Eastern Sun, 23 November 1967

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  • 27 1 Eastern Sun Idfepemlenf National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION tV Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 479 Thursday, 23 November 1967. ft MC(P) 2251 ft KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 138 1 SINGAPORE, Wed. Members of the Association of Banks today fixed new interest rates for short or fixed deposits following a special meeting yesterday. The new rates are: 5.5 per cent for three months, 5.75 per cent for six months and six per cent for
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  • 113 1 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Farmers plan to present the Government today with a six million sterling bill for the 138*807 animals slaughtered in the worst outbreak of foot and mouth on record. Full loss to the farmers faced with the task of rebuilding
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  • 744 1 Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia to fix date invalidating old currency KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. 'THE Board of Commissioners of Currency will meet here next Friday to fix a date on the termination of the legal tender status of the old currency. The Minister of Finance, Tun Tan
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  • 352 1 T ONDON, Wed. (Reuter). Ceylon devalued her rupee by 20 per cent today (Wednesday), making her most important exports, tea and rubber, cheaper in the world markets. The announcement, made first by the In* ternational Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, placed the
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  • 150 1 BANGKOK. Wed (Reuter) Thailand will send an additional contingent ot 10,500 combat troops to South Vietnam six months after receiving in full the increased military aid promised by the United States. Interior Minister General Prapha* Cnarusaimen, said today. The General told reporters that U.S.
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  • 68 1 LOS ANGELES, Wed. (UPI) The worst siege of rain in 30 years snarled transportation in Southern California today as storm drain systems overflowed onto streets and highways. Nearly two dozen lives were claimed by the first major rainstorm of the winter season, including Tom Sweet,
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  • 40 1 SYDNEY. Wed. (Reuter) The best man at a wedding in Newcastle. 100 miles north of here, was charged last night with the rape of a bridesmaid whom he offered to drive home after the ceremony, Police reported.
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  • 283 1 JAKARTA, Wed. (Reuter). Communist Chinese guerillas have killed ten Dayak tribesmen in a night attack in a West Borneo province, according to reports reaching here today from the provincial capital of Pontianak. The guerillas launched the attack on Nov. 14 at Kampung Kinado
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  • 78 1 MANILA. Wed. (Reuter) A defeated mayoralty candidate in Dilasag town, about 50 miles southeast of Manila, killed three of his political leaders for allegedly "double crossing” him, Police here said today. A police report said the defeated candidate, Rudy Mozo. and four companions were arrested after the
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 869 2  -  REPORT ON AIR CRASH OF US. NAVY DOUGLAS C-47 OUT: By H. M. S. SUTAN SINGAPORE, Wed. Indications that "material or mechanical" failure might have been the cause of the crash of the United States Navy Douglas C-47 aircraft at the Singapore Airport on Oct.
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    • 36 2 Annual Students’ Concert: Victoria Theatre, Empress Place 8 p.m. Teochew Opera: National Theatre, Clemenceau Avenue 8 p.m. Film Show* at Jalap Ara, Kampong Eunos, Canberra Padang and Lorong Teck Hock all at 7.30 p.m.
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    • 68 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. A car driver snatched a handbag containing $lOO from a woman pedestrian yesterday afternoon in Wan Toh Avenue The woman. Mrs. Margaret Cheor.g, of Wan Toh Avenue, was walking along with her daughter at about 245 p-m. when someone from behind, driving a black
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    • 509 2 PLANS FINALISED SINGAPORE. Wed. Plans to erect another extension to the Fairfield Methodist Girls’ School were finalised at a get-together of the “Fairfield family” in the home of Mrs. Lee Swee Cheng recently. According to the Chairman of the School Building Extension Committee,
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    • 193 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Tourist Promotion Board has appealed to members of the public dealing with tourists to be conscious of the need to make them welcome. Tourists should not be embarrassed in any form in the services provided to them, especially when payment is made
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    • 119 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Mr Alfred Bone, the executive vice-president of Skal International will be visiting here tomorrow with Mrs. Bone in the course of a world tour. Mr- and Mrs. Bone will arrive on the day mail express from Singapore at 3.35
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    • 70 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. —The University of Singapore Sociology Society will hold its inaugural dinner and dance at Robinson’s Dra go n Room on Friday at 8 p m. The Minister for Culture and Social Affairs, Enche Othman Wok, will be the guest-of-honour. The function, originally scheduled for
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    • 114 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Bernama's Board of Governors will hold its monthly meeting for the first time at the news agency’s new premises at 222. Jalan Pekeliling, on Saturday. The preparatory office for the establishment of Bernama, under Mr. D.J. Dallas, the UNESCO adviser,
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    • 150 3 TELUK ANSON, Wed. The international director for the South-east Asia Region of Y's Men’s Club, Mr. Raymon T.H. Huang tonight sr»oke on the interna tional brotherhood of men at the inaugural meeting of the Teluk Anson Y's Men's Club, here. Mr. Huang said
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    • 248 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Bonks in Malaysia have lost $3 million overnight as a result of the 1 5 percent devaluation of the old Malayan currency. Disclosing this today, the chairman of the Association of Banks of Malaysia, Mr. Ling Joo Yan, said the banks had
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    • 38 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Bth annual conference of senior officers of the Department of Public Trustee will be held at the conference room of the Department of Information. Jalan Mountbatten on Nov. 27 and 28.
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    • 60 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. —A nine-member ballet group from Germany arrived here today to give performances at Victoria Theatre and National Theatre here. From left: Christa Kempf, Helmut Baumann. Jurgen Feindt. Felizitas Smolik, Ralph Smolik. Helga Sommer- kamp. Peter Grotzsch and Karin Jahnke. The manager of the group.
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    • 521 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Land and Housing Development Association of Singapore has donated a 541.000 two-storey house as first prize for the Singapore Festival '6B Donations Draw. The donation draw Is to raise fund* for the building of a S 3 million National Art
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    • 147 3 PENANG. Wed. The Chairman of the United Democratic Party. Penang branch, Mr. Teh Ewe Lim, said here today that no amount of threat or warning could win the confidence of the people if they firmly believed that there was a “sell-out" of their interests.
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    • 24 3 MUAR. Wed A one-day progress exhibition will be held at the Kampong Sahaii Community Hall in Kluang on Sunday at 3 pm.
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    • 268 3 ALOR STAR. Wed. The Sultan Abdul Hamid bridge was officially opened by the Sultan of Kedah at a simple ceremony here today. The bridge, named after the Sultan's grandfather replaces the former concrete bridge which was destroyed by British forces at the start
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    • 116 3 PENANG. Wed. Three youths were Injured by tear gas grenades thrown by the Police during a demonstration against the devaluation of the old currency here last night. Yeoh Meng Heong, 20. suffered face injuries. Two others, one identified as Ong Liang Chye, were wounded in
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    • 103 3 KUALA LUMPUR Wed— Mr Tan Seng Teck. assistant General Manager of United Malayan Banking Corporation Berhad head office, has left for Japan to attend the Fuji Banking seminar. The Fuji Bank Ltd. Japan’s largest commercial bank, is the first Asian bank to conduct a management
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    • 62 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Ministry of Health Special Cattle Disposal Squad seized two stray cattle last night at Airport Road (Paya Lebar Constituency.) Both the animals were slaughtered this morning at the Government Abattoir and the meat distributed to 4 charitable institutions. This brings the total of all
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    • 219 4 KAJANG, Wed. The fact that people can still make use of the old coins for public telephone booths this includes “coins collecting box”, have Eut proprietors of usiness premises, particularly in restaurants, in a dilemma. They stand to ioseeverytime their customers make
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    • 134 4 PENANG, Wed. The state consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist. Dr. A. Thamaratnam, said today that the only way to get more women for cancer screening was to offer the service to all women attending the out-patient departments and ante-natal clinics In hospitals and health centres. “He was
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    • 46 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— A five-day display of “Art of the Space Age” opened at the National Arts Gallery in Jalan Ampang today. The exhibition, sponsored by Peter Stuyvesant International Foundation, was opened by Dr. J. H. E. Griffiths. Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya
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    • 412 4 Govt could have frozen old LIM Devaluation: PENANG, Wed. The government could have frozen the old currency until a new agreement had been arrived at between the Singapore, Malaysian and Brunei governments. This was stated by the Chairman of the Labour Party, Penang division, Mr. Lim Kean Siew, here today.
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    • 149 4 KAMPAR, Wed A total of $55,000 has been provided under the first Malaysia plan next year to build temples and mosques in the district of Kampar. Disclosing this today, Mr. Toh Theam Hock. MP for Kampar, said several religious projects were provided for In the pian.
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    • 89 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Residents of nine towns of West Malaysia will soon be able to take advantage of family planning services of the National Family Planning Board. Under the second phase of its expansion programme the Board will establish family planning clinics at Hospitals in
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    • 39 4 MU All, Wed A Lorry driver. Sim Choo Song, was fined $2O in the magistrate’s court here today for driving his lorry without an attendant on Sept. I this year Sim pleaded guilty and paid the fine
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    • 72 4 Both were taken on a conducted tour to see a few major cities of the Federal Republic. While in Berlin, the two MPs called
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    • 75 4 The Minister of Labour, Enche V. Manickavasagam, on Monday dedicated the Hall of the Satyananda School, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, to the memory of the late Dr. C. P Vasudevan Menon, who was drowned off Pantai Chinta Berahi, Kelantan, whilst on duty. Dr. Vasudevan Menon was the eldest son of Mr.
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    • 193 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed The Malaysian National Society for the Deaf is planninr to set up an audiology centre in Sentul here for the deaf. This was announced today by the Chairman of the Society. Enche Mohamed Khir Joharl. who is also the Minister
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    • 104 4 Works of prominent Malaysian artists by Peninsular Art Society at 41. Jalan Raja Muda. 9 a m. to 6 p.m. Jalan Weld Swimming Pool 9.30 am. to 12.30 pm.; 2 pm. to 5 p.m.. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Zoo Negara 10 am. to 8 p.m. Murium
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    • 107 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Mr. V. David. General Secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union, returned from a 10-day tour of Russia today, full of praise for the Russian form of society. He said the ordinary needs of the ordinary people of Russia were all fulfilled under the
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    • 62 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed A group of 52 Indonesian police officers arrived here today for a five-day stay to strengthen the relationship between the Malaysian and Indonesian police forces Led by Inspector General Moe&tafa Pane, they will study the system of education and training Of the
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    • 184 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed- The Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, said that it was important for the people to be well informed of things happening around them. A well-informed public could contribute positively to the government's efforts in development
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    • 39 4 MUAR. Wed The Mentri Besar of Johore. Dato Haji Othman bin Haji Mohamed Sa’at. will declare open a new surau (prayer hall) at Tanjong Puran in the Johore Bahru district on Sunday at 7-30 p m.
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    • 87 4 Princess Narhatul Shima bt. Sultan Idris Iskander, eldest daughter of the Sultan of Perak and the Raja Perempuan, will leave for England in May next year to further her studies there. A former student of the Convent, Telok Anson, and of the Government English
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    • 138 4 PENANG. Wed. Tha Vice-President of the Malaysian Leprosy Relief Association, Enche Aziz Ibrahim. will leave for India on Sunday to attend the SE. Asia and Western Pacific Regional seminar and conference from Nov. 28 to Dec. 18. The seminar will open In Bombay at
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    • 25 4 MUAR, Wed—The monthly meeting of the Muar Alliance-controlled Town Council will be held at its Council Chambers on Saturday at 9.30 a.m.
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    • 22 4 BUTTERWORTH. Wed. Two-thousand feet of copper wire, valued at 5333 was stolen from the Royal Australian Air Force base yesterday.
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    • 79 4 The Deputy Prime MlnLster. Tun Abdul Razak, declared open the Boy Scout Association Building in Bukit Mertajam. on Monday. The building costs $40,000 and $25,000 of which is a grant from the Ministry of National and Rural Development. Picture shows Tun Razak inspecting the guard
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    • 1322 10 MTUC to consider counter measures against UK Govt ITTfALA LUMPUR, Wed. IV xhe British Government was today blamed for “letting down" Malaysia in its sudden move in devaluating the sterling. The Malaysian Trades Union Congress, with more than 300.000 workers from 94 trade union affiliates, today urged
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    • 179 10 MALACCA, Wed. The Government cannot afford to be disinterested in the standard of living of the lower income group, says Malacca’s former Chief Minister, Enche Abdul Ghafar Baba. “Poverty. If allowed to spread, will invite communism and If this country Is run by
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    • 46 10 The Mentri Besar of Selangor, Dato Harun bin Haji Idris, declared open a wooden bridge, and presented 24 heads of cattle on pawah system, at Kampong Sungei Penchala, Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday. Picture shows Dato Herun presenting a cow to a farmer, Enche Osman bin Ibrahim
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    • 51 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The sighting of the new moon to determine the beginning of the fasting month of Ramdzan will be made on Dec. 1. If the moon is sighted on that night, fasting will begin on Saturday. Dec. 2. Otherwise, fasting will begin the following
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    • 233 10 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) A Malaysian official said today his Government might look to Indonesia as a source of manpower to fill up job openings in Sabah after failing to reach agreement with the Philippines on a new labour agreement. Enche Osman Casslm, secretary of the
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    • 118 10 Impotent Judge orders check-up IPOH. Wed Mr. Justice Chang Min Tat today ordered a medical check-up for a cloth merchant. Aip Kim Teng. 60, who claimed he became impotent as a result of a motor accident 10 years ago. Yip was suing for damages against Mrs. Joan Freeman, proprietress of
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    • 123 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Sir Sydney Caine, and Lady Caine arrived here last night for a brief visit until Monday While in Singapore. Sir Sydney will visit the University of Singapore and the .Turong Industrial Estate He will also
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    • 134 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. Police are appealing for eyewitnesses to an accident in which a 33-year-old mother and her one-month-old daughter were knocked down by a hit-and-run car on Nov. 19 (last Sunday) at 2.15 p.m. at a short distance away from the Junction of Havelock Road
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    • 62 10 Malaysian Ambassador designate to the Republic of Indonesia, Tan Sri Yaacob bin Abdul Latiff paid a courtesy call on the Indonesian Charge d’Affaires, Col. L B. Moerdani at his office in Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday. Tan Sri Yaacob who is expected to leave for his new post in Jakarta on
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    • 363 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah today quashed the sentence of six strokes imposed bv the lower court Cii.a :youth, Chua Gong Gong, who was convicted on five charges of armed robbery. Mr. David See, who argued the appeal for Chua. sub-
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    • 227 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. A records shop owner, Lum Keng Choon, who was sen tended to three months’ jail on a charee of having 48 imitation records for sale. including ‘‘A-Go-Go’’ number s by Singapore's nightclub singers, Rita Chao Sakura, today had his appeal against sentence reduced
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    • 149 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. Work is now in progress to beautify the Alexandra Road divider frjm Delta Circus to Rumah Bomba Circus with flower boxes. About 2.000 foliage plants and flower s will be used to decorate these boxes. This is part of the Government’s scheme to
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    • 40 11 SINGAPORE. Wed The Government Family Planning Mobile Exhibition -will be held at the Kampong Kebangan Community Centre from tomorrow to Nov. 26. The exhibition will be open from 3.30 pm to 10.30 pm. during this perioo-
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    • 322 11 SINGAPORE. Wed. The visiting delegation from Tung Wah Group of Hospitals today denied rumours of the “flight of capital’’ from Hongkong to other countries in South-east Asia. The delegation is here to pay a goodwill visit to charitable and civic organisations in Singapore. They
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    • 564 11 SINGAPORE. Wed Another landmark is nowgoing up in Singapore the ultra-modern President Shopping Centre and the President Hotel in Serangoon area, costing a total of S2O million. Undertaken by South Union Company Ltd. this is the most ambitious project ever undertaken by
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    • 470 11 Help the ‘chronic sick’ —expert SINGAPORE. Wed An expert on chronic diseases. Dr. Gwee Ah Lene. today made an moving appeal to Rotarians and the people of Singapore to help the “chronic sick in the country. His appeal wa.s made during the weekly luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of
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    • 101 11 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association plans to build a new building at the association’s present site in Cantonment Road here. The foundation stone laying ceremony will be performed within the next six months. The new building will be constructed in three
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    • 245 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. A Singapore Edueational Television Service production "The Power of Words" has won o special prize in an international competition. It received a trophy, a certificate and 551.500 in the ‘‘Japan Prize” contest for educational radio and television programmes
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    • 175 11 SINGAPORE. Wed. A youth, Nakooripitchay Kannusamy, who was convicted by a lower court on three charges of house-breaking, today pleaded in the High .Court to have his sentence .reduced and instead impose caning. Nakooripitchay was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for each of the
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    • 260 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. A Sl3O-a-month labourer, aged 39. and member of the Vigilante Corps was today commended for his “public spirited action” in apprehending a thief. VC Low Chi ok Peng w’as a happy man as he received a commendation certificate from Acting Superintendent of Police. C.J.R
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    • 90 4 IMPORTANT NOTICE from METRO METROTEX DUE to the inconvenience caused by deva 1 ition of the Sterling Pound and to lighten the burden of our many friends, customers and tourists, all OLD and NEW currency tendered in payment of goods purchased with no increase in prices at our stores, will
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 484 5 'Enemy's hope bankrupt' ‘Progressively superfluous’ WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) Pentagon has announced a run down of US troops to Vietnam in a four-phase plan. The first two stages end this vear. The third stage will be completed next '/ear. General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. commander in Vietnam,
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    • 209 5 STROOD. England, Wed. (UPI). A woman going to her mother-in-law’s home for tea vanished into a 70-foot cave-in yesterday seconds after her 3-yeai-old son raced safely over the same ground. Firemen and frogmen battled crumbling earth and poisonous sewage fumes for three hours but failed
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    • 170 5 ANKARA. Wed Reuter Greece has offered Turkey bilateral talks on the Cyprus situation, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced last night. It said the offer was made to the Turkish ambassador In Athens. It was not yet known whether Turkey had accepted the offer. The
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    • 90 5 ‘No harm to Aussie relations LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Commonwealth Secretary Mr. George Thomson said last night he did not accept that the government’s decision to withdraw troops from the Far East had damaged its relations with Australia. An opposition member. Sir George Sinclair, had asked what he was doing to
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    • 276 5 STAND ALONE ‘IN FRONT LINE’ WASHINGTON Wed. (Reuter) U-S. Treasury- Secretary- Mr. Henry Fowler said today the dollar was now “in the front line” and a speculative attack on it was always to be feared following devaluation of the British pound. Mr. Fowler confirmed at a press conference that France
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    • 144 5 GENEVA. Wed. (Reuter) Britain and South Arabia’s National Liberation Front (NLF), whose troops recently faced each other across gunsights. met at the conference table for the first time yesterday and the atmosphere was said to be "encouraging.” Britain and the N LF started their talks
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    • 371 5 SAIGO\, ed. (I PI) Paratroopers using flame throwers and grenades moved slowly up Hill 875 today against entrenched north Vietnamese forces which had kept them pinned to its sides for three days. The battered anil furious paratroopers, reinforced bv another battalion, pushed their attack after
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    • 664 5 Sterling may quit reserve role if LONDON, Wed. (Renter) Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. James Callaghan says that he is “ready to discuss any proposal for a wider sharing of the reserve role of sterling" But he insisted that there can be no question of abandoning sterling as a reserve
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    • 464 6 ATHENS, Wed (UPI) A special Military Court last night convicted 21 Greeks accused of conspiring against the military regime which seized power' in a bloodless coup last April. Sentences for 13 were suspended and 10 other defendants were acquitted. Judges decreed
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    • 85 6 LONDON, Wed (UPI) The Ministry of Defence announced yesterday the appointed of Maj. Gen. BOP. Eugster as Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong effective July. 1968. Mr. Eugster. 53. will have the Rank of Lieutenant General when he assumes his new
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    • 187 6 CALGARY, ALBERTA. Wed. (UPI) Five members of a family were found shot to death late yesterday, the second apparent murdersuicide to wipe out a Canadian family during the day. The victims a labourer, his wife, two sons aged 5 and 6 and an 18-month-old daughter
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    • 445 6 NLF can control country after independence LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) South Arabian Nationalist leader Qahtan Mohammed Al-Shaabi said last night that his National Liberation Front (NLF) could control the country after independence and there was no civil war threat. He said he did not agree with a
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    • 188 6 MIAMI. Wed. (Reuter) A Swiss society girl smuggled heroin worth an estimated $24 million dollars (£892.000 at the old rate of exchange) into Florida, a Federal Court was told here today. Mrs. Josette Clair Bauer. 31, and Willy Charles Lambert, 36, pleaded guilty to conspiring
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    • 118 6 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) Ceylon will devalue its rupee today by approximately 20 per cent, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced last night. Ceylon, a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, followed Britain’s devaluation of the pound sterling last Saturday from $2.80 to $2.40. The
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    • 88 6 *SHANGUGU, Rwanda. Hed Katangese troops and gendarmes who fought with White mercenaries against Congo Federal Troops i„ the recent actions in the Congolese Republic pictured in camp here as they waited to be addressed by members of an Organisation of African tnity Mission. The White mercenaries,
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    • 78 6 WASHINGTON, Wed (Reuter) The State Department spokesman today declined to say whether the United States had given South Korea extensive aid in return for its commitment of nearly 50,000 troops to the war in South Vietnam. Asked for comment on aid reports, the
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    • 30 6 OTTAWA, Wed. (Reuter) A Conservative no-con-fidence motion charging the Canadian government with economic mismanagement was defeated in the Commons here last night by 119 votes to 105.
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    • 64 6 ROME. Wed. A group of left-wing demonstrators displaying the North Vietnamese flag and a placard demanding the withdrawal of United States troops from Vietnam, greeting a threeman North Vietnamese Labour delegation, at Finmicino Airport here recently. About a thousand leftwing sympathisers staged an anti-Vietnam
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    • 118 6 UNITED, NATIONS. Wed. (UPI) South Vietnam denied blocking Cambodia’s exit to the sea in a letter to the Security Council released yesterday Cambodia protested to the council last week that merchant ships were being prevented from entering or leaving Cambodia on the
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    • 108 6 JAKARTA. Wed (Reuter) The influential Indonesian Scientists Action Front today called on Acting President General Suharto to remove his predecessor, Dr. Sukarno from Bogor Palace, 40 miles south of here, where he is staying. In a statement the Front said the deposed President 6hould be
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    • 358 6 DENVER, Colorado Wed (UPI) Th*» body of a baby boy was found win, a broken tvine bottle plunged through its,beart yesterday in an eerie Denver “Half way House” for Hippies. I The child’s mother, kneeling nearby in bloody blue jeans, was hospitalised to see
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    • 224 6 COLOMBO, Wed. (Reuter) Ceylon Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake told Parliament Here that his government recognises only one China 'and that is the People's Republic of China. Ceylon did inot recognise Taiwan. He said onhi the People’s Republic of C Irina could be
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    • 112 6 MADRID Wed. (UPI) Spain's highest medal, the Cruz Laureada de San Fernando. has been awarded to a 54-year-old Infantry Officer for valour fighting alongside the forces of Nazi Germany 24 years ago The ministry of the Army today announced that its highest award had been given
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    • 67 6 WASHING TON. Wed. (UPI) You Chan Yang, Ambassador-at-1 a r g e for the Republic of Korea, has said that world domination remains the goal of Communism “no matter what the Communists say. The Ambassador told a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Korean
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    • 90 6 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) The Defence Department is to re-test the controversial M-16 rifle, basic weapon of U.S. troops in Vietnam, a congressman announced today. Representative L Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. where the rifle has been criticised over reports of jamming
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    • 39 6 ROME Wed. (UPI). —The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) yesterday aooroved a 1968-69 budget 0f‘U5559, 861,000 and called upon member nations to contribute another USS2OO million in food, cash and services to the world food programme
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    • 94 6 MANILA, ped. (Reuter) Three Manila policemen and a (civilian were arrested last night for allegedly kidnlapping two Chinese victims of a Sunday Are here ajnd extorting 800 pesos (about 80 pounds sterling) from! them. Early yestjerday, the two Chinese fire victims, complained to, police that four
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    • 410 7 CHICAGO, Wed (Reuter) Armed police patrolled streets and highways around a skyscraper block of flats complex here last night in the wake of Negro rioting and disorders in which 12 people including three policemen, were injured, more than 80 arrested and scores of shops looted
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    • 170 7 CALCUTTA. Wed. (UPI) Calcutta was in a state approaching martial law last night in the wake of Communist threats of violence to combat the takeover of two leftist state government* by the luge Congress Party. The Communists called a general strike for Calcutta and all of
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    • 41 7 WASHINGTON. Wed (UPI) The Defence Department said yesterday it was studying a s3b. project involving a new anti-sub-marine plane and a reduction in the anti-sub carrier force Navy forces now include 8 anti-sub carriers and 15 attack carriers.
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    • 38 7 GLAMIS. Scotland, Wed. (UPI) Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret attended the funeral yesterday of the Dowager Countess Granville, who died on Nov. 17. The Countess was the Queen Mother’s sister.
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    • 56 7 CHESTER: A policeman on guard at Mr. Harry Barrowhall farm, near Chester, to stop people entering the farm one of 380 hit by an epidemic of foot and mouth disease in Britain. In the past month more than "3,000 livestock worth S4m have had to be
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    • 167 7 LONDON. Wed. <UPI) Britain's catastrophic foot-and-mouth disease epidemic officially was declared the worst on record yesterday as it spread into two more areas. One new outbreak was located in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire adjoining an existing area of infection The other jumped into a new' area
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    • 33 7 WASHINGTO N. Wed. (UPI) President Johnson yesterday signed legislation to start a three-year war on smog The new clean air act authorised a s42Bm. programme to combat air pollution.
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    • 213 7 WASHINGTON. Wed (CPI) Gov. George Romney of .Michigan was reported to be seeking a meeting with Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin on his world tour next month. One diplomatic source said such a meeting was "a possibility." But the Soviet embassy where Mr Romney paid
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    • 37 7 CYPRUS: Austrian United Nations doctors treating Turkish wounded during the fighting which brok® g Alls»• MU* w w 0 w B out between Turkish and Greek Cypriots on November lath. UPI photo.
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    • 142 7 HONG KONG, Wed (Reuter) The colony will have to pay more for imports from China following the latter’s decision not to change the value of her currency. The Bank of China here yesterday announced a new exchange rate between the Chinese yuan and pound sterling in
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    • 110 7 DANANG, Wed. (UPI) Two Qcaker crew members, blocking from delivering medical supplies to Vietnamese war refugees, jumped overboard last night when a Vietnamese patrol boat attempted to tow r their yacht out of Danang harbour. Newsmen were kept away from the area but informed sources said
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    • 541 7 Bahaman Police Chief offers to resign NASSAU, Wed (Reuter) A government-appoint-ed inquiry- into gambling in Bahamas has conuemned consultancy agreements under which Former Tourist Minister Sir Stafford Sands was paid fees of up to £200,000 sterling. The report also criticised the present Prime Minister
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    • 145 7 CHANDIGARH. Punjab. Wed. (Reuter) Master Tara Singh, veteran Sikh leader who was one of India's most controversial political figures, died here today aged 82. He apparently had a heart attack. Tara Singh. Hindu-born schoolmaster, was imprisoned many time 6 during British rule in India and again
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    • 69 7 CAIRO. Wed. (ReuterT Egypt ha* agreed to Sir Harold Beeley’s appointment as British Ambassador in Cairo when relations between the two countries are restored next month, the authoritative news paper A1 Ahram said today. Sir Harold, British Ambassador here between 1961 and 1964. was In
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    • 409 7 Bomb on Chinese plane to Bandung was for Chou En-Lai MOSCOW, Wed (Reuter) A self-proclaim-ed American spy claims that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in the blowing up of a plane taking Chinese delegates to the Bandung Afro-Asian conference in 1955.
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  • 420 8 WITH Malaysia's borders extended to the Sulu Sea, Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman realises the need to expand the Royal Malaysian Navy to undertake patrol work and to curb smuggling in a wider expanse of Malaysian waters. Lest Malaysia’s neighbours may think that she Is preparing for a
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  • 336 8 MALAYSIA has done right in turning down the Philippine request to station nine Filipino Customs officers in three ports of Sabah. She has granted the unprecedented concession to the Philippines by allowing it to station one Filipino Customs official each in Jesselton, Sandakan and Semporna to check on
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  • 867 8  - Gandhi the quest for unity by K. Swaminathan CINCE very early times, the constant Indian quest has been for integration, wholeness, union of being and becoming, of knowledge and action. This quest has produced a long line of saints and sages, of whom the latest are Aurobindo and Ramana. But
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    • 766 8 f have been closely following “Robert Goh Devan Nair controversy” over Issues which appeared to be significant to any person concerned with the long run interests of this nation. The latest contribution to this dialogue appeared to come from the
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    • 80 8 WOULD the Housing and Development Board be good enough to clarify why its monthly service and conservancy charges are $6.50 per flat for some estates and $lOOO for others? I am required to pay the higher figure All estates enjoy practi- cally identical services, such as
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    • 128 8 AS a rubber planter, I was very interested in reading the statement of our Minister of Finance. Tun Tan Siew Sin that eventually rubber latex would be collected once a week as this would reduce the cost of expenditure for the estates. But
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    • 87 8 11TE have been hearing our Prime Minister stress on the words "rugged and robust nation” for some time, but it would surprise him to know that there are insufficient playing fields in Singapore for the public to play games, exercise, etc.... We have approached several School Principals
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  • 591 8  -  By: F. A. Rizzuto, Jr. JOURNALISTS who, in former times, were J convinced that their profession and their newspapers were sufficient to defend their interests, came to understand the old saying, "unity builds force." Some fifteen years ago, a group in Europe came to
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  • 220 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, "Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials") \FTER divorcing Oliver, Vivian waited eight years before remarrying. But, she married too soon. Vivian’s second husband, Jason, married her a week before his own divorce decree became valid She soon left Jason her new husband
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    • 41 8 Eastern Sun ndependent National Newspaper THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1967 23-B. Cantonment Road, Singapore 2. Telephone: *****/7 Penang Office Ipoh Office 39. lalan Sultan. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. Telephone: *****/6 8. Leith Street. Tel: ***** 77, Brewster Road. Tel: ***** Cabl« Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 130 9 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Stock prices notched widespread gains at the opening of the New York Stock Exchange today following Monday’s drop. Analysts were impressed by the markets strong comeback following the steep plunge in the first hour of trading. Many observers said the reaction
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    • 297 9 Rubber up cents SINGAPORE. Wed December first grade rubber f.o.b. buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 50-1/8 cents per lb., up five-eighths of a cent from previous close The tone was quiet. The market opened fractionally higher and prices continued to improve some three
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    • 82 9 LONDON. Wed. CUPI) Rubber market closed very steady after uncertain. No 1 KSS spot 17-3/4 19 nominal. Settlement House Dec 16-7/8 17-1/8 Jan. 17-1/8 17-3/8 Feb. and Jan/March 17-1/4 17-1/2 April/June 17-1/2 17-5/8 July/Sept 17-5/8 17-7/8 Oct./Dec. 17-3/4 18 Jan./March 17-7/8 18-1/8 April/June 18 18-1/4 nom Julv/Sept.
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    • 92 9 A new type of cooling device costing only a fifth as much to operate as a conventional air conditioning unit ha* been developed in Australia by the mechanical engineering division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Melbourne. The system will
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    • 283 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The current growth of the market for abrasives in Malaysia and Singapore is more rapid than in many developed countries overseas. This was stated by Mr. Gerald J. Keller, a visiting American businessman who is at present based in
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    • 333 9 T ONDON, Wed (UPI) European stock markets set a mixed pattern yesterday in the wake of Britain's devaluation of the pound. The London market seesawed as dealers handled a huge turnover. The London market started to digest not only the new value of
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    • 143 9 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) The International Rubber Co. Ltd. (ISR) ha s warned that unless it is given special considerations the results of devaluation could have “serious consequences’’ on the industry. ISR said in a special statement that though devaluation Implies that the exporting
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    • 29 9 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Tin was barely steady with 380 tons Spot buyers 1.350 sellers 1,351 business 1,351. 3-months buyers 1.345-1/2 sellers 1.346 business 1,351 1,345. Settlement 1.351.
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    • 24 9 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) Money Quotations: HKS6.B3/6 65 per US dollar for cash HK516.02 per pound sterling HK$23S.a per tael gold.
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    • 1324 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. Very hectic conditions prevailed on the Stock Exchange today; and when activity reached its peak in the afternoon session, trading had to be halted for about 7 minutes from 3.27 p.m. to 3.34 p.m to allow brokers’ clerks to clear all their
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    • 382 9 SINGAPORE—(Stork Exchange hid and offer prices officially listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS Ben A Co 1.81 1.88 Boustead 1.62 1 i,8 1 -ugar 2.08 2.10 hem leal Co 1.43 1.45 Cold storage 4.30 Dunlop 2.33 E. smelting CD 4.-.6 4.76 f A 1 2.20 2.35 Esso
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    • 104 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are > Buyer Seller Coconut Oil (FOB.) Bulk Coconut Oil 60 00 (FOB.) Drums 62.50 Loose Copra Mixed Nov/Dec Muntok White 35.00 Pepper (F.O.B.) 36 X.LB 132.50 Sarawak White Pepper (F.O.B.) 06% MW 130 00 Sarawak Special
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    • 45 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The changes made in the unit trust funds are First Hong Kong buyers HK 80 cents, sellers HK 85 cents; Second Hong Kong Fund buyers HK 56 cents, sellers HK 60 cents (xd). Other units trust funds are not quoted today.
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE, Wed The tin price for today was $574 62} per picul, down $17.12}.
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    • 235 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The following ships are expected to be in port today:Godowns Vessels 1/2 Neder Ebro 3/4 Beloretsk 5 Hero 6 7 Eastern Rover 8/9 Cyclops 10/11 Ragna Bakke 13 14 City of Lancester 15/16 Stentor 18 Kingsville 19 Melbourne Maru 21 22 Rajah Brooke 23 '24
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    • 1019 9 AIR MOVEMENTS—SPORE, ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 1.05 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 9.20 a m. Airline MSA 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.25 a m Airline MSA
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
    • 393 12 TWO months ago, my house wag burgled. The police are still Investigating because no clues were found In the house. It was late, when my parents and I were returning home after we had seen the mid-night show. The street was Quiet a* a
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    • 221 12 ONE morning, I got out of my bed in a bad mood. I had an instinct that the day was going to be an unlucky one for me. How right I was. Going to the bathroom to brush my teeth, I stepped on a piece
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    • 344 12 CINEMAS are a commonsight nowadays and are found in practically every town. They attract large numbers of people everyday. The theatres have become the most popular places of entertainment for the young and old. As it is so popular, the cinema exerts a profound influence
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    • 300 12 LAST term, our teacher planned a picnic in Minyak Beku, a river that is near our hometown. The week before going, we washed our classroom willingly and going for the picnic was the reward for it. Preparations were made to wait at the nearest
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    • 256 12 DURING the second term holidays, my family and I went on a trip to Penang We went there by car. We started our journey at about 6 o’clock in the morning. On our journey we passed through many towns, some of the big towns were
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    • 282 12 A postman is a very humble worker. He has to go about on a bicycle whether it is raining or not. He has a tiring job. The postman is a very useful worker and he is part of the system by which you and people
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    • 177 12 LONG ago the primitive men stayed along the rivers. They had no taps. The rivers are their main source of drinking water. Rivers are very helpful to men. One use that man make of rivers is that they can use it to transport their goods to other
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    • 166 12 A FEW days back I went to the dental clinic and I told the dentist that my tooth was aching. He told me to sit down on the chair. Then he opened my mouth and examined my bad tooth carefully. He took out a sharp
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    • 246 12 CHRISTMAS is one of the major festivals of the year that is mostly celebrated by the Deoples of the world with all the traditional items that mark this joyful season. Christmas is celebrated by all In America, Canada, England, Europe and Australia. Christmas is the most
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    • 362 12 ONE has many great desires and dreams of what they would do if he or she strikes the first prize of the social welfare ticket. Some may dream of touring the world or buy a beautiful new house. Striking
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    • 277 12 DURING the second term holidays, my friend Kim Seng and I decided to go for a 6wim at Changi. We travelled to our destination by bus. We squeezed ourselves into the bus. It was a Sunday and the bus was very congested. We had to
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    • 247 12 THE Christmas season fn Malaysia all over the earth, has been marked by the exchange of Christmas cards and presents, the decoration of Christmas trees, and preparation* for Christmas parties. It is certainly a matter for regret that many who are normally Christians have come to look
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    • 166 12 NEW ESSAY CONTEST FOR THOSE WHO ARE 14 AND UNDER THE EASTERN SUN’S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And
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  • Eastern Sun Special
    • 114 13 CANBERRA, Wed. (Reuter) Indications were that moderate forces were gaining: the ascendancy in China, a British diplomat said here tonight. He is Mr. Peter Hewitt 28. the newly-arrived first secretary at the British High Commission in Canberra, and until last May, British Consul in
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    • 1215 13  -  Someone’s telling lies about you By Dermot Canning r)0 you believe women gossip more than men that lemon juice removes freckles that eating fish is good for the brain? If you do, you might as well believe there are fairies at the bottom of
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    • 414 13 Q Does wearing skin-tight pants cause varicose veins? My mother said I will get them because tight pants constrict the blood vessels I am 13 and never had any leg injury. A: Varicose veins occur primarily because of a weakness in the veins Unless such
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 245 13 'SHAW IGANISATION Phone ***** OPENS TODAT: 4 Show* D*lH! 10 30 am.. 1.45. 530 8 45 p m SCHOOL CHILDREN 85 cent* to ANY SEAT AT ALL 6HOWS! THE ALAMO" Todd-Ao. Color-UA Saturday A- Sunday Midnight Wang Yu as "THE ASSASSIN” (A SHAW PRODUCTION) Mandarin In Shag-scope Color NTTlirra OPENS
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    • 97 13 ORCHARD: opens tomorrow; WHEN “THE FLI\I-ELAM MAN” COMES TO TOWN BEWARE OF HIS TRICKS or vou'll be swindled! Don't let it happens to you! resents 1 X THE riiM* AMMAN Panavision-Color by DeLuxe ORCHARD PALACE SATURDAY MIDNIGHT! > DAGGER WAS HIS NAME... DANGER WAS HIS GAME! METRO-OOLDWYN MAYER PRESENTS A
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    • 396 13 ODEONI PALACE Tel 21-1 16 I Tpl 4 75 7 OPENS TODAY! tl am 1.30, 4 II 1 30. < 00. 0.30 9.30 o m. II 0.45 9.30 p.m. Yu! Brynner, Trevor Howard "THE LONG DUEL” P'Vlsion Color (Rank Organisation Picture) Odenn Gala: Saturday M'nite’ “COME SPY WITH ME" Color
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  • Sun Sport
    • 416 14 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Management Committee of the Basketball Association of Singapore is expected to meet shortly to study the reply from the President of SOSC and Chairman of the Control Board, Enche Othman bin Wok, on the rejection of the basketball team to the
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    • 411 14 MALACCA, Wed Top golfers from Singapore and West Malaysia have entered for the annual Malacca Open and Handicap Golf Championships to be played at the Ayer Keroh Country Club course on Nov. 25 and 26. The Governor of Malacca. Tun Hajl Abdul Malek bln Yusuf
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    • 58 14 MALACCA. Wed. The Commonwealth Forces will hold their annual inter-unrt sailing regatta from Nov. 23 to 25 off Terendak Camp 14 miles from the town. All units under the command of 17th Division/Malaya District are eligible to compete. The winning unit will be eligible to compete in
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    • 219 14 LONDON. Wed England’s cricket carnain Colin Cowdrey of Kent is undergoing a daily routine of road work, squash rackets and physical training in order to be in peak condition to lead the MCC on their Caribbean tour which begins at the end of December.
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    • 20 14 MALACCA, Wed—Malacca Malays will hold their annual badminton championships at the U-M.N.O, hall here on Saturday and Sunday.
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    • 142 14 ALOR STAR. Wed. The Malaysian Prisons Eleven will play Kedah Land Office Club Invitation XI in a charity match for the Land Office Club Fund in Kulim on Sunday. The match will start at 5.15 p.m. A curtain raiser to this match will be an interschool match
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    • 277 14 SINGAPORE. Wed. The visiting Australian football team unleased their power-packed “Kangaroo punch” which had Republic’s national squad in a daze at Jalan Besar stadium on Tuesday night. The Australians currently in the island-Republic in the course of a South-east Asian tour whipped
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    • 280 14 LONDON. Wed. The old-fashioned open hockey game, with long passes to the corner flags and wings running fast and centring hard, is Just as effective as the close passing, close support tactics of the Indians. This Is the belief of Brian Lewis, hockey correspondent
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    • 143 14 SYDNEY. Wed. (Reuter) Wimbledon champion John Newcombe has withdrawn from the New South Wales tennis championships, now in Its second day here, rather than risk aggravating his troublesome arm injury before the Davis Cup challenge round in five weeks’ time. The injured his serving
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    • 2072 15  -  Let Me Go survives objection By WINDSOR LAD TTUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Let Me Go, confidently ridden by young apprentice Rafi, fought a keen duel to the post to clinch a shorthead decision from Base Metal (Trevena) in the six furlong race for class three division
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    • 121 15 PENANG. Wed Three girls from St George's Girls School are among those representing Malaysia in volleyball at the S E.A.P Games in Bangkok next month They are Ang Boon Han, Cheah Phaik See and Khor Poh Giak. They are the first girls from an
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    • 113 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Treasury Sports Club beat Employees Provident Fund Board Club 2-1 at hockey at the Kilat Club ground to win the Tan Sri Jamil Rais trophy for the first time in their annual series of games. Treasury had already won the following games: tabletennis.
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    • 74 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Malaysian Indo-Ceylo-nese tennis tournament will be held from January 2« to 30 next year at the TPCA courts Events consist of men's singles and doubles, boys singles and doubles, veteran's singles and doubles, handicap singles and doubles, mixed doubles and women's singles and
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    • 293 15 PERTH. Western Australia, Wed, (Reuter) The Indian cricket team opened their Australian tour with a mixed display in their drawn oneday match against a Western Australian Country XI at Harvey near here today. The Indian batsmen sparkled to 259 for four declared in
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    • 128 15 PENANG. Wed.— Iran are the automatic champion in the Western Zone One of the Asian Cup soccer competition because Afghanistan and Kuwait have declined the invitation to compete. This was disclosed by the Secretary of tne Aslan Football Confederation, Mr. Koe Ewe
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    • 147 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Eight teams are competing In the inaugural combined Old Bovs’ Rugby Association (COBRA) 10-a--side rugby •tournament for the Dr. Hul Weng Choon challenge trophy at the Padang on Sunday. The games of 20 minutes each will be played and kick-off time for the first
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    • 77 15 MARCO. ISLAND. Florida. Wed (UPI) Mrs. Gene) Sarazen, wife of the famed golf professional, scored a hole-in-one yesterday while playing with three other women at this soutnwest Florida resort. Mrs. Sarazen said it was the first time in nearly 40 years of playing golf
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    • 36 15 BANGKOK Wed. (UPI) The Malaysian yachting and boxing teams for the Southeast Asia Peninsular Games lave arrived in Bangkok and are already in training for the athletic contest which opens on Dec. 9
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    • 39 15 PERTH. Western Australia Wed. (Reuter) The Indian cricketers drew the first match of their Australian tour against a Western Australian Country XI here today. Scores: Indians 259 for four declared. Western Australian Country XI 186 for five
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    • 1233 15 Horses Class 3s DIv. 1 10 Furs. COMMITTEE PLATE 333 Martini II 6y 9 00 M.C. Stable R. van B'kelen 211 Gallant Lover II 5y 3 10 Mr K Y Lim Daniel* 447 Microwave 4v 8.08 Universe Stable Tjoa 210 Landmark 4y 8
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    • 310 16 They score winning points in last six minutes BAYONNE, (France), Wed. (Reuter) A penalty goal and a try in the last six minutes gained the New Zealand All Blacks a hardwon 18-14 victory over South-West France here yesterday. The match had looked the All Blacks’
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    • 161 16 SYDNEY, (Australia), Wed. (UPP. Former Wimbledon champion Margaret Smith Court, of Australia, returned to competitive tennis yesterday with a 6-2. 6-3 victory over compatriot Carole Cooper in the second round of the New South Wales tournament. Mrs Court, twice a winner at Wimbledon and holder of
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    • 268 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malaysian Armed Forces rugby union will be a "different side" when they take on the Commonwealth Forces North in the Malaysian Rugby Union's inter-State competition to be played at Butterworth on Saturday. The Armed Forces side Is to adopt
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    • 199 16 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) David Sadler. 21-year-old Manchester United player, gets his first full international “cap” when England play Northern Ireland in a European soccer championship qualifying match at Wembley this evening. He takes over from the injured Jackie Charlton (Leeds United) who is injured.
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    • 137 16 LONDON, Wed (Reuter) Micky Stewart. Surrey's captain, will lead an international partv of cricketers on a ten-day tour of Africa and Asia next January. The tour which starts on January 15. has been organised by Joe Lister, the Worcestershire County Cricket Club secretary, who
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    • 174 16 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Peterborough United, the football league Third Division club who were found guilty of offences against league regulations, are to be relegated to the Fourth Division at the end of the current season. The league’s Management Committee decided on this punishment yesterday
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    • 354 16 MIAMI. Florida. Wed. (UPI) A bloodied Rocky Marciano shrugged off two knockdowns to rack up a tko over Max Baer In 2:45 of the 13th round recently In a computerised boxing match between the two former heavyweight champs. Marciano was ahead on
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    • 87 16 MACAO. Wed (UPI) Two representatives of the Automobile Club of Portugal, sponsors of one of the races of the Macao Grand Prix. were to leave today for Manila to attend the funeral of Filipino driver Arsenio Laurel. Laurel was killed in the Grand Prix last
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 493 14 Eastern Sun Classified advertisements can He accepted at the following addresses: MONT DOR MILK BAR Ngee Ann Building. Singapore vS MUBARUK Brothers. 63, Bras Basah Road, and 2. Maiu Avenue, serangoon Carden Estate. Singapore. rAY BUAN CUAN LTD.. SUPERMARKET 83, East Coast Road, Singapore 15. Tel: *****9 HAMIEM STORE. 1419.
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    • 632 14 NOTICE CHAPTER 195 (Pawnbrokers.) Unredeemed Pledged Goods and Jewellery from the follow, ing Pawnbrokers’ Shops. Lam Joon Siong (Chop Sem Foh), 135 New Bridge Road; Ho Yan Kee (Chop Heng Fatt) Yong Kee. 255 South Bridge Road; Seow Kian (Nam Cheong Pawnshop Ltd.), 287 South Bridge Road; Lam Joo Onn
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    • 81 14 Advertiser’s Name..—— Address Telephone N 0............................. Number of Insertions Oate(s) Requested. Cost Payment mast accompany roar order S.. <P.O./Ch«jßf/Casb enclosed* Cash mast be registered. Cheques etc. should be crossed Classified advertisements may be handed at the following addresses: KUALA LUMPUR: 39 JALAN SULTAN, TELS: *****/6 IPOHj, 8-10 TATIOCK ST., TEL:
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    • 55 16 -ss' Penang: 307 a.m. (7.6 ft.). 4.10 pm. (3.9 ft.). Port Swettenham: 7.36 am. (13.0 ft.), 9.27 p m. (13.1 ft.). Port Dickson: 9.40 am. (7.5 ft 9.49 p.m. (7.4 ft.). Singapore: 2.56 a.m. (7.6 ft.), 1.36 pm. (8.9 ft Sedili Kechil: 2.15 a.m (8.0 ft 11.30 pm. (6.3 ft
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