Eastern Sun, 20 April 1967

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  • 25 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 269 Thursday* 20 April 1967. MC (P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 429 1 Tun outlines l 4D's plan for stopping Communism in S-E-A SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (Reuter) Wed MALA YSIA DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER, Tun Abdul Raxah, today outlined formula for creeping paralysis munism in Sout He told ception Australia/Malay* sia Associati the formula 9 Democr is our ba Defenc protect democracy
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  • 242 1 Jakarta, Wed. (Reuter) Thousands of young Indonesians apt fire to Chinese houses and shops in the harbour totrn of Panaruhan« East Java. AXTAHA news agenry sniff today• The streets were strewn with charred hits of furniture and smashed household goods, but no casualties were
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  • 32 1 BONN, Wed. (Reuter) Former West German Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, died at his Rhineside home in Rhoendorf near here today, the West German news agency DP A said.
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  • 132 1 VATICAN CITY, Wed. (AP) Pope Panl VI. expressing what he called his "bitterness", unleashed a scathing attack today on both extreme liberals and extreme conservatives in the Roman Catholic Church. The PoDe vented his displeasure at a meeting of the Commission to carry out the Vatican Ecumenical Council's
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  • 389 1  -  'Philosopher King' By M. T. LINGAM SEREMBAN, WEDNESDAY NEGRI SEMBILAN'S new Yang di-Pertuan Besar comes close to the Confucian concept of the "Philosopher King"... learned, academically qualified and trained to rule wisely For Tunku Ja'afar ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, appointed the new Ruler at
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  • 144 1 BUENOS AIRES. Wed. (AFP) The youngest marriage recorded here was celebrated at La Plata yesterday when a bride of 13 married a young workman of 17, after the local registrar had been imprisoned for refusing to perform the ceremony. The bride. Tamine Manzur. was
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 32 2 The last Journey of the late Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan to the Royal Mausoleum at Sri Menantl on Tuesday. Thousands of mournprs took part in the procession.
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      96 2 Ceremonial offering JHE daughters of the late Yang di-Pertuan Besar and relatives (above) weeping after a last look at the face of the dead ruler before the coffin was put in a freshly dua arave at the Royal Mausoleum in Sri Menanti on Tuesday. 7 8 9 new
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    • 210 2 JESSELTON, Sabah, Wed. (Reuter) Sabahi first Opposition party which is now being formed, will have overseas trained students and unionists as its backbone, the Overseas Chinese Dally New s re- ported today. Quoting reliable sources, the newspaper said the party, to be known as
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    • 108 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed The Sultan of Johore and the Royal family will be among the audience to witness the performances by the visiting Indonesian Armed Forces cultural troupe here tomorrow. The troupe arrived here today from Kuala Lumpur and was entertained to a reception
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    • 104 2 JOHORE BAHRf. Wed. A significant move will be taken by the UMNO here tomorrow, possibly leading to the dismissal of at least four senior party officials. The dismissal action was hinted today bv sources close to the party'j executive committer. The sources said the committee
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    • 100 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Malaysian astronomer Ustaz Mohamed Khir bin Haji Mohamed Taib hu forecast that there will be an eclipse of the moon on April 24. The eclipse will occur for a duration of three hours from 5.55 p.m. to 9.15 pm Ustaz
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    • 612 3  -  by K. S. SIDHU SINGAPORE, Wed. The Economic Development Board, in conjunction with the Light Industries Services, are looking for manufacturers to come forward to establish a toy industry in the Republic. Mr. Walter H. Lowy, a consultant with the International Executive Service Corporation, who
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    • 263 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. Jane Russell, the sexy American actTess. arrived here today with two well-known singers for performances. Tonight they performed to a packed house at the Sky Theatre here. She told reporters at a conference that part of the pr<-*eeds would go to
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    • 197 3 MI AR. Wed —An Eastern Sun essay winner has sent lis her $lO prize to be given •way to charity. She is Miss Tan Siew Luang, 17, a Form Three pupil of Sekolah Sultan Abu Bakar here. In her letter of April 17, 1967, she thanked
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    • 611 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. A student leader, Phua Cheng Fong, today told a District Court of his fruitless 10-minute search for a Police Officer by the name of D'Cruz at the City Hall on Nov. 4, last year. Phua, who was then a Vice-President
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    • 76 3 A large group of PreUniversity II students from the River Valley Road Chinese School yesterday gained an insight of newspaper production when they visited the EASTERN SUN office in Cantonment Road. Picture shows some of the students watchin* the Fascimile machine in operation, transmitting one full
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    • 297 4 Settle outstanding issues at once KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The 5,500 strong Federation Armed Forces Civilian Staff Union has givta a month's ultimatum to the Government to settl* 11 outstanding claims immediately. Th« anion has submitted a memorandum listing the 15 claim* to the Malaysian Establishment Officer
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    • 143 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed An ice-cream seller broke into a house in Jalan Sungei Besi and released four victims of a daylight holdup yesterday. The anonymous hawker was in the neighbourhood when he heard cries for help. He rushed to the house and released Loh Sik
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    • 130 4 ALOR STAR. Wed.—The Sultan of Kedah today called on the people to be on their guard against the communists straddling the Thai-Malaysian border. These terrorists, he said, were trying to create disunity in the country for their own political ends. The Sultan was speaking at
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    • 71 4 PENANG, Wed. Three Indonesians. Idrus bin Hassan, (26) Lah Mindin bin Mokhtar (30) and Nyak Puteh bin Yusoff (38) were charged in the Second Magistrate's Court here today were entering Malaysia without a valid pass. They were arrested in a house at Tanjong Tokong on
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    • 54 4 IPOH. Wed. A highpowered committee has been set up in Perak to speed up the issue of mining rights for prospecting in Upper Perak and the DindmgsThe committee consists of members of the State Legislative Assembly and other prominent people. It is headed by the Mentri Besar,
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    • 149 4 ...PENANG. Wed. —A businessman. Tan Chow Soo, was today granted conditional leave to appeal to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong against the Federal Court's decision to defer the pay ment of a sum of $50,000 to Ratna Ammal, mother of a former Assistant Controller of
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    • 276 4 KUCHING. Wed. Adjustments in the school curricula and structural changes in the educational system in Sarawak have been suggested by the Director of Education, Mr. Kum 800. He was addressing the annual general meeting of the Barawak Secondary Schools Principals Association which is
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    • 497 4 This year the Malayan Association for the Blind has started a Sales Organisation Service to assist the trained blind cane workers, who have setttled in the Selangor Region. These homeworkers make baskets for sale but wany are experiencing difficulty in disposing of their products. The
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    • 393 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Mr. C. V. Devan Nair, the M.P. for Bungsar, declared today that he would continue to discuss and offer advice on trade union problems as he had always done with trade unionists all over the world including Singapore.
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    • 876 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. Defence counsel Mr. Dovid Marshall said in Court today that the union leaders had been manoeuvred by the Ministry of Health into an "illegal strike' 1 with the intention of breaking the union which was not toeing the Government's line. Mr. Marshall
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    • 54 4 KUALA LUMPUR. WedKwan Hap Chee received a letter on Jan. 17. The letter, signed by a gang called "The Blood", demanded %"r 200. Enclosed in the letter was a bullet and half of a bilL Today. Ng Chee \ong. 21. was found guilty of senc;r.f
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    • 196 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malaysia will participate in the week-lons Ministerial Conference on ffo nomic development for South-east Asia in Manila beginning April 29. The Malaysian delegation, headed by the "lister of Education, Enche Mohamed Khlr Johari, U leave tor the Philippines on
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    • 77 5 Mr. Donald J. Brydon, United Press International General Manager for Asia, and Miss Helen Merrill, well-known American singer, are shown cutting a wedding cake here after their marriage in Tokyo's Union Church on April 15th. Brydon has lived in Tokyo for several years while Miss Merrill has made numerous concert
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    • 362 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. (Reuter). Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, swings into the seventh day of his Australian tour with a busy round of appointments in Sydney today. His programme begins with a strict formality of a New South Wales Government function at
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    • 130 5 JESSELTON, Wed. (UPI) The Deputy President of the United Pasokmomogun K a d a z a n Organisation (UPKO), Dato Ganie Gilong. won the Ranau constituency election by a comfortable majority. He polled 4.170 votes against USNO (United Sabah National Organisation) candidate Amin bin Mohamed Ali's
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    • 121 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Radio Malaysia will mark the tenth anniversary of Merdeka on Aug. 31 by holding a n anniversary song contest. A orize of SI AO will be given to the winner. The contest is open to all races resident in Malaysia who will be required
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    • 58 5 KUCHING, Wed. The Federal Minister of Health, Enche Bahaman bin Samsuddin, who arrived in Kuching yesterday for a threeday visit, today flew to Lundu, in the First Division, and Sibu and Sarikei in the Third Division. The Minister, who flew by RMAF twin-Pioneer, was accompanied by the
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    • 136 5 IPOH. Wed. The ninemember Indonesian Christian Youth Goodwill Mission, led by Rev. Lie King Han Handojo, now on a tour of West Malaysia, called on the Mentri Besar, Dato Ahmad bin Said, at the State Secretariat, this morning. The delegation, which also include three
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    • 129 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. —World philatelists can look forward to several attractive special issue stamps from Britain every year. The Postmaster-General, Mr. Edward Short, gave this undertaking to collectors at the opening of the 'Stampex 67" exhibition in London. Emphasising that he did not intend to
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    • 54 5 MUAR, Wed. —Nurses of the Muar District Government Hospital will hold a Gala Dance at its hostel on April 23 from 9 p.m. It is under the patronage of the Minister of Health, Enche Bahaman bin Samsuddin. Highlights of the dance will be a beauty contst and
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    • 124 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A 32-member Belgian ecnomic, trade and co-operation mission led by Prince Albert of Belgium will arrive in Malaysia, on April 25 for a week-long visit. The mission will be met by the Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Jubir
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    • 49 5 MUAR. Wed .—About 200 members from the various UMNO Youth section branches in Johore will attend a three-day Camp Work at Batu Pahat beginning from April 22. The Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, ha s been invited to perform the opening ceremony.
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    • 42 5 BRUAS. Wed. Wong Eng Fatt, 28, was yesterday fined $7OO and disqualified from driving for a year after he was found guilty of operating a pirate taxi in Pantai Remis on Jan. 24 and Feb. 10. His car was also confiscated.
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    • 119 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Sultan of Selangor will open the "Art from other lands" exhibition at the National Art Gallery at 5.30 p.m. on Friday. The exhibition consists of 570 works by artists and craftsmen from 50 countries. They include selections of fine arts, graphic
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    • 49 5 MUAR. Wed.—The Muar Buddhist Association at Jalan Suleiman here will celebrate Wesak Day on May 23 with a dinner and a talk on Buddhism. Members of the association will also distribute gifts to inmates of the old people's homes in the Muar district on that day.
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    • 260 5 KUCHING, Wed. It is not the intention of the Central Government to take away the State rights of Sarawak or to suppress its identity. This was emphasised this morning by the Minister for Culture, Youth and Sports, Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, when he met the
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    • 123 5 JESSELTON. Wed The Deputy Chief Conservator of Forest, Malaysia, Enche Ismail bin Haji All is here at the request of the State Government to study the problems of timber revenue collections in Sabah. During his week's stay in Sabah. Enche Ismail will hold discussions with the
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    • 64 5 KUCHING, Wed. Twenty-five West Malaysian cultural dancers arrived today in Kuching by special plane. The group, comprising musicians, dancers and singers will give two performances at the Miramar Theatre on April 21. The shows are in conjunction with the Sarawak Youth Seminar 1967, now being held
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    • 19 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Minister of Health, Enche Bahaman bin Samsuddin will visit Johore during the week-end.
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    • 453 10  -  By H. M. S. Sutan SINGAPORE, Wed. UMNO Singapura today replied officially to the ultimatum issued by the Registrar of Societies calling on it to change its name and symbol or face dissolution within three months. The ultimatum exprres on April
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    • 186 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Public Works Department will soon construct another two overhead pedestrian bridges to ease traffic congestion and to lessen accidents. The first bridge to be constructed will span Kallang Road at its junction with Kampong Bugis. It will serve residents of
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    • 53 10 Mr. Indrasith Arasaraduam, an electrical engineer, married Miss Parameswary Devi, a teacher, at the Govindasamy Kalyana Mandabam, in Singapore recently. The bridegroom is the eldest son of Dr. and Mrs. S. Arasaradnam of Taiping while the bride is the daughter of Mrs. Thangammal Eliyat hamby and the late
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    • 82 10 SINGAPORE, Wed.—The Singapore Leprosy Relief Association today received a cash donation of $4,068 from the Inner Wheel Club. The money came mainly from the proceeds of a funfair held at the Thai Embassy on April 1 which ammounted to $3,000. Cash donations made up the
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    • 325 10 With the acquisition of eight sailing dinghies, ailing and seamanship have now been added to programme of the courses run at the City District Outward Bound Training Camp on Pulau Übin. The courses, run for students aged 16 to 20 years, started in 1%0. The students
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    • 405 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Singapore Government believes in investing in its people by way of knowledge, social discipline, skills and know-how ratheT than in dissipating resources on wasteful monuments and prestige constructions. This was said last night by the Minister for Culture and Social Affairs. Enche Othman
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    • 393 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The newly-registered Singapore Entertainers' Organisation at 37 Stanley Street will be promoting the Cosmorama Variety Show at the Gay World Amusement Park from April 21. The show, which will continue for an indefinite period, promises to be highly entertaining and will feature
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    • 212 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. Three youths who left their home last night for an evening stroll were attacked by an unknown male Chinese and one of them was later admitted to the General Hospital. A police spokesman said the three youths two brothers and a close friend were
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    • 166 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Adult Education Board is organising a nine-week course on the "Care of Dogs and Cats" to be held every Tuesday from 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Raffles Girls' Primary School. The course will be conducted by Senior Veterinary
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    • 107 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Adult Education Board will be registering students for its commercial classes from April 24 to 28 at the Anglo-Chinese Primary School Centre between 5.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. Students will be prepared for the 1968 L.C.C. Spring Examinations at the Intermediate afid Higher
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 670 5 YOUR TODAY CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Pulau Pinang: 6 Ipoh and MHaka; 3 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taipinj; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. Singapore view ers please switch to Channel 3 for T.V. Malaysia programmes). P .M. 545 Prog. Summary: 5.50 News Outlines in the National Language 5.55 National
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 150 6 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) A group planning an impersonation of Queen Elizabeth during a demonstration here against the Vietnam war were warned that police might take action if they went ahead with their plans. A Scotland Yard spokesman said police told a delegation of the
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    • 229 6 BUENOS AIRES. Wed. (Reuter) Mari Esther Barrios de Ramirez became the River Plate's Queen of the fat women for 1967 here yesterday and won a special •limming course. This was offset somewhat when the rotund queen was also awarded potatoes, tomatoes, onions,
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    • 142 6 BRUSSELS. Wed. (UPI) Miss Singapore arrived yesterday in Belgium on a trip around the world in 80 days. Miss Mollie Ang Mooi Hua. 22, an art history student elected "Miss Tourism Singapore" already visited Hong Kong. Japan, the United States, Canada, Britain. France,
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    • 172 6 MUNICH. Wed. (Reuter) European Common Market finance minsters said yesterday the six-nation community must be given influence appropriate to its importance in the International Monetary Fund (IMF). They agreed on the line the market should take in the next round of monetary reform negotiations
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    • 61 6 NEW DELHI. Wed. (AP) India is a "filthy country" and old Delhi is the "dirtiest city" in the nation, says Health and Family Planning Minister Dr Sri- pathi Chandrasekhar. He said he wa s appalled by the "filth and rubbish" lying along the streets in old Delhi,
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    • 727 6 Blast at European apathy on fate of SEA WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI).— Australia y H U r day led a SEATO revolt against a continued cutback of its military forces in South-East Asia. "Withdrawal from or lack of interest in Asia are very close to being withdrawal
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    • 103 6 WASHINGTON, Wed (UPI) Blind men have asked Congress to be allowed to serve In the Army. A spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind made the suggestion to the Senate Armed Services Committee at a hearing on President Johnson's proposed extension of the
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    • 237 6 BIRTH CONTROL VATICAN CITY, Wed. (Reuter). The Vatican newspaper Observatore Romano said last night that there had been widespread interpretation of Pope Paul's remarks on birth control in his latest encyclical which nowhere permitted use of contraceptives. It was the first Vatican comment on
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    • 129 6 JESSELTON, Wed. (UPI) —A 17-year-old Kadazan girl underwent surgery In the hospital here for removal of a three-foot long fishing spear which had remained stuck up in her left leg for three days and nights. She was today reported Improving. The police headquarters said
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    • 99 6 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) Singapore was praised as a "clean and fair government" in a special report Issued today by the Japan Economic Research Institute. The report of the Tokunaga committee said that the Singapore government "does not permit any unfair business deals seen in other parts of
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    • 171 6 NEW ORLEANS. Louisiana. Wed. (UPI) Attorney Dean A. Andrews Jr. yesterday flled a US$lOO,OOO damage suit against New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who has secured two perjury indictments against Mr. Andrews in his probe of the Kennedy Assassination. In his suit, filed In
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    • 141 6 SAIGON. Wed. (UPI) Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Commander of the U.S. Forces in Vietnam, is expected to meet with President Lyndon B. Johnson in Washington later this month to review the war situation and the need for more troops. Informed sources said Gen. Westmoreland was expected
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    • 47 6 The wreckage of the United States Air Force jet fighter-bomber being retrieved from rice paddy fields by North Vietnamese militia members and villa gers after the plane crashed on being hit by anti-aircraft fire during one of the raids over North Vietnam recently. PANA Photo. PANA Photo
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    • 279 6 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI)— "The Singing Nun," formerly Soeur (sister) Sourlre. has topped Beatle John Lennon by saying that General de Gaulle is better known than Jesus Christ. "I may not feel this is right, but it Is certainly undeniable." Jeanine Deckers was quoted as saying
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    • 86 6 Photo shows the French battling with sawdust to save their beaches after the Torrey Canyon tanker disaster off Britain. BOSTON, Wed. (Reuter) The mainland of Massachusetts is threatened by a thirty-mile wide oil slick which officials believe may come from one of the many tankers sunk off the American coast
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    • 247 7  -  By ROBERT RICCI Reuter Correspondent. CHICAGO, Wed. American airmen are testing newly-developed body armour in combat in Vietnam. Mr. Edward Barron, an armour technologist says that this new armour provides protection against small-arms Are. and is being used by United States Army air
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    • 156 7 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Princes Charles first public date was identified last night as an Australian friend of a friend of the British Royal Family. Miss Angela Rowe. about 28, was the tall, cool blonde girl in yesterday's newspaper photographs with Charles and a Royal party on
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    • 61 7 VEW DELHI, Wed *P> Women will vrifld more influence in the Hindu new year which besan on April 10, according to a famed Mysore astrologer. Agreeing with this prediction. Mysore Chief Minister S. Nijalingappa told a reception here re- pptly "The very fact we have elected
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    • 258 7 MILAN. ITALY. Wed. Actress Claudia Cardinale said in an interview published yesterday that her eight-year-old son think? she is his sister. Miss Cardinale. whose secret marriage to producer Franco Cristaldl and the existence of the son were reported last week by Italian magazines said she now
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    • 25 7 SYDNEY, Australia. Wed'(AP> Up to 12,000 U.S. troops a month may soon be spending rest and recreation leave from Vietnam in Australia.
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    • 49 7 THE United Nations Secretary General U Thant visited the famous "Temple of Sacred Tooth" at Kandy during his recent visit to Ceylon and worshipped the Tooth Relic of the Buddha which is enshrined there. On U Thant's right is the lay custodian of the Temple in ceremonial dress. UPI
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    • 149 7 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) was up to here in tortoises yesterday 6,240 of them. The RSPCA stepped in when the tortoises, each about seven Inches long, arrived on Monday night in tne port of London
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    • 49 7 LONDON, Wed. (AP) The Duke of Kent will visit the South Pacific islands of Rarotonga. Western Samoa and Fiji in July, his office announced yesterday. The trip will come after the Duke represents Queen Elizabeth at the coronation of Tonga's new king, Taufa Ahau Tupou.
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    • 294 7 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter). A L'.S. Navy scientist said yesterday new evidence provided by American satellites lent support to an ancient theory that the moon was created on earth. Mr. Ernest W. Schwiderski, in a report to the American Geophysical Society here, said
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    • 78 7 ALGIERS, Wed, (Reuter) Flooding brought on by heavy rains over the last few days has left 62 people homeless in the little port of Tenes, some 125 miles West of Algiers. Blankets and bedding have been rushed to the homeless who are being temporarily lodged In public
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    • 32 7 MADRAS. India Wed. (AP)—Smile for your customers and be sure to say "Thank you" is the advice given to Madras taxi drivers by the new Madras State Government.
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    • 147 7 WASHINGTON. Wed. (AP) A critic of the war in Vietnam. U.S. Senator J.W. Fulbright, Democrat-Arkan-sas. said yesterday that recent reports of a North Vietnam military buildup "may be preparatory to sending more U.S. troops". The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman told newsmen he had no
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    • 219 7 RHOENDORF, West Germany, Wed. (Reuter) Dr. Konrad Adenauer, former West German Chancellor who led his country to prosperity from the ruins of World War 11, died at his home here today, aged 91. Dr- Adenauer's death was announced by a spokesman for his
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    • 192 7 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) Thailand's Foreign Minister Mr. Thanat Khoman said yesterday his country. Indonesia and other unidentified nations would form a new association for Asian co-operation "in due course" Mr. Khoman told a news conference he could not give any details but the association envisioned more
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    • 92 7 ROME. Wed. (UPI) The World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday approved grants totalling US$25.B m. to 11 projects in nine countries. the U.N. food and agriculture or g a nis a ti on (FAO) announced. Seven of the Drojects Involving US$2O.3 million are new. These are two each
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    • 438 7  -  By Jose Katigbak MANILA, Wed. (Reuter) Plague, a disease which threatened to wipe out civilisation in the middle ages, is still very much a menace of today, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO regional office for the Western Pacific here has
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    • 147 7 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) A 16-year-old Portuguese South African girl lies in a hospital bed dreaming of the day when she can walk straight. She is Maria Ferreira. who underwent an operation here early this month which, it is hoped, will cure her of a
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    • 57 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (AP) —Dr. Leon Watters, a scientist who was a close friend of the late Dr. Albert Einstein. died yesterday. He was 89. Dr. Watters developed the sterile catgut used in medical work. Dr. Watters is survived by his widow, Gertrude. A private funeral service
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 156 6 All work and no play makes even a VAN PROW UM.C.L.t. A DULL 00/ AND KNOWING THAT H6 LFE DEPENDS ON SHARf* NESS. NA»OLEON SOLO ACCENTED THE ffIONDC'S INVITATION TD GO NCrERSWINGI NOW, SLALOM. NG BEHIND WE? BOAT AS fT SPEAKS DOWN LONG ISLAND SOUND, SCUD FEELS THE EXHILARATION CF
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    • 38 7 BC FEATURe AND THE FUNOVOMTHEraOI IT STANDS ON ITS ORiFICe, AND Raws STRAIGHT A6DV£ INVERTED and FILL.EC> (TWILL tumble AT ONCE, by Johnny hart NO VMOJD6R THE CONE symbolizes we dunce, PR 5&/J1 a K «a K SI
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  • 408 8 THE order has gone forth to Indonesian Navy units to shoot and destroy smuggling ships. Smuggling produce out of Indonesia and processed goods into its numerous islands for the past two decades has caused huge losses of revenue to that country. Before the Dutch left Indonesia
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  • 298 8 AFTER the end of the Second World War, protective alliances were formed in Europe and Asia to prevent the big nations from bullying the small nations as well as to prevent a third world war. But, after two decades, such alliances are becoming tenuous due to new developments and
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  • 4122 8  - Razak: Battle for economic social progress By: TUN ABDUL RAZAK Deputy Prime Minister, Malaysia. A speech at a Press luncheon held in Canberra recently. Fis always a slightly frightening experience to speak to the gentlemen of the Press for you represent such a vast collection of knowledge and wisdom and
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 732 9 r ONDON, Tues. Millom in Cumberland is a rather remote corner in the north west of England. Its steelworks, owned by the Millom Hematite Ore and Iron Company, is tiny by world standards. Yet since last October it has attracted the interest of steelmakers all
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    • 113 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Pr Richard Hu x who will oe taking over a senior Management post in Shell Malaysia Limited at the end of this year, has left Kuala Lumpur on a sixJTiontns assignment which will take him to London. Europe and the United States.
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    • 21 9 NEW YORK, Wed. (AP) *7 Rubber standard futures osed quiet. No sales. Spot No. 1 ribbed smoked 21-1/BN. N-nominal.
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    • 104 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. Two Olivetti technicians, graduates of the Olivetti Technical College, are leaving shortly for the Olivetti factory headquarters in Ivrea, Italy, for a threemonth training course in connection with the official launching of the Programme 101 in July this year. The technicians. Mr.
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The tin price for today was $606.50 per picul, down 50 cents.
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    • 461 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. Bata Singapore's Internal Training Programme for the year got underway when its first course on "Basic Principles of Supervisory Management" opened in its Training Room recently. The Course which was prepared by the American Management Association made its debut in New York in the
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    • 24 9 HONG KONG. Wed (UPI) —Money Quotations. HK55.*****/5.7325 per US dollar for cash. HK$ 15.99 per pound sterling. HK5264.25 per tael gold.
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    • 45 9 WASHINGTON, Wed. (AP) The United States government sold 20 long tons of surplus tin yesterday 5 tons of grade A at $1.5425 a pound. 5 tons of grade B at $1.5275 a pound, and 10 tons of grade C at $1.5225 a pound.
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    • 762 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. After a firm opening. Industrials turned easier on a very quiet note Business was much improved from yesterday of which more than 584,000 units changed hands. The trading in Sugar was done from $1.89 to $1.86, a drop of three cents on
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    • 111 9 JAKARTA Wed. (Reuter) A twelve-member American Trade Mission is due to arrive here later today for a week's visit in Indonesia. The mission, from the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce will discuss with Indonesian trade officials the possible purchase of copra, sugar and melasse
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    • 300 9 SINGAPORE, Wed—May first grade rubber f.o.b. buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 58J cents per lb., down i cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. The market opened unchanged and ruled quiet and slightly easier to begin with profit-taking
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    • 39 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Association of Banks in Malaysia today made the following changes in its rates to merchants: Selling T.T./OD. ready were: Deutsche Marks 129; Holland Guilders 117-3/8: Swiss Francs 140-5/8; Italian Lire *****; Swedish Kroner 167-1/2.
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    • 533 9 SINUAPOKb —Stock fcxcbange bid and offer price* officially Unfed at the close of business INDUSTRIAL Bou stead 1.53 C. Sugar 187 C.T.8. Ords 56Chemical Co 1.78 1.79 Cold Storage Dunlop (Old) 8.40 3.42 2.29 E. Smelting 4.30 1.10 Esso Ords. CD 3.28 3.30 Fltzpatrlcks r. N. Ord».
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    • 54 9 Manager* Prlcem First Malayan 2.29 2.39 Second Malayan 1.63 1.73 Third Malayan XD 1.12 1.23 The Commerce Industry Fund .90 1.01 The Saving? Fund XD 1.35 1.45 Malaysian Investment Fund .05 1.05 Sterling Commodity XD 3/8 4/3 First Hong Kong XD i .98 1.03* Second Hong Kong .71
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    • 97 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. hlngapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices today were: Buyer* Sellen Coconut oil 45.00 (FOB) Bulk Coconut oil 47.50 (FOB) Drums Loose Copra Mixed Apr/May 27.50 8ugar (Java) 25.25 exgodown Nutmegs 110s 400.00 Nutmegs B 4 W Garbled I. am pong 185.00 Black Pepper 107.50 (FOB) Popper Black
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    • 165 9 SINGAPORE, Wed.—The following «hips are expected to be in port today:— Godowns Vessels 1/2 Port Louis Maru 3/4 Leda Maersk 5 Bamora 6/7 Ragna Bakke 10/11 President Pierce 13/14 Meijyo Maru 15/16 Lelewell 18 Yarra 19 Nagaura Maru 23/24 Azuchisan Maru 25/26 Etsuzan Maru 27/28 Benlawers 29/30 Tenei
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    • 881 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 1.03 a.m. Airline MSA 029 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MSA 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 9.20 a.m. Airline GIA 982 from Jakarta. Time 9.30 a.m Airline MSA 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.25 a.m. Airline MSA 451 from Kuchlng.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 74 10 raj ATTENTION!! ATTENTION!! To all EASTERN SUN ATTENTION!! JUST IN CASE You missed our Tuesdoy (April 18) issue Moy we take pleasure to remind you thot EVERY TUESDAY our newspoper w«H contain the following:— FEMME..... O full page specially for women ond girls. TV fir RAD10......a whole week's programme in
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 28 10 SPORE DIARY 7.3® p.m. Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture: Jalan Kuala Simpang Village; Nam Chong School. Gulega Road; Heng Toon School; and West Coast Road.
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  • EASTERN SUN FEATURE
    • 1051 11  -  The Krakatoa Island like a bomb about to burst i= by ROSS MILES DAY, Aug. 27, 1883 was the day the earth blew up...or so millions of people thought at the time. A volcano erupted in the Pacific, causing tidal waves hundreds of feet high,
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    • 385 11  -  by PETER M. KELLY SCIENTISTS hope a half-mile-long machine k J under construction will cure inoperable cancers by blasting them to bits with Meson particles. Plans were announced recently for a medical centre to house the US$55 million Meson machine that would bring to bear
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    • 947 11  -  by H. L. Hertchenson YU HEN a bone does not receive the pull from muscles which are attached to it, or if it does not receive stress from the weight of the body, it loses calcium. It loses it so rapidly that it may require months to get
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    • 962 11  -  CONFIDENT auuutice By Dr. Norman Vincent Peale a tough situation? One that seems full of insurmountable problems? Tell you what give me the blackest picture you can conceive and I'll tell you with absolute assurance that there is a way to come up with fresh new
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
    • 271 12 I LIVE in a 10 storey flat which is very high from the ground. Whenever I look out of my bedroom window I can see the motor vehicles speeding up and down from street to street as if they are racing at the Grand Prix.
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    • 254 12 HAVING finished the book "Terror In a Haunted House," I went to bed and switched off the lights. My thoughts were of the bravehearted boy, Nell, who wandered off into a haunted house by mistake, and I shivered with fear as I remembered the excitements,
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    • 440 12 SLEEPING soundly on my bed, I dreamt I was sitting in a plane going to lovely place. Throughout this short life nothing has impressed me so much as the scenery which I dreamt with inexplicable joy on the day that I
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    • 437 12 A person between the age of 13 and 19 is a teenager. These people usually have a lot of problems. One of the problems concern their future. Most teenagers worry about how are they to live on their own once they are no longer under
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    • 218 12 MISFORTUNES in life are inevitable. They are experienced by individuals. nations, and the world. As a Danish proverb says, "Experience is the extract of suffering". Occasional misfortunes enable a man to be better equipped against future hazards. By learning from the misfortune, he will be
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    • 377 12 ONE particular day, my mother received an urgent phone call inquiring her to visit an aunt who had been taken seriously ill all of a sudden. Thus, I was trusted by mother to do the household duties and I had no alternative but to obey.
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    • 233 12 HAWKERS are people who travel about selling things. They lead a very hard life. They have to wake up very early in the morning to prepare the goods for sale during the day. Sometimes they have to walk or cycle for many miles to
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    • 468 12 "YOU better go to bed early tonight, son," my father said to me one evening, during the holidays. "We're going hunting tomorrow morning" Hunting? Boy, that sure was a grand idea. It would at least break the humdrum and monotony of the holidays. We set
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    • 237 12 WHENEVER I enter Raffles Museum, the statue of Sir Stamford Raffles meets my eye. I could not help recalling the year 1319 when Raffles founded the island of Singapore with only 100 fishermen, it was then swampy, unhealthy and infested with pirates. What a contract it is
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    • 208 12 SINGAPORE is an island with an area of 224 sq. miles, but the roads in Singapore are as good if not better than many other countries in the region. The city of Singapore has. the most cars in Asia. Tne port of Singapore is
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 160 12 NEW ESSAY CONTEST FOR THOSE WHO ARE 14 AND UNDER THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appear> in this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And
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  • THE NEW FILMS
    • 326 13  -  Bv: C. F. LEE KfALA LUMPUR. Wed. They are here. They are They are everywhere. Corpses, that is. But then, that's what one would have expected •IVherp The Bullets Fly," vrouldn t it? And right in the thick of this is the world's second "licensed
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    • 414 13  -  By: EL SOTO THE BLUE MAX is a small-sized medal but it was the highest honour Germany could offer to its gallant pilots who fought bravely for "the Motherland" during the First World War. Little wonder then that, at that time. It pracitcally became an
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    • 126 13 SINGAPORE. Wed. David Raphel, vice president of 20th Century-Fox International, left over the weekend on a six week tour of the Orient. He will meet with 20th Century-Fox branch managers and leading exhibitors to discuss plans for the remainder of the 1967 releases
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    • 42 13 LONDON, Wed.—Annabel McCartney, one of Europe's top fashion and photographic models until her sudden retirement last year, has been signed for a key role in MGM's "Dark of th e Sun." starring Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux and Jim Brown
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    • 213 13  -  By: CHAN KAM YAU Kuala lumpur. wed. "Daniella By Night" is not the kind of film to chase your blues away it's one big yawn. Only thing good about the picture is blonde bombshell Elke Sommer, but even here the gods are unkind! Elke
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    • 195 13 ACADEMY Award winner Lovell Norman has been signed as sound editor on MGM's "The Power." starring George Hamilton, resuming his association with producer George Fal. Lovell and Pal worked together on such Alms as "Tom Thumb", "The Time Machine" and "7 Faces of Dr. Lao." TWO-TIME Academy Award
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    • 66 13 ACTRESS Anne Bancroft accepts the award for "Best Actress" on behalf of Elizabeth Tavlor for her part in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" from last year's Best Actor winneT Lee Marvin, at the Academy of Motion Pictures Awards in Santa Monica, California recently. Miss Taylor
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    • 222 13  -  By: HOO BAN KHEE KUALA LUMPUH. Wed. Film stars come and go they flash across the screen like meteors. But good actresses never they mellow with age. Take the case of Li LI Hua she's pushing 50 and she had been riding high
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    • 44 13 PARIS, Wed—Distinguished Broadway actress Gloria Foster has been jdgned for a major in MGM'S "The Comedians,'* the Peter Glenville production starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Sir Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford, Lillian Gish. James Earl Jones and Raymond Saint Jacques.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 182 13 LIDO Phone ***** w '"howinr: 11. 1.15. 4. 6.30. ®15 School Children 85 ct* to A*Y SEAT at ALL SHOWS' *INSTFR Go Hnmf" Color |UI) fr*d Gxrnne <t Yvonne DeCarlo I NEXT CHANOE: 'EE Tor IV HELL. DARLING" Techntrolor <WRl CAPITOL Phone ***** ,14th Da*' 11, 1 45. 4 00.
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    • 348 13 CATHAY oTuNis^frr* l l ORCHARD 3 2101 Slat Grand Day! Daily 8 Shews: Show Start*: 1.00. IN A 8.30 p.m. "Grand Prix" Starts: 1.15. S.IS. 8.45 SUNDAYS At HOLIDAYS Extra Bhov at 9 30 a.m. Admission: $1.50, 12 50 Ac 84 00 IN SUPER CINERAMA "GRAND PRIX" James Garner Eva
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 48 15 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $84,120.00 r IRST PRIZE No. *****1 $27,759.00 SECOND PRIZE No. *****1 6.939.00 THIRD PRIZE No. *****2 3,469 00 STARTERS ($578.00 each): Nos. *****0 *****2 *****3 *****9 *****7 *****4 *****4 *****5 CONSOLATIONS ($346.00 each): Nos. *****0 *****9 *****3 *****9 *****1 *****0 *****1 *****1 *****4 *****7
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 60 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 10.15 a.m. (6.3 ft); 9.56 p.m. (6.9 ft.). Port Swettenham: 1.34 a.m. (11.7 ft.); 2.17 pm. (13.2 ft.). Port Dickson: 2.50 a.m. (6.4 ft.); 3.07 p.m. (6.8 ft.). Singapore: 6.18 a.m. (7.2 ft.); 8.57 p.m. (7.3 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 4.01 a.m. (5 ft); 6.52 p.m. (6.6
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