Eastern Sun, 12 July 1969

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1055 Saturday, 12 July 1969. MC (P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 516 1 CAPE KENNEDY, Fri. (Reuter and UPI) —The final countdown began tonight for the launching of America's Apollo 11 space mission for man's first landing on the Moon. The countdown began on schedule at 8 p.m. EDT (7.30 a.m., Friday, Singapore time). The rocket
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  • 177 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Two cases of assault were reported by the Malaysian Police Control Centre last night. A youth who was on his way home after a party was waylaid and assaulted by two youths at Masjid Tanah in Malacca at about 9.30 p.m. However,
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  • 120 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri Malaysia's stand in the Security Council on the question of Jerusalem which resulted in the resolution adopted of July 3 had served the principles of right and justice and the cause of peace The Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Ahmad Tuqan in
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  • 36 1 BONN. Fri. (Reuter) A committee of independent economic experts today urged the West German government to revalue the German mark upwards to keep the currency stable without excessive price increases in the next few months.
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  • 19 1 FORTY road accidents were reported in the Republic during the past 24 hours yesterday. Five were serious cases-
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  • 174 1 PARIS. Fri. (UPI) —Rumanian Ambassador to France Constantin Flitan announced Friday that at Moscow's request Soviet leaders will not visit Bucharest as scheduled !n mid-July, a few days before the visit of President Nixon to the restive Balkan nation. Flitan told an embassy n^
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  • 76 1 MANILA. Fri. (Reuter) —Princess Tarhata Kiram. one of the heirs to the Sulu Sultanate and claimant to the territory of Sabah. is being considered as a possible candidate for one of the ei?ht Senatorial seats in the coming November general elections. The ruling Nacionalista Party reported that it
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  • 85 1 TOKYO. Fri. (Reuter) Malaysia will receive a Japanese yen credit totalling 764 million yen to purchase materials and services from Japan for the construction of a grouna station for space communication via satellites. The Japan Export-Import Bank said todav a Japanese banking consortium led by the
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  • 82 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. West Malaysia had a favourable balance of trade of $360.6 million during the first four months of this year. This Is an increase of 5251 5 million over that of the corresponding period last year The Department of Statistics said today exports from
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  • 178 1 MOSCOW. Fri. (t'PI) A Soviet parliamentarian said on Fridav that China has committed 130 border provocation* in the last six months. He warned that If they continue the Soviet Army will act. Alexei P Shitikov. head of the Communist Partv organisation in the Far Eastern
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  • 345 1 North Korean Envoy Here With Special Message' MR. Kwon Hui Kvong. Deputy Foreign Secretary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, finally flew into Singapore late in the afternoon yesterday after several delays. Mr. Kwon. special envoy jf North Korea's Head of State and Prime Minister. Marshal Kim II Sung,
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  • 95 1 NEW YORK. Fr: (UPI> U.S. Astronaut Col. Frank Borman and his family have returned to the United States from a 10-day tour of the Soviet Union. "It would probabhr not be appropriate for me to sav we were treated royallv. but everyone was very friendlv."
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  • 173 1 VIENTIANE. Fri. (UPl)—Laotian govt, troops were still battling North Vietnamese regulars and Pathet Lao guerillas north and south of the key town of Moung Soui, 100 miles north of Vientiane late on Thursday night but had not retaken it, the Laotian Chief of
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  • 55 1 LEEDS. Fri. (Reuter)—West Indies were all out for 161 today in their first innings in reply to England's first innings total of 223. England had scored four for one wirket Boycott caught Findlay. bowled Sobers, in their second innings when bad lirht stopped further play on th#. second
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  • 125 1 CAPE KENNEDY. Fla. Fri. (UPI» —Ethiopian Emperor Haille Selassie planned a tour Friday of the spaceport where Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A Armstrong, Michale Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin are preparing to take off for a landing on the moon. The tour includes a close
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  • 280 1 TEL AVIV, Fri. (UPI) Israeli military spokesman said on Friday the Egyptian commando raid across the Suez Canal on Thursday night was the most successful bv Egyptian forces since the end of the June, 1967, war. Four Israeli soldiers were killed, four others wounded and one
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 467 2 SINGAPORE has tremendous latent potential that awaits the helping hand of MONEY to transform it Into a captivating cultural garden. This is the message contained in a letter of appeal-cum-challenge directed to the people of this republic yesterday. Dr. Goh Poh Seng, chairman
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  • 120 2 THE Magistrate of the Ninth Magistrate Court. Mr. E.C. Foenander. yesterday rejected a plea of guilty entered by Ramakrishna Nehru who was charged with possessing an offensive weapon. Nehru Is alleged to have committed the offence at McAllster Road on June 25. He said that
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  • 195 2 BOSTON, Fri. (UPI) The World Health Assembly was told on Thursday that to keep death at bay without birth controls could mean the extinction of man- kind. Singapore Health Minister Chua Sian Chin said the experience of his own island State has shown that
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  • 228 2 LUMPUR, Fri. Canada todav sirnori a Srolict uid«lu an H a,reement <»» «he Sabah forest B T J h e C Ch U secretary government. Tunku Tan Sri Mohamed Bin Tunku Besar Burhanuddin who signed on -behalf of the Malaysia government. said the signing of
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  • 179 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A three-man team from the Malaysian Rubber Exchange left here todav for a two-week tour of Europe to consolidate the sale of Malaysian rubber. The Chairman of the Excharge. Sen Tan Sri Can Teck Yeow who Is leading the team told
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  • 85 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri The Ministry of Education will spend $300,000 on in-service courses for trained teachers this year. The Minister of Education. Datrv Abdul Rahman Yaakuh disclosed this when he the Seko'.ah Menengah Pang'ima Bukit at Pant Buntar In Perak this morning The courses he said
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  • 492 2 THREE gunmen fired Ave shots during a daring robbery at the branch office of the United Overseas Bank Limited at MacPherson Road and escaped with $2,000. yesterday. The manager of the bank. Mr. Tan Suat Hong was hit on the head with the
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  • 430 2 'Raffles Village' Revives History WHO needs a Time Machine to travel back to Singapore's colourful past when there is "Raffles Village"? You pass through one of the two entrances of the stockade that syrrounds the village and you find yourself reliving a page in the 150-year-old
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  • 311 2 KI*ALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Senior Agricultural Adviser at the United Nations office here. Mr. K. A. P. Stevenson todav called on the students of Mara Institute of Technology to use their acquired skills to help narrow the gap between rural and urban prosperity.
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  • 248 2 A MEMBER of the police reserve unit, who lest his job because of a fight over a woman was yesterday fined $lOO by the First District Court judge. Mr. DC. D'Cotta Sohan Singh. 24 with another man. K. Govindasamy. was alleged to have caused
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  • 45 2 TOH KIM CHWEE yesterday claimed trial In the Ninth Magistrates Court to a charge of attempting to extort $5O from Chla Lai Seng m Jurong Road on Nov. 28. last year. Hearing had bee n fixed on Nov 26. at the Fifth Magistrate'* Court.
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  • 476 4 Opposition, Leaders President's Press Conference PARIS, Fri. (Reuter) President Georges Pompidou was under fire today from opposition politicians and trade unions followina his first press conference since coming to office. Socialist and Communist leader were quick to accuse Mr. Pompidou of concealing a lack of innovation
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  • 259 4 JOHANNESBURG. F r 1. (Reuter) Newspaper editor Laurence Gandar goes back into the dock of the Supreme Court here today to be senteheed for contravening South Africa's Prisons Act. Gandar, 54-year-old Editor-in-Chief of the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail, ana Benjamin Pogrund, 35. one of
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  • 112 4 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Mr. Premchand Gupta. 33. is no ravin? beauty, hut he was treated like a Miss World in a court here yesterday. A court had fined him £lO for having a defective silencer in his car. but Mr. Gupta, a school teacher, protested. He said
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  • 350 4 TEIGNMOUTH. England. Fri (Reuter)—The carnival gaiety turned to mourning here today as hope faded for the missing British round-the-world yachts, man whose abandoned Trimaran was found drifting in midAtlantic. A hero's welcome had been la.d on In this south Devon Port for 36-year-old Donald
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  • 93 4 ROCHESTER. England. Fri. (Reuter) Miss Sheila Scott. Britain's record-breaking iolo woman flyer, had a narrow escape last night when all the electrical equipment failed on her Piper Commanche as she came in to land here. She was forced to cirele Rochester airport for
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  • 422 4 MOSCOW. Fri. (Reuter) Soviet Foreign Minister Mr. Andrei Gromyko yesterday responded favourably to a six-month-old statement by President Richard Nixon that the time is ripe for better relations and a new dialogue between the world's two super-powers In a major foreign policy report to
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  • 95 4 LIVERPOOL. England. Eri. (Reuter) Immigration authorities here yesterday grappled with the problem of what to do with 32 Chinese seamen who refuse to fly back to Hong Kong. The seamen comprise the entire oriental crew of the 7.700-ton British freighter Dunster They were due
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  • 65 4 WYTHALL. England. Fri. (Reuter) Six-year-o'.d Paul Summers was alwavs the outside looking in at the Brownie meeting held in the school where his father is caretaker. But not any more. The pack'g leaders in this Worcestershire town have bent the rules a bit nnd allowed Paul in
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  • 72 4 DIVERS of Britain's Naval Air Command Sub-aqua Club "plot" the position of the lip of a storage pot from a Greek trading ship that sank in 800 BC. Naval divers spent three weeks working on the floor of the Mediterranean searching for remains of ancient shipwrecks. They recovered amphorae from
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  • 144 4 SYDNEY. Fri. 'Reuter) Doctors still refused to say today more than 50 hours after she collapsed whether British pop singer Marianne Falthfull had recovered consciousness. A bulletin from St. Vincent's Hospital here merely said the 22-year-old blonde girl friend of Rolling Stone Miek Jaeger
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  • 88 4 DEAL Er.g-snd. Fri (Reuter) The people of Deal think a poster advertising their seasio«» resort is giving he town a raw deal Flist of all. the grey-eyed blonde m a bathing suit In the picture shapely though she is. has never set foot in the town.
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  • 84 4 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) A ?e'f-professed double agent claimed on television here that South Africa was involved in the assassination of Kenyan Minister Tom Mboya. In the independent television news "News At Ten'* programme. last night. Mr Peter Toombs said he was »P. V for both South Africa
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  • 359 4 RUSINGA ISLAND. Lake Victoria. Fri. (Reuter) Lvre players will sing the praises of slain Minister Tom Mboya today as he is laid to rest on the small, hilly island where he was born 38 years ago. Dressed in a suit of white cloth and wrapped in
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 166 4 AMY By Jack Tipprf initial a m H •< "When It Mrs. Cow's birthday? I'd like to send her a card." DATELINE:'DANGER! by John Saunders and Alden McWilliams U LIE *OY PQEPARKS TO FACE THE JUVENILE COURT AUTHOR!' I MUCH AO A I HIS WILL I HE NOW, REMEMBER, FORGETS
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  • 189 5 r Puerto Rico, Fn. (UPl)—Thor Heyerdahl radioed on Thursday that six-man crew are working desperately" to ee P the papyrus ship Ra s wam P in in heavy eas before an escort vessel Monday. the area on W •SremSy anxious" about the sagging of the reed
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  • 147 5 WASHINGTON. Frl (Reuter)—lndian Foreign Minister Dinesh Singh last night hailed a "ne_w era" in relations with the United States. He did so In a toast at a banquet he gave in honour of Secretary of State William P. Rogers. At the same time.
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  • 124 5 CHICAGO. Frl. (UPI) E.vpo 70 and Japan Air Lines officials arrived here on Thursday on a goodwill tour and to promote the 1970 exposition in Osaka. Japan. They were welcomed by Mayor Richard J. Daley and presented him with a replica of Expo 70s theme, "the
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  • 420 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (Reuter) The State Department today confirmed the existence of a secret "military contingency plan" with Thailand. But it denied that the document extended the U.S. commitment to defend the country. The department spokesman read a statement in response to reports from Bangkok
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  • 241 5 TREATED FOR BURNS HONOLULU, Fri. (UPI) A severely burned Russian sailor was flown to a Honolulu hospital early on Thursday after being: picked up from a Soviet fishing vessel 75 miles off Midway Island. The victim was identified as Ashixmin Victor Maksimovich, 20. a crewman
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  • 94 5 HUNTSVILLE. Alabama. Fri. (AFP) Rocket expert Dr. Wernber Von Braun said here today that the first Mars landmight take place in 1985 Next week's scheduled moon landing was only a beginning and not an end in itself, he said. "We are not goiflg to the
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  • 216 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) The Senate Armed Services Committee told the Air Force this week the time has come to stop trying to improve the F-11l and get on with production "There Is point at which any improvement can cost more than it is worth." it said.
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  • 88 5 NIAGARA FALLS. N.Y.. Fri. (Reuter) Three youths clinging to a tyre inner tube survived a three-mile ride of terror after being swept through seething rapids below Niagara Falls. Police said they believed the 17-year-old youths, all reported in good condition in hospital today, were the
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  • 187 5 WASHINGTON. Frl. (AFP) Soviet space scientists may fire a little excavator to the moon very shortly to bring lunar samples back to earth. American official quarters believed today. But It nevertheless looked as If the United States held all the trump cards to win
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  • 92 5 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) Aviation talks with Japan were recessed until September because agreement c"" lrf not be reached on an Alaskan route for Japan or more U S. charter flights to Tokyo, official sources said Thursday. The Japanese government. which requested the talks, strongly urged that Japan
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  • 140 5 WASHINGTON. Fri. (AFP) Prof. Harold Urey said. "Apollo 11 19 the most exciting feat of exploration arcomplished in my lifetime. "It is very difficult to imagine that it may give us information in a definite way what the origin of the moon was It could also
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  • 134 5 NEW YORK. Fri. (Renter) Jazzman Duke Ellington has been commissioned to compose and perform an original piece of music to mark man's historic landing on the moon. The Ellington composition will take about 10 minutes to perform and will include music for voice entitled
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  • 253 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) The United States agreed to a sizeable list of benefits it would furnish South Korea in return for Seoul's decision to send troops to South Vietnam. Chairman J. William Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee revealed on Thursday. The
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  • 133 5 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) Sen. George D Aiken, the Senates' Republican dean, announced Thursday he would oppose deployment of the Safeguard Anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system. Aiken previously was listed as undecided and his decision cave anti-ABM forces in the Senate 49 votes to 48 in favour, according
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  • 516 6 MR. S. Rajaratnam, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour, is undoubtedly the best political theoretician in this part of the world and his recent speech at Nanyang University goes a long way to prove this point. The theoretical pragmatism which he brought to bear on the complex
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  • 232 6 IF THERE is any country in this part of the world which is groping in the labyrinth of languages, it is India. Many of the country's leaders do not seem to understand how the many tongues in India act as a check on the nation's
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  • 1331 6  -  Fourth Article By Edward K. Delong SPACE CENTRE, Houston, (UPI) The Apollo moonflight programme grew from a 1960 dream" through eight years of planning and testing, capped by tragedy and a major overhaul, to make its manned debut in space. It
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  • 36 6 There is one art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. if you are not a thinking: man, to what purpose are you man at all? Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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  • 782 6  -  JOSEPH ALSOP WASHINGTON As a kind of grisly summertime farewell to the United States in this fairly grisly summer of 1969, this reporter has already examined some of the dangers now hanging over American liberalism, which has been so powerful so long. Yet the greatest danger of
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  • 470 6  -  By MARK MEREDITH PRAGUE, (Reuter) Czechoslovakia's birth rate has been dropping since 1960 and in Prague alone the number of abortions almost matched the number of births last year. A newspaper survey on newregulations to permit legal abortions showed that a great majority of women
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  • 370 6  -  By WILLIAM HUMPHRIES HOUSTON, Texas, (Reuter) Workers at the Manned Spacecraft Centre's Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL), where the Apollo 11 astronauts will spend several weeks in quarantine after their return from the moon, have been warned against any unauthorised talk about their job. Such
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 367 7  -  By Our Market Reporter sia vestprd^v tradine ,n th S,oc Elchl ne« of Malayquiet or the tetter par* of the day® r eaS and ,he arket < ath it wa 5 T o h nlv U Uu y in a t 1 h n
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    • 832 7 OUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms 13 of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS Acma SI.BI (1) $l.BO (1); Ben $1.97 (7) $1.96 (1>; Borneo $1.68 (7);
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    • 254 7 TO MEET the expanding market for stainless steel products, Diethelm Aluminium Division has set up an independent stainless steel department under the management of Mr. A. Jennes. The new department, which Is part of the Aluminium Division's diversification programme. is housed in a separate
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    • 135 7 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI> Gold prices closed mixed in moderately active trading yesterday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold gained 7-1/2 cents for a morning fixing of $41.90 per troy ounce and remained at that level for the second fixing. Go'd in Zurich rose
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    • 61 7 JOSEPH No. 7. 11-7-69 NEW YORK. Frl. (UPI) Rubber futures closed 45 points higher across the board yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange. There were no sales. (Bid) (Ask) July 27.80 Sept. 27.25 27.50 Nov. 26.75 27.25 Jan. 25.95 26.65 March 25.85 26.15 May 25.80 26.15 July
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    • 13 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $625 per picul, up $3.87*.
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    • 127 7 FRANKFURT. Fri. (Reuter) —West German press reports on recent recommendations made bv an independent committee of economic experts to the German government caused a temporary slump on the Frankfurt Foreign Exchange market here today The dollar fell to 3.9990/ 4.000 against the mark after opening little
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    • 95 7 LONDON. rri. (UPI) Rubber closed very steady yesterday with spot 26-3/4 27. SETTLEMENT HOUSE Aug. 26-1/4 26-1/2 Sept 27-1/8 27-3 8 Oct. 26 26-1/4 Oct. Dec. 25-15 16 26 Jan March 25-3-'l6 25-4'16 April/June 25 25-3/16 July Sept 24-13/16 24-15'16 Oct/Dec. 24-5 8 24-13/16
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    • 76 7 TAIPEI. Fri. (Reuter) Taiwan's export of reprocessed goods this year Is expected to top US$4OO million an Increase of 11 per cent over last year, the Central News Agency reported yesterday. According to the Board of Foreign Trade, more than US $2OO million worth
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    • 64 7 NEW DELHI. Fri. (Reuter) India will supply railway wagons worth 1 million rupees (£555.500) to Sudan under a contract signed recently, it was announced this week. The contract was finalised by the State Trading Corporation of India following the visit to Khartoum last week of the
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    • 58 7 MANILA. Fri. (UPI) Philippine exports of coconut products amounted to only US $4B million during the first six months of 1969. according to the Philippine Coconut Administration. The figure was about US $36.8 million or 43.4pp r cent less than the US$B4 8 million registered
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    • 286 7 AUGUST first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 74J cents per lb., up five eighths of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. The market opened half a cent steadier on better
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    • 77 7 HONG KONG Fri. (LTI) Money Quotations: Hon? Kong dollars 6 ***** per U.S. dollars Hons Kong dollars 6.10 per U.S. dollar TT Hong Kong dollars 14 54 per pound sterling Hong Kong dollars 310.25 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness Hong Kong dollars 162 6 per
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    • 265 7 THE following is a berthing list released br the Port of Singapore Authority for July 12: DEPARTURE: Godowns Vessels 3 4 Chios 10/11 Asmara 19 Rasdolnoje NW 5 Giang Ann 21/22 Yushun Maru 27 28 Tamuraeverett 33/34 Kyokai Maru 40/41 Yamatsuru Maru 42 43 Nienburg 44 State
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    • 88 7 BANGKOK Frl (Reuter) The Thai government has sold another tons of white rice 100 per cent second grade, to merchants in Hong Kong, Malaysia and SingaPOr^ a SrtA 0 w« S lB1 d wr S "on a about £5 lower than the current
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    • 186 7 NEW YORK Fri. (UPI) Prices on the New York Stock Exchange dropped sharply yesterday for the fourth day in a row, reflecting Investor concern over international developments and the g-.ate of the economy. Shortly before the close the UPI stock market Indicator was off
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    • 149 7 LONDON. Fri. (UPI) Industrial shares stayed on the down-track yesterday under the shadow of Wall Street's wakeness but the pace of the stock market decline slowed. The index was 1.9 lower at 38.9 shortly before trading ended. In the two previous days the Index has
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    • 42 7 MYNT 6 11th July NEW YORK, Fri. (UPI) Do w Jones closing averages yesterday on the New York stock exchange; 30 Industrials 847.79 20 Rails 206.90 15 Utilities 121.36 65 Stocks 289.22 40 Bonds 72.45 Commodity future* index 140.69.
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    • 646 7 SINGAPORE change sold and officially listed at business. Stock Exother prices the close of INDUSTRIALS AC MA Ben Co. CD Borneo Bhd Boustead Camel Plywood XBI C. Sugar Cold storage Chemical Co. C>cle A- Carriage D B.S Dun lop E smelting E.A.I Esso Ords Eupoc Pulp
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    • 122 7 THE Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING TT. or O D. ready: Deutsche Marks $76.9675; Holland Guilders $84.4425; Swiss Francs 571.5625; Belgian Francs 56.1275; French Francs
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    • 97 7 THE noon prlcea at the Sin gapore Chinese Produce Exchange j esterday were >— Bvet Coconut Oil (FOB) Bulk Coconut Oil (FOB) Drum Mltrrt Pnnra ILM ge iter 4:.75 50 25 Muntok White Pepper (F.OB) ***** Sarawak White Pepper (F.O.B.) Sarawak Special Black Pepper (FOB.) 06% N.L.W Lampong Special
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    • 51 7 (Man at en Price 1ft Malayan XD 2 70 2nd Malayan XD 1.95 3rd Malayan 123 The Com. ind .99 1 09 Tbe Saving Fund 1.11 1.21 M. Invert Fund 1.25 1.35 l«t Hong Kong 152 1.58* 2nd Hong Kong XD 104 109* Sterling Com 5/8 (•Bom Kong
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    • 381 7 ARRIVALS 600 a.m. MSA MLO29 Lumpur 9.00 a.m. MSA Mil 19 K. Lumpur 935 a m. MSA ML529 PbnomPenh 1015 a.m. MSA MLI2I R Lumpur 1025 a.m. MSA MLOOS Penan*, ipofi, K. Lumpur. Malacca 10.80 a.m. THAI TG42S Bangkok 12.30 p.m. GARUDA GABO6 Medan 1.10 p.m. MSA ML4SI
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  • 264 9 'Moonshining' With NonStop Music THE only night-club in Singapore that probably provides a swinging time with a variety of non-stop music is the Moonshine Night-club, housed in the spacious surroundings of Ocean Park Hotel This open-air "groovy joint" which transforms into a fairyland of twinkling lights at night is slowly
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  • 356 9  -  By Sheilah Graham LONDON. Fri. PETER Sellers has a new girl Miranda Quarry, stepdaughter of Lord Mancroft. His chums believe the romance to be serious. One fact is obvious. Peter is happier than at any time since his divorce from Britt Ekland.
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  • 223 9 CHELTENHAM. England. Frt. <UPI» Hundreds of weeping mourners filled Cheltenham Cemetery yesterday for the burial of pop star Brian Jones. 25, who drowned last week. The funeral for the one-time lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones was privately held In Cheltenham Parish Church, where
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  • 155 9 SYDNEY. Fri. (UPI) British Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger, departed for Melbourne todav to take UP his title role in filming the life story of Australia's notorious bush ranger, Ned Kelly. Jagger left behind his g:rl friend. British pop singeractresi. Marianne Faithfull. who collapsed into a
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  • 70 9 READING. England. Fri (Reuter) Prayer* were said yesterday for singer Maiiann* Faithfull at the convent where she was once a pupil. Miss Faithfull is in a coma in a hospital in Sydney. Australia where she went with her boyfrien<j Mick Jagfer to make a film. The Mother
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 357 9 SHAW I L I D P Phone *****1 OPENS TOD\Y! No Free List fi Shows Tortav A Tomorrow! 11 a m 1 15. «.«>. a 9.15 p m at M nite Tonisht Tomorrow Ll Ch:n?. Lo Lieh. David Chiang THE INVINCIBLE FIST" •A SHAW FRCDcCTION> Mandarin in Shawscope. Color I
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    • 280 9 TODAY and YOU... Saturday, July 12, 1969. STAR GAXER>O xts, AKIIS yV 21 r» 9-27-32-42 54-6373 y/ TAURUS AH- 20 I HAY 20 *3-12-20-29 <9 32-82-87 GEMINI <2? M4 r ,f yfcJtiNi l9 OJI-53-59-40 9O CANCIR 2l fafrjULY 22 37-46-57 > 5-25-44-47 >55-69 84-85 VIRGO Al/«. 23 Br CLAY R.
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    • 119 9 M This Philip Marlowe's. gun It makes noise 1 i «T -v-r" "T James Garner Gayle Hunnicutt Based On Raymond Chandler's norel, Little Sisters"""^ TONIGHT MIDNISHT! KcathatJ OPENS TODAY! I HI 111 I 11am. 1.30. 4, 6.30 0.30pm "THE MOST DIFFERENT FILM OF THE YEAR IT CUTS DEEP INTO THE
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    • 236 9 O R G A NISATION ODEON I PALACE 21-116 I 44 7578 NOW SHOWING! 11. 1.30. 4.00. 1.30. 4 00. 6.30 9.30 p.m. il 6 45 A 9.30 p.m. MOMi"Hearen With A Gun" Glenn Ford PanavtMoa Color ODEON. TONIGHT MIDNIGHT' "For Just A Few Mere Dollar*" Giuliano Gemma Color Scope
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    • 163 10 BIG BEN JIMMY LAD CISCO ZODAIC RACE GLOBE STREAM Landaulet Chiaramella HONEY DEAR Globe Stream Beautiful Dreamer B. DREAMER Globe Stream Honey Dear HONEY DEAR Chiaramella Landaulet RACE 1 SONG OF LOVE Eeilaishang Uaryl's Faith SONG OF LOVE Daryl's Faith Eeilaishang SONG OF LOVE Professional Eeilaishang EEILAISHANG Song Of
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    • 288 10 PRAGUE. Fri. (Reuter) The decision of the International Lawn Tennis Federation (1.L.T.F.) yesterday to open major tournaments to amateurs and two new categories of professionals could spell the end of the Davis Cup as an exclusively amateur competition, conference sources said here. The
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    • 220 10 DUBLIN. Fri. (Reuter) American professional Billie Jean King, beaten finalist at Wimbledon, moved into the finals of the Carrolls £5.000 Open tennis championships here yesterday with a 4-6. 6-3, 6-2 win over compatriot Rosemarie Casals The girl from San Francisco provided tougher opposition than in
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    • 123 10 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Aston Villa, the English Second Division soccer club seeking to regain their former greatness, yesterday signed brothers Bruce and Neil Rioch from their division Luton Town for a combined fee of £llO,OOO. Bruce, a 21-year-old freescoring centre-forward, and Neil, 18-year-old centre-half who
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    • 112 10 WELLINGTON. (N.Z) Fri. (Reuter) The Wellington Anglican diocesan synod is to ask the New Zealand Rugby Football Union to cancel the proposed 1970 New Zealand tour of South Africa. The synod accepted a fivepart motion asking sports administrators and players to refuse fixtures with
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    • 83 10 KAISERSLAUTERN. West Germany, Fri. (Reuter) West Germany's former European heavyweight champion Karl Mildenberger yesterday announced his official retirement from the boxing ring. The 31- year-old boxer, who turned professional 11 years ago. said from now on he intended concentrating on his new job as a brewery
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    • 388 10 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Ken Higgs. the former England medium pace bowler, took Lancashire to the brink of victory against Somerset on the second day of their three-day English County cricket championship match at Taunton yesterday. Fiery Higgs skittled out five batsmen for 32 as Somerset slumped
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    • 847 10  -  GOING: SOFT BY BIG BEN CONG OF LOVE has improved tremendously since his last start second to Marker Buoy over the Penang 6f last month and despite meeting a stronger field he holds a first rate chance to topple the opposition in Race Two
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    • 31 10 Big Ben Song of Love Top Kingdom Onassis Jimmy Lad Song of Love Maeondo Blasted Oak Cisco Song of Love Lucius Quintus Onassis Zodiac Honey Dear Sir Walter Rexrosa
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    • 187 10 BAASTAD, Sweden. Fri. (Reuter) Australianborn Martin Mulligan of Italy, the top seed, reached the men's singles quarter finals in the international hard court tennis championships with a straightset win over French teenager Georges Goven here yesterday. Mulligan's all-round consistency and speed about court gave
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    • 181 10 BINOAPORE is the venue of a Japan against the Rest of the World wrestling tournament at the Gay World Stadium tonight a nd tomorrow. It will feature six Internationally ranked Japanese wrestlers led by their heavyweight champion 6 feet 10 Inches tall 320-pounder Giant
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    • 1432 10 Race 1: Class 6 -6 Furs.—2.00 p.m. ($4,800) (FOR LOCAL RIDERS ONLY) 900 Osman T Tan 14 1. 783 Beautiful DrtaiDtj JV OBJ »j4«wa Mawi Soaidi IB 2 368 3 058 4. »4 5. 360 Okay Okay Bright Eves IV Landaulet Halland i y 8y 5y 5v
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    • 226 11 I EEDS, England, Fri. (Reuter) The West Indies lost an early wicket when thev replied to England's first innings of 223 on the second day of the third cricket Test here today. After Vanburn Holder and Gary Sobers had mopped up
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    • 105 11 LEEDS. England Frl. (Reutep John Shepherd, the West Indies all-rounder, who left the held yesterday on the opening day of the third cricket Test against England with a recurrence of back trouble, was being treated by a doctor here today. He was not expected to plav
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    • 200 11 ST. ANNES. (Lancashire). Fri. (AFP) Bob Char e*, of New Zealand, quickly stretched out ahead of his rivals when the vital third round of the British Open go f championship was D.ayed at Royal Lytham at St. Annes. here today. Charles, title winner in 1963
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    • 683 11 BUKIT TIMAH District captured the championship title at the conclusion of the fourday meet of the Singapore Combined Primary Schools' 10th annual athletic championships at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. They won the overall title with a total score ot 217J points. Second were
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    • 64 11 THE Rev. Ian Thompson (right) of the Royal Navy parrying a long lunging attack by W.O.1 Harry Werka of the Army during the Inter-Services Team Fencing Competition held at Nee Soon on Thursday. W.O.1 Werka later went on to win this and all his other electric foil bouts. The Army
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    • 197 11 US Baseball Results Standings NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) Results of yesterday's major league baseball games: AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota 6. Kansas City 5; Oakland 12. Chicago 2; Baltimore 5 B°=ton 4; Cleveland 7. Detroit 5 (11 innings); California at Seattle, postponed, ram. American League Standings East W L GB Baltimore 60
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    • 37 11 TOKYO. Fri. (AFP) The world lightweight boxing title match between the world champ Armando Ramos, of the United States, and Japan's Yoshiaki Numata. will take place at Lot Angeles Sept. 13, it was decided today.
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    • 1077 11 P M 1 r,r, H ANNFL *1 1 A Vi£lt to th P.M. 100 Opening Announce- Dentist; 9 30-9 50 Vocational Guiments m a.l Language* A- Be- dance Sec II Careers in the a-ar-.nh Bahama Kebangsaan; Armed Force*; 10 15-10 35 Engi b Woody Woodpecker; 130 lush Literature Sec II
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  • 416 12 CINGAPORE can become the oil centre of Southeast Asia as the continental shelf and onshore areas in the region are producine oil that is rapidly becoming a bonanza. This was stated yesterday bv the Managing Director of Averv-Laurence (S'pore) Pte. Ltd.. Mr.
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  • 206 12 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board has set up three new departments research, facilities and marketing to promote tourism more effectively. This was announced yesterday by the chairman of the STPB. Tan Sri Runme Shaw, at a press conference. Tan Sri Shaw also introduced the new
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  • 66 12 A PASSENGER in a taxi was yesterday robbed by its driver and three other passengers of $l5 and a watch worth $l5. The victim. Khok Leng Seng, told police he was held by the men, one of them armed with a dagger. after the driver had diverted the taxi
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  • 121 12 THE Singapore Government has placed quota restriction on the import of instant coffee Into the Republic. The quota is placed at 105 per cent of 1968 imports. Traders were informed of the new restriction in a circular made by the Controller of Imports and Exports yesterday
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  • 35 12 THE Commander of the Far East Fleet of the Royal Navy, Vlce-Aamiral Sir William O'Brien will leave here today for a week-long visit to the Philippines as a guest of the Philippine Navy.
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  • 109 12 TWO Singapore students. S. Rajakulendran and M. Mohanan Menon have been awarded scholarships bv the Indian Government to take up a technology course in naval architecture at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal. The students were selected by the Public Services Commission for these scholarships
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  • 230 12 A seven-year-old girl who dashed across the road and ran back when her mother called, was knocked down bj a taxi travelling towards Johore on Jan. 25. the Fourth District Judge, Mr. Dalip Singh was told yesterday. In the witness-box was Ng Boon Siew. 47. giving his
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  • 231 12 TWO Singapore Air Cadets will leave for the United States of America on July 23 under the International air cadet exchange programme to foster closer International ties between the two countries Thev are Sgt Kang Choon Llat of Cardiff Grove and Cpl Sundrampilla Jegathesan of
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  • 37 12 AN INDONESIAN. Mohamed Ali so Abdul Kareen. bearing identity card number *****65 has been permanently banned from entering Singapore by the Defence Minister. Mr. Lim Kim San. This is announced in a Government Gazette notification yesterday.
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  • 221 12 NINE young women will add a touch of feminity to an otherwise all-male scene at the Singapore Polytechnic's ninth graduation ceremony this morning. The ceremony to be held at the Singapore Conference Hall will see a total of 312 graduands recelvng their diplomas from Dr. Ong
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  • 246 12 INDUSTRIALISTS from Singapore, Japan and Thailand are pooling their resources for the establishment of a joint venture in the Republic costing $l2 million. The partners are the Parnisia Corporation Ltd. of Japan. Suwisa Limited of Thailand and S. P. S. Trading Company Limited of
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  • 238 12 A 21-MEMBER goodwill delegation from the Tenri I'niversitv Judo Club of Japan will arrive in Singapore on July 17 in the course of a goodwill tour of Southeast Asian countries. The team, led by Mr. Rllchl Yamazoe. a member of the University's Board of
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  • 88 12 A 40-YEAR-OLD man. Ng Boh Chve. was charged in the N'mth Magistrate's Court yesterday with theft of a car stereo tape-player and a bicycle. Ng is alleged to have stolen the articles, worth 5150 between May and July 10. The tape-plaver was stolen from Lee
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  • 79 12 THE Welfare Association for the members of the Ministry of Defence (Army) F.re Services will hold a grand variety show at the National Theatre on August 31 at 8 p.m Among some of the artistes who will anrear are Rita Chow Rose Chan Alice Fong, Chew'
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  • 34 12 A street clearing exercise will be conducted from 11.45 D m on Tuesday to 8 a.m. on Wednesday by about 55 military personnel at North Bridce Road. Hi eh Street and Coleman Street.
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  • 175 12 THE managing director of lYeng Chan Engineering Company (Pte) Ltd.. Mr. Choy Yew Mun flew off early yesterday for Copenhagen on the first leg of his world tour "to ell Singapore and the facilities the Republic offers in shipbuilding and shlp-repalr« i^ig." He was seen off
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  • 124 12 THE proprietor of a medical shop in North Bridge Road, was fined $5O or one week's imprisonment by the Eighth Court Magistrate. Mr Francis Remedios. yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing poisons for sale. Ho Khai Guan. 33. committed the offence at
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  • 203 12 THREE labour officers will leave for Japan next week to take charge of the welfare of some 60 Singapore workers now undergoing training at the 1.H.1, shipyards for the construction of ocean-going ships. These officers. Messrs Cheok Yew Chuan. Goh Pens Chua and Lim Hens
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  • 41 12 Operation for Fisheries Training Centre at Cnangi, will be signed bv representatives of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). the Food Organisation (FAO) and the Singaoore Government on Monday at the Conference Room of" the Min*r?,rv National and Rural Development.
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    • 96 12 Time tit Tide High Tide (Todoy) Singapore Town- 10.42 am. (6.7 ft.); 9.04 p.m. (7.8 ft.) Naval Dockvard: 11.01 a.m. (8.5 ft.); 859 p.m. (8 5 ft.). Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 3.33 a.m. (1 ft.); 3.24 p.m. (4.4 ft.). Naval Dockyard: 3.21 a.m. (1.9 ft 3.43 D-m. (5.4 ft.).
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