Eastern Sun, 5 December 1967

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  • 25 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd 1966 Vo, 2 N°. 491 Tuesday, 5 December 1967. MC(P) 2251 ft KDM 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 522 1 No incidents in States of Penang, Kedah and Perak J£UALA LUMPUR, Mon. For the fourth successive day, there were no incidents reported in the States of Penang, Kedah and Perak. Life has returned to normal in most of these areas. In Penang Island, and Province Wellesley, the
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  • 194 1 SAIGON, Mon. (UPI). U.S. troops moving through the marshy Mekong Delta in assault boats battled hordes of Vietcong today. U.S. officials reported they killed 187 in a day-long fight that still was underway at dusk. Elements of the U.S. 9th Division. which
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  • 94 1 BANGKOK. Mon. (Reuter) Apantri Prayuthseni, a 20-year-old commercial student in Penang, was crowned Miss Thailand 1967. here today before a crowd of 13.000 spectators. Daughter of a Thai Army Colonel, the new Miss Thailand is 1651 centimetres tall and her vital statistics are
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  • 44 1 LONDON. Mon (Reuter) For the first time since devaluation on November 18. sterling came under pressure on the foreign exchange market here today. “Selling was quite considerable.” one dealer said as the dollar rate dropped from Friday's 2.4199 to 2.4152.
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  • 263 1 SINGAPORE, Mon. In a simple yet dignified ceremony, President Yusof bin Ishak was this morning sworn in for the third time as Head of State of the Republic of Singapore. diplomatic and consular missions, the Commissioner of Police and o.her VIPs stood
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  • 40 1 LONDON, Mon (Reuter) Rail chaos hit London’s 500.000 commuters today as a go-slow by train drivers caused big delays in the morning rush hour and traffic jams by staff trying to get to work by ear
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  • 312 1  -  By K. S. SIDHU SINGAPORE, Mon. A swimming trip to Labrador Beach in Pasir Panjang yesterday ended in tragedy when the boat in which five youths were sitting capsized. Four of them are missing, feared drowned, while the fifth, 10-year-old Roy Bulow
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  • 98 1 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) Seven Hong Kong policemen were injured today in what was described as an “accidental explosion” at the Pok Fu Shan border post. The post is located on top of a hill about two miles east of Ta Kwu Ling police station. It
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  • 54 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Yang di-Pertuan Agong today sent a congratulatory message to Enche Yusof bin Ishak o n his re-appointment as President of the Republie of Singapore. A similar message was also sent by the Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, to Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. the
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 321 2 FLOOD RELIEF WORK KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Ministry of Defence todoy disclosed a "Defence Operations Room'' in the Ministry hod been set up to provide military assistance to the civilian authorities in case of floods. This Operations Room” is responsible fof the co-ordift-ating Of flood relief
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    • 199 2 SINGAPORE. Mon the case of Loh Chee Chan alias Loh Chee Chun, chanted with assaulting a Police Corporal and voluntarily causing hurt to a Probationary Inspector, will be heard in the Fifth Magistrate’s Court on Feb. 9 next year. LOh is alleged to have
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    • 64 2 SINGAPORE. Mon A top Hong Kong film actress will arrive here tomorrow to make personal aDpearances at two leading Chinese theatres. She is pretty Mias Soo Tslng and she will ha accompanied by Mr out* Kwan who is Hong Kong'* “Mr. A-Oo Go.” Her two
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    • 147 2 THE Chief Signal Officer of the Malaysian Armed Force, Colonel Leong Stew Meng made his first Annual Administration Inspection to the Armed Forces Signal Regiment on Saturday. A ceremonial parade mounted by 17 officers and 363 men was held at the West Malaysia Signal Regiment Square. Colonel Leong took the
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    • 112 2 THE second annual Fish Exhibition held at the Chinese Assembly Hall in Kuala Lumpur recently was a big success more than 60,000 people saw it. The exhibition was sponsored by NCitle, which was mounting its Milkmaid “Fish” label Campaign at that time. Proceeds from the exhibition and from sales of
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    • 419 2 PENANG, Mon. —An unfortunate outcome of the hartal in Penong Island on Nov. 24 was the involvement of children in deplorable ond irresponsible octs, particularly in illegal demonstrations. This was stated by the Chief Minister. Penang, Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee, when
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    • 120 2 Exhibition of the private paoer* of Tun Tan Cheng Lock st National Archives 9 a m. to i p.m. Work! of prominent Malaysian artist* by Penin* aular Art Society at 41, Jaian Raja Muds 9 a.m. to A pm. Exhibition of tapestries from France at Samat Art Gallery
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    • 249 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Political Secretary to the Ministry of Culture. Enche Ghazali Ismail, today declared open the Exhibition of Traditional and Modem Maori Art at the National Museum. The exhibition is presented by the New Zealand Department of External Affair# and the
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    • 57 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Headquarters, Royal Malaysia Police, today issued the following: All indications point to an early return to normalcy in curfew affected areas. The outlook is hopeful as no incidents were reported in all States of West Malaysia. Security forces, however, ore maintaining constant vigil
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    • 273 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. An American Congressman, Mr. Joseph Y. Resnick, today stressed that the l nited States harboured no intention of dominating Southeast Asia. But he said that withdrawing from Vietnam meant wlthdrawine their interests from South-east Asia. Mr. Reaniek made himself
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    • 76 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. A teacher of the BaieStier Hill East School haft her gold locket snatched while she was walking along Shan Road yesterday afternoon. Mis*'Ellen Ong later told the police that a youth confronted her at 2.30 p.m. yesterday and tried to snatch her gold
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    • 192 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. A father of three. Klew Chee Chan. 31, today told a District Court that the prospect of a bleak future forced him to commit housebreaking and theft, a week after he lost his nine-dollar-a-day job a* a construction worker. 4 In his
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    • 68 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon The Finance Minister. Tun Tan Siew sin has been urged to revoke the De- elopment Tax which came into force in January thig year. The request was made today by Mr. Wong Sze Ming. Secretary of the Local Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Describing the
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    • 79 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon A reward of s2.non has been offered by Selangor Police for information leading to the arrefct and conviction of person or persons responsible for the murder of jaga-kereta boy. Mastak bih Mat Seh. 20. which occurred in Klang last week. Thi* wa*
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    • 218 2 IPOH. Mon. The 12th annual national convention of the Junior Chamber of West Malaysia ended with a convention ball at the Asrama Perak here. Miss Shirley Goh. 22, a bank receptionist in Penang, was the Convention Beauty Queen. She was crowned by Mrs. L. Sarjeet Singh,
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    • 207 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. Week-long talks between the Italian and Singapore Governments on double taxation and fiscal evasion began today. The two-man Italian delegation. together with their Ambassador here, Dr. Dante Pollici, had an inaugural meeting with Singapore Government representatives at the Finance Ministry's conference room at
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    • 43 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Telecommunication Department, West Malaysia (States of Malaya) announce* that advance booking* for overseas calls to be connected during the Christmas/) New Year period (extending from Dec. 23 to Jan. 2), can now be accepted-
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    • 1121 3 Former Acting Deputy Commissioner for Registration wins appeal SINGAPORE, Mon. The High Court today quashed the conviction and set aside the sentence on a former Acting Deputy Commissioner for Registration at the Singapore Registry of Persons, Mr. Thomas Khor Teik Loon, who was convicted by a lower court
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    • 121 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The two-week seminar on Health Planning In t'rban Development, organised by the World Health Organisation was today officially closed by the Director of Medical Services, Singapore. In closing the seminar, which was attended by 13 nations. Dr. Ho Guan Lin hoped that
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    • 391 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Congratulatory messages from world leaders have been received by President Yusof Ishak on the occasion of his election as Head of State for another four-year term. President Yusof was sworn in this morning for the third time as Head of State at a
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    • 331 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Two accused persons in the trial of 261 Barisan members and supporters at the emergency Fourth Magistrate’s Court at Chestnut Drive were today sentenced to three months' imprisonment for contempt of court. The Magistrate, Mr. Donald Yeo Hock Chwee, took up
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    • 109 3 PHNOM PENH. Mon. fßeuter) Singapore’s Prime Minister. Mr Lee Kuan Yew. flew to Siem Reap today to visit the historic Angkor Wat. He and Mrs. Lee and their three children are spending three days there as guests of the Cambodian Head of State.
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    • 298 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Association of Banks in Malaysia today gave an assurance to the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce that it would be looking into *he various matters arising out of the devaluation of sterling. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce, had on Dec. 1,
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    • 83 3 9 a-m. —6 p.m.:—Yeh TsuiPai Horse Painting Exhibition at the Chinese School Teacher’s Union, 5, Leonie Hill. 10 a.m.-—l2 pm. and 4 p.m. —9 p.m.:—ltalian Engineering Exhibition, Shenton Circus. 5.30 p.m P-m-: SAT A free mass X-ray campaign at Tiong Bahru area, station at Kai Min Public School,
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    • 95 3 SINGAPORE. Mon The victim of an acid attack who died at the General Hospital yesterday has been identified by the Police. Police gave his name as Loy Nik Koon. 45, father of eight children who lived at Lorong Berabad, off Yio Chu Kang Road. He was a
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    • 612 4  -  TO BE LAUNCHED ON DEC 17 By LUCIAN PETER KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Traffic in the Federal Capital —a problem which ha* baffled town planner* and the Municipality for years is well on the way to a solution at last. A huge scheme to control the
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    • 81 4 ALOR STAR. Mon—The monthly meeting of the Sungei Patani Town Council was attended by three new Councillor*. Mr. Chin Ann Yen. Mr. Mok Lai Kow (appointed). and Mr. Chang Kok Min. who took the place of Mr Kung Ooi Beng as the latter had resigned Ench# Radii bin
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    • 129 4 MALACCA. Mo«. The Customs Department haa seized temporarily Over 2.000 cases of crackers from China estimated at about $400,000. pending the outcome of investigations Senior Customs officials from Johore Bahru are Slid to he assisting in the Investigations. The Special Crimea Department is also
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    • 51 4 KUCHING. MOP. The Royal Malaysian Navy's first frigate. K.D Hang Tuah. under the command of Commander Cheah Leong Voon. will arrive at Biawak Wharf, here. On Wednesday. K.D Hang Tuah is now on operational visit to East Malaysia, and Kuching will be the first port of
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    • 91 4 Tunku Merlam binte Raja Aman Shah, wife of General Tunku Osman bin Tunku Mohd. Jewa on Saturday led a needlework session at her home at Bukit Petaling, Kuala Lumpur All wives of military officers and men serving in the Ministry of Defence joined to help her make curtains, table-cloths, cushions,
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    • 52 4 ktscw IN UK*, This is a sketch map of roads and streets In the Federal Capital which will be affected by the new scheme to be launched in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, Dec. 17 to control traffic circulation in the central area, Kuala
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    • 384 4 From darkness into vision Kt'ALA LL'MPt'R. Mon What is a healthy press? Here la a definition by Mr. Khaw Kai Boh, the Minister of Local Government and Housing. He said: “A healthy press is one which offers constructive criticism, which constantly keeps the Government,
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    • 114 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Mf. P P Narayanan. Genera) Secretary of the National Union of Plantation Workers, today asked the Industrial Court to declare May 1— Labour Day —a public holiday for tappers. In his plea, Mr. Narayanan said progressive employers in the rubber industry
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    • 44 4 BITIAWAN, Mon. A mobile X-ray unit from the Ministry of Health will visit and provide free chest X-rays to the public at the Sitiawan Health Centre on Dec. 7 and 6 between 3.30 am—12.30 Sm. and 215 p.m —4.30 p.m. ally
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    • 335 4 PENANG, Mon. The High Court Judge. Mr. Justice H. 8. Ong today told a 29-year-old odd-job labourer. Llm Choo Heng. that he regretted that he was unable to find any excuse for his wilful and deliberate act of severing the
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    • 78 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Samat Art Gallerv here will present an exhibition of recent paintings by Chuah Thean Ten* of Penang The exhibition, which consists of 53 new batek paintings created during the past five months, will be opened by the United States Ambassador to Malaysia, Mr.
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    • 77 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Three officers of the Malaysian Armed Forces have been selected to attend a six-month ordnance officer course at Army Ordnance Corps School, Jabalpur. India. The course will begin on Saturday. They are: Major Zublr bln Yusoff from Central Ordnance Depot. Captain Ghaffar
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    • 122 4 KUCHING. Mon. The 3rd Malaysian Infantrv Brigade is organising Koran reading Berzanji and religious oratory competitions to be held at the Madrasah, Kuching Garrison, at 7th mile Kuching Serian Road on Wednesday and Thursday. These competitions are the first of their kind to be organised by
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    • 390 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. Members of the visiting Italian trade mission might sign contracts for commodities like rubber, palm-oil and copra with local traders, Senator Gino Zannini, President of the Mission, disclosed here today at a press conference. The industrialists in the mission will look
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    • 87 13 ENID BAGNOLD'S famous play, “The Chalk Garden”, Is the Rowcroft Theatre Club's next production and their' entry to the Services Drama Festival 1967. Caught discussing a scene during the “orderly chaos" of a rehearsal from (left) are: Major Frank Arnold, the producer, his wife Margaret as the mysterious Miss Madgrigal
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    • 672 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. The two-week seminar on Health Planning in Urban Development which concluded today has urged the World Health Organisation to mount a training programme on a regional basis. The seminar, in Its conclusions. said that such a programme and assistance would
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    • 76 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. Joseph Khoo Ming Keng, 40, of Philip Avenue, died on the spot after his car had skidded at the junction of Rochore Canal Road and Prinsep Street, early this morning. Those who saw the accident are requested to contact Insp. M. Byrne of
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    • 186 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Executive Committee of the Fairfield Methodist Girls’ School Alumni Association has appealed to all “old girls” of the school to sacrifice their Christmas spending this year and donate the money to the School Extension Fund. This will enable the
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    • 128 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. The University of Singapore Sociology Society will be conducting a survey of the activities and interests of 590 students in the university campus from today to Dec. 9. The project is supported by the Acting Vice-Chan-cellor. the university or Singapore Students’ Union and
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    • 148 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. An international 10-day eolloquim on “Socio-Economic Change and Political Stability in South-east Asia” opened today at the Cathay Hotel here It is sponsored by the German Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation. a private nonprofit adult education institution. founded under the sponsorship Of the first President of the
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    • 39 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. A farewell dinner in honour of Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Lyme, the retiring General Secretary of Y.M C.A., will be held on Wednesday. (Dec. 6) at 8 p.m. at the Imperial Room, Capitol Building, here
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    • 24 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. A 82-year-old woman. Madam Loh Tee. of Poole Road, Was found hanging in the garage of her house thia morning-
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  • Article, Illustration
    308 5 THESE four designs consist mainly of suits and gowns for the forthcoming Christmas and New Year seasons. Designs were contributed by Eastern Sun reader, THOMAS WEE of 64-R. Block 51. Lorong 6, Tao Payoh Estate, Singapore 12 Mr. Wee’s designs display a heavy flavour of Oriental influence which
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  • 360 5 EVER since Jacqueline Kennedy carried a gold oblong box called a minaudiere with her evening dresses, women have been newly conscious of tne evening handbag. Mrs. Kennedy sparked a return to the importance of the handbag as accessory. even as a form of jewellery. The
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  • Boutique
    • 308 5  -  by: Pat Chan T’HE pure, gentle white and silver have always been and will always be the top and most wanted colours for Christmas fashion. Girls here may not be able to dream of a White Christmas in the sense of snowy
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  • 217 5 T7"UALA LUMPUR, Wed.—Those of you who offend sfrings and sfrings of porfies and socials somefimes can'f help being a liftle careless by spilling face powder all over your dress. Here are a few tips fo remedy fhe sifua- tion. NEVER put your powder puff
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  • 227 5  -  by Mary Sue Miller A LOVELY writes: My lips are crinkled like crepe paper. Lipstick seems to emphasize the condition. The colour runs along the creases and then spills over onto my skin If there is a solution I would appreciate knowing it. The Answer: Many
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 253 6 NATIONAL R-3000 with 6 bands and 16 transistors/diodes Tuesday DECEMBER 5 A M. Timex-Time: 6 00 Prog. Summary: 602 Morning Melodies. 7.00 The News: 7.10 Breakfast Potpourri: 7.45 News in the National Language; 7.50 Learn a Word a Day. 800 The News; 8.10 For Housewives. 9.00—12.00 A Prog, in the
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    • 243 6 RADIO National Shortwave 41 60.2 M. Medium Wave Service: 319 M. 0.30 The News: 6.40 Regional News. Interlude; 645 Extracts from the Editorials; 650 Stock Exchange Report; 7.00 Interlude- 7.15 Malaysian Musica; 7.30 Malaysian Gazette; 750 Learn a Word a Day; 8.00 Belajar-lah Bahasa Kita; 8.15 Jazz A La Carte;
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    • 226 6 Friday DECEMBER 8 AM. Timex-Time: 6 00 Prog. Summary; 6.02 Morning Melodies. 7.00 The News; 7.10 Breakfast Potpourri; 7.45 News in the National Language; 7.50 Learn a Word a Day. 800 The News; 8.10 For Housewives; 9.00 Close Down. P M. Timex-Time: 1.00 Tiffin Date; 1.30 The News; 1.40 Newstalk.
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    • 490 6 3.30 Orkes Hamzah Dolmat; 4 00 Ladles Fair; 4.30 Take It Easy. 5 00 The News; 5.10 Instrumental Souvenir; 5.45 Talentlme Winners. 6.00 Prog. Summary; 602 Vegetable and Fruit Prices at Penang. Kuala Lumpur. Ipoh and Malacca; 615 The Beat is 630 The News; 6.40 Regional News: 645 World Commercial
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    • 424 6 Tuesday DECEMBER 5 AM. TIMEX-TIME «.#0 GOOD MORNING 6.01 MORNING PRELUDE Music by Boston Pope Orchestra, Billy Vaughn and. His Orchestra, Gene McDaniels. 700 THE NEWS 7.1 t BREAKFAST BULLETIN A magazine programme that includes interviews and news of current activities in Singapore. 7.2# UP AND ABOUT Music to entertain
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    • 328 6 1. Stravinsky: “Ode”. (Part 1). 2. Horst: “The Planet*” 11.00 THE NEWS 11.15 THE JULAI TAN QUINTET 1. A Country Girl (Charles Godfrey) 2. Annabella (Rudolf Les 3 Rlue For Boy (Harry Parr Davies). 11.45 BEFORE WE SAY GOODNIGHT 12.00 CLOSE DOWN DECEMBER 7 AM. TIMEX-TIME 600 GOOD MORNING 6.01
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    • 385 6 8.00 FROM MY MAILBAG Steven Lee answers year requests. 845 SEAP GAMES 1067 9.15 LATIN BEAT A repeat of last Tuesday’s prog 9.30 THE NEWS 940 IN COUNTRY STYLf Country favourites Connie Francis and Hank Williams Junior. 10 00 LIVING DANGEROUSLY 10.15 KEYBOARD CAPERS Teresa Khoo plays 1. Blue Hawaii
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 386 7 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Train drivers began a go-slow today that threatens Britain’s railway network with complete disruption. And it could quickly develop into an all-out strike. The immediate cause: A dispute with the railway authorities over whether train guards (brakemen) should be
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    • 151 7 LONDON. Mon (Reuter) Pilots of British Overseas Airways Corporation (80.A.C > at a mass meeting last night decided to strike next weekend despite an airline warnine that they will be taken off the payroll They voted 450 to eight In support of their union leaders
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    • 86 7 JAKARTA. Mon (UPI) A Jakarta police officer has appealed to parents to "help Indonesia's hippieimitating youths to recover their sense of morality The official news agency Antara quoted Jakarta police commissioner Purdarto as saying that an increasing number of youths in the Indonesian capital are painting their
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    • 54 7 CAPE TOWN, South Africa M"n (UPI) Firemen poured more than 100 tons of water into the holds of a Greek freighter on Saturday night before bringing a fire under control. The fire burned 12 hours and spread to four of the vessel’s live holds. The ship was
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    • 47 7 HAMBURG, Germany Mon. (UPl)—The 439-ton West German motorship Sarma sank in the Elbe River yesterdav after collid’ng in the fog with the Dutch vessel Setas. Hamburg water police said the Dutch vessel took aboard the Sarma's eight crewmen. No casualties were reported
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    • 62 7 BAGDAD. Mon. (Reuter) Five nationalised daily newspapers edited by top government officials replace Iraq's 16 privately financed dailies as from today, the official gazette announced here yesterday. Under the new law. cabinet permission will be needed in future to publish a new daily newspaper.
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    • 82 7 JERUSALEM, M o n. (Reuter) Israel has appointed a tank expert as its chief of staff in succession to MajorGeneral Yitzhak Rabin, who is retiring. General Rabin, who commanded the Israeli Forces in the Middle East war in June, hands over to his deputy, General Haim
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    • 77 7 VIENNA. Mon. (UPI) An international symposium was to convene today to discuss means for exterminate fruit flies, wasps, ticks and tsetse flies Experts from more than 30 countries will discuss the use of nuclear methods of controlling insects which cause immense losses of food, carry disease
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    • 472 7 by Phil Newsom UPI FROM the Standpoint of actual gain, there never has been a good reason for Greece to go to war with Turkey over Cyprus. And this week there seemed especially good reasons for the ruling military junta in Greece to
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    • 637 7 12-hour blaze at warehouse SAIGON, Mon. (UPI) Vietcong guerrillas early today attacked the sprawling military base at Long Binh which houses the headquarters for the U.S. Army in Vietnam. The huge base, largest American military facility in Vietnam, is located 15 miles north of
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    • 163 7 CONGO, Kinshasa, Mon. (Reuter) Rebel Katangese gendarmes who fled across the border to Rwanda last month have all now returned to the Congo under an amnesty, the Congolese News Agency reported today. Rwanda announced last month that their evacuation must come before she
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    • 70 7 WASHINGTON. Mon (UPI) Vessels plying Lake Erie are being urged by the U S public health service not to cook with or drink lake water taken aboard ship within five miles of the US coast. Such water is so polluted that even cooking or chlorination will not
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    • 46 7 VATICAN CITY. Mon.(UPI) —Pope Paul VI has accepted the resignation of Msgr. Jeronine Jose Fodesta. Bishop of Avellaneda. Argentina. Vatican sources said the 48-year-old bishop resigned because of illness, not because of any disagreement with the Argentine government. as some Argentine newspapers reported
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    • 132 7 Heiress: 'I love my nephew MIAMI, Florida. Mon. (UPI) Candy Mossier and her nephew Melvin Lane Powers, aquitted last year of charges they killed her wealthy husband, have admitted what the world learned during their trial: They love each other. “I love Mr. Powers much more now but I think
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    • 35 7 BONN. Mon. (UPI) President Heinrich Luebke of West Germany yesterday cabled birthday greetings to Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain, who was 75. H. Luebke wished Franco “A happy future of the Spanish people.”
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    • 377 7 LONDON. Mon (Reuter) —Another 51 outbreaks of foot and mouth disease today saw the total number of animals slaughtered pass the quarter-million mark. There have now been 1.456 outbreaks since the epidemic broke out in October. Highest daily number of outbreaks was 69 on
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    • 39 7 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) Pop singer Cilia Black, 24. discovered by the Beatles four years ago in Liverpool, said she will marry her manager Miss Black and Bobby Willis. 25. said they would marry early next year.
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    • 236 10 NOT ON THEIR CARDS LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Six leading members of Britain’s biggest anti-race discrimination movement walked out of its annual meeting and one charged that the organisation was being taken over bv Maoists, Trotskyists and Racialists. Mr Anthony Lester, legal adviser
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    • 168 10 HONG KONG, Mon. (Reuter) Peking's New China News Agency, commenting on devaluation of the pound, today described Britain as a “beggar hopelessly up to Its neck in debt.” In a dist>atch from London, the agency said the fundamental reason for devaluation was the
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    • 179 10 ‘Foreign devaluations won't upset Aussie budget overall CANBERRA, Mon. ’(Reuter) Overseas devaluations would not disturb the over-all balance of the Australian economy, federal treasurer William McMahon said here yesterday. In a prepared statement on devaluation effects. Mr McMahon said the decision by Australia not to devalue had enhanced the country’s
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    • 241 10 CAIRO. Mon. (Reuter) A squadron of 10 Russian TU-16 medium bombers arrived at Egyptian military bases yesterday on the first visit to the United Arab Republic of Soviet Air Force planes. The Middle East news agency said the Russian bombers were
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    • 32 10 MEMBERS of the public can get into a special observation room and dome that houses the 98-inch Isaac Newton telescope at Greenwich. which was opened by Queen Elizabeth on Friday. BIS photo.
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    • 112 10 HAMBURG. Mon. (UPI) Strong gales early today kept rescue helicopters from evacuating some 30 Greek sailors stranded on a reef in the North Sea. A spokesman for Norddeirh Radio, a coas al radio station, said the ship was the Greek freighter Emmanuel M, 4.600 tons which had
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    • 55 10 LUCKNOW. Uttar Pradesh. Mon. (Reuter) Police arrested 14 students here yesterday as the violent agitation against English continued with the burning of a Post Office on the University campus and attacks on police. The authorities announced closure of schools and colleges except for the University itself
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    • 79 10 NEW YORK. Mon (Reuter). Mantovani the British Orchestra conductor, was admitted to hospital here yesterday. forcing cancellation of a concert at New York's philharmonic hall last night. The 63-year-old Italianborn musician is suffering from recurrence of an old ulcer, but is “coming along pretty well”,
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    • 99 10 DEBAR. Yugoslavia, Mon. (Reuter) The death toll in the massive earthquake which struck this south Y’ugoslav town last Thursday has risen to eight. The latest victim was found yesterday when rescue workers recovered the bodv of a six-year-old girl from the ruins. Forty people were Injured
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    • 299 10  -  LONDON, Mon. by Arthur Bturne Editor of “Spectrum” /AN Friday Queen Elizabeth inaugurated Britain’s new £1 m Isaac Newton telescope at the Royal Greenwich observatory at Herstmonceaux, Southern England, bv looking through the eyepiece of the instrument at the planet Saturn. The ninety-eight
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    • 52 10 COPENHAGEN. Mon. (Reuter) A British airliner hit a pipeline 100 yards from the runway today when coming in to land at Kastrup airport. Copenhagen. None of the passengers was hurt, but the plane was damaged. The pilot said the airliner suddenly lost height before reaching
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    • 760 10 FIRST SUCCESSFUL HEART TRANSPLANT i TOWN, Mon. (Reuter) South African surgeons yesterday transplanted the heart of a young woman killed in a road accident into a man whose life expectancy had been nil and last night the patient was reported progressing well. It was
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    • 166 10 Ugly precedent MALMOE, Sweden, Mon. (Reuter) A 24-year-old coloured United Sta es Army deserter has presented the Swedish immigration authorities with a challenge to their traditional policy of providing asylum to purely political refugees William Percell. who arrived here via Copenhagen
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    • 49 10 LONDON. Mon (ReuterV M Jean Rey. president of the Common Market commission, arrived here last night from Brussels for talks with government leaders on Britain's application to join the market He was met at London airport by Lord Chalfont. Britain’s Common Market negotiation-designate.
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    • 302 10 THE KENNEDY MURDER NEW ORLEANS. Mon. (LPI) District Attorney Jim Garrison said that he could “prove tomorrow” there was a conspiracy to kill President John F. Kennedy if he had to. The District Attorney, in an interview, said President Lyndon Johnson profited most by
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  • 404 8 rpHE Government’s decision to deprive people engaged in subversive activities of their citizenship, which they obtained through naturalisation or registration, has shocked Dr. Tan Chee Khoon of the Labour Party. To him those who protest against the action of the Government should not be so treated. Protests
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  • 300 8 CARDINAL Francis Spellman, the great, goodly “first all-American Cardinal” who had served the church for half a century chid over the week-end in New York. He will be remembered for many great acts of faith, humanity and dedication to the church. In the years
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    • 191 8 1UY daughter is a staff-nurse and has performed duties in the various wards and Operating Theatres performing general and neurosurgery. Recently, the Ministry of Health, Singapore, issued circulars dated November 20, 1967 inviting applications for certain scholarships in the field of neurosurgery. My daughter was shocked
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    • 140 8 WITH reference to Mr. S Ramachandra's letter (Eastern Sun, 20.11.67) on “National Library: Books in a sorry condition”, It is indeed regrettable that some readers deliberately deface the books that they borrow from the library without any consideration for those who read the books after them Although
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    • 109 8 I HAVE read with much interest your publication of Mr. Koh Watt Seng's talk on “Adult Education Plan in relation to Social Changes’’, in the Eastern SunAs an adult and a parent too. we do really need to participate in adult education schemes. In Malaysia they
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  • 753 8  -  by COLIN REID A LDABRA is the island of giant tortoises. It lies, isolated, 260 miles north-west of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. An elongated atoll, 21 miles by 9 miles with the outer rim barely 20 feet above sea level
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  • 682 8  -  by Stuart Griffin 4 S recently as last summer, the downtown streets of Tokyo were filled with almost-daily demonstrations against the United States' warlike Vietnam posture, and the U.S. Embassy, under Ambassador Edwin O. Reisehauer. was apprehensive as to whether the tacitly pro-t'.S. Sato Government could
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  • 231 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, "Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials") T'HREE-year-old Vincent was playing in the 1 backyard between his father, Peter’s, house and his neighbour, Terry’s, house. Terry owned a bulldog named Freet. Peter heard Vincent's moans, saw he was bloody and took him to
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 41 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newspaper TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1967 23->. 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: ***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 57 9 organised by the HiLT""’" L Ck »">" Mr,. HJ C„' e T„ g «7u U UUd rl b P y' t jS!; et J n B E an g k0 H k „v^ d !h< list BraneT an<1 Tha In,erna i a| i General Manager'“for
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    • 171 9 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Britain’s farmers declared today they could help cut food Imports by between 200 and 300 mil lion sterling over the next few years If they had government backing. Their statement came after Prime Minister Mr. Harold Wilson told Parliament the Agriculture
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    • 23 9 HONG KONG, Mon. (UPI) —Money Quotations. HK56.0275/6.05 per US dollar for cash. HK514.50 per pound sterling HKS2BI per tael gold.
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    • 378 9 US farmers can expect rising production living costs YMASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) American farmers should expect another year of rising production and living costs, the Agriculture Department said. In a report o n the farm cost outlook for 1968, department economists predicted higher prices for farm machinery along with Increased taxes,
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    • 177 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following ships are expected to be in port today:— GoHowns Vessels 1- Sea Sage 4 Mississippi Maru 6 7 Angelica N. I't/ll Frankford 13/14 Mataram 15/16 Augvald 18 Star Altair 19 Soclyve 23/24 Sakura Maru 25/26 Ozarda 27/28 Senyo Maru 29/30 Bankura 31/82 Troubadour
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    • 774 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Stock Exchange began the week today on a dull and featureless note, and the total turnover reduced to 659,000 units, the lowest since July 17. Reason for the quiet market, was perhaps, many of the investors are awaiting for the financial policy
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    • 211 9 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) By 1971, Australian ships will be carrying twenty per cent of the volume of twoway cargo trade between Japan and Australia. This improvement in the Australian share from nothing at present to twenty per cent in
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    • 290 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. December first grade rubber f.o.b. buyers, closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 49 cents per lb., down three-quarters of a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. The market moved sharply lower during the morning on upcountry selling
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    • 79 9 JAKARTA, Mon. (UPI> Indonesian private exporters said tight government regulations may prevent this year’s export target of USS47S million from being reached. Exporters pointed out that until October. Indonesian exports earned only USS 222 million. The figures quoted do not include proceeds from oil
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    • 119 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Hagemayer is introducing the new “National’ easy-to-play radiophonograph which Incorporates a lot of wonderful features. It can he carried around and at the same time be enjoyed as a record players. An all-rounder, It can be used indoor as well as outdoor and
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    • 68 9 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) —The Philippines has reexported 120.000 metric tons of rice imported early this year when the country was facing a rice shortage, the Rice and Corn Administration announced today. The rice was re-exported at $2O million. Colonel Osmundo Mondonedo, Chairman-General Manager of the government
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The tin price for today was $585.12) per picul, down $1 62).
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    • 467 9 YOUR SHARES UP-DOWN UNCHANGED SINUAFOKli—Stock Exchange nld and offer prices officially listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS Ben Co 1.89 1.90 Boustead 1.63 1.64 f sugar 2.11 2.12 1 hemical Co 1.43 Cold Storage 4.04 4.10 Dunlop 2.88 2.32 1. smelting XD 4.24 4.50 E.A.l 2.22 2.30 Esso Ords
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    • 236 9 MANILA, Mon. <UPI) President Ferdinand E. Marcos called today for the removal of travel and ideological barriers which separate the world into Communist and non-Com-munist nations. The President was speak ing at the opening session of the 23rd annual general meeting of
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    • 57 9 (Managers’ Prices) Fir«t Malayan 2.45 2.54 second Malayan 1.76 1.85 Third Malayan The Commerce 1.11 1.20 1 ii <1 u- 1 r> fund XI) 1 .90 .99 Tlie Savings Fund 1.41 1.50 Malayan Investment Fund \I> 1.05 1.15 I ir>-t Hongkong •HO 85* Second H'kong \D .55 .59*
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    • 99 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are > Buyer Seller Coconut Oil (F.O.B.) Bulk Coconut Oil 60.50 (FOB.) Drums Loose Copra Mixed 63.00 Nov Dec as.50 Muntok White Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% N.I.AV Sarawak White Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% N.I.AV 125.00 122.50 Sarawak Special Black
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    • 24 9 MEISHIM LINE. From Japan via Hongkong “YAMAKI MARU” ETA SPORE 6/12/67 “KISSHIN MARU" ETA S PORE 17/12/67. Agents: Pan Continent Corporation. Tel: *****. *****
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    • 877 9 AIR MOVEMENTS—S'PORE, K. LUMPUI Ipoh. Penan*. Alor Star K Bahru. Time 7.00 a.m. Airline BA 789 to K. Lumpur, Colombo. Bombay, Cairo. London. Time 7.00 am.. Airline ML 452 Kuching. Time 7.21 a.m. Airline ML 122 to Kuala Lumpur. Time 7.45 a.m. Airline PA 842 Honolulu Los Angeles. S. FrancKco
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    • 96 10 5 6 8 9 10 10 11 11 8 9 CLUES DOWN: 2) Nobility, high birth. 2a) Speck, could be microscope in dimension. 3) Drink associated with adventure, and pirates. 4) A comparative than life. 5) A radio Corporation. 6) Common Chinese surname 7) Allocated land, defined region. 9) A
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    • 851 11 MODEL t. TF-31L5 23" -SWJK KNOW Trio 8 E WHO A Buy NATIONAL Tuesday DECEMBER 5 PM. TIMEX-TIME 5.45 OPENING ANNCT. Prog Summary. 5.48 NEWS OUTLINES IN THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE 5.53 NATIONAL SONGS 6.00 NEWS in Tamil. 6.10 GIGANTOR “Struggle At Tho south Pole.” 6..15 FURY “The Wayfarer.” with subtitle*
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    • 777 11 Tuesday DECEMBER 5 PM. TIMEX-TIME 5.45 PROGRAMME SUMMARY in the National Language. Chinese. Tamil and English. 555 BEL AJAR-LAH BAHASA KEBANGSAAN Our daily lesson in tha National Language. 6.00 CARTOON CORNER A selection of cartoons fdr children 630 HERE S DAVID NIXON David Nixon the famed British magician, with his
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    • 102 11 DECEMBER 10 PM. TIMEX TIME 500 PROG. SUMMARY in the National Language, Chinese Tamil and English 5.05 BELAJAR LAH BAHABA KEBANGSAAN Our dialy lesson in the National Language (Repeat Broadcast) 5.10 DISCOVERING SCIENCE “Flowers” An ETV production 5.40 LOST IN SPACE Mutiny in Space Science Action adventure in serial form
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    • 127 11 NATIONAL LANGUAGE 8.35 “DIL Ki RANI” Part 2 of a Hindustani film 10.00 CLOSE DOWN Monday DECEMBER 11 PM TIMEX-TIME 6.50 PROG SUMMARY in the National Language, Chinese. Tamil and English 6.55 BELAJAR-LAH BAHASA KEBANGSAAN Our daily lesson in the National Language (Repeat Broadcast) 7.00 NEWS in Tamil 7.15 TAMIL
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    • 226 11 series dubbed in Cantonese. 740 NEWS AND NEWSREEL in Chinese. BOS FOR THE FAMILY A magazine series designed specially to appeal to all members of a Singapore family (Chinese edition). 830 STRUGGLE FOR PEACE “United Nations” A 13episode series of the problems confronting the major powers of the world in
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  • 139 12 SINGAPORE. Tues —The 3rd Quarter-Final of RTS will be telecast on Thursday December 7, 19(57 at 9 15 p.m. on Channel 5. The following are the contestants taking part:— 1. PETER ONG “Portrait Of Mr Love” 2. CYRIL A CLARK “What Now My Love” 3. VERONICA
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  • 43 12 Picture above is a scene from "Luncheon With The Governor,” from left: Hazel (Shirley Broth); Mr. Baxter (Don DeFore) and Mrs. Baxter (Whitney).
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  • 231 12  -  by Hoo Ban Khee Kuala lumpur. Mon. The Dramatic Art Society, one of the active Chinese cultural groups in the Federal Capital, is to stage a comedy “The Sweet Dame” at the Town Hall her# early next year. It has made arrangements to book the Town Hall here
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1043 12 740 NEWS in Chinese. 7.55 WHAT OTHERS SAT A review of editorial opinion and reports in the Press (Chinese version). 825 THE WORLD IN ACTION “Draft Dodgers” A documentary series on the most pressing issues of the day--9.00 NEWS in English. 915 RTS TALENTIME A show in which budding artistes
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    • 1973 12 KUALA LUMPUR INDIAN PROGRAMMES AM. 6.00 Geethaarambam Programme Summary 6.05 Interlude 6.15 News. 6.20 Geethanjali ENGLISH PROGRAMMES 6.59 Rediffusion March and Opening Announcement 7.00 News 7.10 Musical Clock 7.30 Festival Roundabout 7.45 News in Bahasa Kebangsaan 7.50 A Word A Day 8.09 News 8.10 Festival Roundabout 813 Musical Clock 8.30
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 76 13 F! AM inn nite-club LL /IIVIIVJW (NEW WORLD PARK) CO Kitchener Road, Singapore. Tel: *****-***** See the sensational!! TAKI HARIS i SHOW (EXOTIC ORIGINAL) GERMAN/GREEK ACROBATIC ADAGIO DANCERS DIRECT FROM KARACHI OPENS TO-DAT NITELY Wk 2-SHOWS Plus non stop music by D’STARLIGHTS PHILIPPINES TOP RECORDING ARTISTES and THE EL AMIGO
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    • 92 13 M L 7 4' mm s >..?v j I? ri v: v\ 4 i rf v &,Ld AT GAY WORLD STADIUM TONIGHT (LAST NIGHT) 8.00 p.m. COMPLETELY NEW PROGRAMME Columbia Top Recording Artistes from Philippines. The A-Go-Go Dancers from Hongkong Dancing the latest erase Leo So Mui and Lau Ying.
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    • 249 13 SHAW GANISATION i i ii Open* Today! 11. 1 4.1. 6.30. 915 School children conees#ion *5 ett. tb Any Boat at All Shown' Troy Don*hue. oert Frobe. Burl Ive* Se. Terry-Thomaa "Thoae Fantaatle Firing Foot*'* Panaviaton dr Color FREE TO ALL »t ALL SHOWS A Parget of Life Savers Sweet*
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    • 254 13 13TH BIG DAY! 11 8.m., 1.30. 4.00. 0.30 9.30 p m Columbia's "TO SIS. WITH LOVE’ Sidney Pottier. Lulu. Color OOEON ***** LAST t DATS! 11 a m.. 1.30, 4.00. 0.30 9.30 p m Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard "THE LONG DUEL” P’Vislon Color ißank Organisation Picturei OPENS THURSDAY! In Color
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  • sun Sport
    • 148 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Seven more players have been dropped from the Malaysian Hockey Federation squad now undergoing training here in preparation for the Lahore Hockey Tournament in January next year. Mr. G. Vijiyanathan. secretary of the MHF. said here today that after the weekend’s trials
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    • 398 14  -  says visiting soccer official By ALBERT JOHNSON SINGAPORE, Mon. Mr. F. Randall, assistant manager of the visiting Danas tornado football team has suggested that the Singapore Government should provide adequate protection for foreign teams against mob violence at Jalan Besar Stadium here. Mr. Randall
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    • 436 14  -  By R. D. Selva and M. T. Lingam KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.—A 302-mem-ber Malaysian contingent, including 126 Gamesmen, left Subang International Airport today for Bangkok with a pledge that "Negara Ku" would be echoed during the SEAP Games from Dec. 9 to 16. At a simple
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    • 321 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The first day of the Selangor Combined Schools' Sports Council’s annual individual hadn't int o n championship went off smoothly at the Selangor Badminton hall today. Mr. C. Rajalingam, disclosing this today, said the seeded players went through their rounds easily and tomorrow
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    • 150 14 BRISBANE Mon (Reuter) The New Zealand touring cricket team were robbed of a good chance of beating Queensland when a heavy rainstorm swamped the ground shortly after lunch on the final dav of their threeday match here today. Queensland were struggling at 44 for
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    • 80 14 BLENHEIM. (NZ>. Mon (Reuter). A 14-vear-old schoolboy took nine wickets with nine consecutive balls in a cricket match here on Saturday. Playing for Marlborough College against Bohally Intermediate School. Stephen Fleming dismissed Bohallvs last batsman with his first ball and the innings
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    • 38 14 Australia’s Derek Clayton and Japan’s Seiichiro Sasaki during the 2nd International Marathon in Fukuoka in Japan recently. Later, Clayton raced ahead to win in record time of 2 hrs. 9 min. 36.4 sec. I'PI radio- UPI radio- photo.
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    • 123 14 JOH ANNESBURG. Mon (Reuten Spam today qualified to meet Australia, the holders, in the challenge round of the Davis Cup Lawn Tennis competition in Brisbane on Dec 26 Spam's Manuel Santana clinched the inter-zone final against South Africa today when he won the
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    • 270 14 ADELAIDF., Mon. (Reuter) The touring Indian cricketers were beaten by South Australia by an innings and 67 runs here today the State winning with more than a day to spare. The Indians, who last week lost to Western Australia. have now been beaten by
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    • 308 15  -  REASON: Devaluation of British pound By ALBERT JOHNSON OINGAPORE, Mon. The devaluation of the British pound has hit the proposed visit of a 22-member Indonesian softball team to the island Republic this month. The Indonesians, scheduled to play three matches here, have sent
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    • 408 15 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) A new page was written today in the annals of Japanese professional boxing when two Japanese fighters signed their contracts officially for a world title bout on Dec. 14 in Tokyo. Yoshiaki Numata, who wrested the world Junior lightweight
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    • 271 15 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore's gold medal prospect in the diving event at the SEAP Games in Bangkok, Hui Peng Seng. has withdrawn from the Republic’s contingent to the Peninsular Games. Surtsport reliably understands that Hui decided to back out from the diving team
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    • 170 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Football Association of Selangor will be conducting a week's coaching session for soccer coaches, beginning on Dec. 15. The course is intended to improve the general standard of soccer at school*, clubs Government departments and business houses. The honorary Secretary
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    • 217 15 ALOR STAR. Mon. The finals of the hoys’ and girls’ table-tennis, chess and draught* tournament* for all media primary schools in Kedah were held at Keat Hwa School Hall here over the week-end. The tournaments were sponsored by the Kedah Primary Bchoo*s Indoor Games
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    • 54 15 HONG KONG. Mon (Reuter* The Hong Kong Amateur Boxing Association announced today that Hnng Kong would not be participating in the Asian Boxing Championship due to be held in Colombo between Dec -9 and 15. The Association, in a statement. said the withdrawal was
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    • 73 15 SINGAPORE. Mon The Singapore Chess Federation will hold its 1968 classification tournaments at Chinese Swimmine Club, Amber Read, on Jan. 6 next year. There will be three classes, each played over six rounds. Mr. Giam Choo Kwee, competitions secretary, said: “Entries are now invited for
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    • 99 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Malaysian Ceylonese Hockev Association met here yesterday to make arrangements for the forthcoming tour of Ceylon next year. A contingent of 30 hockey and cricket players have plans to play a series of games at Colombo, Kandy and Jaffna in April. Mr.
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    • 99 15 Derision with Glynn Pretty astride is pictured returning to scales after winning the Cl. 4. Div. 4-—6 furs, on the first day at Bukit Timah. Decision, who beat Grey Boots, by a nose, survived an objection. Sunsport pix. Dust Fury, winner of the Cl. 5. Dlv. 1 6F.
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    • 939 15 Weights for B Timah: Third and Fourth Days Following are the weights for the Third and Fourth Days of the Singapore December Meeting on Dec. 9 and 10 respectively: THIRD DAY HORSES CLASS 4 Div. 2 9 Furs. A 15 yds. Able Ladv 9.00 Philadelphia 8.12 Priority II 8.08 Kakamion
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    • 351 16 LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, Mon. (Reuter) Only one more victory stands between Jimmy Ellis and recognition by the World Rnvinn As<;nriation as world heavyweight champion. Ellis, 27-year-old father of five with another child on the way, blasted his way into the final of the
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    • 327 16 Ellis has guts can dish it out’ LOUISVILLE. Kentucky, Mon. (UPI) Oscar Bonavena wasn't the only surprised person at Freedom Hall on Saturday when Jimmy Ellis won a unanimous 12round decision in their IVBA semi-final bout. Dr. Marvin Goldberg, the Argentina champions manager, was not only surprised, but now resEects
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    • 80 16 BULAWAYO, Rh o desia, Mon (UPI) The Football Association of Rhodesia has decided to enter a team in the World Cup competition which begins next year and ends in 1970. Retiring secretary Vic May said after the Club’s annual meeting yesterday that the Association
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    • 63 16 Tokyo, Mon. (Reuter) The Japan Boxing Commission today announced a title bout for the Orient Flyweight Crown between champion Takeshi Nakamura of Japan and Erbito Salavarria of the Philippines, on Dec. 20 in Tokyo. It will be the eighth title defence for Nakamura since he won the
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    • 66 16 MELBOURNE. Mon. (Reuter) The Lawn Tennis Association of Australia has decided to oppose the planned Open Wimbledon tournament next year. In an official statement today following a meeting yesterday, the Association said the tournament was against the rulings of the International Federation. But the statement
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    • 1157 16  -  By PHILIP A. TURNER WOMEN have been competing in British motor racing and other forms of motoring sport almost from the beginning of motoring, in spite of the fact that in the early 1900 s to be thought "unladylike" was to be damned beyond all hope.
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    • 303 16 NE W ORLEANS, Mon. (UPI). Led by the dynamic California teenage duo of Mark Spitx and Debbie Meyer, U.S. swimmers were awarded 68 world records yesterday by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). In all, the AAU approved 352 swimming records set in
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    • 267 16 TOKYO, Mon. (Reuter) Japanese interest in blood sports, with 300,000 followers already, is steadily growing. “People are rather apathetic to the fate of animals and birds,” says Nataro Masuyama, Secre-tary-General of the Japanese Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA). The society
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    • 232 16 MELBOURNE, Mon. (UPI) John Newcombe, the Wimbledon and Forest Hills champion, Roy Emerson and other leading Australian tennis players are now expected to be allowed to compete at an Open Wimbledon next summer. The Lawn Tennis Association of Australia is believed to have
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 456 14 Eastern Sun Classified advertisements can be accepted at the following addresses: MONT DOR MILK BAR. Ngee Ann Building, Singapore. S.S MUBARUK b Brothers, 63, Bras Basah Road, and 2, Maju Avenue, Serangoon Carden Estate. Singapore. TAY BUAN CUAN LTD.. SUPERMARKET 83, East Coast Road, Singapore 15. Tel: *****9 HAMIEM STORE.
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    • 167 14 PUBLIC APPOINTMENT LEMBAGA LETRIK NEGARA TECHNICIAN (TIMESCALE) ASSISTANT QUANTITY SURVEYOR (NON-ESTABLISHLD) APPLICATIONS are invited from Federal Citizens for the Post Of Technician (Timescale) Assistant Quantity Surveyor (Non-Established) in the Office of the Architect, Kuala Lumpur on a salary scale $530 x2O 650 plus cost of living allowance at current rates.
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    • 77 14 Advertiser's Telephone No. Number of Insertions Date(s) Requested Gist Perarnt tn»«t errompstiE pmm «rtu S if O. Cknif/Cuk endomrdl C»»ti m>>t W niUtcrH. Chaves et* »ho«ld kt crnut. Classified advertisements may bo handed at the following addresses: KUALA LUMPUR: 39 |ALAN SULTAN. TELS: *****/6 IPOH: 8-10 TATLOCK ST.. TEL: 2877
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    • 95 16 SAFE TO EAT? t "SS ft -l'A Jt. YES! HER MOTHER HAS A MITSUBISHI REFRIGERATOR Only Mitsubishi refrigerators have the unique sterilizing lamp 64 times as powerful as the sun's rays. This ultra-violet light, completely harmless to humans, is death to bacteria, which only “sleep" at low temperatures. This means
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    • 54 16 EmpText Penang: 2.08 a.m. (8.5 ft), 3.01 p.m. (6.7 ft.) Port Swettenham: 7.53 a.m, (15.1 ft.), 8.30 p.m. (15.1 ft.) Port Dickson: 848 a.m. (9.1 ft.), 9.02 p.m (8.4 ft.) Singapore: 1.50 a.m. (8.9 ft.), 12.29 pm. (10.1 ft.) Sedili Kechil: 12.36 a.m. (9.1 ft.), 10.34 p.m. (7.0 ft.) Kuantan:
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    • 19 16 K SINGAPORE SWEEP Mb 350,000 GIIER 81,800,000 IH MS HIHI DRAW DIC. 10 11EKI1S OHI OOIIAR ON SALE NOW
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