Eastern Sun, 19 January 1967

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  • 24 1 EASTERN SUN Indepcnden National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 182 Thursday, January 19 1967. MC(P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 95 1 LONDON, Wed. Doctors maintained a crisis watch today over the unborn baby whose b'.ood was changed in the womb In a rare operation on Monday. spokesman at St. Bartholomew Hospital said the next 24 hours were critical and doctors hoped to know by morning if the
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  • 797 1 Militant students and 'hawks' ready to 4 topple the President of Indonesia JAKARTA, WEDNESDAY (UPI) FOREIGN MINISTER ADAM MALIK said today fhat his suggestion for President Sukarno to step down from the Presidency and appoint someone he trusted to succeed him was "the advice of a personal
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  • 384 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The rehabilitation of flood victims in the East Coast will be carried out in two phases, the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, announced today. Phase one: The provision of temporary houses for the victims. Phase two: Resettling the victims in
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  • 154 1 TOKYO. Wed. Red Guards have clashed violently with supporters of Chinese President Liu Shao-Chi in Sinkiang, close to Soviet Russia, and new wall posters have appeared in Peking criticising Foreign Minister Chen Yi for ''bourgeois living". Paralysed by an influx of a million free-spending pro-Liu workers,
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  • 189 1 IPOH, Wed. Our staff correspondent in Perak reported that several kampongs along the Perak River in Lower Perak are still flooded. But the main trunk road and railway lines are not affected. Another boat capsized off Sebarang Takir near Kuala Trengganu yesterday. There were five fishermen
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  • 255 1 CANBERRA, Australia, Wed. (UPI)— South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky arrived here today amid stringent security precautions and lashed out against his enemies. Premier Ky and his lovely wife had the jitters when they arrived here and were greeted hy Australian Prime Minister Mr, Harold Holt and
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  • 140 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. Eight huge sewage tanks at Kim Chuan Road are near completion and will hold a quarter million gallons of effluent each when in operation. Part of the Kim Chuan Road Sewage Treatment Works Extensions, these tanks would provide the final stage of treatment
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  • 294 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. An inmate of the Reformatory Training Centre at Bedok today pleaded guiltv in the High Court to two charges of attempted rape and armed robbery. The inmate, Lim Cheng Siang, 20, was alleged to have attempted to rape an 11-year-old girl. He
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  • 60 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. A dredger with moorings extending several hundred feet into the fairway will be operating within about 1.000 feet to seaward of the Singapore River from tomorrow for approximately two months. All vessels are directed to keep well clear of the dredger, and anchorage is prohibited
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  • 21 2 SINGAPORE. Wed.— Thieves broke into a storehouse of Issardas and Sons in Gregory Place and stole textiles worth *1,200,
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  • 265 2 Wed. Five robbers—-one armed with a revolver and the others with daggers held up a bar-boy and two girls and got away with $937 in cosh and articles yesterday morning. The armed gang walked into the Ceylon Sports Club in Balestier Road yesterday at 11 a.m.
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  • 370 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. Parents whose children are studying in Britain and financed by British official sources, need not worry about the recent increase in fees for overseas students. The Increase in fees for these children will be met by the British Government. This applies to future
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  • 137 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. Dato David Marshall will give a lecture on "The Rule of Law in the Democratic Countries of S.fc. Asia" for RAF men and their families at Chang! on Feb. 1. The lecture is part of a series on the Far East organised
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  • 135 2 SINGAPORE, We d. Professor A. M. Cook, Professor of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, University of London, will deliver two lectures at the University of Singapore later this month. He arrives here on Saturday as external examiner in pharmaceutics. The first lecture on "Some aspects of
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  • 44 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Indian Minister for External Affairs, Mr. M.C. Chagla, is due here on Friday on his way back from Jakarta. During his brief stopover, Mr. Chagla will be most happy to meet representatives of Singapore Presa, Radio and T.V,
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  • 327 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. The annual Shell Traffic Game this year will be held at Kallang Park Safety First Playground from Feb. 22 to Mar. 16. This annual game is in its 10th year this year and forms part of a campaign to make school-children
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  • 69 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. Miss Yoon Mew Git, a spastic child from here, who won Thai International's ticket to visit Bangkok as guest of the Rotary Club Dhonburi. returned home recently. Miss Yoon (above), shakes hands with Miss Thailand, Prapatsorn Panitchakul. when she visited the Thai International Head
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  • 130 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Family Planning Exhibition at the Victoria Memorial Hall here will close on Saturday instead of tomorrow. In making this announcement. the Singapore Family Planning and Population Board urged those who had not been to the exhibition to take advantage of this extension
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  • 92 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— A group of Australian University students, including girls, began an extensive tour of Johore yesterday. They visited the timber town of Mersing in the East coast of the State yesterday and they visited the recently flood-stricken district of Kota Tinggi today. Tomorrow
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  • 49 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— The Oil Palms of Malaya Co-operative Stores Society Ltd.. Layang. will hold its eight annual general meeting at Ulu Remis Cinema Hall on Jan. 27 at 9.30 a.m. The society made a net profit of $10,068 for the year ended June 30. 1966.
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  • 196 2 BINGAPORE. Wed. One of the greatest maintenance costs to industry is caused by electrolyte corrosion of metal, and this is particularly prevalent in the climatic conditions of Singapore and Malaysia. This was said recently by a visiting British technical expert, Mr. A.J. Smart,
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  • 44 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. Mr. Allan Hancock, a Colombo Plan expert attached to the Teachers' Training College here, will be the guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Singapore West luncheon tomorrow at Prince's Restaurant. He will speak on "What it Educational IV".
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  • 29 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. General Sir James Cassels, Chief of the General Staff, will visit British Army Units in Hongkong. Singapore and West Malaysia between Jan. 20 and 27.
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  • 44 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. Vessels requiring health or immigration inward clearance are to make use of the alternative quarantine and immigration anchorage in the Western Roads from today. The use of the principal quarantine and immigration anchorage will cease until further notice.
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  • 27 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Overseas Union Bank will open its Katong branch at 83 East Coast Road (Tay Ban Guan Day and Night Supermarket! on Saturday.
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  • 162 2 SINGAPORE, Wed The Adult Education Board has secured th» services of two e xpm Dr. Ralph Brown and Dr Pauline Rojas. to run i seminar on language j n struction. Dr. Brown is a special* in second-languagp teach®* from Columbia Universe and visiting lecturer m
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  • 123 2 SINGAPORE, Wrd For those with an inrfntive mind, service in the Royal Air Force can be rewarding. Men and women of ail ranks are encouraged to submit inventions, designs and suggestions likely to improve RAF efficiency both in the air and on the ground. Through the
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  • 79 2 SINGAPORE. Ued As Air Services Agreement t* tween S ngapore and tw Federal Republic of many, was initialled recently following negotiations between the delfs> tions of the two The German delega.-on was headed by Dr Ott, Deputy Per I! Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Tran*
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  • 90 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. In response to an appeal by the Malaysia Flood Relief Committee (Singapore), the Galaxy Cinema and the Oversea Amusement Cornpan/ Ltd. donated the grow takings of one show of the Hindustani film "Arsoo" last Saturday. It drew a packed house. As shown above, Galaxy's
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 40 2 SPORE DIARY 10 a.m. to 7. p.m. Victoria Memorial Hall, Empress Place: Family Planning Exhibition by the Ministry of Health. 7.30 p.m. Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture: Canberra Padang. Naval Base; Kampong Teck Gee, Cheng San School.
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  • 154 3  -  By K. S. SIDHU SINGAPORE, Wed. —An Indonesian barter trader's tongkang, with four gallons of petrol aboard, was gutted by fire at about 2 p.m. today at Telok Ayer Basin here. Five of the 11 people aboard were burnt during the Are. They were
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  • 495 3  -  Bv LIM MENG KEE SINGAPORE. Wed. A defence counsel today alleged that the prosecution had "tried to boost and bolster the case which had no legs to stand on". The defence counsel. Mr. N.C. Goho. in his submission. argued that the defence
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  • 69 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Japanese Government this afternoon donated 234 books to Nanyang University. The gift was presented by the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Tsuneaki Ueda, to the Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof Huang Ying Jung, at a presentation ceremony held in the University's new library. The books
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  • 192 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. Three Public Utilities Board engineers left for the United Kingdom today to take up a three-month practical training course. They are the Charge Engineer of Pasir Panjang 4 A* Power Station. Mr. Choo Hock Beng; the Assistant Shift Charge Engineer
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  • 213 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. Australian and New Zealand trooos are "opposing" «ach other in the dense, rain-sodden jungle of West Malaysia. Both forces are taking Part in a tough counterrevolntionary warfare exer,s code-named "Jungle Janus". Those taking part in the role n re men
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  • 106 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Republic's President, Enche Yusof bin Ishak, feted some 50 Muslim leaders here to a Hari Raja tea-party at the Istana this afternoon Among those present were the Minister of State to the Prime Minister's Department, Tuan Haji Ya'acob bin Mohamed. the Permanent
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  • 313 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Singapore Institute of Management has planned a series of courses aimed at promoting efficiency and productivity in management. This announcement was made by the Director of the Institute, Mr. Lim Chew Swee. "These courses scheduled to commence in mid-Februa-ry, form part of
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  • 177 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed Johore Police have mustered its top-crime fighters to smash a highly-organised smuggling ring. Armed policemen manned surprise roadblocks at strategic points at Tampoi, Ayer Itam. and Kota Tinggi since early hours of the day. Marine patrol boats kept vigil in the
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  • 179 3 SINGAPORE, Wed.—™* last supply dropping: mission to lonely hill forts of the Royal Malaysian Police in the wild northern districts of West Malaysia was made last week. It was carried out by R.A.F. Hastings of No. 48 Squadron operating from R.A.A.F. Butterworth in Penang. Dropping supplies into
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  • 225 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Chan Chlap Chong. who rcade a dramatic surrender 'o police two weeks ago tfhen wanted for questioning in connection with the $42,000 Treasury payroll robbery, has been detained under the Prevention of Crimes Ordinance. Chan who gave himself up through his lawyer,
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  • 31 4 Four hundred houses were washed away in Sungei Bala, Kelantan during the floods. Picture shows some of the damaged houses. The floods caused $4O mil. damage in Kelantan.
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  • 351 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A mammoth $l5 million extension project undertaken by the Federal Hotel here has taken shape and when completed by the end of this year, will make it the largest and most modern hotel in Malaysia. "The need to
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  • 264 4 KAMPAR, Wed. A $3O-a-month maidservant who is facing the giant task of feeding her seven younger brothers and sisters broke down in the Eastern Sun office today. The 14-year-old girl, Chang Kam Yuen, is the elder daughter of Chang Thean Kew, who was sent
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  • 230 4 PEXANG, Wed. Penang's Rediffusion service was completely cut out as over 90 staff employees staged a "walkout" today in protest against the dis- missal of eight wiremen. The employees claimed that they were "locked out" and alleged that the eight wiremen were dismissed when they refused
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 163 5 a'ASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) Malaysian embassador Tan Sri Ong Yoke Lin Is the only foreign diplomat to be a freauent participant in Washington's exclusive -The Cuban Missile Crisis poker Club." The club brings together »ome of the better known Washington columnists, television personalities, U.S. diplomats
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    • 74 5 BANGKOK. Wed. (UPI) United States Ambassador Graham Martin today officially acknowledged that US. forces were using bases ir Thailand to participate in the Vietnam war. It was the first offiical a icnowledgement by the United States of a topic that has been an open secret in
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    • 562 5 Wed. (AP, UPI) Red Guards have clashed violently with supporters of Chinese President Liu Shao-Chi in Sinkiang, close to Soviet Russia, and new wall posters have appeared in Peking criticising Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi for "bourgeois living." Paralyzed by an influx ot a million
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    • 141 5 JAKARTA, Wed. (AFP) A girl in her early twenties by the name of Lory Ismael might be the ninth wife of President Sukarno of Indonesia. the dally of the militant antiCommunst Action Front "KAMI" reported today. The paper wrote that Lory Ismael was the daughter
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    • 82 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) President Johnson is leaving entirely up to Mrs. John F. Kennedy the question of publication of any of his letters to her or her children, the White House said last night. Press Secretary Mr. George Christian was asked about a stipulation in
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    • 232 5 ltaly, Wed. (UPI) The biggest sex scandal trial to rock this foggy, respectable province town has ended. Now Elisabetta Orlando, the 14-year-old whose name and face appeared in the nation's newspapers for weeks, faced the heavy task of building herself a new life.
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    • 529 5 CJAIGON, Wed. Sexy French freelance correspondent Michele Ray, 23, has disappeared in the jungles of the Central Highlands and may have been captured by the Vietcong, it was reported late yesterday. Miss Ray, a tall, attractive blonde who had once been a French fashion model, left Ca
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    • 530 6 Working at European unity ROME, Wed. (AFP). British Prlaie Minister Harold Wilson went home with apparent optimism yesterday after securing another pledge of Italian support for Britain's entry into the European Econo- mic Community. Mr. Wilson told a news conference that his talks with Premier
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    • 85 6 PARIS, Wed. (ATP) France's population should top the fifty million mark by Autumn 1967, according to figures released here. The French National Institute of statistics has reported that the population of France increased by 560,000 in 1964, and by 460,000 in 1965. Allowing for an estimate similar
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    • 384 6 THE HAGUE, Wed.— (AFP). France won the support of her five Common Market partners yesterday for a united stand on the international liquidity problem in return for a pledge to cease pressure for rise in the price of gold. The decisions were announced in a
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    • 423 6 LONDON, Wed. (AFP). —The leader of Britain's Liberal Party, Jo Grimmond, announced his resignation yesterday. The 53-year old youthful-looking Grimond told the House of Commons and party supporters he was stepping down from the leadership. The 12 party members in the House of Commons, including Mr.
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    • 153 6 DARWIN, Wed. (AFP) South Vietnamese Premier Air Vice Marshal Ky landed here today for a brief stop-over before piloting himself across Australia to Canberra where he will begin his six day visit. Marshal Ky who is accompanied by his wife said he had come to thank
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    • 69 6 NEW YORK. Wed. (AFP) A transatlantic cable Unking weather centres In America. West Germany, France and Britain was Inaugurated yesterday. The cable is a direct line from the National Meteorological Centre in Suitland. Maryland, to the German •centre at Offenbach. Hesse. The Offenbach centre is in turn
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    • 436 6 ST. JOVITE, Quebec, Wed. (AP).-A force of provincial policemen moved into this area yesterday to intensify a search for 50 children who have gone into hiding from a nearby monastery. A senior priest at the monastery, run by a breakaway Roman Catholic sect, complained
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    • 200 6 f ENTRALIA, 111. Wed. (UPI) Burglars took a money collection valued at US$lO,OOO from Mrs. Viola Eckley's home over the weekend but officials say the money will not make the thieves any richcher. Mrs. Eckley told police the collection consisted of confederate money. ST. PAUL. Minn.
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    • 169 6 FORT THOMAS, Kentucky, Wed. (AP) Robert (Tiny) Pelgen has lost almost 450 pounds by "will power" dieting in the last two years. "I'm still sore from the 36-inch incision made on me a couple of days before Chritmas, but I feel all right now and I'm
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    • 213 6 CAPE KENNEDY. Florida. Wed. (AP) A Mighty Titan-3 rocket aims spaceward today to ring earth's equator with eight military communications satellites needed to speed messages to important areas, including Vietnam. The triple-barreled booster mightiest rocket in the Defence Department's arsnal is to vault skyward
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    • 118 6 ADDIS ABABA, Wed. (AFP) Kenya Planning and Economic Affairs Minister Tom Mboya disclosed here yesterday *hat Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania were expected to sign an agreement next month linking the three countries in an East African common market. Despite certain vicissitudes, the organisation of an
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    • 259 6 PHILADELPHIA. We* (UPI) Two members oj the Quaker action grou& organised here last j U fc provide medical aid to North Vietnam war victim left San Francisco on Mo& day on the first leg ctf t mission to sail medico supplies to
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    • 147 6 MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Wed. (AP) A paralysing blizzard that across northern section the U.& Midwest moved to Canada yesterday a* coldest weather of the spread Eastward and Seward from the great pui* With huge drifts of sr.c* blocking streets and J ways, the blizzard Cl schools
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    • 84 6 SAO PAULO. Wed Lebanese banker Youssef Beidas was Sao Paulo hospital police guard yester •<> friends said his condK was serious. Mr. Beidas was or<*£ arrested on M nda b r z request of the Foreign Ministry afterjt received a forma. P< for his
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    • 369 7 LONDON, Wed. (UPI). Communist China's nuclear centres are working full speed ahead despite the nationwide political upheaval, authoritative sources said yesterday. This nuclear singlemindedness, they said, reflects the regime's firm determination to keep the atomic arms effort gome full blast, without interference. The
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    • 179 7 No more dit-dah-dit... NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI). A mantie bit of news communication history was dismantled at United Press International headquarters yesterday. Western Union removed the last dot-and-da?h morse keys in use in the UPI domestic system. Michael Silverberg. man-ager-supervisor of the UPI Western Union office, watched while workmen took
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    • 205 7 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) Representative Paul Findley urged President Johnson to "take advantage of the Internal strife in China" and impose a sea blockade of North Vietnam. "A more favourable time to undertake the risk of China's entry into the (Vietnam) war would be difficult
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    • 61 7 KYOTO. Japan Wed.-President-elect of Brazil Mr. Arthur da Costa de Silva (left) and his wife visited the Nijo Castle in Kyoto. Japan, on Sunday. The President-elect arrived in Tokyo on Jan. 13th for a week's goodwill visit as a guest of the Japanese Government. He is accompanied by his wife
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    • 258 7 SAN FRANCISCO, Wed. (UPI). A New York surgeon yesterday described an operation that enabled a pianist who had lost his hands to return to the concert stage. The rare surgical technique, known as cineplasty, involved linking the patient's hand-acti-vating muscles to his new artificial fingers.
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    • 243 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (AP) —Australian. South African and Formosan competition are challenging the United States' position as a major exporter of canned peaches, fruit cocktails and asparagus. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's foreign agricultural service reported that Australia and South Africa made important
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    • 78 7 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) Fire raged for eight hours aboard a Philippine freighter berthed at the Cebu harbour in the Southern Philippines yesterday but none of its crew members was injured. The SS Manila Bay was undergoing regular inspection for sea-worthiness when fire broke out from
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    • 83 7 NEW DELHI. India, Wed. (AP) Fifty-five Hindu "holymen" were arrested yesterday when they clashed with police during a procession of India's bearded Sikhs. Special permission had been granted for the procession, which was celebrating the 300 th anniversary 08 the birth of a founder of the Sikh
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    • 224 7 Doctors argue: CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Wed. (UPI). Both sides rested yesterday after psychiatrist clashed on whether the man who says he is the Boston strangler, slayer of 13 women, has a splitpersonality that makes him a sexual menace. The Superior Court trial of Albert H.
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    • 127 7 ROME. Wed (UPI) A highway bridge south of Borne collapsed last night, sending six automobiles plummeting into the valley below, police reported. The span, the Ariccia bridge, is in the Alban hills about 16 miles south of Rome. It is known locally as the "Bridge
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    • 214 7 DETROIT, Wed. (UPI) A physics professor says there is still life in the body of a California man who was quick frozen after his death last week. Mr. Robert C. Ettlnger of Highland Park Community College said he was confident the man who was frozen
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    • 72 7 SAN QUENTIN, California, Wed. (AP) Nine hundred of San Quentin prison's 1.20n Negro inmates struck yesterday and were locked in their cells. Associate Warden James Park blamed "a combination of Black Muslims and a hoodlum element" for the strike and earlier clashes in which one White prisoner
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    • 70 7 OTTAWA. Wed. (AP) Prince Takamatsu of Japan will visit Canada during Centennial Year as the representative of Emperor Hlrohito. Government House announced yesterday. The Prince, accompanied by Princess Takamatsu. is expected to arrive in Ottawa on July 10. They will visit Expo 67 at Montreal on
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    • 353 7 PALOMARES, Spain, Wed. (UPI). Angry villagers yesterday jostled police in a vain attempt to block arrest of the "Red Duchess" and the local squire for trying to lead an anti-American march in Madrid. The Duchess of Medina-Sidonia was the rallying point for 500 villagers
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    • 248 7 HOLLYWOOD. Florida. Wed. (AP) A woman's body, chopped into pieces, was found yesterday inside a trunk that had been left at a storage company to be held for two years. It was wrapped in plastic freezer bags and loaded into two small, galvanised steel garbage
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    • 90 7 SEOUL. Wed. (UPI) South Korean authorities last night arrested the three sur viving crewmen of a passenger ship which sank off Korea's southern coast on Saturday and took at least 90 persons down with it. The three were charged with manslaughter on grounds that
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    • 257 7 PARIS, Wed. A vast advance in teaching facilities throughout the world is revealed In the new UNESCO Statistical Yearbook. which shows that world education enrolment rose by 69 percent between 1950 and 1963. In the 13-year period there was an increase of
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    • 125 7 HONOLULU. Wed. (UPI). Two rear doors blew off the back of a Military transport plane at 33.000 feet on Sunday, injuring one of about 90 servicemen aboard, the Air Force said yesterday. A spokesman at the 61st military airlift wing said an Army private was taken
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • 423 8 BEFORE the first Malaysia plan was introduced, West Malaysia had already implemented two rural development plans. Yet, after nearly a decade, the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein, has to exhort civil servants and the people to put forth their maximum efforts to make the current
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  • 314 8 rS lack of social discipline among Singaporeans has been agitating the minds of the authorities for some time as judged by the exhortations of Government leaders. The latest word on this subject has been uttered by the Minister for Social Affairs and Culture, Enche Othman Wok. When one
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  • 3316 8 6 nations sign Treaty of Rome 1967 will be a decisive year for the future of Europe: during this time, after searching discussions between the British Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the one hand, and the Heads of Government of the Common
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
    • 276 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. Bank of America scored notable gains in earnings, deposjts and loans during 1966 according to President Rudolph A. Peterson. Net operating earnings reached a record U*****.037.170 or U553.97 per share on 28.480,000 shares outstanding. This compares with U*****,734,333, or U553.57 per share
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    • 126 9 LONDON, Wed. (AP) Blue chip stocks were a snade better yesterday although both the stock and bond markets were quiet. Speculators appeared to be awaiting results of this weekend's five-power monetary talks and Prime Minister, Mr Wilson's tour of Comlarket capitals on possibilities of Britain joining the
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    • 85 9 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Rubber market yesterday closed quiet with spot. 185 16. 18-9 'l6 Settlement House Feb. 18-7 16, 18-9/16. Mar. 18-5 8. 18-11/16. April 18-13/16, 19. Apr 'June 19-1/16, 19-3/16. July/Sept. 19-3 8, 19-1/2. Oct./ Dec. 19-9/16, 19-11/16. Jan. March 19-3/4, 19-7/8. Apr /June and July/Sept.
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    • 106 9 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) he U.S. Chrysler Corp., *'ill be allowed to buy the Rootes auto group, Minister Technology Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn told Parliament. The move will inject *-20 million ($56 million) of r ew American capital into *> ailing company. The government-owned Industrial
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    • 50 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Association of Banks In Malaysia today made the Joilowin* changes in its J 'es to merchants: Canada: Buying T.T. 35J '8; Airmail O.D. 35-7/16; 36 WUs: 36i/'S trade bills. Selling T.T./O.D, read/ Canada 34-15/16; HoU und Guilders 117-1/4; Bel*'an Francs 1617; Italian iura 2Q27 i,
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    • 222 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The largest tubular water turbines in Japan were recently concluded at the Kamata Works of Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. (Toshiba) for Installations in hydro-power stations in Gumma Prefecture. Japan. The pair of turbines, one with a capacity of BJ2OO kw, and the
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    • 281 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. February first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 004 cent» per lb., up i cent from previous close. The tone was inactive. A very quiet session ruled all morning. Export figures for December at 109,069
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    • 125 9 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Stock prices yesterday soared higher in active trading with high-priced glamour issues pacing the upswing. Trading activity stepped up substantially and the high-speed stock ticker fell behind floor transactions during the session. Wall Street analysts did not expect Monday's brief pause
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    • 24 9 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPI) Money Quotations: HK55.7125/5.7287 59 per US dollars for cash HK515.89 ?er pound sterling HK$26O.5 per tael gold.
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    • 82 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. Andrew Tan Boon Lenr joined Smith Kline and French Laboratories Ltd. in 1962 as a Medical Detailer. In February 1966. he attended a Products Seminar in Hong Kong and was promoted to the position of Promotion Planning Manager. He is now due to end a
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    • 49 9 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Rubber futures yesterday closed 15 points lower, sales none. Mar 67 22.25 22.80 May 22.25 22.80 July 22.55 22.90 Sept 22.55 22.90 Nov 22.55 22.90 Jan 2255 22.90 Locally, the spot No. 1 RSS held Steady at 22 cents per pound, nominal.
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    • 26 9 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Rubber market closed quiet with No. 1 RSS spot 18| 18-9 16. No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports Feb. 18 18i.
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    • 51 9 WASHINGTON. Wed. (AP) The United States government sold 105 long tons of tin from surplus stocks yesterday. 25 ton s of grade A at 1.5425 dollars a pound. 50 tons of grade B at 1.5275 dollars a pound, and 30 tons of grade C at 1.5225 dollars a
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    • 839 9 SINGAPORE. Wed Gammon continued to dominate the biggest turnover for the day. The market opened on Arm note with prices generally steady except some equities showed sm«ll improvement. Chemical inched 'up 3 cents having done from $1.66 to $1.69 while Esso advanced further with the
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    • 305 9 LONDON, Wed. (UPI). —A leading London bank today foresaw economic progress in Malaysia further encouraged by the nations five-year plan and priority given to diversification. It said that the plan, however, was heavily dependent on sufficient foreign financial and technical aid and that the
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    • 160 9 MEXICO CITY, Wed. (UPI) Prospective buyers of Mexican goods in Hong Kong get little help from Mexican exporters, the gov* ernment's Foreign Trade National Information Centre reported. The centre warned that "apathy or lack of interest** among Mexican industrialists and exporters may be detri- mental to
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    • 21 9 NEW YORK. Wed. (AP) Rubber standard futures closed quiet. No sales. Spot No. 1 ribbed smoked sheets 21-7/8N nominal.
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    • 15 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The tin price for today was S6OOJ per picul, up SIJ.
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    • 483 9 INDUSTRIAL H. 8. Boustead XD 1.50 1.52 Central Humrt 1-44 1.45 Chemical Co. 1.69 1.69 Cold Storage 3.06 3.14 Dun lop XK 2.34 2.35 E. Smelting 4 00 4.04 E«*o ordk s.22 3.24 E**o Pref 1.06 1.07 Fltspatrlcka 1.55 F. X. Urdx 3.50 3.56 Gammon 1.37 1.36
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    • 50 9 'Maniitrs price*) First Mil la* an XD 2.13 2.23 SwoniJ Malayan \l> 1.51 1.61 Third Malayan 1.10 1.21 Malaysian GawMtn .85 Mai. Having* Flind 1.31 1.41 Sterling Commodity 1/1 4/5 FtrM llnnK Ron* W» 1.00* Bwond Hon* Kong ,«9 ."J3* Malayvlan Investment Fund .HO 1.00 (•Hon* Koni Currency)
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    • 124 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. «lngapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon price* today were. Bu> era Sellera Coconut oil (FOB) Hulk mm 45.00 Coconut oil 47.50 < FOB Drums Loose Copra Mixed IM'C./Jan. 37.75 Sugar (Jata) exgodon 11 24.50 Nutmegs 110* —m 4U5.00 Nut megs It i W mmm 220.00 Garbled Lampong Black
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    • 183 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The following ships are expected to be in port today God owns Vessels 1/2 Kapitan Kosko 3/4 Bakuriani 6/7 Golden Spring 8/9 Balchikha 10/11 Jenek Krasicky 13/14 Eastern Muse 19 Mansei Maru 23/24 Kimanis 25/26 Kakamatsu Maru 27/28 Tokuwa Maru 29/30 Victoria Bay 31/32 Lovcen 33/34
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    • 853 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 7.0.% a.m. Airline MSA 029 from Koala Lumpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MSA 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 9.50 a.m. Airline MSA 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.00 a.m. Airline MSA 451 from Kuching. Time 10.55 a.m. Airline MSA 005 from Pen:»ng.
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  • 1195 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. More donations have been received for the National Disaster Relief Fund. Here is today's list of contributions to the National Disaster Relief Fund: Through the Minister of Welfare Services:— Khong Guan Biscuit Factory Ltd. 500 tins of biscuits, Utusan Press 20
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  • 480 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A lawyer today accused the police of 4 inventing deliberate lies'' to justify the killing of Labour Party member, Ong Chong, during an anti-LBJ demonstration outside the Lincoln Cultural Centre on Oct. 30, last year. Mr. T. T. Rajah, watching brief
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  • 185 10 IPOH. Wed. The fragmentation of 6.300 acres of European-owned rubber estates in Sitiawan and Sungei Siput is threatening the livelihood of tappers, the labour force and their families on both these plantations. The labourers of Dovenby Estate in Sungei Siput North, and the labour
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  • 26 10 PENANG. Wed. The Chief Minister, Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee, will declare open the Zuellig Feedmills at Mak Mandin, Butterworth, at 4 p.m. tomorrow.
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  • 350 10 Through the Mentri Besar Perak for the Perak Flood Relief Fund:— The MCA Larut Seiantan branch. Taiping 5808.50; Women's Section of MCA, Larut branch, Taiping $668: North Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Taiping $2,722.50; Estate of Ong Saik (deceased) Taiping $300: Tan Guan Hin and Co., Ltd., Ipoh $1,000:
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  • 297 10 PENANG, Wed. The death of Penangs "heart girl", 19-year-old Chuan Chye Yeng, at the General Hospital this morning has saddened many hearts here Apart from her father, perhaps the hardest hit by her death is Mr. D.R. Chapman, chairman of the International Community Service
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  • 119 10 KUALA LUMPUR. \VH, —A frustrated "husband" P Ramlee and his neg ecting wife Juliana Ibrahim, realising their mistakes, were back id love again. The heart-touching reunion took place at ?he Subang International Airport here this evening. And, as they hugged happily in the airport restaurant, host
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  • 78 10 PENANG. Wed. The Deputy Director of UNESCO. Dr. Malcolm S. Adiseshiah. will visit the proposed site for the Penang University College on Jan. 21. He will arrive on that morning and will be met by the Chief Education Officer of Penang, Mr. Ong Teng Keong,
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  • 575 11 Low cost housing schemes suffer setbacks KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Minister of Local Government and Housing, Mr. Khaw Kai Boh, today said low-cost housing schemes in some States had not achieved as much success as the Government would have liked to. He believed this was large ly due to a
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  • 156 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Mr. Peter Frankel, director of C.E. Clements (SouthEast Asia) Sendirian Berhad today wrote in to thank the Eastern Sun for "the excellent coverage you have given me and my company on the oats mill we are building in Batu Tiga." "The support of
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  • 244 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Communist terrorists and their sympathisers in East Malaysia have only 13 more days in which to give themselves up under the Government's "Operation Harapan" surrender offer. Those who do not do so by Jan. 31, after which date the
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  • 53 11 IPOH, Wed. A crowd of more than 4.000 Sikhs from Kinta district attended the final session of the 48hour non-stop prayer at the main Sikh temple in Gurdwara Road here today. The temple festival was to mark the third centenary celebrations of the tenth Sikh prophet. Guru
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  • 79 11 KUALA LUMFUR. Wed. An appeal by Dr. Ungku Omar Ahmad. Director of the Institute of Medical Research, to private doctors, to help inoculate flood victims came under Are from the Malayan Medical Association today. Dr. Omar yesterday said the IMR was prepared to give free vaccine
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  • 43 11 PENANG. Wed. A courting couple was robbed of $2O cash and a $25 wrist watch at Bukit Dumbar Reservoir last night. A clerk. Lim Chai Hum, 24, said that while he and his girl friend were strolling, three thugs confronted them.
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  • 283 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Standing Committee for the International Tourist Year programme has decided at a meeting to approach the various Government departments and organisations to initiate action to participate in the programme. the main objective of which would be made the public and
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  • 356 11 KI'ALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE United Notions Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation is to discuss the setting up of the Asia Institute with Malaysia here. This was indicated by the Deputy Director-General of the UNESCO, Dr. Malcolm S. Adiseshiah, on his arrival here for a four-day
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  • 255 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A Malaysia rubber delegation headed by the Director of the RRI, Mr. B. C. Sekhar are on their way to Russia to boost the sales of Malaysia's natural rubber and to secure premier price in the market. The delegation of ten
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  • 48 11 PENANG. Wed. Police today arrested two suspects in connection with the armed robbery in which a cashier, Mr. Khoo Thean Keat, was robbed of $20,194 at Noordin Street on New Year's Day. The two persons whose names have been withheld will be charged in court tomorrow.
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  • 25 11 PENANG, Wed. Thieves broke five Parking meter cash boxes and took away $25 worth of coins in Chowrasta Road last night.
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  • 295 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A Bill, seeking to establish the Pertubohan Berita Nasional Malaysia (BERNAMA), or the Malaysian National News Agency, will be introduced daring the Budget session of Parliament, beginning tomorrow. BERNAMA. to be managed by a Board of Governors, will collect and distribute news and
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  • 305 11 IPOH. Wed The PPP leader, Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam. today described as "fantastically high" many of the landlord's demands for rent increases here. "Most of these demands are fantastically high and there is no justification for such demands," he said in a statement. Landlords in Ipoh
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  • 145 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Three Malaysian technicians are at present in Kenya, assisting in the establishment of a new factory there. The three are from Rothmans of Pall Mall's Petaling Jaya production department. and they are helping in the planning and opening of the Group's latest
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  • 142 11 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Singapore Police today disclosed the identities of three persons whom they want for interrogation in connection with the vicious attack made on the vice-principal of Chinese High School, Mr. Teh Kim Fatt. They are Ang Jiak (1), Teochew, 21; Chng Choon Choo, (2),
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  • 88 11 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Wed. The Rubber Replanting Board of Penang and Province Wellesley and South Kedah today launched Its Intensive campaign to publicise the replanting scheme and the compulsory registration of all rubber small holders. The Btate Rubber ReSlanting Officer. Mr. Cheah oo Peng. Is leading a
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  • 86 11 IPOH, Wed. A 12-year-old girl from an estate school in Trontr was taken by her headmaster for an excursion to Taiping where he bought her four pieces of cloth and finally to a hotel, where he spent tho night with her. the Magistrate's Court here was
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  • 83 11 PENANO, Wed, The radio statfon at the BAAT. base in Butterworth m making an appeal to its members and their familiet on Saturday and Sunday for donation to help flood victims in Malaysia. An R.A.A.J. spokesman said today their target figure was $5,000, but it
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  • 80 11 Sarawak's $10,000/donation KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Sarawak Stat* Government has donated $lO,000 towards the National Disaster Relief Fund. This was disclosed today by the Chief Minister of Sarawak, Penghulu Tawi Sli, who arrived here for a fourday visit. He said the people of Sarawak were very sympathetic with the flood
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  • 25 11 SINGAPORE. Wed.— There were 87 road accidents, oT which eight were serious, daring the past 24 hours in the Republic. Police disclosed today.
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 406 12 THE Straits Settlements was formed and governed by the British at Calcutta. It comprised Malacca, Penang, and Singapore in 1832. Later, it separated from India and the Crown Colony was formed. When the Japanese occupation of Malaya was over, the population Increased rapidly and
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    • 178 12 THE last kite-season was in April. During the kiteseasons, many young boys come into the field to play with their kites. The boys bring rolls of thread and few kites. They protect their thread with layers of glass powder so that they can cut the strings
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    • 313 12 Television —its advantages and disadvantages TELEVISION was invented by J. L. Bairct and on 13th February 1963 television was introduced in Singapore and Malaysia. It is a modern and scientific medium of communication. In Singapore our television station is at Thomson Road, and from there programmes are televised to the
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    • 309 12 THE competition I had won was a contest sponsored by Esso Limited to help encourage or promote the use of the National Language by non-Malays. It was the serond term's holiday in could not recall the day or the place I went but I
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    • 331 12 IT WAS a cool sea-breeze that blew gently on me when I was reading a book. Then I heard a shout from my sister saying that my uncle wanted to see me. In a short while I was downstairs and surprised to see my
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    • 174 12 WE must be loyal citizens of Singapore. Loyalty plays a very important part in our life. One must always be loyal to their own state wherever they are. We must try to do something of importance to our state. We should always be friendly towards
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    • 361 12 TWO days ago, I went by bus to visit my friends who live about two miles away. At about 5.30 p.m. I was ready to reiurn home. I walked eight yards to the bus stop on the main road wnich leads back to
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      167 12 I gulped down my food as I had woke up very late. Looking at my watch I noticed that it was past eight. I grabbed by suit-case and rushed out of the house to the bus-stand. I waited impatiently for the bus to come. I shook my
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    • 145 12 I WISH to be a doctor when I grow up. A doctor must be clever at science. Science is my favourite subject. The work of a doctor attracts an( therefore I wish to be one. My reasons for liking this job are these. I
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    • 213 12 SINGAPORE, is the smallest state in SouthEast Asia. It is a beautiful island and an important seaport, situated at the Southern tip of Malaya. This island is also called the gate way to the East. There are about one and a half million people in Singapore.
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    • 424 12 IN this world, there are many cases of kidnapping robbery and murder and Singapore is no exception. One evening, the sky W3 s dark and as I was cycling home from school. I was stopped by four men. Th*y asked me to dismount from
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    • 144 12 NEW ESSAY CONTEST FOR THOSE WHO ARE 14 AND UNDER THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And
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  • EASTERN SUN FEATURE
    • 1442 13  -  The original Frankenstein of 150 years ago was really quite a friendly chap "It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half extinguished light,
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    • 426 13 NEW YORK. Wed. Richard C. Cornvelle, Executive Vice-President, the National Association of Manufacturers: "We back joint government-private corporations to fight social problems so long as there are no fiscal strings attached. But we must remember much of this work could be done by existing
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    • 300 13 R CAN IS T IO N ORCHARDIPALACE a J1161 I 4 7 S 78 OTENS TODAY! I_W. I.HO. 1.3®. I ,,.i A 9.1*» p i I.U p.m. PENELOPE Metroeolor SCATHAY Phono 334(K)I 0p ,n» Ioday: II. 1J». S3®. »-3» v> AL.T DlSNEY Present* |h« LEGEND of Young DICK TURPIN Pmvid
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    • 32 13 CATHAY OPENS TODAY! awr IN THE TRADITION Or BILLY THE KID AND JESSE JAMES. COMES ANOTHER ADVENTURE OF ENGLAND'S NOTORIOUS HIGHWAYMAN. DICK TURPIM! WALT DISNEY PRESENTS THE LEGEND OF YOUNG I 'J
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    • 290 13 SHAW GANISATION LIDO Phone ***** Open* Today! 11, l.Sft 4. (.M 15 Kirk Douglas Tony CurtU "THE VIKINGS" Tec hn tram a color <UA) Open* Today 11, I.4ft. *.M 9 30 Warren Beatty Ac Rasannah York "K\LEIDOSCOPE"' in Color 'WBi PLUS ON STAOE TONIGHT <1.30 A D.JI p.m. No Free
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  • 116 14 Z SINGAPORE. Wed. Singapore's silver medallist at the Asian Games in Bangt kok, Chua Phung Kim will give an exhibition at the Singapore National Weightlifting championships to be held at Broadway Hall, New World Amusement Park on Jan. 28. at 7.30 p.m. Seventeen local "ironmen"
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  • 1101 14  -  SCFA GROOMS STARS OF TOMORROW by Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Wed. The Singapore Chinese Football Association's ambitious plan to groom a "multi racial group of soccer stars" on the island has sparked off great interest in modern method of coaching and training. The scheme the
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  • 234 14 LONDON, Wed.—Horses from Italy and Japan are amon? the 102 nominations for the Grand National to be run at Aintree, Liverpool, on April 8. Runner-up in the last two races, Freddie, is expected to be third time lucky this year and holds his
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  • 37 14 LONDON, Wed. Surrey, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and the holders, Cheshire, will compete in the semi-finals of the English county hockey championship on February 4. The matches will be played on the grounds of Cheshire and Warwickshire.
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  • 792 14 LONDON, Wed. None of the matches in the first division of the English League on Saturday produced a result which is likely to have any direct effect on the championship. The top three Liverpool, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest all won. There is
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    • 423 14 iNawiNioddv Dnand LEMBAGA LETRIK NEGARA TANAH MELAYU VACANCY FOR HOSPITAL ASSISTANT APPLICATIONS are invited from suitably qualified Federal Citizens, up to the age of 30 ♦ears for appointment as Hospital Assistant. Candidates must have attained a reasonable standard of education and Sust be in possession of a rade 111 Hospital
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  • 624 15  -  HE DOES 384/5 sec. FOR 3 FUR. by Windsor Lad SINGAPORE, Wed.-Hokoru, with Las Colts astride, showed a partiality for a wot track at Bukit Timah this morning when he easily skipped over 3f. in 38 4/5 tic., striding out smoothly all the way.
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  • 220 15 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) The British may again pull out of the European Boxing Union because of a row over the weight divisions, it was forecast yesterday. There was no immediate official statement from the British Boxing Board of Control, but an official was
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  • 261 15 LONDON. Wed. Three British boxing championships are vacant, according to the year-end ratings of the weekly magazine "boxing news" published in London. They are the lightheavyweight. welterweight and flyweight titles. Chic Calderwood. the British lightheivyweight champion was tragically killed in a motor accident recently,
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  • 235 15 MOSCOW. Wed. (UPI) The Soviet Union yesterday rejected a plea from Japan to reconsider its withdrawal from the Women's World Volleyball Championships in Tokyo this month. The Russians announced on Saturday that they were withdrawing because "the teams of the Korean Democratic People's Republic and
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  • 213 15 SINGAPORE. Wed. Hari Pahelwan. the heavyweight wrestling champion of West India, won the gruelling wrestling match against West Berlin champion, Hans Von Steiger. in 23 mins. 20 secs. at the Gay World Stadium on Friday night. The match was fought according to Indian Style wrestling rules.
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  • 74 15 LONDON. Wed Billy Walker, who was unbeaten last year, is to make his flrst appearance this year at Manchester on February 13 in a ten-round bout against Oiullo Rlnaldi of Italy, former light heavyweight champion of Europe. The thirty-one-year-old Italian beat the late Chic Calderwood on
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  • 233 15 MEXICO CITY, Wed (AP) Richie Inowe, a Japanese boxing promoter, predicted yesterday Mitsunori Seki would win the world featherweight title by a knockout within eight rounds in Seki's Jan. 29 fight with champion Vicente Saldivar. I "I'm not just saying that because I
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  • 103 15 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Welshman Howard Winstone scored a 1° round decision last night over Richie (Sweet) Sue. of the U.S. to put himself in line for anther crack at Vicente Saldivar's world featherweight title. Winstone. 27, dropped Sue for a count of two in the
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  • 86 15 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) The British Hockey Association needs £15.000 to stage the pre-Olympic tournament here next October Twelve countries, including Olympic champion India, will play 36 matches at the Oval and Lords cricket grounds over six days from Oct. 16. The tournament opens between
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  • 74 15 LONDON, Wed. (AFP) The Australian Rugby Union tourists, slumped to their eleventh defeat of the tour when they lost a scrappy, ill-tempered match against Llanelly at Stradey Park by one goal, one penalty goal, and one dropped goal to nil. Lewis kicked tne penalty and John, the
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  • 317 15 MONTE CARLO, Wed. (UPI) Monte Carlo Rally competitors sped into the French Alps yesterday, some gambling their chances of success and perhaps their lives on a critical and unpopular choice of tyres. Most of the 167 starters in the 80ft-mile day-and-night circuit to
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  • 98 15 LONDON. Wed. (AFP) Harry Venner. the former England Swaythling Cup player, is emigrating in May to Australia to take up a three-year coaching engagement with the Victorian Table Tennis Association. Venner, who is 44. said yesterday: "I am accepting the Australian offer because of the lack
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    157 15 A 'must' for solo vessels A floating radio telephone, seen here being demonstrated confidently by a young: lady "in distress", was one of the features of the 1967 International Boat Show at Earls Court in London recently. Called the Kelvin Hughes Safeguard, it is designed to be operated
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  • 387 15 SINGAPORE, Wed, Singapore Softball Association officials are in a dilemma. They are faced with a shortage of funds. And unless they can find the money (around $8,000), they will lose the opportunity of moking a debut in International Softball. Singapore Softball has been
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  • 208 15 LONDON. Wed. Players of all-round ability are the answer to the deep defensive systems in football today. This is the opinion given by Blr Alfred Ramsey, manager of England's World Cup winning team, in a chat with Harry Langton in the "Daily Express", the
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  • 77 15 STOCKHOLM. Wed (AFP) The Soviet Union. Denmark, Rumania. the holders, and Czechoslovakia reached the semi-finals of the World Handball Championships yesterday. Quarter final results. Czechoslovakia 18. Sweden 11 (halftime 9-3) at Helsingborg. Denmark 14. Yugoslavia 13 (6-5) at Kristianstad. Rumania 20. Hungary 19 (13-12) at Linkoeping.
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  • 373 16 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Ceylon Football Association has been granted ''special permission" to participate in the pre-Olympic group football tournament for Asian countries organised by t«S<» Asian Football Confederation. The AFC has been authorised by FlFAthe international soccer body to organise and run the prelimin
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  • 32 16 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Last night's football results: Football league cup, Ist leg semi-flnal: Birmlnghsm (1) 1 Q. P. Rangers (0> Football league 2nd division. Northampton (1) l Charlton (0) 1.
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  • 444 16 HOUSTON, Texas, Wed. (UPI) —An angry Ernie Terrell yesterday threatened to pack his bags and leave town by Friday if he did not get equal billing with Cassius Clay in signs promoting their heavyweight championship fight for Feb. 6. Terrell, the
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  • 142 16 WALPOLE, Massachusetts, Wed. (UPI) A US$l5O,OOO guarantee, along with 50 per cent of the television rights, dangled in front of heavyweight champion Cassius Clay yesterday if he would agree to fight Canadian George Chuvalo at Boston Garden in April. Nick Abraham and Joe
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  • 231 16 LONDON. Wed. Eng. land's first under-25 team touring Pakistan, who have been described as "part of English Cricket's investment in the future." have been practising since they arrived in Karachi. The f o u r t e en-strong party, captained by
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  • 178 16 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) World junior lightweight champion Gabriel (Flash) Elorde has been formally offered 150.000 pesos (37,500 US. dollars) to defend his crown against countryman Rene Barrientos, currently his No. 1 contender, according to Elorde's adviser and father-in-law Lope Sarreal said the offer was conveyed
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  • 388 16 HOUSTON. Wed. (UPI).— Heavyweight champions Cassius Clay and Ernie Terrell tried for the third time last night to stage a premature championship fight but 17 seconds held them apart prior to a heavyweight fight between Zora Folley and Floyd Joyner. Clay and Terrell
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  • 189 16 MADRAS. Wed. (AFP) India were 323 all out in their second innings. 25 minutes after the re-start, in the cricket Test against West Indies here today Requiring 322 to win. the West Indies had scored 88 for the loss of two of two wickets at lunch.
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  • 106 16 This tunic dress with Bermuda shorts in white Dacron both featuring scarlet scallop trimming was one of the many eye-catching m o d e Is shown in London recently by Teddy Tinling when he unveiled his 1967 collection of tennis wear. Tinling Br i t a in
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  • 112 16 SYDNEY. Wed. (AFP). Australia heat the United States by three games to one under floodlight here yesterday to take a 4/2 lead in the series of tennis matches between the two countries in Australia. First Australian Davis Cuppers John Newcombe and Tony Roche beat Americans
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  • 295 16 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Minister for Culture and Social Affairs, Enche Othman Wok, said it was satisfying to note that the Football Referees' Association of Singapore "is conscious of the important role it plays in promoting football in the Republic." Enche Othman Wok, is
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  • 150 16 MALACCA. Wed. Malacca will badly miss the services of two all-round sportsmen who leit the State on transfer recently. Tarn Kong Onn an M.C.S. officer who represented the State at hockey and cricket for the past several years left on transfer to Penang. Tarn Kong
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  • 63 16 LONDON. Wed. (AFP> Bobby Moore, the West Ham United and England soccer captain who was awarded the 0.8. E. in the New Year honours, has been nominated for appointment as a Freeman ol the City of London. His name appears in a list of flfty-four
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  • 453 16 SINGAPORE. Wed Manuel De Castro chalky the second best sccre in men's open division of th# Yamaha Champion of pions bowling toumameover the weekend at Jarkyj Bowl, Katong here, when J scored a total of 1244 r -2 falls over a 6-game series
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  • 125 16 SYDNEY. Wed. «AFP> Australia's new swimmff wonder, 19-year-old Jp Bennett tackles another re cord swim in the Wales States titles here on Saturday night. The little known y° u ster on Monday nl ht ti ke'.ed into internatio^ prominence witl^ n( shattering record B°° swim
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    • 57 16 TIME AND TIDE Penan;: 4.45 a.m. (6 ft.); 6.44 p.m. (5.9 ft.). lOO3 a.m. (11.5 ft); 11.06 p.m. Port Dickson: 5.29 a.m. (3.5 ft.); 11.15 a.m. (6.2 ft.) Singapore: 4.09 am. (8 ft); 4.23 p.m. (7 ft.) Sedili Kechil: 2.58 a.m. (7.4 ft); J. 57 p.m. (5.8 ft) Kuantan: 1.56
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