Eastern Sun, 20 June 1968

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  • 20 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1960. Vol. 2 No. 679 Thursday, 20 June 1968. MC (P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 337 1  -  By Ben d’Cunha LUMPUR, Wed. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, said here today there wa s no indication the Communist terrorists along the Thai-Malay-sian border had increased in numbers. Speaking to newsmen after the weekly Cabinet meeting, Tun Razak reiterated the Government's
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  • 51 1 The Lord Chamberlain. R i chard Whittington (left) presents casket containing copy of the Freedom of the City of London during ceremony on Tuesday at Guildhail to Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. On right is Sir Gilbert Ingleficld. Lord Mayor of the City of London. UPI
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  • 501 1  -  By BEN VARIYAN Kuala lumpur, wed. —The big MalaysianThai border manhunt for a hand of 80 Communist terrorists who ambushed a Malaysian border patrol killing 15 and wounding 18 north of Ayer Panas in Thai territory today received a massive shot in the arm with
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  • 39 1 PARIS. Wed. (UPI) Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman. Culture and Information Minister of Malaysia, arrived by plane on Tuesday from Kuala Lumpur. After a private visit lasting several days, he is scheduled to proceed to London.
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  • 528 1 T3ANGKOK, Wed. 13 p An argument on procedure came up in the second session of talks between the Philippines and Malaysia over the State of Sabah today and the delegates adjourned until Friday. Although both Philippines Ambassador Gauttier Bisnar and Malaysian Foreign Office Secretary
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  • 121 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Federal Minister for Sahah Affairs, Dato Game Gilong. today called on the Philippines to drop her claim to Sabah. “The claim shows that the Filipino Government does not respect the wishes of the people of Sahah,” he told Bernama after being
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 311 2 DECISION TAKEN AFTER CLOSED DOOR MEETING KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.—The Government Industrial and Manual Groups Services Staff Council plans to take strike action within a month's time if the government does not implement the Suffian Salaries Commission's recommendations. The decision was taken at a three-hour closed door
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    • 134 2 KUALA LUMPUR Wed. i —Red Cross societies in j Sbuth-east Asia were proi gressing very well and the young people were becoming J more active and showed eagerness in the Organisa- tion J Mr. William H.S. Dabney, Under.Secretarv General of the League of Red
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    • 70 2 MUAR. Wed. The Mentri Besar of Johore, Dato Haji Othman bin Haji Mohamed Saat, will pay a one-day official visit to Parit Sulong. 24 miles south of here, on June 28 to perform a dual function. He will open the new .premises of the
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    • 283 2 KUANTAN. WCd Th* first tactical Jet-*trikfe base for the Royal Malaysian Air Force here will be officially opened by the Sultan of Pahang on Monday. The Tunku Mahkota Pahang, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Tun Abdul Razak. the Permanent Secretary of
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    • 107 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A 19-year-old youth, described by police as an active member of the Red Flower gang operating in Kampang Semerang. In the heart of the town here, was today detained by the Selangor Police. The head of the Special Investigation section. ASP Govindasamy this
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    • 33 2 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman reads a speech at Guildhall after he was presented with the Freedom of the City of London In London on Tues- day. UPI photo.
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    • 214 2 MUAR. Wed. The Tangkak branch of Malaysian Association of Youth Clubs. 17 miles north of here, is to send a five-mem-ber delegation to meet the Mentri Besar of Johore, Dato Haji Othman bin Haji Mohamed Sa’St, in Johore Bahru soon. Reason: To
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    • 44 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Three men held up a barber shop owner. Mr. Sun Wei Mun. 46. and robbed him of $5OO, a cheque for $4OO and a wristwatch valued at $2OO this morning. One of the men was armed with a knife.
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    • 351 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A training seminar on “forecasting of heavy rain* and floods” will be held here in November, under the United Nations Development Programme. The Cabinet today accepted the invitation by the World Meteorological Organisation to act as
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    • 99 2 Penang. Wed. Thieves, who broke into the house of a 43-vear-old businessman, S. K. Abdul Mutalib Mydin, in Kampong Pisang, Ayer Itam, yesterday escaped with more than $2,103 in cash and jewellery. The thieves gained entry into the house after cutting the wirenettirur of the perimeter
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    • 95 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Minister of Finance. Tun Tan Slew Sin. said today Malaysia would have “no difficulty” in finding loans to finance economic projects. “But it is disastrous to float loan* to cover up deficits.” he said before leaving by air for a
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    • 54 2 SEGAMAT. Wed. Mr. Plara Singh, the headmaster of the Segamat Primary English School, has been re-elected chairman of the Segamat district branch of the National Union of Teachers at its annual meeting at the secondary English school hall, yesterday. The vice-chairman is Sheikh bln Abdullah, the headmaster of the
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    • 165 2 IPOH. Wed. Preparations are being made for a large-scale celebration of the first anniversary of the Royal Malay Regiments youngest battalion the 10th Battalion on July 1 here. The celebrations will begin with a special parade at the Battalion Camp padang in Jalan
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    • 45 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. Police today identified the body of a girl found drowned off the sea in Katong yesterday aS that of Yep Siow Moi, 22. of Muar. She came here 17 days ago to stay with her sister at Lorong Five, Geylang.
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    • 21 2 BEQAMAT. Wed. The Bekbk branch of the Malaysian Chinese Association will hold a Johore State talentime competition on June 28.
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    • 26 2 TAIPING, Wed. An unidentified girl. 8. was killed when she wag knocked down by a car at Changkat Jering. six miles from here, yesterday.
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    • 311 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The head of the Special Investigation Section of the Selangor Police, ASP M. Govindasamv and a party of detective* yesterday evening raided a flat opposite the Bukit Bintang Park here and detained two men. The two men, who were detained for
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    • 157 2 SINGAPORE. Wed There were 13,540 winners in the second Toto draw last Sunday. Singapore Pools (Private) Ltd. announced today. The first and second prizes six correct and five plus one were not won. A total of 15 persons shared the third prize with five correct
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    • 346 3  -  By SUHAIMI BIDIN SINGAPORE, Wed. One of the world's most powerful and largest deepsea tugs, the "Witte Zee", will be stationed in Singapore as from today to operate in Far Eastern waters. This was announced today by the skipper of the 9.000 horse-power
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    • 295 3 Japanese dancers on ‘travel-while-you-learn’ mission SINGAPORE, Wed. A group of Japanese dancers is here on a “travel-while-you-learn” mission. The group, billed as the Fujika Ishii dancers, consists of the principal and five of her “cream" students. Miss Fujika Ishii who runs a dancing school in Tokyo, and her pupils are
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    • 131 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. Osman bin Mansoor. 36 and married, declared himself a bachelor at the Registry of Muslim Marriages and married another girl, the First District Court was told today. Osman, pleading guilty to the charge of giving false evidence, said: “I had to marry her because
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    • 90 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The use of other languages besides English will be encouraged in the University of Singapore, Dr. Toh Chin Chve. its Vice-Chancellor and Minister for Science and Technology said tonight. More language laboratories would be set up in the University. This move
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    • 304 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. It will be a convocation with a difference at the University of Malava on June 29 there will be two sessions and the pro-Chancellor will confer the degrees. The Chancellor and Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, who Is away in
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    • 165 3 A heavy monsoon downpour instead of the usual blue sky and blazing sunshine met Flying Officer John Teather and his bride Miss Alexandra Seaton as they left Trinity Church. R.A.F. Changi, Singapore. after their marriage recently. Alexandra, who wore a long slim gown of heavy white German silk,
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    • 156 3 MANILA. Wed. (Reuter) The Indian Foreign Office has clarified a statement made by Indian Premier, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, on the Philippine claim to Sabah. In a reply to a question at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur. Mrs. Gandhi was understood to have supported the Malaysian
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    • 208 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Singapore Government has announced the appointment of Mr. P. S. Raman as the Republic's first Ambassador to Indonesia. Mr. Raman formerly the Acting Director of Broadcasting. will take up his appointment soon, a Foreign Ministry statement said today. A graduate of
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    • 288 4  -  Large quantity of cigarettes, liquor seized By Wee Hock Chye TV/lALACCA, Wed. The police here detain* ‘‘■Vl e d five men and recovered a large quantity of liquor and cigarettes in a 30-minute drama in the Straits of Malacca early last night involving an ocean
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    • 278 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Secretary of the Social Welfare Lotteries Board, Mr. Y.C. Kang, today advised the public not to buy prize-winning tickets In the hope of making a profit. “If you do. you will be cheated,” he said at the weekly luncheon meeting
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    • 148 4 TPtbH. Wed.—The thres. tened strike by sbme 130 workers employed at Sunget Siput estate today did not come off, a spokesman for the Commissioner of Labour, Mr. Tan Teik Peng, said today. The Perak branch of the National Union of Plantation Workers had indicated
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    • 198 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Minister of Education, Enche Mohamed Khir Johan, said again today he was prepared to meet Prof. Syed Hussein Aiatas in a public debate anytime and place he chose The Minister, speaking to reporters here after the weekly Cabinet meeting, said
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    • 44 4 KUCHING. Wed. the Minister for Lands and Mineral Resources, Penghulu Francis Umpau recently opened a $20,000 dispensary at Nanga Jagau. Kanowit District, Third Division. The government’s contribution was $15,000 and the balance was met by the people, who also provided the labour.
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    • 783 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. A contract Job was given by the Johore Bahru Town Council to the Majestic Electrical and Engineering Co. here of which the council’s former vice-president. Enche Sanudin bin Manas was the proprietor, the Raja Azlan Commission of
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    • 535 4 RAIL CRASH PROBE JOHORE BAHRU. Wed The chairman of the Layang Layang rail crash team, Enche Abdul Hamid bin Tan Sri Azmi toaay “wondered" if Enche Zam bin Akib. a Malaysian railway train driver with 12 years’ experience “really knew his work”. Enche Abdul Hamid.
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    • 24 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The next meeting of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly will be held here on June 26 at 10 a.m.
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    • 245 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. The 8peeial Branch here believes that the closelyguarded subversive activities of the Pekingleanlng Communist United Front have been “crippled and smashed” In Johore. A 8pecial Branch spokesman. however, said that it was now a question of time before the “masterminds”
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    • 185 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Two detectives, attached to the Setapak police station, today detained the driver of a Volkswagen car after they had fired shots and punctured one of the tyres. Another man seated beside the driver, and wanted by Selangor police managed to escape. According
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    • 153 4 Squadron Leader Bond, whose father. Mr. P. E. A. Bond, lives at 18 Mctoria Gardens. Biggin Hill. Kent, was awarded the medal for his good service as pilot while seconded to the British Antartic Survey from 1960 to 1962. S L Bond flew Canadian S.T.O.L. Otter
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    • 94 4 KOTA KINABALU. Wed. The Pakistan High Commissioner to Malaysia, Mr. M.S. Shaikh today praised Malaysian leaders for their sincere and dedicated leadership. Mr. Shaikh said there were tremendous possibilities for Malaysia’s future economic growth. Malaysia's achievements in the fle’d of economic development, he added, were by comparison
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    • 479 10  -  By SIM MING KUI SINGAPORE, Wed. A prominent Indian palmist and astrojoger today predicted that Singapore would re-merge with Malaysia in 1973. He is Mr Dadi Balsara, president of the Institution for the Advancement of Indian Sciences in India He addressed the luncheon meeting of
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    • 166 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. Mr. Justice Winslow today dismissed a claim by a passenger of a taxi for damages for injuries suffered as a result of the taxi going off the road and landing upside down in a drain. In dismissing the claim. Mr. Justice Winslow remarked that
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    • 237 10  -  By K. S. SIDHU SINGAPORE, Wed. The families of two business rivals fought each other with knives and choppers at the Princes Elizabeth Estate market, off Bukit Timah Road, this morning. As a result, one died on the spot and three others
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    • 71 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Youth for Christ film service will present the “Tony Fontane Story” —a feature length colour Christian musical film on Saturday at 7.30 p.m. at the YMCA hall in Orchard Road. Tony Fontane. a former television and recording star, is a religious recording
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    • 115 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Lions Club of Singapore is organising a charity film premiere “Reflections i n a Golden Eye” in aid of the “Neuro Surgical Equipment Fund” for the Thomson Road Hospital. It will be held at Lido Theatre on June 26 at 9 p.m. under the
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    • 260 10 KUCHING, Wed. (UPD The opposition Sarawak National Party under the leadership of former Chief Minister Dato Stephen Kalong Ningkang yesterday charged the Central Government with delaying the general elections in Sarawak and interfering with State Constitution. The statement issued last evening by the Sarawak National
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    • 68 10 JAKARTA. Wed (Reuter) Indonesia Customs officials have foiled an attempt to smuggle half a ton of tin and one quarter of a ton of copper to Singapore, Indonesian's Antara News Agency said today. The Agency said several crew members of the smuggling boat, believed to be
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    • 90 10 Sheela Munro THIS is Sheela Munro. a new singing sensation who has been widely acclaimed for her magnificent voice. She looks and sings very much like Shirley Bassev, the dynamic singer, but there are many who, after watching her claim that “she's even better”. Sheela
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    • 34 10 SINGAPORE. Wed..— Singapore will have its third satellite town in Telok Blangah shortly. The town will have a light industries estate in addition to the flats, shops and other amenities.
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    • 239 10 SINGAPORE. W fd. Four university students will be featured in the second concert in the series of Sunday Afternoon Concerts for Young People sponsored by the Singapore Musical Society. The concert will be held on July 7 at 4 p m. in the Cultural
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    • 266 10  - Fascinating poem inscribed on arrow-head-shaped object By JOHN KAM SINGAPORE, Wed. A local numismatist is anxious to know more about an arrow-head-shaped object which he picked up from a junk store years ago. The object, about 3J Inches long, is made of brass and it incorporates inscriptions in Arabic on
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    • 211 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Port Master. Captain R. L. Bird has reminded the shipping community that the master of every vessel lying at any wharf or pier shall ensure that his vessel is adequately moored. This regulation which is contained in the Singapore Port Rules. 1957, has
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    • 86 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. A youth's interest in birds landed him in Court for the fourth time today on a theft charge. Goh Quee Chua. 18. with three previous convictions of bird stealing, pleaded guilty in the Nin*h Magistrate's Court to theft of
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    • 77 10 10 a m. 6 p.m. Paintings and drawings exhibition by pupils of Bourne School at the British Council, 1A Orchard Road. 1 p.m. 2 p.m. The Roraiy Club of SingaporeWest weekly luncheon at Hollandsche (Dutch) Club, Camden Park, off Adam Road. 7.30 p.m. Free film shows by the
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    • 270 11 TTUALA LUMPUR, Wed. MalGysia*:-made ammunition will be use<l °y the Malaysian Armed Forces and the Police by early 1970, the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Raja Tan Sri Mohar bin Raja Badiozaman, disclosed today. He
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    • 120 11 IPOH. Wed. The Industrial Relations Act has again been described by the Perak branch of the Malayan Technical Services Union here, as one aimed at "crippling and muzzling” the trade union movement in the country. This is contained in a report to be tabled
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    • 65 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The French Ambassador here. Mr. Pierre Anthonioz. was given a farewell audience by the Yang diPertuan Agong at the Istana Negara today. Mr. Anthonioz was met on arrival at the Istana by the Grand Chamberland, Tunku MustafTa bin Tunku Besar Burhanuddin. His
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    • 73 11 IPOH Wed. Nine members of the Police Field Force who were injured in an ambush by communist terrorists at the MalavsiaThailand border, four miles from Ayer Panas in Kroh, Upper Perak, on Monday, are reported to be progressing satisfactory. They were first treated at the Royal Australian
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    • 52 11 PENANG, Wed The Ambassador of south Korea. Dr Hong Kee Karl, and his wife today paid a courtesy call on the Governor of Penang, Tun Syed Sheh Shahabudin. and his consort, Tunku Puan Habsah at the residency. They were entertained to lunch by the Governor and
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    • 48 11 PENANG, Wed. 21-year-old sand mine worker. Choo Beng Lee. was buried alive in a landslide, in Kampong Relau, Sungei Nibong here yesterday. The body was recovered this afternoon. Choo was found pinned under a tree trunk. Two others, who were working with him, escaped.
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    • 36 11 MUAR. Wed —The Muar .district Day Training Centre Teachers’ Union branch will hold its annual meeting at the Chong Hwa First Primary School Hall at Jalan Sayang here on June 29 at 9 a-m.
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    • 80 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong today hoped that with the appointment of Norway’s first ambassador to Malaysia, the two countries would get closer. He was speaking at a ceremony at the Istana Negara where the ambassador. Mr. Arvit Sveum. presented his credentials. The King said
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    • 41 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The three-man Indonesian delegation to the fifth general assembly of the Eastern Regional Organisation for Public Administration arrived here today. The delegation was led by the former Minister of Labour Force, Dr. Awaloedin Djamin.
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    • 121 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Ten Indonesians, including three women and three children, were arrested at Kuala Selangor yesterday for illegal entry into Malaysia. A police spokesman disclosed here today they were held after they had landed in a boat at Jeram. a fishing village eight miles
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    • 81 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The new Federal Minister for Sabah Affairs, Dato Ghanie Gilong, was sworn in today by the Yang di-Per-tuan Agong in the Istana Negara. The 10-minute ceremony was witnessed by the Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak, Cabinet Ministers and the Lord President. Tun
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    • 60 11 IPOH. Wed An education officer of the British Council Mr. A.J. Dunn, will give a lecture and demonstration on the “The tape-recorder and language teaching" at the Teachers’ Training Centre in Jalan Dairy off Tiger Lane here at 10.30 am. on Saturday. Teachers from 66 schools In
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    • 34 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. —The Malaysian Arts Theatre Group will hold a film show “La Traversee Di Paree" (Crossing Paris) in the Information Department conference room. Jalan Mountbatten. at 8 p.m on Friday.
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    • 41 11 MUAR. Wed. A one.day rural progress exhibition will be held at the Parit Sungei Terus Community Hall in Pontian on June 27 at 10 am. It will be opened by Johore State Executive Assemblyman. Haji Syed Mohamed bin Eros.
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    • 324 11  -  By: Maureen Lee ITt ALA LUMPUR, Wed. The whole process of putting on make-up to Janice Summerford is but like pressing the button and using remote control. Janice, a well-known international make-up artiste, who is currently in Kuala Lumpur, can tell you all that you need
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    • 44 11 IPOH. Wed. A motorcycle with a pillion rider crashed into a straying cow at the 45-i milestone. Ipoh-Bldor trunk road here last night. The pillion. Choo Wei Min, 44. was killed, and the motor-cyclist, Wong Ah Kow, 28, seriously injured.
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    • 182 11 KOTA. KINABALU, Wed. Tun Datu Haji Mustapha bin Datu Harun. Chief Minister of Sabah, has been appointed chairman of the Kota Kinabalu Mosque Building Committee. The committee has also appointed Syed Kechik bin Sved Mohammed, a lawyer here, as its secretary. The Chief Minister.
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    • 130 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Four officials, from the Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, left here by air today for Jakarta to attend an eiehtda y ASEAN committee meeting on food supply and production beginning tomorrow. They are
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    • 156 11 SINGAPORE. Wed. "You called. Madam?” asks the urbane Jeeves, stepping down from the stage during an interval In the R.A.F. Changi Theatre Club's presentation of “Come on Jeeves”, a farcical comedy by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. Special guests at this free rehearsal-performance were
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    • 405 11 KU A L A LUMPUR, Wed. The secre-tary-general of UMNO Enche Khir Johari, today disclosed 1.400 delegates from the party’s divisions from all over the states are expected to attend the 22nd UMNO general assembly to be held here from Sept. 13 to
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    • 197 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Royal Malaysian Navy recruiting team will be touring various States in West Malaysia beginning from July 4 to 11, to select 35 young men to serve in the electrical and mechanical branch, signals, medical and catering section of the
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    • 80 11 KOTA KINABALU. Wed. Up to April this year, nearly 6,160 acres of land in 20 major settlement schemes in Sabah wer e planted with oil palm. This was disclosed today by a spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. He said the Sungei Manila
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    • 101 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Assunta Convent, Kuala Lumpur. became champions for 1968. At the inter-school oratorical contest organised by the Malayan Teachers' College Students’ Union Kuala Lumpur at the M.T.C. auditorium. The runners-up were the Methodist Girls’ Secondary School, Klang and third prize winners were the
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    • 100 11 AL ACC A. Wed. A fire broke out at the Lee Rubber Factory last night at Bukit Gedong here destroying the smokehouse and 100 tons of rubber causing damage estimated at $200.000. The fire which broke out at 10 30 pm. was reported to have originated
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    • 2414 13  -  18TH DAY OF GENE KOH MURDER TRIAL By R. V. LINGAM SINGAPORE, Wed. The Gene Koh murder trial was today told that Gene had said that he hated the accused, Freddy Tan. Recalling this, a define* witness, Kuek Hock Sal added that Gene
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    • 99 13 Freddy's mother-in-law acquitted SINGAPORE Wed Teng Shiu Ngoh, the mother-in-law of the accused in the Gene Koh murder trial, was discharged and acquitted by a District Court today of causing Koh's body to disappear. This sudden event came when the prosecution informed the Court that it was withdrawing the charge
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 234 6 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Wed. (Reuter) The U.N. Security Council is due to endorse today, though with significant abstentions, the big three assurances of “immediate assistance” to any non-nu-clear state facing nuclear aggression. The U S., Russia and Britain pledged such aid under the terms
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    • 120 6 BEIRUT. Wed. (Reuter) The Lebanese government today took over two local banks, the “Credit Hypothecate Libanais” and the “Banque al-Ahli (Fonciere. Commerciale et Industrielle)” because of a recent financial deficit they have suffered. This brings to five the number of banks taken over by the
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    • 128 6 CAMBRIDGE. Massachusetts. Wed. (UPI) The second new comet of 1968 has been discovered by two American astronomers, one a 16-year-old amateur from Bishop, Texas, the Smithsonian Observatory announced yesterday. The observatory said the comet “Whitaker-Thomas”— a ninth magnitude object—was in the constellation Serphens in the
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    • 369 6 Recession? WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) Congressional approval of President Johnson's proposed tax increase hung in the balance last night despite a last-minute warning that failure to act could trigger off a world reces- sion. Representative Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House of Representatives Ways and
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    • 120 6 SAN FRANCISCO, Wed. (Reuter) Creation of an international informa ti o n pool to facilitate human heart and kidney transplants was announced here today by the Medic Alert Foundation. The non-profit organisation plan is to tag potential heart donors with a bracelet identifying them in their
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    • 90 6 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) The Indonesian government is planning to close its diplomatic missions in Lagos and Havana as part of an austerity drive, informed sources said today. The sources said a senior Foreign Ministry official left here yesterday to inspect several Indonesian missions and explore
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    • 150 6 BANGKOK. Wed. (Reuter) —The inner military circle of the Thai government has named leaders of the party which Prime Minister Field Marshal Tha. nom Kittikachorn will form to fight the general elections after the new constitution is promulgated tomorrow-. The leaders named today are
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    • 51 6 SENDAI, JAPAN, Wed. (UPI) A mild earthquake shook northern Japan today but there were no reports of damage or casualties. Sendai Meteorological observatory officials said the quake was centered offshore and its highest reading was a three on a scale of seven in Miyako City, Iwate
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    • 115 6 SAIGON. Wed. (Reuter) Prime Minister Tran Van Huong has threatened to resign within the next two days if he is overruled on further replacements of key government officials, government sources said today. The 64-year-old Prime Minister, who took office only on May 25. presented his
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    • 77 6 LANSING. Michigan. Wed. (UPI) Harold W. Glassen. president of the National Rifle Association, said the rise in gun sales has "nothing to do with riots.” At a press conference. Mr. Glassen said “We were told there was going to be a confrontation and blood would flow in the streets
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    • 297 6 UK continues in the red BRUSSELS, Wed. (Reuter) The Common Market's balance of trade surplus soared to more than US$2OO m. (£B3 m. sterling) during the first three months of this year from about $5O m. last January, according to official figures released by the commission
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    • 87 6 JAKARTA. Wed. (UPI) President Suharto has named an 8-member presidential economic advisory team headed by professor Widjojo Nitisastro, chairman of the National Planning Agency, it was reported today. Members of the team are Trade Minister Prof. Sumitro Djojohadikusymo, Finance Minister Prof. Dr. Ali Wardhana. Communications Minister Frans
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    • 87 6 TOKYO: Demonstrating students of Tokyo, representing two of the big three factions of the Zengakuren (leftist student association in Japan. confront one another with pieces of lumber and bamboo staffs at the Hibiya outdoor music hall in Tokyo last Saturday, while unionists
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    • 95 6 SAIGON. Wed. (Reuter) American Marines have killed 128 North Vietnamese troops in another sharp battle near the Khe Sanh combat base in the remote Northwest of the country. A Marine battalion dug In nine miles from the base was mortared by North Vietnamese
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    • 94 6 TOKYO. Wed. (Reuter) General William Westmoreland. retiring United States commander in Vietnam. said today he expected his successor to continue to put maximum pressure on the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces. Answering questions at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Japan, he said: “I see no other way
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    • 252 6 DAR ES SALAAM. Wed. (Reuter) Tanzania and China are using different bricks and a different ground plan for the building of socialism. President Julius Nyerere said in a speech prepared for delivery in Peking last night. “But by methods which seeilkjto
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    • 64 6 HOLLYWOOD. Wed. (UPI) —A spokesman for Nancy Kwan confirmed that the Hong Kong-born actress was divorced from her Austrian husband. Peter Pock. The spokesman gave no details of when the divorce was granted, or on what grounds. Miss Kwan was not immediately available, being on location for
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    • 74 6 SRINAGAR, Kashmir. Wed. (Reuter) Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi arrived in Kashmir today and said communal violence between Hindus and Moslems must be put down immediately with a firm handShe deplored recent communal incidents in various parts of India, and added: “We are all pained
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    • 147 6 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) Junius Richard Jayewardeno, Ceylonese Deputy Premier and State Minister, today began his first tour in Japan visiting Buddhist temples. Mr. Jayewardene visited the Asakusa temple in Tokyo this morning and then travelled to Kamakura in the afternoon for a look at the famed
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    • 389 7 LOS ANGELES, Wed. (UPI). The controversy over who will defend the accused assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy spilled over into the Middle East yesterday in the woke of reports that Lebanese and Jordanian attorneys have volunteered to represent Sirhan B. Sirhan. Sirhan,
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    • 213 7 PHILADELPHIA. Wed. (UPI) Lilian Reis, former dancer and local nightclub owner, and her two daughters were awarded a total of U 551,825,000 last night in a libel suit against the Saturday Evening Post. A Jury of seven men and five women awarded the damages
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    • 56 7 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) The three young Britons prrested in Moscow after distributing leaflets urging the release of jailed Russian ■vriters flew here last night from Paris. The three, two youths and k girl, were freed by Russian authorities early yesterday and put on board a plane for
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    • 62 7 WASHINGTON. Wfd. IUPI) US. Secretary of State Dean Rusk remained at Walter Reed Hospital for test 6 involving a urinary infection, the US. State Department said yesterday. State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said Mr Rusk is scheduled to leave on Saturday for a NATO ministerial
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    • 26 7 NEW YORK, Wed. Security men keep lookout for Senator McCarthy as he addresses a rally in Harlem yesterday UPI Radiophoto.
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    • 228 7 NEW YORK, Wed. (Reuter) Governor Nelson Rockefeller took a full page advertisment in American newspapers today to condemn the administration's war policies and declare the nation "must learn from Vietnam or be doomed by it." Under the heading "the last Vietnam," the Republican presidential aspirant wrote: "...Our
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    • 169 7 SEOI'L. Wed. (Reuter) South Korean troops killed seven North Korean soldiers in two clashes in the Korean demilitarised zone (DMZ) this morning, the Army announced today. No South Korean casualties were reported in both clashes. The Army said that five of the North
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    • 81 7 HONG KONG. Wed (Reuter) North Korea has accused the Japanese government of trying to suppress and obliterate the rights of Korean citizens in Japan The North Korean Foreign Ministry m a statement, quoted by the North Korean news agency today, said the Japanese administration tried to "fake up
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    • 161 7 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Beatle John Lennon arrived 15 minutes late hand in hand with Japanese actress Yoko Ono at the Old VIC last night for the world premiere of his first play "in his own write.” The National Theatre Company was midway
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    • 140 7 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) A “down needles" strike by 183 women idled 4.000 men at the Ford Motor Company's factory near here today. The women are demanding men's rate of pay for sewing car seat covers. They were among 1.000 British workers whose strike action
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    • 425 7 UK constitutional crisis LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Conservative Peers threw out a government Order-in-Council last night in a defiant move which parliamentary sources said would signal a constitutional crisis. The jampacked upper chamber, in tense and emotional mood, rejected bv nine votes —193 to 184 —the Labour government's
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    • 109 7 ROME. Wed < Reuter> President Giuseppe Saragat is believed to have chosen Christian Democrat Senator Giovanni Leone to form a minority government as a stop-gap regime during Italy's present political cri? sis. But left-wing members of the Christian Democratic Party have declared that they will not
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    • 75 7 NEAR OFrNA. Japan: I'nconscious passengers are seen lying on the floor while fellow passengers call for immediate medical attention after a Home-made time-bomb exploded in one car of a ten-car train of Vniinsnka of Japanese National Railways when the train was running near Ofuna station,
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  • 444 8 POLITICAL students who well remember the great Allied “Berlin Airlift” as a sort of saga that broke the Red blockade on that city may see in the latest situation of tension and harassment a similarity in posture an economic blockade to drive home the sore malingering political point.
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  • 423 8 WHEN Robert Kennedy was gunned down the London Daily Mirror screamed “O. God. not again”. The Australian destroyer HMAS Hobart now in the American Naval Base in the Philippines to tidy up her wounds was also gunned down, but not by some cold-blooded caloused killer in
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  • 1785 8  -  By U THANT From a roront speech by the* Initoei .Nation* Socre* ta ry- fwonora l. TOURING the past U four years or so, we have seen an escalation and intensification of the fighting in Vietnam to such an extent that this has become
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  • 498 8 From Sin Chew Jit Poh ALTHOUGH teenage students meddling in politics can be traced to the Red Guards in China and the disturbances in the American universities, under careful examination, however, we find that in those countries the circumstances and backgrounds were special and that their cases
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  • 247 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, “Handbook of Evldbne# Tor Crlalnal Trla1»") ytARVEY borrowed $5,000 from his mother. Instead of repaying her the money, he bought a house. When Hanley died suddenly. his mother Myrtle sued Harvey’s wife Frances to recover the $5,000 which she had loaned him.
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    • 41 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newspaper THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 1968 23-B. Cantonment Road. Singapore 2. Telephone: *****/7 Penang Office Ipoh Office 39. |alan Sultan. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. Telephone: *****/6 8. Leith Street. Tel: ***** 77. Brewster Road. Tel: ***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 179 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. One of the largest single order ever placed in Asia for agricultural equipment has been won by Ford Motor Company’s Tractor Division. The order —for 105 tractors worth more than TSs3oo.oon. including spares has been placed by the Taiwan Sugar Corporation. Manager The
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    • 200 9 SINGAPORE. Wed—For the first time in it* history, the Bank of Tokyo will make available travellers cheque* in U.S. dollars This was disclosed today by Mr- K Nagoshi, Manager of the Bank of Tokyo in Singapore. ‘‘The U.S dollar travellers’ cheques will be
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    • 428 9 Ilf ASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI). Big steel and organised labour, cur- rently negotiating a new contract, sat down yesterday on the same side of the table to argue for steel import quotas. Mr. Thomas F. Patton, chairman of Republic Steel Corp., and Mr.
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    • 93 9 HONG KONG. Wed (Reuter)—Hong Kong's ship repairing industry will face serious competition from Singapore in the future, a spokesman for Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering company said today. He was commenting on reports that Singapore’s naval dockyard is to be transferred to commercial use by the
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    • 206 9 NEW YORK Wed <UPI> A late selling wave sent prices slightly lower on the New York Btock Exchange yesterday after a mid-session rally attempt quickly ran out of stream. A few glamour stocks salvaged some of their early gains but blue chips surrendered fractions
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    • 1249 9 SINGAPORE. Wed —1 to rule the Stock Exchange centred mainly in the indt And as activity reached its peak, trading had to be suspended once in the morning from 11.00 a m. to 11.09 a.m. and also from 3.19 p.m. to 3.27 p.m. in the
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    • 292 9 Rubber down cent SINGAPORE. Wed. July first grade rubber fob. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 54, cents per lb., down three-eighths of a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. Trading was very thin and the market ruled easier at the outset on
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    • 399 9 SINGAPORE. Stock Exchange sold and offer price* officially listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS Ben Co CBI 3.34 Bnustead VALL MU) 1.66 C. Sugar 4 36 4.38 Chemical Co 1.14 1.46 Dunlop 3.20 3.21 E. Smelting 685 2.3* Esso Orrt* 2.84 2.86 1 A N Onls 4
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    • 180 9 LONDON, Wed, (UPI) Britain’* foreign trade performance showed little change in May and the country’* overseas trading ledgers stayed 86 million pounds (206.4 million U.S. dollars) in the red. Board of Trade figures showed yesterday. The deficit, calculated on a balance of payments basis
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    • 29 9 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Tin was steady quiet with 240 tons. Spot buyers 1301 sellers 1301-1/2 business 1301 1302. 3-months buyers 1312 sellers 1313 business 1314. Settlement 1301-1/2.
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    • 46 9 (Managers’ Prices) First Malayan 2.75 second Malayan 1.97 Third Malayan 1.25 The Commerce Industry XD .97 106 The saving Fund 1.11 120 First H'kong .85 .90* Second H'kong XD 60 .64* Malaysian Investment Fund 1.20 1 30 Sterling C’modlty 5/3 c* Hong Kong Currency >
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    • 103 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are> Buyer Seller Coconut Otl (FOB.) Bulk Coconut Oil 65.50 (F.O.B) Drum* Loo*e Copra Mixed 68 00 Muntok White Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% N.I..W 110 00 Sarawak White Pepper (FOB.) 96% N.L.W 107.50 Sarawak special Black Pepper (FOB.)
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    • 85 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. —The Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore today made the following changes in its rates to merchants New York: Buying TT. 32-11/16: Airmail O.D. 3213/16; 90 d/st. 3/8 Credit bills; 33-9/16 trade bills; Selling T.T./O.D. ready were: New York 32-3/8; Deutsche Marks 129; Holland Guilders 117; Swiss
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    • 58 9 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI)! —Rubber futures closed unchanged across the board. There were no sales. July 2100 N. Sep 20.40 bid, 20.90 asked. Nov. 20.30 bid, 20.70 asked. Jan. 20.00 bid, 20.50 asked March 20.00 bid, 20.50 asked. May 30.00 bid, 20.50 asked. July 20.00 bid, 20.50
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    • 24 9 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) —Monev quotations: HK$6.*****/8.1275 per US dollar for cash HK$ 14.53 per pound sterling HK5309.25 per tael gold.
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    • 17 9 SINGAPORE. Wed.— The tin price for today was $555.50 per picuL, up 12 J cents.
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    • 185 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The following ships are expected to be in port today. Godown Vessels 1/2 Var 3/4 Comorin 5 Aldan 6/7 Ocean Builder 8/9 Ossian 10/11 Yamahana Maru 13/14 President Pierce 15/16 Centaur 18 Capraia 21/22 Rajah Brooke 23/24 Shoryu Maru 25/26 Golden Spring 29/30 Rajula 31/32
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    • 1318 10 YOffi T TV and TODAY j* --ii TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 8 KUALA LUMPUK and Palau Plnang; 8 Ipoh and Melaka; 3 A 10 Johore Bahra; t Taipinr. V Bata Pahat; 9 Klnang. P.M. 5.45 Opening Annet. and Prog. Summary; 5.50 News Outline in the national Language: 5.55 National Songs; 6
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
    • 335 12 Every country in the world has its own railway net-work. A train is a chain of carriages pulled by an engine. The fastest train in the world is the ‘Hikari Express’ in Tokyo. Some of the famous cities with tubes (underground trains)
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    • 144 12 MY ambition is to become a doctor. Should I succeed in being one. I will be able to give help to those who need my aid. I can also serve in rural areas where doctors are in demand. Without doctors and medicine. diseases
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    • 180 12 A SCHOOL is a place where students are educated. In schools, students are taught to be good and useful citizens of tomorrow. I was only seven years old when my turn came for me to go to school. I was to be admitted to Standard
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    • 250 12 ONE Sunday morning, my friends and I decided to explore the secret cave which our teacher told us about during one of the lessons. We prepared to visit the cave and took with us food, and other necessary things. When we reached the
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    • 130 12 SHE is gentle, kind, hardworking and reliable. She scolds us. sees to the food and is always happy to hear stories about us from other people. If one of us does well in examinations, he or she will be rewarded by her. On festival days, she sits
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    • 102 12 Aunt Marie, a stout, polite, honest woman is my favourite relative. Being my grandmother's only daughter, she does not have any bad qualities. She is always neat and tidy in appearance. She is willing to help those who need her help most. She is generous and makes
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    • 206 12 ONE day I woke up late for school. I decided to go by bicycle in order to be on time. While cycling, a dog ran across my path and in trying to avoid it, I lost control of the bicycle and I fell down. I was
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    • 157 12 I WAS walking home from school one afternoon when I saw a sorrowful scene. It was a Chinese funeral. I stood to watch the grand procession and observed that the deceased was very rich. I heard the beating of drums and the clash of cymbals. First
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    • 163 12 SINGAPORE is an island with many places of interest that most people would like to visit. These places are famous for the tourists who often visit the lovely island. I have also paid a visit to the Johore Zoo across the Causeway. One morning, my
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    • 174 12 ONE day my friends decided to go on a hunting trip. We left our homes early in the morning and started the journey to Tanjong Rambutan. We carried a haversack filled with food and air guns. On the way. we talk to each other about the animals
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    • 179 12 IT happened one night when I was walking along a path leading to the graveyard. The town was deserted at such a late hour. I saw three men passing near the graveyard from another direction. They were looking at a young woman beautifully dreseed.
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    • 179 12 I am a brand new motor car and my name is “Mercedes”. I was made in Germany. and I was sent to Singapore by ship. I am an expensive car and many drivers like to use me. But some people cannot afford to buy me.
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    • 176 12 THE bicycle is one of the most popular machines of our time. It was invented in the 16th century. To most people, the bicycle is a poor man’s vehicle and yet it is used by millions of people throughout the world. My bicycle is called
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    • 154 12 WHILE walking home from a cinema show, I saw a long column of black smoke rising in the sky. I was curious to find out about the fire and went to the scene. I saw a house on fire. The smoke was as high as a
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    • 187 12 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN’S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves P P And what better way
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  • 1138 14  -  by T. A. SANDROCK I ONDON, (LPS) The rapidly increasing growth of international co-operation in the fight against crime was highlighted last weekend (June 8) with the arrest in London of a suspect wanted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for
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  • 344 14  -  By Madan M. Gupta KATMANDU. Nepal. (I'PI) The patients ranged in age from 2 to 90 years. Some of them walked for as long as seven days through the Himalayan foothills to reach the medical camp. They all came for one reason: To save themselves from
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  • 344 14 IIfHEN people are hit by flood, earthquake or other natural disaster, what do they need most quickly? Blankets, according to a study just published by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations. The booklet. “Food and Nutrition Procedures in Times of Disaster”, was prepared
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    • 722 14 Classified Ad, SITUATION VACANT 20 Words $5/- (Minimum) Kuala Lumpur European Family, two children require Chinese English speaking wash and cook amah or couple Good salary, must live in. Box No. 614 Eastern Sun. Kuala Lumpur. PUBLIC APPOINTMENT PUBLIC APPOINTMENT PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD SINGAPORE WATER DEPARTMENT: Requires (A) electrical operating
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    • 306 15  -  Royal Command Gigantor also impress in workout By Windsor Lad KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.—HYREGO (Johnny Wilson), lost year's King's Cup winner, displayed striking form in a smart trial with All Steel (Kingston) on o yielding track this morning. Clapping on the pace the pair raced neck ond
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    • 1120 15 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Singapore Turf Club June/ July meeting has attracted 277 entries 107 each from class two and four and 63 from class six. Following are the entries: CLASS 2 All Wonders x x Amos Burke x x Appaloosa x x
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    • 247 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A Member of Parliament, a wing-commander, men prominent in medicine, politics and business will take part in a seven-mile "Big Walk" in here on Sunday starting at 7 a m. They all have one thing in common. They
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    • 254 15 ASCOT. England. Wed. (UPI) Australian Jockey Kevin Mitchell had no luck with hi* first ride in this country and his mount. Cindy's Son. finished out of the money in the Coventry Stakes here. Murrayfieid. a 15-2 chance ridden by Geoff Lewis won the
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    • 61 15 JOHANNESBURG Wed. (UPI) The British Lion* touring rusby union team lost its unbeaten record against provincial sides when downpd 14-6 by Transvaal at Ellis Park yesterday. At half-time the tourists led 6-3. It was the second defeat of the tour for the Lions who last the
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    • 213 15 CHESTNUT HILL, (Mass), Wed. (UPI) The lbngest suspended match in the history of professional tennis developed on Monday after rain drowned out the 32.250 dollars US. Professional Grass Courts Championship for the third time in six days. The washout at weatherplagued Longwood Cricket Club tentatively
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    • 52 16 BASIL D’OLIVIEBA puts one past short square leg off Gleeson's bowling during his knock of 8? not out in England second innings against Australia in the First Test at t> d Trafford. England were all out for 253 giving the Australians victory by 159 runs. —United Press
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    • 349 16 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) 8)11 Lowry's Australian cricket team is expected to be unchanged to meet England in the Second Test and the 200th clash between the countries —at Lord's here start- ing tomorrow. Vast crowos are assuied for this England-Aus-tralia milestone and takings
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    • 277 16 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Singapore Amateur Sepakraga Association (PERSES) will be shortly •writing to the Ministry of Education to seek cooperation to promote and popularise sepak raga in schools in Singapore. In an interview with Bunsport here today. Enche Daud Sirun. hon. secretary
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    • 130 16 BATU PAHAT. Wed. Johore Bahru District beat Segamat District 36-25 in women’s section in the opening match of the 10-day Johore State Gold Cup Basketball Championships now being held ip Batu Pahat. In the second match. Johore Bahru District created a major up-set by
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    • 123 16 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) —All 17 members of the Australian touring party reported fit at Lords here early today for a final practice session before the start of the Second Cricket Test against England tomorrow. The team is not to be announced until tomorrow morning, but
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    • 296 16 HOVE. (England). Wed (UPI) The Australian cricket tourists had some anxious moments yesterday before clinching the fourth victory of their tour with a five wickets win over Sussex, not the ideal preparation for the Second Test against England which starts tomorrow. The country, tumbled out
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    • 672 16  -  By R. D. Selva SEREMBAN, Wed. After yesterday's fine first innings knock of 172, the Negri Sembilan Invitation XI put up a pathetic performance today which gave the touring Hyderabad Blues Cricket Club of India a ninewicket victory on the N.S. padang here. Final
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    • 279 16 SINGAPORE, Wed. A goal off a short corner In the fifth minute today put Ceylon Sports Club in the final of the Singapore Hockey Association's senior knockout championship. And thanks to their fullback. Farouk. a State player, who made the best of
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    • 169 16 SINGAPORE. Wed The proposed new structure of the Football Association of Singapore as recommended by the Minister for Social Affairs was criticised at the extraordinary general meeting of the association held here tonight. Representatives expressed the view that the recommendations outlined by the Minister contained
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    • 104 16 IPOH. Wed Perak Selection XI will meet Lions Athletic (Manllat in a soccer friendly at the Perak Stadium here on June 22 Kick-off Is at 8 p m The following will be selected to represent Perak Selection XI: Goal: Noordin bln Sarbany. Liew Keng Foo. Fullbacks: J
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    • 77 16 SINGAPORE. Wed. Marshall United will meet Mount Emily in the FAS Division 1118 league soccer match at Farrer Park tomorrow’. In the other division three matches Police 'B” will play against Singapore Teachers’ Union at F.P. Others matches. Pancharan XI versus Katong S.C. at F.P. Prison S.C.
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    • 152 16 ROEHAMPTON. (England). Wed. (UPI) Twenty-year-old Australian tennis player Doug Smith was warned yesterday about his conduct by referee Fred Hoyles in the Wimbledon qualifying tournament here. Smith was warned four times by umpire Cecil Collett for swearing during a second round singles match against John
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    • 201 16 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Ray Illingworth, the England all-rounder, put Yorkshire on the path to victory over Leicestershire at Sheffield with his first century for four years in yesterday's English firstclass cricket programme. Illingworth reached 100 not out in 142 minutes with two sixes and 11 fours and shared
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    • 276 16 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter)— Ramanathan Krishnan. who has dominated Indian tennis for the past decade, could provide an exciting start to the first Open Wimbledon Championships on Monday. In the draw, made here today, the 31-year-old Madras player was paired against 40-year-old professional star Pancho
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    • 56 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 919 a.m. (7.0 ft.), 8.47 p m. (6.1 ft.) Port Swettenham: 12.21 (11.5 ft.), 1.12 pm. (13.5 ft.) Port Dickson: 1.57 a.m. (6.0 ft.), 2.33 p.m. (7.2 ft.) Singapore: 6.31 am. (6.3 ft.). 7.03 p.m. (6.9 ft.) Sedili Kechil: 5.03 p.m. (6.6 ft.) Kuantan: 5.27 a.m.
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