Eastern Sun, 6 June 1969

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  • 21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1019 Friday* 6 June 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cento
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  • 589 1  -  'FLUSH-OUT By Albert Johnson MORE than 400 persons believed to be involved in the current disturbances were flushed out and detained in a number of staggered security swoops carried out in several parts of the island yesterday. The arrests brine the total of
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  • 152 1 CALICUT. India. Thurs. (Reuter) A party of 208 Indians who sailed off to seek their fortunes in the Persian Gulf state of Dubai met only disaster which left 18 dead and landed the rest in jail. They were duped hy Job brokers who promised work and good Urine
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  • 94 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A 24-hour curfew will be imposed from tomorrow in the Kroh and Grik districts of north Perak near the ThaiMalaysian border because of infiltration by armed Communist terrorists. According to the information control centre here, the areas affected include the sub-dis-trict of Sungei Siput North,
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  • 204 1 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) The four members of the British trans-Arctic expedition are being menaced by polar bears and their ammunition Is running low. a spokesman at the team's London headquarters said to- day. 'They have had to ttooi five bears in the last five days and
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  • 80 1 KARACHI. Thurs. (Reuter) —Captain Akhter Ayub. eldest son of Pakistan's former president Ayub Khan, has been charged with fraudulently acquiring land from a woman, police in Khanpur, West Pakistan. said today. The woman. Mussmat Shamim Akhter. alleged that Captain Ayub deprived her of 75 acres of land
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  • 629 1 'Melbourne* In S*pore THE Director of Public Relations, Royol Australian Navy, Mr. David Green said here last night that a Joint Board of Inquiry would be convened soon to look into the collison of the Melbourne and U.S. destroyer, Frank E. Evans. Mr. Green flew
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  • 290 1 'Cuban Attack' Claim WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UFI) Haiti charged that Communist Cuba mounted the aerial attack on Port Au-Prince yesterday and asked for U.S. protection. Ambassador Arthur Bonhomme of Haiti called on the state department an hour after a plane bombed Port Au-Prince to request that navy
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  • 40 1 MONTERREY. Mexico. Thurs. (UPI) —'A Mexican jetliner. skimming the rain-swept Sierra Madre for a place to land, crashed atop a 6,000 foot peak and burned, killing all 79 persons aboard, including tennis great Rafael Osuna. See Page S.
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  • 139 1 NORTHAMPTON, England, Thurs. (Reuter) England batsman Colin Milburn left hospital here today'— 12 days after the car accident which resulted in him losing his left eye. The heavyweight Milburn. still cheerful despite the knowledge that the injury has almost certainly ended his Test career, said he
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  • 337 3 DE L CARMEN, Mexico, Thurs. (Heater) Torrential rainstorms today whioK 9Q Sea^ c Df I** 1 5 struggling to reach the wreck of a Mexican airliner in 79 P e °Ple including national tennis hero Rafael Osuna are feared dead. Red Cross
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  • 173 3 BUENOS AIRES. Thurs. (Reuter) President Juan Carlos Ongania yesterday blamed an organised extremist force for the recent wave of student and worker violence that has swept almost every major city in Argentina. The 55-year-old general said in a nation-wide radio and television broadcast that
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  • 72 3 CAPE KENNEDY, Thurs. (UPI) —Engineers began an important three-day test of the Apollo 11 moonship yesterday to prove it is ready for launch July 16 on man's first lunar landing mission. Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin plan to take part in
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  • 176 3 OTTAWA. Thurs. (UPI) Canada will open a second round of negotiations with Communist China on mutual recognition. External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp told the House of Commons. In reply to a question by former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, Sharp indicated that a first-round of
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  • 101 3 DENVER, Thurs. (UPI) U.S. Commissioner Howard Erickson yesterday set bond of 50.000 dollars for a young airman accused of having threatened the life of President Nixon.. The bond was set only hours before President Nixon flew Into Colorado Springs, officials said It was "Just a
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  • 218 3 WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, Thurs. (UPI) Netherlands Antilles' union leaders yesterday criticised the government's decision to remain in office pending new general elections but cancelled their general strike threat and ordered union members back to their Jobs. The government voted 14-6 Tuesday to resign and set
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  • 99 3 PARIS, Thurs. (Reuter) France's four surviving heart transplant pacients met for the first time here last n'.gnt for a champagne supper with the doctors who oP er *ted on th The reception included film shows of transplants, including one starring Mr. Emmanuel Vitria of
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  • 70 3 WA S HIN GTON. Thurs. (UPI) A Chinese-born Dr. Yuan-Li Wu, 49, was named yesterday to succeed Dr. Morton Halpern as the Pentagon Deputy Assistant Defence Secretary for Policy Planning and Arms Control. Halpern has joined the staff of the National Security Council. Wu, who has been a
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  • 178 3 SANTIAGO, Chile, Thurs. (Reuter) -jCWIe tmiay asked U.S. Presidential Envoy Nelson to postpone hi. proposed vbit to totty »t the The request, announced here in an official statement, followed two days of antiAmerican disturbance! in Santiago with hundreds of students battling police outside the
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  • 82 3 PRAGUE, Thurs. (UPI) A funeral ceremony was held yesterday for Stefan Dubcek, father of deposed Communist Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek. to honour his role as a founder of the Czechoslovak Party. The younger Dubcek was present at the services in the crematorium of Bratislava
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  • 32 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs.(UPl) —A U.S. Congressman urged Wednesday that a new cargo preference law be enacted so that U.S. government-generat-ed cargo be carried exclusively on U-S. vessels if they are available.
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  • 79 3 BELFAST. Northern Ireland. Thurs. (Reuter) A BelgianFrench team of sea divers has recovered a large haul of Spanish treasure from a Sunken galleon off Northern Ireland's north coast. It was disclosed yesterday. The galleon, the Glrona. which was sunk about 400 years ago with the loss of
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  • 303 3 SAN CLEMENTE. Calif., Thurs. (Reuter) President Nixon was embroiled in controversy as he arrived at his California home here today after hitting out at alleged isolationists and critics of the U.S. defence esta. blishment. The President Intervened in one of the hottest debates of the current
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  • 116 3 BONN. Thurs. (Reuter) Professor Karl Schiller, the West German Economics Minister, said on his return from Washington today that he found complete agreement with the Americans on the proposed special drawing rights, which would supplement world monetary reserves. The United States recognised the need to make
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  • 120 3 WASHINGTON, Th U r 8. (Reuter) Eight Columbus. Ohio, policemen Including the heads of the Intelligence and vice squads were accused today of *a<;ng bribes from gangsters to protect a flourishing gambling racket In their city The eight were Indicted by a Federal
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  • 57 3 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) Deputy Secretary of Defence David Packard met with Japanese government officials Thursday and excha-S®d views on Okinawa and the situation in Korea. Packard, here in the course of his familiarisation tour <« the Far East, met with Knchi Arita. Director General of the Defence
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  • 139 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs. (UPI) Three San Francisco State College instructors introduced an art form to the bay area on Tuesday night that will never fit into a museum. It involved 13 World War II searchlights and two airplanes. When the announced searchlights began crossing and
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  • 184 3 OTTAWA, Thurs. (UPI) Defence Minister Leo Cadieux confirmed on Wednesday that "several* beartvpe Russian bombers flew to within 90 miles of Newfoundland last month before turning back. Cadieux said he was not overly concerned by the incident. believed to be the first this year but
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  • 327 3 MADRID, Thurs. (UPI) A young Cuban fled his homeland on Wednesday In the nose-wheel compartment of a jet airliner. Baffling aviation experts as to how he survived the freexinr nine-hour flight to Madrid. Armando Socarras Ramirez, 22, said his 16-year-old companion plunged to
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  • 181 3 CARNEYS POINT, NJ. Thurs. (UPI) Two booming explosions, ripping a Du Pont Chemical Co. explosives plant and rocking an area within a radios of 10 miles, killed three employees on Wednesday and left four others unaccounted for. A company spokesman said about a
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  • 195 3 TALLAHASSEE. Fla. Thurs. (UPI) An Australian student who led an abortive attempt to organise radicals at Florida State University was meted to a 12 to 18 months prison term yesterday in connection with two campus Incidents. Philip Sandford. 28. an exchange student from Australia who was
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  • 59 3 TAMFA. Fla. Thurs fUPI)— An Air Force helicooter carrying eight persons crashed in a wooded area some 25 miles southeast of here Wednesday and officials said there were no survivors. Identities of the victims were being withheld until relatives were notified, according to Lt. Col. Charles Riley. Asst
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  • 404 4 PARIS. Thurs. (UPI) "It looks Ilk* a movie theatre." "It looks like a hotel." "FanUstie. incredible, it's not for ret'.." The public and the world aviation industry got its first look Inside the Boeing 747 jumbo jet yesterday and could not believe its
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  • 258 4 ATHENS. Thurs. (UPI) Japanese shipbuilders warned the world yesterday the prices of new vessels built in Japan will soon begin to go up. Mr. Takao Nagata. president of Japan's Shipbuilders Association and president of Hitachi Shipbuilding ana Engineering Company, tcld a rews conference that "despite
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  • 43 4 FREDERICTON. Canada, Thurs (Reuter) Beatle John Lennon has been offered the 1.000-seat Playhouse here to hold a proposed international conference on peace. Walter J. Learning, artistic director of the Playhouse, made the offer in a telegram to Lennon yesterday.
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  • 394 4 TEL AVIV, Thurs. (Reuter) Israel was keeping a tight watch on her borders and towns amid a security clampdown to guard against any guerilla attacks today second anniversary of the start of the six-day war In June 1967. On the west bank of tne Jordan. suspected
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  • 115 4 SALISBURY. England, Thurs. (Reuter) A Harrier aircraft. Britain's revolutionary "jump jet" fighter, crashed on Salisbury plain yesterday. The pilot ejected and suffered slight injury. The Harrier is a vertical take-off-and- landing (VTOL) aircraft. Britain's Royal Air Force has ordered 90 of them and some are already In
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  • 84 4 HANOVER Thurs. (Reuter) East German border guards have devised a new method of securing their mined frontiers with West Germany stink bombs. Federal frontier police here said East German "Vopos" clad in gas masks and protective suits recently have been hanging up small glass containers along
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  • 81 4 U.S. Astronaut Signs Visitors Book Z stron *ut Walter Cunningham signs the Visitors' Book durino a rhUiZZ M* Prxme Minister of New Zealand, Mr. Keith Holyoake, at Wellington < /Sf*? of Zealand.ln the foreground is a model of Apollo52***? Wanted to Mr. Holyoake on October U, 1968 when he c^innll™
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  • 93 4 LISBON. Thurs. (UPI) Bladra will free 18 foreign .oilmen sentenced to jlast week, a spokesman fo the Portuguese Foreign Ministryiald last night. The mercy move follows an Intervention by the PortuSese Government with Blain representatives both in Lisbon and Bao Tome, the spokesman said. The
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  • 60 4 BONN. Thurs. (Reuter) Wett Germany i* to provide Afghaniatan with 50 million marks (Ave million stg) in development aid, the foreign office said here yesterday. The agreement was signed by West German State Secretary to the Foreign Office. Dr. Guenther Harkort. Mr. Brich Elson of the
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  • 330 4 MOSCOW, Thurs. (Reuter) Six years of effort by the Kremlin w£re close to realisation yesterday as delegates from 70 communist parties gathered for the opening of the world communist conference. Communist sources said the conference was scheduled to open during the afternoon
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  • 65 4 KINSHASA. Thurs. (Reuter) Mr. Pierre Riviere. Kinshasa correspondent for the French news agency Agence France Presse. ha? been asked to leave the Congo Republic within 24 hours. He was told that his version of yesterday's Incidents here. In which the Congolese Government said si* «tudents were
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  • 171 4 LEEDS. England. Thurs (Reuter) Thirty-five-year, old Geoffrey Brown's main meal each day was baby food until he went to prison and ate the flrst square meal of his life. A« a child he had developed a stomach infection and his mother had fed
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  • 274 4 AUCKLAND, New Zealand. Thurs. (Reuter) British opposition leader Mr. Edward Heath said here last night that Britain's interests in Asia and the Middle East were too great to be thrown away by a Military withdrawal. A conservative government would be prepared to maintain a
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  • 303 4 KINSHASA. Thurs. (Router) Four hundred students and rioters were detained for interroeatlon here after street battles with government troops yesterday left at least six students dead. Radio Kinshasa said last night interrogations had already shown that students planned to blow up installations at Kinshasas
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  • 237 5 weekly pictorial feature by the Eastern Sun based on the photographs taken by our cameramen at official functions, parties, exh i bit ions, shopping centres etc. MRS. John Cogger spots the latest trend in fashion here in this fluid cocktail dress with full length cuffed sleeves
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  • 262 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) Spokesman for Japanese Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi has denied that an agreement for the automatic extension of the U.S.-Japan security treaty had been reached during Aichi's talks with Secretary of State William P. Rogers on Tuesday. The spokesman said that "It
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  • 56 5 KARACHI. Thurs. (Reuter) A 38-year-old Pakistani knifed and severelv wounded hi« wife in the stomach and then stabbed to death four of her relatives, two of them small children, police reported here today. They said a row started when the husband went to his in-laws'
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  • 54 5 NEW YORK. Thurs. (Reuter) Tan Sri Onf. Malaysia's ambassador to Washington. arrived here todav aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 after spending two and one-hall months accompanying the King and Queen of Malaysia on state visits to Iran, West Germany and South Korea. He went directly to Kennedy airport
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  • 125 5 RANGOON. Burma. Thurs. (Reuter) Burma# military strongman ruler General Ne Win has turned down a proposal by former Prime Minister U Nu to return the country to parliamentary democracy. U Nu's proposal, which envisaged electing General Ne Win as President of Burma, was presented on February 5 and
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  • 83 5 GENEVA. Thura. (Reuter) The International Labour Organisation today narrowly missed a political squabble between Malaysia and the Philippines over who should be president of its Jubilee conference. The two countries. which are at loggerheads over the Philippine claim to Sabah. had both put forward their delegate# to preside
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  • 122 5 HONG KONG. Thurs. (UPI) —A Hong Kona banker has been given a new assignment in Communist Chinese activities in Malaysia and Singapore. the Star newspaper reported today. "Mainland China's tot) banker here. Li Teuk-Chih. has allegedly been given a top j-o'.e in Communist activities in Malaysia and Singapore."
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  • 49 5 INDORE. India. Thurs (Reuter) The death toll in three days of Hindu-Moslem riots in this central Indian town rose to 10 tonight, with two people dving in hospital, officials said. The postponement of a wrestling match later turned to Hindu-Moslem rioting. Police arrested 650 people
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  • 69 5 COLORADO SPRINGS. Colorado. Thurs. (Reuter) The White House spokesman indicated today a possible pullout of some U.S. troops from Vietnam would b« on the agenda of President Nixon's talks with South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu on Sunday. The spokesman. Mr Ronald Zeigler. declined to predict
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  • 70 5 LONDON. Thur*. (Reuter)— A petition urging negotiation* with the Chinese government to secure the release of Britons detained in China in exchange for Chinese imprisoned in Hong Kong was delivered to the Foreign Office here today. It was handed to Minister of state Fred Mulley by Mr. Sam
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  • 31 5 THE tragedy of the Vietnam war is reflected in the face of a mother holding her child during Operation Lamar Plain, UPI photo. UPI photo.
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  • 433 6 HOOLIGANISM thrives on itself and then malicious rumour takes a hand and spreads It far and wide. And when hooliganism becomes rampant public confidence in the authorities to maintain law and order cracks grid tven ordinary law-abiding citizens act from either fear or frenzy instigated by the
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  • 197 6 'A NY reliable evaluation of the health of a nation should come from businessmen. In a strict sense they are the people with high stakes and as such are quickly responsive to political progress of a country. The recent statement by the visiting Canadian trade mission leader
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  • 436 6  -  By Francois Giuliani UNITED NATIONS, New York, Thurs. (Renter) The United Nations should launch a major campaign to control the world population explosion and is uniquely qualified to make an important contribution towards its solution, according to a panel of American experts. In a
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  • 722 6 BONN, Thurs. (I>B). In December of last year, when the Social Democratic Parly of Germany (SPD) nominated the Minister of Justice Heinemann as their candidate for presidentship, the star-colum-nist of Germany Sibylle asked the wife of the President: what she expects to be her chief
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  • 997 6 WASHINGTON, Than. The World Council of Peace (WCP), one of the oldest international Communist front organisation s, is completing its twentieth year as a faithful supporter of Soviet foreign policies. According to a recent issue of World Marxist Review, the WCP "plans to celebrate Its twentieth
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  • 566 6  -  By K. C. Thaler LONDON, Thurs. UPI) The strategic balance in the Far East is moving against the West and the American security system, a study drafted bv an Australian and published by the Institute for Strategic Studies said on Wednesday.
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  • 125 6 MANILA. Thurs. (Reuter)—. The Manila Times today said that with all today's sophisticated navigation Instruments, it was hardly conceivable that warships could mee: with accidents. The English-language newspaper, In Its editorial said the collision between the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne and the U.S.
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  • 12 6 A man of courage is also full at faith. Cicero.
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  • 557 6  -  u:ni:us... T. KENNETH "SAIGON ft city of lovely girls." sftid Mr. Pfttrick J. Kitlen. la ftß article on todfty'i Saigon, appearing la your paper on June 2. 1969. Truly, they look very lovely and respectful in their Ae Dai national dress compared with
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 477 7 IINGAPOKK. GTMK cttange sold and ot .»5«ug u.,«., B*B Co. DiOCST,IAL 2.10 Borneo Bbd. 4.WO r. Sugar XD Cold Storage 3.90 590 1.73 396 Chemical Co. Cycle Carriage Dev. Bank 1.5s 1.94 3-38 6»0 2.00 2.80 180 Dun lop E Smelting 1.95 3.44 Electrical Allied E«so
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    • 291 7 JL"NE first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m., in Singapore today at 70-3/8 cents per lb., down five eighths of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. After an unchanged opening, profit-taking and hedge selling brought levels down during
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    • 104 7 SINGAPORE. TBARV THE NOON PRTCE> AT TNE SINZAOORE CHINESE PRODUCE EICDIDU TODAY ARE:— DUN •EL LEI COCONUT OIL (FOB.) BALK 49.2* COCONUT OIL (F.O.B.) DRUM 61.75 MIXED COPRA SI M MIL IT TNK WHITE PRPPF-R (FOB.) 96% N.L.W. 13 2 50 SARAWAK WTIITE PRPPER (F.O B.) 120 00 SARAWAK
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    • 54 7 (Manager* Price 1st Malayan *.§t aw 2nd Malayan 2 10 3rd Malayan 1 27 The Com. Ind. XD 1.01 Ml The Saving Fund I 15 1.15 M. Invest Mind XD 1 30 1.40 lit Hong Kong 1 45 1 51 2nd Hong Kong XD 1.00 1.01* Sterling Com
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    • 14 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $620 per picul, down $8 12*.
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    • 60 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Rubber futures closed 85 points lower to 15 points higher on the New York Commodity Exchange yesterday. There were 2 sales. (Bid) (Asked) July 25.15 25.90 Sept 25.40 24.90 Nov 24.95 2560 Jan 70 24.25 24.75 Mar 24.20 24.55 May 24.20 24.55 July 24.20
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    • 223 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for June 6; DEPARTURE: Godowns Vessels 3 4 Yewbank 6/7 Eatelle Maersk 13/14 Pando Gulf lfi Bahadur N W 4/5 Petaling 24/25 Wellington Maru 33/ 34 Radnorshire 38/39 St. George 111 (tanker)
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    • 167 7 A BID to boost exports of Si n capo re-made stainstee| sinks and aluminium products is to be undertaken by Mr. E. Fiechter, manager of the Aluminium Division of Diethelm and Co. Ltd. Mr. Fiechter left Singapore on Tuesday on export promotion visits to
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    • 100 7 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) The market drifted lou-er on the traditional "Derby Day" inactivity. Equities, after a firmer start, eased on lack of follow through, although several issues staged a slight recovery towards the close whe n the FT index was 13 down at 421.8 after being
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    • 428 7 By Our Market Reporter WEDNESDAY S brighter closing: trend developed Into considerably steady rO "'JiJ"" 5 2 'j® S,ock E »han»e of Malaysia and Singapore huvfnf in nc J d 'he market attracted some new demand improved situation in Singapore and other shortcoverlng
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    • 750 7 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms t ck E an t« °t Malaysia and Singapore the number of shares traded In brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS Acm« $1.93 (1) $1.95 (3) $1.96 (1); Ben $2 05 (6); Borneo $1.71 (7)
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    • 39 7 NEW YORK. Thurt. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrial* 928 84 20 Rail* 232 08 15 Utilities 128.74 85 Stocks 317.71 40 Bonds 7297 Commodity Futures Index 139 41
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    • 42 7 WASHINGTON, Thura (UPI) The Agriculture Department yesterday Issued "food for petce" purchase authorisations to India for $12,800.000 worth of cotton Contracting period is June 2 through 15. and delivery period Is from June 2 though 30. the department said.
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    • 79 7 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI) Rubber market closed hesitant yesterday with spot 24-3/4 25. Settlement House July. Aug and Sept 24-3/4 24-7/8 July/Sept and Oct/Dec 24-3/4 24-13/16 Jan/March 24-5/8 24-11/16 April/June 24-1/2 24-5/8 July /Sept 24-3/8 24-9/16 Oct/Dec 24-5/16 24-7/16 Jan/March 24-1/4 24-3/8 April/June 24-3/16 24-5/18 July/Sept 24-3/16
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    • 458 7 AKKIVAL8: 6-00 a.m. Ms A ML 029 Koala Lumpur 9.00 a.m. MSA ML119 Koala Lumpur 10-15 am. MSA ML121 Koala Lumpur. 10X5 am. MSA ML005 Penang. Ipoh. Koala Lompor, Malacca. 140 p.m. MSA ML 451 Kaching. 2.25 p.m. MSA ML047 Kota Bharu, Trrngganu. Kuala Lumpur. IU p.m. MSA
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    • 111 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Stocks closed on a weak note yesterday after holding Arm for most of the session. Early strength stemmed from a report President Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu may announced plan* for the first unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces from
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  • 571 9  -  By Sheilah Graham T 6NDON, Thurs. (NANA) From hell to heaven is the only way to describe the transition from the shattering sounds of the Cannes film festival to the slow®r t <iuiet and solid pace of London. Of course, you
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  • 105 9 THE movie paperback edition of Paramount Pictures' "Goodbye. Columbus" has become a best-seller in NewYork City even before the film has opened, according to the New York Post. The Post lists the paperback, published by Bantam Books, as the eighth biggest selling soft-cover book in the city. "Goodbye.
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  • 53 9 LOVELY but lethal that's British actress Diana Rigg seen in a characteristic pose from the popular "Avenger" TV series. You can see more of her minus her runs and gadgets in Paramount's "Assassination Bureau." her first feature motion picture. Filmed in technicolour. "Assassination Bureau" will be shown Saturday midnight at
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  • 415 9  -  By James Mason WHEN conversations with strangers drop to inevitable standstills. someone revives matters by asking me who my favourite living actors are. I suppose that word "living" is to inject a note of controversy. To save everyone this question in future encounters in
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  • Article, Illustration
    95 9 A FILM for the young ones, the hard-play-ing, hot-blooded young men, the NOW generation. Make a date with Darlene at the Orchard Theatre. What for? Well, she wants to Skidoo with you. And "It Takes Two To Skidoo" a Paramount release in Panavision and Technicolour. Presented by Otto Preminger
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  • 246 9 "Hush-A-By® Murder,** a psychological melodrama produced for MGM by Sagittarius Productions, has just begun filming at the MGM British Studios. Romy Schneider stars as the mother, the pivotal role in an emotional triangle also Involving Donald Houston as the father and Dennis Waterman as the son. Set
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    • 311 9 TODAY and YOU. Friday, June 6, 1969. t^ia AP». i»» 8-19-30-41 52-57-68 *f TAURUS APt. 70 (W MAY JO SI 6-27-40 1/51-77 Bi-£j 3b 2-13-24-35 m ri 6-17-3* 39 iiai 1 BfCLATXPOLLAN yt Year Daily Activity Cuida M; <C According to iho Start• To develop message for Frldoy, read words
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    • 281 9 A A i^i'llhd r i r> u ODEON 21 116 91H DAY! (No Free U«t> 10.45. 1.15. 3.45. «30 A 9 15 p m Columbia Pictures Prepents "MACKENNA'S GOLD" Gregory Peck Omar Sharif Super Panavision Technicolor Tomorrow Midnight! <In CoiOr) •'SI1CIDE COMMANDO* Aldo Ray TechnlScopo ORCHARD —321 bl| So* Showing:
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    • 2328 10 SATURDAY i Rat m l: Clan 6, Div 3—6 Fur*.—1.30 p.m. ($4,500) (FOR LOCAL RIDERS ONLY) 1 000 King's Proctor 5y 9 00 Mr. Nft-s H.Y. Leong Mawi Soaidi 4 2 060 Fleetmuster H 6y 9.00 Brighton Stable Allan 3 767 Gourmet 5y 8
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    • 281 10 By BIG BEN TPOH, Thurs. Desert Terror, runner-up to Taiping Brightness over Bif last week, showed improved form on good today when he did a sparkling 3f workout in 38 3/5# finishing with plenty in hand. Bukit Timah trainer Jack Spencer's Derby prospects, Treble J
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    • 162 10 The BP South Malaysian Rally 1969 will be held on July 26 and 27 in Singapore and Johore. This was announced today by the organisers, the Forces Driving Club and the Singapore Motor Club. The Rally was originally scheduled to take place In a fortnight'?
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    • 57 10 NORTHAMPTON. England. Thurs. (Renter). Colin Milburn, the England Test cricketer who lost his left eye in a car accident 11 days ago, will leave hospital tomorrow. The Northamptonshire opening batsman said yesterday "I am determined to make a really big go of playing cricket. So far I
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    • 285 10 PARIS. Thurs. (Reuter) Three Australians and a lone European fight for places in the final of the men's singles at the French International tennis championships here today. Australian left-hander Tony Roche meets Australian title holder Ken Rosewall while the third Australian, world
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    • 56 10 The Way to keep Your Marriage Young If you can't afford a romantic cruise, try these simple techniques ithey work Just a* well) for keeping your marrU e young. Read how to arrange an evening for two. bow to handle the kids, and what to to when, at long you
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    • 80 10 Time And Tide TODAY SINGAPORE Town: 210 a.m. <B.B ft 924 am <0 4 ft.); 429 p.m. (7 1 ft). 933 p.m. (4.2 ft.) NAVAL Dockyard: 2.18 a.m. (9.9 ft.); 8.46 a.m. (1 ft.) 416 p.m. (9 ft.); 9.18 p.m <5 1 ft TOMORROW SINGAPORE Town: 311 f:™- <B-1 10.22
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  • 109 11 MOSCOW. Thura. (Reuter) Boris Spaaaky won the 19th gsme in his world chess championship series against titleholder Tigran Petrosyan last night and pulled into a com®*nding two-point lead that will almost certainly ensure him the championship. Tlu 32-vear-old challenger now has 10.5 pointa to
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  • 53 11 I Deoth MUEUGESU BAJARATNAM. i2. passed away peacefully on June. 5. 1969. leaving behind thr#* ions, R Murugason. R. Ramason. Dr. R. Sundarason. five daughters, three daughteri-in-law. five •ona-in-law gnd fourteen grandchildren. Cortege will leave hii residence. 57 Kheam Hock Road at 5 p.m. tomorrow for the Hindu Crematorium In
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  • 1066 11 Sami /?uns Fastest 800 m SINGAPORE'S javelin champion, Kok Wai Leong, smashed the nine-year-old th boy p division Javelin mark yesterday, concluding e day of th e four-dav City gt District Secondary Schools n- 10th annual athletic meet at held at Farrer Park Athlere tic Centre. Kok
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  • 263 11 LONDON. Thurs. rßeuter> Blx centuries highlighted a sunny day s circket on English pitches here yesterday. Two were hit by the West Indians Cllve Lloyd and Joey Carew against Somerset, the others coming in the County cricket championship. Clement Milton, 41-yeu-old former Arsenal and England
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  • 722 11 NEW ORK. Thurs. (l*PI) Rod Carew, the American League's leading batter, had three hits, scored the deriding run in the sixth inning on Graig Nettles sacrifice fly and stole home for the fifth time this sea son as the Minnesota Twins edged the Ne
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  • 140 11 Young Men Sikh Association are confident they will win the "Slater Cup" when they meet the Singapore Cricket Club in their annual hockey match at the padang at 5 p m. today. Last year. SCC captured the Cup on the toss of the coin
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  • 135 11 CAGLIARI, Sardinia, Thurs. (UPI) The President of the Caglian Soccer Club said yesterday star Luigl (Gigi) Rlva is not for sale not even for a reported I S billion lire (US$2.OB million). The offer was reportedly made on Tuesday by Internasaionale of Milan. The price tag
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  • 245 11 Carew Lloyd Head W. Indian Batting Spree TAUNTON, England, Thurs. (Reuter) Opener Joey Carew and Clive Lloyd headed a West Indian batting spree with a century each here yesterday in their cricket match against Somerset. The West Indians were 422 for four wickets In their first innings at the close.
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  • 53 11 St. Patrick's School will meet Anglo Chinese School in the inter-schools senior division cricket Anal at the Ceylon Sports Club ground. Baiestier Road, today at 11.00 a.m. Both schools will also meet in the junior final, at the Indian Association ground, Balestier Road, on the same day.
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    • 163 11 NOTICE OFFICIAL NOTICE FftOPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME I. DONALD ARTHUR HOPPER of Straits Fisheries (Private) Limited. 173-B, Cecil Street, Singapore 1, hereby give notice that l n consequence of the purchase of a foreign vessel, I have applied to the Registrar of Singapore Ships under Section 523 of
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    • 1037 11 (CHANNEL 5) P.M. 3.00 Opening Announcement in all Language* and Morning Star: 3.25 Health In the Home (Malay Version); 335 It's Happening in Singapore <Chinese Version > (Repeal; 3.W) A Talk on Refuse Disposal (Tamil Version): 357 Scarlet Hill: 445 Close Down; 5.55 Programme Summary in All Languages; 603 Belajar
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  • 346 12 Leadership Top Priority Says Ghazali THE identification of leadership qualities in our young population is today an urgent priority which requires very special attention in our emerging Republic. This was said today by Enche Mohamed Ghazali, Political Secretary to the Ministry of Education, when he spoke on "Responsibilities of Youth"
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  • 78 12 TWO Colombo Plan experts from Canada will «r>eak to members of the Singapore Ceylon Tamils Association at it* premises in Handy Road on Saturday, June 7, at 6 p.m. The experts are Mr. W. A. Wiebe who will speak on "The importance of Science Today." The
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  • 117 12 A FIRECRACKER I acker, Lim Eng Huat, 8, was burnt to death in a fire caused by loos© explosive powder he was packing, the Coroner's Court was told today. Lim was scooping up the powder with a wooden plank in the Forwin Fireworks Ltd. at Jalan
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  • 86 12 A PREGNANT woman. Lee Nio Hiang. was charged in the Ninth ftfagistrate's Court yesterday with bribing a building inspector, Ivan Pereira. on April 15. Lee, is alleged to have given two fowls. 100 eggs and two cushions to Pereira as an inducement not to take further
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  • 230 12 THE bustling city of Singapore has special significance for pretty Miss Ernie DJohan. an Indonesian-born, artiste who today is Indonesia's top Pop singer. Fondling her long hair. DJohan reminisced over the years while she was in Singapore as a school-girl learning and singing "Jack and
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  • 152 12  -  By K. S. SIDHU A BEVY of more than 30 international beauties will form the backdrop to "Magicarama" one of the world's biggest magic extravaganzas commencing a one week one season at the National Theatre from June 14. The star of the show is. of
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  • 89 12 A YOUTHFUL thief. Tan Kay Meng, was jailed for 12 months in the Fourth Criminal District Court yesterday for theft of a motor-scooter Tan, 19. a wireman. had four similar previous convictions. He admitted stealing the $l,lOO motor-scooter at Malacca Street on June 2 The prosecutor, Senior
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  • 107 12 TWO MEN. Aw Hal San and Thai Cheng Kim. were sentenced to three months' Jail each in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday for assaulting a construction worker on Nov. 27. last year. Aw. alias Aw Hal Tai. and Thai admitted that both of them, with five
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  • 75 12 An unemployed man. Ismail bin Abu Hassan. 25, was fined $75 or three weeks' Jail In the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday for possession of 13 stolen metal caps. Ismail, a father of two, was arrested yesterday morning at the Junction of Aljunied Road
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  • 78 12 Clemenceau Avenue, between Rediffuslon and Tank Road, will be closed to traffic between 6 p.m. on Saturday to 7 a.m. on Bunday. This 1* to enable construction work on the Fort Canning Road/Oxley Rise flyover. The Public Works Department announced that vehicular traffic from Oxley
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  • 41 12 PRINCESS Alexandra will arrive here on Aug. 6 to attend the 150 th anniversary celebrations. a s Queen Elizabeth's special representative. She will be accompanied by her husband. Mr. Angus Ogilvy. She returns to London on Aug 12.
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  • 20 12 There were a total of 67 road accidents, of which three were serious, during the past 24 hours.
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  • 180 12 Seaman's Appeal THE Federal Court of Appeal yesterday reserved judgment on an appeal bv a seaman. Ng Slew Chuan against a sentence of five years' Imprisonment on a charge of voluntarily causing previous hurt. Mr. David Marshall, who argued Ngs appeal said that the appellant's plea
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  • 90 12 FOUR Indonesians were charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday with abetting an illegal Indonesian immigrant to land unlawfully at Kusu Island on May 16 Koh Lian Ming. 37; Koh Kai Boh. 14; Lau Ah Meng, 20 and Yusoff bin Ahmin. 17; are alleged to have
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  • 62 12 HERCULES transport aircraft of FEAF's No 48 Squadron based at RAF, Changi, are today flying support company troops of 1st Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment from Hong Kong to Singapore. The 1st. Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment will be here for a spell of trainings at the
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  • 42 12 MR. David W. James, Technical Instructor, lectures on modern instrumentation techniques to engineers in a week-long course in Singapore organised bv the Taylor Instrument Companies of Australia, recently. The course was held in the Trade Commissioner's Display Room, Singapore.
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  • 215 12 SINGAPORE Government agencies and businesses will be well represented at technical seminars on electronic data processing in Bangkok from June 23 to 27. The first will be the U.S. Trade Centre Data Processing Exhibition and Seminar on June 23-27 at the United States Trade
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  • 103 12 Repatriate Returns To Prison Gan Ene Leong. 32. u as sentenced to imprisonment for four months, in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday, for re-entering Singapore on Dec 5. 1967. without permission from the Immigration Department. Can was voluntarily repatriated to West Malaysia on May 31. the same year, and was
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  • 57 12 LEE Lye Hock. 18. was jailed for one week and fined $l5O or one month's jail in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday for theft of 22 packets of spiced plums. Lee admitted that he stole the plums from a lighter berthed at the Telok Ayer
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  • 31 12 THE Braddell Memorial Lecture scheduled for Friday. 6th June 1969 has been postponed Indefinitely. Mr R. Ramanl Is unable to turn up to deliver the lecture because of unforseen circumstances.
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  • 250 12 IT was a capacity turnout at the Coleman Room in the Adelphi Hotel today during the flower arrangement exhibition and luncheon organised by the Singapore Sogetsu Association. A large number of exhibits, contributed by many of Singapore's outstanding flower arrangement experts belonging to the
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  • 119 12 Dragon Boat Feast Rice Dumplings MEMBERS of the China Society, Singapore, will -elebrate the Dragon Boat Festival at the Chui Huay Lim Club at Keng Lee Road on Jun e 17. A well-known exponent on Chinese customs Mr. C. M. Wong will give a talk that evening on the Dragon
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  • 68 12 A HOLE-IN-THE-HEART student of the Gan Eng Sen* School, K. Sundramoorthy 14 leaves for Australia on *jun« 28. where he will be admitted at the Royal Adelame Ho&pitaL H _s? n of laboratory attendant at the Biocnemistry Department Medical Faculty, hit straU sponsored w R taf y
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