Eastern Sun, 28 March 1967

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  • 26 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily w SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 246 Tuesday, 28 March 1967. MC (P) 2251 KD\ 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 526 1  -  Hasegawa, Han Seng fail due to engine trouble The Singapore Gr By John (Cam and Albert Johnson Singapore. Mon IT was all thrills and excitement at the Thomson/ Semba w a n g Circuit today as Yamaha 'works' rider, A .Mo to ha* shi,
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  • 212 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Six masked robber? literally "bowjrd their way to a $lO,OOO "strike" at th e Jackie's Bowling Centre to Ampang Road here morning And. before leaving with their loot, the robbery even took time off for a leisurely beer session All this was done
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  • 364 1  -  By CHAN KAM YAU KUALA LUMPUR MOV TEACHERS m four States today stared a lightning two-hour "token strike" The teachers are all members of the National Union of Teachers This action followed a cal. by the union for a nation-wide strike in protest
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  • 152 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Minister of Education. Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, today confirmed Tuan Syed Nasir bin Ismail, the director of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, had mad? a move to resign frorr. the UMNO Central Executive Committee He said UMNO Malaysia had also acknowledged the resignation letter
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 274 2 KUALA LUMPUR. MONDAY MANY countries In the South-east Asia and Pacific region, faced with explosive population growth ana dim prospects of world food surpluses in the near future, are forced to try and achieve a break-through In agriculture by Improving and intensifying the existing
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    • 42 2 SEOUL. Mon. Malayflan Minister of CommerceIndustry, Dr. Llm Bwee Aun today paid a courtesy call on Korean President Park Chung-Hee At the meeting. Pres. Park decorated the Malaysian Minister with the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit First Class.
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    • 354 2 IPOH. Mon. The Mentrl Besar, Perak Dato Ahmad bin Said, has received further donations for the Perak Flood Relief Fund:— Headmaster Yu Chai School, Kuala Kurau $126.05, Inhabitants of Mukim Kuala Kurau, Krian $802.60. The Senior Cooperative Officer, Krian North, Parit Buntar $192.00, Through
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    • 179 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisurl Agong returned to the Federal Capital today after a five-day State visits to Malacca and Johore. They arrived here this morning by a special train from Johore Bahru. Yesterday, before boarding the
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    • 364 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The "peculiar" behaviour of two police constables at the scene of a robbery in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman in November, 1965. today led to the discharge of a youth accused of the crime at the Sessions Court here. Ah
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    • 82 2 IPOH, Mon. Thieves last night broke Into the house of the Chief Research Officer of the Mines Department here. Enche Abdullah bin Mohamed Yusof, and got away with $1,330 in cash and Jewellery and other personal effects. Enche Abdullah discovered the theft when he returned to Tiger
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    • 222 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Chan Hing Cheung, managing director of East Malaya Trading Co. Ltd., 13, Station Street. Kuala Lumpur, was fined S3OO in the Magistrate s Court for failing to furnish a return of income together with certified copies of audited accounts in support of the income
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    • 164 2 PENANG, Mon. Believe It or not. An old durian tree, now with Its lower trunk left, was seen emanating smoke by a crowd of spectators in Kampong Pisang in Ayer Itam, here today. Enche Jaafar of the P W.D. said he first discovered the "dragon trunk"
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    • 76 2 PENANG, Mon. Unilormed police and detectives kept a 26-hour close guard In and outside Hotel Ambassador where the Russian trade delegates stayed during their twoday visit here. The Soviet delegates, led by Mr. V. Spandarin, visited the Eastern Smelting Co. Ltd., In Dato Kramat Road
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    • 329 2 PENANG, Mon. With only $l2O end a pocket full of 'luck' 20-year-old Canadian schoolboy, Kenneth Pattern set out alone to see the world. Now, after three and a half years of hitch-hik-ing through Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, he has finally
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    • 185 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon An 18-year-old youth, P. Amavassie, who committed his first offence when he was 12. was today ordered to he sent to the Henry Gurney School in Malacca for three years when he pleaded guilty to a robbery charge. Amavassie was alleged to
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    • 160 2 MALACCA. Mon. The slander suit for damages filed by the Minister of Finance Mr. Tan Siew Sin against a former Municipal President here. Enche Hasnul bin Abdul Hadi will ba heard on April 3. The two-day hearing will be before Mr. Justice Pawan Ahmad.
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    • 102 2 PENANG. Mon. Mr. Sterling Tucker, executive director of the Washing'on Urban League and consultant to the National Lrban League, will be giving 3 public lecture in the council chamber, City Hall, at 8 p.m. on April 4. The lecture is sponsored by the Penang Library and the
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    • 57 2 IPOH. Mon. A order exercise will be heid throughout Perak for a period of eight hours beginning at 8 ajn. tomorrow. Military and civil departments will support the exerThe public are requested not to be alarmed at the sight of organised groups or police or military person"
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    • 130 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Two popular playlets will be staged during the "Save A Life" contest at the Selangor Club cm Thursday night. One of the playlets is by Moliere who in the 17th century wrote a farce popular and was recently translated and produced with
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    • 65 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The president of the Malaysian Society of Incorporated Accountants. Mr. Ng Hore Jin, today presented a cheque for $l,OOO to the Minister of Finance. Mr. Tan Siew Sin. as a donation from the society to the National Disaster Relief Fund. Mr. Ng was accompanied
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    • 54 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Congress of Union of Employees In the public and civil services today came out in support of the national Language Bill. Its president. Mr. T. Narendran. said the Bill should have the full support of all Malaysians and civil servants "are bound to
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    • 658 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Registration for National Service will begin at four manpower stations tomorrow. National Service registration, for those who fall within the specified age group for this first intake, is "compulsory. Any one falling to do so will be liable to prosecution. For this present
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    • 379 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Chairman of UMNO, Enche Ahmad Haji Taff, in a strongly-worded reply to Government leaders today stated that the PAP was alarmed at the support given to UMNO not only from the Malay masses but also from the public as well. He said:
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    • 195 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Minister for Finance, Mr. Lim Kim San. has announced another three industries that would be protected by the Pioneer Industries (Relief from Income Tax) Ordinance, if established. The first comes under the classification of Metal Industries for the manufacture of "light
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    • 143 3 TOKYO. Mon. (Renter) Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore left Tokyo by train today for a sightseeing tour of the ancient capital of Kyoto, Western Japan, and golfing: at Kawana, about 50 miles southwest of here. Mr. Lee arrived here on March 19
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    • 91 3 GRADUATES from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, had degrees conferred on them at the Town Hall recently. Among them were a number of Colombo Plan students. This group represents four countries Sabah. Thailand, Malaysia and New Zealand. From left: Miss Kong Chung Mui (Sabah, East Malaysia); Mr. Mahdi Krongsaew (Thailand);
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    • 289 3 SINGAPORE. Mo n. Housewives jammed Robinson's departmental store today (Easter Monday) as the company ushered in its annual sale of the year today. The holiday crowd was heavy as housewives thought it a good idea to drag their hubbies along to foot some of the
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    • 98 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The total amount of currency notes in circulation on Jan. 1. this year, totalled more than $1,510 million. This is disclosed in the recent Government Gazette in a statement issued bv the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo,
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    • 611 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Teachers Training College today released the results of the Professional Part II Examinations and Re-Examina- tions. Thirty-nine out of 42 candidates who sat for the examinations for the Certi-flcate-in-Education passed. All the 15 candidates in the same examinations for the Chinese
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    • 56 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Barisan Sosialis today Issued a statement condemning the Government for its arrests of "peaceful demonstrators" against the National Service (Amendment) Act. It also hit out at the use of tear-gas against the demonstrators and alleged that one of the demonstrators was seriously injured and
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    • 189 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. —The Registrar of Societies under the Societies Act, 1966, has registered another Ave societies. They are: The University of Singapore Medical NonHostellte Organisation (with effect from March 9. 1967); The Singapore Dental Association (with effect from M;.rch 9, 1967); The Singapore National Academy of
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    • 133 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.—• Four members of the Malaysian Armed Forces have been selected to attend military courses overseas. They are Lieutenant Mahmood bin Ismail from the Second Regiment of the Malaysian Reconnaissance Corps, Second Lieutnant Feizal Tan bin Tan from the Ist. Regiment of the same
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    • 111 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Minister for Health has appointed Dr. Tan Hiew Kang to be a member of the Leprosy Board in Singapore for a period of two years with effect from April 19, this year. Meanwhile, the Minister for Culture and Social Affairs has appointed two leading social
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    • 186 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. Police last night arrested six men and seven women from three different parts of Singapore for taking part in "illegal" processions comprising about 100 to 300 persons. This is the second such "illegal" procession staged within the last 48 hours in
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    • 148 4 IPOH, Mon. The State Veterinary Officer, Mr. Chooi Ah Chye, today called on farmers to vaccinate their pigs as soon as possible as a precaution against the recurrence of swine fever in the State. He said though the disease was now under control in the
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    • 138 4 SINGAPORE. Mon— The proposed Singapore Arts Council will hold Its inaugural meeting on tomorrow, (March 28) at 5 p.m. in the Board Room of the National Theatre Trust. Over 50 local cultural organisations and foundation organisations will send their representatives to attend the meeting. A draft
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    • 80 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Australian High Commissioner in Malaysia. Mr. A-J. Eastman, today presented a cheque for $1,920 to the Minister for Finance. Mr. Tan Siew Sin, at the Minister s office. The cheque represents donation to the National Disaster Relief P\ind by the Asian
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    • 95 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A youth in Kuala Pilah and a woman in Rawang were found slashed to death last night. Their bodies were brought to the General Hospital here today. The body of Atan bin Peral, 19, a farmer, was found in a padi-field. about
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    • 64 4 Two young doctors were married in Singapore yesterday. They are: Dr. Herbert Yeo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Yeo Soy Bah and Dr. Pauline Sleux. daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Paul U. Sleux. The wedding ceremony took place at the Kampong Kapor Church yesterday morning. Yesterday evening,
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    • 540 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. Indonesia regards Singapore as a "comrade in arms" and a "partner for progress" in the field of i n d us trialisation and economic development. This view was expressed by Professor (Dr.) Soebroto. leader of the Indonesian 24-member trade
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    • 491 4 ALOR STAR, Mon. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein, today approved grants totalling $2.3 million for the construction of religious institutions and minor projects in Kedah for this year, after attending a development briefing at the State Development Operations
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    • 141 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt, is scheduled to fly to Singa. pore tomorrow evening. He will be met by the Minister for Culture and Social Affairs, Enche Oth- man Wok. Later Mr. Holt will pay a courtesy call on President of
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    • 32 4 MUAR. Mon. The Bukit Gambir branch of the Malaysian Chinese Association will hold a film show at the local cinema in aid of the National Disaster Relief Fund on Thursday.
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    • 109 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. The incoming: Australian High Commissioner, Mr. A. R. Parson, flew into Singapore last night to take up his new appointment. He is scheduled to present his credentials to the President of the Republic, Enche Yusof bin Ishak. soon. Mr. Parson arrived
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    • 89 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. A 68-year-old housewife, who returned home after three weeks in the General Hospital. fell to her death from the 6th floor of a Housing and Development Board's flat early this morning. She was Madam Tan Ker Hung, of 601, Block 44, Pesiaran
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    • 352 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The Johore State Assembly was today requested to abrogate the water agreement between the Singapore and Johore Governments. This request was made by the Alliance member for Geylang Patah, Syed Mohammad Idros. Earlier, Dato Chua Song Llm. the Chairman for public works. a<sked
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    • 72 4 PENANG. Mon. A Six-teen-year-old boy was today bound over in the suni l $5OO. in the first Magistrate's Court when he pleaded guilty to an alter native charge of retaining a atolen motor-bike The motor-bike, belonging to Shakil Ahmad, was valued at $1,200 and was stolen
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    • 399 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Minister foT Agriculture and Co-opera-tives, Haji Ghazali Jawi, today called on the Food and Agriculture Organisation's Plant Protection Committee to formulate ways and means of combating plant diseases to sareguard the economy of developing countries. He made his aDpeal
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    • 149 10 IPOH, Mon. News vendors in their own way play a major role In disseminating current world events and news ol the day by bringing the newspapers to the doors of their readers each morning. This compliment was paid by Selangor State Assemblyman for
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    • 1326 10 Walk-out is a stab in the back —Khir KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Minister of Education, Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, today described today's two-hour walk-out by school teachers as a "stab in the back." He warned that the Government might take action against the teachers who were "playing hide-and-seek like kids."
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    • 224 10 KUALA LLMPUR, Mon. The Treasury today announced the issue of a new cash loan of $lOO million. Two securities are being offered at par to subscribers, one being a five-year security at 54% per annum maturing on March, 15, 1972, and the other a
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    • 30 2 IK L. DIARY Today Art exhibition by Phoon Poh Hoong at Samat Art Gallery 9 am. to 6 p m. Petaling Jaya Rotary Club luncheon at International Restaurant 1 P*nv
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 94 5 ICAPILCO. Mexico. Mon. ii'Pl> Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, her daughter Caroline and a niece were dumped into the Pacific Ocean yesterday. Their sailboat was tipped over bv waves churned uo by a speedboat manned by Mexican security guards w ho were chasine away two boatloads of photographers. Mrs
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    • 35 5 BAGHDAD. Iraq, Mon. (AP) Iraq Foreign Minster, Dr. Adnan Pachachi, Moscow on April 17. the Foreign Ministry announced. Dr. Pachachi's visit is in resoonse to an invitation by Foreign Minister Gromyko.
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    • 621 5 NEW ORLEANS, MON. (UPI). District Judge, Mr. Edward Haggerty Jr. has dismissed the Warren Commission report from the trial of Clay L. Shaw, charged with conspiracy in an alleged plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. .._Mr. Haggerty concluded: The Warren report
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    • 118 5 MENDOZA, Argentina, Mon. (AP) Joseph Fuchs. the German engineer who discovered Argentina's rich oil deposits, died here yesterday. He was 87. Alsatian Fuchs found oil in Comodoro Rivadavia area on Dec. 13, 1907, when he was drilling for water. He came here from Strasbourg under contract with
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    • 53 5 KARACHI, Pakistan, Mon. (AP) Thirty-nine persons have died of meningitis in Karachi since January, the city's medical authorities said yesterday. The disease is now under control here, they added. A total of 205 persons suffering from the disease have been admitted to hospitals in the Karachi
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    • 277 5 NEW YORK, Mon. (AP).— Yugoslav novelist says he has applied to the government for a passport to travel abroad and for permission to publish his next two novels outside the country, Newsweek magazine reported in its current issue. Newsweek said that despite orders
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    • 103 5 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) A Municipal judge was shot to death while he was about to receive Holy Communion In Cotabato province on Easter Sunday, according to a Philippine news services report here. The news agency said Judge Carlos Valdez was shot by an unidentified gunman in
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    • 263 5 LONDON, Mon. (AP) Abolition of the private educational system that Includes such famed training grounds for British statesmen as Eton, Harrow and Winchester was called for today by the Trade Union Council (TUC). The Council, representing the nation's organised workers, said this
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    • 80 5 BERWICK ON TWEED, Mon. (Reuter) Border raiders yesterday smuggled this Northern town back into Scotland after six centuries of English rule. The raiders believed to be Scottish nationalists removed England-Scotland border signs normally standing three miles North of Berwick and re-planted them South of the town.
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    • 113 5 KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Mon. (AP) A walkout by city firemen In Kansas City began yesterday and union leaders predicted the city would be without fire protection by tomorrow morning. Firemen demanded a 10 per cent pay Increase and a work week of 50 hours Instead of 56.
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    • 52 5 CROWN Prince Re*a of Iran is seen driving: a model car in the crounds of the Royal Palace recently. The car is a model of that used by the fictitious agent* hero "James Bond", in the film "Goldfinger", and was presented to the Crown Prince by
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    • 136 5 TORONTO, Mon. CUPD Miss Tourism Singapore, attractive Mollie Ang Mooi Hua, headed yesterday for Montreal, the next stop on a 50-day global tour to promote her country's tourist industry. The 22-year-old university arts student said her fourday stop in Toronto and Niagara Falls left her much
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    • 113 5 LONDON, Man. (AFP). Foreign Secretary Mr. George Brown will be unable to attend personally the SEA TO council meeting scheduled to be held in Washington on April 18 to 20, and a minister will sit in for him, Foreign Office sources disclosed yesterday. Mr. Brown
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    • 30 5 FERNIE, British Columbia, Mon. (Reuter)—Seven people, including five members of the same family, were killed last night in a collision involving two cari and a lorry near her*.
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    • 127 5 HUNTINGTON BEACH California, Mon. (AP) Police and circus personnel were searching yesterday for a missing hippopotamus. They believe the beast may be swimming around In the Pacific Ocean, maybe off Catalina Island. Herman disappeared on Saturday from his cage in a circus tent pitched on
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    • 122 5 MANILA, Mon. (Reuter) Delegates from 11 Asian countries are expected to attend the annual convention of the Federation of Asian Women's Association to be held here next June it was announced today. This will be the second convention of the Federation to be held in
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    • 59 5 HONG KONG, Mon. (Reuter) A Soviet cultural delegation arrived In Hanoi last Saturday to sign a cultural and scientific cooperation plan for 1967 with North Vietnam. The delegation is led by the Chairman of the Soviet State Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign countries. Mr. S.K.
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    • 66 5 NICOSIA. Cyprus. Mon. (AP) The American Embassy in Nicosia announced that two United States Marines were shot and wounded yesterday while sitting in their parked car with two girls in a side road near the Turkish Cypriot village of Kuru Monastiri, 30 miles east of Nicosia.
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    • 112 6 AN explosion which blasted out the engine room of the doomed American tanker Torrey Canyon, 61.263-tons. grounded on the Seven Stones Rocks between Lands End and the Scilly Isles last Saturday spilled tons of foul oil over miles of the English resort coast. A pilot
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    • 137 6 1 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Fifty horses of the House--1 hold Cavalry were being exercised near Hyde Park Corner when one threw its rider and bolted. As it pranced off another of the horses most of them unmounted charged after it. And then another and another. Soon,
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    • 78 6 THE HAGUE. Mon. (Renter) 1 Elephants today dispersed 500 youthful demonstrators who sat down in front of a cirrus In protest against alleged police brutality during a march yesterday against the Vietnam war and nuclear arms. The demonstrators had intended sitting down in front of a police
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    • 44 6 CHERNAVACA, Mexico, Mon. (UPI) Four men were arrested for cattle rustling when police found a bull in the back of their cadillac. Police said they had to dismantle the back 9eat of the car to get the animal out.
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    • 298 6 PENZANCE, England. Mon. (UPI). The giant oil tanker Torrey Canyon started to break up on the Seven Stones reef off the South-West tip of England last night unleashing thousands more gallons of crude oil on stricken holiday beaches. A Royal Navy pilot who flew over
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    • 113 6 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) —Beatles songwriters John Lennon and Paul McCartney have won top British Musical Industry awards for the second year in succession, contest organisers announced today. Their song "Michelle." recorded by the whole Beatles group, won the Ivor Novello bronze statuette as the most performed
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    • 304 6 ST. MALO Prance. Mon. (UPI) Hundreds of thousands of vacationers crowded several hundred miles of French coastline yesterday for a chance to see sunken ships and lost villages when the sea rolls back up to six miles today in "the tide of the
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    • 265 6 JERUSALEM, Mon. (UPI) Torrential rains and chilly temperature yesterday failed to dampen Joyous Easter celebrations In the Holy Land where Jesus Christ was born, lived, died and was resurrected. Formal celebrations ended at midday after services in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
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    • 280 6 LBJ plans more pow-wows WASHINGTON, Mon. (Renter). President Johnson Intends to hold twice-a-jear strategy conference on Vietnam like the recent ione on Guam despite criticism that it achieved little, officials said today. The Guam conference, entailing a flight by the President and dozens of top officials
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    • 275 6 PERTH, Australia, Mon. (Renter). —A small bug with a smell like rotten eggs, and a tongue-twisting name Is eating bitumen roads In parts of Western Australia. Main roads department research officers have Isolated and identified the micro-organism as Desulfovlbrio Desulfuricans in a State
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    • 44 6 SAIGON. Mon. (AFP). The American spokesman today categorically denied reports that the Vletoong had encircled Saigon with artillery emplacements and rocket launching tubes with the purpose of attacking the capital. He said this report was false, "and absolutely without foundation."
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    • 154 6 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) —A member of India's cabinet said that India's population problem is "Massive enough to strike terror in our hearts." Dr. Sripati Chandrasekhar, India's new Minister of Health and Family Planning, urged that "All methods known to us which are scientific" should be used under
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    • 104 6 CAIRO, Mon. (AFp> Violent storms tied traffic in the Buez CaniS yesterday and butted thi cities of Port Sam and Suez, at each end of th. canal, the Middle East \w* Agency reported Winds, sometimes rearh Ing 62 miles per hour ia?h* ed the sea into
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    • 144 6 JERUSALEM, Mon. (AFP) For the first tirre ever, an Arab state directly requested Israeli aid. when Lebanon yesterday asker help in tracing a ship distress. The Lebanese authorities sent out radio call, monitored in Israel, savin? "Hello Haifa, Haifa, this is Radio Beirut..." and asking for the
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    • 138 6 WEST BROMWICH. Staffordshire. Mon. —Girls at a factory here, who went on strike a month ago when Sheils Nelson. 26, became the firm's first coloured girl employee, have clubbed together to buy her a wedding present. Brighton: Marbles championship at Tinsley Green, Sussex, was won by a
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    • 73 6 FRENCH President Charles de Gaulle embraces United States General Lyman Lemnitzer, Supreme Allied Forces Commander in Europe, after awarding him the highest French military decoration, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, at a ceremony in Paris to mark the withdraawl of the U.S. top Military Headquarters for Europe
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    • 406 7 the V NEW \ORK, Mon. (UPI). The Pentagon intelligence predicts the Vietcong "will employ bigger and more potent weapons in South Vietnam," Newsweek said yesterday. The magazine, in its periscope column, said the Russians, Czechoslovakians and Chinese already have
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    • 284 7 MOUNT CLEMENS, Michigan. Mon. (UPI) Air Force investigators have been able to closely duplicate a series of pictures taken by two youths allegedly showing an unidentified flying object (UFO). The Detroit News, in a copyrighted article in its Sunday editions, reported the pictures taken by
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    • 115 7 ELGIN, Scotland. Mon. (Reuter) Prince Charles. 18-year-old heir to the British throne, makes his public debut as a cellist here on Wednesday night. He will play at a charity concert for spastics with the Elgin Orchestra, conducted by Miss Kim Murray, who teaches at nearby Gordonstoun
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    • 47 7 PUSAN, Korea Mon. (AP) A South Korean Marine Sergeant from South Vietnam has been quarantined as a possible bubonic plague case, health authorities here reported today. The unidentified Korean Marine was among about 20 soldiers suffering from various kinds of malignant diseases, they said.
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    • 235 7 SAN DIEGO. California, Mon. (UPI) The Department of Defence "made a mistake'* when it established a policy of camouflaging the number of U.S. casualties In Vietnam, the former Acting Commandant of the Marine Corps said here yesterday. Lt. Gen. John C. Munn, USMC-Ret., said the
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    • 69 7 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Mon. (UPI) A Russian fishing boat captain was sent to jail after being fined US $lO,OOO for fishing within U.S. waters off Alaska. A Federal judge ordered Capt. Leonid M. Kuschenko, 29, of Vladivostok to be held in the Alaska State jail until the fine is
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    • 47 7 IN DJIBOUTI, French Somaliland: Rioters barricade streets with petrol barrels rocks and burned-out cars during their battle with French security forces following the announcement that a referendum had rejected independence for French Somaliland. Photo at right shows Somali women at the polls.
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    • 118 7 MANILA. Mon. (AFP) An unidentified man shot to death two persons, including a woman, during mass in a Roman Catholic Church in Southern Philippines yesterday morning. Reports reaching here said the other victim, a municipal judge, was shot four times in the back while he was about
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    • 96 7 CHICO, California. Mon. (AP) James O. Molen, 23-year-old welder, handcuffed himself to a sink in the hospital delivery room in which his wife, Barbara, 21, was giving birth yesterday, police said. After a healthy baby boy was bom officers sawed the handcuffs off and booked Molen
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    • 50 7 ONEONTA, New York. Mon. (AP). Three-year-old Willie Cornell excitedly urged his sleepy mother to come to see the Easter bunny early yesterday. Mrs. Cornells arrived too late. The bunny she had been awakened to see already had eaten the crocuses she was growing near the house.
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    • 214 7 5 a bah MANILA, Mon. (AFP). President F. Marcos >»<! his foreign policy advisers were meeting here this noon to study a Malaysian invitation for the Philippines to send observers to the forthcoming Sabah elections. There has been a sharp division of views
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    • 363 7 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) Food and Drug Commissioner Dr. James L. Goddard said yesterday it may take 20 years to determine whether oral contraceptives increase the risk of cancer of the cervix or breast in women. Dr. Goddard noted on a television programme
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    • 482 7 HONG KONG, Mon. (UPI). Peking Radio admitted today that opposition to Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung is far from being crushed. The admission came in a broadcast of a declaration adopted at a Red Guard rally last Saturday in the Red Chinese capital.
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    • 109 7 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Britain's giant Imperial Chemical industries Company last night announced it is speeding up its search for a synthetic tobacco. A new firm ha« been formed, In co-operation with the Imperial Tobacco Company, to intensify research started last year. An 1.C.1, spokesman said It
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    • 75 7 WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Mon. (AP) The Ku Klux Klan held a rally yesterday at a drive-in theatre. The Klan is dedicated to White supremacy. The North Carolina leader. Imperial Wizard Robert Jones, estimated the crowd at 4,000. He asked for new member! and for contributions for
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    • 68 7 Mr. Siaka Stevens, 61, leader of Sierra Leon's AU People's Congress Party, pictured in Freetown earlier this week as results of the tiny West African nation's General Election results were announced. On March 21st, Mr. Stevens, minutes after beinr sworn-in as the nation's new Premier was
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    • 696 5 CHAXNFL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Pnlan Pinanf, 6 Ipob and Melaka; 3/10 Johore Bahru: 4 Taipior. < Batu Pahat: 9 Klnanc. < Singapore viewers, please switch to channel 3 for T.V. Malaysia programmes). P..H. **s OPENING ANNCT Prog. Summary JJO NEWS OUTLINES in the National Language. 553 NATIONAL SONGS. 6.0#
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    • 138 6 PARTS HOTLY PURSUED BY THRUSH A5BKV5, NAPOLEOH AND llVfA FEIGN A CRASH tANPMS ID ESCAPE IYTTH THE VITAL. MICROFILM PlAUt, BUT.. m*. ff ilOUU WOO o^CUUlli| Easter in the 8clllies. nea the scene of the groundei tanker, and flew to thi Culdrose Naval base on thi mainland yesterday after noon
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    • 114 7 suspect PUSAN, Korea Mon. (AP) A South Korean Marine Sergeant from South Vietnam has been quarantined as a possible bubonic plague case, health authorities here reported today. The unidentified Korean Marine was among about 20 soldiers suffering from various kinds of malignant diseases, they said. GOT THE... ONEONTA, New York
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  • 435 8 "VTESTERDAY members of the National Union of Teachers in West Malaysia stopped work to picket their respective schools as a protest against their grievances remaining unresolved by the Government. In some towns they walked out of classes in which the students were taking their term examinations and oral
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  • 310 8 BOTH U Thant and Senator Edward M. Kennedy hold the view that the United States should stop the bombing of North Vietnam to test the sincere desire of Hanoi for peace talks. U Thant wants both parties to go the whole hog. According to him, the American bombing
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  • 1090 8  -  By: Urs Schwars An a t i on is called a ''nuclear power" when it has exploded a nuclear device. This definition implies a thoughtless overestimotion of atomic military technique. The shortsighted but widespread attitude which it suggests not only on the part of
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  • 693 8 KUCHING, MONDAY. T)ETAINEES at the Centre of Protective Custody, Kuching who were on a hunger strike recently have now called off the strike. They had decided to do this after they had been advised not to prolong the hunger strike in their own
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
    • 710 9 SINGAPORE, MONDAY i AST week s trading on the Stock Exchange was shortened by holidays. In fact, L the Hari Raya Haji and the ®asteT holidays curtailed activities In both the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms. Business in the industrial was
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    • 275 9 CLEVELAND, Ohio, Mon. (UPI) Easter credit may mean a "new life" for the consumer goods market and automobiles by the end of the year, Steel Magazine reported today. The auto market, of /course, depends on the outcome of labour negotiations.
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    • 122 9 STOCKHOLM. Man. new protective blasting rcat made of LD polythene tubesi hB5 been introduced Coiombus engineering company in Harnosand, North Sweden. The mat has r ady bee n exposed to endurance tests on various riirL sltes by leading Swedish contractors. ,Jhe mat. .which Is a safety
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    • 104 9 LONDON. Mon. Expansion of trade through standards, European co-opera-tion and the change to the metric system, safety and reliability, are some of the subjects to be discussed at the British Standards Institution's 13th annual Standards Conference, to be held at Imperial College, London, on April 13/14, 1987. This
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    • 89 9 LONDON, Mon. Two hundred and sixty products, ranging from commercial transport and machine tools to mechanical handling equipment and scientific instruments, have been submitted for the 1967 British Council of Industrial Design Capital Goods Awards. The eight judges say they are impressed by the high number of
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    • 104 9 STOCKHOLM, MonMore than one million passengers passed through the terminal at Arlanda, Stockholm's international airport, in 1966, an increase of 20 per cent over the previous year. Charter travel was up 60 per cent to about one-fifth of all passenger traffic In and out
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    • 113 9 Malaysia Is one of IS countries represented at a management seminar which began in Canberra this week. The seminar, arranged by the Caltex Oil company for senior staff from the African. As'an and Australasian areas, was opened by the President of the Australian Senate. Sir
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    • 119 9 SEOUL, Mon. (AP) Malaysia's Minister for Commerce and Industry, Dr Lim Swee Aun. arrived yesterday for a one week visit at the invitation of South Korean CommerceIndustry Minister Park Choong-Hoon. Hie two Ministers will hold a meeting today to discuss joint venture projects on plywood and
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    • 55 9 PORT SWETTENHAM Old Port: No. 1 Per lis: No. 2 Thepamat: No. 3 Auby: No. 4 Austranger: No. S Benrheueh New Port: No. 7 Uly«m: No. 8 John Everett. Stream Berth: No. 1 Talthybius: No. 2 Benvannoch: No. 3 Sarfhoda. Due Toidajr: TJltram: Wonogri: Tchibanga. Due Tomorrow:
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    • 300 9 LONDON, Mon. Textile machinery and textiles, notably with elastic, are to be discussed with businessmen in Singapore by Mr. Robert Hazelton, export manager of the 20-flrm Clutsom and Kemp Group in Britain. As a member of the group of Leicester businessmen, who are
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    • 45 9 CONCLON, Mon. Sales of Scotch whisky from the U.K. to other countries were worth 120,383,000 last year an Increase of nearly £13,000.000 compared with the previous year. This represented 41,596.000 proof gallons (189,093.395 litres). The United States took nearly half of this total.
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    • 240 9 SALISBURY Mon. (Reuter) Rhodesia's newlyharvested tobacco crop goes up for auction next week, closely guarded against economic "spies" by high wire fences and security patrols. During six months of secret auctions about 200 million pounds weight of tobacco, traditionally Rhodesia's richest economic asset,
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    • 191 9 WASHINGTON, Mon. (AP) a 4 per cent drop In Imports during February gave the United States its best trade surplus in 11 months, the Commerce Department reported. Exports, although down •even-tenths of 1 per cent from January, were the third highest on
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    • 122 9 JAKARTA, Mon. (AP) The Private Exporters Association of Indonesia has sent a ten-man mission to Singapore and Malaysia to discuss trade promotion and problem of smuggling. The official news agency Antara quoted one of the mission leaders Dr. Sudlrman as saying his group would
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    • 160 9 STOCKHOLM, Mon. Swedish industry's production plans for the first quarter of 1967 indicate an unchanged volume of output. accordirg to the latest "Barometer Report" published by the Swedish Institute of Economic Research. Developments in the last quarter of 1966 were rather on the low side of
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    • 872 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 12.05 a.m. Airline MSA o*9 from Kotli Lumpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MSA 111 from Koala I.umpur. Time 1.15 a.m. Airline Qaruda 99* from Jakarta. Time 9.80 a.m. Airline MSA I*l from Koala Lompor. Time 10.SO a.m. Airline MSA 451 from Kuehlng.
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  • FOCUS ON SOUTH VIETNAM
    • 852 11  -  By: VAN NGAN, Saigon, Mon. President Charles De Gaulle's increasing tendency to ponder to the desires of Communist North Vietnam, and his repeated public statements urging the neutralization of South Vietnam, have infuriated Vietnamese nationalists. Why, they ask, should French economic interests left over
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    • 417 11 SAIGON, Mon. (Pan-Asia) The hands delicately setting young eggplant shoots into the soil of South Vietnam symbolises the help that is coming to that country from all Quarters of the globe. While military assistance to the South Vietnamese government makes headlines, economic aid for
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    • 895 11 gAIGON, Mon. Ancestor worship originating from Confucianism, holds that the dead's soul docs disappear from sight but still stays around to look after the family. Those who practise this religion have thus an altar in their home for that purpose. Emperors and kings had Imperial temples
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    • 106 11 ...VIETNAM is receiving considerable assistance from France in the form low interest credits to develop its industry and improve its economy; French experts in medicine. industry and pedagogy teach at Vietnamese schools Provisions have also been made for Vietnamese professors to do research or study in French institutionsHuman
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  • EASTERN SUN FEATURE
    • 1367 12 Mister—you're 10.000 years behind the girls Battle of the Sexes JJAVE you ever wondered why men are such hairy creatures, while women have beautifully soft, smooth skins? Scientists have published many theories accounting for this. The latest which is hardly going to please proud masculinity comes from an American, Professor
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    • 363 12 REUTER. ARTIFICIAL clouds are produced by Canada's National Research Council to study the effects of icing on the flight and handling of helicopters. A special rig built near Ottawa's Uplands Airport sprays compressed steam and water through 161 nozzles to produce a huge artificial
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    • 434 12  -  By— JIM STROTHMAN AP. rpHE sunken City of Port Royal in Jamaica home base for 17th century pirate ships that plundered Caribbean settlements and shipping is being unearthed from beneath the sea where it settled in minutes during a killer earthquake in 1962. In one
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    • 167 12 A UTOMATION has opened untold new frontiers for coin thieves. Lt. Julian Hulett, of the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department, said vending machines and pinball and other gaming devices are some of the first things "hit" by an experienced burglar who has broken into a business.
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  • 420 14 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston, two former heavyweight champions, pursue their comebacks this week with bouts against second-rate opposition. Patterson meets Californian Bill McMurray in Pittsburgh on Thursday and Liston takes on frequent loser Dave Bailey of Philadelphia on Wednesday in
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  • 254 14 LAHORE, Mon. (Reuter) Malaysia beat Pakistan 8-1 in the Asian zone final of the Thomas Badminton Cup competition here last night and will now meet the winners of the European Zone either Denmark or South Africa. With Malaysia having a 4-0 lead at the
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  • 273 14 PENSACOLA, Florida, Mon. (AP) Gay Brewer won $75,000 Pensacola Open Golf tournament with an astounding 26-under par 262 yesterday but a rainstorm chilled his bid for an all-time tour scoring record. The 35-year-old, 10-year veteran, who got 26 birdies and an eagle through the first
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  • 29 14 Air Cdre. N. Ford presents the RAAF Shield to the captain of the Prisons Sports Club, Malaya, Soccer team which defeated the Butterworth Rangers Sports Club team, 4-3 recently.
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  • 169 14 MUAR Mon. —The Johore State Basketball Association has selected a strong contingent to take part in the Third Annual National Basketball Championship to be held in Sarawak on April 16. The Johore side will be selected from the following: Muar: Eng Su Ching, Eng Cheng
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  • 261 14 IPOH, Mon. The State Government's Tecent allocation of $200,000 for the construction of a covered stand at the Perak Stadium here, has infused fresh enthusiasm among both the "old timers" and the "budding players" to capture the "Malaysia Cup" this year. The secretary of the
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  • 76 14 CURACAO, Mon. (AP).— Roger Taylor of England pushed Australian Tony Roche to the limit yesterday before bowing in the men's finals of the Curacao International Tennis Championships. Taylor won the first two sets 6-3, 6-4. Roche managed a comeback in the third, winning 9-7, and
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  • 216 14 MALLORY PARK. England. Mon. (AP) Fritz Scheidegger. world champion motor-cyclist, was killed in a race yesterday. He was 35. His British sidecar passenger, John Robinson, was badly injured. They were competing in the Daily Mail's "Sidecar Race of the Year" at this Leicestershire Track.
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  • 609 14 MADRID, Mon. (Reuter) —Real Madrid, Spanish soccer league leaders yesterday edged another point ahead or rivals Barcelona by beating bottom of the league Coruna 2-0, while Barcelona could only draw 1-1 against Hercules de Alicante, second last team in the league. Real Madrid are now
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  • 48 14 INDIANAPOLIS. Indiana. Mon. (AP). —Arthur A>he, America's No. 1 tennis star, defeated Thomas Koch of Brazil 6-3. 6-3 in an international team match yesterday- Stan Smith defeated Luis Arilla of Spain 6-4. 12-10. The two Americans topped Koch and Arilla Eaqq in one-set doubles match.
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 486 14 NOTICE ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIPS THE Confederation of British Industry offers a number of scholarships for training in Britain to Singapore Citizens who are Engineering Graduates or holders of similar qualifications. The scholarships, which include a maintenance grant, are intended to provide practical training for up to two years with engineering firms
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    • 117 14 CLASSIFIED ADS 1 Mm ANNOUNCEMENTS. MARRIACES. BIRTHS. DEATHS. ENGAGEMENTS. PERSONAL. IN MEMORIAM CTC. VEHICLES FOR SALE. SITUATIONS VACANT. ACCOMMODATION VACANT. FOR SALE. WANTED CTC. *lOl- FOB A MINIMUM OF TWENTY WORDS EACH ADDITIONAL WORD 50 CENTS FOR A MINIMUM OF TWENTY WORDS EACH ADDITIONAL WORD 25 CENTS (Box Number is
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  • SUNSPORT
    • 448 15 PARIS, Mon. (Reuter) France, who can now justifiably claim to be Europe's leading racing nation, is preparing for an assault on important races in Britain this season, as well as for the prestige races at home. Last year's swamp fever ban on French
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    • 1158 15 Horses Class 4« Olv. 3—6 PUPS. 1 turrotiake ay Mi LMtle Darting 3y tGo-Gn 4y f>a? 9y Fa.» Change 4y fi- llea%en» 4y H»pp» Cavaller 4y >h>rre 3y Viola 11 "7 9 00 900 9 00 8 13 813 8.13 8.13 8 13 811 Income
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    • 241 15 TOI'LO. France. Mon. (AFP). France scored a mammoth 60-13 victory over a weak, disorganised Italian team in a rugby international here yesterday with diminutive fly-half Guv CambeTabero chalking up a personal total of 27 points with his boot. As the score shows
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    • 262 15 By: WINDSOR LAD IPOH. Mon. Newcomer Simon Templar, with Glynn Pretty astride, displayed striking form in a testing trial with Amos Burke on a good track here this morning. Breaking into a gallop on approaching the 3f. the pair raced stride for stride all the way
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    • 44 15 PENANG, Mon. The Penang Turf Club suffered a deficit of $348,065 last vear, according to its annual report which will be tabled at its forthcoming annual meeting on Thursday. The meeting will elect seven members of committee and also an election committee.
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    • 122 15 SYDNEY, Mon. (Reuter) —Galilee became the first horse to win the Caulfleld. Melbourne and Sydney Cups in one season when he raced away with Sydney event here today. Ridden by Jack Miller. Galilee started at 6 to 4 on and won the two
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    • 286 15 LONDON, Mon. (AP). British soccer referees are in trouble again, and the whole question of the neutral man's status in the game is under review. Mounted police moved in to break up hundreds of angry teenagers at London's Stamford Bridge Stadium on Friday when
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    • 643 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Malaysian Golf Association today nominated Darwis Derati of Perak as the "Golfer of The Year" for 1966. His nomination together with others from the various sporting bodies in Malaysia will be submitted to the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport
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    • 196 15 NAIROBI, Kenya, Mon. (AP)— The gruelling 3,000mile (4.828k) Fifteen East African Safari was won today by Peugeot fuel-in-jection 404 driven by Tanzanians Bert Shankland and Christopher Rothwell, last year's winners. They roared to the finish at Jamhuri Park here at about 7 a.m. with only
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    • 59 15 Referee John Lobianco signals it is all over for downed challenger Zora Folley after 1 min. 48 sees, of the seventh round of his world title fight against champion Cassius Clay at Madison Square Garden. The champion, who successfully defended his title for the ninth time
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    • 118 15 MANILA. Mon. (AFP) The Philippines scored a 50 victory over South Korea in their Eastern Zone Davis Cup first round tie by sweeping the final two singles matches at the Rizal Shellclay courts here today. Sammy Ang Jr. defeated Kim Doo Hwan, 6-4 6-0, 6-1,
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    • 30 16 Push-off start ...Hasegawa (20) losing: balance. Despair both he and machine fall. l'p again, but time is 105t.... Hasegawa is off Sunsport pix by Jimmy Chow
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    • 970 16  -  HE'S ONLY ONE TO GREET CHEQUERED FLAG Hasegawa in position By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Mon. Popular local motor racing driver, Rodney Seow, 28 streaked to victory in the gruelling 60-lap (180 miles) premier racing event for cars in the 1967 Singapore Grand Prix which conclud-
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    • 208 16 Results: Grand Prix for motorcycles: 1. A. Motohashi (Yamaha 250 c.c.) —2 hours 31 mins. 51.8 sees. 2. Mitsuo Itoh (Suzuki 125 c.c.) —2 hours 32 mins 46.9 sees. 3. T. Araoka (Kawasaki 338 c.c.) —2 hours 34 mins. 21.6 sees. 4. Lee Wing
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    • 1126 16  -  By John Kam SINGAPORE, Mon.—The disappointment, despair and frustration thst befell Yamaha ace rider H. Hasegawa turned out to be glory and triumph for team-mate A. Motohashi, in the gruelling 60 laps Grand Prix for motorcycles at the Thomson/Sembawang Road circuit
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    • 62 16 TIME AND TIDE ■V• >•• v Penang: 1.50 a.m. (8.5 ft.); 2.15 p.m. (8.9 ft.). Port Swettenham: 7.14 a.m. (16.3 ft.); 7.35 p.m. (17.3 ft). Port Dickson: 8.04 a.m. (9.3 ft.); 8.24 p.m. (10.6 ft). Singapore: 12.08 a.m. (9.6 ft); 12.26 p.m. (10.2 ft). Sedili Kechil: 11.12 a.m. (7.7 ft.);
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