Eastern Sun, 19 September 1968

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 768 Thursday, 19 September 1968. ft MC(P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 1191 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong will be given full military ceremonial welcome when they arrive in Kuching tomorrow for a six-day State visit to SarawakA 21-gun salute by the *A* battery of the First Regiment
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  • 107 1 MOSCOW. Wed. (Reuter) A Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman has said a Manchester report stating that a Soviet space craft had flown close to the moon today is not In accordance with reality. The report from Manchester said Russia today passed a spacecraft within
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  • 131 1 RazakDawee play golf and discuss problems BANGKOK. Wed. (Reuter) Malaysian and Thai officials met in Bangkok today for preliminary discussions on Joint military operations against Communist guerrillas along their common border. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak and Thai Deputy Defence Minister Air Chief Marshal Dawee Chullasapya, leaders of
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  • 549 1 ‘PI will pursue its right by peaceful means MANILA, Wed. (Reuter) Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos today signed into law a Congressional Bill whieh defined Sabah as under Philippines sovereignty and dominion but explained that the measure did not mean the Philippines would take over physical
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  • 542 1  - Tunku —It amounts to aggression: Envoy to be recalled for talks By CHAN KAM YAU KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. —Tunku Abdul Rahman tonight said Malaysia took an “extremely serious view" of the action of President Marcos in signing mto law the Congressional Act annexing Sabah and warned that Malaysia would meet
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  • 91 1 2 countries ‘grateful to Kremlin VIENNA. Wed. (Reuter) The Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia has come as a blessing in disguise for Western countries hungry for manpower. “For us it is an unprecedented opportunity to get the finest type of person in a huge variety of fields”, an immigration official at
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  • 23 1 BANGKOK. Wed. < Reuter) President Johnson’s special envoy, Mr. Eugene Black, today pledged continued US. support for the development of South-east Asia.
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  • 26 1 MADRID. Wed. (Reuter) General Franco’s son-in-law. the Marquis of Villaverde. today successfully carried out Spain’s first heart transplant operation at La Paz Clinic here.
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  • 331 1  -  By BEN D’CUNHA KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Britain has no intention of striking a ’’posture'’ In the current problems facing Malaysia. But she has a general interest in the security of this region and in the economic and political stabi-
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  • 31 1 ‘TRUTH SQUAD WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) Republican leaders are setting up a "Truth Squad” to chase VicePresident Hubert H. Humphrey around the country and correct any “mis representations” he makes about them.
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  • 31 1 No interference WELLINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) The New Zealand Government will not interfere in the affairs of the Malaysian Singapore Students Association here. Deputy Prime Minister John Marshall said in Parliament today.
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  • 58 1 SKEGNESS. England. Wed (Reuter) Former nun Emma Smith has returned from the grave claiming a world record for being buried alive. The 38-year-old mother of- three children was lifted gently to the surface from her grave several feet under an amusement park here yesterday
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 15 5 "The Pacifist" by Bernard Buffet at the art gallery in Paris
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    • 200 5 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Rescuers using row boots and landing craft aided thousands stranded by Britain's worst floods in 1 5 years, while a day of torrential rain wrecked hopes of receding waters. Six rivers in southeast England, including parts of the Thames, burst their
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    • 124 5 ter) Herman Fitzgerald Richards' neighbour was noisy, so he drilled a hole in the wall and gave him a whiff of coal gas to silence him. Richards. 59, pleaded guilty in court today to maliciously administering coal gas to Moztffar Alam with intent to annoy
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    • 48 5 CARACAS. Wed. (UPI) < Venezuelas first heart transplant operation was ‘‘successfully completed" last right at Caracas Military Hospital. A hospital official said a 44-year-o:d man received the heart of a 27-year-old woman during an operation by Dr. Julian Morales Rocha and a team of doctors.
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    • 161 5 MANILA. Wed (UPI) The Philippine Nursing Association (PNAi today asked official government intervention to check an exodus of Filipino nursing graduates to the United States, and Canada. PNA president Mrs. Rosario S. Diamante said the outflow of nurses abroad has already resulted in a nursing shortage at
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    • 100 5 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Coloured cricketer Basil D’Oliveira said last night the South African government reaction to his selection for an England team was "a tragedy tor cricket.” D'Oliveira said: "Nobody in the world of cricket can feel unhappier than I do tonight.” D’Oliveira said “All the time
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    • 237 5 CAPE KENNEDY. Wed. (CPI) The world’s most powerful commercial communications satellite is set fo r launch tonight to more than double spaceborne telephone and television links across the Atlantic. The spacecraft is the first of six in an US$32 m. series knowm as Intelsat 3
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    • 482 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) The United States plans to send up to 4G,U00 troops withdrawn from Germany back to Europe to take part in manoeuvres early next year, Defence Secretary Mr. Clark M. Clifford said today. Mr. Clifford described the move as strictly
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    • 98 5 LAGOS. Wed (Reuter) The Nigerian Federal Government today denied that its forces shot dowm a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) helicopter flying mercy missions to Biafran refugee'. In a statement the Federal Government said the helicopter crashed while landing at Benin airport last Sunday because
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    • 83 5 TOKYO. W’ed (UPI) —The Japanese government has named six Japanese representatives and five alternates to the forthcoming 23rd General Assembly of the United Nations. The Japanese represntativs will be headed by Foreign Minister Takeo Miki. Other representatives will include ambassadors Senfin Tsuruoka and Isao Abe
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    • 249 5 SAIGON, Wed. (Reuter) Fleets of helicopters today pulled out the dead, the dying and the wounded after North Vietnamese mortars decimated a U.S. Marine unit just south of Vietnam's buffer strip. Twenty-five marines were killed and 126 wounded in the attack —two out
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    • 141 5 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Wed. Reuter) The United Nations has protested to both Israel and the United Arab Republic about damage caused to U.N observer installations in the Suez Canal area, it was announced today. The U.N. released the texts of letters sent by Lieutenant
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    • 155 5 TEL AVIV. Wed. (Reuter) Israel yesterday fired long range guns on targets in Jordan in reprisal for a rocket attack by Arab guerrillas on an Israel frontier town with 15,000 inhabitants. The bombardment w as described by informed sources here as "a
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    • 313 6 /CLEVELAND, Ohio, Wed. (UPI) A stuVv dious 28-yeor-old bank executive with a spotless past record was sentenced to six months in prison yesterday for embezzling $605,000 to play the stock market. Federal Judge Thomas Lambros cited Anthony M. Ardens “Impeccable record through
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    • 140 6 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) Personal income of Americans again registered a sharp rise in August, rushing the annual rate to $694.2 billion $6O billion higher than the rate at the same time in 1967. The Commerce Department has said the August gain was
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    • 62 6 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) Jaggman Loui* "Satchmo” Armstrong was hospitalised here yesterday for what a spokasman for the entertainer described as “an examination and tests." The spokesman said the 68-ye«r-eld Armstrong was expected to be released •hortly. Armstrong was forced to cancel an appearance last night
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    • 87 6 OBERHAUSEN. Germany: South Vietnamese teacher Nguyen Van-Thiet and his class of young victims of the Vietnam war at work in the dining hall of Germany's first “Peace Village” which opened here one month ago. Most of the children staying at the home have been
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    • 161 6 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) Communist Huk terrorists struck in Pampanga Province north or Manila and killed three men on Monday night, the Philippine Constabularly reported today. The victims included Elpidio Balatbat. 40, a village captain, and two companion*. Their bulletriddled bodies were found on a road
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    • 143 6 BONN Asparagus is great favourite with gourmets in the Federal Republic of Germany, rrho appreciate its Qualities as a particularly delicious, prime uuality vegetable. Every year, they wait impatiently for the start of the asparagus harvest (our picture) in the spring; using a sharp knife, the asnaragua
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    • 300 6 UNITED NATIONS, Wed. (UPI) Six South Vietnamese Senator* arranged a meeting with Secretary General U T hant “yesterday on the first day after his return from Paris and Algiers. The delegation included Senators Huynh Cao. Vu Minh Tran. Do Quang Giai, Tran Ngoc
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    • 120 6 MEMPHIS. Term. Wed. (UPI) A prisoner predated yesterdav that “all hell” will soon break loose in the Shelby County Jail unless guards stop neglecting other inmates while waiting on James Earl Ray. Charles Lindquist, in a letter to the Memphis Pressirimiter. said guards let
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    • 256 6 TOKYO, Wed. (UPI) Cambodian Head of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk said in a statement published here today the United States will not be able to reach agreement with North Vietnam in the Paris talks unless it stops bombing and “other acts of war”
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    • 79 6 XOCHIMILCO. Mexico, Wed. (Reuter) The canal which Is to be the scene of the Olympic rowing events Is being cleaned by 20.990 Japanese fish. The walls of the canal in this picturesque Indian village 20 miles from Mexico city were coated with weed until organising officials
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    • 74 6 KUWAIT. Wed. (AFP) School mistresses teaching in Kuwaiti girls’ school have not only been forbidden to wear mini-skirts, they have been ordered to wea r dressses bordering on the fahionable maxi. An order today from the Education Ministry makes it compulsory for the teachers to
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    • 316 6 CLEVELAND. Ohio. Wed. (UPI) —Police said yesterday they were questioning two Canadians in connection with the execution slayings of four persons whose bodies were found on a grassy knoll in a park. Homicide detectives said the Canadians, 36 and 40. to Cleveland less than
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    • 156 6 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Stocks turned in another strong performance yesterday. partly the result of carryover strength from tha previous session and also a reflection of additional encouraging economic news Bullish influences included prospects of widespread price advances in the autot mobile industry and
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    • 316 6 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UP!) The controversial nomination of Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice of the United States was approved 11 to 6. yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee and sent to the floor. But its fate was uncertain because of a threatened filibuster.
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    • 114 7 JAKARTA, Wed. (Reuter) President Suharto of Indonesia has released funds for the completion of Dr. Sukarno's favourite project, the national monument outside the presidential palace in Jakarta. A cabinet spokesman said the 25 million rupiahs (about US$5O,OOO) would be made available this year to
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    • 121 7 NEW DELHI. Wed. (Reuter) Mrs. Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister, is to visit nine South American and Caribbean countries in a three-week American tour culminating in an address to the United Nations in New York on October 14. Giving details of her trip an official spokesman
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    • 96 7 YUCCA FLAT. Nevada. Wed. (UPI) A nuclear explosion of low-interme-diate yield was set off underground yesterday at the Nevada test site by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) as part of the plowshare programme to develop peaceful uses for nuclear explosions. The explosion, the 24th
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    • 83 7 CANBERRA. Wed (Reuter) A strain of influenza first Isolated in Hong Kong earlier this year has detected in Australia, Australian Health Minister Dr. James Forbes said today. The "A2” Hong Kong Strain which had been widespread in Hong Kong. Singapore and Manila had been
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    • 94 7 What happens when a young Hong Kong fish-boy meets his fisher-girl friend at a busy Hong Kong fishing port during lunchtime? Well, as you can imagine, the one thing that almost never results is a meal of fish and chips. Fish and chips is so
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    • 233 7 RHODESIA GATOOMA. Rhodesia. Wed. (Reuter) Prime Minister lan Smith last night again declared his readiness to re-negotiate his country's independence with Britain—but on terms acceptable to Rhodesia. “If they can give us terms acceptable to us we can come to an agreement, “he said
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    • 67 7 REDLANDS. California. Wed. (UPI) William F. Burtron. 21, of Redlands told police he didn’t believe his eyes early on Monday when he saw a house across the road as he was driving home. Police booked Burtron on suspicion of drunken driving after the panel truck he
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    • 102 7 CHEYENNE. Wyoming. Wed (Reuter) A one-year-old girl was in a critical condition in hospital here this morning after being shot in the stomach by her four-year-old brother. Police reported that Theresa Moore and her two brothers were in a parked car when one of the
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    • 107 7 CASSLL West Germany, Wed. (AFP) The new running shoes with 68 spikes, on each foot made specially for the new tartan running tracks, have no chance of being approved for use during next month's Mexico Olympics. Mr. Max Danz. president of the West German
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    • 65 7 NAPLES. Wed (UPI) About 50 masked motorcyclists rode their roaring cycles into the marble arcade of the fashionable Umberto I Gallery last night. sending terrified tourists and residents flee- tng from their cafe tables. Before police arrived, the cyclists sped away. Police set up roadblocks but reported
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    • 296 7 THE HAGUE. Wed. (AFP) Queen Juliana in her speech from the throne told Parliament thct the Dutch government felt the Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia had dealt a blow to East-West detente. The government nevertheless hoped that the Eastern oloc would in the long
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    • 260 7 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPI) —The Hong Kong Standard reported today that Communist commercial circles here will soon turn capitalist, by speculating in the local stock market and investing in colony real estate. The front-p age report called the development o new departure for Communist
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    • 148 7 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) Hong Kong firemen today put out a blaze aboard an American freighter, some lo hours after an explosion i n the Liberian tanker Cerberus set ablaze both ships, killing five people and injuring 17. A government spokesman said the freighter Coastal
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    • 258 7 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPI)—A former bonk supervisor extradited from the United States was today found guilty of embexxling U 5535,000 to pay losses on horse race betting. District Court Judge J. T. Williams found Carlos Manuel Da Lux guilty of nine of
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    • 69 7 MINERAL WELLS. Texas. Wed. (UPI) —Cary Burns and Danny Ladd found they had a lot in common when they wound up in the same room at Palto Pinto General Hospital. Burns and Ladd, both 17. were both accidentally shot In the foot on the same
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    • 97 7 DANANG. Wed. (UPI) Freelance photographer John Schneider was wounded for the third time in the Vietnam war yesterday, while covering Marine operations in the demilitarised zone. Schneider, a former UPI photographer, was with elements of the 9th Marine Regiment near the abandoned Khe Sanh base
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    • 162 7 SYDNEY. Wed. (Reuter) The British cable ship Retriever today is speeding toward the Solomon Sea south of New Guinea where an underwater avalanche triggered by an earthquake has cut one of the Pacific most important communications links. The Commonwealth Seacorn cable between Cairns in Queensland
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    • 82 7 PARIS. Wed. (AFP) Visiting Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda told newsmen here that his talks with President Charles de Gaulle had resulted in important progress in co-operation between the two countries. The Zambian President refused to disclose details of his 45-minute conversation with General de
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    • 63 7 CHICAGO Wed. (Reuter)' —About 1.000 Negro students have walked out of Harrison High School in protest against the assignment of a white teacher to lecture on Afro-American History. Distroct superintendent Alflorence Cheatham a Negro declined to replace Miss Constance Pearson, as teacher of the course. “She is
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    • 99 7 Two youngsters demonstrate the Spirotot— the beginners’ version of the Spirograph drawing game, that carried off nearly all the awards at the British Toy Fair held in Brighton. This simple and fascinating educational game, that produces countless designs from a circle or parts of it, aids the child’s development and
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  • 378 8 YESTERDAY, President Marcos affixed his signature to the Congressional Bill annexing the East Malaysian State of Sabah. A Reuter report from Manila said he signed the Bill on the recommendation of the Foreign Policy Council. His signature has been expected since it is impossible for him
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  • 353 8 CREATING more rice bowl areas in West V, Malaysia does not provide exciting reading for the urban public. Too many people in urban areas take no interest in rural development because they feel they are left out of it. Apart from speeches and statements on this aspect
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  • 895 8  -  By: Choo Teck Mau rpHE Moon Coke Festival, otherwise known as the Mid-Autumn FesA tival, is around the corner. And in anticipation of the great occasion, the Chinatowns in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore and throughout the World are once again a fairyland of
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  • 243 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (tattler. *M«nd»oek ef ZvltaaM Sor Criatnal Trie it’} THE Modern Insurance Co. brought a law suit against Richard, one of its former employees. “The company where I worked is suing me for money damages for rlolatlon of a restrictive clause in my contract
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  • 868 8 AT the junction of Jalan Semangat and Jalan Utara in Petaling Jaya ground has been broken for the setting up of the University School which will be ready to welcome its pupils in January 1969. The setting up of this school will mark a sig- nificant step
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  • 755 8 Confused world situation Prom Sin Chew Jit Peb Describing th# recent situation in Czechoslovakia. a news desoatch sent bv a foreign news correspondent in Prague said: ‘’The present is a strange period in Czechoslovakia. To a certain dezree. normal conditions have been restored, and living has resumed
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    • 41 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newspaper THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1963 23-6. Cantonment Road. Singapore 2. Telephone: *****/7 Penang Office Ipoh Office 39 lalan Sultan. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Telephone: ***** 6 8. Leith Street, Tel: ***** 77. Brewster Road. Te1:7232> Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 309 9 MEXICO CITY, Wed. Photographers are not enA 8 tered in any of the cultural or athletic events, but they will receive careful attention at the XIX Summer Olympic Games here in October. Professional or amateur, anyone with a camera will find a variety
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    • 89 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Association of Banks in Maiaysia-Singapore today made the following changes in its rates to merchants: NEW YORK: Buying TT 32- Airmail O.D 32-7/8; 90 d/st 33-7/8 credit bills; 33- trade bills. CANADA: Buying TT 35- Airmail O.D 35-1/4; 90 d/st. 35-15/16 credit bills; 36- trade
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    • 200 9 SINGAPORE. Wed For the first time after the Czechoslovakian crisis Mr. Kosygin and Mr. Breznev appeared in public. They chose for this occasion to visit the big multimillion dollar Italian Engineering Exhibition at Moscow held from the sth to 18th Sept., 1968. They arrived at
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    • 186 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The following ships are expected to be in port today: Gndowns Vessels 1/2 Kateiysis 3'4 l,e-Natal 5 Hongkong Fair 8 9 Seta Maru 10/11 N.G. Livano* 18 River Bank 19 Sir Galahad 21/22 Fonshun Maru 23/24 Tjinegara 28 26 Gotuen Spring 27 28 Kyoshu Maru
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    • 118 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. As from Ist October, 196 R. Mr. Enrico Miserendino will be the Managing Director of Olivetti (Singapore) Limited and Olivetti (Malaysia) Sendirian Berhad. Mr. Miserendino. who graduated in Science and Economics. commenced his long career with the Olivetti Group being attached to the Management
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    • 96 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. An Indian commercial firm. M-s. Buckau Wolf New India Engineering Works Ltd.. Pimpri. Poona, has set a precedent in a goodwill gesture by inviting Dato Tsang Tak Chuen. Chairman. Federal Miners and Planters Ltd. to visit sugar growing areas in India. While in India
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    • 71 9 LONDON. Wed. The London rubber market closed steady with spot 19-3/4 20 SETTLEMENT HOUSE Oct. 19-7/8 20-1/16 Nov., Oct./Dec. and Jan./ March 19-15/16 20-1/16 April'June 20 20-1/8 July/Sept. 20-1/16 20-3/16 Oct./Dec. 20-1/8 20-1/4 Jan./March 20-3/16 20-3/8 April/June 20-3/8 20-7/16 July/Sept 20-5/16 20-1/2 Oct /Dec. 20-3- 8 20-5/8
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    • 60 9 NEW YORK. Wed. <UPI> Rubber futures closed 18 points higher across the board. No sales Nov 20.90 bid. 21 40 asked. Jan 20.40 bid. 20 90 asked. March 20 40 bid. 20.90 asked. May 20.40 bid. 20.90 asked July 20.40 bid. 20.90 asked. Serit 20 40 bid
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    • 287 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. October first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 53 cents per lb., unchanged from previous close. The tone was quiet. Despite better London advices and a steadier start, the market later eased back below the 55-cent level.
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    • 108 9 MNGAPORt. Wed. The noon price* el me Chinese frodor* Kirkuir neuw C f?"o o {.r"Bn.k 47 50 Cueonui nil (FOB) Drum 50 0* UM»e (opr* Mlitc »ep« *0 00 Mu Ml ll* M pile Pepper iMISI Mil 11* 50 oaraoiH While Pepper 11.0*1 110 00 ParawaH epeclal Blare Pepper
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    • 1657 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. Industrials on the Stock Exchange today appeared mild firm lollowing the Minister lor Finance Dr. Goh Keng Swee t clarification on Singapore Taxes that the new taxes will not reduce incentives to investors. However, in the alternoon, prices turned easier on some
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    • 58 9 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) Money quotations: HK$6 1025 per US. dollar HK58.***** per US. dollar TT HK$ 14.55 per pound sterling HK5301.75 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HKSI63 3 per 10.000 Japanese yens HK5149.5 per 100 Philippine pesos buyers HK $149.7 per 100 Philippine
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    • 416 9 SINGAPORE Stock tlchange told and ofler price* omciall? listed at butlnptt tbe close of IXIM'STRIALS Alex. Brick* 16 on %ima Ben A Co \BI 2 HO 2 S« Burnni Milri u: 1.89 Hon-trad 180 1' 'Hear 4.1? Chemical t n 1 Cold 'torace 4.70 l>0 3.41 3 Ml
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    • 41 9 Munaffru Plllfl) Fifkt Main win •;.6o '•frond M.ila\an 1.93 Third 1.23 In#* omuifrie Industry .89 1 08 1'he savlnc fund \1> f ir*»t li’kone 1.05 Mfnnd H'konff Malaidan Investment mnd Sterling Cmortitv 1.20 S/ll 1 30 Bon* Hunt nrrencjl
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    • 30 9 NEW YORK, Wed (UPI) Closing Dow Jones averages: 30 industrials 923.05 20 rails 258 45 15 utilities 130.94 65 Stocks 329.21 40 bonds 76.66 Commodity index 135.47
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    • 1464 10 YOUR A TVamt m TODAY TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL S KUALA ICMPUK and Pulan Ptnanr 8 Ipoh and Melaka. 3 A 10 Johore Bahru. 4 Taipinr. J Bata Fabat; 9 Klnang. A.M. 545 Opening Annct Prog Summary; 550 News Outlines in the National Language; 5 55 National Songs; 6 00 News
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY fil WINNERS®
    • 232 11 T AM a hawker by profession and I sell moo rebus. Every morning, I x woke up at five o'clock to have o wash, change into clean clothes and visit the market to buy the necessary ingredients. When I return home from the market,
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      148 11 DUE to the shortage of rice, the Government has started a campaign to urge the public to eat more wheat. Wheat is of course Cheaper than rite. It is grown in Canada and Australia. Wheat is exported at a cheaper rate to other countries. For wheat cultivation,
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      163 11 IT was the 6th of May. There was ho rain for many days and the flowers in my garden were dying slowly. Then at noon, the weather began to change. There was a strong wind and black clouds had gathered. Suddenly, the rain poured down. We were
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    • 265 11 IT was a fine Saturday morning and I woke up at 4 a m. It was still dark and I felt very cold. Thinking that it would be very comfortable to sleep again I went to bed. After a while, I was awakened by my
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    • 275 11 It was a windy but sunny day and I was thinking of the ice-cream seller. What a lot of money an Ice-cream seller could earn on a warm day. In fact, I had wasted 20 cents on ice-water Suddenly. I remembered I had to
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    • 184 11 ONE fine morning. I decided to visit my classmate living in Jurong. After my bath. I took my breakfast and later left the house to take a bus. During the trip to Juror.g. I saw many interesting things on the way. Sometimes, the ou* went through
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    • 162 11 MY hobby is reading and I often read manv book*. One day. while I was having a reading lesion in class. I came across an interesting book called The Diary of Anne Frank. Later I bought the book and read it. It was about Jews.
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    • 182 11 THE teacher I like best must be one who is patient hardworking and a friend to all. v She must be highly qualified and must have an art in teaching so that the pupils can benefit themselves and achieve good results. During her
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    • 238 11 NATIONAL Day falls on August 9. every year It was on this tame day and month In 1965 when Singapore became a Republic. It is the biggeat and most important festival In Singapore Flags can be wen everywhere In town. People celebrated It In many ways.
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      163 11 THE wind was blowing over the hills followed by patches of clouds. Dust and dried leaves could be seen everywhere. There were boys playing with kites. This scene was in a kampong. Most of the houses were attap huts. The residents were fishermen who could be seen
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    • 193 11 AUGUST 25, came and after a wash. I took a suit case filled with elothes and left for Pulau Vloman off the west coast of Malaysia. When I approached Paslr Panjang sea shore, I saw my friends. Eddie and Edgar waiting for me At half
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    • 273 11 I am an old and dirty book. My pages are torn and I am lying alone in a rubbish heap waiting to be earned away and be destroyed. My life is a worthless one and I am unable to please people. Inspite of my old
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    • 150 11 IT Is good to have many brothers and sisters because we can discuss or seek help from them in difficulties. The older brothers and sisters can teach the younger ones. Furthermore we can run to them for help if anyone trie* to bully us Whenever
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    • 315 12 TODAY and it Thursday, September 19, 1968. STAR GAZER"*^ ARIES 3 MAR. 22 APR. 20 1- 3-14-21 >^23-42-48 yf TAURUS APR. 21 I MAY 21 Ot 2- 6-37-41 GEMINI MAY 22 JUNE 22 39-52-69 I CANCER JUNE 23 T jj JULY 23 11 -22-28-43 56-62-68 V LEO r £j JULY
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    • 266 13 SHAW# OPENS TOD AY! 11 am. 1.45. 4 00. 0.10 A 0.18 pm B a* INSPECTOR CLOI'SE I Panavtaion A Color Frank F:n!ay. Delia Boccnrdo NOW SHOWING —No Free List! II a m 1.30. 4.00, 0.45 A 9.30 p.m. Wang Yu and Li Chins THI SWORD OF SWORDS’* SHAW PRODUCTION
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    363 14  -  by ISA ISMAIL, UPI JAKARTA. (I'PI) Modem textile factories manufacture imitation batik in large quantities and sell it for low prices. But the artisans who carefully draw bv hand traditional batik patterns according to techniques 1.500 years old do not worry about cheap competition. “People who care about
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  • 456 14 By LEON DANIEL. UPI. TOKYO. (UPI) You can find just about an.v kind of action you want in Tokyo. In the vernacular of the Now Generation, the rooftops are where it is at. Pie in the sky? You bet That's easy in a city that has
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  • 333 14  -  Slittery trail to riches by U BA THAN RANGOON. (t PI) They’ve found a new but dangerous way to make money in the paddyfields of Burma. They are capturing poisonous snakes alive in order to make serum. Farmers who take off a few days to hunt snakes claim
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  • 244 14 WASHINGTON. Wed. (I'PI) An international team of scientists will launch a series of investigations this fall on an Antartic island where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions last year forced the evacuation of researchers from Argentina. Chile and England. The National Science Foundation said the work
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  • Sun Sport
    • 385 15 SINGAPORE, Wed. Singapore will be out to snatch five "gold" medals in the Indonesian 'open' athletic championships which will be held at Jakarta commencing tomorrow. This was told to Sunsport by the Secretary of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association. Mr. Ameer
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    • 321 15 WASHINGTON Wed. (UPI) The chairman of the Olympic Games Committee said yesterday American Black athletes “will be sent home” if they try to disrupt next month's contest in Mexico City. Avery Brundage, the 80-year-old chairman of the International Committee, spoke out against
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    • 92 15 TORONTO. Wed (UPI) "Orld. middleweight champion Nino Benvenuti of Italy left jabbed his way to an easy victory over Art Hernandez of Omaha. Nebraska, in a 10-round non-title bout, before 12,000 fans. Benvenuti. 163-1/2, had height and reach on Hernandez. 164. and his left
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    • 94 15 LONDON. Wed Two of the leading contenders for the French and the British featherweight National titles will be meeting in an international contest at the National Sporting Club in London on September 23 They are Daniel Vermandere of France and John O’Brien of Glasgow,
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    • 99 15 Sheila Sherwood, whose husband John will also compete for Britain’s athletic team in the Olympic Games, soared to a United Kingdom allcomers long jump record of 21 feet. inches during the recent Britain v Poland international at London’s White City diumShe added 0.25 of an
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    • 426 15 SYDNEY, Wed. (Reuter) Former Australian Test captain lan Johnson todav accused South African Prime Minister John Vorsier of being •presumptuous” in judging who is worthy of being in the England cricket team. Commenting on Mr. Vorster’s rejection of an MCC team to
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    • 164 15 LONDON. Wed—Athletes taking part in the Olympic Games in Mexico City next month will be subjected to drug detection test* carried out with equipment made in Britain Pye Unicam Limited, a member of the Pye ot Cambridge group, have supplied three ot their Pye series
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    • 191 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Kuala Selangor, with Jorkev Subian Dalwee astride, showed up to advantage on a soft track this morning when he easily skipped over 3f. in 38-4/3 sec. finishing with a bit in hand. Martini II (Garnet Bougoure) also pleased in a two-round solo. After going
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    • 245 15 LONDON. Wed. tUFI) Premier John Vorster’* statement in Blomfontein last night that the South African Government would not accept a team “thrust upon it for political objectives” almost certainly means this year* English cricket tour there is off He made it
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    • 218 15 BLOEMFONTEIN, (South Africa). Wed (UPI) Premier John Vorster yesterday said that South Africa was not prepared to accept the Marylebone Cricket Club <MCC) team now that non-white player Basil D Oliveira has been Included In the party by the England selectors. In
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    • 134 15 LOS ANGELES Wed (Reuter) American Ciark Graebner. fifth seeded »n the Pacific South-West Open Tennis Championship here, downed Australia's Tony Roche 7-5. 0-6 10-8 m the third round here yesterday Graebner broke Roche's service in the 18th game of the final set to end a long match
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    • 1152 15 Horses Class 2, Div. 1-About 7 Furs. 023 Mjlisffr 5y 900 Dato A Datin K.L ChOng West 322 Sky borne by 808 Goodman Stable Daniels 641 Entertainer V by 8 08 Shaw Stable Tulloh 13 AA'erribee 4v 807 Mai Pen Rai St. R B'kelen 171 Intan Terpeleh
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    • 306 16  -  By ALBERT JOHNSON SINGAPORE, Wed. The Football Association of Singapore will send a team to participate in the prestigious "King's Cup" football tournament to be held in Bangkok from Nov. 20 to Dec. 2 this year. Mr L.P. Rodrigo, president of the
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    • 307 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Rugby which saw a boom period during the presence of the ‘rugger crazy’ first battalion Fijian Regiment during ihe emergency and then a downward trend in the last few years, holds promise of a good season this year.
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    • 78 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed— The Varsity Blues XV went down fighting to Selangor Club by 3 points (try) to 22 (2 goals and 4 tries) in the Senior League competition at the Pantai Valley today. Blues without their regulars put up a creditable show in the
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    • 62 16 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Results of English football league matches played last night were: Division One Coventry City 1 Tottenham Hotspur 2. Division Two Birmingham City 1 Bury 3. Division Three Bamsley 2 Southport 1. Northampton Town 2 Bristol Rovers 2 Oldham Athletic 0 Rotherham United 0. Division
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    • 68 16 «A famous son of a famous father. Thomas Zarharias has had a meteoric rise over the past year to become one of Europe's best high jumpers. Zacharias who comes from Berlin is the son of a world famous violin virtuoso. Thomas Zacharias will be representing the
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    • 225 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Royal Malaysian Air Force took a further step forward towards the title when they beat a strong COBRA team by 18 points (three goals and a try) to five points (goal) in a Selangor Rugby Union League match at the
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    • 474 16 KI’ALA LUMPUR, Wed. Australia's Sir Charles Moses who represented Malaya at rugby before the outbreak of the Second World War will be back again on a special mission. Sir Charles, General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and secretary-general of the
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    • 44 16 BATU PAHAT. Wed. The Rengam District Primary School Sports Council have picked a team of four boys and four girls for the Kluang District table-ten-nis championship to be held at the Kluang Chong Hwa Secondary School court on Friday and Saturday.
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    • 1243 16 SINGAPORE, Wed. A total of -101 horses has been entered for the Singapore Gold Cup meeting to be held on Sept 28. 29, Oct. 5 and 6. 1st run 2nd run CLASS I 6F 1M "F UM All Steel x z Avenger II
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    • 249 16 SINGAPORE, Wed. The 1969 Singapore Grand Prix to be held in April would he on a bigger scale as the premier motor racing spectacle will be organised as part of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the founding of Singapore.
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    • 114 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Foreign players who competed in the recent Malaysian Open Tennis Championships at Penang, featured in exhibition matches at the Selangor Club courts here this evening. Indonesia’s Gondo Widjo.io, runner-up to Douglas Smith of Australia in the singles, had a chance to avenge his
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    • 47 16 SEREMBAN. Wed Negri Sembilan Club chalked up another fine win in the N.S.-Malacca rugby for the John Aitken Cup w r hen they beat P D Garrison by 19 points (two goals, two tries and one penalty) to 16 (two goals, two tries) here today.
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    • 57 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 10.59 a.m. (7.0 ft.). 11.36 p.m. (6.9 ft.). Port Swettenham: 3.07 a.m. (13.1 ft.). 3.24 p.m. (13.2 ft.). Port Dickson: 4.05 am. (6.7 ft.). 5.03 p m (7.3 ft Singapore: 9.55 a.m. (7.1 ft.). 8.45 pm. (76 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 8.24 a.m. (7.2 ft.), 6.25 pm.
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