Eastern Sun, 25 December 1967

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  • 24 1 Eastern Sun Mepeiiflenl; National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 511 Monday, 25 December 1967. MC(P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 926 1 Tunku: We are determined to defeat bad elements who’ve entirely alien allegiance KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. pRIME Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman today called on 1 Malaysians to be always alert and vigilant, and determined to defeat bad elementsin the country, who have an entirely alien allegiance. He
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  • 637 1 TfATICAN CITY, Sun. (Reuter). Pope Paul, in his Christmas message to the world, called on men last night to achieve personal peace as a basic for peace between nations. Speaking from the Vatican on a world-wide radio hook-up, the 70-year-old Pontiff said: "Peace
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  • 113 1 127 m.p.h car for Prince Charles LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Prince Charles, the 19-year-old heir to the British throne, has ordered his first car —a 127 m.p.h. (203 kph) sports model, it was learned today. The Prince, who passed his driving test last April at his firs: attempt, has chosen a
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  • 19 1 SINGAPORE. Sun The Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. returned c-"m Australia at 8 pm. tonight.
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  • 164 1 SINGAPORE. Sun. Urging Singaporeans to continue to foster the spirit of goodwill to all men. Dr Toh Chin Chye, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister, extended in his Christmas Message his best wishes to all those who subscribed to h is message of Christmas.
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  • 152 1 ASHINGTO N. Sun. (CPI) President Johnson returned home early on Sunday from a 27.000-mile. round-the-world Christmas mission. During the final day of the trip, he paid a holiday visit to the troops in Vietnam and conferred with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. The President's huge
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  • 183 1 Dentists will tell you how more teeth are lost from gum trouble than from any other cause. Certain danger signs are gums which are sore or tender to touch, or gums that bleed a little when you brush your teeth.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 638 3 OINGAPORE. Sun. The Minister for Culture and Social Affairs,, Enche Othman Wok. today described the Inclusion of the “American Corner” in Haw Par Villa as a move which responded to the spirit of the times and reflected a tolerant society in Singapore. The
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    • 79 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. Christmas with a western touch for eight-year-old Chay Tuck Kwong. Young Tuck Kwong joined the fun when Australian soldiers held the annual children's Christmas party recently. Thirty children from the Singapore Children's Aid Society also attended the party. The youngsters had train and
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    • 176 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Singapore chapter of the Junior Chamber International. popular known as Jaycees. last night held its installation dinner and Christmas party in the Mandarin Room in Orchard Road. Mr. Koh Choon Hui, an executive of Diethelm and Co. Ltd., was installed as the
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    • 18 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 27.
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    • 138 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Selangor State Government said the action by the District Officer Kajang. Enche Hassan Ibrahim in taking legal action against illegal squatters in Serdah was in accordance with the provision of the National Land Code and with the directive issued by
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    • 87 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. Thirty-four bars of gold valued at about $134,000 seized by the Singapore airport customs from a 39-year-old German passenger as he disembarked for a brief stop her e last night. The passenger. Stephen Karl Henzrick. who claimed himself as the captain of a
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    • 167 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Corporation Duty (Repeal) Act, 1967 will come into operation on Dec. 31. The Act seeks to repeal the Corporation Duty Ordinance with effect from Dec. 31, so that no corporation duty will be collected from that day. The Corporation
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    • 36 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. A new shipping company, the Pacific International Lines at 45 Market Street will be officially opened on January 1, 1968. There will be a cocktail reception on the premises from noon.
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    • 43 3 9 a.m.—4.30: Exhibition of traditional and modem Maori art at the National Museum, Stamford Road. 10 a.m. 9 pm.:— Exhibition on aquaria, aquarium accessories, fish food and medicines organised by the Primary Production Department at Van Kleef Aquarium, River Valley Road
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    • 122 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. The third batch of Singapore's National Servicemen will be called up for full time military service on Tuesday. They will be picked up at 8.30 a.m. at 14 community centres and military transport will bring them to their various units at
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    • 164 3 JESSELTON. Sun. A padi-survey Is being carried out by the Agriculture Department in all the major padi-growing districts of Sabah including Jesselton, Keningau. Beaufort. Papar, Kota Relud and Tuaran. A spokesman of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries said today the main purpose of the
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    • 261 4 THE NATION-BUILDING: KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Malaysia would perish with all its material achievement if the nation failed to wield a sense of unity among its citizens of various racial origins. This warning was sounded by the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Enche Senu
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    • 278 4 IPOH, Sun. —The Democratic Action Party, Ipoh branch, today took a pessimistic view of the termination of services of more than 6,000 temporary teachers of various media. A statement by the Secretary of the DAP. Mr. Lee Lam Thye suggested that the Minister
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    • 84 4 MALACCA. Sun. The police here have fallen victim to a false alarm made through the telephone this afternoon. The Central Police Station Operation Room received a call stating that a man had been murdered in Kampong Jawa. Signals were immediately flashed to all patrol cars to converge
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    • 48 4 PENANG, Sun. A clerk. Khoo Hun Kheng, aged 21. lost his Yamaha motorcycle. valued $5OO while he was visiting his sick uncle at the General Hospital here yesterday. He returned to the place where he had parked his machine twenty-five minutes earlier and found it missing.
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    • 174 4 Guests of the Sarawak Girl Guides Association in Kuching, are 11 guiders and senior guides of Brunei, recently. The Headquarters Commissioner f»»r Public Relations. Miss Selina Kedit said today that a Training Camp had been organised by the Association at the Girl Guides Headquarters in honour of the visitors. Gulders
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    • 93 4 The Secretary-general of the Law Association for Asia and the Western Pacific (LAWASIA) Mr. J. H. Wootten, left Sydney recently to make preparatory arrangements for the first conference of the Association to be held at Kuala Lumpur next July. LAW’ASIA was inaugurated at a conference in Canberra in August 1966.
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    • 171 4  -  By HOO BAN KHEE KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Restaurant proprietress, Madam Siak Chun Hoa, 58, thought she could have another round of late business when four youths came to her restaurant hers in a brand new Morns HOO. She ushered them in and entertained
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    • 322 4 PENANG. Sun. It was exactly a month aeo today when the hartal forced on shop-keepers in Penang island took place resulting in the loss of lives and damage to property. Today, the atmosphere is entirely different the people are celebrating Christmas and Christian homes are all gaily
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    • 68 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. The Johore Legislative Assembly today unannimously passed next year’s surplus budget amounting to slightly more than $50.7 million and also approved another sum of $21.4 million for development. Next year's revenue has been estimated at $37.7 million and the Central Government will offer a
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    • 78 4 MALACCA. Sun. A team of confidence tricksters have, in the past fortnight, swindled shops here of electrical goods estimated over $lO,OOO. The con-men are believed to have come from a neighbouring country and that they are using local associates as their front-men for hire purchases.
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    • 159 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun Those whose applications to operate school-taxis have been approved were today told to pay up their operational tax and get on with the business before the new school term begins in January next year. This advice came from the Minister for
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    • 790 10 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. S. RajaO ratnam, tonight stated that it was the function of a political party to try and persuade the people to change their ideas and to become more aware of the future. “People may sometimes
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    • 84 10 PERTH, Sun (Reuter) Singapore Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew and the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak left Perth airport at 330 for Singapore today. The two leaders are on their way home after attending the memorial service on Friday for the late Australian
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    • 180 10 SINGAPORE Sun. The president of the Y's Men s Club of Singapore. Mr Feter ST. Ltm hinted of the cub's intention to launch “a major project this year” to raise a substantial amount of money for charitable projects. Mr Lim was speaking at the
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    • 204 10  -  By PETER LOKE SINGAPORE. Sun. First the mini-skirts then, the mini-cheong-sams, and now. just what do you know, the mini-wedding gowns have catch on. The m'ni-fashions have certainly caught on in Singapore and they are here to stay. First, before the public’s eve. is pretty
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    • 124 10 Follow footsteps of Stephens Abang BRUNEI TOWN. Sun (UPI) Sarawak's Deputy Chief Minister Abang Haji Abdu; Rahim and the Minister for Local Government. Abang Ikhwan Zaini. today advised former Sarawak Chief Minister Dato Stephen Kalong Nmgkan to follow the re r ent footsteps taken by Dato Donald Stephen of Sabah
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    • 146 10 BRUNEI TOWN. Sun. (I PI) A Brunei Government officer, who got “fed up staving in a hotel” since he was engaged ten months ago. parked up and left the government service after giving 24 hours notice yesterday. He is* Vince Krljgsman. Radio Brunei's English
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    • 248 10 IPOH. Sun With consistent regularity the Tin Mining Industry of Malaysia continues its outstanding record of performance. “In October this year. 6 157 long tons of tln-in-concentrates were produced.” a spokesman of the Tin Mining Industry here said today. “The production contrasted extremely favourably with 5.740 tons
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    • 137 10 KAMPAR. Sun. The Pel Yuen School here, encroaching a portion of the road in the Golden Dragon Garden housing scheme, will not have alterations made to the building. This decision of the Town Council was unanimously adopted at its meeting, as the Golden Dragon
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    • 235 10  -  By SUHAIMI BIDIN SINGAPORE. Sun. What would you like to be —a film star or a singer? For pretty Miss Rola Sung, a Korean singing artiste, who arrived here yesterday, she prefers the latter. She said singing had no language barrier as It was
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    • 504 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. A trade union representing civilian employees attached to British defence establishments here today spoke about “the exceedingly worried anxiety of our members about their future”. In a six-page memorandum to the Mentri Besar. Dato Hajl Othman Mohamed Sa'at. the local Branch of the
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    • 286 10 JESSELTON. Sun. The value of Sabah's principal export from January to October this year amounted to more than $303 million. According to the Department of Statistic's latest issue of the monthly statistics of Sabah, this amount represents an Increase of more than $56 million over that
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    • 438 11 Ahmad Raffae’s Christmas message... TESSELTON, Sun. The Yang di-Pertua Negara of Sabah, Tun Pengiran Haji Ahmad Raffae, felt confident that with all the friendly people who were able to live side by side in harmony and mutual respect for each other's customs,
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    • 56 11 Included in the 30member troupe will be television star Miss Doris Chan and Malaysia’s ‘Elvis Presley’, Mr. Rocky Teo. The troupe is expected to
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    • 131 11 JPOH. Bun. “Hello’* girl. Miss Kwan Choi Peng. 23. of the Telecommunications Dept, here was judged Miss Perak/Internatlonal 1968 at a beauty contest at St. John s Ambulance Association hall last night. M ss Kwan vital statistics 33. 23. 36. beat ten other contestants at
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    • 103 11 JESSELTON. Sun. The Tawau Library will be shifted to a new building just opposite the Kong Fah Theatre next month. A spokesman for the Central Library said today it was necessary to have a new premises for the library because the present one was too
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    • 233 11 Kuala lumpur, son The Government’s regulations governing the staging of plays and other shows for charity were criticised by members of the University of Malaya Musical Societv recently. M»-. Mohsain Essa. treasurer of the society, noted that shows for charity were
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    • 119 11 The spirit of Christmas is captured in the two pictures ABOVE: More than 80 children of the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital in Singapore had
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    • 124 11 KUALA LUMPR. Sun. Four deputy state MARA officers from West Malaysia will be leaving for Holland at the end of this month to attend a sixmonth course in small seal? industries at the Research Institute for Management Science. Delft, the Netherlands They are
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    • 110 11 JESSELTON. Sun. The four employment exchanges of the Department of Labour in Jesselton. Sandakan, Lahad Datu and Tawau last month obtained employment for 800 local people and migrant workers. The Sandakan exchange got the most jobs for the people, totalling nearly 370. Second was Tawau
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    • 41 11 PENANG. Sun. A 30-ySar-old housewife. Lim J6O Luan, was robbed of her gold chain, valued $4O while she was walking along busy Campbell Street yesterday. A youth snatched away her chain and escaped into a side lane.
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    • 57 11 The Assistant Minister of Education, Mr. Lee Siok Yew. presenting a cheque for $15,000 to the Ladang Changkat Asa Tamil School. Tanjong Mai”"* handed over the cheque to Mr. R. Maria ppan. Headmaster of the School, at tho Ministry of Education. Picture shows t.ie Assistant Minister
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    • 77 5 B 4?‘ MBA Y. Sun. (UPI) The bridegroom came on horseback with a wellattended procession and a band to claim his bride, according to the tradition of orthodox Hindu weddings. "hat made the ceremony unique was that the bride and groom were dogs, the Express News Service reported
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    • 272 5 BUENOS AIRES. Sun. (UPI) Argentina handed Chile a note yesterday rejecting Chile's proposal that Queen Elizabeth of Britain referee a border dispute in the frigid Beagle Channel at the tip of South America. Both countries signed a trcatv in IPO2 to use Britain
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    • 243 5 FAIRYLAND. Georgia Sun. (UPI)—A 173-pound dog attacked and killed a four-year-old girl yesterday while her father was Christmas shopping. Darla Anne Harper was dead on arrival at Children's Hospital in nearby Chattanooga, Tennessee from multiple bites on the head and stomach. A hospital spokesman said she
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    • 92 5 CARACAS. Sun. (Reu’er) A prominent Venezuelan guerrilla leader has been captured because he was tooting his car horn too loudly, military sources said here today. They named the man as Francisco Lugo, who is alleged to head one of the biggest Castroite guerrilla groups operating in west
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    • 704 5 VATICAN CITY, Sun. (Agencies) President Johnson met Pope Paul here last night to discuss how peace might be achieved and preserved in Vietnam. The President landed by helicopter at the Vatican after earlier brief talks with Italian President Giuseppe Saragat at Signor Saragat's
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    • 623 5 LION'G KONG, Sun. (Reuter). The New China News Agency, in a review of the Vietnam war situation this year, said the “Death-bed struggles” of U.S. imperialism would only accelerate its doom. An agency dispatch from Peking received here yesterday said the year 1967 “witnessed unprecedentedly great
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    • 38 5 UPI photographer Peter Skingley, 38, of the London bureau points to his picture “Move to the rear” which won first prize in the news section of the World Press Photo Contest in The Hague last week. UPI photo.
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    • 140 5 MCCALL. Idaho Sun. (UPI) A small shield wire sagging unaer the pressure of wet snow, shortea two conductors in a remote section of Idaho on Friday night and knocked out power in parts of five states. Although the power fanlure affected a wide area, including
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    • 80 5 MEXICO CITY. Sun. (Reuter) Three youths died and 290 others were injured in what police described as a battle for supremacy between two rival gangs here. Police said 500 members of the rival gangs the “Nazis'* and the “Matis” fought for six hours yesterday wi
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    • 160 5 POINT PLEASANT West Virginia. Sun. (UPI) Residents of this town flocked to the river bank yesterday and watched in subfreezing weather while cranes dredged for more victims of the Silver Bridge collapse. Huges cranes removed large pieces of entangled steel from the submerged wreckage of the
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    • 245 6 'Begin trial after war' BALTIMORE. Sun (LTI) The attorney for two clergy peace demonstrators accused of pouring blood on draft records asked on Friday that their trial be postponed until the end of the Vietnam war. The attorney. Fred E. Weisgal. filed a motion
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    • 170 6 SASEBO. Japan. Sun (L’PI) Fire struck aboard the American aircraft carrier L’SS Kearsage yesterday as she pulled into this southern Japanese port to give her crew a Christmas break from the Vietnam war Three sailors were killed and two others injured in 'he hour-long blaze
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    • 32 6 Yes. something for Christmas French hairdresser “Molinario of Paris’’ very recently displayed hi* latest creations. Photo shows the snowfairy with an unusual curled wig and ‘Smeraldine’ a gilded ostrich.
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    • 173 6 WASHINGTON. Sun. (Reuter) —Dr Christian N. Barnard arrived here last night and declared that he would probably perform his second heart transplant operation within the next month. The doctor, who performed the world’s first human heart transplant operation on Mr. Louis Washkansky in Cape Town earlier
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    • 261 6 WINDOW ROCK. Arizona, Sun. (UPI). A frostbitten 13-vear-old Navajo Indian girl, whose father plodded five miles through snow in subzero weather to summon rescuers, was reported “Doing verv well” yesterday in the nearby Fort Defiance Hospital. Also said to be in
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    • 243 6 THE COLD WAR NEW YORK Sun. (L’PI) The United State* is deliberately prolonging the Middle East crisis by providing warplanes to Israel, the semi-official Cairo newspaper A1 Ahram said today. The Soviet Union was accused of doing the same thing by Gen Itzhak Rabin. the
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    • 48 6 CONSTANCE. West Germany. Sun. (Reuter) Six burning gas storage tanks threatened Constance with catastrophe yesterday, but the Are was brought under control. Twenty Are brigades fought the thundering 66-foot Aames. which consumed 22.006 gallons of the liquid gas. A mechanic wa* badly injured.
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    • 72 6 MOSCOW. Sun. (UPI) Moscow radio yesterday broadcast Christmas greetings to the United States from Russians and institutions in the Soviet Union. In its English-language transmission beamed at North America, the radio included messages from an official of the Soviet-Ameri-can Institute in Moscow, an executive of the
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    • 130 6 ISTANBUL, Sun. (Reuter) —Six people froze to death, temperatures plunged below zero and wolves were seen in one western town as severe winter hit Turkey today. In the town of Kayseri, west centra] Turkey, the temperature plunged to minus 27 degree* Centigrade (17 degrees below zero
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    • 73 6 MEXICO CITY. Sun. (Reuter) —Housewife Dolores Rivera de Badillo has been given an unexpected Christmas present free telephone service for two years. Senora Badillo received the one millionths phone to be installed in Mexico City and when Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz called her to congratulate
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    • 1124 6 EDIFFUSION (Silver Network) TODAY KUALA LUMPUR A.M. 600 INDIAN PROGRAMMES 6.59 Rediffusion March and Openine Announcement 700 News 7.10 O Come All Ye Faithful 7.12 The Joy Of Christmas 725 Items Of Local Interest 7.30 The Joy Of Christmas 7.45 News in Bahasa Kebangsaan 7.50 A Word A Day 800
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    • 1536 6 TOMORROW SINGAPORE A.M. 6 00 Dawn Serenade; 6.30 Breakfast Club, with Larry Lai; 645 Your Daily Horoscope A Birthday Greetings; 7.00 News; 7.10 Christmas as it Happened: 7.30 Rediffusion Health Tip: 7.45 Assignment Hollywood Fred Robbins interviews the stars of stage, screen. TV and records. Today Janice Rule: 8 00
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  • CHRISTMAS 1967, “CHRISTMAS 1967, CHRISTMAS
    • 1206 7 Church at home TT Is toward evening and the sun has sunk beneath 1 the western horizon, bathing the whole scenery with crimson light. There are people, people, people everywhere and the t-own is over-flowing with a mass of humanity. The lodging house-keepers in Bethlehem are doing
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    • 267 7 CHRISTMAS is a happy season throughout the world because it is an occasion when the Word of God in 1967 years ago became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ. It is this Jesus who taught mankind how to live together in peace and harmony as God s
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    • 152 7 I had the nicest Christmas list. The longest one In town. Till Daddy looked at It and said. "You’ll have to cut It down" I knew that what he said was true Beyond the faintest doubt. Rut was amazed to hear him sav. "You've left
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    • 186 7 THE Spirit of Christmas. in a world of abandoned materialism, is more pleasure seeking and revelry. The Santa Claus of commercial firms has replaced Jesus in the manger. Jingle Bells, jing-a-jing-jing to fox-trot, usurps the worshipful strain of “O come, all ye faithful O come
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    • 543 7  -  By REV. PETER NG ENG HOE comes to us yearly, but with what kind of import or impact? To many, it is just another occasion or excuse to carouse in fun. food, and fellowship; whilst to others it may have deeper significance. To us readers, allow
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    • 142 7 O come, all ye faithful. Joyful and triumphant, O come ye. O come ye to Bethlehem: Come and behold Him born the King of angels; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him. O come, let us adore Him, Christ the
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    • 203 7 HERE are some of the churches having Special Christmas services today: St. Andrew’s Cath St. Andrew's Road. Bethesda Gospel Hall 77 Bras Basah Road (7) Geylang Gospel Hall Lorong 29, Geylang (14) Bethesda (Katong) 17 Pennefather Rd. (15) Bethesda (Katong) 17 Pennefather Rd. (15) Bethesda (Frankel Est.)
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    • 608 7 The German way Germany has been called tbe Land of Music. It is probable that nowhere In Europe I* there as much music-making and singing as in Germany at Christmas time. During the season, music rings oat from every house. Of course, there is not as
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  • 773 8 GOODWILL has been a scarce commodity in the world during 1967. All the tragedies suffered by the people in many countries during the past months were caused by the absence of goodwill and trust. With a week more for this year to end, the season of goodwill
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  • 893 8  -  By: Aprodicio Laquian PARADOXICALLY, one of the real threats to democracy in Southeast Asia arises from the quest for rapid end accelerated socialeconomic growth. It is often sa'd that because of the model provided by the more developed countries the underdeveloped countries are sometimes
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  • 637 8  -  By: Mrinal Biswas "INDIA'S greatest threat is her population explosion, which is eating into the agricultural and industrial growth rate. With the present population figure pushing beyond the 500 million mark. India can hardly expect a comfortable future until the drive to control this
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  • 1003 8  -  By: Louis Halasz AS diplomats at the United Nations began to prepare themselves for Security Council meetings on the Vietnam issue, major attention was focused on the question of whether or not the reported desire of the Vietcong to appear before the world body was
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    • 41 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newspaper MONDAY. DECEMBER 25. 1967 23-B. Cantonment Road, Singapore 2. Telephone: *****/7 Penang Office Ipoh Office 39, |alan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Telephone: *****/6 8, Leith Street. Tel: ***** 77, Brewster Road. Tel: ***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 370 9 London, sun. (UPI). Another warning statement from Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Wilson that big spending cuts at Government level were planned knocked the Christmas stuffing from the stock market this week. For good measure the Treasury followed up the Minister's views Just
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    • 120 9 BONN. Sun. (Reuter) West German Foreign Minister. Mr Willy Brandt has said he is sure the European Common Market will be extended and that France knows this. In a television interview on Friday he said that despite France's refusal to open negotiations Op Britain's
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    • 47 9 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI> The cost of living continued its steady upward climb during November. the Labour Department reported yesterday. The three-tenths of 1 per cent Increase last month brought the consumer price index to 117.8 up 2 8 per cent from a year earlier.
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    • 42 9 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI) The General Time Corp has won a US$3,567,110 army contract to supply 362.880 mechanical time fuses for artillery ammunition. the office of Sen. Abraham Ribicoff. DemocratConnecticutt, announced on Friday. The work will be performed in Thomaston. Connecticut
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    • 358 9 THE installation of a new British burglar alarm system (pictured right) can b® carried out by the average handyman or electrician in a few hours. It comprises a control unit housed in a tamperproof pressed steel case, three sets of encapsulated magnaswi'.ches and magnets, two six
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    • 145 9 THE Bond Equipe. a new 100 mph plus grand touring car powered by a two-litre sixcylinder engine, made its debut in Britain recently. With an aerodynamic glass fibre and steel body it is a full four-seater claimed to have vivid performance and superb handling
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    • 242 9 JAKARTA. Sun. (Reuter). The Indonesian Parliament has approved a balanced State budget for 1968 after lopping off about 4.000 million rupiahs (about 9.100.000 sterling) from State revenue and expenditure estimates. The budget now balances at 138.600 million rupiahs (about 321 million
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    • 168 9 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI)—Representatives of 18 donor countr.es are still mulling over how much money they will provide the International Development Association next year. World Bank sources said. The United States In the past has provided nearly 42 per cent of the 250
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    • 42 9 LONDON. Sun. (UPI) Tin held steady with sales of 300 tons. Spot buyers 1342 sellers 1343 business 1340 1342 Three months buyers 1346 sellers 1346$ business 1344. 1347. Settlement 1343. The tin market is now closed untU Wednesday next.
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    • 85 9 SALT LAKE CITY. Utah Sun. (UPI) Talks in the 161-day-old copper strike will resume here on Wednesday in a meeting between Kennecott Copper Corp. and union representatives. A similar bargaining session also has been announced for the same day at Douglas Arizona, where bargaining teams for PhelpsDodge
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    • 59 9 BEIRUT. Sun. (Reuter) The Intra Bank will reopen next Thursday after a 14-month closure because of lack of liquid assets. The bank's chairman. Mr Pierre Dagher. said here that the bank will place at the disposal of each creditor 15 per cent of any deposit he is
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    • 29 9 WASHINGTON. Sun. (Reuter) General Services Administration reported no offers were received for stockpiled tin on Friday. GS A added that no tin was sold all week.
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    • 321 9 YORK, Sun. (UPI). The long awaited economic resurgence seemed well under way this week but the traditional year end stock market rally was nowhere in sight. Island Greek Coal, added 5 in sympathy. Golds lost favour on news of the diminished European demand. Homestako tumbled
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    • 90 9 SINGAPORE. Sun The Association of Banks in Malaysia yesterday made the following changes in its rates to merchants: New York: Buying TT. 32-13/16; Airmail O.D. 3215 16; 90 d st. 33-7/16 credit bills; 33-3/4 trade bills. Canada: Buying T.T 351/2; Airmail O.D. 35-5/8; 90 d/st. 36-1/4 credit bills;
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    • 42 9 NEW YORK. Sun. (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged and untraded on Friday. Jan. 19.25 Mar. 19.40 May 19.55 July 19.75 Sept. 20.00 Nov. 20 25 Jan. 2025 The Spot No. 1 RSS was quoted at 18 cents per pound nominal.
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    • 113 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. The following ships were expected m port yesterday. Godowns Vessels 1/2 Star Antares 3/4 Arkardy Gaidai 5 Nais 6 H Oceanic Prosper 8/9 Vardal 10/11 Tjikampek 13/14 Ivinghoe Becaon 15/16 Yamaasa Maru 18 T.iinegara 19 Unkai Maru No. 6 21 22 Kisshin Maru 23/24 Kimanis
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    • 615 12 THE smallest country In South-East Asia, but one of the best: is the opinion of those who have come to Singapore and seen its achievements. Singapore has grown from a tiny fishing village to the great metropolis it is today. So remarkable has been the progress
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    • 382 12 A PROGRAMME of Industrialisation has recently been embarked by many countries in the world. Highly industrialised countries such as United States, Russia, France, Germany and so on. are considered the wealthiest and the most powerful among the nations. For this reason, many countries prefer to establish
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    • 364 12 IT IS a calm, quiet evening. The evergreen leaves of the coconut trees scarcely sway in the still air. The sea too is deadly still. The sun with Its red brilliant colour is slowly sinking beyond the western horizon. leaving rosy prints to mark its pathway
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    • 1695 13  -  DISCREET SHOPPING FOR MATERNITY WEAR PRINCESS GRACE By ROBERT WILDEBLOOD T H E people w e fe st' ll waving and cheering as the Deo Juvante left the harbour, but as soon as the yacht hit the open sea Grace and Rainier realised
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    • 293 14 ORLEANS, Sun. (Reuter) Cliff Drysdale, the South African tennis star, has signed a professional contract for an undisclosed sum, it was announced here. Promoter Dave Dixon, President of the World Champion Tennis Tour, said on Friday that Drysdale, 26, will join seven
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    • 124 14 ADELAIDE. Sun. (Reuter) Australia'9 hopes of a commanding total in the first cricket Test against India are centred on the lefthander Bob Cowper tomorrow at the Adelaide Oval. Cowper. last of the specialist batsmen, has complied a patient unbeaten 85. His partner will be the
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    • 86 14 New* York. Sun. (Reuter) Five spectators braved biting cold to watch Petersham Rugby Football Club of Sydney open a world tour here yesterday with a match against the Westchester Club of New* York. Westchester won the match, played in Manhattan's Central Park, by 9 points (three
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    • 74 14 BERYL Burton (left) who won her seventh title at the World Cycling Championships earlier this year was named Britain's "Sportswoman of the Year” by the British Sports Writers’ Association. She received the top sportswoman award from the Earl of Harewood (centre). President of the English
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    • 181 14 EAST LONDON. South Africa. Sun. (Reuter) Virginia Wade, the British Wightman Cup player, justified top seeding by winning the women's singles title in the Border International Lawn Tennis Tournament here yesterday. In the final, she beat Pat Walkden. of Rhodesia, the No. 2 seed, by
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    • 79 14 HONOLULU, Sun. (UPI) Cloudy skies and a windwhipped ocean forced postponement of the first events of the 15th annual Makaha International .Surfing championships at Makaha Beach. Oahu, on Saturday. However, the 398 topnotch surfers stood by as opening day ceremonies officially began the contest. Honolulu’s Mayor Neal Blaisdell,
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    • 213 14 MOSCOW, Sun. (UPI). The Soviet Union, a bastion of athletic amateurism, has bemoaned the British decision to open the Wimbledon tennis championships to both amateurs and pros. "This decision harms amateur tennis”. Soviet player Anna Dmitriyeva wrote in the newspaper. Soviet Sports The paper's
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    • 100 14 CARCASSONE. Sun. (Reuter) Injured Kangaroo winger Ken Irvine is to enter hospital in Carcassone on Christmas Day for an operation on his fractured left leg. An orthopaedic specialist told Irvine last night that he will not play rugby again for 12 months. The operation, which most
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    • 136 14 SYDNEY. Sun. (Reuter) Leading Australian Jockey George Moore has derided not to return to England to ride for the Noel Murless stable, the Sun-Herald newspaper reported today. Moore whose long list of wins for the Newmarket trainer last season included three of the five
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    • 226 14 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Results of Rugby League matches played yesterday were: Bramley 10. Liverpool C. 9. Dewsbury 24, York 5 Doncaster 3. Warrington 16. Featherstone R. 14. H’fax 17. Hull 22. Castleford 6. Workington T. 7, Leeds 4. RUGBY UNION County Championship Lancashire 14. Cheshire 11. Club
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    • 84 14 MOSCOW. Sun (UPI) Soviet weightlifter Karl Pumpurin set a world record in the light-heavy-weight division at Yerevan on Saturday when he pressed 170.5 kilograms (.376 lbs), the news agency. Tass reported. This Improved bv 1.5 kmgs (3 lbs) the former mark held by Mikhail Shabayev
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    • 515 14  -  By William Verigan YORK, Sun. (UPI). Boxing bade A v farewell to Cassius Clay and began the search for a new heavyweight champion in 1967 during a typically tempestuous year for the sport. Clay, who contends he should be exempted from the draft
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    • 136 14 STOCKHOLM. Sun (Reater) Former world heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson, who went to the aid of police against antiVietnam war demonstrators, said last night. "Police are too soft on those types in this country.” Police said .1 ohansson helped two hardpressed policemen against a mob
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    • 1493 15 Race l: Horses Class 3, Dlv. 5 Abt. 6 Furs. 2.00 P.M. 1 9 Ramona 2. 973 Tahu Sama Tahu 3 0 WaWilt 4y 900 4v 9 00 by 9 00 Ramona Stable Sama Tahu Stable Mr TS Leong R. Bkelen Heddle J. Donnelly Bougoure 8 4
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    • 1859 15  -  HE CAN MAKE IT PILLAR-TO-POST AFFAIR Rinus holds whip hand in Cup event By ‘Windsor Lad’ JpENANG, Mon. Leading trainer Rinus van Breukelen holds the whip hand with a formidable team of seven runners representing half the field engaged in the P. and O. Cup run
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    • 206 15 WINDSOR LAD ADELINE JIMMY LAD STAR BOY RACE 1 F. MFRCCRT Katong Beach Beau Ideal KATONG BEACH Dollar Printer Beau Ideal RAMONA Katong Beach Dollar Printer KATONG BEACH Dollar Printer Deep Water RACE t RAYTONE So Nice Anna Gold YES DEAR III Gukit Serok Determination YES DEAR in Pharoah's
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    • 231 15 MIAMI. Florida. Run (Reuter) Former world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey is to sue a company which staged a computerised fight series to find the world's greatestever heavyweight, his business partner said today. The computerised series ended this week In a 13round victory
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    • 63 15 CAGLIARI. Sardinia. Bun. (Reuter) Italy reached the quarter-finals of the European soccer championship yesterday when they beat Bwitaerland 4-0 here to win their qualifying groups The Italians led 3-0 St halftime. Only the British group remains to be decided for the quarter-final line-up. England need only to
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  • 528 16 T ONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Manchester City moved into second place J behind their neighbours, Manchester United, in the English First Division when the Christmas soccer programme opened yesterday. The City who are enjoying their best season for many years under the
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  • 83 16 PARIS, Sun. (Reuter) France yesterday qualified for the quarter-finals of the European soccer championship with a 3-1 victory over Luxembourg in their final g.oup match here. France needed only a draw in yesterday's match to head their group. Their victory gave them a total of nine points,
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  • 2145 16 RESULTS TABLES ENGLISH ONE Arsenal 3 Notts 0 Leicester C. 2 M’chesteT U 2 Burnley 2 Ever ton 3 Sheffield W Sunderland 1 0 M'chester C. Newcastle U. Sheffield U. 4 1 2 Stoke C. Liverpool Coventrv C 2 Fulham 2 Chelsea 2 West B A. 0 Southampton 0 Leeds
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  • 2143 16  -  HEARSAY SURVIVES OBJECTION By WINDSOR LAD 13ENANG, Sun. Talislad, confidently ■l ridden by leading Jockey Des Coleman, made it a pillar-to-post race when he captured the Governor's Cup run over 8-lf here this afternoon. Talislad finished one and a half lengths clear of the fast-finishing Sporting
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  • 321 16 PENANG. Sun The postal swimming team broke two records in the inter-Gov-emment rally events at the Penang Chinese Swimming Club gala witnessed by a large crowd here this afternoon. In a very close race, Toh Cheng Eng beat Har You Fatt by a touch
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  • 85 16 BRISBANE. Sun. (Reuter* Spinner Ashley Ma lett wrecked Queensland's second innings when he too’* s'-- wicket*, fo*- *1 runs for South Australia on the third day oi 1 e Sheffield Shield match here today. Queensland, who scored 285 in their first Innings, were all out for
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