Eastern Sun, 15 April 1967

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  • 25 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 264 Saturday, 15 April 1967. MC (P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 923 1 'Democracy is far superior to Communism' CANBERRA, FRI. REUTER POVERTY had to be fought the BY TOTALWAR, the Deputy Prim Abdul Raxah said here today. "Playing at it like a part-time hobby will get you nowhere and so we don't play such games anymore", he
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  • 73 1 JAKARTA, Fri. (AP) American Ambassador to Indonesia Mr. Marshall Green handed over a US$lO million loan to Indonesia at the Foreign Ministry today. A Foreign Office spokesman said he could not give details of the loan. He also indicated the United States had also
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  • 53 1 JAKARTA, Fri. (AP) The official news agency AXTARA today reported a strong earthquake hit the town of Macassar, South Celebes last Tuesday. There were no reports of casualties yet but several houses and buildings were damaged. Several roads were blocked by a landslide caused by the earthquake,
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  • 36 1 MODENA, Italy Fri. (UPI) —Angelo Benedetti, 33, fasting for a week to protest the world's evils, went to a last night explaining he wanted to "suffer more" by watching others eat. He fainted.
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  • 198 1  -  by LIM TOW BOON KUALA LUMPUR, Fridoy: Mr. Harry Kydd, (26), the teacher who was suffering from a chronic kidney disease, died at the Assunta Hospital, Petaling Jaya, shortly before noon today. He leaves behind a wife a teacher at the Pudu English School and two children,
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  • 552 1  -  by CHAN KAM YAU KUALA LUMPUR, Friday: IT'S over the 18-day mini-strike by 10,000 members of the National Union of Teachers. A happy acting Minister of Education, Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, announced this today after a 20-minute meeting at his office with a delegation from
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  • 44 1 •The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Singapore, Mr.S.Rajaratnam,performing the opening ceremony at the 1967 Spring Trade Fair at the Great World Amusemen t Park in Kim Seng Road,Singapore last evening. On Mr. Rajaratnam's right is Mr. Shaw Meng of Malayan Theatres Ltd.-Organisers of the Fair.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 280 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Malaysia and Italy today began negotiations for a new air services agreement. f In a simple ceremony to mark the opening 01 tne talks, the Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Sardon om Haji Jubir, told the Italian delegates that the Subang
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    • 100 2 IPOH, Fri. Seven men, arming themselves with sticks, ganged up on a wild rampage, beating up their victims and robbing them at the Dindings yesterday A Police spokesman today disclosed that the men beat up Fateh Ruddin, 26. at Kampong Bahru in Sitiawan. They relieved him
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    • 193 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Mr. Geoffrey Davis a timber markets expert of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations who completed a two-month mission in Singapore last year has returned to Singapore to take up a three months' assignment under the United Nations
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    • Article, Illustration
      81 2 This is too good to be true a revolutionary type of house which could well solve Malaysia's low-cost housing problems To start with, it costs less than $5,000 it is termite proof and fireproof. 'II makers, Insulations (M) Limited, claim that it can last for at least 50 years.
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    • 410 2 PENANG, Fri. After tying up a clerk and a driver with thin wires and gagging them with towels, three men armed with a pistol and kukri, robbed Hotel International in Penane Road here, of $28,527 on the seventh day of the Chinese New
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    • 144 2 PENANG, Fri. The world Fellowship of Buddhists. Penang centre, has received an appeal from Ven. Thich Tam Chau. VicePresident of the World Buddhist Sangha Council, for support in their request for a truce to be declared for the Vietnam conflict on Wesak Day, May 23. The
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    • 131 2 IPOH, Fri. Looking hale and hearty after her successful hole-in-heart operation at Chulalongkom Hospital in Bangkok earlier this month. Miss Ng Ah Kiong. 22, called at this office today to give a big "thank you" to readers, who had contributed to her trip to
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    • 62 2 A farewell dinner was given in honour of Haji Ismail bin Panjang Aris, the retiring Commissioner of Federal Capital, by the Federal Capital Administration at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur. The Minister of Local Government and Housing, Mr. Khaw Kai Boh, spoke at the function. Picture shows
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    • 169 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak was questioned in Canberra today on reports from here that the former Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia, Tun Lim Yew Hock, had been appointed Malaysian Ambassador to Rome. At a National Press Club lunch today Tun
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    • 121 2 KAJANG, Frl. The Assistant Minister of Education, Mr. Lee Siok Yew today called on parents to co-operate with the Government in the process of expanding the educational policy in the country. The proper education given to the children would be an asset towards building
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    • 312 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. —The operations of EBso Standard Malaya Berhad for the year 1966 resulted in a net profit of $6,947,382, an increase of over the profit of $3,644,005 for 1965. This wa* announced today by Mr. F. R. Han chairman and managing
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    • 209 2 PENANG, Fri. The suggestion of the United Democratic Party to form "a single political party party with similar aims and objects" Is nebulous and unrealistic. This was stated by the chairman of the Labour Party of Malaya, Mr. Lim Kean Siew. here today. "Opposition has a
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    • 420 3 $l2 Mil. project will enable bigger ships to be repaired at Jurong say SINGAPORE, f r i The Jurong Shipyard Ltd., will soon embark on a second drydock project at an estimated cost of $l2 million. This was disclosed by Mr. Low Guan Onn Deputy General Manager of
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    • 77 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. The Junior Chamber of Singapore and the Vocational Guidance Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education will be organising their annual 'Youth Week n Commerce and Industry' PHject from August 12 to The project has been Panned to coincide with the second
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    • 333 3 SINGAPORE, Fr i. Singapore's traditional role as a port and an entrepot for South-east Asia will continue to influence the part it plays in the economic development of this region. Prince Albert of Belgium said this at a luncheon given by the joint committee
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    • 22 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. There were 81 road accidents of which three were serious during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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    • 182 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. Bank Malaysia, Singa*.brant'h wi M cease Derations by end of April, 'his year. th? he Eas tern Sun learnt js from authoritative *°urces today. Singapore branch oSh! of the bank is now tin* r *ady to shift operabra* u° the J ohore Bahru
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    • 133 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. A 53-year machine operator, Lee Hak Tjai was today committed for trial in the High Court on a charge of rape after a two day preliminary inquiry in the Ninth Magistrate's Court. Lee was alleged to have committed the offence on a 12-year
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    • 123 3 SINGAPORE. Frl. The Minister for Labour and Tourism Queensland, Australia, Mr. J D. Herbert today described Singaporeans as "a very friendly and courteous people". "You have made vast improvements in all aspects of development especially In housing." Mr. Herbert was speaking to reporters at the airport
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    • 82 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. A housewife today answered a knock on the door and it cost he r $3,000. Immediately after she answered the knock, she was confronted by three male Chinese carrying daggers, who forced their way in, any question. The housewife. Madam Lee Hiang Eng
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    • 92 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. Two robbers this morning robbed a personnel manager of a shoe-firm of $1,600 in property and S3OO cash and later gave him $4 for taxi-fare to return home. Mr. K. J. Pospisil, 56. of Bata Shoe Co, in Klang, Selangor, later told the
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    • 378 4  -  By H.M.S. SUTAN SINGAPORE, Fri. Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman reiterated tonight that Malaysia was keenly looking forward to re-establishment of full diplomatic relations with Indonesia even before the results of the Sabah elections were ann- ounced. The Tunku gave this indication
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    • 230 4 KUCriLVG, Fri. The Anglican Diocese of Kuching is to donate the $200,000 Sungei Pinang Farm Institute, situated at 67th mile. Ku-ching-Serian Road, to the State. The Chief Minister, Penghulu Tawi Sli has personally written to the Bishop of Kuching, the Right Reverend Nicholas Allenby,
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    • 131 4 kr!,iK e of Charles Bradburne Co. Ltd. returnf? J° a fir gutted office dav Jiil- J Lum P ur yestermorning. WPV h L Ie p^!ice chemists thl y dl SK»ne through thc J' t0 ear in„ the half-charred office. A
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    • 77 4 Overseas students in Perth displayed arts, fashions and cooking of their homelands at a recent fund-raising drive for the Australian Red Cross. Manning the Malaysia-Singapore stall were (from left) second-year science student Liow Mooi Hah, of 36 Foch Avenue, Kuala Lumpur, and final-year Kindergarten Teachers' College student Ann Yeoh, of
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    • 167 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Mr. J. C. Whybourne. an expert in National Dialling System Planning of the International Telecommunication Union, has been reassigned to Malaysia. Mr. Whybourne previously served as an UN expert in Malaysia where he was attached to the Telecommunications Department for a period of
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    • 623 4  -  by K. G. THARAN SEGAMAT, Friday THE Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman made an unequivocal statement here today that Malaysia will not pursue any territorial claims. He said he was aware of the existence of certain Malay States in southern Thailand. Speaking
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    • 588 4 SINGAPORE, Fri. The President of the Public Daily Rated Butchers' Union, Lim Kirn Hock said in Court today that it was unani. mously agreed by the representatives of 13 affiliated unions to the Public Daily-Roted Employees' Unions Federation that the Public
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    • 104 4 KUCHING. Pri. The Danish Ambassador to Malaysia, Mr. Kjed Willumsen, has said his Governmerr was confident that Malaysia would continue to make progress. Proof of this could be sees by the setting up of th* Danish Embassy here. The embassy was established two years ago.
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    • 88 4 Photo shows Mr. Mrs. Wong Tai Yong after their marriage at the Registry of Marriage in Muar recently. The bridegroom (35) is the 2nd son of Mr. Mrs. Wong Yong Jang. He is a teacher of St. Andrew's Continuation School, Muar. The bride (26), the for- mer. Miss Hoo Yok
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    • 179 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. (Reuter) Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, today paid tribute to Australian soldiers who have foueht and died in Malaysia. In an official visit to the War Memorial in Canberra today he placed a wreath on the stone of
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    • 343 5  -  By KHOO BOON CHOO Penang, Fri. fPHE love to see places and new faces has made a 28-year-old Parisienne, Miss Sylvie Clidiere, travel thousand* and thousands of miles away from her home town to Africa, Malaysia, India and even Red China. When she
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    • 99 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Chief of Indonesian liaison team here Col. Benny Moerdani said the staff of the Indonesian office here was still in the dark regarding the full resumption of diplomatic relations between Malaysia and Indonesia. He was commenting on the report that Indonesia and
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    • 106 5 PENANG, Fri. Four pilgrims two men and two women died during the voyage back on board the "Kuala Lumpur," which arrived here this morning. The oldest, among the four who died, was Haji Mahmood bin Haji Raoh, aged 103, a resident of Nibong Tebal, Province Wellesley, while
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    • 100 5 BRUNEI TOWN, Fri. (Heuter) More architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and builders plan to establish offices in Brunei to cash in on its building boom. Firms already established are beginning to wonder whether there will be sufficient work to go round. There are seven architectural firms in Brunei
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    • 610 12 RAJA'S CALL TO TRADERS SINGAPORE, Fri. The Minister for Foreign Affoirs, Mr. S. Rojorotnom tonight declared that the lack of row materials hod not in any way hampered the economic progress of Singapore during the past nineteen months. Mr. Rajaratnam
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    • 148 12 SINGAPORE. Fri. A National Serviceman who wants to leave the State for a specified period must safisfy the authorities that he has good or sufficient reason for doing so before an exit permit is issued to him. He must also
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    • 91 12 SINGAPORE. Fri. A farmer, Ong Seng Teck, 60. of Jurong Road reported to the police that thieves broke into his house yesterday and escaped with jewellery amounting to $2,200 and cash $360. Ong told the police later he and his wife left the house at 2 p.m. to
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    • 127 12 SINGAPORE, Fri. The Adult Education Board is organising a course in practical geography to assist students who are sitting for geography at principal level in the 1967 Cambridge Higher School Certificate Examination as private candidates. The course will cover the syllabus of Paper 3 (practical work) of the
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    • 525 12 SINGAPORE, Fri. Singapore citizens who hold an M.D. degree of an accredited American Medical School and who wish to apply for registration to practise in Singapore will be fully registered without any restric- tions. This was
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    • 540 12 Jane Russell, the well-known American film actress will arrive here next week during which she will put up a two-hour non-stop show at the Sky Theatre. The show is on Wednesday at 9 p.m. She will be appearing together with international singing stars Connie
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 353 5 SAIGON, Fri. (AP) Despite an Impressive string of allied battlefield victories and soaring Communist desertions, Gen. William E. Westmoreland believes the end of the war is not in sight. The U.S. commander in Vietnam said in an interview with the Associated Press that
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    • 79 5 SANTIAGO, Chile, Fri. (Reuter) The shortage of trained personnel and skilled expertise remained acute in South-East Asia despite increased aid from many sources for family planning programmes said Mrs Goh Kok Kee of Singapore here yesterday. Mrs. Goh, regional chairman of the International Planned Parenthood
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    • 79 5 TAIPEI, Fri. (AP)—The Central News Agency (CNA), crediting Chinese Nationalist Intelligence, said Huang Shao-Hsiung, 72-year-old high Nationalist Chinese official who defected to Communist China in 1949, committed suicide recently on the mainland. It said Huang, a native of Kwangsi province purged by Communist Chinese in 1957, was survived
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    • 282 5 SYDNEY. Fri. (AP). Giant eagles, some with wing spans of 9 feet, are reported to be killing new-born lambs in hundreds In the sheep country 500 and 600 miles North-West of Sydney. Sheepmen say an eagle will dive on a iamb, knock it over, then fly
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    • 128 5 SYDNEY, Fri. (AP) The sign outside the plant of Qantas Airline near Sydney Airport read. Jet age careers...Positions vacant office cleaner, female." SYDNEY. Fri. (AP).— The notices about the barbecue at St. Mary's North Public School, near Sydney, put it like this: "Please come we need parents to
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    • 58 5 WASHINGTON. Fri (AP) The first privately-orga-nized American trade commission to Indonesia in a decade will visit Jakarta later this month. International Commerce Magazine reports. A group of businessmen, sponsored by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. has already started a tour of South East Asia making
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    • 26 5 Once more the French Prime Minister M. Georges Pompidou leaves Elysee Palace, to commence his task of forming a new cabinet for the New French Legislature.
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    • 376 5 Tor various reasons' NEW YORK, Fri (AP) In the "Head Shops" of Greenwich village, where people with long hair buy hip things, the best sellers include incense, nude pictures and Mao Tse-Tung. Mao Tse-Tung? "Yes, people buy his portrait for various reasons." said a
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    • 28 5 ROME. Fri. (AP). —Dino de Laurentiis, one of Italy's biggest movie producers, underwent an emergency operation for appendicitis yesterday. Doctors said his condition was satisfactory.
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    • 89 5 WASHINGTON. Fri. (AP) The World Bank readmitted Indonesia to membership yesterday after ail absence of 20 months. The World Bank said In* donesia had fulfilled all requisite formalities" for membership through its ambassador to the United States, Mr Suwito Kusumowidagdo. Indonesia had been a World
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    • 125 5 MANILA, Fri. (AP) American pop singer Gary Lewis and his Filipino bride of one month flew in yesterday from Los Angeles for a "surprise visit" with relatives. When contacted by telephone. Mrs. Lewis, the former Sara Jane Suzara, said they kept their flight plans secret "because
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    • 29 6 Royalty VIP (VERY IMPORTANT PUP) PRINCE Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco seen here closely examining a very small exhibit during a dog show in Monaco.—(CPI Photo) (UPI Photo)
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    • 83 6 PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay, Fri. (UPI) President Johnson yesterday promised Latin American nations he would ask congress for a "substantial contribution" to helo them set up a common market. Declaring that "the clock is ticking" and the hemisphere must move swiftly toward social and economic gains, Pres.
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    • 67 6 -LUSAKA, Fri. (Reuter) Rampaging lions in Chisamba. about 35 miles from here, today again proved more cunning than soldiers and rangers out hunting them for the second time "in two weeks. The elusive pride has killed more than 200 cattle ill the past two months and some terrified
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    • 89 6 NEW YORK. Fri. (Reuter) Jewels from the estate of the late Maharaja of Inore fetched a total of U*****,145 at a public auction held at the Parke-Bernet Galleries here yesterday. New York Jewellery dealer. Mr. Aron Reznik. paid the highest sum of the day $236,000 for three
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    • 902 6 ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Fri. (UPI). lippine U.N. Ambassador Salvador P. Lop ez yesterday called upon the United States to stand firm in South Vietnam without slip p j ng into "A posture of imperialist domination a n <j control." In an
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    • 545 6 SPECK TRIAL PEORIA. Illinois, Tr\. (UPI). A skid row drifter who gave the alarm that led to the capture of Richard Speck was brought in handcuffs to the courthouse. Mr. Michael Gregrich was called by the defence, which is trying to convince a jury of
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    • 572 6 Hong Kong. FrL (UPij—A special Red Guard investigation team has accused Communist Chinese President Liu Shao-Chi of having never been a Communist, The team dug into more than half a century of Liu's political and family life and charged him with protecting his
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    • 259 6 BT. RAPAHEL, France. Frl. (UPI) British movie star Richard Burton said yesterday he and his academy award-winning wife Elizabeth Taylor want to go to North Vietnam this summer "to see what Is going on there." Mr. Burton said he and Miss
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    • 136 6 TRUMBULL, Connecticut, Fri. (UPI) A jealous husband set Are to his house early yesterday, killing himself and his three children after repeatedly stabbing his wife, police reported. The husband. Frank Giordano, locked himself in the ranch-style home in an exclusive section of this South-Western Connecticut town
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    • 121 6 ST. BRIEUC, France. Frl (UPI) Flamethrowers. school children with toy buckets, more than 3,000 troops and every ava> lable civilian were today joined together to fight c£ a new onslaught of crude oil that has blackened va?: sections of the Northern France coastline. The government
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    • 50 6 MASERU. Lesotho. FJJ (Reuter) Lesotho, new l independent, has beer by its worst typhoid o break for many y e^rS t cording to reports nerdafhe reports say the outbreak appears to have brought on by heavy for the past three mon-* following on a year-* drought.
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    • 398 7 LONDON, Fri. (AFP). —The prospects for British pntry into the European Common Market were again discussed when visiting West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt lunched as the guest of Prime Minis- ter Harod Wilson. H Brandt, who arrived hP rp yesterday on a threeriaV
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    • 141 7 SALEM. Oregon. Fri. (AP) Governor Ton McCall said yesterday he will release from prison a 31-year-old Thai who murdered his college sweetheart became she refused to marry him. Danrongsak Sirimungflda will be released on May 9 and sent back to Thailand. He has served nearly five
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    • 55 7 TOKYO. Fri. (UPl)—The Japanese government today formally approved the appointment of Foreign Vice Minister Takezo Shimoda as new ambassador to the United States. Mr. Shimoda will succeed Ambassador Ryuji Takeuchi in the Washington assignment. The decision was taken at a meeting of the cabinet of
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    • 123 7 CANBERRA. Fri. (Reuter) Australia would be willing to have a rest and recuperation centre for United States troops from Vietnam if it was requested by an American survey team soon to visit Australia. before Minister Allen Fairhall said yesterday. The four man survey team is
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    • 272 7 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) —The Soviet Union and the member nations of the Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO) and the South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) were informed several days ago of the United States decision to end its military assistance programme to India and
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    • 183 7 WARSAW. Fri. (Reuter) Thousands of police, tossing tear gas cannisters and swinging batons, fought about 2,000 Polish teenage pop fans last night as the youngsters tried to batter their way into Warsaw's Cul- ture Palace to see the Rolling Stones. Inside the Soviet-style Skyscraper Palace
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    • 131 7 SAIGON. Fri. (Reuter) The South Vietnamese government has formally accepted the appointment of Mr. Elleworth Bunker as United States ambassador to Saigon, replacing Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, a foreign ministry spokesman said here today. Mr. Bunker is expected to arrive in Sagion next month to take up
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    • 159 7 SANTIAGO, Chile, Fri. (AP) Abortion is becoming more respectable in much of the world, an international panel of doctors reported yesterday. There are exceptions, notably in those countries which have been the most liberal in the past and now are tightening abortion regulations, the doctors told the
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    • 190 7 SYDNEY, Fri (AP) The towns of Lismore and Grafton are centres of the rich dairying industry of Northern New South Wales state. It is natural that the readers of the "Northern Star" of Lismore often think of cows. The newspaper published this poem on "The
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    • 134 7 SAIGON, Fri. (Reuter) Two people have died of Cholera and 50 more cases of the disease have been confirmed In the Saigon area since the beginning of this month. City Health officials said today. The Saigon Health Controller. Dr. Doan Buu, said the sweltering weather of
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    • 175 7 PARIS, Fri. (AFP) A government subsidized company was set up this morning with avowed ambition of breaking America's near monopoly in the world market of electornic computers. The new company named "Compagnie International Pour L'lnformation (CII) International company for computers technology is a subsidiary of
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    • 66 7 JAKARTA. Fri. (AFP) Some people lost their lives when an earthquake rocked the South Celebes Polmas and Madjene districts last Tuesday, the official Antara news agency reported today. It said the number of deaths has not yet been ascertained. Many houses were damaged and a landslide
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    • 255 7 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter). Britain has swung firmly to the right in nation-wide municipal contests, giving Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labour administration a major jolt just a year after its big general election victory. Mr. Edward Heath's Conservative opposition party ended 33 years of Labour
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    • 112 7 NEW YORK. Fri. (Reuter) —Police arrested a 16-year-old high school boy here yesterday in connection with the explosion of a chemical mixture hidden behind an anti-war poster which injured another student Police in suburban Queens alleged the boy put a packet containing a mixture which exploded on contact
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    • 99 7 MANILA. Fri (AFP) A congressional committee yesterday rejected a proposal here calling for foreign participation in Philippine banks, and instead recommended their full nationalization (Filipinization). The proposal would allow foreign capital to own equity in domestic commercial banks to the extent of 331/3 per cent.
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    • 13 7 A stamp issued by North Vietnam recently commemorating the "National Liberation Front (NLF)
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    • 237 7 SEOUL, Fri. (UPI) South Korean forces yesterday used artillery to beat back a reinforced North Korean platoon in a battle that involved over 100 men and raged for two hours in the demilitarised zone. Three Communist and one South Korean were known to have died
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    • 126 7 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) The U.S. Air Force is using satellites to plot the weather over North Vietnam to direct bombing missions, air force official* said yesterday. They said weather photos received from U.S. civilian weather satellites are one aid in forecasting weather over target areas.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 630 5 YOUR CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lampnr and Pulau Pinang. 6 Ipob and Melaka: 3/10 Johore Bahru; 4 laiping: Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang (Singapore viewers, please switch to channel 3 for T.V. Malaysia programmes) P.M 3.00 PROGRAMME SUMMARY. if>l DEATH OF A SALESMAN. 447 TRICK AND TREAT. 5.45 PROGRAMME SUMMARY. 5.50 NEWS
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 227 6 THE m* MAM __HQL FROM EXPLOSIVE AFFAIR All work and no pla/ makss even a MAN FROM U.H.C.L.t. A DULL BCY AND KNOWING THAT H6 L e E DEPENDS ON SHARft NESS, NAPOLEON SOLO ACCEPTED THE S.ONDE'S MvrwnoN to GO WATER swing; NOW, SLALQMING BEHIND HER OOAT AS IT STREAKS
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • 390 8 PREMIER Tunku Abdul Rahman's assurance that the Teachers' Salaries Commission would start work immediately to study the teacher's pay structure and make recommendations for the settlement of outstanding problems and claims has influenced the members of the National Union of Teachers to call off their strike. The
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  • 336 8 RUBBER producers tend to talk in terms of increased rubber production. The more rubber is produced by Malaysia and other countries the greater the competition would be, and therefore its price would fall. Increased consumption would more or less stabilize the rubber price, but it is being
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  • 696 8  -  By: T.G. MENON Former Political Adviser to the International Commission of Control in Vietnam. THE present situation in South Vietnam has in the recent past become the subject of controversy in India and elsewhere It is well known that when the Communist Party in North
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  • 512 8  -  Bys ANTHONY LAU Prize-winning essay (English) in a contest held in conjunction with the recent National Solidarity Week. Anthony is from Tanjong Lobang School* Miri. MUSIC Is one of the few things that appeals directly to the senses; and music when solemn and coupled with the right
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  • Letters...
    • 715 8 Teachers strike creates a 'cold war' THE N.U.T. has suspended its strike action for the holidays; It's time now to make a few observations. Is the strike legal? There's a lot of hot air on both sides the Government and the N.U.T. The Govt, claims that it Ls illegal; the
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    • 97 8 When confrontation was on, good quality rice was selling at 32 cents per katty and now when confrontation has ended, the same quality rice is selling at 47 cents Now comes the news that a big rice deal has been made with Manila, and this only
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    • 243 8 THE scries of mini strikes staged by members J* the NUT are rather painraTeachers themselves never expected they had to resor* to this last weapon The Ministry never foresaw that these educated CiU* zens would go on striae air their grievances. AU the time the
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 181 8 > V* tk 9 WIS J 5 i vm Y Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials 11 rtlANE S will gave $35,000 to her only living relative, Nellie. For the rest of her estate she directed the establishment of a park, parden or other suitable memorial
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  • EASTERN SUN FEATURE
    • 1167 10  -  Nearly 200,000 people died What remains are broken hearts by ROSS MILES huge atombomb blasts that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki were terrible affairs, in which thousands died and thousands were maimed for life. Yet these were by no means the worst national disasters in the history of Japan.
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    • 333 10 TWt load your gu& unless you are ready to use it. Don't shoot it unless you know what you are shooting .at Don't point your gun at anything unless you intend to shoot it. Don't shoot at .any hard surface from which a bullet can ricochet.
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    • 586 10  -  By J.J. McCoy melodic canary makes a wonderful gift for the shutin or senior citixen. This bird will do much to brighten the long hours. Now until spring is the best time to purchase a canary. Most birds will have completed their first molt. Buy
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    • 306 10  -  By Daniel Priollet AFP /COSMONAUT Yuri Gagarin said in an published recently that the Soviet Union would launch "longer space flights further from the earl JJ in the near future", and he indicated that these wou be manned flights. Colonel Gagarin, 32, celebrated the sixth anniverarsy of
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  • 665 11  -  OPENING OF MUAR BRIDGE FEATURE By GEORGE TAN 'pHE Sultan of Johore will open the $4.5 million bridge across the Muar River at 10 a.m. today. This opening ceremony marks a memorable event of historical importance in the national develop- ment of Malaysia
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    • 159 11 Congratulations to the Central Government on the opening of the Bridge Across Muar Rhrer by HIS HIGHNESS THE SULTAN OF JOHORE SULTAN ISMAIL IBNI ALMARHAM SULTAN IBRAHIM DK„ SPMJ., D.M.N., SMN., SPMK., DK„ ETC., ETC. from Mr. Tay Puk Kar proprietor of YANG KONG ELECTRIC CO., No. 12, Jalan Abdullah,
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    • 406 12 WHERE WHAT TO BUY. Nose Trouble, Head Trouble Too!! THIOSELMIN TABLET Can effectively cure any nose di Empyema, Eh In osteosis "ntimmwr Rhinoneurosb ■m: Hktm i w ti 51 n Mil e*j C Available From All Drug Shops Thiosrimin Tablet is manufactured by Hinode Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd which is a
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    • 98 12 BEADEH'S COURTROOM 1 i By Henry fl. flothblatfc (Author, "Handbook of Evldeno* For Criminal Trlalt") YES. "Where charitable purposes are mingled with other purposes, the whole gift fails as a charity because of uncertainty," the judge held. "The trustee was authorised to create a park or garden. He could commission
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  • SHOW BUSINESS
    • 437 13  -  By: K. SIDHU Singapore, Fri. dancer, Jocey Lynn is perplexed about the reaction of the local audience to entertainers. She describes the audience as "cool admirers who never get excited/' This globe-trotting entertainer is of the opinion that although local nightclubbers admire
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    • 59 13 NEW YORK, Fri. As a result of the overwhelming business "Doctor Zhivago achieved over the Eas-ter-Spring vacation period, Mr. Morris E. Lefko, MGM vice-president and general sales manager, and Mr- Mel Maron, road-show sales manager, announced recently that the acclaimed David Lean film has now
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    • 93 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Entertainment tonight at two of the Federal Capital's top nightclubs premises to be a real treat. At the well-known Dragon Court of Hotel Merlin, California's Prince of Song. Lloyd Nelson will entertain the crowds. An added attraction is that there will be no cover
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    • 243 13 Kuala lumpur, Fri. A rare musical treat agog with "A-Go-Go and Pops" with a "good cause" thrown in is in store for the Malaysian public. The treat: The Singapore and Malaysia Pop Singers* Festival 196": And the cause: The National Disaster Relief Fund. The festival
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    • 49 13 FOOD FUN FAIR SINGAPORE. Fri. The Grace of God Church at 355 Tanglin Roa<j will hold a food and fun fair on April 22 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. A feature of the fair will be an exhibition of ancient Chinese paintings and writing by Ho Yue Wing.
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    • 101 13 SINGAPORE, Fri. The finals of the annual "Setron's Talent Quest 1967" will be held on Aug. 19 at the National Theatre. There will also be a two-hour variety show. This was today disclosed by Mr. Larry Xavier. Managing Director of Ace Enterprises, who are the organisers of
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    • 339 13 SINGAPORE, Fri. Mr. Thornton Poole, International Past-President of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, and his wife who are on a world tour visiting magicians will be arriving in Singapore tomorrow. Mr. Poole was born In Hartlepool. England in 1898. He was rescued from a seaplane crash
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  • SUNSPORT
    • 84 14 STOCKHOLM, Fri. (AFP) Britain's Roy Evans, a former Welsh international himself, was elected president at a meeting of the International Table Tennis Federation in Stockholm. Mr. Evans who was former Federation secretary, had 57 votes to 49 for Sweden's Aake Eddh. The conference confirmed that
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    • 58 14 ALOR STAR. Fri. Negri Sembilan Club opened its North Malaya hockey tour here yesterday with a fine victory over the Butterworth District 11 by 5 goals to nil. With a faster set of forwards, the club scored through S. Jeeva (2), Jeffrey Morin. Yusof,
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    • 405 14 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) —The England-Scotland soccer international at Wembley tomorrow is probably the most important encounter between the old rivals since they first met in 1872. Apart from the prestige involved, the match counts not only for the home championship, but is a European
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    • 222 14 NEW YORK. Fri. (AP) The betting odds favouring middleweight champion Emile Griffith over Italy's Nino Benvenuti have gone up from 9-5 to 13-5 for their 15-round title fight at Madison Sauare Garden on Monday night. "We don't know much about Benvenuti," said one experienced
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    • 105 14 MANILA, Fri. (AFP) American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer notched up his third straight victory here by defeating Filipino player Roumel Reyes in 33 moves. Reyes lost on a time forfeiture. Under chess rules, a player must make at least 40 moves within two and-a-half
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    • 282 14 JOHANNESBURG, Fri. (AFP). The South African Press yesterday commented on the recent speech by Premier Balthaxar Vorster in which he announced some relaxation of apartheid regulations in sport. The Johannesburg evening paper "The Star" said that some sports, like soccer and boxing may not
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    • 193 14 ST. PETERSBURG. Florida, Fri. (AP) Three seeds were eliminated from the St. Petersburg Masters tennis championships yesterday. First-ranked Istvan Guiyas of Hungary was eliminated by Tomas Koch of Brazil, seeded fifth, when three consecutives Gulyas backhands hit the net in the third set.
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    • 81 14 NEW YORK. Fri. (Reuter) Madison Sauare Garden has offered world lightweight boxing champion Carlos Ortiz 83.000 dollars (about 29.600 sterling) to defend his title against Panama's Ismael Laguna here •in midJune, Garden matchmaker Teddy Brenner said. In two previous meetings with Laguna. Ortiz lost and then
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    • 50 14 SAN REMO, Italy, Fri. (Reuter) European welterweight boxing champion, Jean Josselin, of France, will defend his title against Italian Carmelo Bossi here on May 10, the fight promoters announced. The fight was scheduled for last Wednesday but was put off because Bossi became ill last month.
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    • 257 14 CHICAGO, Fri. (AFP) An irate Cassius Clay yesterday yelled and "I didn't say that" to reports that he would go ahead with his military service so as not to break his mother's heart. The world heavyweight champion regaling under his name of Mohamed
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    • 545 14 LONDON, Fri. (AFP). England have shown enough guts and go to beat Wales on the all-hallowed Cardiff Arms Park Turf tomorrow for at least a share in the five nations championship. Odds on a draw between France and Ireland at Dublin on
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    • 109 14 TOKYO, Fri. (UPI) World Junior Lightweight Champion Flash Elorde will probably leave Manila on Saturday by a Philippine Airlines plane for Honolulu to meet Japanese lightweight Fujio Mikami in a non-title 10 round bout, on April 25. Filipino fight promoter Lope Sarreal said today.
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    • SPORTS/RACING
      • 1531 15 Race l: Horses Class 5 —About 5% Purs. 2.00 PJK. (FOR LOCAL RIDERS ONLY) 1. 906 2. 612 3. 216 Mannum Miss Port D'or St. Janeiro Shiau Yeong Lun Pan Rajah Gay Paris Hendak Menanr Pink Heather Legis Lass Sun Maiden Malayan Dawn San Gala HINGS: 4y
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      • 150 15 Bangkok, fh. (afp) in e Asian All-Star football has cancelled their proPosed tour of several Asian gantries which is scheduled from June 8. Ewe Teik of MalayJj*. the secretary-general of Asian Football Confederation, who arrived here v ll morning for the 9th Youth Soccer Tourna-
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      • 413 15 By Windsor Lad: PENANG, Fri. Trainer George West hat a formidable quartette engaged in the of. for Class One Division Two (Race 5) on Sunday, Deltarnaws, Jerry's Kuda, High Ruler and King's Knight. King's Knight seems to be the pick. On a good
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      • 242 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A Government Department and Business Houses League competition will be run under the auspices of the Football Association of Selangor. It will be confined to clubs organised by departments of the Selangor Government or of Federal Departments of the
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      • 334 15 STOCKHOLM, Fri. (AP) Japan surged ahead ir its campaign to recapture the men's table tennii team championship of the world with an easy 5-0 win over Poland last night It was the young Japanese teams fourth straight shutout at the Stockholm
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      • 137 15 TAIPEH, Fri. (UPI) The Central News Agency reported that the Chinese Communists withdrew from the 1967 table tennis tournament in Stockholm because they lost their top player in a purge. The agency, an organ of the ruling Kuomintang. quoted "sport front" magazine in Peking
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      • 87 15 IPOH, Fri.— The Brander Shield cricket competition here will feature four cricket teams in Ipoh, including the present molders. the Anderson Secondary School. The other teams in the competition are the AngloChinese Secondary School, the Malayan Railways Recreation Club and Samuel's Sports Club. Tanjong
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      • 40 15 INDIANAPOLIS. Indiana, Fri. (AP) Grand Prix driver Dennis Hulme was nominated to drive in the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race on May 30. Hulme was assigned to Ford-powered Eagle entered Smokey Yunick of Daytona Beach. Florida.
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    • 511 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The competition secretory of the Association ot Selangor, Mr. S. Therendraraj, said od °y new competition to be known as the Football Association of Selangor league confined to affiliated association would be held soon. The competition would be i open
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    • 29 16 v lALACCA Fri. The w?n 10 k a i Electricity Boa rd will hold their annual interdistrict athletic meet .on April 29 at the Kubu Stadium here.
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    • 221 16 SINGAPORE, Fri. The following officials have been elected to the various committees at the first Council meeting of the Singapore Chinese Football Association held recently. Emergency Committee: Mr. Ch'ng Tok Ngam (chairman), Mr. Yeow Cheng Hoe, Mr. Soh" Ghee Soon. Mr. Choo Kwai
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    • 90 16 KAMPAR. Fri. A miner. Mr. Chin Sun Khoon. was re-elected president of the Kampar District Football League for the 10th successive year. This js the first time in the liistory of the KDFL that any one man has been returned as president consecutively for
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    • 66 16 MALACCA. Fri. The following will represent Malacca in a friendly interstate cricket match against Selangor at the Malacca Club ground here during the week-end Play starts tomorrow at 2 p.m. and will be resumed at 10.30 a.m on Sunday. Hillary D'Cruz (Capt). Robin Goh. Aziz Hamid,
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      42 16 The more you see of Helen Loo, the more enchanted you'll become. And it's easy enough to know her. Take up fending. She attends the Malaysian Fencing Federation courses conducted at the Specialist Teachers' Training Institute in Cheras Road, Kuala Lumpur.
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    • 350 16 SINGAPORE, Fri. A six-man team under the chairmanship of Mr. Cheong Hock Leng, will spearhead the training and coaching sub-committee of the Singapore Badminton Association in its efforts to boost the game at all levels. The team will meet shortly to draw up
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    • 50 16 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Rajaji Sports Club yesterday beat Sukuramai Sports Club by 5-0 in the Division II B. soccer game played at the Geylang Stadium. The score at half time was 1-0. C Ramachandran. 2; S. Thengvellu, 2 and Maniam. 1, scored for the Rajaji Sports Club
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    • 294 16  -  By Albert Johnson Singapore, Fri.The Republic's national soccer team back home after their glittering success in the WAM Cup final has returned after a four-day "bonus leave" for the squad. The squad, basking in success since the Cup victory will go into
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    • 351 16 SINGAPORE. Fri. Arnold Pearson, a petty officer attached to the Royal Navy set a new record of 1 hr. 3 mins 12 sees, in the Johore Bahru and Royal Navy C.C. open individual 25 mile time trial cycling event held today. Lying third mid-way
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    • 731 16 BANGKOK, Fri. (AFP). The cream of soccer potential in Asia will be on view here at the Ninth Asian Youth Soccer Championships for the Tunku Abdul Rahman Trophy organised by the Thailand Football Association and scheduled to run for 13 days starting
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    • 215 16 MILAN, Italy. Fn. (AP) Boxing manager Steve Klaus said everything about the world bout between Korean holder Kim Ki Soo and Italian challenger Sandro Mazzinghi will be definitely settled next April 19 when he arrives m Tokyo. Klaus will fly to tht Japanese
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    • 68 16 LOS ANGELES. California, Fri. (AP) Jesus PJ mentel of Mexico exploded a left hook to the jaw oi Marciano Rivas. ako oi Mexico in the fourth rounc last night, knocking out ws bantam-weight opponent their scheduled 10-rounder. Pimentel. the No Ji contender for Japans Fighting"
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    • 24 16 SINGAPORE. Fri'Sißj gapore Recreation Club meet Ceylon Sports Cl-b• the Singapore Hockey Assoj ciation division one matci Police Training Srnooi ground to-morrow.
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    • 133 16 CHICAGO, Fri. (AFP) The world heavyweight title fight between champion Cassius Ciay and former champion Floyd Patterson might be staged finally at Albuquerque, New Mexico, on April 25 Clay's manager Herbert Muhammad said here last night. The fight, originally arranged for Las Vegas, was banned by
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    • 535 14 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS 20 Words $lO/- /Minimum) WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH, 5 Fort Canning Road. Singapore Worship services at 7.30 a.m., 10.00 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. Sunday School for all ages at 8.45 a.m. Junior Church at 10.00 a.m. Everyone Welcome. CHINESE PRESBYTERIAN TRUE WAY CHURCH, 156-B Stirling Road, off
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    • 312 14 TENDER NOTICES KENYATAAN TAWARAN J.K.R. JOHOR TAWARAN daripada Pemborong2 yang berdaftar dengan J.K.R. di-dalam kelas "EX' dan ka-atas akan di-terima diPejabat Jurutera Kerja Kanan, Jabatan Kerja Raya. Kluang hingga jam pukol 12 tengah hari pada 26hb April, 1967 untok: MEMBENA SABUAH RUMAH BIDAN DAN KELINIK TERMASOK LAIN 2 KERJA YANG
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    • 133 14 CLASSIFIED CANTONMINT ROAD. SINCAPORE 2 TIItPHONIS *J4OS/7. ANNOUNCEMENTS. MARRIACES. BIRTHS. DEATHS. ENCACEMENTS. PERSONAL. IN MEMORIAM ITC. VEHICLES FOR SALE. SITUATIONS VACANT. ACCOMMODATION VACANT. FOR SALE. WANTED ETC. $lO/- *5/FOR A MINIMUM OF TWENTY WORD 6 EACH ADDITIONAL WORD 50 CENTS FOR A MINIMUM OF TWENTY WORDS EACH ADDITIONAL WORD 25
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