu Airport last night. The 56-seat plane carried no passengers at the time of the accident. Two other
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    • 247 7 WASHINGTON, Fri. (AP). A Federal Bureau of investigation eheck has shown that police chiefs feel America's number one crime problem is not the criminal but the public and its lack of support for the police. The FBI quoted one of the chiefs Daniel S.C. Liu
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    • 58 7 TOKYO, Fri. U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Rusk (right) met with Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato at Mr. Sato's official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday. Mr. Rusk arrived here on his way to Paris, to attend the min i sterial meeting of the NATO. He discussed with Mr. Sato
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    • 177 7 PORTLAND, Oregon. Fri. (UPI) Noted Harvard University economist Mr. John Galbraith said yesterday that he didn't agree with the predictions of other economists who believe the U.S. economy would collapse without the Vietnam war. "I dont think the end the war would do the economy anything
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    • 241 7 VALPARAISO, Chile. Fri. (IPI) Idaho potatoes are just too hi? to suit Chile, where potatoes were first discovered. and thereby hangs an international impasse involving a Japanese sea captain, the U.S. embassy and the Chilean Government food importation agency. The skipper of the Japanese freighter
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    • 282 7 BEIRUT, Fri. (IPI).— Syria's Soviet-backed military regime, already embroiled in an attempt to topple King Hussein in neighbouring Jordan, yesterday seized the Western-owned transSyrian oil pipeline. The multi-million dollar seizure was the biggest in the Middle East since United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel
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    • 269 7 NEW YORK, Fri. (UPI). The American-Korean Foundation announced yesterday that two million doses of Salk Poliomyelitis vaccine which Dr. Salk promised would "break the back" of the disease in Korea are now enroute to Inchon as a Christmas gift to the children of Korea. The vaccine,
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    • 64 7 UNITED NATIONS. Fri. (UPI) The trusteeship committee of the General Assembly called on Britain yesterday to hold free elections in the Fiji islands and set an early date for independence of the area. It also endorsed a decision by the Special Colonial Committee to send a
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    • 93 7 MACAU, Fri. An armoured car and military patrols are seen at the main street of Macau city early on Monday. All shops on the main street were closed for business (Top Photo) after anti-Government rioters sacked the Macau's City Hall last Saturday, in which one police officer was killed and
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    • 194 7 CHICAGO, Fri. (AP). A Mr. Record who holds a record of incest with his 11-year-old sister has been charged with his wife, 20, for the murder of their 15-year-old neighbour. The dismembered body of the teen-aged girl was found in a duffel bag
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    • 63 7 SHREVEPORT. Louisiana, Fri. (AP)—Freddie Lee Tate. 20. who went hunting yesterday, was shot by his dog. Tate had a .22-caliber rifle in the front seat of his car. The dog Jumped from the back seat to the front seat. 3nd stepped on the trigger. Tate got a
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    • 94 7 MOSCOW, Fri. (UPI) The Soviet Union claimed yesterday that it is producing matches which can light in a high wind after soaking in water for four years. The newspaper, Soviet Russia, said the matches and matchsticks are covered by a special combustible mass which is coated with
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    • 83 7 MEXICO CITY, Fri. (UPI) Police are hunting for a gang of youths accused of pouring gasoline on a four-year-old boy and burning him alive yesterday. Marco Antonio Sanchez died. His father, Antonio Sanchez, told authorities the boy was playing with other children in the street when
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    • 81 7 SEW YORK. Fri. (UPI)— Italian star Gina Lollobrigida was feeling "fine" yesterday after two days ei hospitalisation for abdominal pains and was planning to leave the hospital today. f ss Lollobrigida was ru.-hed to Beth Israel Hospital by ambulance on Tuesday evening when she became ill
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    • 104 7 UNITED NATIONS. Fri. UPI) Secretary General l Thant yesterday recommended that the Security Council extend the U.N. peace keeping operations In Cyprus another six months to June 26. 1967. C Thant warned the council in a periodic report that the operation was running at a U554,128,000
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  • 1407 6  -  News analysis BONN FRI. PROFESSOR L u d w g Erhard's second Cabinet, formed after his party's victory in the Republic-wide elections of the autumn of 1965. represented a "small coalition" familiar in Bonn politics of the CDU/ CSU with the FDP. The four Free Democratic ministers
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 128 6 UMC L C Witmin tm6 staier projection cmamber at UNCLE HEAPQUARTERS. STARTLING FILMS ARE SMOWN By CHIEF ALEXANP6R WAVERLT' ANP AS NAPOLEON SOLO OBSERVES. ME CAN MARPuY KNOW TMAT ME H/aasslf WILL FALL TRAGIC VICTIM TO THE AK/BSOME WEAPON TMAT WILL SOON TEMPT THRUSH ANP TRIGGCR NAPOLEON? ft* fLLXA KUR
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  • 439 8 pOREIQN companies which operate in emerging nations run the risk of nationalisation or outright seizure. This had happened in Indonesia during recent times when feelings were high against capitalist nations. Whether such feelings were fanned by the communists or the outcome of an anti-foreign phobia, these had done
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  • 316 8 DURING this week daring grabs of payrolls have occurred in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Highway robberies have been reported from several parts of West Malaysia. The Christmas shopping season is on and so is the season for robbers, who will be busy till the Chinese New Year has
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  • Letters...
    • 481 8 AS a member of the public and an exteacher, I fully support the bold and militant stand taken by the National Union of Teachers. At least there is one teacher group which has shown manly responsibility to stand up and fight for removal of
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    • 245 8  -  T. A. MUGAN. Singapore THE raging controversy in the newspapers as to whether the doctors or pharmacists should dispense medicine is not a matter of more serious concern to the public than the dispensing of harmful drugs by medicine shops which are not under the control
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    • 143 8  -  EASTERN LION. Johore Bharu. The advice given by the Indian High Commissioner to Mint Reita Faria, 'Miss World/ think, is rery sound and fitting. Beauty Queens should not become instruments of international political intrigues. After all, Beauty Queens are voted for their natural
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    • 97 8  -  O. B. WAN. Singapore. SHIP owners, whose ships are anchored in and around Singapore harbour, should be warned that they should not throw all their empty boxes into the sea. They just do not know the troubles that these boxes have caused to the inshore fishermen. The
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    • 132 8  -  Y. H. LIU Singapore. THE amount of gambling going on in the Exchange, if continued, can ruin Government's industrialisation plans. People who have got bitten Just because of putting their savings on Stocks and Shares will not make the same mistake again. Many others will also
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    • 118 8  -  ARTHUR CHEW. Singapore. THE kite season is here again. Children can be seen flying their kites in the middle of the road, or chasing after stray kites, oblivious of oncoming vehicles. As a result, tragic accidents may occur. In order to prevent unnecessary accidents
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    • 292 8  -  I.W.H. CHEW Singapore PLEASE allow me to voice my opinion on what Dr. Goh Keng Swee said recently on military training for women civil servants. If women civil servant* are being trained for military service, it means that the policy of the present Government is to
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    • 198 8  -  ERROL REMEDIOS Penang. THERE i« still room for improvement with regard to the traffic arrangements on the Penang Port Commission ferries. Most of us know that the traffic facilities on these ferries are arranged in this way the motor-cyclists are allotted the front row, then the
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    • 352 8  -  DON RICHARDSON, Singapore. FIRST, to thank you for publishing my "thank you" to the Gleneagles Staff. By upbringing, I am a Christian. But all of my adult life, I have claimed to be a "Humanist". In fact, if asked, I declare this to be my
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    • 242 8 IT has become the fashion from the Minister of Education to the Chief Education Officers to condemn the teachers of this country and question their integrity. It would appear to the general public that dedicated teachers are only to be found among the members of
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    • 466 8  -  BALA S. MANIAM PrpildenU Democratic Socialist Club, University of B'por& 'PARENT* was In my letter, challenged to Quote any relevant statement that the DSC had made denouncing Singapore's independence as phoney and the Republic being undemocratic. Conveniently 'Parent' has not answered to this challenge because he cannot.
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 716 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. A fairly active and firm conditions ruled on the Stock F\ hange. Prices were better at the start, but slightly towards the close. lv;co Preference received its first quotation having changed hands at $l.OB but later eased to $1.04. More interest was shown in
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    • 192 9 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI). —The U.S. Sugar Industry may take an approving or neutral stand if the next Congress considers adoption of an import fee on Foreign sugar. A sugar spokesman said today he could not predict what position the industry would take if
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    • 94 9 TOKYO. Fri. (AFP) Nissan Motors has established a new monthly export record in November with a total shipment of 10.420 vehicles of all kinds. It topped all Japanese competitors, particularly its rival Toyota, in the trade. Nissan's November exports consisted of 6.196 passenger cars (mostly
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    • 75 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Bank Negara Malaysia has announced the following liabilities and assets as at the close of business on Nov. 30, 1966. LIABILITIES Capital 20,000,000 General Reserve Fund 22.204.351 Deposits: Banks 136,374,459 Malaysian Govt. 108.130,622 Other 32,096,285 Bills Payable and Other Liabilities 37,434,987 $356,246,704 ASSETS
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    • 78 9 LONDON, Fri. (UPI) The rubber market closed quiet with spot 18-9/16 18-3/4. SETTLEMENT HOUSE: Jan 18-3/4 18-7/8 Feb 18-7/8 19 March 19-1/16 19-1/4 Jan/March 18-7/8 19 April/June 19-1/2 19-5/8 July/Sept 19-15/16 20 Oct/Dec 20 20-1/16 Jan/March 20-1/16 20-3/16 April/June 20-1/8 20-3/16 July Sept 20-1/8 20-3/16 Oct/Dec 20-1/8
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    • 299 9 SINGAPORE, Fri. December first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 60| cents per lb., unchanged from the previous close. The tone was quiet. The morning market was idle and featureless. Levels were a shade below those of last night
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    • 43 9 SINGAPORE, Fri. Association of Banks in Malaysia made the following changes in its rates to merchants today. They were: SELLING T.T./O.D. ready were: Deutsche Marks 1285/8; Holland Guilders 1173/8; Swiss Francs 140-1/8: Belgian Francs 1618; French Francs 160-3/8; Italian Lire *****.
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    • 26 9 HONO KONO. Fri. (UPI) Money quotations: HK55.715 5.730 per US dollar for cash HKSIS 99 per pound sterling. HK$266 625 per tael gold.
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    • 336 9 SINGAPORE, Fri. Singapore's future development will be closely tied to her expanding export industries. This was stated by a prominent British industrialist. Commander Peter Du Cane, Deputy Chairman of the Vosper Thomycroft shipbuilding group, which is part of the giant David Brown group of companies
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    • 170 9 SINGAPORE, Fri. BOAC stepped up its Lon-don-Miami service to three flights weekly in each direcUS cities served are New operates 74 flights a week between Britain and the USA. This is the highest winter frequency on these routes ever operated by BOAC. US cities served are new
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    • 94 9 SINGAPORE, Fri. Mr. Michael K. O'Daniel has been named marketing manager for Eli Lilly S. A. in Hong Kong. In addition to his sales responsibility for the Hong Kong district, he will coordinate sales promotion efforts for Southeast Asia with Lilly Industries Fty. Ltd., in Sydney, Australia.
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    • 80 9 STOCKHOLM. Fri. The number of milk cows in Sweden is expected to decline from about 980.000 at present to some 670.000 by 1975, according to a recent survey. At the same time, the average annual milk yield per cow i* likely to increase from 3,650 kg
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    • 22 9 LONDON. Fri. (UPI) Rubber market closed quiet with spot 18-9/16 18*3/4. No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports Dec. 18-1/4 18-3/8.
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    • 57 9 NEW YORK. Frl (UPD Rubber futures closed 10 points lower on no sales. Bid Asked Jan 2220 22 80 Mar 2250 23.00 May 22.50 23 00 July 22.50 2300 Sept 22.50 23 00 Nov 22.50 2300 Jan 22 50 23.00 Locally, the spot no. 1 RSS held
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    • 856 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MAL 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MAL 121 from Kuala Lupmur. Time 1030 a.m. Airline ML 451 from Kuchlng. Time 10.55 a.m. Airline MAL 005 from Penang, lpoh, Kuala Lumpur. Malacca. Time 11.1.1 a.m. Airline Thai
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    • 169 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. The New Vespa scooter introduced into the Singapore and Malaysian market recently has had an excellent reception from the scootering public and initial high sales have resulted in increased production output from the Vespa assembly plant at the Jurong Industrial Estate. This
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    • 158 9 NEW YORK. Fri. (AP).— The Stock Market closed higher yesterday, stretching its rally through the third straight day. Trading was heavy as investors climbed aooard what could be the heralded yearend rally. Some profits were taken in the morning and again in the final
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    • 15 9 SINGAPORE, Fri. The tin price for today was $607 per picul, up 1/8.
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    • 203 9 SINGAPORE, Fri. The S.H. Benson advertising group has combined with a major American advertising agency, Needham, Harper b Steer, Inc. to establish a joint company to acquire and set .ip agencies in the leading European marketing centres. This was announced by the managing director for
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    • 121 9 SINGAPORE, Frt Stli*apore Chln»-«»r Produce Knehan** noon price* to<la> were. Buyer* getters Cocunat oil a«i||> Bulk w 41.00 Coconut oil 41N 1 I <)H > l)rum» l.oose Copra MUcil Nov/IK*. 56.75 Mi ear iJava) 26.50 ctgodown u ..m Milliter* I10« 4!>500 Vutmcs'i H x rt IJ.VOO Cjarlilcil Uimpong Blark
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    • 190 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. The following ships are expected to be in port today:Godowns Vessels. 1/2 Holsatia 3/4 Slamat 5 Kenryu Maru 6/7 President Jackson 8/9 Rajula 10/11 Hoegh Drake 13/14 Leda Maersk 15/16 Sunda 18 Radja 19 Hai Ya 21/22 Empire Gannet 23/24 Kinsei Maru No. 11 26 Kimanis
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  • 2549 11  -  By Jose La Breho who interview 9 Bond'* would-be killers, including Lotte Lenya, Harold Sakata, Joseph Wiseman, Robert Shaw, Adolfo Ceili, Honor Blackman and Claudine Auger. JAMES BOND, Agent 007, has been the target of so many plots carefully planned against his lire that his
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  • 826 11  -  By: CHERRY PRICE ROBERT VAUGHN wanted to put the facts straight about Robert Vaughn. He says that so much rubbish has been put around about him since he became Napoleon Solo in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. series that now nobody knows the truth.
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  • SHOW BUSINESS
    • 381 12  -  By: CHAN KAM YAU to many Christians and nonChristians in Malaysia is an excuse for parties and carousing and what better way to do it than in the night-club? With an eye to the expected "nightclub rush/' the Dragon Court Nightclub at
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    • 500 12  -  By: Percy Joseph ITU ALA LUMPUR. Fri. —An elite night club, which caters especially for the work-weary public, the not-so-young and the middle-aged male population of this Federal Capital city, boasts of the cool comfort of a mountain cabin coupled with relaxing entertainment. Perhaps it
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    • 86 12 In Town SINGAPORE: Adelphi Hotel: Adelphi Grill Room: Non-stop dancing: extension to 2 a.m. on Saturdays. Dance to the music of the Romans. Italy's top entertainers. Also featuring Teresa Khoo and her three notes. Hotel Singapura InterContinental: Dance to Tonight the sweet sounds of the Trio Latino Plus One. Goodwood
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  • 535 13  -  By: H.M S. Sutan rHRISTMAS season this year will be of special significance to members of the Stage Club for they will be celebrating »their 21st anniversary on Monday. (Dec. 12.) TO celebrate the occasion they will present A A Milne's
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  • 60 13 PHILADELPHIA. Pennsylvania, Fri. <AP) Rock *N' Roll singer Chubby Checker and his wife, a former Miss World beauty contest winner, became parents of a girl yesterday. Checker, whose real name is Ernest Evans, and his wife, the former Chatharina Lodders of the Netherlands, were married in March
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  • 62 13 SINGAPORE, Fri. A "X'mas Ball" social and dance organised by Solo Publications will be held at the Singapore Badminton Hall on Dec. 26 from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. There will be two resident and three guest bands in attendance. A floor show will be put up by
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  • 159 13 SINGAPORE, Fri. Top Australian singer, Lucky Starr, will lead a troupe of entertainers to perform a series of Christmas shows for Australian and Allied servicemen in Singapore, next weekAccompanying him will be singer Sheryl Blake, a TV trip band The Rajahs, TV and
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  • 95 13 CINGAPORE. Fri. The latest teenage dance craze the A-Go-Go has certainly proved to be popular with Singapore teenagers. The discotheque idea of caged-up dancers was re-enacted at a Christmas Fair held recently, much to delight of the teenage section of the crowd. But the two pretty dancers, (above)
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    • 295 13 SHAW GAW0 tt OK :APITOL PHore ***** Now Showing It. 1.45. 4. «.30 9.30 Dean Martin Alain Delon. Joe-.- Bishop Rosemarv Forsyth TEX 45 ACROSS THE RIVER" Color TONIGHT M SITE! Lang Jeffrie^ kiss? kill: kill:" Tecrrj;.*cope <fc Technicolor Kino phone 2841T loth Day: 11 a m.. 3.5«. *45 p.m.
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    • 692 13 YOUR TW I f >; CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Pulau Pinanf, 6 IPoh and Melaka; 3/10 Jnhore Bahrn; 4 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. (Singapore viewers, please switch to channel 3 for T.Y. Malaysia programme*). P.M. 3.00 OPENING ANNCT Prog Summary. 3.01 THF GUILT OF JANET AMES. Starring:
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  • 1134 15 CANNONS BOOM AMIDST S BANGKOK, Fri. (AP) —The sports loving King of Thailand today formally declared open the Fifth Asian Games, a 12-day sports festival that has brought together more than 2,000 top athletes from 18 nations of Asia. In a colour-splashed opening ceremony
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  • 273 15 BANGKOK, Fri. (AP)— Oraganisers of the fifth Asian Games have announced the following heats for track events beginning on Saturday: 100 METRES (MEN): HEAT ONE R B. Tawade (India), Soe Win (Burma), B. Thavisakdi (Thailand), B. Wahjudi (Indonesia), C. N. Chow (Hong Kong), Su Wen Ho (Nationalist
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  • 65 15 L«te CLASSIFIEDS 20 Words $lO/' (Minimum) DEATH MR. WONG CHOON SAN (C.S. Wong), aged 60, passed away peacefully on 9-12-66 at 80. Eng Neo Avenue, Singapore leaving beloved wife, son Dr. Wong Lin Ken, daughter-in-law, Lili son-in-law, Sai Heng and three grandsons. No deaths, donations c/o above address for Cardiac
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  • 388 15 MANILA. Fri. (AFP) Top Filipino woman sprinter Mona Sulaiman will leave Manila for Bangkok tonight to compete in the fifth Asian Games, following a change to heart. Sulaiman, who won three gold medals in the fourth Asian Games in Jakarta in
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  • 91 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. T.V. Malaysia will telecast a special coverace of the sth Asian Games in Bangkok by a Malaysian team on the spot. The coverage will be included in both news and programme. News will bring to viewers outstanding events and highlights of
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  • RACING COMMENTS
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    • 1595 16  -  The going is HEAVY By I 'Windsor L Lad' Heavy conditions, distance suit him Singapore, Sat: RAMPAGE should find his winning turn in the Class One Division Four race over the mile and 15 yards (Race 8) at Bukit Timah this afternoon, third day of
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    • 25 16 TODAY'S TOP TIPS ITiyPSOR LAD: The Pointer Kind's Chariot Templar GOLDEM Sty Prince Tang The Pointer K. Princess ADELINE: Je Maintiendrai C. Informer Half Crown
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