Eastern Sun, 18 January 1969

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  • 21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORES OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 886 Saturday, 18 January 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 755 1 MOSCOW. Fri. (Reuter) The Soviet spaceship Soyuz-4 softlanded safely in Central Asia today carrying its commander and two cosmonauts who joined it dramatically in space yesterday. The craft, which took part in the world's first docking of two manned spaceships. was brought
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  • 157 1 PARIS TALKS START TODAY PARIS. Fri. (I'PI) —Allied negotiators today opened intensive consultations to prepare for Saturday's start of the expanded Vietnamese talks. Diplomatie sources said a tough battle with the Communists loomed over the conference agenda. The meeting opens at the fo mer
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  • 40 1 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) Secretary of State and Mrs. Dean Rusk said goodbye to State Department employees on Thursday in an emotional ceremony which left Mrs. Rusk In tears while a military band concluded with "Auld Lang Syne."
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  • 92 1 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Eightv-year-old spinster Gertrude Blanche Dunkin was ordered to jail today for visiting her sick brother on Christmas Eve. Miss Dunkin's brother and his wife had complained that when she visited their home in breach of a court order not to do
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  • 51 1 NEW YORK Fri. (Reuter) —New- York City now has some Chinese street signs. The first of several dozen to be installed in the Chinatown area went up yesterday. Their aim is to assist many new Chinese-speaking immigrants who cannot yet read the English
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  • 243 1 BANGKOK. Fri. -Reuter) A Thai tin exporter said today that Thailand should withdraw from the international Tin Agreement because of its unreasonable” export quotas restrictions. Mr Somphan Bisolyabut. Assistant Managing Director of the Thai Smelting and Refining Company iThaisarco). made the statement following
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  • 51 1 HOVE. England. Fri. (Reuter) OfT-duty policemen became suspicious when the fruit machine at their social club paid out brass discs among sixpences in the jackpot. Hove Magistrate's Court heard yesterday Edward Page, a 27-year-old policeman, admitted stealing the discs and putting them in the machine. Page was fined
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  • 69 1 BOCHUM. Best Germany, Fri. (Reuter) The second Soviet Soyuz 5-spacecraft appeared to have soft-landed in the Soviet I nion at round 8.20 GMT today. the Bochum Space Observatory reported. Herr Heinz Kaminski, the Observatory's Director, said the institute had received the same signals as shortly before
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  • 451 1 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Government-run Semhawang Shipyard (Pte) Company today made history when it completed work on the first commercial cargo vessel to dock at the former Naval Dockyard since commercialisation last month. The ship is the 1.400-ton dead-weight British cargo vessel “South Breeze" owned by
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  • 565 1 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) A five-power Commonwealth Conference on Southeast Asian defence will be held in Canberra, the Australian capital, on May 12. This was decided at a 40-minute meeting of the Prime Ministers of Australia. New Zealand. Malaysia, Singapore and Britain's Healey
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  • 101 1 PRAGUE Fri. (UPI' A young student who set fire to himself in Wenceslas Square yesterday was one of a group of 10 who have vowed they will sacrifice themselves one at a time until a 10-point list of student demands is met. student
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 486 2 -OINGAPORE Fri. Members of the building profession were tonight told of the O need for an institution to take rare of the professional interests, as distinct from commercial interests, in this region in view of the expanding and maturing nature of
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  • 109 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A total of 10.355 toto tickets and 54.30.10 in cash were confiscated by the police last October when they broke up a syndicate celling the tickets in Malaysia, the Assistant Minister of Home Affairs. Enche Hamiah bin Dato Abu Samah. said
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  • 131 2 KUALA LUMPUR Fri MARA Is still considering sending MARA students to the Soviet Union, the Minister without Portfolio. Enche Abdul Ghafar bin Baba, told the De..wan Ra’-ayat today. <.» He was replying to an oral question from the Alliance member for Muar Utara. Erche
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  • 29 2 SINGAPORE. Fri. Thieve, broke into the Island Club •tore in dementi Road and escaped with cash $l,OOO, Jewellery worth $5OO and cigarettes valued at $5O.
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  • 136 2 SINGAPORE Fri The Federal Court today allowed an appeal by the Attorney General against a High Court judgment in favour of two girls involved in a motor accident The two girls. Miss Chong Yein Foong and Miss Tan -o awarded a total of $2,886 by the High
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  • 51 2 SINGAPORE. Fri The Prime Minister. Mr Lee Kuan Yew. was guest of honour at a luncheon given by the Royal Commonwealth Society on Jan 9. Radio Singapore’s English Service will broadcast excerpt, of the address made by the Prim* Minister at this luncheon tomorrow at 7.10
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  • 133 2 SINGAPORE. Fri The Singapore High Commissioner in India. Mr. Maurice Baker, will represent the Republic at the forthcoming Asian Labour Ministers’ Conference in New Delhi from Jan 28. It is not known whether the Labour Minister. Mr. S. Rajaratnam who is presently in London with
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  • 185 2 PHOTO shows Mr Denis Mainwood, Liaison Officer in charge of Singapore students in South Australia, presenting the gift of hooks from the State Librarian South Australia, to Mrs. Hedwig Anuar, Director of National Library, at the Library. A gift of books was presented to the
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  • 575 2 After ‘Cordial, Friendly’ Negotiations... SINGAPORE. Fri- A major oil company here. Caltex Oil (Malaysia) Ltd., today signed a new five-year agreement with the United Workers of Petroleum Industry, representing workers, after “cordial and friendly negotiations". Caltex is the second oil company to
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  • 110 2 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Indian Government has offered an award to Singapore under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan for the 1969-70 Session. The award will be utilised for undergraduate training with the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology. Kharagpur.
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  • 100 2 SINGAPORE. Fri The National Library is sponsoring a I’nesco exhibit entitled "The Art of Writing which will be held at the Library's Lecture Hall from Jan. 21 to Feb- 1. This unusual exhibit consists of fifty panels of well-selected pictures arranged in logical and chronological order,
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  • 217 2 SINGAPORE. Fri. To celebrate its 12th anniversary, the Anson Branch of the People's Action Party will hold a grand carnival lasting 30 days. The carnival will be held at the vacant space near the Singapore Traction Co bus terminus at Tanjong Pagar
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  • 183 2 SINGAPORE Fri. Slfigaprre Pools (Pte) Ltd. has given av.av $603,289 during the last four “5 out of 49" Toto draws,, inclusive of the special holiday draws. The company has now decided to guarantee a minimum prize of $50,000 for distribution amongst winners with five numbers correct.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 242 2 WEISEN-US Methylmethioninesulfonlum Chloride (I4M.SC) has been proved by eminent research authorities In USA. (Stanford University Medical Bulletin 1955 P. 204) to be an extraordinary substance found in the ordinary household cabbage and when taken regularly not only helps heal gastric ulcers, but also prevents relapses These findings have been further
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    • 120 2 Teething time *Cteed* Ttail time 6r \Jy poor, teething Bah y You’ll toon be tip-top Ma’t given you Steedman't. And your pain s bound to stop: Both Porvdert and Jelly Will your plan drive away And keep Baby happy And jolly all day.' STEEDMAN’S PRODUCTS ARC MADE IN BRI T
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  • 620 4 National D-Fund SINGAPORE, Fri. Readers of the Sin Chew Jit Poh, a Chinese national daily, today contributed $87,041 towards the National Defence Fund which now stands at $8,136 million. Dato Aw Kow. Managing Director of Sin Chew Jit Poh. who is also th£
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  • 64 4 3.30 pm.: Choir practice at National Theatre Club. Clemenceau Avenue. 7 p m.: Chinese musical and folk dance practice at National Theatre Club, Clemenceau Avenue. 7.30 pm: Annual dance and dinner by Alexandra and Queenstown constituencies at Golden Crown nite-club 7.30 p.m.: Tae Kwnp-Dn tournament at Gay World
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  • 41 4 SINGAPORE. Fri -There will be a family planning lecture and demonstration including a film show in the Nationa. Language at the Still Road Maternal and Child Health Clinic off sixth milestone Changi Road on Monday at 5.30 p.m.
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  • 299 4 SINGAPORE. Fri —lf there j is a will, there is away. And poverty did not deter the un-1 flinching desire of a farmer's! son, Mr. Chua Chor Teek. 28. i to climb to "the top of the ladder” academically Chua. who left school after taking
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  • 63 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A watchman was this morning found murdered in his eharpoy —and police are working on the theory that his death was an act of vengeance “The murder,” said Deputy Superintendent E A Fernandez, OCPD Petaling Jaya. “seems to be the result of a private
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  • 61 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Six secondary schools five English and one Chinese will be bui't in Sabah this year, the Minister of Education, Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, said today. He told the Dewan Ra'ayat that of the five English Schools, three would be government schools and
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  • 105 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Alex Josey's “Lee Kuan Yew” can be sold In Malaysia, the Assistant Minister for Home Affairs. Enche Hamrah bin Dato Abu Samah said today. The book, he said, was not banned and could be bought in the country. Enche Ham/ah was
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  • 232 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A greater variety of projects to attract tourists was today by the Mentri Besar of Selangor. Dato Haji Harun bin Haji Idris. Dato Harun was speaking to reporters after touring the Site for "Mimaland” (Malaysia in miniature) at the 11th mile Gombak
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • 343 5 Told To ‘Steal’ Sisters Back For Father tm wi*U oCK i*?° LM Fri (UP,) Po,ice caught up with an 11-year-old boy at Stockholm airport yesterday and took away his toys three tickets to Austria, two little sisters and a black book
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  • 90 5 BEIRUT. Fri. (AFP) Two ministers in the newly formed broad-based Lebanese cabinet announced last night that they had offered their resignations. The v are Finance Minister Pierre Gemayal (Phalange Party) and Public Works Minister Raymond Edde (National Block). Their decision was announced in the name
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  • 85 5 WASHINGTON. Fn. (Reuter) President Johnson has awarded outgoing Secretary oi State Dean Rusk America's highest civilian award the Medal of Freedom, with distinction. Mr. Rusk's “passion for peace runs deeper than in any other man I know." Mr. Johnson said in making the award here yesterday.
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  • 764 5 PHNOM PENH. (UPI) Cambodian Chief of State p Ce Nor °dom Sihanouk said police have found enormous quantities of grenades and mines with which Cambodian Communists had panned to launch wide spread attacks during the dry season. He said the explosives and some 1.200 gas masks were manufactured by
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  • 330 5 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Legal authorities last night honoured Singapore's Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, himself a barrister, by electing him a governing member of the Middle Temple, one of Britain's four Inns of Court. The Prime Minister who took his law degree here
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  • 154 5 To Finger Print Gorillas BRISTOL. England. Fr 1 (Reuter) Police have been called in to take fingerprints of three gorillas. But so far they can think of no way to get the gorillas at the zoo here to co-operate The prints of Samson. Delilah and Caroline who range
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  • 430 5 ZURICH, Fri. (Reuter) The father of 17-year-old Bernadette Hosier, who died after being savagely beaten by members of a fanatic religious sect, told a Zurich court today he gave all he earned to the sect's leaders. "We were obliged to leave
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  • 88 5 NEW DELHI. Fn. (AFPt The possibilities of technical ro-operation and training in Asia will be explored at a fiveday conference of Asian Labour Ministers due to open here on January 28. The main problem for labour in the region is that the existing manpower
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  • 88 5 BELFAST. Northern Ireland. Fn. (Reuter) Tension between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland eased last night when civil rights marchers cancelled a demonstration planned for next Saturday near Londonderry. A spokesman for the committee organising the Catholicdominated march, said they called it off because they feared
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  • 498 5 JAPAN’S DESIRE TO RECOVER WAR-LOST LAND TOKYO, Fri. (UPI) The Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union has said the Russians are trying not to irritate Japan over the question of the Kuriles but they still have no intention of giving them back.
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  • 49 5 VIENTIANE. Fri. (AFPi Eeven civilians were killed and 25 others wounded when a Pathet Lao commando raided a United States Information Service centre at Munong Cao. in Borikhane province, about 82 miles east of here yesterday the Laotian press reported today.
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  • 127 5 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina. Fri. (Reuter) Surgeons today removed a five foot long piece of pipe which had been driven through the body of a man in a car accident. The pipe had gone through the middle of one of William Mobley's lungs and
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  • 81 5 DAMASCUS Fri. (AFP) Floods in northeastern Syria have taken toll of 15 lives, with 40 people injured, nearly 1.500 homes destroyed and 5,000 families without shelter, Damascus radio reported to day. Heavy rains have been falling for ten days already and today the downpour
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  • 275 6 AT last there is good news from Paris. The procedural hitch which so long obstructed the Vietnam peace talks has been cleared. The ‘two sides’ (or better the ‘four sides’) have now agreed on the shape of the table around which their delegates will put forth
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  • 307 6 (Reuter). THE Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ conference in London had ended on a note of mutual respect and understanding, contrary to all predictions, the Sydney Daily Telegraph said today. The Morning tabloid said: ‘‘Naturally enough there w’ere clashes of policy, but there were no explosions. There w>ere
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  • 193 6 (UPI). THE Hamburg newspaper Die Welt said in an editorial Thursday one consequence the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia ‘‘certainly w r ill not have is the more severe confrontation of the super-powers.” The newspaper said: ‘‘In 1969 we may see how the two great powers continue their
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  • 605 6  -  By JOSEPH L. MYLER WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) President Johnson looked forward on Wednesday to moon trips by Apollo astronauts, after the first lunar landing in 1969, “for years to come.’* But he left it to Presidentelect Richard M. Nixon whether to commit the
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  • 192 6 THE HAGUE. Fri. (UPI) Queen Juliana’s husband Prince Bernhard. 57. and his daughter Princes* Irene. 29, have brought a civil suit against a West German publlshing house, a Court spokesman announced yesterday. They accuse the publishing house of Der Verlag Welt Am Sonnabend of Duesseldorf of
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  • 494 6  -  (By EDOUARD DILLON) PEKING, Fri. (AFP) Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s daring educational theories were put into operation yesterday in China, which plans to fill universities with workers and peasants after sending masses of students to factories and fields. Peking newspapers gave a whole front-page on
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  • 429 6 VIENTIANE. Fri. (AFP) Neither the official Laotian Press Agency nor Vientiane Radio referred today to Foreign Ministry moves to bring about the departure of the Neo Lao Haksat Party’s permanent dele- gation here. If it is to be announced to the population, observers believed. the
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  • 342 6  -  BY MARK MEREDITH PRAGUE. Fri. (Reuter) The Czechoslovak Communist Party Central Committee took the unusual step today of inviting the country’s press to sit in on its debate over the source of recent political tension the parliamentary leadership. Newspaper, television and radio men
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  • 471 6  -  By GEORGE SIBERA PARIS, rri. (UPI) The United States will go into the expanded talks on Vietnam starting Saturday with twin political and strategic objectives. The United States is certain to underwrite a Vietnam peace accord only if it prevents a communist takeover in the
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  • 145 6 ROME. Fri. (Reuter) China has built two nuclearpowered merchant ships, one of which is the biggest of its kind in the world, the Italian Communist Party newspaper LTJnita said today. An article in the paper said the vessels had been built in shipyards at Tientsin and
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  • 447 6 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) Here are excerpts from President Johnson’s economic message to Congress. In the past 5 years, this nation has made great strides toward realising the full potential of our resources. Through fuller use and steady growth of our productive potential, our real output has risen
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  • 261 6 NEW YORK. Fri. (Reuter) The New York Times said editorially today American military and civilian personnel in Saigon are promoting "delusive dreams of military victory.” The editorial said: The new spurt toward peace in Paris has been accompanied by a’.l-too-familiar foot-drag-ging on the part of some
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  • 150 6 HONG KONG. Fri. (AFP) The official press in Shanghai. the “pioneer citv of the cultural revolution”. today highly praised the cultural revolution group for its “great contributions” in defending and implementing Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line during the most critical phase of the power struggle. The papers.
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    • 243 6 MAY I refer to the Governors' portraits shown next to Percy Carpenter’s copy colour painting of Singapore from Mt Walllch In 1856 in the National Museum? They are Incomplete and not up to date, the last portrait being 1934 46 Slr Shenton Thomas. The reason for the
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    • 130 6 I AM not aware if corporal punishment is still permitted but 1 happen to Know of a few cases when some teachers still U s e their h 0 a Q n< j!* rath er freely while teaching their students. The accepted way of course
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 377 7 A WesternSoviet Freight War In Effect LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Western shipping lines operating freight services to Australia are challenging the growing Soviet Union merchant fleet to what amounts to a price war. Western shipping lines have made no secret of the fact that they are worried by the emergence of
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    • 43 7 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) F bber futures closed unchanged and untraded (Rid) (Asked) Mar 22.75 23.15 May 22.35 22.85 July 21 80 22.15 Sept 22 35 22 85 Nov 2235 22.85 Jan 22.35 22.85 Locally, No. 2 RSS was 24.
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    • 50 7 LONDON. Frj. ißptiter) Bn'ain is making AX215.000 in-terest-free loan to Indonesia for the purchase of 12 Leyland singledecker buses, the Ministry of Overseas Development announced here today. The loan, which ig repayable over 25 years, is part of Britan'S 1968 69 aid programmes to Indonesia
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    • 280 7 SINGAPORE. Fri. February first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 59* cents per lb., up half a cent from previous close The tone was quiet after steady. The market ruled steady but very quiet on some demand for
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    • 32 7 NEW YORK Fri OJPI) Dow Jones closing averages: 30 Inustriala 938.59 20 Rails 265.92 15 Utils 134.52 65 Stocks 336 63 40 Bonds 74.62 Commodity Futures Index 142 66
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    • 282 7 Hamburg Conference To Decide Singapore 's Role In Jumbo Jet Age SINGAPORE. Fri. Important topics concerning tourism in Singapore and Malaysia and Singapore's role in the Jumbo jet era will be discussed at a meeting of airline executives in Hamburg. Germany, next week. The meeting will be attended by regional
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    • 126 7 NEW YORK. Fri. <UPI) The board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange has broadened tts disciplinary powers and strengthened existing powers over Its membership. The board, along with American Stock Exchange governors, also voted to continue the present five-day trading week with its
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    • 191 7 LONDON Fri. i UPl)—Profit takers cashing in on recent big rises slashed price on the stock market yesterday and brought some of the recent high fliers back nearer to earth. The industrial share index spun 5 5 lower to 514 2 shortly beiore the market closed, but
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    • 112 7 WASHLNGTON. Fri. (UPI) Nationalist Chinese ambassador Chow Shu-Kai has signed articles of agreement which makes the Republic of China a member of the International Finance Corporation. The Chinese subscription to the capital stock of the corporation ls 4.154 shares with a total par value of U
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    • 187 7 lONDON. Fri. (Reuter) The price of gold dropped sharply in the London and Paris bullion markets yesterday speculators who had bought when the rate was low decided the time had come to make their profit. The London price was lowered in the afternoon by 35
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    • 1419 7 SINGAPORE. Fri. Trading in the Stock Exchange of Singapore and Malaysia today was steady. There was slightly more activity and an improved total turnover of some $2.3 million units was recorded in the trading rooms. Two suspensions in trading were enforced. Industrials were steady and
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    • 343 7 MANILA. Fri. (IPI) Tbe Central Bank, working behind the scenes, has suspended temporarily the import of Scotch whisky and other liquors to save on foreign exchange, financial sources said today. The government agency turned the tap off by gaining agreement earlier this week from
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    • 66 7 HONG KONG. Fri. (UPI)— Money Quotations; HK $6.***** per US dollar. HK $6 1125 per U S dollar TT. HK $14.51 per pound sterling HK $312.0 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HK $162 8 per 10.000 Japanese yens. HK $139 0 per 100 Philippines
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    • 89 7 LONDON. Fn. (UPI) Rubber market closed very quiet with spot 24-5 16 21L Settlement House. Feb. 21-7/16 21- 9/16 March 21-9/16 21-11 16 April 21-5/ 8 21-13/16 April/June 21-3 4 21- 7 8 July/Sept. 21-5 8 21- 3/4 Oct/Dec. 21-9 16 21-11/16 Jan/March 21-7/16 21-5/8 April/June
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    • 13 7 LONDON. Fri. (UPI) Bonds Japanese oldconsols unchanged. Japanese assented all unchanged.
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    • 657 7 MIMiAPDKfc Stud bi rhanir *01(1 and other prues nmciall) lined at the close of blltlMW 1VDISTRIAL8 H tl'M 2 46 248 Hen A: Co 3.00 Itorneo Bhd 2.110 2.02 Bntistead I II 1.92 1.90 i >ugar 4.86 4.90 old Morale 3 40 5 15 I heinlt al Co
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    • 111 7 NEW YORK Fri. (I PI) The stock market advance moved yesterday into its third day. Trading was active. Near 11 am. the UP I stock market indicator showed a gain of 0-70 per cent on 1.365 issues crossing the tape Advances topped declines. 862 to 266 The
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    • 31 7 NEW YORK. (UPl)—Thursday's volume w-as 13,120.000 shares of a total 1.575 issues traded. 936 were higher and war. American exchange volume was 6.710.000 shares bonds volume amounts to 4,130,000.
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    • 15 7 SINGAPORE. Fri. The tin price for today was $581.50 per picul, down $0.50-
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    • 40 7 (Managers Price* > l*t Mala»an \1> 2.91 ’nd Malayan XD 2 10 3rd Malayan 131 The mnmerre Ind'Utrv 1 04 113 The 'atlng Mind 1.1# 1 28 Malayan ln\e*tment fund \l> 1 30 1 40 sterling C'mndlty 6 0
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    • 113 7 <s 1 V r» P O B E. Frl The noon prices at the Singapore i hme«e Produce Exchange today Buyer heller Coronal Oil (FOB) Bulk 50.25 52 75 (COB) Drum (N»sr <«»pra Mixed 32 00 Muntnk While Pepper 115.00 F OH) N I. W saranak While Pepper (FOB.)
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    • 69 7 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Association of Banks in Ma-lavsia-S'.ngapore today marie the following changes in its rates to merchants (rate s are quoted to the equivalent of one unit of foreign currency). SELLING TT or O D. ready; Deutsche Marks $*****0; Holland Guilders $85.1325; Swiss Francs $7l 3475; Belgian
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  • 8 8 A typical bare midriff harem styled for lounging.
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  • 101 8 ir you wish to catch up with the trends, look around the leading fashion houses and especially VANITY at Raffles Place. It’s one of the most popu.ar and up-to-date fashion houses in Singapore and an exclusive importer of American fashions and goods According to its proprietress. Vanity has
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  • 39 8 Where colours are concerned. bright and colourful prints remain In vogue this year In the evening, black is the reigning colour offset with pure white. For the evening also, the luxury of velvet will most certainly be felt.
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  • 193 8 MISS IRIS HO. a beautician with Innoxa cosmetics says that superficial washing does not clean out the dirt from the pores Also It takes away all the moisture from the face without replacing It. leaving It dry and taut To Iris, the skin care Is
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  • 50 8 CK TANG one of Singapore's leading departmental store? reports that the sale of brocade and Thai silk has been tremendous amongst the Chinese Its sheen and texture particularly lends Itself to the make-up of cheongsams the Chinese national costume which Is still the favourite among the older generation.
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  • 721 8  -  By H.C. Tan SINGAPORE, Mon. /COSMOPOLITAN Singapore is proud of its multi-racial society and its many festivals. Now the Republic is getting ready for its next prominent festival of festivals, the Chinese New Year. With festivals come gaiety and celebrations.
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  • 50 8 ON to shoes, which Is an ntegral part of fashion Heels remain chunky, sturdy and between two and three Inches high, usually mated with a high-rise tongue Fancv leathers, gilt and tewelled trims, ornamental heels combine to bring back evening shoes as decorative as those of the Renaissance
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  • 14 8 This black chiffon star-studded evening dress is all sugar ‘n’ spice ‘n’ everything nice.
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  • 119 8 WHAT is perhaps most prominent in the fashion scene this year will be the unisex look That is men and women dressing alike. My prediction is that it has alreadv caught on. and verv likelv it will appeal to both sexes. Anything from Mao suits
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  • 501 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. The art of dancins and tbe expression of a feeling as seen through Indian dancing is by no means an easy one. Mrs. Santha Bhaskar, President of the Bhratha N'atva Association, said her students had to go through a 5-year course
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  • 274 9  -  By Sheliah Graham HOLLYWOOD. (NANA) Pst McGnohan is definite for Marty Jtansnhnff's "Taipan.” Pat took the notices in "Ice Station Zebra" as we knew this “Secret Agent” would. Hedy Lamarr was saying at Seafar* of the Aegean that years ago she wrote a script
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  • 105 9 Sizzling Belly Dancing By ‘Little Egypt SINGAPORE Fri. “Little Egypt” the highly acclaimed belly dancer Is currently the star of a snow “East Meets West” performed nightly at the Tropicana here She has been dubbed as a sizzling belly dancer of beauty and rhythm with splendid costumes, pulsating routine end
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  • 155 9 NEW YORK (NANA) Shelley Winters Lx co producing “Caces" with Sidney Glazer she starred in the Off-Broad-way play. “I play a prostitute with a client.” she told me. during lunr-h at Sardi s West. “But that's not what it’s about— it's about
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  • 81 9 Cute Dolly Koh is one of the 200 children who will take part in a ballet railed "The Pied Piper" to be hcid at the National Theatre at 5 30 p.m. on Sunday. Dol.y plays a jester in the ballet. Proceeds from the
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  • 204 9 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Guitar-smashing wild man of the pop scene. Jimi Hendrix, has moved into the house formerly occupied by another musician George Frederick Handel, who died two hundred years ago. Handel composed the “Water Music.” "Messiah and 41 operas. Fuzzy-haired Hendrix
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  • 221 10 LONDON, Fri. (AFP) Western countries should continue supplying Israel with enough arms to compensate for any Soviet attempt to upset the Middle East military balance the Western European Union (WEU) defence committee has recommenedd. The committee sent the
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  • 161 10 PARIS, Fri. (I'PI) The first direct result of the French arms embargo to Israel hit France yesterday. An aircraft plant employing 100 persons will close soon and another 3,000 jobs were threatened. Officials of the Marcel Dassault Aircraft
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  • 381 10 IN NEW YORK about 1.000 Jew* staged a threehour demonstration outside the French consulate last night In protest against President de Gaulle s ban on French arm* shipments to Israel. The demonstrators, belonging to various US Jewish organisations, carried placards reading “vive la France, shame on de Gaulle”
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  • 53 10 BANGKOK, Fr i. (AFP) Police here arrested two youths last night for possessing 17 bottle-bombs, it was reported today. The youths aged 18 and 19 were apprehended In a coffe shop in the centre cf the town. Several people suffered injuries in Bangkok last month in
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  • 96 10 CAIRO. Fri. (AFP) The United Arab Republic has transferred additional financial assets to French banks in appreciation of President de Gaulle's “noble attitude towards the Arab cause,” Foreign Trade Minister Hassan Abbas announced yesterday. The decision followed the French embargo on arms shipments to
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  • 294 10 SINGAPORE. Fri. A statement bv the UAR embassy here says: Mr. Le Theule, French Secretary of State fo r Information, indicated that France, had helped Israel up to the point when “Israel adopted an aggressive attitude" in June. 1967. The decision of President Charles de Gaulle to impose
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  • 87 10 TOKYO: The ambassadors from member nations of the Asian and Pacific Council met on Tuesday for the third meeting; of the Standing Committee of ASPAC at the Foreign Ministry here. Japanese Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi (extreme right, smoking) presided over the conference and said in the communique later the Standing
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  • 275 10 MANILA. Fri. (UPI) American soldiers in Vietnam and elsewhere were ordered today into a search-and-destory operation against a tiny but deadly bean. Doctors at the U S. Air Force Hospital at Clark Field. 60 miles north of Manila, issued an alarm against
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  • 92 10 LOS ANGELES Fri (Reuter) Two people were slightly injured when a United Airlines Boeing 727 took quick evasive action to avoid a midair collision with another aircraft, airline officials said here today. The near-coll lsion occurred as the plane took off from San Diego airport
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  • 134 10 MEMPHIS Tennessee. Fri(UPI) There will be no closed circuit television camera in the courtroom on March 3 when James Earl Ray goes on trial for the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The decision was announced by Shelby Countv Criminal Court Judge W
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  • 51 10 BRISBANE. Australia. Fri. (UPI) Three Chinese seamen who wandered into a remote North Queensland mission station last week will be escorted to Sydney late today. The three were flown to Cairns early this afternoon and interviewed by Customs and Immigration officiers. They claimed they were shipwrecked
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  • 389 10 SHAW TRIAL NEXT WEEK WASHINGTON, Fri. (Reuter) A group of four private physicians and a prominent New York City attorney were allowed to review photographs and X-ray pictures token of the body of President John F. Kennedy the night after his
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  • 371 10 PEARL HARBOUR (ITI) Naval disaster teams who hoarded the nuclear carrier USS Enterprise to seek the cause of fiery explosions that left 25 sailors dead or missing and scores injured said “We are quite confident that he will find out exactly what did happen.” WASHINGTON. (Reuter) A leading American
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  • 92 10 TEL AVIV. Fri. (AFP) Israel returned fire from two neighbouring countries using air force planes in one instance yesterdayFirst, an Army spokesman said, two Israeli warplanes bombed El Fatah (Palestinian guerrilla) position in Jordan after an Israeli patrol in the Jordan valley had been fired on from
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  • 147 10 LOS ANGELES Fri. (UPI) A judge has ordered Mickey Hargitay to support three children from his marriage to the late actress Jayne Mansfield without financial help from her estate. Hargitay sough*. U *****,533 from the estate contending Miss Mansfield agreed in a
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  • 87 10 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) More than 200 boys from two rival schools fought a lunchbreak battle here with bottles, chains and iron bars. The battle ended yesterday when police arrived There were no reported injuries. The factions come from two schools in London's dockland
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  • 62 10 HONG KONG Fri (Reuter) 28-year-old Singapore-born actress Landy Chang was married to actor Kenneth Tsang Kong in a church ceremony here yesterday. Mr. Kenneth is the brother of actress Jeanette Lin Tsui. At a wedding reception later in the evening, which was attended by many
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  • 412 10 WASHINGTON. Fri. (Reuter) A wall of more than 11.000 F B I. agents and police will protect Mr Richard Nixon during his inauguration as President on Monday. Nucleus of the force will be the 600 White House based secret servicemen whose main responsibility is guarding the
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  • 137 10 ROME. Fri. (AFP) Canadian Premier P>erre Trudeau revealed today that his government would publish a white paper, setting out in detail the Canadian attitude to establishing diplomatic relations with People's China. Mr. Trudeau said this had been a major topic during a meeting
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  • 122 10 JAKARTA. Fri. (AFP) Fifteen people have perished and hundreds have been scalded in hot lava flowing from the violently erupting Merapi volcano in Central Java. the Directorate of Natural Disaster announced here today. Four thousand fleeing refugees have moved to safety. Cold Lava accompanied
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  • 140 10 NEW YORK. Fri (UPI) Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., left New York last night fer visits to Italy and India to receive two awards honouring her late husband and to see Pope Paul VI. Mrs King left by jet for Rome en route to
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  • 74 10 LONDON. Fri.(Reuter)-Judy Garland, on the eve of her wedding, left her sickbed to perform last night at London s Talk af the Town restaurant. A restaurant spokesman said 46-year-old Miss Garland had flu and was advised not to appear. But the show business star turned in
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  • 708 10 r FHE French Post Office recently issued a special stamp to mark the iwentieth anniversary of the French Polar Research Expeditions. whose organiser is the famous explorer, Paul-Emile Victor. An exhibition was also held at the Hotel de Ville in Paris to mark the occasion.
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  • Sun Sport
    • 314 11 A Big Loss To Cricket-Kanhai T ONDON, Fri. (Reuter) England Test cricketer Ken Barrington, 38, announced his retirement from first class cricket last night. He made the announcement on a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television sports programme. Barrington who has been suffering from heart trob!e since playing in
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    • 93 11 It’s All Over Polities —Emil PRAGUE Fri. 'UPI> Czechoslovakia* Olympic hero Em.l Zatopek said yesterday he was demoted from his Defence Ministry job because of his politics, hi* dislike for desk iobs and his opposition to renewed sports contacts with the Soviet Army. Zatopek who won gold medals in three
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    • 51 11 SINGAPORE Fri Singapore Combined School held Ceylon Sports Club to a oneal! draw in a SHA Division One league match played at the CSC ground. Balestier Road, this evening Half-time score was 1-0 in favour of CSC SCORERS ST Lingam for CSC. while School's goal came through S
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    • 461 11 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter)— Ken Barrington, the England batsman who last night announced his retirement from first class cricket, scored an aggregate of Test runs surpassed by only four other players. In a Test career which began in 1J55, Barrington totalled 6.806
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    • 186 11 SYDNEY. Fri tßeuter) Former Wimbledon champion Mrs. Margaret Court strolled to an easy win over fellow Australian Kerry Melville in a semifinal of the New South Wales women's oprnn singles tennis championship at White City courts here today. Mrs Court. 26. played some of her best tennis
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    • 312 11 MELBOURNE. Fri (Reuter) An unchanged bowling spell of 2! overs by young Fe:er Bedford put Victoria well on top in their crucial Sheffield Shield match against South Australia at :he Melbourne cricket ground today. Bowling without rest for more than three hours he captured
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    • 43 11 SINGAPORE Fn. The final of the Far East Land Forces Inter-Unit Boxing competition will take place on Wednesday, at Crest Road Gymnasium. Nee Soon, at 8 p.m. The finalists are 29 Commando Light Regiment. Royal Artillery and 40 Commando. Royal Marine*.
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    • 168 11 PHILADELPHIA. Fri. (Reuter) Vie Seixas, who played 60 Davis Cup matches from 1951 to 1957, a record number for an American player, believes that open tennis and an Open Davis Cup will give the game new life, game new life. "The game
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    • 133 11 SINGAPORE. Fri. A Japanese soccer team. Mitsubishi, will meet a combined Police/ Daru! Afiah side at the Jalan Bcsar Stadium on Feb. 16 (kick-off at 7.30 p.m.). This was disclosed to Sunsport by Mr. Lim Yong Liang, Secretary of the Football Association of Singapore Mi
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    • RACING COMMENTS
      • 1450 12 Race l: Horses Class 5, Div. 5—6 Furs.—2.50 p.m. (FOR LOCAL RIDERS ONLY) 1 890 Maranew 4y 900 TLS Stable Ahmad 2 470 Monev Printer 5y 900 Best Stable E Donnelly 1 3 007 El Cid 3y 813 Pinkie Stable Teh Chuah 13 4 089 Balkan Mascot
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      • 1116 12  -  By BIG BEN SHANGHAI KID is my choice in Race Seven at Bukit Timah today. He will be ridden by Ron Hutchinson, leading jockey on the English Flat. The five-year-old disappointed in his last run at Ipoh over 8-1/2 f. last season on a
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      • 249 12 SINGAPORE. Fri. Hobart and Wonderful Surprise (Glynn Pretty) provided an interesting workout on a yie'dmg track here this morning. Trained by Keith Daniels, the pair matched strides over Ilf in 39 with Wonderful Surprise striding out faultlessly at the finish. Ever England (Nelson) was paced
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      • 198 12 SINGAPORE. Frl. R AF. Seletar lead In the Singapore Hockey Association Division Two league table with 16 points. They have played nine matches and won eight of them. Singapore Recreation Club B' team who have also played nine matches so far are in second
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      • 131 12 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Petros, who finished sixth last year, has been given top weight of 9 st. 7 lbs. in the Irish Sweeps Lincoln Handicap the first major race of the 1969 British Flat racing season at Doncaster on March 26. In the list of
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      • 170 12 RIG BEN JIMMY LAD K B.K. CISCO RACE AQUA VIVA Winsan lair Chance WINSAN Aqua Viva Dust Fury FAIR C HANCE \qua Viva Winsan FAIR CHANCE Aqua Viva Winsan RACE 2 MOTIVATION Scorpio II La Ngomber APPROVAL Scorpio 11 Mirage T. HUNTER St. Flush II Cosmopolitan KING’S ROW Mirage
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      • 29 12 Big Ben Aqua Viva Caramoor E'tainment II Jimmy Ldd Apprmal Ever England Shanghai Kid K.B.K. Caramnor Kaya T. Brightness Cisco Magic King Latin Gold Parellel
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    • 108 12 MELBOURNE, Fri. (Reuter) World batamweight boxing champion Lionel Rose was today named Australian of the Year for 1968. And the fearless fighter admitted late*- that he was ‘‘scared stiff-*’ W’hat worries him is maxing a speech at tne Australia Day function at the Town Hall
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    • 57 12 BANGKOK. Fri. (AFP) The Malaysian Perak Football Association beat Hong Kong's Kowloon Motor Bus team 6-2 in the Asian champions' cup football tournament here yesterday after leading 2-0 at half time. In the second match of the day. South Korea’s Yongji Club beat the Mysore State of India
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    • 54 12 TAMPA. Florida. Fri. <UPI) Middleweight Bobby iSongbird) Williams and fellow American Sal Martinez fought to a io round draw last night Tiie draw ended a streak of 25 knockout wins by Martinez and it wa s the first time the 155pounder w 'as carried to a decision. His
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    • 137 12 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) There will be an increase of nearly £2.000 in prize mon 7 for the British hardcourt championships at Bournemouth in April, the English Lawn Tennis Association Council announced here today. A first prize of £1.500 will eo to the winner of the
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    • 92 12 BLACKBURN. England. Frl. (Reuter) Outside-right Bryan Douglas, a member of England's 1962 World Cup squad in Chile, is to retire from soccer at the end of the season Douglas, who won 36 England caDS. broke the new* today to his club Second Division Blackburn Rovers. The 34-year-old
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