Eastern Sun, 30 April 1968

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  • 25 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 631 Tuesday, 30 April 1968. ft MC (P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 151 1 HONG KONG, Mon. (Reuter) Dato Donald Stephens, former Chief Minister of Sabah said in a television interview broadcast here last night that the people of his State were opposed to any move to have the Philippines claim on Sabah brought before the World Court.
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  • 96 1 JAKARTA. Mon. (UPI) The Malaysian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Tengku Osman bin Tengku Mohammad Jewa arrived in Jakarta today for a one-week visit at the invitation of the Indonesian Security and Defence Department The Malaysian Genera! is scheduled to hold talks with Indonesian
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  • 41 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The fourth session of the second Malaysian Parliament will terminate tomorrow. The order was contained In a royal proclamation signed by the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman It was gazatted here today.
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  • 510 1  -  Armed Indonesian pirates kidnap fisherman, speed off with boat and gear By LUCIAN PETER pORT SWETTENHAM, Mon. One of the biggest ever sea hunts has been launched by Marine Police here in international waters for a gang of armed Indonesian pirates who kidnapped a fisherman
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  • 72 1 BALCARCE. Argentina Mon. (UPI) Seven persons were killed in a chain of accidents during the Tour of Balcarce race on Sunday. Three of the dead were spectators. Sixteen spectators were injured, 10 of them seriously. In two of the accidents, two of the racing cars
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  • 651 1  -  By MUSA SCULLY KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Deputy Premier. Tun Abdul Razak. leaves on a roving mission tomorrow to Europe and India to seek more aid economic and defence. The mission would bring him to the developed nations of Europe
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  • 186 1 KUALA LUMPI'R, Mon. The five-power conference on defence will begin here on June 10 at ministerial level, Wisma Putra announced today. The date was decided “as a result of diplomatic consultations between Malaysia, Australia. Britain, New Zealand and Singapore”. A statement said the conference
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  • 485 1 13ARIS, Mon. (Reuter). France has carried 1 out Europe's first heart transplant, Professor Maurice Mercadier, head of Paris Hospital De La Pitie, announced today. The recipient was 66-year-old Clovis Roblain, Professor Mercadier said in a communi- que. The operation was carried out
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 255 2 Lottery Board makes $12 mil. profit annually— Minister KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Social Welfare Lottery Board has made an annual profit of about $l2 million from the sales of its tickets over the past several years. Disclosing this today, the Minister of Welfare Services, Haji Abdul Hamid Khan, said this
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    • 291 2 PENANG, Mon Seven low-cost housing schemes costing about $3 million, with 589 units have been completed, while another five schemes for 2,083 units are in construction. This was disclosed by the Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee. when he briefed the Governor
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    • 230 2 PENANG. Mon. Shamsuddin Hashim. 27. found loitering in King Street with six keys in his possession, one of which fitted a parking meter lock, was sentenced to four month's jail in the First Magistrates Court here tojmr He pleaded guilty to loitering in
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    • 321 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Kaja of Perlis will celebrate his 50th birthday tomorrow at Istana Arau. The highlight of the celebration will be the Investiture ceremony. Among those on the birthday honours list is Tunku Faudiziah bt. Tunku Abdul Rashid, wife of Raja Muda
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    • 110 2 MALACCA. Mon British sapper Anthony James Cooper of Terendak Camp here who was tentatively charged with murder on April 8. is to be tried in a Military Court. The Magistrate's Court here today discharged Cooper alter Prosecuting Inspector Mrs Emily Koshy had
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    • 359 2 IPOH. Mon. The Perlis State Government has announced its support for developing off-shore mining. following results of an investigation that there is tin in the sea. A spokesman of the tin industry here said tooay a delegation would depart fcr the island of Phuket
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    • 197 2 PORT SWETTE.VHAM. Mon. A passing out parade will be held for 42l recruits at the Recruit Training Centre. Port Dickson Garrison on Saturday at S am The recruits who have successfully completed four months basic military training at the centre will pass-out as privates
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    • 118 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A youth who had keys and screwdrivers and other house breaking implements in his possession was caught last night and handed over to the police here. Enche Zainil Abidin bin Mohamed Yatim. a clerk, was in his High Street home at about 11
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    • 396 2 Important to have a plan fo r up-grading skills, says Khir KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Minister of Education Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, today reiterated the importance of a co-ordinated plan for the continuous up-grading of skills and for the re-orien-tation of Malaysians for newer responsibilities in both the public and
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    • 111 2 PENANG. Mon. An illuminated float, conveying the image of Lord Buddha, will be included in a procession to be staged on Wesak Day which falls on May 11. The flower and flag procession will start from the Hong Hock Si Temple in Perak Road and wind its
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    • 70 2 MALACCA. Mon. Serving a 6-month term for retaining stolen property and with three more months to go. Mervyn Stewart 20 took the law into his own hands and escaped. He dashed to freedom from the Banda Hilir prison here on March 12 but was
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    • 38 2 MALACCA. Mon —lt wa* a costly Sunday holiday for shopkeeper Yeo Siew Choo of Temple Street here. When he returned to his premises today he found his iron safe broken and $l4O cash taken away.
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    • 118 2 KULIM Mon. The Democratic Action Party has a master plan to win the hearts and minds of all Malaysians in this country. This was stated by the Party's Secretary-General Mr. Goh Hock Guan. at the inaugural meeting of the new D A P. branch here yesterday evening.
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    • 120 2 PENANG. Mon. A 49-vear-old school teacher. Mr Gerald D. Lengam. found himself In an embarrassing situation on board a bus. when he wanted to pay his fare but could not find his purse yesterday. He reported to the police that his pocket
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    • 52 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has sent a congratulatory message to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands on the occasion of her birthday anniversary. The Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tunku Abdul Rahman, has sent a similar message to the Netherlands’ Minister of
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    • 198 2 IPOH. Mon. T.V. viewers here still don’t know what has happened to Dr. Richard Kimble The Fugitive. Housewives and scores of ladies who rang up the Eastern Sun office here think he is dead sentenced to the electric chair. Others
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    • 52 2 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Mon. The body of a four-month old baby boy was found abandoned in a rubbish dump in town here yesterday. It was discovered by a labourer among the rubbish when he passd the dump. Police believe the baby was bom prematurely
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    • 313 3 Judge: Sorry state of affairs SINGAPORE, Mon. Two youths, facing a charge of robbery with hurt, today walked out of the High Court free when the main prosecution witness against them was again "missing." Following lengthy arguments by the DPP and the defence
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    • Article, Illustration
      53 3 Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Lim Cheng Huat pictured ofter their wedding at St. Michael's Church, Ipoh. Mr. Lim is a Health Inspector of the Municipal Council, Ipoh. The bride was the former Miss Alice Loo Kwai Yong. She is a telephone operator attached to the office of Dato
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    • 159 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. A six-year-old boy who was almost blind in one eye as a result of an accident. was todav awarded 520.000 damages in the High Court. Mohd. Rail bin Abdul Hamid. the plaintiff in the suit against a taxi-driver. also had a fractured right
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    • 30 3 SINGAPORE Mon Messrs Loke Ywek Wah. Goh K:an Thong, and Wee Took Wai were the winners of a Bird Singing contest organised by Tiong Bahru Community Centre recently.
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    • 435 3 LA YANG LA YANG. Mon. —The Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Jubir. today ordered all drivers and crew of the Malaysian Railway railcar to undergo a refresher course. He announced this to newsmen here after a hurried
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    • 144 3 JAKARTA. Mon (Reuter) A Singapore technical mission today began talks with Indonesian officials on ways of converting the Indonesian tourist Island of Bali into an international tourist resort. The leader of the mission. Mr Ngiam Tong Dow, said their visit was a
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    • 100 3 The Scripture L’nion held its Centenary Cantata with the theme “Thy Word is Everlasting” at the Singapore Conference Hall on Sunday night. Eastern Sun picture shows one of the items presented—Mrs. Eileen Smith as solost in “The Gospel train's a-comin’” supported by the Bel Canto singers
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    • 316 3 OINGAPORE, Mon. The fire on the Liberian tanker Assimi 111 which was brought under control temporarily for a few hours late last night, broke out again at about 11.20 a.m. today. However, according to a Royal Navy spokesman here, the tanker has been moved
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    • 601 3 Nations must strive for security, modernisation De Cruz SINGAPORE. Mon. The way to future leadership in South-East Asia lies in the university, where men of training come from. This suggestion came from Mr. Gerald de Cruz, a staff tutor at the Political Study Centre, Singapore,
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    • 216 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Sessions Court President. Che Siti Normal Ya’akub. today fixed six days from Aug 12 to 17 for the trial of three men charged with corruption. The three men are Ishak Ismail. Chan Kong Lin, and Abdul
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    • 41 3 SINGAPORE. Mon.—About 500 workers in the Tay Koh Yat branch of the Singapore Bus Employees’ Union have pledged their support for the National Defence Fund They will donate one day's earnings towards the Fund on Saturday.
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    • 46 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Thirty shapely girls, “mummies" and several customers were detained by Police in a major crackdown on vice dens in the town late tonight. The anti-vice campaign, led by the Assistant OCPD, ASP Omar bin Mohamed, raided three unlicensed massage parlours.
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    • 34 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Dr. Goh Poh Seng, chairman of the National Theatre Trust, will speak on "The Drive for Modernity” at the Lion Club's luncheon meeting at Goodwood Park Hotel on May 2.
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    • 390 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Trinity College of Music, London, has announced the results of its recent practical examinations held here. The following are the successful candidates: Initial grade: Guy James Ellery (Honours), Susan Catherine Smith (Honours). Justin Hong (Honours), Chua Seah Sevan (Honours). Chua Seah See Poh (Honours),
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    • 530 4 Gambling among school children: KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Headmasters today welcomed the move (reported in the Eastern Sun) by police in West Malaysia to take action against hawkers who were encouraging children to gamble in Schools. Robert Kuan reports from Ipoh: The Principal of the
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    • 337 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon The annual rate of growth of physical output in agriculture has more than kept pace with the annual growth of population in Maloysio. With the present rate in growth, the Government has expressed confidence that within the next few years.
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    • 65 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. An eight-man Bulgarian Trade Mission will arrive here tomorrow night to hold trade discussions with Malaysia. This was disclosed by a spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry here today. The spokesman said the mission would be led by the Bulgarian
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    • 96 4 IPOH, Mon A complete electoral understanding has beer, worked out between the Democratic Action Party and the People’s Progressive Party to contest against the Alliance in every State constituency in Perak at the forthcoming general elections. In reiterating this today, the Secretary of the D.A.P., Perak. Mr.
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    • 86 4 IPOH. Mon Two people died in separate road accidents in Perak yesterday. A lorry attendant. Wong Fot Thean. 25. was killed when he fell from a moving lorry at Slim River. He lost his balance when the lorry skidded. The lorry was loaded with tapioca
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    • 269 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Three Malaysians who have been offered scholarships under the German Technical Assistance Programme 1968. will leave by air on Wednesday to further their studies in West Germany Two of them. Jalaluddln bin Abdul Jalll and Low Kwong Wah will take up export promotion and
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    • 187 4 The Federal Hotel in Kuala Lumpur w iU soon be able to cater for its “in-the-sw irn guest when its swimming pool opens on June 1. As an international hotel is not complete without one —no matter what the size—the hotel is now putting on
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    • 352 4 SEREMBAN, Mon. —The Negri Sembilon State Legislative Assembly today approved a sum of 5140,275 00 for various expenditure, after bills for supplementary votes for 1967 were presented for the third time. Three Alliance members Enche Kadir bin Abdullah (Ulu Muar>. Enche Zainal Abidin bin
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    • 268 4 PENANG, Mon Over two hundred representatives from 16 MIC branches in Penang today staged a peaceful demonstration, outside UMNO Headquarters in MacAlister Road, to express full support for the Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee. This was the result
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    • 131 4 EQUAL PAY: KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Women’s Action Front will hold a series of mass rallies all over Malaysia in the coming weeks to back its fight for equal pay for equal work for women. Disclosing this today, a spokesman of CUEPACS which is backing
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    • 27 4 SEREMBAN. Mon The Negri Sembilan police began “Operation Chee Fah” on a state-wide basis here last night and have detained nine persons, including a woman.
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    • 334 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Postage rates on parcels and registration fee would be increased from Wednesday. Announcing this today, the Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications, Tun V. T. Sambanthan, said the postage rates of surface parcels posted in Malaysia for delivery within Malaysia and
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    • 96 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The Speaker of the House of Representatives. Dato C. M. Yusof will lead a delegation on a goodwill visit to Indonesia on Friday. The delegation will consist of five MP’s—Enche Karim Abu. Mr. Tai Kuan Yang. Enche Ismail bin Idris. Che Ajebah Abol
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    • 96 4 SEREMBAN, Mon A news vendor. Kadir Mohideen, 20. was praised by the police for public spiritedness in assisting to apprehend a snatch thief here yesterday afternoon. At 3.30 p.m. yesterday Mohideen. on hearing the screams of a lady, dropped his bicycle and gave
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    • 205 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Partai Rakyat Malaya and the Labour Party of Malaya believed there was a need for the two parties to work closely in their common struggle against Anglo American Imperialism and the local reactionaries allegedly headed by the Alliance and the
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    • 119 4 KAMPAR. Mon The public here had been warned following the outbreak of malaria over the weekend at the Batu Berangkai Aborigines Settlement. Four aborigines from two neighbouring families were taken sick last Saturday and they are now placed under special treatment Four suspected cases were further
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    • 39 4 KUCHING, Mon. The prop-jet F-27 aircraft of Malaysia Singapore Airlines will commence public air transport schedules through Bintuiu as from Wednesday. This was disclosed today by a spokesman of the Ministry of Communications and Works.
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    • 710 10 S PORE WILL BID TO BE HQ. OF PROPOSED SECRETARIAT SINGAPORE, Mon. The industrial and business''brains''of 11 will meet here from May 12 to 15 to discuss the role of private enterprise in the economic development of South-east Asia. The four-day international
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    • 164 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Bases Economic Conversion Department is considering suitable retraining courses for female civilian employees made redundant by the British military pull-out. The BECD Is now organising various re-training courses for retrenched employees to equip them for new jobs. Most of the
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    • 128 10 6 p m.-midnight Grand N T.U C. May Day Carnival and Variety Show in the car park. Trade Union House, Shenton Way. 7.30 p.m Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture at Kampong Tongkang Pechah (84 m.s.. Yio Chu Kang Road). Sine Loong Road (open space). Kong
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    • 99 10 SINGAPORE Mon A five-year-old girl. Llo Swee Ying. who was knocked down by a motor-car at Pesiaran Keltling. opposite Block 71, died on the way to the General Hospital yesterday. There were 64 other road accidents (none serious) yesterday. Meanwhile, a passenger the triple road accident
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    • 313 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. Hundreds of women. Including Cabinet Ministers’ wives and voluntary social workers, will pull their efforts together to operate some 30 stalls at this year’s Singapore Stall of the 16th International Bazaar for the Blind. This year's bazaar is believed
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    • 123 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. Low Joo Jack. 24. was today jailed for five years by the First District Court on charges of housebreaking and theft. Low pleaded guilty to three such charges and was sentenced to five years' jail on the first charge,
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    • 21 10 SINGAPORE. Mon —The Van Kleef Aquarium will remain open from 10 am. to 9 p.m. on May Day, Wednesday.
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    • 122 10 SINGAPORE, Mon.—A practical lesson on the behaviour of fuels in motor-car engines was the object of a visit to the BP Refinery. Kwinana. Australia, of 16 final year Mechanical Engin- eering students from the University of Western Australia recentlyIt was the job of Refinery Technologist. Mr.
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    • 209 10 SINGAPORE. Mon —The Minister for Labour Mr S. Rajaratnam will address a giant May Day rally at the Singapore Conference Hall here on Wednesday. The rally will be attended by all members of unions affiliated to the National Trades Union Congress Before addressing the
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    • 103 10 SINGAPORE Mon “Engagement in Zurich”, a full length technicolour film in the German language (with English sub-title) will be screened at Cultural Centre Theatre on May 5 at 8 pm. The film show has been specially organised for the benefit of students learning the German
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    • 92 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Minister of State for Culture, Mr. Lee Khoon Choy was elected president of the Singapore Arts Council at its annual general meeting recently. Others elected were Dr. Goh Poh Seng and Mr. Teo Liang Chye. vice-presi-dents; Mr. Choy Chan Wah. secretary;
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    • 299 11 UALA LUMPUR, Mon—" Close partnership between Malaysia and Japan constitutes the key to the promotibn of stability and human progress in Asia." This was stated here today by the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Taisaku Kojima, on the occasion of the National Day of Japan. He said
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    • 245 11 KFALA LtMPTR. Mon Malaysia's Chief of the Armed Forces Staff. General Tunku Osman bin Tunku Mohd Jewa this morning left here by a special Royal Malaysian Air Force aircraft on a week's goodwill visit to Indonesia. The General is making this visit
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    • Article, Illustration
      43 11 THE Governor of Penang, Tan Sri Sved Sheh bin Syed Abdullah Shahabudin, P.M.N., presented State honours and awards at an investiture ceremony held at the Residency on Saturday. Picture shows the Governor pinning the P-J-K. medal on Enche Foo ¥ee Fong.
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    • 420 11 pETALING JAYA. Mon. Civil servants must be agents of change and must constitute a dynamic and innovative force, the Chief Secretary, Tan Sri Mohamed said here today. “We need a lot more innovators in the Civil Service. that is. those who do not just maintain
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    • 40 11 MALACCA, Mon The State Government here has earmarked part of the reclamation ground at the rear of Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock for a light industries estate. The site his been surveyed and applications will be by tender.
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    • 129 11 YES toke another I-o-n-g look at the picture above before you read further. Well, isn't she sweet, charming and captivating 5 Who's this lady with "that certain smile 5 Frankly, we forgot to ask for her name. But who really cares about names when she has a
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    • 105 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon The Malaysian Red Cross has formulated a scheme to help fishermen and their families in the East Coast when their livelihood is hampered during the monsoon season which begins In November. The National Vice-presi-dent of the Red Cross. Senator Tan Sri
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    • 43 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.Dato Chan Peng Hong has been appointed commercial secretary of the Associated Chinese Chambers of. Commerce of Malaysia. This was announced by Mr. Henry T. Wong, secretary of the ACCC. Mr. Wong Tok Chai has been appointed honorary secretary.
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    • 169 11 IPOH, Mon. Four men, one armed w4h a revolver and the others with knives held up the proprietor of Messrs. Ban Hoong Oil Mill in Menglembu here today, robbing him of $l/800. The victim, Mr. Tan Kor Seng. 56, was about to leave the
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    • 122 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Democratic Action Party Labour Bureau will hold a tee -party tomorrow, at Lee Wong Kee Garden Cafe (next, to Odeon Theatre}, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, at 5.15 D.m. to celebrate the 1968 May Day. The DAP Labour Bureau is
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    • 139 11 PENANG. Mon. The Second Magistrate, Che Tahirah. Suieiman. today warned a youth. Lee Kok Leong. not to mix with bad company again after binding him over In the sum of $l,OOO for one year. Lee pleaded guilty to attempted. extortion of $5,000 from a
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    • 27 11 Mt'AR. Mon.—The Kluang District branch of the Labour Party will observe May Day with a get-together at the Kampong Pays community hall on Wednesday.
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    • 92 11 JITRA. Mon. The Malayan Technical Services Union. North and Central Kedah Districts pledged their support to the CUEPACS Women's Action Front in ite fight to attain equal pay for equal work. This was one of four resolutions adopted at the annual meeting of the
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    • 36 11 MIAR. Mon.—The St John Ambulance Brigade Association. Paloh branch, will hold a first aid course at the local community hall from May 5. More than forty-se-ven local youths are expected to take part.
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    • 87 11 National Art Gallery (Jalan Ampang>: Rembrandt's etchings and drawings 10 a m. to 6.30 p.m. Peninsular Art Gallery (41. Jalan Raja Muda): Works of prominent Malaysian artists exhibition 9 a m. to 6 p.m. Jalan Weld Swimming Pool: 9.30 a m. to 12 30 p.m., 2 p.m. to
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    • 68 11 THE Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Tuan Haji Mohd. Ghazali b>n Haji Jawi. last Fridav at Bagan Jermal, Pulau Pinang. met -5 fishermen from Trergganu and 27 from Kuantan who have been trained for the last two months in trawler-fishing in Penang and who will be sent
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 126 5 LEAMINGTON SPA, England. Mon. (Reuter) A militant coloured people's organisation was formed here yesterday amid a white backlash against coloured immigration to Britain. Delegates from 21 organisations representing Indians. Pakistanis. West Indians and Africans formed the Black People's Alliance. The meeting's sponsor. Mr. Jagmohan Joshi.
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    • 314 5 Emperor Haile Selassie in India NEW DELHI. Mon. (Reuter) Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie and India's President Dr. Zakir Husain expressed the hope last night that there would soon be talks between the United States and North Vietnam for a peaceful settlement of the Vietnam pro-
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    • 117 5 VATICAN CITY. Mon. (Reuter) Pope Paul said vesterdav the Catholic thurch was in serious need of more priests, monks, and runs, whose numbers were dc-lining. He asked Catholics to pray and to co-operate within their families and communities to encourage vocations to the priesthood and religious
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    • 14 5 MODEL demonstrates this German fold-away bike which made its debut recently. DaD.
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    • 482 5 STUTTGART, West Germany, Mon. (Reuter) —West Germany's far-right National Democrats last night chalked up their biggest victory in any state election, polling 9.8 per cent of the votes in the Baden-Wuerttemberg elections. This marked swing to the right confirmed the worst fears of politicians
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    • 33 5 NEW YORK. Mon. Mrs Martin Luther King addresses a Vietnam rally on Saturdav. and recited her husband's “Ten commandments on Vietnam", discovered after his death. UPI radio photo.
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    • 79 5 JOHANNESBURG. Mon (Reuter* Homosexuals in South Africa have launched a drive to raise 40.000 rand (£23.300 sterling* to fight a law aimed at making the country's immorality act stricter. As it applies to homosexual offences, the act is so vague at present that prosecutions for homosexuality
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    • 329 5 A DROP IN THE BUCKET SYDNEY, Mon. (Reuter) Predictably but non-the-less unfortunately the annual conference of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East which ends in Canberra tomorrow has done little to arouse Australian interest in developing a more effective aid policy toward Asia,
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    • 83 5 NEW YORK. Mon (Reuter) Heavy-drinking executives are costing United States firms an estimated U.S-57.500m. a year, according to the management magazine. Dun's Review. The bar in the executive office was now an accepted status symbol and the nation's three million working alcoholics posed a “huge, and growing,
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    • 99 5 MANILA Mnn (Reuter) A 12-5 ear-old boy be come the first official victim of the Mayon Volcanos eruption when he was suffocated by a black cloud of volcanic ash at the weekend The boy’s father said that just before noon a huge dark cloud descended on
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    • 121 5 MOSCOW Mon. (Reuter) A Soviet expert has called for a computer to be used to invent new names for children. complaining that there are too many Sergeis. Andreis and Alexanders. The philologist. V. Mioskovich. wrote in the weekly magazine Medelya that dozens of Sergei;
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    • 104 5 LAGOS. Mon (Reuter) The Nigerian leader. MajorGeneral Yakubu Gowon. said last night he was hopeful about peace talks with Biafra but said the breakaway state must give a practical sign of ending its secession before he could order a ceasefire in the 10-month war. “The
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    • 103 5 CHARLESTON. Illinois, Mon. (Reuter) —An 18-year-old high school student was charged yesterday with the murder of five children killed while their parents were away from their farm home on Saturday. Charles Fuller was arrested early yesterday after more than 100 police and volunteers had
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    • 76 5 HONG KONG. Mon 'Reuter) More than 7.000 HK dollars in coins are fed into Hong Kong's “Street Tigers the local term for parking meters every day. The government collected HK52.284.000 in revenue from the meters in 1967. During last summer s disturbances here, meter were major targets
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    • 86 5 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) —a novel portrait of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. printed on silk over wooden block, has been put on oisplay for the first time at the current Canton trade fair, Hong Kong's leading Communist newspaper reported today. The portrait, three feet by five, showed the
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    • 246 5 HAMILTON. Bermuda, Mon. (Reuter) Police reinforced by troops arrested 50 people early today for violating the dusk to dawn curfew as Britain moved in regular forces to curb rioting in this self-governing colony. Police said Hamilton itself was quiet during the night following riot
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    • 401 6 CAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) American Nary jets have pounded important targets round Vinh Key city and railway complex on the North Vietnamese infiltration route south, a U.S. Military spokesman reported here today. Every carrier-based raid yesterday in the curtailed bombing of the
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    • 364 6 WASHINGTON. Mon. (Reuter) Vice President Mr. Hubert H. Humphrey said today the U.S. and North Vietnam would reach agreement on a site for preliminary peace talks if the American people remained patient over the current deadlock. “It is going to be
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    • 66 6 DUBLIN Mon. (UPI) The 9th World Congress of the International Federation on Journalists opens in Dublin today with more than 100 delegates from 20 non-Communist countries attending. Irish Premier Jack. Lynch will open the Congress, scheduled to last until Saturday. Among the matters on the
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    • 171 6 CHICAGO. Mon. (UPI) A tombstone identified as the marker from the grave of Jack Ruby, convicted slayer of the accused assassin of the late President Kennedy, was found on a Chicago street on Saturday night. The tombstone apparently had been abandoned by vandals It had been taken
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    • 49 6 FIRST it was paper dresses, then came metal, wood etc. Now comes plastic. Our charming and well-known 22-year-old Italian beauty. Diana Coccorese. daughter of famous Director Givanni Coccorese. displays elegant night dress made with plastic pastils presented bv Fashion House “Antonelli”. Pana photo.
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    • 197 6 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) Thai Ambassador to the United Nations Anand Panyarachun today accused Cambodian Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk of making "untruthful and distorted” comments about Thailand. In a letter to Look Magazine. the Ambassador denied charges by Mr. Sihanouk in a
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    • 216 6 BELGRADE. Mon. (Reuter) Yugoslavia will not attend the forthcoming Moscow summit of Communist Parties, “for reasons well known to the public,” the official Yugoslav newspaper Borba said tonight Borba said that at least 20 of the existing 83 parties would not send
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    • 117 6 OVERSTRAND. England. Mon. (UFI) Mrs. Rosamund Bixzarri. an 80-year-old widow, today miraculously survived a fall of more than 100 feet. Two fisherman on a beach said they looked ut> just in time to see Mrs. Bizzarrt lose her balance and plu'rmet over the edee of
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    • 86 6 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) Japan's Emperor Hirohito celebrated his 67th birthday today with separate parties for the Imperial Family. Government leaders and foreign diplomats. The emperor, who reported to be in perfect health, is to attend a luncheon party with members of the Imperial Family and
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    • 232 6 DALAT. Vietnam. Mon. (UPI) Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky today warned the United States it could not force South Vietnam to accept a “surrender to the Communists.’’ Mr Ky never directly referred to the United States, using Instead the terms “foreign country” or “foreigners”. But his
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    • 102 6 HONG KONG Mon. (Reuter) The day South Africa was voted out of the Mexico Olympics will be remembered as the day the sacred Olympic flame went out. a reader's letter in the South China Morning Post said today. The letter. signed “Sportsman”, said: “On
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    • 101 6 racial harmony ATLANTA. Georgia. Mon. (UPI) A Ku Klux Klan leader resigned yesterday to work for racial harmony. Calvin Craig. Grand Dragon of the Georgia United Klans of America, Inc., announced his resignation to help build a nation where “Black men and White men
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    • 99 6 JAKARTA. Mon. (UPI) Central Java security authorities reported they have smashed a Communist plot to infiltrate the Indonesian Armed Services and political parties. Several suspected leaders of the plot have been arrested, according to a military report published today. According to the report, the Consolidation of the
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    • 284 6 PRAGUE. Mon. (Reuter) A former Czechoslovak National Security Minister today accused the Soviet Union’s Anastas Mikoyan of ordering the 1952 political trials which led to the execution of former Czechoslovak Deputy Premier Rudolf Slansky for espionage. The charge was made by Mr. Karol
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    • 131 6 STOCKHOLM. Mon. Scania-Vabis. Sodertalje, Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturers, have obtained a Kr 6 million ($1,200,000) order for trucks of their largest model from South Korea. Delivery will be effected this summer. The trucks, equipped with 202 h.p DIN Scania engines. will be used
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    • 124 6 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) A Columbia University Faculty Committee yesterday rejected a demand by rebellious students for total amnesty and President Grayson Kirk said Columbia would not hold classes on Monday, which marks a full week of civil rights protests on the disrupted campus. There
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    • 171 6 SEOUL, Mon. (Reuter) The third general conference of the Afro-Asian Rural Reconstruction Organisation (AARRO) closed a week-long meeting here today after agreeing to hold the next general conference in Ghana The conference which was attended by representatives from 13 countries and eight international bodies including the
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    • 123 6 BANGKOK. Mon. (Reu- The Thai Government hag alloted 6.000 bags of rice per month for export from northeastern border town of Nongkhai to Laos across the Mekong River. The Government’s Committee for the Prevention of Rice Smuggling says that check points have been opened
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    • 84 6 HONG KONG. Men. (Reu.er) Eight iUegal immigrants from China Swam across a mile-wide sea inlet in darkness early today to get to Hong Kong territory, a police spokesman said. The spokesman said the men were spotted by police in the new territories town of Sheung
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    • 128 6 STOCKHOLM. Mdrt Sweden's consumption of oil was down 2.5 per cent to 22.6 million cubic metres in 1967. according to the Swedish Petroleum Institute. Imports remained unchanged at 25.8 million cu.m. While petrol consumption rose by 4 per cent to 3.3 million and diesel fuels
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    • 196 7 ACCIDENT IN BULL RING LISBON. Mnn. (UP!) Pioneer South Afrir«- heart surgeon Dr Christian Barnard offered his services to local medical authorities yesterday immediately after watching a young matador gored in the bull ring. Barnard, stopping over en route home from South America, had slipped out
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    • 99 7 SYDNEY Mon. (Reuter) Mrs Matsue Matsuo, whose 6on. Lieutenant Kieu Matsuo, died In a daring Japanese midget submarine raid on Sydney harbour in World War Two. today placed flowers over the spot where he was killed Lieutenant Matsuo was 26 w-hen he led three midget submarines
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    • 63 7 COLOMBO Ceylon. Mon (L'PI) The House of Representatives has passed a bill calling for all Ceylonese citizens to register with the government and receive identification cards. The new measure Is aimed mainly at checking illegal Immigrants from India. The government has already assigned army personnel to the
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    • 38 7 WASHINGTON. Mon. Vice President Hubert H Humphrey gives victory sign as he announces that he is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, at a press conference on Saturday. UPI radio- photo.
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    • 110 7 TOKYO. Mon (Reuter) One seaman was killed and five others were missing following a collision between a Taiwanese fishing boat and a Japanese freighter last night 110 miles west of the southern tip of Taiwan, the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency reported today. The
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    • 73 7 ATHENS. Mon (Reuter) The Greek government last night climaxed a week's celebrations to mark its first year in power with a mass rally in the all-marble Athens Stadium Prime Minister George Papadopoulos told an audience of 70,000 people to have faith in their country and in
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    • 96 7 MANILA. Mon (Reuter) Fourteen Filipinos, three of them women, were arrested last night at the Manila International Airport while attempting to smuggle coins to Hong Kong. customs authorities announced here. The authorities seized the coins, mostly Philippine Centavos. worth 20.000 pesos (about £2.000 sterling >.
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    • 34 7 COLOMBO. Mon -L'Pli Tbe government may ban on Ceylonese possession of foreign currency. A government committee said such a measure may be necessary to combat Colombo's thriving currency black market.
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    • 429 7 ‘MARCHING ON WASHINGTON Where to get money for the poor? by George J. Marder WASHINGTON M o n. (I PI) The poor people ate marching on Washington like an i rresistible force. They are headed for an immovable object Congress. At the moment, the nation's lawmakers are not In the
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    • 218 7 BONN, Mon. (Reuter). The United States, Britain and France have appealed to the Soviet Union to put a stop to East German interference with free access to West 3erlin. The British embassy said identical letters by the three ambassadors in Bonn
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    • 71 7 JERUSALEM Mon. -Reuter) Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol said today that a military parade to mark the Jewish state’s 20th anniversary will take place in Jerusalem next Thursday as planned desp'te objections from the United Nations. The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution last night
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    • 395 7 MOSCOW Mon. (L'PI) Yugoslav President Tito, the first Communist leader to challenge the Kremlin's rule and get by with it, arrived yesterday for two days of talks with the Russians on problems of the spintering Red bloc. Pres. Tito and his wife, Jovanka. flew
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    • 395 7 THE 7956 SPY SENSATION LONDON, Mon. (UPI). Commander Lionel "Buster" Crabb, famed British navy frogman presumed killed during a spying operation near a visiting Russian cruiser in Portsmouth harbour in 1956, is alive and serving os o captain in the Soviet Navy,
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    • 63 7 COLOMBO Mon. (UPI)— Ceylonese medical attendants complained they were not cleaning workers. The attendants at the general hospital in Colombo were recently sent to work on board the American hospital shin Hope, now docked in Colombo Harbour for a in-month tour of duty. However, they staged a
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    • 127 7 NEW YORK Mon (UPI) The New York Times said today the march of 87.000 New Yorkers who marched for peace at the weekend "provided evidence that the Johnson administration's tentative first step toward a negotiated settlement have little diminished the impatience of those who oppose the war
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    • 49 7 FREETOWN. Sierra Leone. Mon (Reuter) Sierra Leone's new Prime Minister. Mr. Siaka Stevens, last night announced 10 members of a new national Government, with more to be announced later All but three of those named were members of his own party, the All People's Congress
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    • 101 7 Bad Waldsee (DaD) The callisthenics tower would probably never have been invented if the athletics club of the town of Bad Waldsee (7,000 inhabitants) in the Southwest of the Federal Republic of Germany had not been lucky enough to have a trainer who was also
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  • 432 8 THE run on gold, the Vietnam war, racial strife, man's inhumanity to man all these and myriad other problems are too much with us and make dismal reading. It is a sad reflection of a world thrown out of Joint by galloping technological advancement and Internecine
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  • 260 8 BRIG-GENERAL Abdul Thalip, Indonesia's first Ambassador to Malaysia after confrontation, fresh on his arrival at Subang airport last week to take up his new appointment, has said what Manilenos should have realised by now there is no need for the Philippines to refer its Sabah claim to
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  • 639 8 THE rugged mountain people of Nepal, whose Gurkha soldiers largely depend on an all-meat diet for their renowned nghtms qualities, are being converted to fish introduced from West Germany and Israel by an Austrian Komellus Karl Zwilling. a strongly-built, bearded man with
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    • 661 8 THE call for "soul-searching" by Ton Sri Sow Seng Kew is timely. In an era of conflicts and chaos, the Chinese-educated and the English-educated Chinese must come together and respect each other rather than going their different and separate ways. The English-educated Chinese
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    • 987 8 NOW that citizenship is a requirement for jobs. I think it’s time that someone brought to the notice of the Government the difficulties encountered by the estate labourers and their plight in obtaining citizenship. Among the many qualifications needed to become a citizen,
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    • 230 8 I APPRECIATE the courtesy of Mr. Bogaars’ reply. In your issue of the April 24 1968 to. my query. I am NOT against any form of sacrifice for the public weal so long as it Is genuinely volunteered. I am strongly against any form of official
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    • 179 8 I REFER to Mr. G E. Bogaars’ letter which appeared in the Eastern Sun of the April 24 headed: “Overtime: Ministry Clarifies” Mr. Bogaars may not know or chooses not to know that the so-called overtime started long before the National Defence
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    • 281 8  -  By Harry B. Rothblatt (Author, "Handbook of Evldanco For Criminal Triala”) IN September Clyde 1 told his wife Mae that if she did not leave their home by October first, he would. Two divorce suits resulted. Clyde moved, to another state and obtained a divorce. Then Mae
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 42 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newt-paper TUESDAY. APRIL 30. 1968 23-B Cantonment Road. Singapore 2. Telephone: *****/7 Penang Office Ipeh Office 39. lalan Sultan. Kuala Lumpur. Malayeia. Telephone: *****/6 8. Leith Street. Tel: ***** 77, Brewoter Road. Tel: ***** Ca bid Address: AWNEWS
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    • 20 8 LETTER WRITERS MUST GIVE THEIR NAMES AND ADDRESSES IN GOOD FAITH. LETTERS WITHOUT NAMES AND ADDRESSES WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED-
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 160 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. Japan Air Lines is happy to announce that its Senior Vice President. Mr. S. Asada, will arrive in Singapore on Saturday. May 4. 1968. He is coming to participate in the celebration to mark the 10th Anniversary of Japan Air Lines Singapore
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    • 166 9 STOCKHOLM. Mon. Sweden's exports to her EFTA partners in JanuaryFebruary was up 7 per cent to Kr. 1,668 million, while imports rose 3 per cent to Kr 1.524 million compared with the first two months of 1967. Total Swedish exports were up 6
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    • 107 9 SOUTHAMPTON. England, Mon. (UPI) The 42.000ton P. O liner Orlana with more than 1.000 passengers aboard reached Southampton today, five days behind schedule, after steaming from the Panama Canal on only one propeller. The Oriana's starboard propeller and tall shaft were damaged when she hit
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    • 1134 9 SINGAPORE. Mon Gammon strongly featured in today’s market with a turnover of more than 90.000 units. This came about in the afternoon dealings when an official announcement waa made that Gammon South East Asia Berhad has a 50 per cent interest in a newly
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    • 226 9 Rubber up cent SINGAPORE. Mon —May first grade rubber f ob. buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 49} cents per lb., half-a-cent higher than previous close The tone was quiet but steady. Rubber Association of Singapore and Malaysian Rubber Exchange closing prices in cents
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    • 213 9 SINGAPORE. Mon A new revolutionary room airconditioner incorporating the latest and most advanced devices has been introduced into Singapore by Hageineyer Trading Co. Ltd. Tne new air-conditioner bv National model CW110A2 incorporates many new devices not found in the usual air conditioner. For example, the
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    • 300 9 CLEVELAND. Ohio Mon (UPI) Imports of foreign steel are expected to increase 39 per cent in 1968 and domestic producers are becoming alarmed Steel Magazine said today. Steel estimated that imports will reach 16 million to 17 million tons this
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    • 154 9 KUALA LUMPUR Mon. From April 1 every tyre in use in the UK must legally have a tread pattern depth of at least one millimetre, reports Rubber Developments. Journal of the UK-based Natural Rubber Producers’ Research Association. A Imm
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    • 18 9 SINGAPORE. Mon The tin price for today was $558.50 cts. per picul, up 37 i cents.
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    • 22 9 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) Rubber market opened quiet with spot 17 17} No 1 RSS CIF basis portMay 17 3/16-17 5/16.
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    • 119 9 SINGAPORE Mon In February 1968. Swissair offered a total of 51.1 million ton-kilometres, or 19 per cent more than in the same month a year ago. Demand, up 13 p.c. to 23.4 million tkms utilised, could not quite keep pace; the average load factor receded
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    • 23 9 HONG KONG Mon.(UPI) —Money Quotations. HKS6.OB 6.0925 per US dollar for cash. HK514.52 per pound sterling HK5305.5 per tael gold.
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    • 429 9 YOUR SHARES UP-DOWN UNCHANGED SINGAPORE,—Stock Exchange old and otter prices officially listed at the close of business. IMU S 1 R1AI S i ;<* 1.82 2 96 2 98 Chemical Co Coltl storage 1.43 2.83 141 4.18 K. smelting 5.65 2 1 5.90 2.83 Fitzpatricks 1 i > ord* 1.86
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    • 52 9 iMnnaim’ Prlie») Klr«t Malayan 2.94 second M.il:i>an 1.83 him M»h>an XI* 1.13 The lunmrrre ImlU'lry Tin- Ins .91 1 03 1 uml .99 1 08 lir.l lllnng Ml .81 8econ«l II Mins .36 60* Malawian ln\e-tment 1 Mllll \l> 1 10 1 30 Merlin* < ihodlty XI* I/ll
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    • 111 9 SINGAPORE. Mon The noon priee- at the Singapore thlnw Produce Exchange today areBuyer Selle* Coconut oil (1 O B.) Bulk :s Coconuf Oil it OB.) Drums 68.25 Loose Copra 'lixed \pr 88 50 Minilok White Pepper (1 OB) M.W 11: so Sarawak Bhlte Pepper (E.OB) SIB 115.00 8ara« ik
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    • 127 9 STOCKHOLM, Mon. Sweden’s industrial output in February was 3 per cent larger than in the same month of 1967. The production index of the Central Bureau of Statistics was registered at 180 points (1959 100), compared with 174 a year ago. Breakdown figures for main industrial sectors
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    • 124 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following ships are expected to be in port today;— Godowns Vessels 1/2 Buenos Aires Maru 3/4 Adolf Warski 5 Lousburg 6/7 Astrid Bakke 8/9 Tjibodas 10 T1 Asateru Maru 13/14 Ruys 15/16 Benmacdhui 18 Stentor 19 Anna K. 23 24 Tappuz 25/26 Kimanig 27
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 770 9 AIR MOVEMENTS—S'PORE, K. .LUMPURj ARRIVALS MSA 029 12.05 a.m. from Kuala Lumpur AI B.707 2.15 pm. from Calcutta. MSA 019 8.96 am. from Kuala Lumpur. GIA 932 9.35 a.m. from Jakarta MSA 121 9 30 a.m. from Kuala Lumpur PA A—814 10.05 am. from Jakarta MSA 005 10.25 a.m. from
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 1414 10 YOUR TV and TODAY TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 KUALA LUMPUR and Pulau Pinang; 6 Ipoh and Melaka: 3 10 Jobore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 7 Balu Pahat; 9 tduang P.M. 545 Opening Annct Prog. Summary; 5.50 News Outlines in the National Language; 5.55 National Songs; 600 News in Tamil; 6.10 The
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    • 737 12  -  By Florence de Santis IT'S a very funny thing, whot has been happening with hats. During World War 11, all the young women working in war plants abandoned hats. In the post-war years, mature ladies followed their lead, especially when hair styling entered
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    • 213 12 WHAT would you give to Improve the appearance of your hands? Would a few pennies and a few minutes each week seem too big a price to pay? Today’s two-part treatment caste no more and does a superb job of beautification. Here’s the way it
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    • 330 12 RECIPES THESE are cookies with pineapple filling. Ingredients: Half a cup of shortening, one cup sugar, one egg. half teaspoon lemon extract quarter cup syrup drained from a can crushed pineapple, two and a half cups sifted flour, one teaspoon baking powder and half teaspoon salt. Cream
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    • 185 12 LEAD artists from a Tokyo musical revue “stole the show” when they changed from the footlights of the theatre to model Australian fashions at a Melbourne arcade salon recently. Singers Misao Kamijo and Fujii Teruko and dancer Onishi Mustuko showed that they were
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    • 81 12 AN airline which specialises in flights to Florida has discovered that an item often forgotten by vacationers js a beach robe. So National Airlines is taking advantage of today’s paper clothes to offer a free robe to oassengers on package tours. Designed in classic “happy coat’’ style,
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      62 12 HTHESE two modern versions of Sarong Ke- baya are ideal for formal occasions. Left: The front of the hip-length blouse is trimmed with bindings made from material from the sarong. Right: This outfit is highlighted by cut out lace motiffs sewn onto the blouse and hem of sarong.
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  • Eastern Sun Special
    • 504 13  -  By ANTHONY WHITE Reuter. and sand have taken possession of Kolmanskop, Southwest Africa, now that the diamonds have gone. And the place that was once grandly known as the 'Pearl of the Namid Desert" in the days of the big diamond rush some 50 years
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    • 1414 13 A Sydney laboratory has developed a new cleaning chemical which it claims will replace muriatic acid and save industry many thousands of dollars a year in maintenance costs. The chemical is acidic but reputedly without the bite of muriatic acid which for nearly 100
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    • 480 13  -  By Albert E. Koff, United Press International —U.P.I. IV/f ISS Kumiko Marumo stood before a blackboard with a piece of chalk in her hand. She drew a circle with a stem on it. Children, this is an apple.” she said in English, pronouncing each syllable
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    • 368 13  -  By THAUNG MYINE Reuter. More than 1,000 boy and girl students of Thailand's universities have left their text-books and campuses to pitch camps near villages in northeastern and southern Thailand which are threatened by Communist-led guerillas. They are community development volunteers who will live
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 223 13 fSHAW ORnANI^R’nDM LIDO Phone ***** lith Record Day —No Free List! Due to Aim's length 4 Shows Note Time*: It, I.M. 8.15. B.IS Ito Main Feature starts promptly at 11.18. t. 48, 6 38 A 8 .13 p m Clint Eastwood. Lee Van Orel "THE GOOD. THE BAD A THE
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    • 387 13 EEminmma Last Shorn! 11. 1.30. 4no 6.15 John w*vne “North To Alaska” Capuci:ie Color, C Scope. FOX Nurses' u>ek Film Preimero TONTOHT St 9 15 pm. "PLANET OF THE APES” 'FOX) Charlton Heston. Color. P’Vislon Season from Tomorrow at ODEON A PALACE Hn NOW SHOWING! I*o. 4.00. II 1.30. 4.00.
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  • 55 14 THESE dynamic Space Age mini-shifts are part of Teddy Tinting's smash hit Spring '6B collection of tennis wear. Made from Dacron Polyester, these striking dresses with specially programmed computer data printed in space blue on the front weigh only two ounces. Hardwearing. comfortable and
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  • 668 14  -  By Geroge Lentz REICHENBACK FALLS, Switzerland/ Mon. (UPI). Sherlock Holmes will make a sentimental visit this week to the spot where archcriminal Professor Moriarty, assisted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tried to push the detective to his death. Doyle, who created Sherlock Holmes in
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  • 81 14 NEW YORK Mon. (Reuter* Reports circulated again today that Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller is about to announce formally that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination. Yesterday Senator Thruston B. Morton and former representative William B Miller conferred with the Governor in his New York
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  • 76 14 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) Ten students were hurt and 12 arrested when police were called to stop them wrecking an exhibition here devoted to “South Vietnam at War”. About 50 students, armed with sticks and pick axe handles ruined most of the exhibits before the police
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  • 433 14 NEW SFEATURES Editor’s note: Contergan is otherwise known as “Thalidomide” in the English-speaking world. BRG Aaochen, Mon. Not less than 400 journalists from many countries are expected for the so-called Contergan trial in late May. Contergan is the trade name of the sedative and sleeping medicine
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  • 130 14 SANTA FE. New Mexico. Mon. (UPI) Internationally known poet Winfield T. Scott. 57, died in Santa Fe yesterday. Scott. who moved in Santa Fe in 1951. was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe. An autopsy was ordered performed to determine the
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  • 81 14 HONG KONG, Mon (UPI) The Vietcong are continuing to press hard in the central provinces of South Vietnam and on other battlefields. the North Vietnamese news agency reported today. The agency quoted the Vietcong's Liberation press agency as saying that the "Liberation Forces” had “wiped out”
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  • 286 14 NEW YORK, Mon. (Reuter) Sixty-six Americans, ranging in age from 92 to 42, have fortunes of more than US$l5O million each. Fortune magazine reported today. Fortune's annual list of “The richest of the rich” was topped by oilman J. Paul Getty and Industrialist Howard Hughes, whose wealth
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 534 14 i Eastern Sunj Classified advertisements can 1 be accepted at the following w addresses: MONT O'OR MILK BAR. Ngee Ann Building Singapore. SS. MUBARUK b Brothers. 63. Bras BasaH Road, and 2. Maiu Avenue. Serangoon Carden Estate. Singapore TAT BUAN GUAN LTD.. SUPERMARKET 83. East Coast Road. Singapore 15 Tel-
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    • 618 14 MBaateT' PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, MALAYA APPLICATIONS are invited from suitably qualified Federal Citizens below 50 years of age on Ist January 1968 for the following posts:— (A) Lecturer In National Language (B) Lecturer In Agricultural Economics (C) Research Assistant (D) Assistant Lecturer In Engineering (E) Assistant Librarian (F)
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    • 61 14 IMPORTANT NOTICE We are glad to announce that as from 2nd May, 1968, CAL will resume their regular flights between Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Taipei. For reservations, please contact your travel agents or CAL OFFICES. CHINA AIRLINES SINGAPORE: Liat Towers, Upper Ground Floor 541, Orchard Road, Tel:
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  • Sun Sport
    • 273 15  -  By K.G. Tharan JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The State Government and speed fans here are anxiously waiting for word from the Singapore Motor Club in connection with this year's Johore Grand Prix. A spokesman for the G o v e rnment-sponsored Grand Prix organising committee
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    • 365 15 ALOR STAR. Mon. Mokhtar bin Tahir was the individual champion at the Alor Star National Electricity Board athletic meet at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College ground recently. He won four events and was placed second in three others. He also won the best performance
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    • 98 15 ALOR STAR. Mon Mohamed Senawi won two title* in the Kedah Land Department open badminton individual championships at the Guru Hall over the weekend He took the men's singles and doubles. In the doubles Ariffln Haji Abdul Rahman was his partner. He had an easy
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    • 229 15 LAUSANNE. (Switzerland), Mon (UPI) The convening of the ninth Olympic Congress and condemnation of a speech by a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were the main themes at a weekend meeting of the Council of International Sports Federations. Johann WesterhofT, the lOC secretary-general,
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    • 297 15 SEREMBAN Mon. A solitary goal in the 57th minute enable Seremban Rangers to edge N. 6. Ceylonese Youth Forum in a key N.S. Hockey Association league fixture here today. In a fast and hard tackling game, the defence of both teams stood well up
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    • 67 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Hong Kong cricket team will play a series of tames in West Malaysia. ingapore and Kota Kinabalu from May 4 —23. The visitors will play the Malaysian side in a three day game in Kuala Lumpur on May 10 at the
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    • 705 15 ATLANTA, (Georgia), Mon. (UPI). The country has a new hero. It suddenly became obvious when he walked through the Atlanta Airport here where people from all over the land come and go every day without ever bothering to notice who is walking alongside them.
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    • 126 15 ALOR STAR Mon. Lim Ju Hong of Alor Star won the 50 miles cycle race for junior* with a time of two hours 30 minutes and 21.5 seconds at Sungei Patani last Friday. The course starting from Sungei Patani stretched through Luboh KawahBukit Selambau-Simpang Jeniang-Gurun-B
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    • 242 15 SINGAPORE. Mon. —The old 25-metre pool at the Chinese Swimming Club is to be rebuilt and turned into a "standard pool" capable of holding international meets. This was disclosed by Mr. Soon Peng Yam, president of the club where he spoke at the
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    • 414 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malaysian Amateur Volleyball Association is to introduce a national youth tournament from this year This was decided at a—recent extra-ordinary general meeting of the association at the Hotel Merlin here. Penang have accepted the ofier to organise this
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    • 172 15 MANILA Mon. (Reuter) The Philippines beat Indonesia 4-1 yesterday to win the semi-finals in the Davis Cup tennu Eastern Zone competition and the right to play Japan for the Section A title. Veteran Filipino net star Fellcismo Ampon scored the final point for the Philippines at
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    • 299 15 DALLAS, Texas, Mon. (UPI) Miller Barber flaunted his fat lead in the face of the field with a 35foot birdie on the first hole yesterday, and then staved off a torrid charge by Kermit Zarley to win the Byron Nelson Golf Classic by one stroke
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    • 129 15 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Leading scores in English soccer are: Division one: Ron Davies (Southampton) 28: Jeff Astle (West Bromwich Albion 27; Allan Clarke (Fulham) 27: George Best (Manchester United) 25: Geoff Hurst (West Ham United) 25; Francis Lee (Manchester City) 25. Division two:
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    • 66 15 SINGAPORE. Man. Bukit Ho Swee Centre finished first in the Area ‘B' road-relay of the Adult Education Board’s "Festival of Sports” held at the Bukit Ho Swee ground yesterday. The Bukit Ho Swee team consisting of Pang Toh Pin. Rocky Chua Nga See Eng Khoon
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    • 99 16 The two men from Cologne Rudi Altig (left) and Rolf Wolfshohi (right) are the pride of German cycling. Rudi Altig several times in pursuit of the World Amateur Road Cycling Championship won the professional title in 1966. He has just made the headlines by winning the classic race Milan —San
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    • 436 16  -  By R. Nathan SINGAPORE, Mon. New rules ore bring tried out in hockey to "increase the speed and popularity of the game." The International Hockey Federation have informed all national hockey bodies of the move and have called on them to try
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    • 103 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. Indonesia's ten-member team to the Singapore Pesta badminton arrived by air tonight. Speaking to reporters, the team’s manager. Dr. Sngeng said he was confident Indonesia would capture the major titles in the Pesta. He said the current AllEngland singles champion. Rudy Hartono
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    • 547 16 PENANG. Mon. Following is the Stipendiary Steward’s report for the Penang Turf Club summer meeting on Sunday. Going yielding. RACE ONE; Nawari (Caraveile II) when questioned as to why he dropped out to last after racing for li furlongs, stated that his
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    • 275 16 SINGAPORE, Mon. Seven State footballers will play in tha Naval Base Asian Invitation XI against Singapore British Joint Services in a commemorative soccer match at Deptford Road, Naval Base on May 1. Kick-off (5.15 p.m.) The players all wellknown in the local soccer
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    • 252 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A 23-man team, comprising 18 players and five officials, left for Seoul this morning to take part in the 10th Asian Youth Soccer tournament from May 2 to 16 The team, whose players are all Under 20 and who were
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    • 621 16 PENANG. Mon. Following are race weights for second day Penang races on Wednesday. HORSES CLASS 1 Div 3 —about 7 furs Olympic Torch 9.00 Lord Jim 8.13 Rustic 8.12 Chaya Timor 8.11 Baroque 8 11 Armistice 8.10 Jerry's Kuda 8 09 Pot of Gold 8 08 Pisan e
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    • 294 16  -  by C. F. Lee. KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Malaysia will support fully the move to persuade Thailand to host the 1970 Asian Games in view of the latest report from South Korea that she Is finding difficulty in holding the
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    • 197 16  -  By Windsor Lad. PENANG. Mon. Hokoru, a course scratching on Sunday. showed up to advantage on a good track here this morning when he easily skipped over 3f in 39 sec. He finished his work nicely on the bit. He is fit and bears watching.
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    • 57 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 1.40 a.m. (7.3 ft.), 1.49 pm. (8.6 ft.) Port Swettenham: 7.20 a.m. (13.9 ft.), 7.22 pm (14.4 ft.) Port Dickson: 7.49 a.m. (7.8 ft), 8.15 p.m. (8.7 ft.) Singapore: 12.50 a.m. (7.8 ft.) Sedili Kerhil: 12.05 a.m. (71 ft.). 10.27 p m. (60 ft.) Kuantan: 11.10
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