Eastern Sun, 26 August 1968

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  • 22 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 IMo. 745 Monday, 26 August 1968. MC(P) 0050 Price 15 cent*
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  • 413 1 Leaders of Warsaw Pact nations gathering in the Kremlin MOSCOW SUN. (UPI) rpHE leaders of the five Soviet bloc nations that occupied Czechoslovakia were gathering in the Kremlin today, authoritative sources said. The Communist leaders of Poland, East Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria were expected to join
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  • 83 1 VIENNA. Sun. (Reuter) Several people were killed and others injured when Warsaw Pact occupation forces opened fire on private vehicles in Prague last night. Radio Free Prague reported. The clandestine station said the troops had also opened fire at a Czechoslovak police car. From
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  • 66 1 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter t Czechoslovak Airline pilots claimed today that Bulgaria had seized three of the airline's Ilyushin 18 planes. The airlines London office said it had received a message from a group of Czechoslovak Airline crew members now in Belgrade. Yugoslavia, protesting “against Bulgaria which
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  • 426 1 SAIGON. Sun. (t'PI) U.S. 852 bombers today unleashed an estimated two million pounds of bombs and South Vietnamese Commanders rushed in reinforcements in an attempt to break a Communist siege at two Allied bases along the Cambodian border. But by
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  • 74 1 BANGKOK. Sun. i Reuter) The Thai Government has formed a committee to prevent the spread of Asian flu to Thailand Dr. Boon Suwanasorn, Director-General of Health, told reporters yesterday that a medical expert from the World Health Organisation i WHO) would serve as a consultant on
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  • 302 1 I'MTF.D NATIONS, New York. Sun. (Reuter) The Security Council suspended its debate yesterday on the Czechoslovak crisis to see what comes out of the talks going on in Moscow between the Soviet and Prague leaders. lui fiitn session on the crisis was less
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  • 81 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sub. Hosts Malaysia outplayed defending champions Burma to capture the Merdeka Soccer trophy at the Mwdeka Stadium here tonight. As the final score (3-0) would suggest. it was indeed a convincing triumnh for the Malaysians who fielded the fitter and faster side. There was no
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  • 26 1 ROME. Sun. <Reuter) Pope Paul arrived back here by air today from Bogota after the first ever Papal visit to Latin America.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 554 2 Lim Kit Siang: An ‘eternal credit’ Thanks says Miss P. G. Lim KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A grateful nation today hailed the decision by the Sultan of Johore to commute to life imprisonment the death sentence imposed by the High Court on the 11 youths found guilty
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    • 130 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia today described the decision of the Sultan of Johore to spare the lives of the 11 condemned men as “an act of wisdom and humanity.” Its Chairman, Professor Syed Hussein Alatas. at a press conference here said:
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    • 297 2 YOUTHS TOLD: KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The President of the International Young Christidn Workers' Movement, Mr. Rienzie Rupasinghe said that Malaysian youths could play an important role in building a strong United Nation. Mr. Rienzie who is based r at the Y.C.W.M. Headquarters in Brussels is
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    • 518 2 KI’ALA LUMPUR, Sun- The Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Enche Abu Bakar bln Mohammed Noor. will meet representatives of ail trade unions represented in the Ministry on Sept. 5 to discuss the re-establishment of the Departmental Whitley Council.
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    • 155 2 Picking up the wrong end PENANG. Sun. The Vice-president of the Penang State Chinese Association. Mr. Khoo tat See, stated here that the Butterworth deep-water wharves should not have been built until the East-West Highway had been complete. He was speaking at a forum organised by the association here yesterday.
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    • 1002 2 International conspiracy says dealer KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Mini-skirted girls all over the world are "choking to bankruptcy" Japanese pearl farm operators, says a report received by Bernama. It says the worldwide fashion for miniskirts has dealt a stunning blow to the sales
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    • 109 2 KCALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Fisheries Department will soon have wirelessequipped boats to deal with piracy in the Straits of Malacca. The Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives. Tuan Haji Ghazali Jawi said two boats, each 45 feet long were now under construction, at the MARA shipyard
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    • 329 2 PENANG, Sun. The Minister of Transport. Tan Sri Haji Sardon bin Haji Jubir. today stated that the Government has the ability to deal with any disturbance should it arise when the Butterworth deep water wharves come into operation. He w’as addressing representatives from
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    • 422 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Association for Retarded Children has raised more than $50,000 for its building fund at a grand charity dinner and ball at Hotel Malaysia last night. Asian Movie Queen, Miss Li Ching was the guest-of-honour and made a
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    • 366 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. A talented young musician, Dennis Lee, who is the first Malaysian to win the London Overseas League Music Festival will give a piano recital at the Victoria Theatre on September 3 at 8.15 pm. The recital will be sponsored by the Singapore Musi Teachers’
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    • 140 3 SINGAPORE Sun. Parents could bring up strong and healthy children if they keep their families small, the M.P. for Anson. Mr. P Govindasamy said here today. Mr. Govindasamy was speakmg at the “Baby Show" competition held at the Tanjong Pagar Community Centre today. The competition
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    • 364 3 Board 1 Arovah Bachtiar v Tan Lian Ann j j Board 2 Ong Yoke Hwa v Lim Kok Ann 0:1. Board 3 Suradiradja v Tan Liang Seng 0:1. Board 4 Nairggolan v Giam Choo Kwee 1:0. Board 5 Wotulo v Choong Liong On 1:0. Board 6
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    • 300 3 SINGAPORE, Sun.— The Minister of Health, Mr. Chua Sian Chin, has urged pharmacists to look for new opportunities for a livelihood which have not been fully explored and exploited. Speaking at the annual dinner of the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore tonight he said traditionally
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    • 430 3 SINGAPORE. Sun.— Debate helps to cultivate and develop the thinking process for from thinking would come the solutions to many pressing problems. said Enche Sha'ari Tadin. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Culture. The necessity to think out solutions was one of the
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    • 72 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. Police fear that strong currents at the Empire Docks might have washed away the missing crewman of a Port of Singapore Authority's Lighter which sank after a collision with another ship yesterday. The crewman. Enche Jamil bin Mabal. 34. a bachelor, of
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    • 345 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Singapore Government has granted pioneer certificates to another 26 local industries under the Economic Expansion Incentives (Relief from Income Tax) Act, 1967. Tnese companies and the products manufactured under the pioneer certificates are:Singapore Jute Mills Private Ltd. (jute bags); Singapore Carbon
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    • 51 4 The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Tan Sri Dr. Lim Swee Aun opened the International Trade Library of the Selangor Chinese Chamber of Commerce at the Chinese .Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday. Pix: Dr. Lim with the Chairman of SCCC, Dato Y. T. Lee. Eastern Sun
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    • 80 4 IPOH, Sun. Sixteen-year-old Chan Swee Moy was reported missing from her home in Mambang diAwan N*ew Village since Tuesday night. Her mother. Wong Lim Moy. a ice-water hawker, told the police today that she found her daughter missing on her return home on Tuesday night. Her daughter
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    • 29 4 IPOH Sun. A former woman inmate of the Central Mental Hospital in Tanjonz Rambutan Aw Kok Chan. 25. was found dead with her throat slashed yesterday
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    • 340 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia today condemned the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet forces and members of the Warshaw Pact. The Chairman of the party, Prof. Dr. Syed Hussein Alatas said this was an attack on freedom and national sovereignty, full
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    • 267 4 IPOH, Sun The Chairman of the Perak branch of the Democratic Action Party, Mr. Lim Cho Hock, today appealed to the Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, to request the Sultan of Perak to commute the death sentence on two youths in Perak to
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    • 148 4 ALOR STAR. Sun. The Suit an ah of Kedah. Tunku Bahlyah ibni Almhum Tunku Abdul Rahman, today called on women In the country to come forward and serve the country. She was speaking a t the opening of the “Harl Wanita (Womenj Day> celebration at Balal
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    • 64 4 The Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives. Haji Ghazall Jawi, over the weekend visited the Malaysian Co-operatives Insurance Society at Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. Picture shows the General Manager of MCIS, Mr. N .A. Kularajah (left) explaining to the Minister (right) the duties of Raja Halimah binte Raja Mohd., a typist.
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    • 222 4 KLANG, Sun. The Minister of Education, Enche Mohamed Khir Johan today assured that the proposed Tunku Abdul Rahman College would conform to the national education policy. He was speaking here at the opening of UMNO divisional annual delegates meeting. Enche
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    • 440 4  -  By CHOO TECK MAU MI'AR, Sun. An Italian hitch-hiker, Steiner, now on a tour of West Malaysia, today said that it was very wrong of the Government to concentrate its tourists attractions in and around big towns. “Many tourists do not like to see
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    • 159 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun Malaysia Is not producing enough crumb rubber to meet world demand, the London representative of the Malayan Rubber Fund Board, Mr. Lim Kim Cheng, said here today. He said on arrival at Subang Airport to attend the conference on natural rubber
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    • 85 4 IPOH. Sun. Burglars broke into the house of a State Dental Officer here. Dr R. N Subramamam. at Chateau Gardens, while he was_ away with his family in Kuala Lumpur. Dr Subramaniam left for Kuala Lumpur on Friday returning home the next day. He found the
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    • 284 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The University of Malaya Students’ Union sent a protest note to the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman protesting against the highhanded action of the police during a “peaceful protest” here yesterday outside the Russian Embassy. The union supporting th,
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    • 837 13 TTUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Mr. D. S. Johnson, of the Department of •IV Zoology, University of Singapore, has supported a strong warning by Dr. G. A. Prowse, Director of the Tropical Fish Culture Research Institute in Malacca, about the dangers of pollution of
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    • 101 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Chief of Naval Staff. Commodore K. Thanabalatingam. left today for the United States on a tworeek study tour. Speaking to reporters at the Subang airport this morning. Commodore Thanabalasingam said, while In tne United States he would study the advances In
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    • 119 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Employees’ Provident Fund Boards Inspectorate will be carrying out Its own Inspection of employers in Negri Sembilan and Malacca from next month. This was announced by the manager of the E PF.. Mr. Lee Siow Mong. yesterday. Such inspections were
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    • 129 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. An American graduate In anthropology. Mr. A. R. Sanchez, now doing a oneyear course In Chinese studies at the University of Malaya, has been awarded a scholarship by London University to read for a Masters degree in Chinese studies Mr. Sanchez, who
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    • 64 13 Contrasting black frills line the neckline and cuffs while the sarong has a high slit on the side. Model Yvette will be modelling this at the Merdeka Ball on Aug. 30. which will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Chinese Assembly Hall. HERE comes Yuletide long before
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    • 490 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The State by State operations being conducted by the Social Welfare Department against beggars have confirmed the suspicion that begging can be extremely profitable. The Director of Social Welfare. Dato Haji Anjang Saith bin Haji Abbas, who stated this, told Bernama today
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    • 31 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A f ive-man Malaysian team left for Manila today to negotiate a $2l million loan from the Asian Development Bank for the Penang water supply project.
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    • 444 13 GLIM RIVER, Sun. Leaders of the Democratic Action Party will convey the party's shock and denunciation of the Soviet aggression at the present Socialist International Conference in Copenhagen. The DAP National Chairman, Dr. Chen Man Hin, and Secretary-General, Mr Gob Hock Guan. are now
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    • 340 13 KLALA LUMPUR, Sun. The draft on a new legislation giving the Ministry of Health more powers to deal with the illegal sale of drugs in the country will be considered soon by the Poisons Board. Disclosing this to Bernama today a spokesman
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    • 204 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Muslim Association of MARA College will hold a forum on “Religions in Malaysia” at the MARA College Hall in Petaling Java on Sept. 2 in conjunction with the Merdeka anniversary celebrations. A spokesman of the association said there would also be
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    • 127 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A 60-member Indonesian cultural troupe will arrive here on Wednesday to add "special flavour" to the Merdeka anniversary ce’ebrations on Aug. 31. a spokesman of the Indonesian Embassy said yesterday. The troupe, consisting of singers and dancers, will perform at a cultural
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    • 87 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Enche Senu Abdul Rahman, said today some youth organisations had been infiltrated by antinational elements. But the situation had not come to the state of endanfering the country’s security, Inchc Senu added. Enche Senu told Bernama
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 38 2 TOTO results SINGAPORE. Sun. The lurkr numbers in this week's TOTO draw are:— 9 20 -7 48 32 6. The supplementary number drawn Is: 2*. The numbers drawn for the “three-number draw" this week are:— 26 24 12.
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  • 60th Anniversary of Great Eastern Life Assurance Co., Ltd. EASTERN SUN FEATURE
    • 526 5 fphe Great Eastern Life Assurance Co., Ltd. was founded in Singapore 60 years ago. During this period it has grown to be the leading local Life Assurance Company in Singapore and Malaysia. In 1909 one year after its founding, this Company which is the
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    • 163 5 MR. N. N. Honda woj appointed to the post of General Manager of The Great Eastern Life Assurancc Co. Ltd. with effect from April 1, 1968. He thus became the Chief Executive of the Company in its important Sixtieth Anniversary Year. Mr. Handa graduated with Honours in Mathematics
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    • 298 5 CHAIRMAN of Great Eastern. Dato SQ Wong. S.P.M J.. J.P., was born in Singapore 80 years ago. He was educated in Raffles Institution and then in Blundells School in Britain. He continued his education at Cambridge and the Middle Temple, from where he graduated as a
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    • 48 5 MR. JAMES TEO Chief Accountant MR MONO CHIN HUN Manager, Central Office. Kuala Lumpur MR. LEONG TECK RUT Assistant Actuary MR. R. A BARER Property Manager MR. CHANG CHIN-FA Chief Sales Administrator MR TYE YEE FUN Claim* Manager MR WEE SIP CIIEE Asst. Secretary
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    • Article, Illustration
      757 5 ONE of the earliest members of the Board. Mr C- CTan has seen the Great Eastern Life grow from a modest portfolio of $43,000,000 business in force to its present strength of over $500,000,000 A well-known figure both in public life and commerce, he has recently joined the
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 406 6 CHEYENNE, Wyoming Sun. (UPI). —An 87-year-old Lutheran missionary, who first arrived in Japan during the reign of the Emperor Jeiji, it on his way home to North Carolina after serving 63 years in the Land of the Rising Sun. The Rev. Arthur Stirewalt arrived in
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    • 114 6 UNITED NATIONS. Sua. (Reuter) Scientists from 16. countries are gathering here for a weeklong discussion starting tomorrow on how to reduce the amount of radioactive contamination of the air near nuclear reactor*. Methods of decontaminating. diluting or dispersing airborne wastes which are hazardous to people living
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    • 63 6 TOKYO: Angry Zengakuren students jostle with riot police in front of the Soviet Embassy here, protesting the Soviet aggression on Cxechoslavakia. Zengakuren students and some groups of the intellectuals staged demonstrations on Wednesday night and 100 policemen were sent to guard the area. All
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    • 459 6 LONDON. Sun. (UPI) Unemployment total of over 700,000 bv the winter, and a balance of payments deficit of nearly £6OO m (US $144 m) for this year were forecast bv the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in
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    • 72 6 MOSCOW. Sun (AFP) The Soviet news agency Tass published a lengthy statement last night, giving an account of the resistance encountered by occupation forces in Czechoslovakia and denouncing the leaders of Yugoslavia. Rumania and China for their attitude In the crisis. The statement said that the leaders of
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    • 159 6 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter)— Banner waving demonstrators burst into an international conference of Anglican bishops here yesterday and were applauded by some of the prelates. The demonstrators who interrupted speeches on the last day of the Lambeth conference were from a radical Christian pacifist group called “Church.”
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    • 456 6 PRAGUE, Sun. (AFP). Life flickered bock to the Czechoslovak capital yesterday as shops reopened and groups of people gathered cn street corners or in queues to hear the latest news on transistor radios often hidden in shopping bags. Many surburban trains were running
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    • 496 6 BONN, Sun. (Reuter) —More occupation troops were flown into Prague early today, Radio Free Prague reported. The clandestine radio, monitored here, said the troops were landed at Prague's Ruzyne airport. It did not state their nationality or give any detail on numbers involved. Another broadcast picked
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    • 60 6 LONDON Sun. (Reuter)— Pro-Czechoslovak demonstrators staged a protest outside a concert hall in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh last night where the Russian State Orchestra was about to give a performance. Concert-goers had to face a barrage of shouting and booing from about 1.000 plaeard-wavine students
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    • 91 6 BOGOTA. Colombia. Sun. (Reuter) President Carlos Lleras Restrepo's Cabinet resigned yesterday to allow the President to carry out a long-expected reshuffle of his 13-man team. A communique from the Presidential Palace said the decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting yesterday to give Mr. Llera Res’repo
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    • 56 6 HONG KONG: A cargo junk loaded with goods broke into pieces as Typhoon Shirley smashed headon into Hong Kong with 85 mph winds and driving rains on Thursday. Crews are trying to pick up thie remains from the wreckage. Shirley forced the evacuation ot more
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    • 305 7 His doctrine on birth control to be ‘enforced’ BOGOTA, Colombia, Sun. (UPI). Pop# Paul VI ended his three-day visit to the world's most Catholic, explosively populous continent yesterday with a strong restatement of his ban on artificial birth control and a plea for peaceful social
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    • 227 7 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) British police are Investigating the mysterious disappearance of a 17-vear-oid Czechoslovak girl, whose father was named bv Free Prague Radio stations as a collaborator with the Russian invaders. A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed today they were trying to
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    • 62 7 LOS ANGELES. Sun. (Reuter) Eight firefighters were burned to death in the Los Angeles hills when they were trapped by flames in heavily wooded canyon >e terday. Three other firefighters were injured. They were rushed to hospital by heliccoter. They were fighting a blaze
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    • 84 7 KANAGAWA. JAPAN: A patient suffering from a malignant brain tumor seen about to be wheeled Into an atomic reactor in Japan's first attempt to cure brain cancer with nuclear energy on August 20 at the Tokyo Atomic Industry Research Laboratory. The patient. identified
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    • 130 7 WASHINGTON. Sun (t'PI) Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a “serious setback" in his battle for life with a fresh attack of heart spasms. A Walter Reed Army Hospital Medical bulletin issued last night said. "General Eisenhower's condition remains critical. However, there have been no further episodes
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    • 200 7 HONG KONG. Sun (UPI) The Shaw Brothers movie company plans to make a film built around an actual grisly murder committed in Hong Kong which came to light in May. Filming will be done in Hong Kong and Japan on the
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    • 136 7 PARIS Sun. (Reuter) Leading world musicians including pianist Arthur Rubinstein and violinist Yehudi Menuhis have announced a boycott of the states which have invaded Czechoslovakia. In a statement issued here they said "the occupation of the Czechoslovakian Republic by the five nations of the Warsaw
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    • 580 7  - Inouye: First Democrat VP of Japanese descent By Elizabeth Wharton CHICAGO. Sun. (UPI) On Dec. 7. 1941. a. 17-year-old Nesei turned bis tearstreaked face to the sky o'er Pearl Harbour and sh*v>k his fist at the swooping bombers. The youngster hurrying to his Red Cross station to help care for
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    • 214 7 SAIGON, Sun. (UPI). A U.S. helicopter assault force attacked and killed 181 Communists in a nine-hour battle without suffering a fatality, militory spokesmen said today. The U.S. Air Cavalrymen swept down on the Communist on the outskirts of Tam Ky yesterday and
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    • 162 7 LONDON. Sun (UPI) Heiress Jayne Harries, the new Mrs. Gavin Hodge, has decided to concentrate on a career as a horsewoman. The 16-year-old daughter of millionaire hanker William Harries returned from her Portugal honeymoon this week She and Hodge, her hairdresser,
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    • 239 7 PARIS, Sun. (Reuter) France yesterday became the world's fifth hydrogen bomb power, when it tested a thermonuclear device of unknown strength in the South Pacific. The Armed Forces Ministry said the test took place near Fugataufa Atoll, midway between Australia and South America, and 750 miles
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    • 76 7 ACCRA. Sun. (AFP) Ghana is holding a Russian Ilyushin plane which landed here last night without announcing its arrival to aviation authorities. The eight-man crew headed by the plane’s captain. Colonel Mimaev, were released for the night after the intervention of the Soviet counsellor here.
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    • 150 7 TAIPEI. Sun (Reuter) New Zealand External Affairs Minister Mr. David Seath said today that mutual understanding among South-east Asian nations was necessary to ensure the security or the region. Mr Seath, who arrived here yesterday at the head of a six-man New Zealand mission, said
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    • 60 7 MANCHESTER. England. Sun. (Reuter) Two policemen were bitten in trying to break up fights between rival Nigerian and Biafran groups here today. A police spokesman said three policemen were injured in scuffles with the fighting groups outside a conference being held by the Nigerian Union Congress.
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    • 96 7 JAPANESE men and women are busy rubbing their fingers on 25 Mocks of ice embedded with some one hundred kevs of which one is of the car valued at l .S. 51.400 placed in the centre. Anvone getting the correct key gets the
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    • 69 14 Rare stone trees and fossils in the Berlin EuropaCentre are being sold. Most valuable part of this exhibition is the pertified part of a pine tree which is more than .300 million years old and anyone can buy it for only U. 5.5500. Another rarity
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    • 309 14 CANBERRA, Sun. (Reuter) —Doctors from Britain, the United States, New Zealand and Australia will examine the relationship between the medical profession and the community at a seminar opening at the Australian National University here tomorrow. The conference aims at forecasting the
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    • 89 14 TEL AVIV. Sun. (Reuter) Israeli and Jordanian fnrees fought a 90-minute artillery duel across the River Jordan early today, an official spokesman said here. It was the third day of incidents in the northern sector of the Jordan valley south of the Sea of Galilee The spokesman,
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    • 199 14 China to hold 9th Congress after N- Day HONG KONG, Sun (Reuter)— The Ninth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party will be held immediately after the National Day celebrations on October 1, the newspaper "Star" reported today. Quoting its own sources, the Englishlanguage tabloid said members of the revolutionary committees
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    • 134 14 HONG KONG. Sun (UPI) Police sprung a trap at a suspected narcotics transfer point and seized 1.500 pounds of raw opium and morphine from a truck they stopped on a rural road, authorities reported The retail value of the haul, biggest in Hong Kong this
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    • 145 14 PHILADELPHIA, Sun. (Reuter) The Church must become more politically octiv 8 in helping to alleviate world poverty, Arch, bishop Angelo Fernandez of New Delhi told an international meeting of Catholic intellec- tuals here. In a speech at the rally last night, the Archbishop urged the
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  • 425 8 r[E Sultan of Johore, acting on the appeal of Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman, has granted clemency to the eleven condemned men, who will be imprisoned for life. His Royal Highness appealed to all the people to remain calm and to be together to ensure the continued peace and harmony
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  • 311 8 WITH the end of the Stalin era in Soviet Russia, the successive leaders of that country have tried to change the Russian image from that of a massive monolith into a more human and liberal one. But the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia demonstrates that, at the core
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  • 6102 8  -  By Citizen DR. Goh Keng Swee was very right to remark that an air of complacency was becoming apparent in Singapore as regards its future as a centre of tourism. He was declaring open one of the new hotels in the city, and suggested
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 875 9 The weekly market review SINGAPORE. Sun. A weaker tone developed on the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore last week with most counters showing falls. This was expected when shares were highly priced especially those counters which had risen from 10 to 30
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    • 76 9 HAMBURG. Sun. (DaD) TUnders Bay.’ the world's largest full container ship to date, was recently launched at Finkenwerder. Hamburg. Federal Republic of Germany. It has a capacity of 29.150 tons, or up to 1.300 twenty- foot containers, and a speed of 22 knots. ’Flinders Bay’
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    • 147 9 K6TA KINABALU, Sabah, Sun. (Reuter) The president of the Overseas Mineral Resources Development Company. Mr. Yoshido Yamada. expects his company to spend MS3 million prospecting for copper at Mamut, 48 miles from the capital. He said the company had already
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    • 89 9 TOKYO. Sun. (AFP) President of the Asian Development Bank Mr. Takeshi Watanabe will visit Japan and the United States next month to negotiate for creation of the planned $4OO million Special Fund for Asian agricultural development as scheduled, fnancial circles here said today. Mr.
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    • 700 9 FLY THE BIG BOEING 707 s OF MSA TO HONGKONG, TAIPEI, TOKYO, MANILA, DJAKARTA PERTH, SYDNEY. Contact your travel agent or ring *****, ***** for reservations. m DEPARTURES ARRIVALS INIS. 10.25 sm. 8.40 a.m. IJtpa 5 55 p.m. tass MS £5: It 05 a m. 4.20 p m. 'tniz wiz
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  • 112 10 ANOTHER batch of 31 Australian travel agents flew into Singa«ore on Saturday in the lalaysia-Singapore Airlines new Boeing 707 as guests of the airline. Among them was a pretty travel consultant, Miss Alice Liu of Trans Global Travel, Sydney. Born in Hong Kong
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  • 71 10 9 a.m.-5 pm.; National Day booiqs display at National Library, Stamford Road. 5 p.m.-8.30 p.m.: SATA free mass X-ray station at Prison Officers’ Club, Moon Cresent. 7.30 p.m.: Free film shows by Ministry of Culture at Kampong Race Course, Methodist Tamil School (Sembawang), Pah Kong Kano Resettlement (Lim
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  • 73 10 SINGAPORE. Sun Pretty Miss Alice Kwok. 18. a salesgirl beat 14 other contestants to win the “Miss Autumn Trade Fair and Carnival” contest, held at the Flamingo Night Club on Friday night. Runner-up was Miss Lina Chang. 20. a clerk, while Miss Rosie Lee. a
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  • 190 10 KUALA LUMPUR Sun— The Organising Secretary of the Democratic Action Party. Mr. Urn Kit Siang today repeated his challenge to the Minister of Education, Enche Khlr Joharl to a television debate tc substantial the Minister's charge that the DAP was “100 per cent
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  • 107 10 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Deputy Director of Medical Services. Ministry of Health. Dr. Yeoh Seang Aun. will open the 9th Nursing Seminar at the School of Nursing. Outram Road General Hospital, tomorrow. After Dr. Yeoh’s opening address, the seminar will listen to a paper. "Nurse Education in
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  • 670 10 SINGAPORE, Sun. Tht antire nation will b« geared to make the "Keep Singapore Clean" campaign a success. Assurances end pledges have been made by trade union leaders, commerce and community leaders, statutory bodies and Government departments to support this campaign when the
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  • 120 10 SINGAPORE. Sun A senior research fellow at the Hoover Institute and Standard University in California. Professor Chang Chla-ao, has arrived in Singapore to lecture at the Nanyang University. Also known as Chang Kia-ngau. he is a prominent banker and economist and the
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  • 138 10 PENANG. Sun Drainage works earned out in the Bukit Tengah area. Province Wellesley, at a cost of $l5 million has helped to reclaim about 13.000 acres for agricultural purposes. This was stated by the Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee w-hen he opened the Ang
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 298 10 TODAY and YOU... Monday, August 26, 1968. V ir 1-48-58-63 5^68-75-79-89 AMES MAR. 22 APR. 20 TAURUS APR. 21 030-40-53-54, £>6l-64-73 C£MINI MAY 22 JUNE 22 (11-17-25-33 *5l-76-81-88 CANCER JUNE 23 JULY 23 6-18-21-381 '42-50-66 uo fi® JULY 24 AUG. 23 5^24-34-39-41 VIRGO AUG. 24 SEPT. 22 3-7-***** 37-47-71. -By
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    • 1467 10 > V- rom I w TV MALAYSIA m? CHANNEL S KUALA LUMPUR and Pulau Pmang; 6 Ipoh and Melaka: 3 16 Johore Bahru. 4 Tat pine: 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. P.M. 545 Opening Annet. Prog. Summary; 5-50 News Outlines in the National Language 5.55 National Songs; 600 News in
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  • STUDENTS’ PAGE
    • 162 11 E was doing my homework v.th my brothers and sisters »r*en a knock at the door broke my concentration. opened the door and fc'Jtnd a policeman with bad pews for me. He told me that my pa-re-fs were involved in an aecfident. He said
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    • 224 11 TELEVISION is considered the most wonderful invention in the world, of science. It has taken, over the place of radio completely. It has influenced million of people from all walks 1 of life. Nearly every moderate family in Malaysia owns a television set. In
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    • Article, Illustration
      315 11 EVERYONE likes to m(dulge in day dreams because it gives us the opportunity to live in a world of our own imagination. I Day dreams can be referred to as building castles j in the air because in such a i case we fancy it as a pleasant
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    • Article, Illustration
      154 11 EVERY human being is bound to have his or her manners in different aspects A person can be judged by the way he or she speaks and behaves. People with good manners are loyal citizens who are keen in seeing the nation progress. To have good manners, we
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    • 331 11 T'HE whole purpose of a holidoy is that it should bo a change in the -L atmosphere, the occupation, the type of people we mix with and the environment. It is the time when we enjoy ourselves by going
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    • 209 11 AS it was getting dark. I left my farm and cycled home. It was a tiring job to work in the farm. On my way home. I came across a number of villagers talking about the “pontianak" or the vampire which was terrifying the villagers. After
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    • 283 11 IN Malaysia, fires generally break out due to the carelessness of the occupants of a house. One day when I was returning home from a walk, I saw that the lower part of the sky was red. I knew that a fire broke out somewhere. Other
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    • 390 11 SOME children are born t© be brave while others are by nature timid lam neither brave nor timid. However, I respect boys and girls who are brave. I have many friends of both sexes. Among them, George Sanggo is a brave boy whom I
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    • 425 11 JANE and Susan were very good friends. They treated one another like sisters. Both were classmates and were always together. Their Joys and sadness were shared together. Everyone envied their strong friendship. One day, a new girl named Julie was admitted to their class Julie
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    • 302 11 ADVERTISEMENTS are becoming a threat to the public in many ways. Every page of the newspapers is occupied by advertisements. Sometimes it occupies half a page or at least a quarter. These advertisement spaces can be used wisely for other articles for
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    • 233 11 WHAT is a friend? Everyone has friends. Why should a man have friends? This is because a man can never lead a happy life if he is all alone. A proverb says "A man without a friend is just like the earth without sun.” From the
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    • 310 11 Essay writing: Rules to observe AH entrant* are requested to observe the following rules: 1. Each entrant must fill in his/her own writing the entry form appended below in block letters. 2. No entry will be considered without the entry form properly filled up. 3. The entrant must attach his/her
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  • PICTORIAL SOCIAL ROUND-UP
    • 543 12 SIX young trainees who left Subang Airport recently for India to undergo vocational courses offered bv the Indian b.ivemment through MARA. u ey are <f ,ef U K rhe Ka mal bin Ismail. Knche Wan Ahmad bin Abdullah, (he Hasnah hinte Hashim. (tailoring course), Enche Ariffin
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    • 46 13 ir.ivwiih'liTt GREAT ROYAL CIRCUS Or INDIA Kallang Park (tel: *****6) Star Attractions: Human Fountain, Contortionist. Liger on tricycle. Computer dogs. Flying saucer act many others. 6.30 9.30 p.m. Admission: 55, S 3, 52 &51 Children under 12-years-old half price Definitely no change of site in Singapore.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 140 13 SHAW# OrgKnlaatlon LIDO Phone ***** NOW SHOWING! 11 >■.. ISO. 4 00. «.M 9.15 p.m. Lucille Ball Henry Fonda 'Teira, Mine Omra" Color (DA) COMING: Anthony Perkins. V-.e«n« Purneauz "The Champagne Murder*" Stope-Color i tTT-BB' NOW SHOWING! |U a m.. 1.45, 4 (Ml. fi.3o A 9.80 p m. Kirk Douglas,
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    • 233 13 Now Chawing' 11. Ih. 4 t.W* 'Danger! Diahnlik” in Color John Ph'lllp Lax Minna Mel) A Paramount Picture COMING' Truman Capote I\ COLD BLOOD’ in TONfM PanaVision (Columbia* ODEON I PALACE 21-116 I *****® NOW SHOWING! 11 am I.IS. 1.3#. 1.15 p m Isn a 845 p a Gregory Peck
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 1152 14 NOTICE i Eastern Sun Classified advertisement can ba accepted at the following addresses: MONT DOR MILK BAR. Ngee Ann Building. Singapore S.S. MUBARUK Brothers. 63, Bras Basaß Road, and 2. Maju Avenue. Serangoon Carden Estate. Singapore TAT BUAN CUAN LTDSUPERMARKET. 83. East Coast Road. Singapore 15 Tel: *****9 HAMIEM STORE.
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    • 281 14 TENDERS IKLAN TAWARAN J.K.R. PILAU PINANG. TAWARAN daripada pemborong2 yang berdaftar diJ.K.R. di-dalam kelas2 E. D dan C <Kerja2> 'Kepala II) akar. di-terima di-Pejabat Jurulera Negeri, J.K.R.. Pulau Pinang. hingga jam pukol 12.00 tengah hari paoa llhb. September. 1968, untok: PEMBENAAN DAN KESIAPAN SATU BLOK EMPAT (4) YUNIT DUA-TINGKAT RUMAH2
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    • 362 14 THE PORT OF SINGAPORE AUTHORITY Complaints have been received that persons purporting to represent the Port of Singapore Authority or its officers have been approaching various firms and organisations in Singapore for funds Please note that the Authority has not authorised any person to collect funds on its behalf whether
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  • Sun Sport
    • 148 15 LONDON, Sun. (Iteuter) Ron Clarke, the Australian distance runner broke his own world record for two two miles on the new tartan track at Crystal Palace here yesterday by two tenths of a second with a time of 8 minutes 19 6 seconds. The
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    • 144 15 ST LOUIS. Bun. (UPl> Matchmaker Max Yeargain said that his negotiations for a heavyweight bout between Cassius Clay and oe Frazier have ended In •ailure. He said that he tried to elace the fight in St. Louis. Kansas City. Oklahoma City or Phoenix, and in
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    • 76 15 SEOUL. Sun. (Reuter) South Korea’s Oriental junior middleweight champion Ansano Lee defeated Japan's Number One junior middleweight Yoshiaki Akasaka in the sixth round of a sched tiled 10-round non-title fight here last night by a technical knockout. Seven thousand lans at Changchung gymnasium saw Lee
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    • 76 15 LOS ANGELES. Sun. fUPI) World bantamweight champion Lionel Rose of Australia boxed four quick-paced rounds with highly regarded Los Angeles featherweight Dwight Hawkins yesterday. They exchanged hard left hocks to the body and head in the lively workout. The Australian fighter is preparing for
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    • 632 15 London, Sun. (Reuter) —Soccer went crazy in England yesterday when one match was abandoned at halftime because of a serious fire, Europeon c h a m pions Manchester United were crushed at home; Fred Pickering crashed one home after only 13 seconds;
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    • 283 15 English Division One Coventry 1. West Ham 2 Ipswich 1. Arsengl 2 Liverpool 4. Sunderland 1 Manchester U. 0. Chelsea 4 Newcastle 0 Everton 0 Nottingham 1, Leeds i (abandoned after 45 minutest Queens P R 1 Manchester C. 1 Southampton 2. Wolves 1 Stoke
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    • 385 15 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Batsmen enjoyed a run spree in English County cricket championship matches yesterday. West Indies Test star Rohan Kanhai led the run parade with a hard-hitting 193 for Warwickshire against Leicestershire. Kanhai and Jim Stewart (117) put on 248 for the
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    • 181 15 PHILADELPHIA. Sun. (Reuter) Bob Murphy shot a six under par 66 to take the lead in the US$lOO,OOO Philadelphia golf classic after the third round here yesterday. He took a 34 for the first nine and came back with a 32 for a three-round total of
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    • 56 15 An exciting afternoon sports was bad by several hundred children at the Salvation Army's Sports Day organised bv the British Army Command Pay Office recently. Picture shows Airs. .1. M. Murrell, wife of the Command Paymaster, presenting the “Concord Cup” to the captain of the Children's Home
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    • 405 15 BOSTON. Massachusetts, Bun. (Reuter) Mrs. Margaret Court of Australia won the United States women's singles amateur tennis title here yesterday for the third time. She followed up her victories in 1962 and 1965 with an easy 6-2 6-2 win over
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    • 490 15 TOKYO. Sun (Reuter) Malaysia’s Tan Aik Mong displaying superb playing defeated Junji Honma of Japan 18-17, 15-6 to capture the men's singles title in the fourth international students badminton championship here today. The 18-year-old Thomas Cup squad member downed Honraa, seeded number two in a
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    • 50 15 CORK. Ireland. Sun. (UPI) Peter Thomson of Australia had a second round 72 for a total of 141 to qualify for the final 36 holes of the £5.000 RTV Rentals golf tournament yesterday He was six strokes behind the equal leaders Maurice Bembndge and Peter Butier on 135.
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    • 72 15 LONDON Sun. (Reuter) Results of Rugby League matches played yesterday were. Barrow 26 Bramley 3. Batley Id Keighley 15. Ha'ifax 41 Hull Kingston Rovers 10. Hull 25 Widnet 11. Hunslet 25 Huyton 0. Leeds 20 St Helens 13. Oldham 22 Featherstone 24. Swinton 18 Dewsbury 3.
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    • 131 15 LOS ANGELES. Californla, Sun. (Reuter) America’s women swimmers most of them girls under 20 bettered pending world records eight times when the four-day Olympic trials opened here yesterday. Debbie Meyer, just turned 16 in the 200-metre freestyle and Caludia Kolb. 18. in the 400-metre
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    • 117 15 SINGAPORE. Sun David Milne. 15-year-old Putra Cupper shot a 67-74 141, to lead the qualifiers in the 1966 Keppel Club championships. here today. Anthony Trienen. another teenager and who carries a handicap of 5. was second at 74-71 145 The other qualifiers are:— A. J. Trienen, 72-78
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    • 113 15 PENANG, Sun John Pauli of the Royal Air Force, won the open event in the sixth Penang State Amateur golf championship held here during the week-end. He scored a gross of 222 to win the Dr. Soon Cheng Hoe trophy from last year's holder, I.
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    • 64 15 BT. MORTTZ. Switzerland. Sun. (Reuter) Randall Vines of Australia won the Engadine golf tournament here yesterday by two strokes from Italian golfer Luciano Bernardini. Vines, who was runnerup in the event last year, had an aggregate of 269 for four rounds of the 6,545 yards,
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    • 1029 16 l/'UALA LUMPUR, Sun. Malaysia won the lltti annual Merdeka soccer tourIV nament with a creditable 3-0 win over co-holders Burma in the final at the Merdeka Stadium here tonight. That was the eloquent margin ot their magnificent win. The much superior Malaysians were the t masters in
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    • 484 16 Asian All Stars may play in SEA Far East KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Asian AIJ Stars will play In South-east Asian countries and the Far East, if plans to play in Australia and New Zealand do not materialise. This was decided at today’s executive committee meeting of the Aslan Football
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    • 178 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Gate receipts for tonight's Merdeka soccer final between Malaysia and Burma was estimated at more than $90,000 The stadium was packed with a more than capacity crowd of 33.000 long before the first match between Thailand and Japan for seventh and eighth placings. Crowds
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    • 151 16 CAMERON HIGHLANDS. Sun. The Malaysian hockey contingent to the Mexico Olympics was announced here today. The 18 players picked are: Goalkeepers: Ho Koh Chye <NS). Capt., and Leong Whey Phu 'MaD. Full barks: A. Francis <Pk). Sri Shanmuganathan (SI) and Ranjit Singh (NS). Halves:
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    • 906 16  -  By CHARLES CHAN KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Ming Ming bowler Allan Lee kept the National flag flying in the face of strong overseas challenge to capture the coveted Masters title at the conclusion of the Malaysian Tenpin Bowling Congress National open
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    • 103 16 As early as 630 am. yesterday (Sunday) thousands of football fans as far as Penang rushed to buy tickets from the stands at the Merdeka Stadium for the final between Malaysia and Burma. The tickets were sold out in just over two hours. Eastern Sun pix
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    • 381 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun Tunku Abdul Rahman said to. day that Asian soccer had come a long wav since he first took over as President of the Asian Football Confederation tn 1958 at Tokyo. The Prime Minister who waj speaking at the third extraordinary Congress
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 58 16 f T IME AND TIDE Penang: 1.57 a.m. (8.2 ft.), 1.57 p.m. (9.0 ft.). Port Swettenham: 7.18 a.m. (16.7 ft.), 7.27 p.m (15.9 ft Port Dickson: 7.56 a.m. (9.7 ft.), 8.18 p.m. (9.0 ft.). Singapore: 12.38 p.m. (8.4 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 11.27 a.m. (7.7 ft.), 10.55 p.m. (7.1 ft.). Kuantan:
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