Eastern Sun, 15 March 1967

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  • Title Section
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    25 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 234 Wednesday, March 15 1967. ☆MC (P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • Article
    Lock icon Frank Worrell dies
    79 1 KINGSTON. Jamaica, Tups. (AP) Sir Frank Worrell, former Captain of the West Indies cricket team and one of the all-time greats of the eanie. died in University Hospital. Hp was 42. H? played in 51 test matches for the West Indies and was the idol of thousands
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    Lock icon FULL SUPPORT PLEDGE
    297 1 Armed Forces warn Sukarno's JAKARTA, TUES. REUTER A 50, OOOstrong rally organised by the Army today pledged full support for Army leader General Suharto in his new rote as Acting President. From early morning crowds streamed into giant Bull Square in the heart of Jakarta, half a
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    Lock icon Sato urges peace talks
    117 1 TOKYO, Tues. (Reuter) Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. Eisaku Sato, today appealed to nations engaged in Vietnam to come to the conference table with courage for a peaceful settlement of the Vietnam war. In a policy speech at the plenary sessions of the Upper and Lower Houses,
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    Lock icon OPENING OF BANK INDONESIA
    83 1 SINGAPORE. Tups. (Reuter) An Indonesian mission will visit Kuala Lumpur in July to discuss the position of Indonesian deposits frozen by the Malaysian Government during confrontation. Radio Jakarta reported today. The mission will be making the effort to get these deposits back, the radio added. This
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    Lock icon Recplendently bedecked in his Air Chief Marshals uniform, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (right) is greeted by the Sultan of Selangor. Honorary Group Captain of the Royal Malaysian Air Force, on his arrival at the RMAF base in Kuala Lumpur yesterday to present the RMAF its colour. Also there to greet the King are (from left) General Tunku Osman bin Mohamed Jewa. Chief of the Armed Forces Staff, and Air Commodore A. McK. S. Steedman, Chief of Air Staff.
    78 1 Recplendently bedecked in his Air Chief Marshals uniform, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (right) is greeted by the Sultan of Selangor. Honorary Group Captain of the Royal Malaysian Air Force, on his arrival at the RMAF base in Kuala Lumpur yesterday to present the RMAF its colour. Also there to greet
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    Lock icon Bundy meets Malik
    78 1 JAKARTA. Tues. (AP> W.lliam Bundy. Assistant Secretary of State for Far Affairs, met this morning with Foreign Minister Dr. Adam Malik. Mr. Bundy. who recently chaired a meeting of U S. Ambassadors in Asia in the Philippines. Is slated to mee* Acting President General Suharto later this
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    Lock icon Viscount plunges into sea: 25 people killed
    192 1 EAST LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Navy minesweepers and tugs today launched a massive search for survivors from the South African Airways Viscount Airliner plunged into the sea near here last night. It was the country s worst air disaster. All 25 people aboard were
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    Lock icon Suharto era welcomed
    150 1 TOKYO. Tucs. (Reuter) The Tokyo Shimbun, a Japanese daily, today welcomed the "inevitable arrival' of the Suharto era which, it said, would face a stiff ordeal. Acting President General Suharto was required not only to renounce Sukarno's policies but also to work out a reconstruction formula based
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    Lock icon Gold smuggling ring smashed: 18 arrested
    245 1 TOKYO, Tues. (AP)— Japanese police reported today they have arrested 18 persons including two Chinese and smashed Japan's largest gold smuggling ring since the end of World War 11. The ring operated between Japan and Hong Kong. Officials said it smuggled 120 million yen
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    Lock icon OPPOSITION WARNS PM INDIRA
    152 1 NEW DELHI, TUe 5. (AP) Mrs. Indira Gandhi was reinstalled as Prime Minister of India yesterday and was immediately warned by the Opposition parties that they will try to unseat her government before it can complete a full five-year term. The Opposition opened up its gun.s
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    Lock icon Elke escapes from burning home
    145 1 LOS ANGELES, Toei (AP) German-born actress Eike Sommer, dressed only in scanty pyjamas escaped through a second store window from hei blazing canyon home yesterday then fought the fir» with a garden hose. Firemen gave this account: Miss Sommer and her husband, writer Joe Hyams,
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      172 5 Its almost as nice to step out of a Mercedes-Benz 250S as it is to step in Its the combination of the long, sporting lines, that certain Mercedes-Benz air of quiet distinction and you! It does something to people. Makes them sit up and take notice. Gut the most satisfying
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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      666 5 s A- Hi Si:' >" ft tJiVi -2.20 GEOGRAPHY SEC. I "Rainfall and Other Climatic Factors." -3.00 NATIONAL LANGUAGE SEC. I "Membandingkan." ■3.45 MATHEMATICS SEC. II "Polygons II." -4.50 CIVICS SEC. II "Keeping the Peace." -5.30 GENERAL SCIENCE SEC. I "Density of Solide, Liquids and Gases.' -6.10 NATIONAL LANGUAGE SEC.
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Seoul PM confers with LBJ
      70 6 PHILADELPHIA. Pennsylvania. Tues. (Reuter) Korean Prime Minister II Kwon Chong arrived here yesterday by air from San Francisco for an overnight visit before meeting with President Johnson in Washington this morning. At the airport, a large delegation of members of the Philadelphia Korean Federation, including
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      Lock icon 'US AWOL has increased during the '60s'
      182 6 WASHINGTON, Tit}. (AP)—Defence Department figures showed Monday the number of soldiers going AWOL—absent without official leave has clhnbed steadily in the Armys buildup for Vietnam during tne mid-*****. Last year the Army logged 55.190 instances of servicemen failing to report back to their
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      Lock icon 90 MPH WINDS IN PARIS
      42 6 PARIS, Tues. (Reuter) Winds reached a record 90 miles an hour at the top of the Eiffel Tower early yesterday. Weather officials said the previous record atop the 985-foot tower was 82 miles an hour in 1952.
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      Lock icon Guam setting for war pow-wow
      496 6 Westmoreland to be promoted? HOUSE ASKS FOR SI2M MORE FOR V'NAM WAR WASHINGTON, Tues. (Agencies)— Intensification of the Vietnam war is believed to be the major topic to be discussed at next week's strategy talks between President Johnson and his top odvisers on the Pacific
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      Lock icon Russian roulette kills youth
      84 6 OTTAWA, Tues. (Renter) Jacques Petrin, 22, of Hull, Quebec, killed himself by firing a bullet into his temple during an exhibition of Russian roulette. Police said he demonstrated the came to friends by putting: three .22-calibre bullets in a six-chamber revolver and firing two shots while
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      Lock icon 'Boy killed mother who was a drunkard'
      93 6 WEST BERLIN. Tues. (Reuter) A 15-year-old Berlin boy strangled his mother and then gassed himself because she drank too much, police said hero today. Firemen who broke Into the family's flat after neighbours reported smelling gas found the mother dead In the living
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      Lock icon BIG HOME WELCOME FOR MALTA PM AFTER LONDON TALKS
      280 6 VALLETTA, Tues. (Reuter) Malta's Premier, Dr. George Borg Olivier, was given a hero's welcome when he arrived home last night after accepting Britain's package deal on the rundown of her forces here. Hundreds of cheering Maltese carried him shoulder high from
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      Lock icon Don't play with a platypus
      154 6 SYDNEY, Tues. (Reuter) A woman and a youth were treated in hospital after being poisoned by a duck billed platypus a furry, egg-laying mammal that exists only In Eastern Australia and Tasmania. Mrs. Phyllis Beeton, of the town of Yass, 185 miles South-west of Sydney,
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      Lock icon Radio Free Europe gets CIA subsidy
      73 6 NEW YORK. Tues. (AP) The Columbia Broadcasting (CBS) System disclosed yesterday that it ha* refused to carry advertisements for Radio Free Europe since Feb. 15 because the ads did not make it clear the organization was partly supported by the Central Intelligence Agency, Commentator
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      Lock icon Helicopter stands by for mothers-to-be
      232 6 Deluge in Queensland BRISBANE Australia, Toes. (Renter) An Air Force helicopter stood bj last night in flood-stricken North Queensland ready to begin a "Stork patrol" airlifting stranded expectant mothers to hospital. Three mothers-to-be are stranded In one town, cut off from the nearest hos- pital
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      Lock icon German-Danish royal romance denied
      159 6 GermanDanish royal romance denied COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Tues. (AP) Princess Benedikte of Denmark will become engaged to German prince Richard Zu SaynWlttgensteln, two Danish dally newspapers predicted yesterday. The princess is 23, the prince 30. The Danish Royal Court pres s officer declined to comment, a spokesman saying: "We cannot say
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      Lock icon Dies from burns
      55 6 WEST PLAINS Missouri. Tues. (AP) Mrs. Dorothy White, wife of Associated Press newsman Edwin WWhite, died in West Plains Memorial Hospital of burns she suffered earlier yesterday when her clothing caught Are while burning tr The hospital reported that Mrs. White had suffered first an<j second degree
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      Lock icon Britain's fleet may 'go atomic'
      86 6 DERBY, England, Tues. (AP> The Royal Navy's surface fleet may "go atomic." Minister of Defence Equipment Mr. Roy Mason said yesterday in a speech at the Rolls-Royce plant, which manufactures the cores for submarine reactors. "We have considered the possible application of atomic power units,
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      84 6 MAIDSTONE KENT, Eng. Tues. (Reuter) About 50 convicts staged a sit-down protest in a jail's television room when a warder switched off a bank-raid film, it was revealed today. Twenty of them hurled their cocoa to the floor. Ten prisoners will appear before the jail governor today. The
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      Lock icon Was woman still man's wife at the time he died?
      216 6 Divorcee sets a nuzzle LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) The final chapter of the life and legacy of Germanborn John Seaford spanned the length of the British Isles but was crowded into 190 minutes, a High Court Judge heard here today. Counsel
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      Lock icon Good Samaritan not appreciated
      140 6 MUNICH. West Germany, Tues. (Reuter) Police in nearby Augsburg are a bit upset about a 25-year-old woman who keeps putting coins into expired parking metres to save drivers from tickets. "We are not planning any action against her at the moment," a police spokesman said today.
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      Lock icon Indon to pay for damage
      78 6 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Indonesia has agreed to pay £660,000 compensation for damage caused to British property by demonstrators in Jakarta in September 1963, Parliament was told last night. Mr. William Rogers, Foreign Undersecretary, said £259,000 of this had already been paid. The rest would be
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      Lock icon Two trillion yen defence plan approved
      230 7 TOKYO. Tues. (AP) prime Minister Eisaku Sato's cabinet today formally approved a 2.34 trillion yen (I'SStj.i billion) defence buildup programme for the next five years The expenditure Is expected to go largely to Japanese industry, but major Imports are evisaged. The cabinet endorsed the
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      Lock icon Tight schedule in P.I. for Wee Tourism Singapura
      305 7 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) A busy schedule includin: visits to the two of the Philippines most famous tourist spots, two television appearances and numerous social engagements awaits 20-vear-old Wee Hons N>o, "Miss Tourism Singapura" during her visit here. Miss Wee, second year medical
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      Lock icon U Thant to visit 5 nations
      95 7 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Tues. (Reuter) Se-cretary-General U Thant will leave here on April 4 for a visit to five Asian countries, it was announced today. He will confer with leaders of the governments of Ceylon, India, Nepal. Afghanistan and Pakistan on matters of
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      Lock icon WHAT DO YOU KNOW!
      51 7 NEW YORK, Tues. (AP) From a study of twins, two Swedish researchers conclude that cigarette smoking is "probably not associated with coronary heart disease." Constitutional or genetic differences between smokers a nri non-smokers might for excess illness and deaths from heart disease reported imong smokers, they
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      Lock icon CAR KILLS OWNER
      57 7 DERBY ENGLAND, Tues. (Reuter) A woman was killed by her own car yesterday when she got out to open a gate on a country road. Mrs. Joan Thurman. 50. had parked her car with the engine running on the brow of a hump-backed bridge while she opened
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      Lock icon Justice must be heard
      117 7 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) A judge made legal history yesterday by ruling that justice must not only be done and be seen to be done —it must also be heard. Lord Denning, 67, altered British legal procedure In the high court so that a deaf litigant, 72
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      Lock icon Treble fees plan gets 'Yes'
      153 7 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) The British Government today received the short-term backing of a committee of leading university officials for its controversial plan to more than treble fees for foreign students. The committee of university chancellors and principals announced that it had suggested to the universities
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      Lock icon Mini monkey – He's off!
      73 7 Mini monkey He's off! MARTINE the monkey is lodged aboard the French rocket Vesta, last week, for a 150-mile flight through space at Hammaguir (top). Martine was later recovered alive and well after landing by parachute in the Sahara Desert. The experiment was devised to find out how an animal
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      Lock icon 'We are robbing them blind'
      156 7 NEW YORK Tues. (AP) William Douglass, a 37-year-old American described as a raider of British scientists, is the subject of a two-page Feature in the march 17 issue of "Life" magazine, released yesterday. We are draining the English blind of their most promising talent," say
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      Lock icon Three judges hear Shaw
      377 7 PLOT ON JFK' NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana. Tues. (AP) A three-judge Criminal District Court panel gets a look today at the case against Clay L. Shaw, accused by District Attorney Jim Garrison of the retired executive taking part In a conspiracy to kill President John F. Kennedy.
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      Lock icon Sanctuary in Switzerland
      579 7 We will say the S Who will aid Svetlana? BERNE Switzerland, Tues. (Reuter) Stalin's daughter Svetlana said to be unwanted in India and the United States tonight seemed assured of a prolonged sanctuary in neutral Switzerland. Justice and Police Minister Ludwig Von Moos made it clear here
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      Lock icon 27 tons of girls ('THIN' AT 200) at TV special
      318 7 NEW YORK, Tues- (AP) Twenty-seven tons of girls gathered yesterday to audition for roles in a forthcoming television special. When the audition ended, 1,470 pounds had been chosen and all of them were ecstatic. "It's beautiful. It's just beautiful," said
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      Lock icon 'Face-toface on V'nam'
      123 7 'Face-to-face on V'nam' CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, Tues. (Reuter) Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield last night called on President Johnson to seek a face-to-face confrontation In the United Nations of all countries Involved directly or Indirectly In the Vietnam war. He proposed that the administration take the initiative in obtaining
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      Lock icon 'Ky will not be at Guam'
      107 7 SAIGON, Tues. Reuler Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky has no plans to to to the Guam conference on Vietnam next week to be attended by President Johnson and his tog advisers, a high government source said today. President Johnson leaves Washington for Guam next
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      163 6 |«MBl HShB ®IGH OVER THE OUTSKIR7S OF wwe tumwemORATTVE AIR RACE TURNS INTO A REAL-LIFE POGFISHT >»S THRUSH ASENTS MARK NAPOLEON SOLO ANP /UYX KUKYAKtN FOR fiUDt*N PEATH/ >WO UNCLE'S "ACE" ASENTS MOOT SURVIVE THE RRE...ORTHEIR ORGANIZATION WIU. FACE PBASTER/ UMCLMf SAOB! WE HAVE CRIEP TEARS FOR ZE LOSS OFZE
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  • Article
    Lock icon STRIKE BAN
    503 8 THE Singapore Government has banned strikes in the three essential services of gas, water, and electricity. In moving the second reading of the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 1967 in Parliament, the Minister of State for Defence, Mr. Wee Toon Boon, said the main object of the
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  • Article
    Lock icon GETTING DOWN TO WORK
    322 8 7TIHE students in Jakarta should now get J- down to work. The time for rallies and ebullient demonstrations is gone with Dr. Sukarno out of the Presidency. They have achieved their desire to have a new regime. The words of caution uttered by Acting Predent General
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    Lock icon UN diplomats speculate on turmoil in Red China
    983 8  -  By: LOUIS HALASZ THE Great Chinese purge on the mainland, which Mao Tse-tung calls a "Cultural Revolution/'* is the subject of intense curiosity among various diplomats at the UN. None of them, not even those from areas neighbouring on Communist China, pretends
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    Lock icon MASSIVE TRAINING PROGRAMME OF THE R.M.A.F.
    1234 8 Ministry of Defence Public Relations Division has issued this article in conjuntion with the Presentation of His Majesty's Colour to the Royal Malaysian Air Force yesterday. FROM its very modest birth eight years ago, the RMAF has developed both in the quantity and complexity
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      157 8 tk Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, Handbook of Evidence Pop Criminal Trial» w IifIKE and Tony were charged Jointly with possessing 17 burglars' tools. Mike asked for a separate trial, but the Court refused. During the trial, the evidence showed that Tony had served a prison term for larceny. Both Mike
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
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      Lock icon Comet to test new aerial navigation systems
      277 9 T ONDON, Tues. A Comet Four-C four-Jet aircraft of the British Ministry of Technology left Britain yesterday on a three-day flight designed to test the low temperature performance of two of the latest aerial navigation systems The Comet is claimed to be probably
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      Lock icon Dow Jones averages
      50 9 NEW YORK, Tues. (AP). Down Jonas stock average* (open) (high) (low) (close) (change) SO industrials 848.06 883 58 840.89 844.83 off 3.88 30 railroads 34.08 334.87 331.84 333.39 off 1.89 16 utilities 135.33 130.38 ***** ***** off 0.54 06 stocks 300.55 30 09 303.73 304.87 off 1.09
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      Lock icon Rank films managing director due today
      78 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. Mr. C. W. P. Mac Arthur, Managing Director in the Rank Overseas Film Distribution Division will arrive in Singapore tomorrow for a visit. This will be his second visit to Singapore and he will leave for Hong Kong on March 17. 1967.
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      Lock icon Rubber down 3/8 cent
      296 9 SINGAPORE. Tue s. April first grade rubber f.o.b. buyers closed at 5 E.m. in Singapore and Kuala umpur today at 57 cents per lb down cent from previous close. The tone was slightly easier. The market was dull and featureless with no business written till the
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      23 9 HONG KONG, Tues. (UPI) —Money Quotations: HK55.7325/5.745 per US dollar for caih HK515.99 per pound sterling HK5263.875 per tael gold.
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      Lock icon Tin price
      16 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. The tin price for today was $601,374 per picul, down 60 cents.
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      Lock icon Prices generally steady in the industrial section
      727 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. Prices were generally steady in the industrial section on the Stock Exchange. Trading was still quiet. Most heavily traded was Gammon with business done from $1.49 to $1.50 a gain of one cent on the day. Activity in Central Sugar was
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      Lock icon Super cargo liner makes history
      284 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. A super cargo liner which will be in Malaysia and Singapore waters soon made history in the Port of London when fire boats in the traditional 'New York style' welcomed the 14,000-ton cargo liner, the Strathardle, into port. The Strathardle, is the first
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      Lock icon Rubber quiet
      25 9 LONDON, Tues. (UPI) Rubber market opened quiet with No. 1 RSS spot 17 173/16. No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports march 17-1/16 17-3/16.
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      22 9 NEW YORK. Tues. (AP) Rubber standard future* closed quiet. No sales. Spot No. 1 ribbed smoked sheets 20 3/4n. n-nominal.
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS-S'PORE, K. LUMPUR
      924 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 12.05 a.m. Airline MSA 029 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MSA 919 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.50 a.m. Airline JAL 712 from Jakarta. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MSA 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.30 a.m. Airline MSA 461 from Kuchlng.
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      Lock icon NY mart fairly active
      145 9 NEW YORK. Tues. (AP) The Stock Market turned mixed in fairly active trading early yesterday. The trend was higher at the opening but gainers losers were about even after the initial rush of buying wa s taken care of. The economic background remained fairly encouraging. but
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      Lock icon BANK RATES
      93 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. The A?sociation of Banks in Malaysia today made the following changes in its rates to merchants: New York: Buying T.T. 32-3/4; Airmail O.D. 32-7/8; 90 d/st credit bills; 3ii-5/8 trade bills. Canada: Buying T.T. 35".'l6; Airmail O.D 35-9/16; 9' l d/st 36-3/16 credit bills; 36-1/4 trade
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      Lock icon Delegates attend meeting in Bangkok
      60 9 The annual session of ECAFE's Committee on Industry snd Natural Resource* if currently being held in Bangk*. It is attended by some 100 delegates and observers ,r «m 26 Asian and non-Asian countries Photo shows Malaysian delegation, Mr. T. Sivagnanam, Asuiktant Controller, Industrial Development Division,
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      Lock icon YOUR SHARES-UP-DOWN-UNCHANGED
      472 9 SINGAPORE —Stock Exchange t>ld and offer price* officially listed at tbe close of business. Commodity 3/10 4/5 INDUSTRIAL Bou stead C. Sugar Chemical Co. Cold Storage Dunlon (Old) E. smelt 1 n k Esso Ords Fitzpatricks F. N. Ords. Gammon Georgetown G.E. Life Guinness Hotel S'pura Hume (Ml
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      50 9 (Manager! Prices) First M;ila\an 2.21 2.34 14j9 Second Malayan 1.59 Third Malayan 1.16 1.27 The Commerce Industry Fund .89 1.00 The Savings Fund XD Malaysian 1.33 1.43 Investment Fund .95 1.05 Sterling Commodity 3/11 4/6 First Hong Kong 1.00 1.05* Second Hong Kong .70 :4* (•Hong Kong Currency)
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      110 9 SINGAPORE. TUM. Pinrapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices today were: Coconut oil Buyer* Sellers (FOB) Hulk 44.25 Coconut oil (FOB) Itruim 46.75 Loose Copra Ml*ed Mar/Apr. 27.50 Sugar (Java) exgodown 26.25 Nutmegs 110* 410.00 Nutmegs B w mmm 185.00 Garbled Lampong Black Pepper (Fob> 100.00 Pepper Black Special Sarawak
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      Lock icon Trade team visits Bangkok
      71 9 BANGKOK. Tues. (UPI) Ohio Governor Mr- James Rhodes and his 60-man trade mission arrived here last night for two days commercial visit. A mission spokesman said more than a hundred business appointments have already been lined up for the Ohio visitors. The spokesman called the visit
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      Lock icon Commodity prices
      33 9 NEW YORK, Tues. Dow Jones commodity futures index closed 136.64 up 0.40. (OPEN) 136 58 (HIGH) 136.78 <LOW> 136.43 (CLOSE) 136.65 Dow Jones spot commodity jttrice index advanced 0.46 £7 139.25.
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      Lock icon SHIPPING MOVEMENTS
      159 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. The following ships are expected to be in port today:Godowns Vessels 1/2 Glenearn 3/4 Resita 5 Kunshima Maru 6/7 Ampenan 8/9 Akagi Maru 10/11 Nara 13/14 Star Alcyons 15/16 Myrmidon 18 Benmhor 19 Tozan Maru 23/24 Tjimanuk 25/26 Crna Gora 27/28 Mkuni Maru 29/30 Rajula 31/32
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      73 9 KANSAI STEAMSHIP CO. LTD., Notice of Agenoy Change. We have the pleasure to announce that our company has been appointed by Messrs. Kansai Steamship Co. Ltd., of Japan as their General Agents in the Republic of Singapore and Malaya effective from Ist April 1967. ORIENTAL OCEAN LIMITED 63A, Telok Ayer
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      95 10 B. Rothblatt (Author. Handbook of Evldtncc or Criminal Trials") YES. "Until his guilt or innocence has been established, there should have been no reference to a previous conviction record of an accused," the Appeals Court held. "A previous conviction may affect the sentence to be imposed once guilt has been
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  • BOOK REVIEW
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      Lock icon WHY SUHARTO WAS CAUTIOUS
      536 12 THE Acting President of Indonesia, General Suharto, has in recent months been moving cautiously against Dr. Sukarno. And, as a result, some people have taken a blast at the Acting President. Perhaps, the following words of Dr. Sukarno will explain the cautious move of the Acting
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      Lock icon Sukarno: Women are more sympathetic, understanding
      622 12 NEWSPAPERS all over the world used to carry this banner headline: There goes Sukarno the womanchaser all over again. These are views of Sukarno on girls:-.I like attractive girls around me because I feel they are liKe flowers, and I like to gaze at
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      Lock icon SUKARNO
      1772 12  -  Reviewed by Tai Sing Onn P. S. Tan by Cindy Williams Sukarno has a life-long lament. He is a much misunderstood person. To the "outside world", that is 9 he says. The simplest way to describe Sukarno, the man himself says, is to say that he "if a great
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      550 12 DR. Sukarno, until recently President Sukarno of Indonesia, has high praise for the late President J. F. Kennedy of the US, in his autobiography This is what Dr. Sukarno said:- President Kenndey had promised to visit in the spring of 1964. I
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      104 12 Along with his exciting and turbulent career as a public man, Sukarno deals frankly with his private life his early love affairs, his several wives, his attitude toward women generally, his feelings about people, friendship, religion and love. Cindy Adams spent some eleven months with President Sukarno over a period
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      1243 13 f) i d If itier really commit suicide in his bunker? Was Lincoln's assassin really killed In a farmyard barn. In fact, these are deaths that arc in doubt. Did these famous, or infamous, people die as the uorld believes? Often there arc political reasons tor
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      376 13 NEW DELHI, Tues. (AP) Indian scientists have started compiling dossiers on some badly-need-ed characters hiding out in the Indian Ocean. Their family names include Tuna, Mackerel. Herring Sardine and Anchovy. Most have managed to escape the angler's hook for hundreds of years But
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      198 13 f SHAW, ORGANISATION ltth Day: 11. 1 -3». 915 C r.t Eastwood A I*e Van ClMf FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Tp-pn:scope 6z Technicolor (UAi I CAPITOL Phone *****j Now Showlnj: 11-t.9*-*-*-*5-1>.30 13 Academy Award Nominations I -abeth Tavlor Richard Burton "WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA NonLF"" From Warner Bros *****2
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      114 13 EWV UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF v\A.W\\v\v THE PRESIDENT Or THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE INCHE YUSOF BIN ISHAK GRAND FILM PREMIERE j* AID or THE SPORTS PROMOTION FUND wv? ORCHARD: MON., 20th MARCH '67 at 8.30 p.m. TICKETS: 13.00. $5.00. SIO.OO A DONATION SEATS AVAILABLE AT ORCHARD THEATRE. C. K.
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      324 13 ODEON: OPENS TOMORROW! m In ;>&£ BB «e 20 m CATHAY tonight PALACE 9.15 pm. 9.30 pm. (SEASON FROM TOMORROW NO FREE LIST) MATT HELM IS BACK IN ACTION!!! PALACE F Sff a t. P *2 W KABt MALDEH flumnts Kow chmtm CAMILLA SPABV-JAMES GREGORY-BEVERLY AOAMS Introducwg OINO OESI *nd
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      159 13 3JES &K OKOfIMS/i T lON ODEON ***** Tarzan e d Valley of Gold P «?U VI S ION EASTMAN COLOR Mike Henry Nancy Kovack Chlnene Subtitles INO Tree Llatl MM CATHAY -***** LAST 4 SHOWS: 11 aml.3#, 4.00 8.38 n.m. "GEOROT GIRL" James Mason Lynn Redgrave "MURDERERS' ROW" iwhifimv?. 81
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    854 14 FLAGS AT HALF-MAST IN KINGSTON KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tues. (Reuter) —The West Indies yesterday mourned one of its greatest cricketers, Sir Frank Worrell, who died here this morning from Leukemia at the age of 42. The former West Indies captain was the man
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    218 14 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tues. (Reuter) Tributes poured in today from all over the world to Sir Frank Worrell, who died here yesterday one of the world's few great men, said his old foe, former Australian Test skipper Richie Benaud. Flags fluttered at halfmast throughout the mourning West Indies
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    379 14 LONDON, Tues. (AFP) The British Press paid tribute today to West Indian cricketer Sir Frank Worrell, who died yesterday of leukaemia in Kingston, Jamaica, praising him not only as a cricketer but also as a man. E. W. Swanton, cricket correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph"
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    130 14 SINGAPORE. Tue s. Seventeen-year-old schoolboy, Kamerudin All scored his seventh successive win when he won the four mile "Radio Malaysia" circuit at Johore Bahru. Kamerudin of the Johore Bahru and Royal Nsvy Cycling Club broke away from a very stiff opposition in the last half mile
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    434 14 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tues. (Reuter) The Rest of the World XI, having won the main five-day fixture, emphasised their super* iority over Barbados with a victory in the oneday cricket match here yesterday. The match was arranged as an additional attraction after the
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    218 14 SEREMBAN, Tues. Negri Sembilan Ceylonese Youth Forum, the defending champions were lucky to save a valuable point in yesterday's Negri Semilan hoo key league match when they heid the Harimau Sports Club to a 2-2 draw. Harimau, on the run of play, were a
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      56 16 Hiroshi Shoji (left) of Japan takes a hard right to the face from British featherweight" Jimmy Anderson during their ten-round at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Shoji, the first Japanese professional boxer to fight in Britain. was beaten on points by the British boxer —but was
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      173 16 WELLINGTON. New Zealand. Tues. (Reuter) The holder Bunny Grant (Jamaica) is expected to retain his Commonwealth lightweight boxing title when he meets Manoel Santos, the Tongan-born New Zealand champion, here tomorrow. Grant's greater experience he has won 46 out of 58 fights compared
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      120 16 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Presekutuan Sepakraga Singapore (PERSES) has been invited to compete In the "Khir Johari Gold Cup" sepakraga championships to be held in Kuala Lumpur next month. Singapore the 1966 runner-up In the championships have already picked a 12-man team for
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      388 16  -  By GURUCHARAN SINGH MALACCA, Tues. Several of last year's stalwarts has been invited for the Malacca Hockey Association's State trial the first of the season to be held at the Malacca Club ground tomorrow. The trial is in preparation for
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      211 16 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Persekutuan Sepakraga Singapura (Perses) has invited the Thailand Sepakraga Association to send a team for the forthcoming Pesta Sukan competitions to be held in the Republic in August this year. Thailand who were invited were unable to participate in the
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      66 16 TANJONG MALIM. Tues Perak Police beat Tanjong Malim Club by 58 runs in a friendly cricket match on the town padang here yesterday. The Police hit 87 runs with State player Hazara Singh top-scoring with 32. The home team were bundled out for a
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      340 16  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Tues. With a 'soccer fiesta' almost certain to be held here in May/June, the Republic moves closer to its goal of being the "Wembley" of Southeast Asia. The F.A. of Singapore hopes to bring four top English teams
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      332 16 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Japan, who sprang a surprise by capturing the Über Cup from America last May seem capable of winning the women's singles title on their first appearance in the All-England badminton championships starting at Wembley here tomorrow. Mrs. Judy Hasman. of
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      88 16 SEREMBAN, Tues. The Harimau Sports Club will hold Its third Open cross country race on April 1 at 4.30 p.m. The course will be about six miles. There will be prizes for the first six and a trophy for the champion team based on the
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      236 16 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Over one million pounds has been offered to the English Football League by three British television companies to televise soccer matches next season. The biggest individual offer, £781,000 has been made by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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      103 16 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) England World Cup heroes Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst were today included in the English Faotball League team to meet the Scottish Football League at Hampden Park, Glasgow, tomorrow. Moore. who captained England's World Cup-winn-ing team, and his West Ham teammate
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      143 16 SEREMBAN. Tues. The N.S. Lawn Tennis Association held their council meeting here last night when they finalised the dates for the N.S.L.T.A 'closed' and 'open' championships. The "closed" championships will be played off over two weekends, commencing on May 6 and 7. and May
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      120 16 SINGAPORE. Tue s. Arsenal Sports Club 2nd XI will meet Singapore United Estate Club in the "Buang Cup" soccer match to be played at Woodbridge Hospital ground tomorrow. Kick-off (5.15 p.m.) Arsenal S.C. promoted to division one in the FAS league this season have participated
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      406 16 DUNEDIN. New Zealand. Tues. (Reuter) New Zealand's spin bowlers VIC Pollard and Bryan Yulle took the honours today when the rain-marred second representative match against Australia here ended in a time draw. Altogether almost a full day's cricket was lost through rain bad
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      101 16 KUCHING, Tues. A three-day regatta and land sports will be held in Pusa, second division, from June 23 to 25. The programme includes bong an<j bedar boat race: speed boat race: basketball and football competitions: beauty contest: singing and baby contests: Malay ronggeng and
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      56 16 TIME AND TIDE Penan*: 2.29 a.m. (7.8 ft.); 2.55 p.m. (7.9 ft.). 7.50 a.m. (ifl ft.); 8.05 p.m. Port Dickson: 8.38 a.m. (8.1 ft.); 8.59 p.m. (8.9 ft.). Singapore: 12.59 a.m. (9 ft); 1.17 p.m. (8.7 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 12.21 p.m. (6.7 ft.); 6.21 p.m. (2.9 ft). Kuantan: 1139 a.m.
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