Eastern Sun, 7 August 1968

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION -jV Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 727 Wednesday, 7 August 1968. MC(P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 545 1 No mention of P.I. claim to Sabah at ASEAN meeting JAKARTA, Tues. (Reuter) Ilf ALAYSIA and the Philippines veered apart today at the opening of the first important conference of the one-year-old Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). At the opening session neither side directly mentioned
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  • 313 1  -  By LIM THOW BOON Kuala lumpur. Tues. Dr. Eva Horakova is single. She is a research worker at the Oriental Institute in Prague. She worships the Czech leader, Mr. Alexander Dubcek“l saw him speak at a May Day parade and I believed
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  • 82 1 SINGAPORE. Tues The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. today had talks “of mutual interest’* with the British Opposition leader, Mr. Edward Heath. The meeting took place when Mr. Heath stopped-over in Singapore for about an hour enroute to Australia. Mr. Heath was met on
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  • 423 1 JAKARTA, Tues The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak. today called on ASEAN members countries to “come, live and work together" for peace, progress and prosperity and urged that nothing should be done which could jeopardise the future of ASEAN. Speaking at
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  • 232 1 TT’AMPAR, Tues. Two teenaged girls found unconscious in separate places by their parents yesterday, died after admission to hospital. Medical sources attributed the cause of death in both cases to the presence of poisonous substance consumed by them. The first girl, P.
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  • 35 1 WASHINGTON. T u e s. (Reuter> Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, his third in just over three months, at Walter Reed Hospital here today, the hospital announced.
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  • 297 1 VAN DE GRIFT COMBAT BASE, South Vietnam. Tues. (Reuter) Two massive North Vietnamese ammunition dumps discovered near this remote forward base by American Marines will be blown sky high within the next few days. Along with the arms caches will go
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  • 91 1 CAPE KENNEDY. Florida. Tues. (Reuter) A supersecret spy satellite wa» launched from here today. headed for an orbit which It was reported would take it over the Soviet Union and China. The launching of the AtlasAgena rocket had been shrouded in secrecy by the Defence Department.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 103 2 This picture was taken on Monday night shortly after the Tunku had opened the conference on Medical Education at
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    • 352 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The National Union of Teachers will ask the Minister of Education Enche .Mohamed Khir Johari, to look into the mass failure -of referred teacher trainees and re-assess their examination results. A resolution to this effect is to be tabled at
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    • 128 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Armed Forces Council has approved the changing of the name for the rank of Brigadier to that of Brigadier-General. This change will bring Malaysia In line with her neighbours where Brigadiers are known as Briga-'dier-Generals in the Army. The rank
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    • 75 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tue*. Six Textile Queens from Taipeh are expeeted to arrive on Thursday. The beauties four University and two Middle School students will take part in fashion shows at the Federal Hotel from Friday to Saturday. Evening dresses and sports wears of materials produced
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    • 214 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues— A youth. Liew Chai. was sentenced to three year's jail when he pleaded guilty to demanding $5,000 from Loh Ken Moi. “Mummy” of a massage parlour at Jalan Tiong last Saturday. The Prosecuting Officer. Chief Inspector Lim
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    • 259 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The faces of Malaysia's women basketball stars'went red at the Subang Airport today when they found they had no money to pay duty on goods which they said included gifts presented to them in Taipeh. The captain of the National
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    • 606 2  -  By BEN VARIYAN KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Confidence tricksters have milked a businessman of 51,550 by threatening to expose him of having slept with a married woman in a hotel room. The Selangor notice are now looking for three men and a
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    • 69 2 MALACCA. Tues. A recently retired chief clerk of the Sessions Court here, Wi Thiam Chin. 57. was today sentenced to six months for misappropriatiig public funds amounting to $16,230 between Jan. 3 and Aug. 30 last year The Sessions Court President. Enche Mohamed Noor Ahmad,
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    • 723 2 ‘Keep an eye’ directive to CEOs: By Chan Kam Yau ALOR STAR, Tues. The Minister of Education, Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, today urged all Chief Education Officers to keep in close touch with the Special Branch in view of the "noticea
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    • 74 3 The new Austrian Ambassador to Singapore. Dr. Werner Sautter (right) yesterday presented his credentials to the Republic's President, Enche Yusof b. Ishak, at a ceremony at the Istana. Singapore’s Ambassador to the United Arab Republic. Mr. Lee Khoon Choy, recently presented his credentials to President Nasser of
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    • 150 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. A suggestion was made today for the setting up of a regional Eye-Bank in South-East Asia. The call came from Dr. Robert C. K. Loh. a Singapore eye specialist, when he presented a paper at the third congress of the Asia-Pacific
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    • 104 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. Operators of Dangerous Trades licensed by the Singapore Fire Brigade are warned to be aware of bogus characters who are going around collecting money purported for the Fire Brigade's promotion of sports and welfare programmes. These bogus characters go around and collect funds
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    • 364 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Minister for Culture, Mr. Jek Yeun Thong, has said that post-1973 should witness prosperity and social security on an unprecedented scale. He said one of the major effects of the British withdrawal would be a downright loss of some 20 per cent of
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    • 165 3 ‘Let down allegation denied KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The vice-president of CUEPACS. Mr. N. Wignesvaran. today denied it had "let down” certain categories of workers in the civil service by agreeing to defer implementation of the sa--1 v scales recommended by the Suffian Commission. "We have signed an industrial agreement which
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    • 30 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Chairman of the Sharikat Permodalan Kebangsaan, Raja Khalid bin Raja Harun, said today Malaysia's first ammunition factory will be built in Rawang in mid-1969.
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    • 27 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Ministry of Works. Posts and Telecommunications, Malaysia, announced today a postal agency will be opened on Thursday at Jalan Treacher her*.
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    • 129 3 KUCHING. Tues. The Federal Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives. Tuan Ghazali Jawi. who is now visiting Sarawak, has urged local farmers to plant more cash crops. He also advised fishermen to form multi-purpose cooperative societies. However, he told the fishermen not to compete
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    • 1383 4 Request for alternative relief turned down ‘It would be an abuse of the power of the Court...’ JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Dato Justice Ali Hasson in the High Court hei today rejected on application for an interlocutory injunction restraining the Superintendent of
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    • 452 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The proposed legislation on work permits for non-citizens was outlined today by the Assistant Minister of Home Affairs, Enche Hamzah bin Dato Abu Samah. He told Bernama the bill the Employment Restriction Bill would be presented to Parliament
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    • 68 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Dr. Tan Chee Khoon, Gerakan M.P. for Batu today appealed to fellow M.P.S to support his appeal for clemency for the 13 men condemned to death for consorting with armed Indonesians during confrontation. He sent out stencilled letters with a tear-away portion Indicating
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    • 67 4 The Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, pausing for a chat with students of the Medical Faculty, University of Malaya, in Kuala Lumpur on Monday night The Tunku had earlier opened a four-day conference on Medical Education at the Medical Faculty. Next to him (facing camera) is
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    • 217 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Minister of Commerce and Industry. Tan Sri (Dr.) Lim Swee Aun. today described the University of Malaya Medical Centre as the “pivot of medical education” in the region “Not only must it train and produce doctors to meet the needs of
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    • 40 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong left for the Trengganu. their home State, this morning for a three-week holiday. The Sultan or Kedah, who is the deputy Yang dl-
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    • 793 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Johore Bahru Town Councillors were on the “rush” when there was Council money to be spent but they took an “indifferent” attitude when it came to collecting Council dues. This was told to the Raja Azlan
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    • 235 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Minister for Science and Technology, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, will lead a Singapore delegation to the Conference on the application of Science and Technology to the Development of Asia to be held in New Delhi from Aug. 9 to
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    • 196 10 10,000 hold-up at goldsmith’s shop SINGAPORE, Tues. Two youths walked calmly into a goldsmith shop in East Coast Road today, held up the proprietor and escaped with five trays of jewellery worth $lO,OOO. The proprietor. Cheow Kok Seng, of Tai Hoe Goldsmith, was attending to his jewellery when the two
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    • 233 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. The 32 Japanese travel agents who flew into Singapore on MSA's Inaugural flight from Tokyo were today guests at a luncheon given by the Singapore Tourist Association. In welcoming the travel agents to Singapore, Mr. Herbert Llm, Chairman of the STA.
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    • 58 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. Merchant Road will be closed to traffic from Thursday for the construction of New Bridge Road Outlet Drain. Motorists who often go to Raffles Place byway of River Valley, Read Street and Merchant Road are now advised to proceed straight along River Valley Road to High
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    • 52 10 SINGAPORE. Tues Nordin bin Taib, a student of St. Fatrick's School, has won the Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce Annual Award for being the Malay student with the best performance in commercial subjects in the Cambridge School Certificate examination. 1967. He will receive a cash award
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    • 128 10 Children of British servicemen listened enthralled as the Continental Singers an American choral and instrumental group which presents religious songs with modern arrangements entertained families at the Sandes Services Home, Portsdown Road, Singapore. The group, which was visiting the Republic for a week while
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    • 95 10 Happy Australian bride and groom are showered with confetti after their marriage in Singapore. It was a big change of role for Mrs Marian Ann Pola. formerly Marian Rose, of Toowoomba. Queensland. Marian came to Singapore early this year as a WRAAC to serve with the Australian Army's
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    • 85 10 TELUK ANSON. Tues. Tappers and weeders from Teluk Baharu Estate and Bagan Pasir Estate, picketed outside the Community Hall in Sungei Sumun. Hutan Melintang. yesterday against the fragmentation of the two European-owned estates Both the estates employ about 435 people IPOH. Tues Sixty industrial and
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    • 30 10 IPOH. Tues Ngor Wang Huat. 51. was killed when he was knocked down by an ambulance last night. The accident took place at the 38J milestone, Lumut-Sitia-wan Road.
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    • 393 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. The MP for Serangoon Gardens. Mr. L.P. Rodrigo, will be asking several questions. ranging from “suicide” to “robbery” in Parliament. Mr. Rodrigo who has submitted his questions for oral answers, wants to know from the Minister for Law and National Development. Mr. E.W. Barker,
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    • 507 11 TT'UALA LUMPUR, Tues. International historians meeting here today were told of the time when the late Sir Winston Churchill lost his temper over independence for India, and Stalin admitted the India question was “complicated." Reform from top to bottom in India, Stalin SGid, “would
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    • 260 11 1 KUALA TRENGGANU, Tues.—The Malaysian Signal Corps of the Armed Forces in West Malaysia will tarry out a training exercise in Marang near Dungun on -£ug. 10—18. The exercise code-named “Exercise Chubaan” will be directed by the chief Signal Officer Colonel Leong Siew
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    • 106 11 PENANG, Tues. A “batek dress competition” open to all men will be one of the highlights at the “City Ball ’6B’’, organised by the City Council Sports Council, at the E. and O. Hotel from 9 p m. to 1 a.m. on Aug. 24. -There will also
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    • 92 11 A Bidayuh community contingent part of a procession of 3.000 youths on their way to watch a cultural show in front of the Museum grounds in Kuching town last week. The procession, including decorated floats, motor cycles and scooters, was headed by the
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    • 42 11 The Iranian Ambassador to Malaysia, Tan Sri Dr. Manoutchehr Marxban, on Sunday, made a farewell call on the Tang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong at the Istana Negara, Kuala Lumpur. Picture shows the Ambassador (left) saying goodbye to the King.
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    • 160 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A salesman travelling in a van along Jalan Cheras was stopped by three people In a car and robbed of $560 In cash and $760 worth of cigarettes, a police spokesman said today. Yap Mun Hoe. 37. was returning to Kuala Lum-pur-from Kajang
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    • 113 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— MARA has embarked on a new venture —a $60,000 bread factory the Deputy to the Chairman of MARA. Dato Haji Mustapha bin Haji Abdul Jabar, said today. First loaves would be rolling from the factory in Petaling Jay a on Sept. 1-.
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    • 39 11 MALACCA. Tues. A sawmill labourer. Tay Kim San, 35. died In the hospital last night when a pile of planks fell on him while he was loading them on to a lorry at Jalan Kilang.
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    • 326 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, will be asked In Parliament to make a statement-on the Sabah claim talks with the Philippines and the reason why the talks ended abruptly and in failure in Bangkok. The
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    • 568 11 KUALA LUMPUR,-Tues. The results of the first examination session In the French language, held by the Alliance Franclase of Kuala Lumpur, were extremely flattering to the young Malaysian students of the school, as 112 among them have Just passed successfully. The six
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    • 93 11 Nine non-commissioned officers of the Ist Kuching Company's, Boys’ Brigade, led by Captain John de Foe, left for Sabah yesterday to climb Malaysia’s highest mountain Mt. Kinabalu, as part of their leadership training. They are (front row from left): Cpl. Matthew Ong. L/C. Andrew Lee, Cpl. Peter Lim, L/c. Llm
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    • 35 11 PENANG. Tues —The Indonesian Consul in Penang, Mr. R.M. Muharam Sumadjpradja, will pay a courtesy call on the Chief Minister, Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee. at Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putra here tomorrow morning.
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    • 245 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A father of nine. P. Muniam, accused of raping his 13-year-old daughter, was freed by the High Court today when the charge against him was withdrawn half-way through the hearing One of the prosecution witnesses, C. Thangamani, who made the police report
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    • 130 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The staff of the Philippines Embassy here are still waiting for instructions from President Marcos for them to leave Malaysia. A spokesman of the Embassy said the delay could be attributed to' the recent earthquake disaster in Manila. However, he pointed, but,
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    • 73 11 SINGAPORE. Tues. A total of 8.1440 people won prizes at the 9th Toto draw on Aug. 4. Of these, four had five correct numbers each and will receive a sums- of $6,000 each. Another 479 people had four correct numbers and will receive S5O each; while
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    • 43 11 PENANG, Tues. Tha Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee, will-- open the Malaysia Boys’ Brigade national camp at Telek Bahang on Thursday afternoon. The camp will last for a week and contingents from Sabah and Sarawak will attend-
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    • 153 12 'M' stands for MUNRO, the 'magni-ficent-voiced singer of many moods', as she is described by Mayfair Magazine London. SHEELA MUNRO has been dubbed 'the next up and coming star in Britain'. Critics all over Europe and Australia have compared her with Shirley Bassey and Lena Horne
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    • 50 12 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Singapore Armed Forces will conduct demolition exercises at the Southern Islands Demolition range at Pulau Senang and Pulau Pawai on Aug. 12 to Aug. 17 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The public are requested to keep away from the said islands during that period.
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    • 47 12 SINGAPORE. Tues. The examinations cf the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. London, will be held on Nov. 2. Entries for the examinations should reach the Chief Examinations Officer. Ministry of Education. Kay S ang Road, Singapore 10 not later than Aug. 23.
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    • 210 12 OINGAPORE, Tues. —The Christian Family and Social Movement (Sing pziz) supported the Pope's decision on the use of the birth-control pill and the regulation of birth. In a statement today. the movement said it supported: The call for modernising attitudes excluding moral
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    • 76 12 SINGAPORE. Tues Four men were acquitted and discharged by the First District Court today on a charge of bringing in 1.236 lbs. of cigarettes and 360 quarts of brandy without customs approval. They were Goh Lai Chuan, 40, Yeo Seow Llan. 49. Goh Lye Hock.
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    • 40 12 SINGAPORE. Tues The new Austrian Ambassador to Singapore. Dr. Werner Sautter presented his credentials to the President of Singapore. Enche Yusof bin Ishak at the Istana today. Dr. Sautter replaced Dr Rudolf Baumann who has left for re-assignment.
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    • 43 12 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Light Industries Services of the Economic Development Board will hold a prize distribution ceremony for participants in the “Made-in-Singapore” products exhibition, tomorrow at 5.30 p.m. The ceremony will be held at the LIS exhibition grounds at Shenton Way.
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    • 246 12 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Singapore Malay Teachers’ Union has strongly protested against the integration of Sang Nila Utama and Tun Seri Lanang Secondary Malay Schools. The union urged the Education Ministry to revert the schools’ status to that of pure Malay secondary schools. These
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    • 120 12 SINGAPORE. Tues—Two mechanics have filed a claim for $146,133 in the High Court today against the Provincial Insurance Co. Ltd. following an award by the High Court in April this year. The two mechanics. Tan Heng Lin, 23. and Eng Ah Kau.
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    • 63 12 12.45 p.m. 2 p.m.: The Rotary Club of Singapore a weekly luncheon at the Blue Room. Capitol Building 7.30 p.m.: Free film show* by the Ministry of Culture at Kampong Ayer Panas (off Sembawang Road), Lee Cheng Yan Hng (Lorong Patong) and Joo Hwa School (10 ms Jurong
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    • 68 12 The big rush for the fantastic bargains at C. K. Tang (S) Ltd. tn Orchard Road has begun. The super-departmental store is offering at “must-sell” prices goods ranging from blouses and shirts to towels and bed sheets. join the crowd at C.K. Tang where the
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 52 5 MILWAUKEE, W i s. Tues. Pieces of plane on fuselage of North Central airliner. Three in the small plane were killed in the crash on Sunday. but the pilot of the liner brought the plane, with the wreckage and bodies down safely.
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    • 185 5 MANILA. Tues. (Reuter) Rescue workers still toiled through the ruins of an earthquake shattered building in Manila today, but organisers said it would be a miracle if any of the 150 people believed still buried were found alive. “It Ls four days now.
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    • 78 5 HONG KONG, Tue s (Reuter) One of seven members of the staff of the British diplomatic mission in Peking who were granted exit permits late last month has arrived in Hong Kong. Miss M.E. Quirie, a secretary of the British mission, crossed the border at Lowu
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    • 544 5 PRAGUE, Tues. (Reuter) Premier Oldrich Cernik of Czechoslovakia today told a Communist Party meeting here that Czechoslovakia could not be neutral in the East-West confrontation. it was, the first majj)r official hint of Czechoslovak concessions to Prague's critical allies in Eastern Europe, since the
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    • 181 5 TOSIYO. Tues.—Two Japanese plan to see if they e*n live on the bottom of the ocean to escape city noises, b< it they will take television with them. Karue Tanaka. 28 a tangterine grower, and Seiji Nlori. 26. a skin diver, Siid they have built a
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    • 228 5 'STRANDED' ON BRITISH SHIP PONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter) A Calcuttaborn Chinese is travelling back and forth between Hong Kong and Taiwan aboard a British vessel because he is not allowed to land by immigration authorities at either place, the South China Morning Post reported today.
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    • 186 5 JAKARTA, Tues. (UPI). Indonesian police have not been officially notified of reported willingness of Hong Kong authorities to let Indonesia try Lim Tjie Sian, 35, for the murder of an Indonesian woman and her fiveold son in a Hong Kong
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    • 21 5 CASTELGANDOLFO. Italy, Tues. (UPI) Pope Paul VI yesterday received in private audience Msgr. Giuseppe Caprio, apostolic pro-Nuncio in India.
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    • 118 5 LAGOS, Tues. (Reuter) A Nigerian Army Officer today denied radio Biafra reports that Federal forces had launched a full-scale offensive into the Ibo heartland to ensure military victory before the close of the current peace negotiations in Addis Ababa. The officer said he knew of
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    • 130 5 PARIS. Tues. (Reuter) A new company. Airbus International has been set up to handle world sales of the giant airliner which Britain. France and West Germany plan to produce jointly, it was announced yesterday. The company's shareholders are the Joint manuacturers of the
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    • 56 5 MANILA. Tues. (Reuter) The commission on volcanology confirmed reports today that mudflow from the Mayon volcano carried away some 50 houses and killed a woman on Sunday. A spokesman said accumulated ashes on the slope were washed down by rain. He said last Friday's earthquake
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    • 174 6 WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI) Three American pilots released from North Vietnam were undergoing extensive medical test and “administrative processing” yesterday at a Military Hospital in the Washing- ton suburbs. A spokesman at the Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland Hospital had no Immediate reports on
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    • 106 6 NANAIMO. British Columbia, Tues. (Reuter) An 18-year-old youth with a .22 calibre rifle tried to hi-jack a British Columbia Government ferry in the Strait of Georgia last night, police here said today. The youth told two sailors on the’ bridge; “I’m taking over
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    • 149 6 RIO DE JANEIRO. Tues. '(UPI) University students defied a Government ban yesterday and demonstrated 1h the streets to demand the release of student leader Vladimir Palmeira. who was arrested on Saturday. 'l‘Palmeira had been on the police wanted list since June, when he promoted violent
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    • 333 6 PARIS, Tues. (UPI). North Vietnam's official spokesman at the Paris talks said yesterday a solution to the war in South Vietnam "must" involve U.S. recognition of the National Liberation Front and negotiations with it. It was the first such demand from
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    • 135 6 SYDNEY. Tues. (UPI) The Papan Encyclical banning contraception was rejected yesterday by a leading Theologian of the Roman Catholic Church. Fr. Nicholas Crotty. Professor of moral Theology at the Holy Cross Seminary. Templestow. Victoria said, “as a Christian, as a priest and as a moral theologian.
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    • 63 6 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) The Japanese Government will ask lumber Importers to voluntarily reduce imports from the United States In an effort to counter the Morse Bill now before Congress. The Bill, sponsored by Senator Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.), Is designed to limit sales of publicly owned
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    • 93 6 HIROSHIMA, Japan. Tues (UPI) Pope Paul VI in a message yesterday said he grayed that there will never e another atomic bombing. It was the first Papal message ever sent directly to Hiroshima, where the first atom bomb was dropped 23 years
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    • 99 6 BERKELEY. California. Tues. (Reuter) Officials of the University of California today denied a charge in India’s Parliament that the University's Himalayan border countries project was a front for U.S. espionage Mr. Ivan Vallier. acting Director of the Institute for International Studies at Berkeley, said “the project
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    • 290 6 SYDNEY Tues. (UPI) An expert on world food problems said in Canberra last night that the Papal decision on/ birth control was a tremendous blow against the? effort of science to meet the needs of man. Dr.
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    • 106 6 MIAMI BEACH, Tues. (CPI) The site of the Republican National Convention was ringed yesterday by an opening session security guard worthy of Fort Knox or Checkpoint Charlie. Symbolising the heaviest protection in the history of Republican conventions was a blue-helmeted policeman armed with a
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    • 55 6 DUBLIN. Tues. (UPI) Irish bishops have pledged their unshakeable. loyalty to Pope Paul VI and have rallied behind his encyclical on birth control. In a series of pastoral letters read at masses on Sunday, the bishops called on the priests and faithful of their dioceses to
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    • 67 6 NEW YORK. Tues. 'UPI)—The US. Navy has determined the missing nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion was crushed like an eggsiiell” when it sank to depths its hull could not withstand, laccording to Newsweek magazine. Newsweek in its 12 issue said the sub was crushed about May 21
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    • 148 7 KINGSTON. Jamaica, Tues. (Reuter) Mr. David Knox, Director of Information in the Bahamas who has been held prisoner by the Haitian Government for the past two months. Is expected to go before a Military tribunal in Port Au Prince this week. The British High Commisson
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    • 148 7 SANTIAGO. Chile. Tues (CPI) Rear Admiral Shuahiro Ohkawa placed a red and white chrysanthemum wreath in the form of the Japanese flag on the monument to Chile s father of independence. Bernardo Ohiggins. yesterday in the windup of a goodwill visit by four Japanese destroyers.
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    • 70 7 ISE OF WIGHT, Eneland. Tr es (Reuter) Yachtsman Sir Alec Rose, who a month ago completed a single-hand-e) around-the-world voy-a-e. was today voted into the sailing world's most exclus* e club—the Royal Yacht Squadron here. 'embers of the squadron v«?ed unanimously to elect the 59-year-old
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    • 75 7 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Russ Conway, the British honky-tonk pop pianist taken seriously ill at the weekend, has decided to give up all public performances, It was announced today. The 41-year-old pianist Is now resting at his home near London His secretary said It may be
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    • 51 7 AUSTIN. Texas Tues. (Reuter) President Johnson will undergo his routine annual medical examination today at Brooke Army Medical Centre in San Antonio. Texas, the White House said today. The spokesman said the President was in normal health He will be 60 on the 11th of this
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    • 33 7 WELLINGTON. Tues Aerial view of the liner Gothic which caught fire 800 miles off New Zealand. Seven people were reported killed In the blaze. UPI radiophoto.
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    • 418 7  -  By Peter Job JAKARTA, Tues. (Reuter) The Indonesian Army has considered sending troops to Vietnam in return for massive aid from the United States, but the proposal foundered on Foreign Ministry opposition and lack of American encouragement. The failure of the initiative
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    • 209 7 ALGIERS. Tues. (UPI) The fate of an El Al airliner and 14 Israeli passengers and crewmen held in Algiers since July 23 may be decided this week, informed sources said today. The speculation was prompted by news from official sources that Algeria
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    • 66 7 JAKARTA. Tues (UPI) The woman who arrived aboard a KLM flight from Amsterdam staggered and her bosom swelled unnaturally. When searched, more than 20 kilograms of gold was found strapped to her brassiere and other parts of her body. Police refused to give the name or nationality
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    • 51 7 CAIRO. Tues (Reuter) Preliminary exploration operations in the Suez Gulf are expected to result in the discovery of a new oil field, the authoritative newspaper Al Ahram said today. The newspaper said offshore drilling indicated that oil might be struck at a depth of 5.000
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    • 66 7 TOKYO. Tues (UPI) Chairman Mao Tse-Tung personally greeted Arahad Husain, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, in an official welcoming ceremony, according to the New China News Agency. The ceremony on Sunday was attended by the minister’s wife and members of his party and by Chou EnLai.
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    • 34 7 GUATEMALA CITT. Guatemala. Tues. (Reuter) —Police arrested two alleged Communist guerrillas when they tried to seek asylum in the Mexican embassy here yesterday The fugitives were captured after a car chase.
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    • 500 7 'No protection for Arab saboteur bases JERUSALEM, Tues. (Reuter) The Israeli Foreign Minister, Mr. Abba Eban, said here last night that Arab sabotage organisations could not seek the protection of inter- national law. He was referring at a meeting of his Labour Party to Jordan's request for an urgent meeting
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    • 114 7 MEXICO CITY. Tues. (Reuter) About 25.000 students chanting “Libros si. granaderos no" (books yes. riot police no) and accusing the government of being Fascist staged a march around Mexico City streets yesterday following a recent series of bloody clashes with police and troops. They carried two
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    • 501 7 TOKYO, Tues. (UPI). —A strong earthquake jolted Western Japan early today causing injuries, damage and disrupting railway transportation service in parts of the country. The tremor, registering five on the Japanese scale of eight in Oita on the southernmost major island
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    • 53 7 WASHINGTON. Tues (Reuter) State Department spokesman Carl Bartch said today the United States had not asked Indonesia to send troops to Vietnam and Indonesia had not proposed sending any. He had been asked about Jakarta press reports that Indonesia last year considered sending troops to Vietnam in return
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    • 214 7 TOKYO. Tues. (Reuter) Bells in all temples and churches in Hiroshima, the world’s first atombombed city, wailed out today as people dedicated a minute of siient prayer to thousands of the victims of the 23 years ago. At 8 15 a.m. the exact
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    • 58 7 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Opposition leader Edward Heath left here today for a ten-day visit to Australia where he will meet Priire Minister John Gorton. Mr. Heath who believes Britain should maintain her military presence in Singapore. said at the airport defence would he one of the topics
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    • 42 7 CANBERRA. Tues. (UPI) Australia will give Pakistan 25.000 metric tons of wheat valued at almost ASl.5m and a cash grant of ASIO.OOO for flood relief in East Pakistan, External Affairs Minister, Mr. Paul M. lias luck, announced today.
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    • 97 5 "MAJULAH SINGAPURA" CELEBRATE NATIONAL DAY WITH SPECIAL DOUBLE DRAW TWO CHANCES TO WIN FOR T.i i SAME STAKE OF 50 CENTS FIRST DRAW BIG JACKPOTS TO BE WON FOR GROUP ONE (6 NUMBERS CORRECT) 5171,557 FOR GROUP TWO (5 1 CORRECT) AGAIN THE CEILING OF $BO,OOO SECOND DRAW A GUARANTEED
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    • 1331 6 •y.ar.G.&.n. EASTERN SUN U N C L E. FAN CLUB KlEWS TRUE OR FALSE QUIZ rpHIS week’s contest is a TRUE/FALSE quiz. All you have to do is to cross out one of the words, e.g. David McCailum is a blond. True. The Contest is opened to all MEMBERS including
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  • 507 8 MALAYSIA is slowly but inexorably moving into the scientific era and this is as it should be if this young nation with Ju»st a decade of independence behind It wants to catch up with the mainstream of progress in the closing pages of the 20th
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  • 189 8 THE Minister of Education, Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, expressed his concern to Chief Education Officers at their conference in Alor Star yesterday about the “noticeable Increase in Communist activities in the private Chinese secondary schools in West Malaysia, particularly in the States of Johore and Perak.” He
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  • 1602 8 A ban oft the National Democratic Party will he an extreme step FOR two years considerable agitation has been caused by the election achievements of the National Democratic Party (NPD) in the individual German federal states. The right radicals' electoral gains have been subject of widespread
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  • 323 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author. "Handbook of Evldenc* tor Criminal Trial*") WHEN Eleanor’s first husband died, he left her quite wealthy. When she decided to marry widower Horace she determined to have a prenuptial agreement. They each agreed to leave their estates to their children by their
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    • 678 8 'J’he maintenance and re-laying of tracks which from the early colonial days were carried out by Railway labour and Railway engineering Officials (D.Es., C.P.W.Is., P.W.Is., and P W. 05.,) have now been given out on contract basis. This is far from satisfactory in view
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    242 8  -  By Tan Lian Ann National Master Fifty-four team* are taking part in the 18th Chess Olympiad from Oct. 17 to Nov. 7 in Lugano. Switzerland. It is gratifying to know that more and more countries are taking part in the world’s greatest team event. In 1960 (Leipzig) 40 countries
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    • 40 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newspaper WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1968 23-6. Cantonment Road. Singapore 2. Telephone: *****/7 Penang Office Ipeli Office 39, |alan Sultan. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Teiephone: *****/6 8. Leith Street, Tel: ***** 77, Brewster Road. Te1:***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 253 9 THTTSBURGH. Tues. (UPI) The Government 1 yesterday achieved the first pullback In the steel Industry’s latest price hikes when Republic Steel Corp. said it would not raise rates on most of the steel It sells the Defence Department. Republic is the nations third
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    • 167 9 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) The Stock Market moved higher yesterday. It was the first clear cut gain in two weeks but unimpressive volume detracted from the achievement. Tkt trading pace lagged behind Friday’s which was the smallest in more than four months. Minutes before the
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    • 171 9 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) The Bank of Japan today will lower Its official discount rate by .365 per cent from the current 6.20 s per cent to 584 per cent, the nationally-read Mainichl reported. The formal decision is to be made today. The cut.
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    • 32 9 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Dow Jones closing stock averages: 30 Indus 872.53 up 1.26 20 Raiils 274.20 up 0.78 15 Utils 130.78 Off 0.07 65 Stocks 314.95 up 0.56
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    • 22 9 LONDON. Tues (UPI) Rubber opened quietly steady with spot 19-5/8 19-7/8. No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports Aug 19-5/8 19-13/16.
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    • 97 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Association of Banks in Ma-laysia-Singapore today marie the following changes in its rates to merchants:NEW YORK: Buying T.T. 32-13/16; Airmail O.D. 3215/16; 90 d/st. 33-1/2 credit bills; 33-1/1/16 trade bills. CANADA: Buying T.T. 35-3/16; Airmail O.D. 35-5/ 16; 90 d/st. 36-1/16 credit bills 36-3/16 trade
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. The tin price for today was $550.50 per picul, down 25 cents.
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    • 267 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. Far East Organisation, one of the most reputable groups in the Republic, has a wide scope of business, including finance, realty, plantations, hotels, housing development, departmental store, industrial and commercial investments. The President of the organisation. Mr. Ng Teng
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    • 181 9 SINGAPORE. Tues The following ships are expected to be in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Australasia 3/4 Calchas 5 Louisburg 6/7 Nichirei Maru 8/9 Pichai Samut 10/11 Bali 13/14 Sachsensenstein 15/16 Benarmin 18 Kibi Maru 19 Silver Dragon 21/22 Sea Express 23/24 Kinabalu 25/26 Eastern Maid 27/28
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    • 288 9 Rubber up cent SINGAPORE. Tues. August first grade rubber f ob. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 55-5/8 cents per lb., up half a cent from previous close. The tone was steady quiet. The market was very slow to form and first business was not
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    • 40 9 NEW YORK. Tues (UPI) Rubber futures closed 10 points lower on no sales. Sept 21.008-21.55A. Nov. 20.708-21.20A, Jan. 20.608-21.10A. 21.10A. March 20.608-21.00A, May 20.608-21.10A, July 20.-608-21.10A. Sept. 20 608-21.-10A The No. 1 RSS was 21 3/8 cent*
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    • 1246 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. Trading on the Stock Exchange continued active today with dealings centred mainly on the industrials, hotels and properties to the exclusion of tins and rubbers of which only a handful of shares were dealt in. However, the market opened generally firm
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    • 77 9 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Rubber market closed idle with spot 19-1/2-93/4. Settlement House Sept. 19-5/8 19-3/4 Oct. 19-11/16 19-13/16 Nov. 19-3/4 19-7/8 Oct Dec. 19-3/4 19-7/8 Jan/March 19-13/16 19-15/16 April/June 19-13/16 19-15/16 July/Sept 19-7/8 20 Oct Dec 20 20-1/8 Jan/March 20-1/8 20-1/4 April June 20-3/16 20-5/16 July/Sept 20-1/4
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    • 59 9 HONG KONG, Tues. (UPI) Money Quotations: HK $6.***** per U.S. dollar HK $6.***** per U.S. dollar TT HK$ 14.53 per pound sterling HK5297.0 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HK $163.7 per 10.000 Japanese yens HK5146.7 per 100 Philippines pesos buyers HK $146.9 per 100
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    • 358 9 SINGAPORE Stock fcxchange sold and offer prices officially listed at business. tbe close of INDUSTRIALS Arma 3.80 Ben Co 2.95 3 00 Bou>-lea<l 200 C. Misar 4.70 Chemical Co 2.02 2.03 Cold storage 5.20 Dunlop 4 00 E. smelting 7.45 Ill 2.67 Esso Ord« 3.28 Eltzpatrlcks 2.50 E
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    • 46 9 Manager*' Price*) First Mala>an XD 2.92 second Malayan XD 2.10 Third Malu>an 1.37 The Commerce Industry 107 1.16 The saying fund 122 1.31 1 irsi ll'kong 1.01 1 06< Second H'kong .72 •76< Malaysian Investment iund 1.30 1.40 Sterling Tnodltv 5/10 Rong Kong Currency)
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    • 101 9 SINGAPORE. Tups. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are:Buyer Seller Coconut Oil (F.O.B.) Bank Coconut Oil 52.00 (I.O.B. Drums 54.50 Loose Copra Mixed Aug 30 00(N) Mnntnk White Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% N.L.W. 115.00 Sarawak White Pepper (F.O.B.) N.I..W. 112.50 Sarawak Special Black Pepper (F O.B.)
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    • 1361 10 TV and TODAY TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 9 KUALA LUMPUR and Pnlaa Pinang: Ipoh and Melaka; 3 A 10 Johore Bahru. 4 Tmiping; 7 Bata Pahat; 9 Kloang. PM. 545 Opening Annct. Prog. Summary; 550 News Outlines in the National Language; 5.55 National Songs. 6 00 News in Tamil; 610 Mr
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 314 12 TODAY and YOU... Wednesday, August 7, 1968. D ARIES MAR. 22 APR.-. 20 1- 8-10-22 23-55-87-89 STAR By CLAY. R. POLLAN TAURUS •X APR. 21 MAY 21 ?\4M7-49-65 GEMINI MAY 22 JUNE 22 »42-43-51-64 2-73-74 CANCER JUNE 23 JULY 23 3- 4-24 LEO 39 jul t 24 AUG. 23 14-16-20-21
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  • THE
    • 259 13 In search of a bride Ilf ALT Disney’s “The Gnome-Mobile” Is a colourful. delightful film about the lost gnome colony and Jasper’s (one of the gnomes) search for a suitable bride. In typical Walt Disney fashion, the film takes us through a world of fantasia and spectacle that will delight
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  • 67 13 TJOW does Robert Mitchum catch 'em? He doesn't really. These beauties were just there waiting for him when Hollywood star Robert Mitchum arrived in Spain recently to begin his role in "Villa Rides," a new Paramount adventure drama. Bob didn't mind at all, of course, and
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  • HOLLYWOOD EVERYWHERE
    • 404 13 FILMING of a nude scene, or anything approaching it. in a Hollywood studio a dozen years ago. would always provoke nearpandemonium The •NC VISITORS ABSOLUTE' Y!” sign would go up on the stage. Studio Chieftans somehow find a reason for leaving their desks and sneaking in
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  • 285 13 SINGAPORE, Tues. A “soul dance competition”, in conjunction with Cathay Organisation's big musical movie, “Teenagers’ Holidays”, will be held at the Majestic Theatre. at the 9.30 p.m. shows on Thursday and Friday. “Teenagers’ Holidays” is about a popular Singapore teenage pop group who
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    • 114 13 rjxrrprurrn AND rVIOWT THWLLINO ■VSR TO MHFORM HBMI 27th Big Day! Kallang Park (Tel: *****6) Todav at 6.30 9.30 pm. Tickets: $7, $5. *3. $2. Children under 12: $4. S 3. $2. i SI. Advance booking only $7 $5, at Kallang Park Air India Indian Film Combine Private Ltd. Special
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    • 264 13 SHAW IGANISATION LIDO Phone ***** NOW SHOWING No Free Lint! 11 am.. 1.45. 4.00. U 4 4 ».15 p m Anne Bancroft. Dustin Hoffman Katharine Ros. The GR.ADC.ATF Directed by Mike Nichols—Academy Award Winner—BEST DIRECTOR In Panarlslon Technicolor iDAi Patrons presenting the f portion ticket* for seeing The Graduate" will
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  • Sun Sport
    • 318 15  -  FEATURE FILM II RETAINING FORM By JIMMY LAD Tues. Entertainment VII, a classy five-year-old gelding by My Brutus, showed encouraging form on the track this morning when he beat stablemate Golconda in a 3f trial in 41 4/5. The going was soft after early morning rain. Feature
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    • 331 15 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Minister for Culture. Mr. Jek Yeun Thong, said today that people excel In sports and games In direct proportion to the sacrifices they are prepared to make in order to devote dedicated attention to these pursuits. The Minister said
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    • 103 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Olympic Council of Malaysia Selection Committee which met at the Stadium Negara here this evening did not make any announcement of their decision. After the almost threehour meeting with affiliates, the Press were called in and Selection Committee chairman. Mr.
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    • 289 15 HONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter)— University of Malaj va’s swept aside arch rivals Singapore University 6-0 to i take the hockey gold medal i at the Inter-Varsity Games l here today. The Malaysian’s “terrible trio” of inside forwards Yang Siow Meng, Bernard Thong
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    • 224 15 SINGAPORE. Tues. Mr. L. P. Rodrigo. President of the F A of Singapore has expressed the hope that the Merdeka tournament would continue to demonstrate the creed of sportsmanship through the games. He said the tournament “is now a football annual’’ during which the expertise
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    • 73 15 IPOH. Tues. Mis* Sylvia Ng. younger sister of Thomas Cup star Billy Ng beat Miss Vijla Ponnabalam in straight sets 11-13. 11-2. to win in the final of the 6th Malaysian schools Individual badminton championships held at St. John’s hall today. All the 13 States In Malaysia
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    • 387 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. An exciting finish is expected tomorrow in the schools inter-state cricket final for the Taylor Shield, with Selangor having lost three wickets for 17 runs after taking a 72-run first innings lead over Perak at the VI grounds here today.
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    • 140 15 SINGAPORE. Tues An 18-man basketball team from the Republic of Vietnam have arrived in Singapore to take part In the interregional basketball tournament organised by the Singapore Basketball Association in conjuction with the National Day celebrations. The Vietnam cagers will meet Philippines. Singapore, Hong Kong. Nationalist
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    • 79 15 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Singapore Rugby Union have arranged two matches to be played during the Pesta Sukan competitions in conjunction with the National Day celebrations. Singapore Uniformed Services will meet Singapore Aslan Club in the first match to be played on Aug. 12 Lions
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    • 55 15 KUALA KANGSAR. Tues. The Mentri Besar, Dato Haji Ahmad bin Said, today opened the three-day sports csmival of the North Malaya National Language Schools at the Malay College here this morning. The sports carnival will go on till Thursday Schools taking part are those from
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    • 345 15 UMNO boys whip S 'gor Police 5-1 KUALA Lumpur. Tues. Defending champions. UMNO Youths enchanced their chances to retain the title for the sixth year running when they thrashed the Selangor Police 5-1 in their football association of Selangor div. 1 league match at the Princes Road Stadium here today.
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    • 1117 15 HORSES CLASS 1 DIV. 2-6 FURS. 81 Harnn But 6y 900 Mai Pen Rai Stable R Bkelen 385 Gigantor Sy 9.00 Pil Stable R. Bkelen 475 Olympic Torch 8? 8.13 Olvmpia Stable Teh 517 Mount Sinai 4y 8 13 Crocodile Stable 206 Carrot
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    • 1789 16 Talking about Sports with LAST week J got very involved with sports medicine in this country, and it seems that I am not the only one who advocates some kind of consideration for sportsmen to choose sports as a career. At the recent symposium on
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    • 314 16 MAINZ. (West Germany,) Tues. (Reuter) Three Malaysian Olympic athletes yesterday began a sixweek training course with members of the West German team aimed at bringing them to their peak for the Mexico City Games. They are Asian sprint champion Mani Jegathesan, javelin and
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    • 112 16 MALACCA. Tues. Kilat Club retained the Malacca Amateur Football Association Senior Division league title for the third year in a row when they beat Commonwealth Infantry Brigade XI 2-0 at the Kubu Stadium here. Kilat thus gained a double. Earlier in the
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    • 190 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Malay Amateur Golf Championships will be held at the Tiger Lane Course in Ipoh on Aug. 24. beginning at 7.45 a.m. The competition, organised by the Selangor Malay Golf Association with the cooperation of the Perak Malay Golf Association, will be opened
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    • 95 16 On the way to a splendid career is the petite German gymnast Angelika Kern (picture) from the village of Teningen in south of the Federal Republic of Germany. Only 14 years old. she is already one of Germany's best gymnasts. During the Olympic qualification rounds she made
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    • 698 16 KI’ALA LUMPUR. Tues. Soccer players In Malaysia can relax. Pending further evidence, they can continue playing after the age of 40 without running the risk of sexual impotence. That is the consensus of leading sports personalities interviewed here, though some feel there is a
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