Eastern Sun, 21 November 1968

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  • 24 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION •fr Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 830 Thursday, 21 November 1968. MC (P) 0030 Price 15 cents
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  • 152 1 VUNG TAU, Vietnam. Wed. (CPI) President Nguyen Van Thieu today reaffirmed South Vietnam's adamant stand to boycott broadened peace talks in Paris, Vietnamese sources reported. The sources said Thieu explained to a Government seminar at this coastal city why the Saigon Government refused to attend
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  • 40 1 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) —lndonesia's Education Minister Mashuri advocated the introduction of an Indo-nesian-Malaysian joint spelling system at a Cabinet meeting here today This was stated by Information Minister Budiarto after the meeting. He gave no details.
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  • 297 1  -  Razak: We welcome Aussie, Kiwi military presence but BY BEN D’CUNHA LUMPUR, Wed. "What happens after 1971?" Will Australia and New Zealand maintain its military presence in Malaysia and Singapore? An assurance that they will stay after 1971 is what Malaysia is seeking This was indicated
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  • 62 1 MANILA Wed. (UPI) President Ferdinand E. Marcos said tonight Asia will have to co-exist with Communist China if the United States pulls out of the region in the next 15 years. In a speech prepared for delivery at the Manila Overseas Press Club. Mr. Marcos predicted:
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  • 34 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Keeper of the Rulers’ Seal announced tonight the sighting of the moon in Negri Sembilan. Muslims all over the country will begin the fasting month tomorrow.
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  • 477 1 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) The gold price rose by 52-1/2 cents an ounce here today to reach its highest level for more than four months. It was the first reaction by international investors while the world awaited the outcome of today's crisis
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  • 323 1 KI'ALA LUMPUR. Wed. The annual tropical fish exhibition was opened here today by the Sultan of Selangor without the much publicised “mermaid”. Despite a minute dash, the “top” (a midriff blouse) of the mermaid’s costume failed to come In time for the ceremony. Model
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  • 90 1 CAFE KENNEDY. Florida Wed. (UPI) The Apollo 8 space ship passed its last major electrical checkup on Tuesday and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey told its crew he hopes to return to the space centre to watch three astronauts leave for the moon on Dec 21. The Vice-President.
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  • 470 1 NEW YORK, Wed. (Reuler) Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore last night praised the virtues of free enterprise as opposed to too much emphasis on Government planning in contrasting the economic development of countries of East and South- east Asia. In
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  • 93 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Anti-Corruption Agency today arrested five Government officers in connection with the Government Officers’ Co-opera-tive Housing Society’s housing: scheme at Sungei Way. The five officers were picked up at their homes in various parts of the Federal capital and Petaling Java. The
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 349 2 Move to focus attention on its great potentiality KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A motor roily is to be held next April to test the reliability of the completed stretch of the Asian Highway from Vientiane to Singapore. The Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Sardon bin
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    • 498 2 JOHOKE BAHRU. Wed. —The Investigating Officer of the Johore Treasury robbery. ASP Omar bin Mohamed today related in the Magistrate’s Court the recovery of $21,500 from the house of Mr. X In Geylang, Singapore. The name of Mr. X was ordered
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    • 141 2 SINGAPORE. Wed The Young People's Service of the National Library has Issued a booklist entitled “Set In Asia This Is a list of novels set against an Aslan background and has been complied as a guide to enjoyable reading for the use of teenagers, parents,
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    • 154 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The latest threat bv the Minister of Education. Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, to close down private Chinese schools which fail to purge themselves of subversive elements must be viewed with deep concern bv all right thinking Malaysians, the Democratic Action Party
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    • 314 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Defence counsel in a rape preliminary inquiry today asked the court to strike off the evidence in respect of three items which were recovered in a house off Jalan Yew here. The counsel. Mr R. RaJasingam also asked the Magistrate. Enche
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    • 149 2 SINGAPORE. Wed Some 50.000 people have visited the 4th Asian Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology exhibition and film shows at the Singapore Conference Hall. The exhibition of scientific and medical products is the biggest of its kind to be held in Singapore. Among the exhibits on
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    • 363 2 SEREMBAN. Wed.—The Minister of Education Enche Mohamed Khir Johari. today stated categorically that there was no intention whatsoever on the part of the Government to delay the publication of the Ail* Teachers’ Salaries Commission report. He said: "I would like to give
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    • 503 2 Divorce case: SINGAPORE. Wed —Some eighteen months ago a General Hospital nurse wrote to a married man expressing fears over her delayed menstruation. Today the letter was produced in court by a wife. Helen Sha Wai Yoong when she sought a divorce
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    • 709 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Second District Court today heard of how a businessman used the niece of the chairman of the Public Service Commission to invoke his (chairman's) name to “suit his own ends.” This, the DPP. Mr. K.B. Rajah, said was
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    • 241 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Singapore Teachers’ Union said today the Treasury offer of scale five salaries for certificate trained teachers and normal trained teachers would mean that some of the teachers “will lose more than $20,000 in lifetime earnings”. The STU said
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    • 238 2 SINGAPORE. Wed The Voice of Prophecy radiobroadcasting group, noted for their programmes over hundreds of station in the United States and Canada will give performances here on Friday and Saturday. The performances will be at 7.30 pm. on both nights at the
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    • 434 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Government will not allow land hoarding at Jurong, the Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee declared today. Speaking at the opening of Nissan Motors (Pte) Ltd. in Jurong, the Minister noted that when the Jurong Industrial Estate was
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    • 342 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The chairman and managing director of Singapore Nissan Motors (Private) Limited, Mr. Lim Kee Ming announced today that his company had already started probing into the possibility of exporting its products to neighbouring countries. The vehicles assembling plant opened by th
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    • 146 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. Singapore has been selected as the permanent headquarters of the International Union Against Tuberculosis, Eastern Region. The selection was made at the sixth Eastern Regional Tuberculosis Conference held in Kuala Lumpur recently. The secretariat will be located at the office of
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    • 583 3 Freddie found with hacksaw Mattes in prison court told SINGAPORE, Wed. Freddie Ton Seng Keng now serving a life-sentence for causing the death of millionaire son, Gene Koh had four pieces of hacksaw blades with him while in Queenstown Remand Prison, the Third District Court was told today. Charged with
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    • 134 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. Four masked thugs, armed with daggers, last night robbed the occupants of a flat in Bukit Merah here of a total of $1,518 in cash and jewellery. The four thugs burst into the flat when Mr. Lim Seow Chuan. a clerk, opened the
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    • 250 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The New Ideal Exposition the first to be sponsored by the Kampong I'bi Citizen's Consultative Committee will be held at the Gay World Amusement Park from Feb. 1 to March 3 next year. The object of the exposition Is to raise funds
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    • 54 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Minister for Culture. Mr. Jek Yeun Thong, will officiate at the joint ceremony for the re-appointment of Sennett Committee Centre’s Management Committee and the inauguration of Potong Pasir Constituencv’s Citizens Consultative Committee tomorrow. the joint ceremony will be held at the Sennett Community
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    • 186 4 T>ESUT, Wed. MARA has spent more than $7 million on the deA) velopment of industries for Bumiputras throughout the country. This was stated by the Chairman of MARA, Enche Abdul Ghafar Baba at a rally at Kampong Raya, near here last night.
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    • 291 4  -  By Khoo Boon Choo pENANG, Wed. Criminals of today even make trial A runs of their operations in order to locate flaws in their planning. This was stated by the Chief Police Officer, Penang, Mr. Albert Mah. when he addressed the Lions Club of Penang
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    • 236 4 PENANG. Wed. Cash and other attractive prizes will be awarded to the first three winners of the Penang Tourist Association’s poster competition to be held here. All other entries will also receive certificates of participation. Announcing this today, the P.T.A. said that the competition was open to
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    • 121 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed Indonesia today offered to give two Komodo dragons to the National Zoo here. The Chairman of the Jakarta Zoo Advisory Council Mr RM Harsono. told Bernama Komodo dragons are the largest monitor lizards on an Island near Bali. It measures 10 to
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    • 61 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed A 16-day festival of youth is being organised by the Cochrane Youth Club here, beginning on Dec. 28 The festival the second to be organised by the club will have a wide range of activities including cultural, welfare, literary and sports events. The highlight
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    • 54 4 MUAR. Wed. A reservoir costing about $lOO,OOO will be constructed bv the Johore State Government at Bukit Bakri, six miles south of here. Dato Chua Song Lim. the Chairman of the Johore Works Committee, disclosed this at a recent meet the people" session at the Bukit
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    • 98 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed- The Under-Secretary (Economic Division) of the Federal Treasury. Enche Malek All Merlcan, left for Washington today to take up his new appointment a* alternate Director of the International Monetary Fund He will represent Malaysia. Algeria. Indonesia. Singapore. Laos. Morocco, Ghana. Libya and Tunisia
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    • 102 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed A bus driver who was robbed of $1 did not report the incident to the police but Instead consulted a lawyer who took down his statement. Disclosing this today a police spokesman said the police are filing the statement as a report with
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    • 73 4 MALACCA. Wed The success scored by the Malacca Police in its recent swoop against subversive elements was greater than it had anticipated. The police had in their books seven people before the swoop was launched but the tally exceeded by two when the operation ended. Several of
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    • 361 4  -  By Charles Chan KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Marta Dane regards herself as a square, a prude but holy G-strins. what a square, what a prude! From her blond tresses down. Marta's a perfect symmetry (35-23-36). a sculptor s delight yogsim. daily exercises and a purely
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    • 347 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Police are on the lookout for a very mobile fire-man gang which has been involved in a series of armed robberies in the past week. According to police sources the identity of the leader is known to them and it is
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    • 161 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Dato Chong Shih Guan, chairman of the board of several secondary and primary schools, has asked all headmasters, teachers and board members to keep a sharp lookout for anv subversive activities in their schools, and appealed to all pupils,
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    • 124 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed— A Rotary Foundation Fund Night will be held on Friday to mark the 51st anniversary of the foundation. The function will be limited to Rotarians and their friends and Is aimed at raising funds for the International Rotary Foundation. The Secretary of the
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    • 290 4 IPOH. Wed. The Senior President of the Sessions Court. Enche Abdullah bln Ngah. today advised the police not to "waste time” by bringing cases to court for trial without making complete and proper investigations. Enche Abdullah offered this advice In a case in
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    • 103 4 PENANG. Wed. Three persons were allowed bail of $5,000 each, on a Customs charge in the Sessions Court here this morning. The three. Lee Leone Kee. 28. Toh Seng Chai, 44. and Ong Keng Huat. 25, all claimed trial to a charge
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    • 161 4 IPOH. Wed Traffic wardens engaged In directing traffic on the roads outside the schools have been delegated with powers to book offending motorists and motor cyclists These traffic wardens were assigned to the various schools by the traffic committee of the Municipal Council to help the
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    • 53 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed- Ismail bin Yusof. 20. unemployed, was today sentenced to nine months Jail for causing grevious hurt to Mohammed Shariff bln Abdullah. 22. He was found guilty by the Magistrates Court of assaulting Shariff with a parang on May 25. at 835 pm behind
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    • 169 4 LUMPUR. Wed. Miss Malaysia, Che Maznah bmte Mohamed Ali, has decided not to take part in the Miss Asia Beauty Contest in Manila next month despite assurances there was “absolutely no political influence" behind it. Che Maznah told Bernama today she has received assurances
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    • 242 13  -  By Albert Johnson Wed. A top-level probe is now being conducted by the university authorities into an alleged misbehaviour of three student union officials at a dinner function held at South Buo n a Vista Road lost week. The investigation is a
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    • 171 13 SINGAPORE Wed. A seminar on “New Trends in Workers’ Education” jointly organised by the International Labour Office and the Danish Board of Technical Co-operation with developing countries will be held here from Nov. 27 to Dec. 18. The ILO-Danish seminar to be held at the-Singapore
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    • 242 13 SINGAPORE, Wed. A three-man technical team from the Japan Sewing Machine Association is here conducting training courses for local dealers and mechanics connected with the sewing machine trade. The training courses are organised Jointly with the Japan Trade Centre in Singapore.
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    • 95 13 1 p.m. 2 p.m.: Rotary Club of Singapore weekly luncheon at Hollandsche (Dutch). Camden Park off Adam Road. 5 p.m. 9 pm.: SATA free mass X-ray station at Thong Hoe Village Community Centre. 18-1/2 m.s. Lim Chu Kang Road. 6 p m.: Malay dance practice for beginners at
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    • 34 13 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Minister for Defence. Mr. Lim Kim San. will receive further donations to the National Defence Fund at 10 30 a m on Friday at his office in Pearl’s HilL
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    • 262 13 SINGAPORE, Wed. More than 300 helpers including wives of ministers and diplomats and prominent local social workers will combine efforts to stage this year's Christmas Fair for charity. Scheduled to be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Nov. 30 from
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    • 181 13  -  By H. C. Tan OINGAPORE, Wed. She is young, lovely ond vivacious. She is versatile, talented and ambitious. She is Miss Caroline Boudville who has been chosen to spearhead the launching of a leading cosmetic product. Caroline is in Singaliore to
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    • 76 13 SEREMBAN, Wed. Thieves broke into a massage parlour at 3rd mile Rahang Road and stole cash and articles amounting to 5621. yesterday. Yong See Kiong the proprietor, reported to the police that at 9.30 p.m he left the parlour and returned at midnight. He found the back
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 52 5 RIVERSIDE, California. Med. One of the worst traffic tie-ups in Riverside's freeway hist o ry occurred early yesterday when a truck and a pickup waggon collided on Highway 91. The chain reaction involved about 100 vehicles, including: two dead, many injured, and half dozen cars burned out.
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    • 316 5 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI). Australian ambassador Sir Keith Waller has appealed for "an outward-looking United States" in world trade. "The world needs it," he told the National Foreign Trade Con- vention in New York. The ambassador made this statement in a speech deploring disc riminatory
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    • 144 5 NEW YORK Wed. (IPI) Five members of a motorcycle gang called "The Bronx Aliens’’ were indicted yesterday on charges of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl and torturing her over a three-day period. Bionx District Attorney B .rton Roberts said she was cruelly tortured and
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    • 118 5 DENVER. Colorado. Wed. (Reuter) A 47-year-old retired Air Force serviceman teas arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents todav on charges of Starting a lire aboard a jetliner carrying 79 people. The man, Colorado rancher Lawrence B Havelock, was arrested at Stapleton international airport here alter
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    • 144 5 SAIGON. Wed. (Reuter) Six waves of guerrilla rockets and mortars thundered into compounds and a hospital area in the giant northern military complex at Danan e during the night, a military spokesman said here today. About 15 rockets crashed Into a Marine supply pest on
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    • 132 5 WASHINGTON. Wed 'Reuter) President Johnson has warned that more hard fighting lay ahead in Vietnam “before the search for peace yields a settlement at the conference table.” “I cannot emphasise strongly enough that we have not attained peace onlv the possibility of peace.” he said at
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    • 96 5 EDMONTON. Canada. Wed. (Reuter) Negio comedian Dick Gregory told a meeting here that Mr. Richard Nixon's biggest problem at the moment is staying alive until he becomes President. “I hope he does But I believe the same conspiracy that is killing all the others will kill him too.
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    • 151 5 PARIS, Wed. (UPI). All French financial markets, including the Bourse, currency and gold exchanges, will be closed today it was officially announced. The announcement came little more than an hour after the French National Assembly early this morning had voted to trim the 1969 budgetary deficit
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    • 75 5 MANILA Wed. (AFP) A Philippine court has sentenced to life imprisonment a 20-year-old youth who raped a 64-ycar-old widow in her home twice and then robbed of her savings amounting to 21 pesos (US $5 25). The youth. Ancheto Bagilo, w a s aiso
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    • 344 5 MANILA. Med. (IPI) The Philippine government announced new currency controls yesterday which will restrict peso purchases abroad, particularly in Hong Kong, and banned the sales or purchases of dollars by private individuals in the Philippines. -Mrcular No 265 issued by the Philippine Central Bank
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    • 319 5 ‘18 MONTHS TO GO WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI). U.S. officials said yesterdoy the United States must be prepared to return the Ryukyus islands, including the vital military bastion of Okinawa, to Japan within 18 months. The official, who could not be identified, told a foreign policy
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    • 130 5 LAMPETER. Wales. Wed. Two youths who tried to saw the head off a statue of a former Prince of Wales were put on probation for three years by a court here today. They pleaded guilty to maliciously damaging a statue of the Puke of Windsor at
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    • 86 5 MADRAS. Wed (Reuter) A young foreigner who had been touring Madras handing out banknotes to the poor has been Identified as an American named Raoul Alexander Nacol. police sources said today. Mr. Nacol. believed to be In his twenties, toured the city’s slums In taxis giving
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    • 85 5 HONG KONG: A fireman trying to escape from broken windows of the Hang Seng Bank Building. Central, after a tire clutches a rope which was lowered to him from workmen on the 11th floor. But he lost his grip and slipped down the rope. He plunged to his death before
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    • 24 6 LONDON Wed: Princess Anne (I) shares joke with the American pop group, "Th« Suprtmes" ot the London Pollodium. UPI photo.
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    • 366 6 MONEY CRISIS LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The London foreign exchange market will be closed today in view of decisions taken by other European governments to close their markets. The British treasury announced this last night as Mr. Roy Jenkins, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, prepared
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    • 356 6 UNITED NATIONS, Wed. (UPI). The rollcoil vote on seating Communist China in the United Nations in place of Nationalist China: FOR PEKING: 44Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Byelorussia, Cambodia, Ceylon, Congo (Brazzaville), Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Ethiopia. Finland, France, Guinea, Hungary, India, Iraq.
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    • 59 6 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) A Civil Aeronautic* Board examiner today recommended that the Belgian airline Sabena be granted a five-year foreign air carrier permit to operate between Belgium and Tokyo with an intermediate stop at Anchorage, Alaska. The recommendation muat be approved by the full board
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    • 146 6 Continue to fight bigotry LBJ NEW YORK Wed (Reuter)) President Johnson has called for a continued major effort to promote Negro civil rights and banish bigotry so that everyone has the same opportunities “We have come a long way but we are nowhere in sight of where we must be
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    • 269 6 WELLINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) New Zealand has decided to maintain forces in Malaysia and Singapore at about the present level until the end of 1971 the date of the planned British military withdrawal from the area. Prime Minister Keith Holyoake revealed
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    • 175 6 HONG KONG. Wed (Reuter) Hon g Kong director of immigration Mr. William Collard flew to Phnom Penh on Monday to smooth over a row believed to have been sparked off by a human smuggling racket from South Vietnam, the China Mail
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    • 105 6 NEW DELHI. Wed. (Reuter) The Indian Prime Minister. Mrs. Indira Gandhi. said today she did not think the country’s foreign exchange position was such as to permit payment of £20.000 for the proposed MCC cricket tour of India. Mrs. Gandhi was discussing the problem
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    • 43 6 LOS ANGELES. California. Wed. (Reuter) One man was burned to death and thre# others injured in an early morning pile up involving 100 cars on a fogbound freeway east of Los Angeles. Five of the cars were destroyed by fire.
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    • 135 6 SYDNEY. Wed (UPI) Investment in Australia was less attractive to Japan than to the richer countries, the Managing Director of Mitsui and Co. (Australia) Mr. Shogoro Anga said yesterday. "With notable exceptions such as the soundly-based local production of motor vehicles and certain
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    • 152 6 MANILA. Wed. (UPI). France has signed an air transport agreement with the Philippines allowing Phillipine carriers to operate three flights a week into Nice and Paris. The French Government also granted Philippine Air Carriers rights to operate as many as two trans-Atlantic flights
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    • 181 6 FRANKFURT. Wed (UPI) German banks were reported "swimming in foreign currency” of all kinds yesterday as speculators rushed to buy marks :n hopes the German currency would be up valued The French franc gained slightly on West German monev markets and held steady in
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    • 116 6 HEREFORD. England. Wed. (Reuter) Some 200 police with trackers dogs were today trying to solve the mystery of the doctor murdered in a country lane 20 miles north of here. A police spokesman said the doctor. Alan Beach, was found shot in the head only 10
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    • 133 6 MANILA. Wed. (AFP) President Marcos yesterday underscored the vital role of modern air travel in breaking down the “barriers of misunderstanding” among nations as he welcomed delegates to the Middle East and South-east Asia Regional Air Navigation Conference. The President spoke at the opening of Regional Air
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 1333 6 youk ,vU gaeg*. A W today TV MALAYSIA tHANNEL S KUALA LUMPUK md Paisa Pinang*. I Ipota and Melaka: 8 A 19 Jobore Bahru, t Taiplnr 7 Batu Pabat; 9 Klosng. P.M. 545 Opening Annet. Prog. Summary; 5 50 New* Outline* in the National Language; 5 55 National Songs; 6
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 364 7 W d (UPI) A U.S. Treasury Department official said ves♦J, u 3t A er,can business and American workers have far more to lose than to gam by a return to the protectionism of the 1930 s.” Mr. John C. Colman,
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    • 157 7 SINGAPORE. Wed.—The Association of Banks in Ma-laysia-S i n g a p ore today made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are Quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency). Selling T.T or O D ready: Deutsche Marks $77.0475; Holland Guilders $85.4425; Swiss
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    • 15 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The tin price for todar was $629 per picul, down $lO.
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    • 571 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Women in Malaysia and Singapore who in recent years have taken to the use of oral contraceptive pills to plan their families will soon be introduced to one which has been hailed by doctors and scientists in Britain, Europe and
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    • 235 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The following ships are expected to be in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 President Roosevelt 3/4 Carronbank 5 Heian Maru 6/7 Golden Spring 8 '9 Romo Maersk 10/11’ Myrmidon 13/14 Sian Yung 18 Garden City 19 Shoyo Maru 21'22 Sea Express 23 24 Arion 25
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    • 1292 7 SINGAPORE Wed. Conditions on the Stock Exchange today were initially quiet with prices easier. However, the market suddenly became fairly active with prices in industrials showing sharp decline on news of the closure of the London and other major foreign exchange markets in Europe, and
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    • 289 7 Rubber up cent SINGAPORE Wed. December first grade rubber buyers f o b. closed at 5 p.m. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 59* cents per lb., up three-quarters of a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet after irregular. Nervous shortcovering formed the market shortly after the
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    • 259 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Stocks closed higher yesterday with the market lacking the normal pressures prior to another mid-week shutdown. Trading was brisk. Shortly before the final bell, the UPI stock market indicator, measuring all stocks traded, showed a gain of 0.33 per cent
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    • 43 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPT) Rubber futures closed unchanged to 10 points lower on no sales Jan. 32.25 Mar. 22.50 23.25 May 22.15 22.65 Jul 22.15 22.65 Sep. 22.15 22.65 Nov. 22.15 2265 Locally. No. 1 RSS 23 cents per pound.
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    • 35 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI)— Tuesday's volume was 15.120.000 shares of a total 1.582 Issued traded 772 were higher and 570 lower. American exchange volume was 7.790.000 shares. Bcnos volume amounted to 20.830.000.
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    • 29 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Closing Dow Jones averages: 30 industrials 96.75 20 rails 272.46 15 utilities 141.30 65 stocks 347.05 40 bonds 75.82 commodity index 143.31
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    • 113 7 SINGAPORE. Wrt. The nnnn price. at tne Singapore Chinese Produce day are:— t oronut OH Exchange toBuyer Seller (FOB) Bulk Coconut Oil 46 00 (FOB) Brum Lon.e Copra Mixed 48.50 Oci Muntnk White Pepper i F O B.) 2800 PH% VI W Sarawak White ***** Pepper (FOB Sarawak Special
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    • 484 7 SINGAPORE Stock Exchange sold and other price* officially listed at thn close of business ISDCSTRIALS Arms 1.99 2.00 2.28 2.34 Borneo Bhd 1.70 1.78 1.73 1 80 3.98 Chemfial Co Co|«| storage 1*5 4 80 1.77 3~2i E smelting 6.75 2~*> 1.31 138 I a v ords 4
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    • 51 7 (.Managers Prices) First Malayan 2 83 “second Malayan 2 04 Third Malavan 1.22 The t ommerre Industry XI) 97 1.06 The saving Fund 1.07 116 Malaysian Investment Fund XI) 1.20 1.10 First H knn* 1.17 l.?3* Second H kong XI) .82 K7 sterling Cmodlty XD 5/11 <* Hon*
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  • 695 8 HAVE American newsmen covering the Vietnam war given a lopsided view of it and are therefore unwittingly the worst enemies of their own country the United States? Have the South Vietnam authorities bungled their own public relations so as to create little interest in their fate in
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    • 425 8 rpHROUGH the columns of your esteemed newspaper I would like to 1 draw the attention of the general public, visitors to this fair isle and foreign tourists of the prevalence of large numbers of "pirote" taxis which play for hire. This vicious ring brazenly operates
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    • 45 8 THE general and state elections are fast approaching. Opposition parties should not fight among themselves to gain publicity. It would be better for them to consolidate their fighting forces. The public long to hear the r oar of the Opposition big guns. R.C. Baling
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    • 321 8 HAJI SANUSI said: "It xs a matter between individual and Allah, w.iether a Muslim prays or fasts during the fastin? month”. This agrees W i.ii the Hadith and The Koran. But it is really fantastic that Haji SanuSl mentioned “It is an offence for Muslims in Singapore
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    • 222 8 WHAT about the taking of blood from school children at school? I had a mother come to me complaining that blood hod been token from her son a long standing patient who had hod congenital heart operated on some years ago. If the examiner had troubled
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    • 121 8 TN your issue of the 14th 1 instant by Mr. K G. Tharan reports against Parking in Johore Bahru is, I should jav. “nonsense”. He looked only at one side of the matter. I and most of us here do not agree w'ith him at all. All
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    • 192 8 WITH the building of Selegie House and the surrounding blocks of flats some years ago by the Housing Development Board, on the triangular land bounded by Short Street. Selegie Road and Albert Street, these three lanes Annamalia Chetty. Nagapa and Verappa Chitty between Selegie Road
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    • 191 8 SINGAPORE is now an independent Republic, and with our former Stars One Poh Lim, Wong Peng Soon, Ismail Marjan retired, we are set to build a team to take part in the next Thomas Cup game. We have a national coach to mould oilr up arid coming
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    • 226 8 FOR many enthusiastic observers of political events, the proposed debate between Mr. Lim Kit Siang of DAP and Dr. Syed Naguib Alatas of the Gerakan marked an encouraging beginning of an era of debates on controversial issues. But it is disappointing to learn that before
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    • 126 8 ON the 17th of June. 1967, I called at the local Registration Office *o appiy for a 'replacement’ of my old Identity Card in conformity with Regulation 16. I was issued with an Acknowledgement of Receipt of Application. On the 8th of November this year
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  • 288 8 THE dispute between Malaysia and the Philippines has now developed well nigh to the point of total rupture. We quite understand that Malaysia has always adopted an attitude of conciliation, not wanting to spoil the good relations be- tweeen the two countries. Some people
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  • 394 8 (From Sia Chow Jit Fob) 1966 was due to the help of Sabah Filipinos. He alleged that Tun Mustapha had threatened two of the former Chief Ministers by saying that should he lose the election, his opponent would be put to death by the hands of the
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  • 263 8  -  By Harry B. Hothblatt (Auther, "Handbook of Evldtnca tor Crlalnal Trials") JIMMY suddenly met with an accident which caused injuries while driving a travelling boat crane which consisted of a trailer and truck. When Jimmy’s insurance company refused to defend the suit against htm. he asked the
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 42 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newspaper THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1968 2M Cantonment Read. Singapore 2 Telephone *****/7 Penang Office Ipeh Office Cabtd Addre 39. lilan Sultan. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. Telephone: *****/6 8. Leith Street. Tel: ***** 77. Brewster Road. Te1:***** tt: AW NEWS
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    • 16 8 1(1 TIN WHITENS MUSI OVI THUN NAMES UTTERS WITHOUT NAMES ANO AOONESSES WTU NUT NT TtJNllSHEO
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 349 9 COMPANY PROSPECTUS STATEMENT RELATING TO A RESTRICTED SALE OF SHARES THROUGH PRIVATE PLACEMENT A copy of this Statement reloting to an Offer of Shares through Private Placement has been lodged with and registered by the Registrar of Companies in Singapore who takes no responsibility for its contents Application has been
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    • 1331 10 COMPANY PROSPECTUS (CONTD) e—- -T--i ,i:W v 'I I IB Hi li Mi ■S K > A m sSrv> m ir ill. > V .M, 2 >,s&* ft* >: j > iff* l># s? B i J »<**«* Ktva PARTICULARS OF THE OFFER 1. Shari* will be offered for sale
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 2013 11 COMPANY PROSPECTUS (CONT'D) ri 41,0 COmplet <1 arrangements to recruit another I.E.S.C. executive with experience in tourism x now edge of the various tourist outlets to assist the Company In sales promotion. PROSPECTS AND DIVIDENDS ni.mn.i n t*POre with lti strategic location will be expected to participate In the Increased
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
    • 153 12 PLAYING by the roadside can be very dangerous. Sometimes we may be hit by a passing vehicle. If we want to play, we should go to a field. Accidents take place because children like to play by the roadside. One day, a group of children were
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    • Article, Illustration
      186 12 AFTER a dinner one day, I felt tired and sleepy and went to bed. Soon after I had a dream. I dreamt that my friend Jen was walking with me to the Capitol Theatre. Before reaching our destination. we had to pass through several narrow roads. While
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    • 198 12 LAST YEAR during the second term holidays, my friend and I visited Port Dickson. We brought with us fruits, drinks, swimming trunks, a transistor and all the necessary things. On the morning of the trip to Port Dickson I got up earlier than usual and
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    • 176 12 leader whom I admired most was the late Robert Francis Kennedy. I have not had the opportunity of meeting him but from what I heard and read in the press, I know that he was one of the great statesmen of this era. He came
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    • 216 12 MY favourite book la “Arabian Nights’. It is one of the most interesting books I have read I got this book as a present on my birthday last year. There were many other presents but this book attracted me most. It is a large book and
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    • 128 12 NOWADAYS. everyone reads newspapers. Those who do not read papers do not know what is happening around the world and in their own country. A newspaper provides news for the public. A person who reads will be able to know about the events happening in his town. He
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    • 155 12 MANY people are not very civic-conscious. They care only for themselves and show no consideration for others. By being good neighbours we are encouraging those living around us to be good with each other. We cannot expect them to be good if we don’t set
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    • 226 12 IN Singapore, we can borrow books from the National Library and also from school libraries. Many students like to read books. I visit the National Library every week. Sometimes. I visit the school library but only once in two weeks. The reason why I like to
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    • 153 12 DURING the August holidays. my family and I went to India. We visited three different places. It was however not my first trio to India as I have been there before. The first place we went to was Calcutta. This was during the monsoon season and
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    • 137 12 I AM a pencil and was manufactured in a factory in China. I have many coloured stripes with the words Made in China" written on me. One day. my friends and I were put into a bundle and loaded to a ship bound for Singapore.
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    • 197 12 A SCHOOL is a place for education. It is also for students to study so that they can become good citizens when they grow up. The name of my school is Government English Secondary School. It is in Bagan Serai in Perak. It is
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    • 144 12 MY birthday falls on January 26 every year. I am now nine years old and I never had a birthday party until this year. The reason for not having a birthday party was because of the fasting month. My father gave a party for me on July
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    • 177 12 IT was a Sunday. I had just completed my home-work. My father was reading a newspaper. I did hot want to disturb him and decided to go for a walk. It was a pleasant morning. The birds were singing. People were going to the
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    • 195 12 LAST Saturday. I asked my friend to Join me on a shopping trip. My intention was to buy some presents for my mother and also for my sister's birthday. I wrote a list of the poods I wanted to buy which included a pair of
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 184 12 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN’S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 192 13 SHAW n 1 is n. e. 1 < jjagCaP NOW SHOWING 11 am. 1.15. 100. fi ;(0 A 9 15 pm Michael J Po’lard “JIGSAW Bradford Dii’man. H r >pe Lango in Technicolor «UT SB» NEXT CH.ANOE^ Jeanne Moreau “THE BRIOr WORI BUCK'- -n Cn JA> CAPITOL Ft*on* ***** opens
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    • 133 13 Thursday, November 21, 1968. •V) STAR GAZER^O ARIt i MAR. 22 APR. 20 SP) 7-10-12-15 1-/33-34-23 TAURUS APR. 21 WAY 21 4-14-16-22 0/24-31-32-90 GEMINI MAY 22 'J»i JUNE 22 P 0260-71-72 CANCER M JUNE 23 JULY 23 TA 36-37-39-50 1^55-59-81-89 JN 51-53-58-61 IEO JULY 24 AUG. 23 VIRGO AUG. 24
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    • 354 13 ODEON ***** LAST PAT! 11 a n *l5. 550 g 45 p m GODS" Starts. 1120 am. 2.35, 550 905 AT NORMAL PRICES! WHOM THE GODS WISH TO DESTROY” (MGM) Herbert Lorn Co lor OPENS TOMORROW! •THE RI*E AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH MGM> Saturday Midnight: Color Scope -rni
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  • 441 14  -  Special features by John F. Barton WASHINGTON, (UPl).—Asian rubber producing nations may be growing pygmy rubber trees capable of yielding 6,000 pounds of rubber per year per acre by 1983, according to rubber specialists. The tree would be developed to produce latex and nothing more, spokesmen
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  • 295 14 (AIS) CANBERRA. Wed. Australian scientists have imported fleas from Britain for controlled breeding and eventual release against rabbits immune to the killer disease, myxomatosis. \lthough myxomatosis still kills a lot of rabbits, the level of kill is much lower than when the disease was first released
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  • 696 14  -  By LEMMY PINNA 1T0HENJ0 Daro, 1TA Pakistan, (UPI) Unless something is done to save the ruins of Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan's mound of the dead may soon crumble into dust. The government of Pakistan asked UNESCO to conduct a survey of Mohenjo Doro, perhaps the world's largest known
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 548 14 TENDERS KENYATAAN TAWARAN IBU PEJABAT. J.K.R. TAWARAN2 darlpada pemborong2 yang berdaftar dengan J.K.R. di-bawah Kelas •A' Kepala 11(2) akan dlterlma dl-Peiabat Pengarah Kerja Raya. Ibu Pejabat. JK.R., Jalan Maxwell, Kuala Lumpur hlngga Jam pukul 12.00 tengah harl pada 18hb. Dlsember 1968 untok:— CONSTRUCTION OF PHASE I MARRIED QUARTERS COMPLEX AT
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    • 113 14 NOTICE HOTELS LICENSING REGULATIONS, 1956 Regulation 12(1) (a) Application for a Certificate of Registration NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Wong Sung Hock, of No. 4 Wimborne Road. Singapore, is applying to the Hotels Licensing Board. Singapore for a Certificate of Registration In respect of premises known as Katong Hotel at
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  • Sun Sport
    • 374 15 MANCHESTER, (England), Wed. (Reuter) —The English Football League proposal for a maximum weeky wage of 50 sterling for ployers is likely to receive a stormy reception from the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) at their annual general meeting here on Monday. The meeting
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    • 382 15 LONDON, Wed. (AFP) There was a change yesterday in the RAC (Royal Automobile Club) round Britain rally leadership when Timo Makinen of Finland, in a privately-entered Ford Escort twin cam. who had been ahead for nearly 1.000 miles, dropped out with a broken cylinder
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    • 148 15 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) The World Boxing Council 1 WBC) today gave Its official approval to the Dec. 14 fight in Manila between Adolph Pruitt of the United States and Pedro Adlgue of the Philippines for the vacant junior welterweight championship. WBC chairman Justlniano Montano
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    • 25 15 MUAR. Wed. Muar District captured the Johore Sultan’s Cup when they edged Kluang District 1-0 In the soccer final played during the weekend.
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    • 29 15 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Results of English Football Association cup first round replays played last night were: Rotherham United 3 Hartlepool United 0 (winners at home to Walsall).
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    • 299 15 Big US plan for professional athletics ‘league NEW YORK, Wed. (Reuter) A group of California promoters has announced tentative plans to organise a professional athletics “league" comprising 10 L’-S. cities with some 300 athletes competing for annual prize money totalling four million dollars (about 1.600.000 sterling). The organisers told a
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    • 189 15 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Andres Gimeno of Spain remained as the only player able to stop Australian domination of 20.000 sterling indoor professional tennis c h a m p 1 o nships following last night’s quarter-final matches. Gimeno and Australia’s Tong Roche battled for one hour 50
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    • 78 15 HANOVER, (West Germany) Wed. (Reuten Hanover 96 beat A.I.K. Stockholm 5-2 in the return leg of their second round Inter-Cities Fairs Cup-tie here last night to qualify for the next stage. Hanover, who led 2-1 at half-time, were beaten 4-2 in the first leg so qualified
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    • 129 15 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) National Hunt Racing in Britain will receive a major boost when the new HorseRace Betting Levy Board scheme for prize money totalling 561,000 sterling comes into operation next April. National Hunt Racing, which already receives 238,500 sterling, will get an extra
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    • 28 15 RIVERSANDS with J. Wilson up seen after winning Race 7 for Horses Class IV, Division I on the Second Day of the Perak Turf Club meeting on Sunday.
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    • 35 15 MR. W. Anthonisz of "Basra Stable" leading in Baghdad with Garnet Bougoure up after winning Race Four for Horses C1 IV, Div. 3 on the First Day of the Perak Turf Club meeting on Saturday.
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    • 160 15 SYDNEY. Wed. (Reuter) One of Australia's two 12-metre yachting syndicates has given up hope of challenging for the 1967 America's Cup. The All-States 12-Metre Syndicates announced yesterday that it had suspended plans to build a yacht for 1970. but would consider becoming a contender in
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    • 129 15 MELBOURNE, Wed. i Reuter) The Lawn Tennis Association of Victoria (L.T.A.V.) last night followed other Australian tennis organisations and agreed their State championships this season should become an open event. The 60-strong council of the L.T.A.V. voted overwhelmingly in favour of an open tournament. They
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    • 1205 15 HORSES CLASS 2 DIV. 1-6 FURS. 400 Balcrest 5y 9 00 Lesandyan Stable West 113 Copper Quest 4y 8.13 Messrs. Lee Kok Chee and Leong Hoe Yeng Mawi 622 L«»rd Shah 5y 8 13 Friends Stable 280 Sky borne 5y 8.12 Goodman Stable 261 Medal Music 5y
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  • 808 16  -  by Scrum-Half SINGAPORE, Wed. The power-paeked Fijian Army/Police team beat Singapore Cricket Club 28-3 on the Padang today. It was the visitors second victory in the Republic this week. On Monday they beat Singapore Civilians 26-6. The pattern of play was almost the
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  • 396 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Selangor Club won the Sultan of Selangor challenge trophy when they convincingly defeated the Royal Malaysian Air Force by 24 points (goal and three tries) to three (penalty) in the Selangor Rugby Union’s senior league rugby competition final here
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  • 199 16 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Singapore Olympic and Sports Council will present diplomas and trophies to the best sportsmen and sportswomen here this year. The SOSC move to introduce this Is aimed at injecting entnuslasm among athletes as well as elevating the standard of sporting
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  • 104 16 LONDON. Wed. Expenses-pald trips to compete in Indoor track meets in Europe and America are Incentives offered to British athletes who compete In winter indoor meetings in Britain this year. The British Amateur Athletics Board has agreed to send abroad athletes who support the meets.
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  • 575 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The retirement of Malavsian star hockey goalkeeper, Ho Koh Chye, soon after the Malaysian hockey internationals returned from Mexico, could be the start of a mass exodus of top players from big time hockey. It is Indeed
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  • 157 16 LOS ANGELES. Wed. (UPI) —World bantamweight champion Lionel Rose of Australia is having trouble settling into a good training routine for his Dec. 6 title defence against Chucho Castillo of Mexico, his manager Jack Rennie, said yesterday. Rennie said the difficulty was mainly due
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  • 201 16 BV WINDSOR LAD IPOH, Wed Pil Marshal did a smart gallop on a good track this morning when he reeled off 3f In 386/5 sec. striding out smoothly all the way. He is back In form and should give a good account
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  • 72 16 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Sir Ivor, winner of the English Derby and 2.000 guineas classics and the Washington International, has been voted Britain’s Racehorse of the Year by leading racing correspondents Sir Ivor, owned by American Raymond Guest, also won the champion stakes and was second in
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 52 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 12.32 a.m. (9.3 ft.), 107 pm. (7.0 ft.). Port Swettenham: 5.40 a.m. Port Dickson: 6.55 am. <10.5 ft 7.14 p m (8.7 ft Singapore: 10.41 am. (10.2 ft.). V Sedili Kechil: 8.43 am. (7.3 ft.), 1108 pm. (8.8 ft.) Kuantan: 8.17 am. (6.2 ft.). 10.15 pm
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