Eastern Sun, 8 July 1969

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  • 22 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1051 Tuesday* 8 July 1969. MC (P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 297 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. —The Vice-President of the People's Progressive Party in Ipoh and State Assemblyman for Sungei Raya, Enche Samsuddin bin Harun who resigned this morning to join the UMNO was asked to quit his seat in the assembly as well. The quit
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  • 146 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The overall situation remained unchanged today with tension and a feeling of uneasiness still prevailing in certain sensitive areas in Selangor. the Information Co-ordination Centre reported. Meanwhile, nine more people have been detained by Perak Police for questioning in connection with the case of arson
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  • 162 1 CANBERRA. Mon. (UPI) Australian officials appeared tcaay to have been caught by surprise by the stated intention of Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman to convene South-east Asia leaders in a summit meeting to discuss area defence after 1971. Spokesmen for both External Affairs
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  • 58 1 DAMASCUS. Mon (Router) —About 100 youths sporting beatle-like hair were rounded up by police early today as Syrian authorities launched a campaign against "the spread of effeminacy." A police spokesman said the youths were arrested in Damascus and main towns of Syria. Their hair was cropped
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  • 73 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. (Reuter) —President Nixon has cancelled plans to dine with the Apollo 11 astronauts the night before they are launched on their moon landing voyage to assure that new germs are not passed to them, the White House announced today. Mr. Nixon had intended
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  • 109 1 TEL AVIV. Mon (Renter) Israeli and Egyptian Forces exchanged artillery, tank and mortar fire in the second clash across the Suez Canal in 24 hours, a spokesman sa:d here. The spokesman said last night Egyptian equipment and weapons were damaged but there were no Israeli casualties in
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  • 68 1 MOUNTAIN VIEW. California. Mon. (UPI) —Ground control scientists today abruptly ordered an end to the 8* day voyage of a space monkey because of concern over his physical condition. The monkey "Bonny" was launched July 28 from Cape Kennedy into weightless orbit 225 to 245 miles
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  • 80 1 VALLETTA. Malta. Mon. (UPI) Prince Charle s and Princess Anne of Britain were cheered by thousands of Maltese today when they arrived for a week's vacation as guests of Governor Sir Maurice Dorman. A huge crowd gathered at Malta's Luoa Airport to welcome the Prince and
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  • 59 1 rMPHAL. India. Mon. <Reuter) More than 100 NAGA tribesmen, armed with Chinese automatic weapons, made a surprise attack on a Police Post at Lakhmea near the border between Manipur and Nagaland on Saturday, authoritative reports said today. The NAGA guerrillas fled into thick jungles after a threehour
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  • 58 1 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) The Duke and Duchess of Kent will make a five-week tour of Australia and several Pacific islands starting in early Augu£. court sources announced today. The royal couple are due to leave England for Australia on August 6 and will arrive in Sydney
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  • 52 1 BHOPAL. India, Mon. (Reuter) Twentyone people, includine two women, have been eaten by man-eating tigers during the past year in the jungles cf Bastar, the Madhya Pradesh Assembly was told today. Mr. Shaturghara Singh Tiwari, Minister for Forests said the government had sent hunters to track down
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  • 224 1 Facade To Live Longer MELBOURNE. Mon. (Eeuter) A Malaysian professor of politics said today that he doubted whether Malaysia would return to parliamentary democracy after the current unrest ends. Professor Wang Gung Wu. professor of politics at the Australian National University, Canberra, said here
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  • 237 1 UNITED NATIONS, Mon. (Reuter) Secretary-General U Thont told the Security Council today that the level of violence in the Middle East now was at a higher point than at any time since the six-day war. If it continued, he said, it could "soon
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  • 42 1 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Mr. George Brown, Deputy leader of the ruling Labour Party, underwent su*£cry bare today for a hernia. A spokesman for Mr. Brown said: "He is as well as can be expected. The operation was quite successful."
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  • 131 1 MELBOURNE. Mon. (Reuter) British writer Malcolm Muggeridge today offered a few comments on British institutions, including: PARLIAMENT "If vou show it on television you will really kill it and that wouldn t be a bad thing would it?" THEATRE "I loathe pornography on the
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  • 185 1 SYDNEY. Mon. (Reuter) Malaysia and Singapore completely understood Australia's decision on defence, the Australian Defence Minister Mr. Allan Fairhall said tonight. i "Comments offered at the time of the five power conference by representatives of Malaysia and Singapore must be read in the light of
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  • 131 1 SYDNEY, Mon. (Reuter) Japan might be prepared to participate in South East Asian security "within a measurable time", the Australian Defence Minister, Mr. Allen Fairhall, forecast tonight. "Japan is restricted to military forces for home defence." he told a Liberal Party gathering in Sydney. "But
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  • 73 1 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter)— An advance party led by President Nixon's cabinet secretary Mr. John Whitaker arrived here today to pave the way for the President's visit to Indonesia later this month. The party comprises 35 security officers, government officials, and journalists. Informed sources here said Mr. Nixon's party
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  • 188 1 'BRITISH HAS SET...' SALISBURY. Rhodesia. Mon. (UPI) The Union Jack was lowered f©r the last time yesterday on the African continent. As the sun set oyer this Central African capital a whitecoated servant in government house walked across the lawn to the flag pole and slowly lowered
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 192 2 SINGAPORE'S S. P. Loh returned from Taiwan triumphantly after winning the Cathay PacificBrunswick Far East Bowline Championship in Taipeh. Loh now among the handful of \oung bowlers from Singapore who have made a mark in international bowling championships in the Far East. During the championship
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  • 286 2 KUALA, LUMPUR, Mon. The Minister for Home Affairs, Tun Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman has exposed the sinister move by independent secret societies to merge into a bigger body in order to carry out criminal activities on a larger scale. Speaking to the nation
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  • 89 2 SAINT MAXIME. French Riviera. Mon. (AFP) Henriette Baunier, 49, and her 33-year-old '.over. Pierre Levesque, were qusrelling after a drinking session when the woman suddenly lifted a garden fork and stabbed at Pierre's head. The blow was so powerful that the prongs remained imbedded in his skull. Pierfe
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  • 76 2 VATICAN CITY, Mon. (AFP) The Pope today spoke of the "unnecessary suffering of so many human beings, many of whom are innocent victims of wars into which they are drawn". The pontiff said this when he received the credentials of Zambia's new ambassador to the Vatican. Hoseajosias Soko.
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  • 107 2 MAJOR General D.N.H. Tyacke. General Officer Commanding Singapore District, will present "Outward Bound" course awards to 39 army and police cadets from 32 Singapore schools at HQ Singapore District, Tyersall Park today at 4 p m. Among the 32 schools that will be represented at the ceremony
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  • 166 2 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) —Special anti-cholera teams carried out a house-to-house innoculation campaign today in a crowded tenement area where Hong Kong's first cholera case in three years was detected two days ago. The campaign was part of a major preventive programme swiftly put into effect by
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  • 52 2 SYDNEY, Mon. (Reuter) A Roman Catholic priest married an ex-nun at a Catholic Church here yesterday. Michael Parer, 36, who ob- tained a dispensation from the vow of celibacy last April, married Marlene Patricia Smith, 33. who left the Order of the Sisters of Mercy nine
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  • 73 2 MISS Singapore 1969, Mavis Young flew off yesterday for Miami Beach, Florida to participate in the Miss Universe 1969 beauty pageant. Keeping her finger crossed, an excited Mavis said she hopes to be a worthy representative of Singapore. A large number of her friends was at
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  • 272 2 ALARM stations rang out on all naval vessels in Singapore waters and at the Naval Base early yesterday morning when a signal was received that a submarine has been overdue. Within a short time, naval vessels led by the guided missile destroyer.
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  • 119 2 NEW YORK. Mon. (Reuter) Governor Nelson Rockefeller returned from his fourth violence-plagued mission to Latin America yesterday and said he had "acquired valuable information about significant new trends developing In western hemisphere affairs." He told an airport press conference: "We hope this will be
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  • 122 2 TOKYO. Mon. fßeuter) The four nations which attended a three-day technical conference last week on safe passage in the Straits of Malacca have postponed announcement of their conclusions, originally scheduled to be made known today. A spokesman for the Japanese Maritime Safety Board said today Singapore.
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  • 116 2 JAKARTA. M«n. <Reuter> The forthcoming ministerial meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). originally scheduled for next month in Kuala Lumpur. may have t« be j»ostponed until early December Indone«ian Foreign Minister Adam Malik said last night. He said the current
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  • 570 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The Managing Director of Johore Sugar Plantations and Industries Berhad, Dato Tsang Tak Chuen, last night congratulated the Malaysian Government on its far-sighted policy of allowing investors in sugar-cane planting projects to withdraw 25 per cent of their capital investment each year.
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  • 73 2 BANGKOK. Mon (Reu'er) Foreign Minister Thanar Khoma n will be alloweo to leave the Thai government if there is general *.»emar* J for h:m as a World Couit Judge. Prime Minister Field Marshal Thanom Kitt:kachorn scici today. Marsha! Thanoir. said he had discussed
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 95 2 TIME TIDE High Tide (Today) High Tide (Tomorrow) Singapore Town: 5.21 am. Singapore Town- 7.02 am. (6 6 ft) 5.41 om (7.1 ft). (6 1 ft.) 6.31 pm (7 1 ft.) Naval Dockvard: 522 am. Naval Dockvard- 657 am. (8.2 ft.) 538 pm. (8 4 ft.). (7.7 ft 6.26 pm.
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  • 495 3 PARIS, Mon. (UPI) Allied officials at the Vietnam Peace Talks are carefully studying the increase in Communist military action in Vietnam but an official said yesterday it would not weigh heavily on their tactics. The Allied statement raised fears in western quarters that
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  • 121 3 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) A stubborn rain front moved slowly eastward today after causing seven weekend deaths, triggering landslides and flooding homes and rice paddies on the southern-most island of Kyushu. The rains resumed on Fri day following a three-day deluge which began on June 29
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  • 59 3 KATHMANDU. Mon. (Reuter) Wane Tse has been appointed China's new Ambassador to Nepal, it was announced yes'erday. The new Ambassador will replace Yang Kung Su. who left in July 1967 on "medical leave" shortly after anti-Chi-nese demonstrations here which led to a strong protest from
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  • 135 3 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) Seven persons escaped from Communist China by swimming to this British Crown Colony yesterday, police reported today. One group comprised four men and one woman whose aees ranged from 18 to 21. They were from Fong-Kwong Commune. Tung-Kun County. They walked for
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  • 144 3 MELBOURNE. Mon. rßeuter) —An Australian doctor campaigning for the reform of Abortion Law said ♦cday he will soon carry out his third abortion operation, but it will be his last. Dr. Bertram Wa.'ier who has challenged Australia's an-ti-abortion laws bv terminating pregancies of two women,
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  • 70 3 SAIGON. Mon. (Reuter) South Korean troops killed 29 Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops yesterday in ambush and searcn operations along the central coast, a South Korean military spokesman said today. In the biggest clash with Vietcong forces four miles southwest of Hoi An, Marines from the
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  • 66 3 HOBART, Australia. Mon. (Reuter) A co-educationai high school here where girls can wear mini-skirts and make-up is allowing male pupils to grow beards if they can Boys at Elizabeth High School must apply to a PupilTeacher Board before growing a beard. Fourteen days later the
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  • 133 3 MANILA, Mon. (Reuter) Four policemen disguised as buyers have seized gold bullion and bars worth 435.000 pesos (about £43,500) from a farmer on the outskirts of Baguio City, north of Manila, according to police reports here today. The gold bars were hidden in four native bags
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  • 71 3 BANGKOK. Mon. (Reuter) The Thai Government is deeply concerned over the road China has built from the Chinese province of Yunnan to Phong Salv :n Northern Laos, informed source.; sa<d today The sources said the 90-mile road linking Chfl: c 1 the .Vekong R.ver in Southern
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  • 126 3 SEOUL. Mon. <UPI> Government authorities today ordered special quarantine actions at 18 airports and harbours in South Korea to prevent the entrance of cholera now spreading in South-east Asia The move came after the Government was notified by the Hong Kong Government that the British Colony
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  • 79 3 AGANA GUAM. Mon. (UPI) Two American Senators yesterday completed a whirlwind overnight tour of Guam. Saipan. Yap and Koror Islands In the U S-administered Pacific Trust Territory. Republican Senators Theodore Stevens and Henry Bellmon returned to Washington following discussions with Trust Territory Officials on subjects ranging
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  • 295 3 HYDERABAD, India. Mon. (Reuter) Congress Partv legislators in Andhra Pradesh last night urged their leader, K. Brahmanandra Reddy, to stay on as Chief Minister until the riot-torn State returned to normal. Reddy offered his resignation to the Party 10 days ago
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  • 297 3 JAKARTA, Mon. (Reuter) Indonesian troops have captured four Irianese youths who tried to disrupt a meeting to set up a Regency Consultative Council in East Biak, West Irian, a West Irian Office spokesman said here today. The incident took place on Friday when
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  • 177 4 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) United Nations SecretaryGeneral U Thant has put off a European tour he was due to start in France today because of an indisposition, U.N. sources said here last night. They said that U Thant was suffering from a sever,
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  • 104 4 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Beatle John Lennon and bis wife, Japanese artist Yoko Ono. arrived home yesterday after spending a week in a Scottish hospital from injuries they received in a car crash Lennon said: "The hospital was just great. If your're going to have a crash,
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  • 550 4 NAIROBI, Mon. (Reutcr) Thousands of silent Luo tribesmen yesterday surrounded a house in an outer Nairobi suburb where the body of Tom Mboya, leading Kenyan politician assassinated on Saturday. lay in state. Mr Mboya's body, in a simple plush-lined casket, was placed on
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  • 131 4 TUNIS, Tunisia. Mon. (UPI) Two unidentified objects appeared in the sky over Tunisia last night, Tunis Radio said today. One of the objects exploded like an atomic bomb, the radio said. The radio said at 8:54 p m. (1954 GMT) a 'blue spherical ring about the
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  • 94 4 REYKJAVIK. Iceland, (UPI) Flyin* grandmother Marion Hart. 70. landed her Bonanza plane safe and sound at Reykjavik Airport on Saturday night a ter her third Transatlantic solo flight. "Boy, am I tired," Miss Hart 70, who comeg from Washington DC., exclaimed when sne alighted from her
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  • 93 4 WASHINGTON. Mon. <Reuter) President Nixon arrived back in Washington last night after a long fourth of July week-end at his Key Biscayne. Florida home. Mr Nixon had a round of golf with television comedian Jackie Gleason at the Miami Country Club. Reporters and photographers. kept well
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  • 95 4 CARDIFF. Wales. Mon. (Reuter) A bachelor flat in an 18th century tower at Cardiff Castle is being prepared for Prince Charles' use. if his mother gives final approval. But Queen Elizabeth was quoted by a Buckingham Palace spokesman to be "quite interested." The flat for the
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  • 60 4 ST NEOTS. England. Mon. (Reuter) At least four people died when their sightseeing coach was in collision with a heavy transporter on the highway near here yesterday. At least three other passengers were seriously injured, and a rescue worker said onlv three of the 41 people in
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  • 312 4 ROME. Mon. (Reuter) The Italian constitutional court is being asked to abolish more laws which punish unfaithful wives but treat erring; husbands leniently. Under these laws a wife who has a prolonged affair with another man can be Jailed for up to two yearg
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  • 254 4 WINFARTHING. England. Mon. (UPI) Winfarthlng may only be a one-bar town, but when the pub closes the action starts, the local rector says Wife swapping and strip parties have become part of the social scene in Winfarthing and Ave other villages north-east of
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  • 289 4 CAPE KENNEDY, Mon. (Reuter) Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins returned Here today from their homes in Houston, Texas, to start their final phase of training before setting off on man's first moon landing expedition on July 16. The three
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  • 179 4 ANN ARBOR. Michigan, Mon <UPI> Police arrested a 28-year-old Negro repair worker last night and charged h;m with the murder of Margaret Phillips. the seventh young woman slain in this university area. Washtenaw county prosecutor William Delhey said he issued a warrant for the
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  • 168 4 LSAN LSALVADOR. Mon. (Reuter) Films showing castrated men and raped women the alleged victims of Honduran troops were screened here yesterday before a three-man international mission. The mission, from the Human Rights Committee of the Organisation of American States (OAS is investigating charges of
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  • Fotorama '69 From The Editor's Hypo-Stained Desk
    • 378 5 111 THERE, FOTOFANS! With just one week to go before APOLLO 11 blasts off for the moon, we thought we'd air a few thoughts on a very timely photograph which we're reproducing here. Yes, you recognise it. It's the 'fantabulous', out-of-this-world shot of Earth taken
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    • 477 5 THE LOCAL SCENE pOR the second year running. the Inter-School Photographic Competition organised bv the Photo Society of Raffles Institution was won bv Chung Cheng High School. The Champions scored a total of 103 points to retain the Pato
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  • 859 6 THE Prime Ministers of Australia and Malaysia have revived this week discussions on the defence problems of Southeast Asia and this topic, instead of getting staid and outworn, appears to preoccupy more and more the leaders of every nation. Somewhat loftily, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India waived
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  • 1055 6  -  By EILEEN HADDON LONDON (Gemini News Service) rpo any student of political developments in -I Britain's Colony of Rhodesia over the past decade, there was nothing surprising about the overwhelming vote of confidence which lan Smith received from his approximately white electorate
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  • 1149 6  -  By R. N. WILSON, Gemini News Service Canberra JN these days of student demonstrations, unrest on the campus and adolescent attempts to enter the affairs of State it is an event for a Government Minister to commend publicly the work of a student organisation.
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  • 201 6 WASHINGTON—A plant hormone may hasten complete merchanisation of the lettuce Industry in California's desert regions. The hormone, kinetin. has been found effective in overcoming the heat dormancy of lettuce seeds. a major problem hindering mechanisation of the desert lettuce industry. Dr. E.O. Smith, a plant physiologist
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  • 25 6 The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. Voltaire.
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  • 832 6 On July 14 the huge remote territory of West Irian begins its "Act of Free Choice'' on its political future. Reuters correspondent Huge Lunn has visited the island to assess the mood of its people. DJAJAPURA, West Irian, (Reuter) West Irian, formerly Dutch New Guinea, is
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  • 563 6  -  By INAYET-UR-RAHMAN KARACHI The merger of four of Pakistan's political parties into one to be known as the Pakistan Democratic Party, is a significant step forward in the country's political development. The suggestion for the merger of "like-minded" political groups was made by President Yahya Khan,
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  • 233 8 Minister To Open MultiMillion Dollar Shipyard FEATURE ON FAR EAST SHIP BUILDING INDUSTRIES LIMITED. rpODAY is an ausoicious day in fhe ship-building industry in Singapore. At 5.00 p.m. the Minister for Defence, Mr. Lim Kim San will officially declare open the Far East Ship Building Industries Ltd., at the Jurong
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  • 657 8 THE Boom in the shipbuilding industry in Singapore today can be attributed to the activity in offshore oil exploration being carried out around the area. Large numbers of specialised vessels and pontoons are needed for these projects. One Singapore company has exploited the market for
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  • 771 8 TAR East Shipbuilding Industries Ltd. was incorporated in June, 1967 with 3$ acres of land in Jurong. opposite the island of Pulau Samulan for the purpose of repairing Indonesian vessels. and building of barges, river crafts and coastal vessels, engaged in a barter trade between Singapore
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  • 122 9 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) Mitsui Petro-Chemical Industries. Ltd. announced it will establish in concert with Mitsui and Co. a firm in the United Statea this summer to pave the way for manufacture and sale of petro-chemical pro. ducts in the United States. The announcement said
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  • 64 9 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) Business bankruptcies in Japan decreased drastically in the first half of this year, according to the Tokyo Shoko Mercantile Agency. The Agency said there were 4.327 cases of bankruptcy, with debts totalling 36.022 million yen (about US$lOO million) in the January-June period. The figure represents
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  • 284 9 SHARE price# were marginally easier in quiet trading in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday with the unchanged overall situation in West Malaysia which also spelt tension, feeling of uneasiness and apprehension particularly In Selangor. Buyers were still cautious and the
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  • 582 9 SINGAPORE change told anil officially luted at bull net*. Stock Exother prices tha cioaa of INDUSTRIALS ft. 6 M 1 8G 4PM A Ben A Co. CD i0 2 04 1 MJ Uniel® Plywood XBl C. Mitar Cold storage CALL Chemical Co 1 cle A Carriage
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  • 13 9 The tin price for yesterday was $621.12$ per picul, down $l.OO.
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 370 10 GRAND BLANC. Mich. Mon. (UPI) Dave Hill, who takes pills to calm his kpnt his cool for two pressure packed rounds on Sunday to come from behind and win 25.000 U.S. dollars first prize in the Buick Open by two strokes with an 11-under
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    • 306 10 DAYTON. Ohio. Mon. < UPI) I U.S. Olympic sprinter Barbara Ferrell of Sacramento captured the 100-yard dash in 10 7 seconds and the 220-yard dash in 23.8 seconds Sunday to be the only double winner at the Women's National AAU Track and Field Championships here.
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    • 103 10 LYTHAM, England, Mon. (Reuter) Bob Charles the New Zealand left-hander won the Roosevelt Nine Nations 18-hole Golf Tournament at Fairhaven near here today. Charles, in deadly form ■with his putter, had onlv 25 putts as he scorchea to a se-ven-under-par 67, equalling the course record. He
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    • 133 10 FRAN CORCHAMPS. Belgium, Mon. (Reu'er) Italy s Giacomo Agostini underlined his supremacy In the Belgium Motor Cycle Grand Prix here today, winning the 500 cc event in record time. He also 'broke his own lap record for the course. The Italian ace. who is
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    • 340 10 CLERMONT-FERRAND, France. Mon. (Reuter) Scotsman Jackie Stewart won the French Formula One Grand Prix by almost a minute from Frenchman JeanPierre Beltoise here yesterday and consolidated his substantial lead in the World Drivers' Championship. It was Stewart's fourth Grand Prix victory this season and
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    • 63 10 UTRECHT. Holland. Mon. (UP!) South Africa's Karen Muir bettered the world record for the women's inn metres backstroke at the international swimming meeet here on Sunday when as first leg in the four by 100 metres medley relay she clocked 1:05.6. The previous record, held by America's Kaye
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    • 469 10 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Lancashire moved clear at the top of the English Sunday One-Day Cricket Championship today after beating Somerset by four wickets. Essex, who started the day sharing first place with Lancashire, were only able to play 20 minutes of their
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    • 211 10 SYDNEY. Mon. (UPI) Promoters on Monday night set July 28 as the new date for Japan's Fighting Harada to challenge Johnny Famechon for the world featherweight boxing title. The date was set after Englishman Mike Barrett made a series of phone calls to
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    • 167 10 ONLY five final events were held on the first day of the Singapore Combined Primary Schools 10th annual athletic meet held at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. A total of 124 schools are participating in the meet. Madam Chan Choy Siong member of Parliament for Delta will
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    • 94 10 HARTFORD, Conn., Mon. (UPI) —The Legia Soccer Club of Warsaw. Poland, overwhelmed the Connecticut All Stars 9-0 in an international soccer game Sunday plaved at Dillon Stadium. The Polish Club moved in swiftly, scoring in the first two minutes of play on a penalty kick by
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    • 235 10 LONDON'. Mon. (Reuter) The return of Derek Underwood will probably be the only change made by the E n ?land selectors when they announce their side tomorro I w or the third and final cricket test against the West Indies at Leeds, next Thursday The
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    • 301 10 WIMBLEDON. England. Mon. (UPI) For Rod Laver, the Forest Hills Tennis Tournament cannot come fast. Laver wants to get the U.S. Nationals over with because they are the last of the big four tennis tournaments that stand between him and his second grand slam
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    • 432 10 AMERICAN LEAGUE NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) Harmon Killebrews two-run homer climaxed a five-run seventh inning that carried the Minnesota Twins to a 7-6 victory over the Oakland Athletics Sunday and a sweep of the three-game series between the two leading teams in the
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    • 114 10 NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST W L GB Chicago 52 31 New York 45 34 5 St Louis 40 44 124 Pittsburgh 38 43 13 Philadelphia 36 43 14 Montreal 26 55 25 WEST Atlanta 48 34 Los Angeles 46 33 San Francisco 45 38 3i Cincinnati 41 5 4
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    • 514 10 NATIONAL LEAGUE NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) Gary Wasleswsk! pitched a one-hitter and drove in two runs with a seventh-inning double to lead the Montreal Expos to a 5-0 victory Sunday after the Philadelphia Phillies won the first game of the double-header 13-2 with a 16-hit attack.
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    • 112 10 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) Daniel Whildenstein's Felicia came through with a strong run in the last furlong to win the 600.000 franc (£50.000) Grand Prixe de Saint-Cloud here today. Maurice Lehmann's Goodly, the favourite which had been among the leaders since the start of the one mile
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    • 67 11 SAYA DATANG ran a great race on Sunday to win the Committee Cup by two lengths from Camaro. Photo shows Jockey Coles bringing in the winner hard held. Backed heavily, Saya Datang paid only SI4 for a winning ticket. Photo below shows Mrs. Eunme Shaw presenting the
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    • 795 11 SINGAPORE'S most promising long distance runner, Serjit Singh, smashed his own record on the opening day of the five-day Singapore Combined Secondary Schools' 10th annual national athletic championships held at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre, yesterday. The 15-year-old Serjit of Dunearn Technical Secondary School, who
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    • 744 11 THE following are the weights for the weekend race meetings at Kuala Lumpur. SATURDAY Horses Class 1, Dir. 3 6 Furlongs Bonoa 9.00 Master Pride 9.00 Fireball 8.13 Royal Meadow II 8.13 Sir Walter 8.12 Glorious Destiny 8.11 19th March 811 Sunray 8.11 Earl Marshal 8.10 Bandit
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    • 195 11 THF following are the weights for H.M. the Agong Ciold Cup meeting on Sunday. Julv 20. 1969: NOTE: ThP r.oid CUD field will be limited to 16 runners. The 5 lowest weighted horses will also be handicapped in Div. 2 and shouid no vacancies occur through scratching
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    • 295 11 A PENALTY flick scored by Jansenites' skipper Seet Choo Huat three minute# before the final whistle, gave them a 1-0 victory over the Singapore Armed Forces in the second replay of the Singapore Hockey Association senior division knock-out tournament played at the Padang yesterday.
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    • 138 11 TOTO Women'i basketball team clinched victory from the Combined schools basketball team by beating them "0 to 42. This was the final round In the Singapore Open Women's Basketball Championship played at the Gay World Stadium Sunday. Prior to this victory, the basketball team
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    • 1045 11 (CHANNEL 5) P.M 300 Opening Announcement? :n all Languages Mornins Star; 320 A Talk on the Dietician Malay; 335 Health in the Home Tamil; 3 4.") House and Home English; 3.55 A Diarv of Events in Singapore This Week English; 4 00 Peyton Chinese Subtitles; 4 4.i Close; 6"0 Prog
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  • 263 12 THIS happy couple (R) flew all the wav from their jobs in the East and in the West to get married at the Australian High Commission here yesterday. The handsome Australian bridegroom. Mr. Brian May, flew In from Jakarta where he is stationed
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  • 232 12 THERE has been a drop of some 700 blood donations for the month of June as against the previous month. The Singapore Blood Transfusion Service Weekly Bulletin issued yesterday noted that there were only 2.816 donations in June. Meanwhile, though the stock position
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  • 122 12 MR. LIM KIM SAN. Minister for Defence, will officially open the Far East Ship Building Industries Ltd., shipyard at Jurong Industrial Estate on Tuesday. July 8 More than 1.000 guests, including members of the diplomatic corps, senior government officials, leading dignitaries In commerce and
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  • 59 12 A 24-year-old wife, Lim Siew Hong, was charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday with the murder of her husband, Ong Kim Seow. Lim is alleged to have committed the offence at her house in Lorong Bingkai on July 3. The magistrate, Mr. E. C. Foenander, ordered her
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  • 29 12 There will be no water or poor pressure in houses along Woodlands Road Hi m.a and part of Lengkong Saga from 9.30 a.m. to 3 p.m. today.
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  • 214 12 THE Science Council of Singapore yesterday announced that its first award of a Gold Medal for Applied Research has been given to Dr T. G. Ling for his valuable contribution in the field of animal nutrition in Singapore. The Gold Medal of the Science Council
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  • 97 12 CHAN Ah Hung was sentenced to one week's jail and fined $2OO. or in default. on<? month's imprisonment by the Ninth Magistrate. Mr. E. C. Foenander yesterday for stealing a roll of Kraft paper. Chan, an employee of the Singapore Glass Manufacturers' factory in
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  • 55 12 A HEADMASTER and an historian, Mr. W.A. Barker will give a talk on "The Problems of British Education Today" to the students and staff of the Teachers' Training College on Wednesday at the TTC auditorium at 11.30 a.m. He is headmaster of a leading British public
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  • 57 12 KOH LIM SENG was charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday with attempting to extort $2O from Sim Whuat Kee at Orchard Road on July 5 at 10.30 a m. He denied the charge and was allowed bail of $5OO in one surety, by the Magistrate. Mr E.
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  • 63 12 POLICE are now looking for a Chinese man who was robbed of a wrist watch near Block 10, Jalan Bukit Ho Swee at 9.45 p.m., on July 4. The man is raquested to get in touch with InsD. Lim Chin Ow. of Queenstown Police Station, to
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  • 52 12 A COW-HERD, M. Potiapan. 50. of Jalan Bunga Tengah. died on the spot after he was knock down bv a car at Bukit Panjang Circle, yesterday at about 10 p.m. Those who saw the accident are requested to get in touch with Insp. Mohamed Idris of Sepoy Lines
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  • 88 12 A National Serviceman. Hamdl bin Abdul Hamld. was charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday with unlawfully absenting himself for eleven days from a basic training course between Jan. 7 and March 25 this year. Hamdl. a member of the Vigilante Corps, is alleged to have absented
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  • 25 12 THERE were a total of 44 road accidents of which six were reported serious during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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  • 120 12 TWO youths and a man were sentenced to two months' imprisonment each by the Fourth District Court Judge. Mr. Dallp Singh yesterday after they pleaded guilty to possession of offensive weapons. They were Mohamed Zln bin Kamls, 17. Mohamed Shah bin Kamls. 20. and Abdul
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  • 93 12 TWO of Singapore's "Brain and Beauty" girls left here over the weekend on their tour of Australia to promote Singapore. They are the runners-up to the Miss Tourism Singa- pura 1969 quest, Miss Sellna Cheng (front in photo) and Miss Yasmin Saif. Both of them will
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  • 545 12 GROWING concern that the contribution rate to the Central Provident Fund would be further increased to eight or ten percent was voiced by Mr. Lim Cheng Hai, President of the National Employers'. Council. Speaking at Sunday's dinner at the Singapore Chinese Chamber
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  • 815 12 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots or 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS Acma $1.86 (1): Ben $2.02 (1)- Borneo $1.70 (2), C. Sugars $3 66 (1)
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  • 284 12 RUBBER: 74 7 8 Cts JULY first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m in Singapore and iCuala Lumpur yesterday at 74-7/8 cents per lb., up one eignth of a cent from the previous ciose The tone of the mam<.t was slightly easier. As anticipated. prices were marked UD on
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  • 277 12 THE following is a bfrthing li«t released by the Port of Singapore Authority for July 8: DEPARTURE: Godowns Vessels Eiko Maru 6/7 Lexa Maersk. 15/16 Menestheus 19 Johneverett N.W. 3/4 Hua Li 21 '22 Seibun Maru 23/24 Benmachdhui 25/26 Yamaki Maru 27/28 Straat Johore 33/34 Glenalmond 35'36
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  • 58 12 TAIPEI. Mon. <Reut-er) Foreign investments in Taiwan reached a record high of mor e than US$52 million in the first six months of this year an increase of 52 per cent compared with the corresponding period of 1963 According to government statistics, total foreign investment would reach
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  • 57 12 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) Money Quotations: H.K.56.085 per U.S. dollar. HK.56.10 per U.S. dol'ar TT. P 6l P° un d sterling. H.K.5308.625 oer tae! of gold 94.5 per cent fineness. H.K.5162.7 per 10.000 Japanese yens. H.K.S 134.5 per 100 Philppines pesos buyers. H.K.S 135.5 per 100 Philippines pesos
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