Eastern Sun, 30 May 1968

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  • 24 1 Eastern Sun Independeni National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION <r Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 660 Thursday, 30 May 1968. VV MC(P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 566 1  -  10,000 jam Subang Airport to witness Indian Premier's arrival By MAUREEN LEE KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Air-lndia Boeing 707 carrying Indian Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, here for a fourday official visit tonight circled over Subang Airport for 30 minutes before landing at 7.16 p.m. The
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  • 153 1 CAIGON. Wed. (IPI) U.S. and South Vietnamese troops killed 410 North Vietnamese soldiers challenging Allied defensive positions south of the demilitarized zone, military spokesmen said today. In the heaviest fighting around the Khe Sanh Marine base in two months. Leathernecks reported killing 230
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  • 62 1 PARIS. Wed. (Reuter) General de Gaulle left Paris unexpectedly for his country home today amid mounting speculation over his future. At the same time France’s nine- man Constitutional Council was reported to have been asked to be ready to hold an urgent session, if required, giving
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  • 255 1  - Some Police, Customs officers in pay of racketeers Harun By BEN D’CUNHA Kuala lumpub, wed. “Some Police and Customs officers are in the pay of smuggling and gambling syndicates in Malaysia.’’ Disclosing this here today, the Director of the AntiCorruption Agency. Enche Harun Hashim, said he was determined to break
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  • 147 1 ALOR STAR. Wed. A ease of cholera has been diagnosed in the General Hospital here. The patient, a female. 39. from Kampong Berjaya, Mergong, Alor Star, was admitted to hospital yesterday, with symptoms of diarrhoea and vomiting and in a state of collapse. She
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  • 26 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Yang di-Pertuan Agong will open the fifth and last session of second Parliament on Thursday. June 6.
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  • 138 1 PENANG. Wed. Thousands of people, mostly women and children. rushed to the nine city clinics in various parts of the city to get themselves inoculated today following the Transfer Road cholera case. There were long queues especially at the Dato Koyah Road clinic, near
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  • 55 1 PARIS, Wed. i Reuter) France's giant Communistcontrolled C.G.T. Trade Union Federation has called nationwide demonstrations today despite Government warnings that police will “act relentlessly’’ against illegal meetings. Radical student leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit back in France despite a Govvernment ban early today called on Paris students
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  • 99 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Med The Principal Assistant Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Enche Azizan bin Zainal Abidin, today disclosed the Government has lifted the restriction on Russian seamen calling at Malaysian ports. He said the Russian seamen were now being given the same shore
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  • 106 1 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) —U.S. planes and ships desperately scoured a 2.100-mile stretch of the Atlantic today as hopes dimmed for the nuclear submarine Scorpion, missing since Monday afternoon. “As every hour passes and we find nothing it looks more and more grim.” a naval spokesman
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  • 181 1 SINGAPORE, We d. An eminent Australian psychiatrist. Dr. H. Bailey, has been specially flown from Sydney to give evidence at the Gene Koh murder trial. Dr. Bailey, who is a consultant psychiatrist to a number of hospitals in Sydney and other major cities
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  • 224 1 Wed. (Reuter) Singapore’s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, today held a final round of private talks with British industrialists before his departure tonight for home. His programme for the last day of a week-long visit included calls at several factories in the
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 623 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Indian Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, said today that Asian regional co-operation through trade, mutual aid, joint ventures, closer contacts and understanding as well as cultural and scientific exchange could go a long way to promote the people's struggle for peace,
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    • 100 2 The Mentri Besar of Selangor, Dato Haji Harun bin Haji Idris, received a cheque of $10,000 yesterday at his office in Kuala Lumpur from Mr. Ng Eng Hiam, a rubber planter, for the National Cancer Centre of Malaysia. The money will be used for the establishment of a cytology screening
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    • 121 2 PENANG. Wed. The Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee. presented a cheque for $15,000 to a Siamese temple in Tanah Liat, during his visit to Bukit Mertajam district yesterday. He also inspected a drainage scheme in Kampong Cross. J The scheme, estimated to cost $29,000
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    • 83 2 LAYANG LAYANG. Wed. have arrested a suspect in connection with the $30.0(10 robbery at the Oil Palms of Malaya CoOperative Stores here They have also found the stolen safe in thick bushes in a nearby estate. The safe was in a badly damaged condition and it
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    • 313 2  - Probe on Govt. Housing Society to continue ACA By BEN D’CUNHA KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Director of the Anti-Corruption Agency, Enche Harun Hashim said here today investigations into the Government Officers Housing Co-operative Society would be “pursued to the end. He said investigations into the affairs of the society was
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    • 25 2 PENANG. Wed —A garden party will be held at the Residency here on Wednesday to celebrate the birthday of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
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    • 157 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. New working hours are being proposed for Government servants throughout the counrty. The proposed new working hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. with the lunch break from 12.30 pm. to 1.45 p.m.. a spokesman in the Federal Establishment Office
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    • 36 2 SEREMBAN. Wed. Sekolah Dato’ Sheikh Ahmad (English medium), here with an enrolment of over 900 pupils. is to be officially opened by Enche Mohamed Khir lohari. Minister of Education. on Friday at 10 a.m.
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    • 27 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The National Disaster Fund up to May 24 stands at $2,621,301.24. Selangor, with $1.33,274.78. tops the list of donations from the states.
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    • 124 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. —Three cases of housebreaking and a copper wire theft were reported to the polire here yesterday. Thieves broke into the house of a watchman. Kok Shing. behind a school in Am pang Road and got away with $lOO cash and jewellery worth $929.
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    • 47 2 IPOH. Wed. A sum of $180.73 was stolen from a petty cash box in the High Court Registry here yesterday. The chief clerk. Mr. D. Antonie. found the cash missing in the morning. The police have since detained two persons for questioning.
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    • 101 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The first batch of railway officials will report at the Railway Training School in Jalan Travers on Monday for a refresher course. The course wa* ordered by the Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Sardon, after the Layang Layang rail crash. It is
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    • 43 2 The big $lOO,OOO opium haul in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. A n t i-C o r r uption Agency officials are seen bundling the opium packages info sacks at the A.C.A. Head quarters. Eastern Sun pix by Yap Chew Yan.
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    • 356 2  -  By KHOO BOON CHOO PENANG. Wed. Thirteen low-cost housing schemes in the State of Penang, under the Central Government's crash programme, and estimated to cost over $2 million, will be completed at the end of this year. Tenders for seven schemes, four in Butterworth. have
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    • 106 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The postage stamps commemorating the National Language month, issued on July 21 and withdrawn on October 21, 1962, will not be valid for postage or revenue purposes with effect from Saturday. Announcing this today, the Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications,
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    • 51 2 MALACCA. Wed. The High Court here today sentenced a kampong worker, Ahmad bin Harun, 21. to three years’ jail for raping a schoolgirl in October last year. Ahmad was stated to have committed the offence in a rubber plantation near her home at Maiaka Pinda on Oct.
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    • 60 2 National art Gallery: Exhibition of batek design and art 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. Peninsular art Gallery: Works of prominent Malaysian artists 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Zoo Negara: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Jalan Weld Swimming Pool: 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. 2 to 5 p.m.. 6
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    • 171 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. —The Subang golf course would be run by a corporation. Disclosing this here today, the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, said a bill would be tabled in Parliament at its next session beginning on June 6 for the establishment of the corporation.
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    • 1851 3  -  Witnesses tell of “strong smell” By R.V. Lingam SINGAPORE, Wed. A police constable related in the High Court today how he helped the accused in the Gene Koh murder trial to carry a box "a fairly big one almost a
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    • 152 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. —Forestry will be taught next year in the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Malaya, the Dean of Agriculture, Prof. D S. MacLusky, disclosed today. It might be taught as a separate degree course but this would depend on the
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    • 176 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. TTiese two lovely senoritas need help. Cerilia and Lolita (right) are looking for some kind persons to lend them a couple of horses for a few hours each day for riding exercises. Both of them are members of the Ballet de Buenos Aires which
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    • 204 3  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Wed. Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of a 52-year-old money-lender, Tan King Moi, found slain in a cubicle in Desker Road early this week. The two youths were nabbed by a team of detectives at Rowell
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    • 99 3 SINGAPORE. Wed—Six Community Centres in Ponggol today presented $12,735.45 to Mr. Ng Kah Ting. MP for Ponggol for the National Defence Fund. In receiving the money. Mr. Ng said he was happy that the residents of Ponggol were doing their bit towards nation building
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    • 134 3 12.45 pm. 2 p.m. The Rotary Club of SingaporeWest weekly luncheon at the Hollandsche (Dutch) Club. Camden Park, off Adam Road. 3 p m. 8 p.m. Free mass community X-ray station at Woodlands Community Centre. Isi m s., Woodlands Road. 5.30 p.m 9 p.m. S.A.T.A. free mass X-ray
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    • 571 4 Neutrality of SEA KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malaysia will keep pursuing its call to the Big Powers to guarantee the neutrality and integrity of South-east Asia, official sources told Bernama today. Although the government would not immediately do this through diplomatic channels it
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    • 43 4 TAIPING, Wed. The Tourist Week, scheduled to begin here tomorrow, has been postponed indefinitely following the declaration of the Larut and Matang districts as cholera-infected areas. This was announced by the Taiping Tourist Association Chairman, Dato Goh Chok Sam. today.
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    • 261 4 Penang, ww. F6ur days after the return of a businessman from a trip to Ipoh, his mother t6ld him that his wife had an affair with her nephew during his absence. “My mother, Goh Siew Keng. said that my two younger brothers.
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    • 118 4 KAMPAR. Wed. A 30-year-old housewife and her two sons, aged 10 and 11, were yesterday admitted to the District hospital here suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea. The three, who are from the Tronoh Mines New Village. eight miles from here, have been put into an
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    • 337 4 KUALA LUMPUR, wed. Malaysia and Indortesia today Signed an agreement to set up a Commission on trade and economic relations. The Commission will discuss any matter pertaining to the sound development of trade and economic relations between the two countries. It will have a maximum
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    • 466 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A girl told the Magistrate’s Court here today how her former boyfriend tried to extort $5OO from her threatening to expose her abortion. Corina (whose surname was withheld by the Court) was testifying against a salesman
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    • 56 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed— On a lecture tour through Southeast Asia. Prince Loewenstein. German historian and author, will arrive here on Friday. During his five-day stay in Malaysia he will give lectures on “strategy against hunger" and “a German view on internationalism” in Penang and will meet personalities
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    • 321 4 KUALA Ll-MFUK, Wed. —Four Belgian expert* arrived here by air today to help the government in housing development. They are here at the invitation of the Malaysian Government to study and make recommendations on lowcost housing projects. The Belgian Ambassador, Tan Sri
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    • 150 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed The Party Gerakan Rayat Malaysia came into official existence at midnight last night. Announcing this at a press conference here today, the Gerakan Chairman, Profes sor (Dr.) Syed Hussein Alatas disclosed that the party wa* registered on May 25. He said the party would
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    • 153 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Minister for Science and Technology. Dr. Toh Chin Chye. who is also the ViceChancellor of the University of Singapore will open the seminar on Filariasis and Immunology of Parasitic Infections and Laboratory Demonstration Meeting on Parasitology and Tropical Medicine on
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    • 229 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Ford Foundation has approved another ($1,440,000) to the College of Agriculture at Serdang This brings the total amount of grants from the Foundation to the College to $3,145,500. The present programme began in September 1966 with an initial grant
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    • 219 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Four of the 21 students and ex-students of the Chung Hwa (P) Middle School in Johore, who were arrested and detained under the Internal Security Act for involvement in Communist subversive activities early this month have been released. They are Ng Ah
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    • 71 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Civil Aviation Air Traffic Control Services Union has called on the Government to pay the Civil Aviation Traffic Control staff their “dark” allowances without discrimination within the Department. Otherwise serious repercussions might arise in the event of the Union having to
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    • 457 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. Thousands of Tot© coupons were sold and filled up within a few hours yesterday without any hitch. This was stated today by Mr. S. Thiruchelvam, Acting Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Finance, when he addressed a press conference this afternoon. He denied
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    • 575 10  -  By MARTIN LIM SINGAPORE. Wed. God is mightier than a human being’s spiritual powers That O W as why with prayers and invocations to God by members of her family she managed to overcome the “charm” of a 40-year-old odd-job labourer, an 18-year-old
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    • 143 10 SINGAPORE. Wed—A group of MSA Traffic staff, who call themselves “The Elites" will be organising a “gala night” called Second Emerald Nite at Ocean Park Hotel on Saturday. Proceeds from the function will go towards the Rose Minie Fund in aid of retarded
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    • 181 10 SINGAPORE. Wed Two political detainees were released today. They are Ibrahim bin Mustari, 23. a former member of Partai Rakyat Ulu Pandan branch, and Wong Heng Mui, 25, a former member of Barisan Sosialis. In hig public statement, Ibrahim called on the Malays to discard their
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    • 104 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. Three local Sea Cadets here have been offered scholarships for sea-training overseas. Cadets Gerald Seow. 16. and Woon Kooi Sang. 16. will join Ben Line’s “Benvalla" and Blue Funnel Line's “Flintshire” respectively for three months' return passage to Britain. Cadet Tan Ah
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    • 209 10 SINGAPORE. Wed A Japanese entertainment troupe which performs the much-talked "Golden Dance” as Its special item, will present it in Singapore next week. The 12-member troupe will be presented here by one of the Republic's leading restaurants. Po Po Restaurant of Tanjong
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    • 239 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. All is set for the 16th International Bazaar to be held at Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday from 10 30 a m. to 7 p.m. The German Embassy here will be holding an exhibition at the bazaar. It will
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    • 75 10 SINGAPORE, Wed A Malaysian. Kong Kim Tian. was today charged in the Ninth Magistrate’s Court with bribing an Immigration officer. Sulaiman bin Pandi. with $lO. He is alleged to have given the money to Sulaiman at Lorong Fatimah, off Woodlands Road, on May 27 as inducement to
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    • 58 10 SINGAPORE. Wed —The president of Chinese Women’s Association, Mrs. S K. Wong, will open an exhibition of paintings by Mr. Lee Leong Looi on Saturday at 5 p m. at National Library. The exhibition will be Mr. Lee’s fourth one-man show. He hopes to take his works
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    • 167 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. A 42-year-old woman, Hong Slew Kim. gave birth to a habv boy in the toilet sink of her flat, a District Court was told today. When a midwife from Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital. Pang Guek Fung, arrived to deliver the baby, she
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    • 50 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education. Dr Lee Chiaw Meng. will give away the prize at the annual prize distribution of the Singapore Chess Federation. It will be held at Y.M.C.A. in Orchard Road here on June 1 at 4 30 pm.
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    • 446 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. An airline’s reservation officer. Mr. Jolly Lim Ah Lak. today told the High Court that he was once removed from his mother-in-law's house in Kim Keat Road by the Police summoned by the latter while attempting to see his
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    • 79 10 SINGAPORE. Wed Four schools have qualified for the finals of the sth Annual Inter-School Science Quiz which will be held at Shell Theatrette on May, 31. The schools are St. Joseph's Institution. Telok Kurau Secondary School. Marymount Convent and St Gabriel's School. Organised by Gan
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    • 49 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. Two girls were today jailed for a month each by a District Court for trespassing into Chung Hwa Girls' High School with intention to commit vandalism. Goh Hwee Chuan and Ong Sai Gek were found guilty of committing the offence on May 11.
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    • 383 11 TPOH, W*d. Efforts must be mode to deA velop new mining areas to assist the prospects of employment in the tin mining industry. This call was made by the president of the Malayan Mining Employers' Association, Mr. P.W.W. Thuell at its 22nd annual meeting
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    • 661 11 IDE KAN, Wed. A total of 93 people received Honours and awards from the Sultan of Pahang on his 64th birthday today. A former Pakistan High Commissioner to Malaysia. Maj-Gen Nawab Zadah Mohamed Sher Ali Khan received the Sri Indera Mahkota Pahang. He served
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    • 194 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A United Nations experts on narcotics will arrive here on Friday to study the problem of narcotics smuggling in the country. The Comptroller-General of the Royal Customs and Excise Department. Malaysia. Wan Hamzah bin Haji Wan Mrhamed, said today two
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    • 66 11 MALACCA. Wed. Malacca is facing a scarcity of matches. The acute shortage has led to 100 percent increase in price. Even then dealers who have stock would only sell to their regular customers. Retailers are selling at 10 cents a box. Importers here attribute the
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    • 156 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Five army officers left Subang Airport this morning for a month’s study tour of the United States. They are Colonel N. Selvarajah, Chief of the Malaysian Engineers.. Colonel R S Corbitt. Director of Medical Services., Lieutenant Colonel Yusoff Abu Bakar. Principal
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    • 113 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Police Special Investigation Section made another seizure of gangland weapons in the Cheras area here yesterday. Detectives from the SIS (Special Investigation Section), acting on a tipoff, went to a banana plantation at the 2-1/2 mile Cheras Road at about 2.30 p.m. The police
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    • 229 11  -  By C. F. LEE KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. First there were those sex bombs, then came the sex kittens, and then the queen bees. Now. gentle night clubbers, if you have sufficiently recovered from the scratches of the kittens and the sting of the bees, how about
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    • 236 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Twenty-Seven aircraft of the Royal Malaysian Air Force will take part in the biggest air display at the Royal Malaysian Air Force Base, here on Sunday. The display, held in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the Royal Malaysian
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    • 99 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak. will open a water supply scheme at Kelompang in Ulu Selangor on Saturday. The $2.5 million scheme includes a filtration plant which will serve about 37.000 residents in Northern Ulu Selangor. During his visit
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    • 31 11 TELUK ANSON. Wed.— The dedication and official opening of the Wesley Methodist School, Jalan Horley. here by Bishop Robert F. Lundy will be held on Friday at 3 p.m.
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    • 68 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Mr. Chung Tsu Teng. 24, was admitted ac a member of the Bar before Justice Dato S M Yong, in the High Court here today. Mr. Chung, and old boy of the Methodist Boys* School, completed his law studies in the Lincoln Inn
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    • 65 11 MUAR. Wed.— The Muar Town Council has approved an application by the Muar Lions Club to erect "Muar Lions Club welcomes careful drivers” notice boards outside the Muar Town Council area. The chairman of the works committee cf the Muar Town Council, Enche M. Taha bin
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    • 265 11 fTT’ALA LUMPUR, Wed. Top pedigree dogs from Singapore and Malaysia will take part in the 10th Championship Dog Show at the Chinwoo Stadium here, organised by the Malaysian Kennel Association. The Championship Dog Show Committee i s hopeful of at: least 150
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    • 81 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— A thief, who snatched a collection box containing $84.50 from a fish-monger yesterday, was caught after a 50-yard chase. The box and the money were recovered. Hwai Kok, alias, Ng Kok, 49. was taking the money home at 7.30 p m. after closing his
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 394 5 ‘No dumping of Asia ’—RUSK REITERATES WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) Secretary of State Dean Rusk denied in an interview released today that the United States plan to "turn its back" on Asia once the Vietnam war is over. “We will never abandon our commitments or compromise the bright future of Asia.”
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    • 550 5 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, the Singapore Prime Minister last night stressed that it was sheer dynamic equilibrium vigilantly maintained that is keeping local Reds off the door. "They don't cause trouble because they don't sniff victory around the
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    • 142 5 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) A memorial service for two Reuters correspondents killed in Saigon will be held here on Friday, June 14. The correspondents, Ronald Laramy, 31, from Devon, England and Bruce Pigott, 23. of Melbourne. Australia, were killed along with two other journalists on May
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    • 61 5 PARIS. Wed. (UPI) Indian President Zakir Husain has postponed an official visit he was scheduled to make to France on June 4-7 the Foreign Office announced today. No official reason was given for the postponement but it was presumed in connection with the current political and
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    • 67 5 EDINBURGH. Scotland, Wed. (UPI) Alex Smith, 15-year-old Scottish boy, died last night 13 days after he was given the lung of an 18-vear-old girl. Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary said the lad. Europe's first lun P transplant patient, died after losing consciousness yesterday afternoon. No other
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    • 29 5 LONDON, Wed. Mr. Lee KuanYcw, is interviewed by newsmen after flying into London Airport for a week-long private visit to the United Kingdom.
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    • 230 5 WARSAW, Wed. (Reuter) Ambassadorial talks between the United States and China scheduled here for today have been postponed until an unspecified date at Peking's request, the U.S. embassy an- nounced here. Earlier a communique from the Chinese Embassy said
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    • 64 5 BEIRUT, Lebanon, Wed. More than 300 shacks were burnt down as fires swept through a shanty town on the outskirts of Beirut, following a cooking gas-bottle explosion. First reports said that three persons suffered severe burns and hundreds of people were rendered homeless. Here,
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    • 96 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) Two rescue ships taking part in the search for the missing U.S. nuclear submarine Scorpion, are converging on a spot in the Atlantic where an oil slick was sighted five days ago. The slick was only reported today when the U
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    • 73 5 Paris. Wed. (Reuter) Scores of families throughout France could starve to death if strikes now parlysing the country were prolonged. charity workers warned today. Some 6,000 shanty-town dwellers in Paris along could face starvation. The French poor, normally reliant on family allowances and unemployment benefits, have
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    • 116 5 PARIS. Wed. (UPI) The French news agency Agence France Press last night ceased service because of a strike. A “Note to the attention of the editors in chief” of the news service was carried on the agency’s national wire at 9.49 p.m. last night advising subscribers
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    • 132 5 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) British merchant sea officers should be compensated for the “Humiliating and insulting” treatment they receive in Communist Chinese ports, a seamen’s guild officer said yesterday. A small but growing number of British officers have refused to sail on vessels calling at China ports
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    • 195 5 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Leading Conservatives indicated last night that a future Conservative government would drastically curb the flow of coloured immigrants into Britain, particularly of dependants. Party chairman Anthony Barber, addressing a conference of 3.000 women Conservatives here. claimed their policy towards immigrants would ensure
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    • 116 5 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter)' The House of Commons last night ordered a Parliamentary inquiry into a national newspaper report which gave “secret” information about Britain’s germ warfare research programme The article, in the independent Observer last Sunday. named university professors and doctors said to
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    • 80 5 NEW YORK, Wed. (Renter) America’s three surviving heart transplant patients were reported to bje doing well todav in hospitals in Houston. Texas, and Richmond, Virgina. 7 In Richmond 54-year-old Joseph Klett, a white patient, was reported in satisfactory condition after receiving a new heart last Saturday
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    • 395 6 T>ARIS, Wed. (Reuter) Hanoi delegates are expected today to -l renew public criticism of United States Vietnam policy and the American negotiating position in the preliminary peace talks here despite a U.S. plea for "secret diplomacy" as a means to
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    • 168 6 CANBERRA. Wed. (UPI) External Affairs Minister Mr. Paul Hasluck will visit the Philippines and Ceylon BCxt month and hold talks with Australian ambassadors from a number of Asian and Far East countries, it was announced today. Mr. Hasluck will complete this programme after
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    • 52 6 RANGOON. Wed (Reuter) Two policemen were killed thig week when 130 Communist rebels over-ran a police station 30 miles north-east of cyclone hit Akyab. The incident occurred on Monday and according to official reports in Rangoon today, the rebels took three rifles and trade stores after a
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    • 164 6 HONG KONG. Wed. (UP!) A British Army Sergeant from Northern Ireland has been awarded the George Medal for bravery for rescuing two policemen from minefield near the Communist China border last year, it was announced today. Army spokesman said the London Gazette announced
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    • 85 6 PARIS, Wed (Reuter) France’s general strike dragged on today wuth little progress made towards a settlement and with militant student leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit back in town. Cohn-Bendit told reporters here early today that students should not renounce street demonstrations but should trv to avoid confrontation with
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    • 358 6 HONG KONG, Wed. (TPI). Communist northern area has an extensive spy network operating in North China, according to the man who many believe to be head of Communist China's secret political police. Kang Sheng. fifth ranking man in the Red Chinese hierarchy, also
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    • 337 6 LONG BEACH. California Wed. (UP!) Six Chines# nationals, who entered the U.S. as sailors aboard <t Dutch freighter, yesterday were in custody after narcotics agents seized an estimated $l2 million worth of heroin from them, authorities said. Twelve kilos 27 pounds
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    • 32 6 WASHINGTON President Johnson confers with Deputy Vietnam peace negotiator, Mr. Cyrus Vance, yes- terday, over breakfast at the White House about the progress of talks in Paris. UPI Radiophoto.
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    • 128 6 NAIROBI. Wed. (Reuter) Kenya may soon bring in the death penalty for armed robbery with violence. Attorney General Charles Njonjo said here today. He said he is working on an amendment to the Penal Code and this will shortly go
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    • 81 6 MANILA. Wed. (Reuter) —President Ferdinand Marcos and Congress leaders have agreed to re-organise the Cabinet before the second session scheduled to open on July 8. The agreement was made yesterday during the President’* meeting with Congress leaders when he asked them to submit names for
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    • 37 6 SAIGON: Two Vietnamese Marines lead a captured Vietcong platoon leader after he was captured in Gia Dinh. A 24-hour curfew has been in effect for (IV TT U J several days. UPI photo.
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    • 153 6 SAN FRANCISCO. Wed (UPI) Two escapees from a state hospital for the criminally insane were believed at large in San Francisco yesterday. Police said they were heavily armed and extremely dangerous. They are Gerard J. Gallant. 28. an armed robber and rapist described
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    • 86 6 MANILA. Wed (Reuter) A former Huk (Filipino Communist) commander has been sentenced to lHe imprisonment for beheading a farm overseer in a village north of Manila, eight years ago. police said today. Benjamin Cunanan, 40, Commander Hizon. was also directed by the eou.t to pay
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    • 71 6 SEOUL. Wed (Reuter) A small South Korean fishing boat with five fishermen aboard, was seized by a North Korean armed patrol boat near the sea extension of the border yesterday, police said today. Police added that three other South Korean vessels with a total
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    • 341 6 WASHINGTON. Wed (UPI). President Johnson charged yesterday North Vietnam was pouring men and supplies into South Vietnam at unprecedented rates but said the United States will carry on serious discussions in Paris to achieve an honourable peace. Mr.
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    • 107 6 MOSCOW. Wed. (UPI) Soviet space scientists have completed nine days of “successful” tests of satellite landing systems in the central pacific, Tass announced today. The testa which ended two days earlier than scheduled were the latest in a series of experiments designed
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    • 111 6 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) A strong earthquake centred In Western New Guinea was reported yesterday bv the Essa National Earthquake Information Centre (NEIC) at Rockville. Maryand. Measured at magnitude 7.1 on the richter scale, the earthquake was located bv NEIC Seismologists at 4 0 decrees
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    • 166 7 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) *7 A medium claimed last night the Beatles sought at seance to contact their manager Brian Epstein who died from a drug overdose last year. 'r. Maurice Barbanell, editor of the weekly spiritualist journal. “Psychic news.” said: “I have no doubt
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    • 148 7 PORTLAND. Oregon. Wed. (Reuter) Senator Robert Kennedy formally conceded defeat late last night to Senator Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon Democratic primary. It was firs* Vi tory over Kennedy in three primaries this year. It also was the first election defeat ever for the three
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    • 155 7 MERIDIAN, Mississippi, Wed. (UPI) A “wellplaced chaige of dynamic” oestroyed the education wing of the Temple Beth Israel early today and damaged other sections of the synagogue About two hours after the pre-dawn blast, a telephone caller got the Rev. Harold Ochester. a Baptist Minister and
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    • 68 7 VATICAN CITY Wed. (UPI) Pope Paul VI has accepted the resignation of Joseph Marie Cardinal Martin as archbishop of Rouen. France, for reasons of age. the Vatican announced today. Cardinal Martin, 76, was the latest prelate to comply with the Pope’s recommendation that residential bishops offer
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    • 169 7 HONG KONG, Wed. (Reuter) China should be supporting the Vietnam peace talks in Paris if she wants less American warships to visit Asia, the South China Morning Post said today. In an editorial commenting on China’s latest protest to Britain for allowing the Americans to use
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    • 210 7 C-Mart dilemma BRUSSELS. Wed. (UPI). The Common Market Executive Commission yesterday threw the issue of community dairy surpluses back into the lap of Ministers of Agriculture. In their opening session of a three-day meeting the ministers on Monday night had asked commission experts to produce by
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    • 102 7 Pass the $200m for ADB— JOHNSON WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) President Johnson has urged congress to disregard the Senate Foreign Relations Committee advice and pass his request for a US$2OO m. special fund for the Asia Development Bank. Mr. Jonnson told newsmen that the senate committee’s rejection of his request on
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    • 171 7 BONN. Wed (UPI) Student strikes led by leftists against West German emergency legislation yesterday closed down most universities and caused the resignation of the president of West Berlin's Technical University. There were a few brief wildcat work stoppages and the Social Democratic Party's own university
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    • 321 7 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter). Prime Minister John Gorton said today he would like to see in Australia a “Citizen Army” on Israeli lines ready to go into instant action. He told the National Press Club that when he talked of an Israeli-type capacity for defence he
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    • 147 7 ALSFORD. Germany. Wed. (UPI) The trial of drug company executives charged with causing thousands of expectant mothers to bear crippled children threatened to collapse 24 hours after it began. The IS defence lawyers for seven executives of the Chemie Gruenenthal drug firm, creator
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    • 97 7 LOUISVILLE. Kentucky. Wed. (Reuter) National Guardsmen and armed police patrolled the streets of this racially troubled city early today alter the second straight night of rioting by Negro gangs. About 200 arrests had been made by late last night, when a Police spokesman said the
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    • 115 7 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) Attorney Gen. Ramsey Clark, the man who prosecutes delinquent taxpayers, has received a US$5OO refund frpm the government for overpaying his 1967 taxes. The tall, rangv Texan, who prepares his own returns, to the IRS office in suburban Falls Church, VA.. last Wednesday when
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    • 274 7 FRANCE THE CATALYST NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI). U.S. Ambassador designate to the United Nations George W. Ball has warned that Europe was faced with the serious threat of a resurgence of nationalism in France and Germany. “Within the last five years Europe has tended to lapse
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    • 320 7 PARIS, Wed. (UPI). The Gaullist government yesterday lost its first cabinet minister to the current social revolution in France amid the strongest demand yet that President Charles de Gaulle resign. Leftist Federation leaders Francois Mitterrand and de Gaulle “is no longer able
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    • 92 7 CREWKERNF,. England. Wed. (UPI) William Hooper. HO a gardener, opened his first bank account yesterday after thieves broke into his home, tied him up and took a tin box from under his bed containing £6.000 “I never trusted hanks hut now I have learned mv lesson the
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    • 29 7 LONDON. Wed. Britain's first heart tnnsplant patient Fredrick West. 45, listens to his new heart with a stethoscope yesterday. UPI Radio pix.
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  • 434 8 PREMIER Indira Gandhi of India, in hfcr tour of the South-east Asia and Pacific region, has arrived in Kuala Lumpur for a four-day visit. There are about a million Indians in this country, many of whom are Malaysian citizens. The Indian Government, after the independence of British
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  • 279 8 TtTALAYSIA and Indonesia yesterday entered into an agreement to establish a joint commission of trade and economic relations. The object is to promote direct trade between the two countries. Barter trade can never be satisfactory to both sides as revenue cannot be properly collected. It was started to
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  • 1500 8 SPOTLIGHT ON CHOLERA ELEMENTARY HYGIENE “PVERYONE know* thot we all need water to live. All living things need water to live and grow. Many people know the horror of when the rains, or monsoons fail and the crops wither and die, when the rivers dry
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    • 253 8 that Mrs. Indira Gandhi is in Our midst, it would be good for oil to remember what her illustrious father. Pandit Nehru, told the Indian Parliament in 1958, in the following words: “In one side we try to build up the world, on the other
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    • 91 8 Expansionist' IN his address on Communism to the Rotary Club West. Mr. Gerald de Cruz of the Political Study Centre observed that the cultural revolution had somewhat slowed down Red China’s "expansionist plans”. By “expansionist plans” it is possible Mr. de Cruz meant plans of forcing the Communist ideology into
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    • 220 8 Go slow’ baseless charge I REFER to the complaint “Go Slow at Police Exchange” by ‘R.S.’ which appeared in the Eastern Sun dated 21.5.88. I must in the first instance refute the misconception of R.S.’ when he states that the Police Telef»hone Operators are adoping “Go Slow tactic*. This allegation
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    • 141 8 A CERTAIN announcer of Talivishen and Radio Malaysia Malay Section nowadays seems to take things easy when reading BERITA or RENCHANA. Voice level has no appeal to him. At the beginning of one sentence he runs, while at the following he gropes. Pronunciation is also of a
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  • 223 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author* "Handbook of Evidanc# for Crlalnal Trial*") gD was doing some carpentry work in the construction of a gasoline Service station when suddenly he fell from the scaffold. He sued Albert, hts coworker Raymond's boss, for damages for his personal injuries. “Raymond was
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  • 641 8 yiEWING the Western world by the recent event, we perceive that the wave of youth “rebellion”, which resemble the Chinese “Red Guards” movement on the surface at least, is apparently inundating everywhere. From Tokyo to Jakarta, from Chicago to Rome, from Madrid to West Berlin, and from
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    • 42 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newt paper THUftSDAY. MAY 30. 1968 2S-B. Cantonment Road. 39. |alan Sultan. Singapore 2. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. Telephone: *****/7 Telephone: *****/6 Penang Office 8. Leith Street. Tol: ***** Ipoh Office 77, Brewater Road, Tol: ***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 214 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The General Manager of Great Eastern Life Assurance Co.. Ltd Mr N.N. Handa, has officially declared open a new agency office at 30A Upper Serangoon Road This 19 the second agency office in Singapore, the first one being established at Katong. When
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    • 171 9 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) Representatives of 73 nation* attended the conference of the Commissioners General for the Japan World Exposition 1970 (Expo 70) held in Kyoto yesterday. The Japanese News Agency Kyodo said that over 160 delegates represented Japan and 72 other nations, five international organisations
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    • 27 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed —Majlis Amanah Raayat (MARA) announces the value of its unit trust remains unchanged. Buying price is $l-01 and sailing price $1.66.
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    • 208 9 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI). More than 1.000 Malaysian manager* and supervisor* have been trained in modern management methods in the last few months through the co-operation of the Malaysian National Productivity Centre (MNPC) and the International Executive Service Corps (lESC), the monthly letter of
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    • 81 9 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Rubber market closed uncertain with spot 19-3/8 193/4. Settlement House June deleted July 19-1/2 19-3/4 Aug and Sept 19-5/8 19-7/8 July/Sept 19-5/8 19-7/8 Oct/Dec 19-3/4 20 Jan/March 19-7/8 20-1/16 April/June 21 20-3/16 July/Sept 20-1/16 20-1/4 Oct Dec 20-1/8 20-3/8 Jan/March 20-3/16 20-7/16 April/June 20-1/4
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    • 37 9 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Tuesday’s volume was 13.850,000 shares of a total 1,529 issues traded, 753 were higher and 576 lower. American exchange volume was 10.190.000 shares. Bonds volume amounted to 15,840,000 U.S. dollars.
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    • 295 9 RUBBER UP CENT SINGAPORE. Wed. June first grade rubber f ob. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 56-1/8 cents per lb., up five-eighths of a cent from previous close. The tone was irregular. London advices were lower than expected and after a wide opening, the
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    • 210 9 NEW YORK, Wed (UPI) Stock prices made selective progress jn early dealings today, with the high priced glamour issues pacing the winners. Shortly before the end of the first hour of trading, the United Press International marketwide indicator had picked up 0.22
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    • 113 9 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) An initial firmer trend was not held today, and prices closed around overnight levels in subdued trading The French crisis, world currency uncertainties and lack of a positive lead from Wall Street combined to affect sentiment, while there were
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    • 45 9 SINGAPORE. Wed.—The Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore today made the following changes in its rates to merchants. Selling T.T./OD. ready were: Deutsche Marks 128-$; Holland Guilders 117; Swiss France 139-1/8: Belgian Francs 1607: French Francs 160-3/4. Italian Lire ***** and Swedish Kroner 167.
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    • 1218 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. It was another active day on the Stock Exchange and for the first time, the property shares turnover exceeded that of the industrials. Furthermore, it was a day of new record total turnover on the stock market when it reached tne
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    • 96 9 MEXICO. CITY. Wed. (UPI) Mexico is producing 800 tons of latex annually, the International Coffee Organisation said yesterday. The organisation's executive council is meeting here to draft clauses that will control the operation of a Sl5O million fund to help coffee producing countries
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    • 21 9 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Rubber opened hesitant with spot 19-1/4 19-1/2. No 1 RSS CIF basis ports June 19-3/8 nom.
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    • 14 9 SINGAPORE. Wed.— The tin price for today was $559 per picul, unchanged.
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    • 173 9 HONG KONG. W6d. (UPI) A senior trade official yesterday denied a reported account in a Manila newspaper that the colony's economy was still feeling the effects of last year’s Communist terror campaign. Mr. J.D. McGregor. Assistant Director of the Commerce and Industry Department. cited trade figures
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    • 368 9 SINGAPORE,—Htock Exchange *olr1 and offer prices officially listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS INDUSTRIALS Ben Jfc Co 354 Boustead Mil 1.84 Chemical Co. i.50 1.51 Cold storage 4.90 Dunlop 3.24 E. smelting fi.sn 8 80 E A 1 2.30 Esso Ords 2.88 2.92 F A V Ords.
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    • 122 9 BANGKOK. Wed (Reuter) Japan led the list of countries importing rubber from Thailand in February, according to official trade statistics released here today. Japan imported 4.762.550 kilos of rubber followed by the United States with 3.572.435. Britain 3,351.406, Singapore 2.856.319. Malaysia
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    • 46 9 tManagerr Prices) Flr«t Malayan 2 76 Second Malayan... 1.08 Third Malayan 1.25 The Commerce Industry XD .93 1.07 The savinx Fund 111 1.20 First H'konc .54 *9* Second ll'kone \D .59 .63* Malaysian Investment Fund XD 1.15 125 Sterling C’modlty 5/3 Hong Kong Currency)
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    • 114 9 .SINGAPORE, Wed. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are:Buyer Seller Coconut Oil (1 o B Bulk 66 15 Coconut Oil (1 OR.) Drums 6925 Loose Copra Mixed May/June Muntok White Pepper F.O.B.) !)r,N.L.W ***** Sarawak White Pepper (F.O.B.) 96 r 'r N 1 W 115.50
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    • 24 9 HONG KONG. Wed.(UPI); —Money Quotations: HK$6.in8 6.1225 per U3 dollar for cash. HKS 14.53 per pound sterling. HKS311.25 per tael gold.
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    • 91 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. Mr. Shoji Hattori (second from left) president of Seiko Watch X. Hattori Co.. Ltd. receives souvenir gold cigarette case from Wong Cne-Meng. managing director of Thong Sia Co. of Hong Kong at ceremonies recently inaugurating the latter company's new offices and
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    • 173 9 SINGAPORE, Wed The following ships are expected to be in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Millstar 3/4 Java Mail 5 Sula 6/7 Kristen Bakke 8/9 Straat Rio 10/11 Kavo Pieratis 13/14 Wonogiri 15/16 Star Altair 19 Unkai Maru No. 6 21/22 Luna Marina 23/24 Sletter 27/28 Suez
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    • 1432 10 your TV and <l* *sm TODAY TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 KUALA LUMPUR and Pulau Pinang; 6 Ipoh and Melaka: 3 A 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 7 Balu Pahat; Alnang. P.M. 545 Opening Annet Prog Summary; 5.50 News Outline in the National Language; 5 55 National Songs; 6.00 News in
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE 91 ALL $5 ESSAY winners!
    • 207 12 Two weeks ago some of my friends invited me to a picnic in the forest and to explore it. I was reluctant to go at first because I was afraid of wild animals. But I finally agreed to go with them. We started in the
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    • 187 12 A quarrel is usually caused by a misunderstanding between two persons. Sometimes It is due to parties refusing to give in to each other. In a market, we can find people, especially women, quarrelling over the slightest matter. One day, a serious quarrel took place
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    • 427 12 I WAS born in Batu Gajah about four years ago. My father was an Alsatian while my mother was of a common kind. I had a powerful body like rrv father so all the dogs in ray street respected me, because I was fierce. I
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    • 281 12 August 31 every year is a memorable day for the people of Malaysia. It is Malaysia Day. Malaysia was formed in 1963 and each year Malaysians, celebrate this auspicious day on a grand scale. All the States of Malaysia celebrate the birth of
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    • 148 12 Stranded without money Last Sunday morning. I went to see my uncle in the General Hospital. It was not far from my house. I did not bring money with me. While walking along the road, a beggar came to ask me for money. I did not give him any and
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    • 156 12 Ten years is indeed a long time to wait. As a young girl and full of thoughts and imaginations, I often build castles in the air about my future. I would be a happy and carefree young girl by then. I would be enjoying a
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    • 268 12 DURING the first term holidays we decided to go camping at Morib. As we were Sea scouts our headmaster was very kind to allow us to use the school van for our trip. On the previous day itself we got everything ready such as rice, drinks,
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    • 179 12 Last Saturday, my uncle visited us and suggested that we have a picnic at the Johore Beach. We were very glad for his suggestion. Before we began our journey. my mother helped us to pack our food, drinks and fruits in three baskets. My brother and
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      146 12 TO enjoy ourselves and to refresh our minds after the examinations, we decided to hire a boat for a sea voyage. Our destination was a distant land opposite Changi Point. We left with great joy and excitement and brought with us food and drinks. We rowed slowly
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    • 212 12 RECENTLY my family received sad news saying that Uncle Bob, one of our closest relatives, was a victim of an air crash. He had gone to Australia to take up an engineering course. According to the news, he met his death during his journey
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    • 206 12 I WAS born in England. My name is Austin Cambridge. I am yellow in colour. When I was born I was put on a ship in England. From there, I was exported to Malaya. I was in the ship for about a month before I
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    • 94 12 One day I woke up earlier than usual. It was 6a.m. and I decided to take a walk. It was a quiet morning and only a few people were seen. I also saw people arranging their goods near the market place. The atmosphere was quiet. When
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    • 149 12 My favourite friend is Johnny Lim. He is a Christian and is 14 years of age. He lives with his parents, four brothers and five sisters opposite my house. He is a Form 1A pupil of St. Paul’s Institution and is short and thin. He is good
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    • 151 12 During the last holidays, one of my friends suggested that we visit Macßitchie Reservoir. We left on a Saturday morning and we were in high spirits, cracking jokes and singing all the way. The path we took was a good one and we saw tall
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    • 99 12 I have a pet dog. His name is Blacky. I like him best because when I return from school, he will "3v© his tail at me. When someone comes to visit us. he will bark He also frightens our cat. in the morning, he will
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 181 12 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN’S new essay "rttin* contest for boys and girls of 14 and under P contes. Is .o encou. age young boys and girls to express themselves Pr P And what better way to do it. than to put their thoughts into simple
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  • Eastern Sun Special
    • 1716 13  -  By Michael O'Connor f’jpHE idea of having two birthdays each year would, no doubt, appeal to any child, but for the one person in the world who does celebrate two "birthdays", Queen Elizabeth 11, the occasions mean at least one, and sometimes two,
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    • 307 13 SHAW tGANISRTTOM D O Phone ***** OP»n» Today! 11. 1.45, 4. S.SO, 8.15 Simon* signoret Sc Yve* Montand "THE SLEEPING CAR MURDER” Emm Warner Bro*-Seven Art* CAPITOL Phone ***** Op*na Today! 11, 1.45. 4. 8.30. 8.30 Craig Hill Sc George Martin "Taste of killing** scope-color Capitol A Lido Simultaneously: ENCORE
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    • 408 13 OPENS TODAY! 11 a m.. 1.30. i.oo, too a s.so p m Duel At The Supreme Gate Mud., Color-Scope. Eng./Chin. Sub* ON STAGE Tonight At 7.00 I.M p m Personal Appearances of BETTY LOH TI 1 KELLY LEI CHEN (No Free List i SATURDAY MIDNIQHT' Mand.) ■SPRING-TIME AFFAIRS 1 Chang
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  • 1111 14  -  By Sydney Gillingham REPRESENTING Great Britain in the 1968 Gliding Championships in Poland this year will be four pilots whose average age is 40, their four gliders worth together some £lO,OOO, ond one weatherbeaten and decidedly droopy old white linen gardening hat, the
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  • 464 14 THE Vietnam War has spawned a new breed of gunfighter. He packs a rapid-firing M 6 0 machine-gun instead of a six-shooter and rides a helicopter instead of a horse. He wears kneehigh boots, soft leather gloves and usually stops counting his kills when they top
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 554 14 LEMBAGA LETRIK NEGARA JUNIOR TECHNICIAN (TIMESCALE) HYDROLOGICAL ASSISTANT APPLICATIONS are invited for the post of Junior Technician (Timescale) Hydro- j logical Assistant on the staff of the Chief Civil Engineer of The National Electricity 1 Board. 1 Persons applying must be Federal Citizens not more than 25 years of age
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    • 711 14 MTGfTmm CHAPTER 195 (Pawnbrokers.) Unredeemed Pledged Goods and Jewellery from the follow, ing Pawnbrokers’ Shops Lam Joon Siong (Chop Sem Foh), 135 New Bridge Road; Ho Yan Kee (Chop Heng Fatt) Yong Kee, 255 South Bridge Road; Seow Kian (Nam Cheong Pawnshop Ltd.), 287 South Bridge Road; Lam Joo Onn
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    • 72 14 TENDER KENYATAAN TAWARAN J.K.R.. JOHOR TAWARAN daripada Pemborong2 vang berdaftar diJ.K.R. Ke'las E’, ‘D’ dan ‘C\ a k a n di-terima di Pejabat JURUTERA KERJA KANAN. J.K.R.. MUAR. hingga jam 2.30 Petang pada 4hb. Jun 1968. untok: MEMBENA 3 (TIGA) BUAH BANGUNAN. SATU (1) KELAS E’ SATU (1) KELAS F’
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    • 173 14 NANYANG FINANCE LIMITED (INCORPORATED IN SINGAPORE) BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 1963. Ss.ono.fton.no I. SHAREHOLDERS’ FUNDS: Authorised Capital 50,000 shares of $lOO/- each Issued Capital 10.000 shares of $lOO/-each fully paid 1000.000 00 Add: Profit Loss Account 332.25 1,000,332.25 11. CURRENT LIABILITIES: 4 Fixed Deposits Savings Accounts 381.4a0.00 Sundry
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  • Sun Sport
    • 78 15 It was so exciting on Monday evening when the usually meek freshies took up-arms against their seniors at the University of Malaya i n Kuala Lumpur. The confrontation was part of the orientation programme in the campus. The Fencing Department, set up two years ago. held a 16-hout friendly match
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    • 282 15 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter). Manchester United are favourites to sink Benfica, the pride of Portuguese soccer, to become the first English club to win the European Cup at Wembley Stadium today. Tension has been mounting throughout the week as the two clubs have been going
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    • 140 15 HARLOW, (England), Wed. (Reuter)—Portuguese champions Benfica. who meet Manchester United in the European soccer Cup Anal at Wembley stadium today, are so popular here that they need police protection from admirers Special precautions were taken at their hotel last night to guard the players from
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    • 147 15 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) British jockey Peter Robinson was taken to hospital with a suspected dislocated shoulder after falling in a four-horse pile-up in the Rosebery Memorial Handicap Stakes won by seven-to-one chance Great Pleasure at Epsom yesterday. Gaudy Commodore was leading halfway through
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    • 37 15 AUCKLAND. (New Zealand), Wed. (Reuter) —The all Japan rugby union team beat Auckland University 14-6 here today to record the second win of its ten games New Zealand tour. The tourists led Al-3 at half-time.
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    • 304 15 KI'ALA LUMPUR, Wed. The “Rothmans 500” saloon car race at the Selangor Racing Circuit next month will be the third major “500” event in the world and the first of Its kind in Malaysia. The other "500 races are the
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    • 168 15 BOSTON. Wed. (UPI) Dancer’s Image, disqualified in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, will be retired. owner Peter Fuller announced yesterday. Dancer’s Image will not run in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. “He will not be able to start in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.”
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    • 123 15 SURBITON, (England). Wed. (UPI) A ban imposed by the Australian Lawn Tennis Association (ALTA) forbidding their players to take part In the Surrey grass court championships was lifted yesterday and the incident described as “a misunderstanding.” Letters signed by secretary of the ALTA J.A.C. Andrew
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    • 75 15 MALACCA. Wed. The Medical Services will hold their annual athletic championships on June 1 at the Kubu Stadium here starting at 2 p.m. The annual golf championships will also be played on the same day at the Ayer Keroh Country Club golf course.
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    • 193 15 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Ministry of Health Sports Council of Singapore will send a team of 10 athletes to compete in the InterState Ministry of Health annual athletic meet to be held in Malacca, at the Kubu stadium on Saturday starting at 2.00 pm. The
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    • 85 15 ADELAIDE. Wed. (Reuter) The touring New Zealand All Blacks had another runaway victory in their rugby union match against the Junior Wallabies team in quagmire conditions here last night, winning by a crushing 43-3 at half time.) The All Black’s performance was an impressive
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    • 579 15 MALACCA, Wed. Thirteen records were broken and two equalled in the seventh annual Bukit Bahru Primary English School athletic meet held at the Bukit Bahru ground. The meet was favoured with line weather and there was a large turn out of spectators. Abu Bakar
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    • 299 15 asks K. D. Rasiah ALOR STAR. Wed. What has happened to the Kedah Hockey Association? This is the question that is being constantly asked hv sportsmen here. It seems that the organisation has been left to die a “natural death.” The last
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    • 48 15 ALOR STAR. Wed.—The second round Malaysia Cup match between Perak and Kedah scheduled to be played at the Darulaman Stadium here on Friday has been postponed to June 7 at the same venue. In the first round Perak beat Kedah by three goals to one.
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    • 29 15 MUAR. Wed. The Muar High School will hold its annual athletic meet on the Jalan Abdul Rahman rugger field on Thursday. June 6 starting from 2.30 p.m.
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    • 240 15 PARIS, Wed. (Reuter) Tennis history will be made today when professionals compete in the French tennis championships the world’s premier hard court tournament —for the first time. Francolse Durr, of France, who joined the paid ranks after winning the 1967 French title, will
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    • 430 16  -  RIDING BOY AHMAD HURT AFTER A FALL By Windsor Lad TPOH, Wed. Perak Derby candidates were out in strength at this morning's gallops on a yielding track. Trainer Rinus van Breukelen's trio November Sun (Garnet Bougoure), Melody Road (Coles) and Viva Ipoh, last year's Derby winner, were
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    • 270 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Malaysian Cricket Association are to launch a project to improve and popularise cricket in schools. With this aim the MCA Schools Coaching Committee will meet here on June 16 to tackle the problem. Mr. P. Alagendra. a vicepresident and
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    • 64 16 ALOR STAR. Wed. The two-day Northern Zone medical games concluded here with Penang capturing three of the six games played among the four competing States Perak, Penang, Perils and hosts Kedah. Penang thus emerged unofficial champions in the northern zone. All winners will repreeent their respective
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    • 307 16 SINGAPORE. Wed. Following their encouraging performances in the KLM Malaysia car rally and the Shell 3.000 Rally (held in the Philippines) the Far East Air Force Motor Sports team are hoping to put up another impressive display in the South Malaysian Rally to be
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    • 216 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Though Bestobells are maintaining their lead in the Monday Mod League at the Shah’s Bowl in Peta'.sng .Taya. their arch rivals Kim Kee are relentlessly creeping up. Kim Kee won three of their four weekly matches compared to Bestobells
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    • 436 16 SINGAPORE. Wed. Four horses have been sent up to the top class, according to the Malayan Racing Association classification list. They are Base Metal, Royal Hawa. Moonbeam and Napoli. Other promotions are: From class 3 to class 2: Snowflake. Currency Note. From class 4
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    • 242 16 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Philadelphian boxer Leotis Martin scored one of the most dramatic wins seen in the British ring in recent years when he upset the form book to stop fellow American heavyweight Thad Spencer in the ninth round of their scheduled ten-round contest
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    • 159 16 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Dennis Amiss batted himself into the reckoning for an England Test place against Australia when he scored 72 at Birmingham yesterday to help Warwickshire to a four-wicket win over Yorkshire in their Gillette knock-out cricket cup tie. While Warwickshire were
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    • 166 16 MILAN. Wed (Reuter) Bouth Korea’s K1 Soo Kim. who lost the world junior middleweight boxing title to Sandro Mazzinghl of Italy on Sunday, flew home yesterday. leaving behind a legal dispute Over his earnings. His European manager. Steven Klaus, told reporters Kim cut
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    • 103 16 BANGKOK. Wed. (Reuter) Thailand is not likely to host the Sixth Asian Games in 1970 because of the heavy costs involved. Interior Minister General Praphas Charusathien said today. General Praphas. who is the chairman of the Thai National Olympic Committee. had earlier estimated that
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    • 1031 16 PERAK DERBY HORSES CLASS 1—1 y 2 MILES 150 Royal Meadow II 5y 903 Mr. Mrs SC. Law R. B'kelen 207 Top Power 5y 8.13 Mr. OW Wong R. B kelen 214 Viva Ipnh 6y 8.11 Mr V Jeyaratnam R. B kelen 561 November
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 57 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 1.57 a.m. (7.0 ft.), 1.58 pm. (8.5 ft). Port Swettenham: 7.47 a.m. (13.8 ft.), 747 (13.9 ft). Port Dickson: 8.00 am. (7.6 ft.), 8.33 p. m (8.3 ft.). SingaporefT 1.29 p.m. (7.2 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 12 40 a.m. (7.6 ft.), 10.12 p.m. (5.9 ft.). Kuantan: 11.35
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