Eastern Sun, 25 July 1969

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  • Title Section
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    26 1 EASTERN SUN 3rd ANNIVERSARY BONUS: PRICE 10 CENTS. SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1068 Friday* 25 July 1969. ft MC(P) 0737
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    Lock icon SUCCESSFUL SPLASHDOWN
    952 1 UPSIDE DOWN IN MODERATE SWELL ABOARD USS HORNET, Pacific Ocean, Thurs. (Reuter UPI) Apollo 11 ended its historic mission today and splashed down successfully in the high Pacific waves, bringing back safely to earth astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin. The flawless trip to the moon,
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    Lock icon Importance Of Correct News—Razak
    196 1 KUALA LUMP U R. Thurs. The importance of a free flow of communication between the people and the government was emphasised today by the Deputy Premier and Director of Operations. Tun Abdul Razak. Addressing senior officers of departments under the ministry of Information and Broadcasting in
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    Lock icon Emergency To Stay
    83 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs The 82nd Conference of Rulers today endorsed the Yang diPertuan Agong's Proclamation of Emergency in West Malaysia. The conference proposed that the Emergency Laws should not be withdrawn unless it could fully guarantee that the May 13 disturbances would not be repeated The rulers
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    Lock icon CLAY GETS FIVE YEARS
    41 1 HOUSTON, Texas. Thurs. (Reuten Former world heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay was sentenced for a second time to five years in prison today for refusing to submit to army conscription. H e was also fined U.S. SlO.OOO.
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    Lock icon 'Nixon Won't Be Vietnam Drumming'
    205 1 THE PRESIDENT S TRIP President Nixon will not attempt to win support of the U.S. stand in Vietnam during his forthcoming five-nation Asian visit, according to Marshall Brement. head of the political section of the American embassy here yesterday. Addressing a luncheon gathen-ing of the
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    Lock icon Reality On Race: Only Peace Hope
    640 1 CERTAIN governments in South-east Asia have been criticised for not readily recognising the futility in trying to dispose racial problems by just arbitrary decrees. A prominent sociologist. Dr. Andrew W. Lind stated this when he described how explosive expressions of feeling across ethnic lines
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    Lock icon SILENCE THE GREAT
    207 1 HONG KONG, Thurs. (UPI) Communist China, still silently considering a new move by the United States to improve relations, also maintained silence on the forthcoming visit to Asia by U.S. President Nixon. The Peking Regime's silence extended to the Apollo 11 Mission that took three American astronauts
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    Lock icon Police Officers Honoured
    35 1 THESE two police officers were among 42 in the force who were honoured in a ceremony yesterday. Left. Prob. Inspector Seow Bock Kee. and Inspector Joseph Chia (R). Story in page 2.
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    Lock icon BONN-TOKYO DIRECT LINE TODAY
    99 1 BOXN. Than. (AFP) Werner Dollinger. the West German Post Master General will telephone Toshio Komoto, the Japanese Post Office Minister tomorrow to mark the opening of the first direct cable telephone service between West Germany and JapanUp to now telephone communications between the two countries have
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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  • Article
    Lock icon Clerk Denies Bribe Charge
    242 2 DAY TWO OF JOHN GOH, a lawyer's clerk charged with corruption, yesterday denied he ever offered $l,OOO to Mr. Lim Sal Weng, assistant examiner with the Inland Revenue Department "to overlook any queries" over the estate duty of a deceased. He told the Third District Court
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    Lock icon Actor To Conduct Workshop
    147 2 A LEADING British actor has been Invited by the National Theatre Club to conduct a drama workshop both for the Club's English Drama Group and for teachers concerned with drama in their schools. Mr. James Cairncross. who has over 30 years experience in the theatre, will
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon IBM Man Off To Germany
    88 2 Mr. V. Martin us. Personnel/ Communications Manager of IBM in Singapore, left on a Lufthansa Jet this week to undertake a management development instructors course, which will require him to travel half way round the world to complete it. He will be away for about
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    Lock icon Red Hot Tirade On Lim Chin Siong
    338 2 HE IS I ANTI-P REACTING os expected with Communist-* ty I o hysteria, the Borison Sosialis yesterday denounced Lim Chin Siong for quitting the party and politics and his support for Singapore's independence. Rejecting Lim's resignation as secretary-general, the Party in the same
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    Lock icon Two Thais On Arms Offence
    90 2 TWO Thais were charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday with illegal possession of revolvers and 499 rounds of ammunition. They were Prasat Chuen■uang and Pradit Pimmanrojanakul of Bangkok. Chuensung. 24. and Pimmanrojanakul. 38, were alleged to have committed the offence on board a vessel.
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    Lock icon Joint Sea Games Complete Success
    220 2  -  By K.S. SIDHU THE effectiveness of joint defence structures in South-east Asia was recently demonstrated by the navies of the four Commonwealth allies Malaysia, Britain, New Zealand and Australia during a large-scale maritime-air exercise code-named "Julex 69." For the first time in the region, sophisticated
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    Lock icon Officers Honoured In Ceremony
    210 2 THE Acting Commissioner of Police. Mr. Cheam Kim Seang. yesterday presented High Commendation and Commendation Certificates and Valedictory letters to 20 police officers and 22 retired police officers at a simple ceremonv held at the Police Training School In Thomson Road. Only two officer* with a
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    Lock icon Princess Alexandra To Visit Changi Hospital
    106 2 PRINCESS Alexandra of Britain will visit Royal Air Force's Changi Hospital here when she conies for a short stay in the Republic In connection with Singapore's 150 anniversary celebrations early next month. The princess is the Air Commandant in Chief of the Princess Mary's
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    Lock icon Soccer Star Our 'Lucky Winner'
    61 2 YESTERDAY'S lucky winner caught by our cameraman turned out to be national footballer. Andy Yeo Andy was caught—this time bv Jimmy Chow while waiting for a taxi. Being a sportsman, naturally Yeo praised our Sports Pagps as among some of the best He can claim
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    Lock icon Week-Long Film Festival Opens From Sunday
    284 2 AN Indonesian film, "Lcki2 Tak Bernama" or "Man Without A Name", will be shown at Galaxy on July 28 at 9.15 p.m. to stcr. o week-long Film Festival to commemorate the 150 th anniversary of the founding of Singapore. The Acting Minister for Culture.
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    Lock icon Hiker May Try Asian Highway
    89 2 A 23-vear-old Canadian hitch hiker who had to work on hoard freighters to earn his fare arrived in Singapore yesterday in his quest to see the world. Robert Beatty, a sociology and psychology graduate told Eastern Sun at the airport that he had gone through
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    Lock icon Trade Delegates To 'Explore And To Serve'
    254 2 THE visiting Indian Composite Sales-Cum Study delegation now in Singapore hopes to provide technical know-how to Asian countries to improve their relationship with India. Stating this, the leader of the delegation. Mr. H. L. Somany yesterday said that his country was willing to
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  • Article
    Lock icon Strict Precautions To Prevent Moon Germs
    1059 3 HOUSTON, Thurs. (Reuter) The United States is taking stringent precautions to prevent any possible contamination of earth by some unknown "Moon Germ" when the Apollo 11 astronauts return to earth. Though the consensus among scientists is that there is virtually no likelihood of life
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    Lock icon Varieties Of Moon Rock Expected
    289 3 SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Thurs. (UPI) A geologist reported Wednesday Apollo lis astronauts landed on a stretch of lunar plain littered with fragments from more rugged areas far away. There is a good chance the explorers may be bringing some back. Eugene Shoemaker said in a
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    Lock icon Astronauts' Wives Taking It Easy
    386 3 EL LAGO. Texas, Thurs. (UPI) With their husbands taking it easy on their homeward journey from the moon, the Apollo 11 wives did the same thing Wednesday. After Monday's safe blastoff from the surface of the moon by Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E Aldrin
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    Lock icon 'The Earth Is Getting Larger ...And The Moon Smaller'
    419 3 SPACE CENTRE, Houston. Thurs. (UPI) Ground to spacecraft conversation about the geological features of the landing spot on the moon. Neil A. Armstrong described how he selected his rock samples: "You remember that I initially started on the side of the
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    Lock icon Mooncar For Exploration
    112 3 HUNTSVILLE.. labama. T'nurs (Reuter) Future lunar explorers may be able to travel several miles from their base by riding in a "mini-tnoon-car" now being rushed into development. Several U.S. aerospace companies are expected to submit bids next month for design and production of a "manned lunar roving
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    Lock icon Nixon s Still On The Phone
    87 3 SAN FRANCISCO. Thurs. (USIS) —President Nixon telephoned the wives of Apollo-11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong. Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins to congratulate them on the success of their husbands' Moon mission "I'm looking forward to gome on the carrier (USS Hornet) and greeting the crew."
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    Lock icon Report From Moon: Quake Or Meteor
    534 3 SPACE CENTRE. Houston. Thurs. (UPI) The seismometer left on the moon by Apollo 11's explorers have come up with what may be the first direct evidence the moon is not a cold, dead body but instead may have an active interior like earth. It
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    Lock icon Astronauts Get Emotional, Say Thanks, Quote Psalms
    320 3 SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Thurs. (UPI) Apollo ll's moon explorers beamed to earth on Wednesday night a final, dramatic television show in which they told what the historic flight has meant to them. Each of the astronauts. Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.
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    63 3 HONG KONG. Thurs (UPI) Excerpt from a popular daily column in the EnglishLanguage China Mail: "In a way, it was a Ditv that President Nixon declared Monday a public holiday in the US "Because it disappointed all those people who went to the USIS (United States Information Service) library
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    Lock icon New Year In Japan Beat Moon Show
    157 3 TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) New Year singing attracted more television viewers In Japan than did the Apollo moon walk, the AC. Nielsen Company said Wednesday. Nielsen, an audience survey firm, said that 19.5 million television receivers were tuned to the live broadcast of the
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    Lock icon MYSTERY OR SPACE JOKE
    98 3 HOUSTON. Texas. Thurs. (Reuter) —The mystery of a Red Indian attack on Apollo 11 tonight began to look like the first practical joke from oute r space. Sounds like a locomotive whistling and puffing drifted down from the Apollo 11 spacecraft for about 3D seconds. "You
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    Lock icon Boy's Skinny Arms Saved The Day
    130 3 HOUSTON. Thurs. (Reuter) A 10-year-old boy with skinny arms has helped keep a vital Apollo 11 ground communications link working. Mission Control reported today. A Space Agency spokesman said the boy, Greg Force, slipped his arm through a two and one-half inch hole in
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    Lock icon Parks Antenna Gets Praise
    109 3 SPACE CENTRE Houston, Thurs. <UPI) The Parks Antenna in Australia. a strong link with the Apollo 11 tracking network, drew a "special boquet" of praise Wednesday from Flight Controller Cliff Charlesworth. Charlesworth said the tacking crew provided "pretty outstanding" work while picking up the TV signals
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    Lock icon ENJOYING a ride on a cable car. President Richard Nixon (right) reaches to shake hands with members of the crowd in San Francisco last Wednesday. The President is on his way to the Pacific to greet the Apollo-11 astronauts and then begin his tour of five Asian countries. – UPI photo.
    50 4 ENJOYING a ride on a cable car. President Richard Nixon (right) reaches to shake hands with members of the crowd in San Francisco last Wednesday. The President is on his way to the Pacific to greet the Apollo-11 astronauts and then begin his tour of five Asian countries. UPI photo.
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    Lock icon Brooke Freed After 4 Years In Soviet Jail, Labour Camps
    465 4 MOSCOW, Thurs. (Reuter) British lecturer Gerald Brooke flew to London and freedom today after more than four years in Soviet jails and labour camps for alleged anti-Soviet agitation and propa- ganda. But British officials declined to say whether Mr. Brooke's
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    Lock icon Two Girls Found Dead Near Beach
    168 4 BILOIX. Mississippi. Thurs fUPI) Two girls who left their small town homes to seek work in this gulf coast resort were found nude, gagged and buldegoned to death yesterday in their house near the beach. The 3-year-old brother of one of the girls was
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    Lock icon Israeli Planes Hit Egyptian Installations
    109 4 TEL AVIV. Thurs (Reuter) Israeli planes today struck at Egyptian military installations and positions in the Suez Canal region. a military spokesman announced here. It was the third Israeli air strike in the canal region within five days. The military spokesman here said it followed
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    Lock icon Egypt Ready To Battle For Every Inch Of Lost Ground
    340 4 CAIRO. Thurs. (Reuter) Egyptian leaders today review the situation on the battlefront, following President Nasser's statement yesterday that his armv is now ready and able to strike back at Israel on a large scale. In a hardhitting speech to the
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    Lock icon 'Strictly A Fun Affair,' Says Girl At Party
    825 4 Concern Over Ted Kennedy's Political Future... ARLINGTON, Virginia, Thurs. (Reuter) A 26-year-old girl at the party which Senator Edward Kennedy attended last Friday told Reporters it was "strictly a fun affair" without much drinking. Miss Esther Newburg was speaking yesterday after returning
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    Lock icon Court Orders Unwed Couple On Diet
    102 4 PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa. Thurs. (Renter) A magistrate here yesterday ordered that an unmarried couple whose five-month-old baby died of starvation spend part of a jail term on sparse diet and in solitary confinement. The couple. Bobby Titus and Maria Claasen both coloured (mixed
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    Lock icon Tanker Sinks After Collision
    237 4 MARSEILLES. Thurs. (Reuter> The Norwegian tanker. Silja. exploded and sank in the Mediterranean early today after being In collision with the 8.169-ton French passenger ship. Ville De Majunga. maritime authorities sa;d here. About 20 people were feared missing from the 52.371-ton tanker, the authorities said. Ships
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    Lock icon New Salvation Army General
    49 4 SUNBUR Y-OX-THAMES. England. Thurs. (Reuter) World leaders of the Salvation Armv yesterday elected Commissioner Erik Wickbere of Sweden as their new ceneral. General Wickberg. 65. was chosen by the traditional twothirds majority of the movement's leading officers after week-long sessions in this outer London suburb.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      25 4 TODAY and YOU... Friday, July 25, 1969. 188 yf TAURUS &S An 20 < UKf 20 iMESiI a Rf 11-14-18-38 42-50-55 r> S? as 77 a
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      1139 4 *YOUR TODAY (CHANNEL 5) PM. 3.00 Opening Announcements in all Languages and Morning Star; 3 20 Health in the Home (Malay); 340 It's Happening in Singapore (Chinese* 'Repeat). 355 Be Our Guest 'Tamil): 405 Scarlet Hill; 455 Close. 600 Prog Summary in all Language* 6On Luckv Dip. 640 Sports Parade.
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    Lock icon AMONG SINGAPORE'S BEST-DRESSED WOMEN
    232 5 WEEKLY pictorial feature by the Eastern Sun based on the photographs taken by our cameramen at official functions, parties, exhibitions, shopping centres etc. DATIN Lee Chee Shan looks very elegant here in a light grey linen cheong-sam witn matching coat which is heavily embroidered in orange
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    Lock icon INDON VICTORY IN FAK FAK
    259 5 FAK FAK, West Irian, Thurs. (Reuter) Yesterday's act, during which delegates broke down while singing the Indonesian National Anthem, merely consolidated the victory of the Indonesian Government, which earlier decided against a one-man, one-vote referendum on the subject. It said West Irian was too vast
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    Lock icon Filipino Top Security For Embassies After Incidents
    356 5 MANILA. Thurs. (UPI) A security force of about 300 uniformed and plainclothes policemen was deployed around 20 foreign embassies in Manila to-day to guard against possible violence prior to and during President Nixon's visit this week-end. Manila Police Chief. Col. Gerardo Tamayo. especially
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    Lock icon Hanoi Extends Period For Sending Gifts To G.I. Prisoners
    433 5 TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) North Vietnam has extended the period during which families of American prisoners in captivity in North Vietnam can send gifts to them from July 4 to Aug. 15. the Communist Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported yesterday. Originally the
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    Lock icon Cabinet Agrees Draft Legislation On Bank Nationalization
    341 5 NEW DELHI, Thurs. (Reuter) The Indian Cabinet yesterday approved draft legislation to nationalise 14 leading commercial hanks, informed sources here said. A bill was expected to be introduced in Parliament this week and to be debated next month, they added. The Indian Supreme
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    Lock icon 8 Bodies Found In 'Eastern Star'
    120 5 HONG KONG. Thurs. (Reuten An Investigation team today boarded the flre-ra-vaged British Freighter "Eastern Star"' and found the bodies of eight of 12 men trapped when fire raced through the ship on Sunday evening The eight bodies were discovered in the still-smoking Number Two
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    Lock icon Deshmuk: New Choice For President
    358 5 NEW DELHI. Thurs. (Reuter) Chintaman Dwaraknath Deshmuk. a former Finance Minister, was yesterday formally nominated hv three right-wing parties io contest the Presidential Elections on August 16. Nomination papers on behalf of Deshmuk. 73. were filed by the Swatantra Party, the Jan Sangh and the
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    Lock icon Peddling 'Maoism'
    312 5 HOVG KONG, Thurs. (UPI) They're using travelling salesmen and a door-to-door campaign to sell the thoughts of Mao Tsetung in Communist China. The campaign is indicative of the difficulty Mao and his comrades at the top are having in getting some of their policies accepted at the lowest
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    Lock icon LIM CHIN SIONG
    375 6 npHE decision by Lim Chin Siong to quit A politics is welcomed by many an honest mind whose sole aim in life is to see that the youths of Singapore find a decent place in society. Lim Chin Siong was once the 130 l of the younger
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    Lock icon NIXON'S ASIAN TOUR
    596 6 UCJ President Richard Nixon begins tomorrow his "Victory Tour" with a brief 20-hour visit to the Philippines Islands. The fantastic incidents of last week which made two Americans walk on the surface of the moon has quite rightly excited the usually suave business-like President and skyrocketed American
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    Lock icon TODAY'S QUOTATION
    19 6 The moat difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. Marcel Parnol.
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    Lock icon Kennedy's Future Is Clouded
    526 6 Bp Elizabeth Wharton WASHINGTON, (UPI) The longer Senator Edward M. Kennedy delays in dissipating the mystery surrounding his tragic automobile accident last week-end, the more likely it is that the incident will damage perhaps even destroy his political future. A week ago, Kennedy waa thought to
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    Lock icon TALENTTME: 'RESTRICT ENTRIES'
    87 6  -  LETTERS... RONALD C. FITZGERALD Singapore REFERENCE is made to the letter signed GEORGE TAY" in the Anniversary issue of the Eastern Sun on 17th July, 1969. Like George Tay. and many others. I too have been keenly following the current RTS Talentime series on Television. I concur
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    Lock icon Noise Protection
    165 6 HAMBURG, (DaD) This is the most original building at the Hamburg Airport which otherwise does not excel in superlatives. It is the only one of its type in the Federal Republic of Germany and possibly in the entire world. It was constructed by physicists and engineers for more
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    Lock icon KING OF SPAIN
    649 6 MADRID, (Reuter) Juan Carlos of Bourbon, named as Spain's future King, reverses a Half-century of history which has seen some of Europe's oldest monar- chies fade into oblivion. The 31-year-old Prince is the first scion of a European dynasty to be offered a vacant throne since World
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    Lock icon Man-In-Space Race
    502 6 NEW YORK, (Reutsr) Following it i chronology of some of the major developments in tho men-in-space race:— October 1957: The Soviet Union's Sputnik 1, first manmade satellite, launched into orbit around earth. November 1957: Sputnik 2 took dog Laika into space. January 1958: Explorer 1, the United States'
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    Lock icon Big Move To Cut Down Holiday Accidents
    555 6  -  By Anthony Winning PARIS, (Reuter) France is pressing the army into service in a desperate effort to reduce the carnage which claimed 4,000 lives in road accidents last summer. With the big holiday rush starting, the army is to man 64 roadside casualty
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    Lock icon 'HONDA RICE
    108 6 THANH Hoa Village, Republic of Vietnam A brandnew strain of rice is popular with the farmer in this area It's called "Honda Rice.'* Honda rice actually is IR-8. one of the hybrid "miracle rice" strains developed at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines and widely planted
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    Lock icon Burma Opens Its Doors To Tourists
    488 6  -  By Thaung Myine BANGKOK, (Renter) Burma has opened its doors slightly to let tourists squeeze in, six years after slamming it firmly shut in their faces. A Swiss tourist agency in Bangkok is now advertising a package tour of four davs and three nights
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    Lock icon The Victory Garden
    417 6  -  By Dick West t WASHINGTON, (UPI) Many consumers are trying to beat the high cost of food this summer by growing their own vegetables at home. This is work* 7 g except for one thing. It doesn't on ns < U w?? r c. may 130 a^le
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon EASIER CONDITIONS ON STOCK MARKET
      458 7  -  By OUR MARKET REPORTER GENERALLY, the same conditions prevailed in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. The market was easier for the better part of the day on continued nervous selling. 3 Share prices were reduced to "another scratch bottom" in seme active
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      Lock icon Tin Price
      13 7 The tin price for yesterday was $627.87j per picul, up 50.37j.
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      Lock icon World's 1st Plastic Airplane
      154 7 MIDLAND. Texts. Thurs. An American company has begun manufacture of the world's first plastic airplane intended for commercial production The plane, the Windecker Eagle I is the brainchild of a dentist. Dr. Leo J. Windecker, who started work on this project more than 10 years ago.
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      Lock icon RUBBER (76 3/8 Cts.) MARKET EASIER
      313 7 AUGUST first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 76-| cents per lbdown three eighths of a cent from the previous close The tone of the market was easier. After opening fractionally easier, the market eased onequarter
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      Lock icon Back From UK
      45 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Mr. Chan Kim Yong. a senior executive of Carreras Limited, here, has returned after a month's study course with Carreras Organisation In Britain. Amongst other training activities. Mr. Chan Kim Yong visited Carreras* modern factories In London and Belfast.
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      Lock icon FAR EAST MANAGER ELECTED A VICEPRESIDENT
      155 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The group general manafer of ITT Far East and 'aclflc Inc.. Mr. James APurdy. has been elected a corporate vice-president of ITT. This was announced here today by ITT's chairman and president, Mr. Harold S. Geneen Mr. Purdy was appointed Far
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      38 7 NEW YORK Thurs (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 827 95 20 Rai'.s 198 41 15 Utilities 119.34 65 Stocks 281-14 40 Bonds 72.60 Commodity Futures Index 140.73
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      252 7 THE following Is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for July 25: DEPARTURE God owns Vessels 3/4 Mene aus 13/14 Neder Rhone 19 Egda N.W.4 Perak N W. 5 Per'.is 23/24 Tsecek 27/28 Eastern Maid 31/32 Lexa Maersk 40/41 Leor.or 42/43 Neder Waal
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      Lock icon China Looks Set For Small Trade Boom
      161 7 HONG KONG, Thurs. (Reuter) China looks s«t for a minor trade boom following President Nixon'* announcements that the US. will ease certain travel and trade restriction with the vast Communist country. The announcement on Monday said that with effect from yesterday American tourists
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      93 7 THE Association of Banks in Malavsia-Singapore yesterdaymade the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency)-. SEXLING T.T. or O.D. ready: Deutsche Marks $77.0900; Holland Guilders $84.7350; Swiss Francs $71.5625; French Francs $61.9775; Danish Krone r $40.9000;
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      51 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Rubber futures closed 15 points higher on the New York Commodity Exchange yesterday. There were no sales. (Bid) (Asked) Sept 20.60 Nov 27.85 Jan 70 27.10 27.25 Mar 26.85 27.00 May 26.60 27.10 July 26.15 26.85 Locally, No. 2 RSS was 267/8 cents per
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      Lock icon London Market Depressed
      132 7 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) The market was depressed yesterday by Tuesday's Wall St. decline. Equities were marked down initially and small selling combined with virtually no buying extended earlier falls. Towards the close FT index was 6.2 down at 363.3. Oils led the decline on Wall St. advices
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1410 7 OUSINESS 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 of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS Acma $1.60 (1) $165 (1); Ben $1.65 (1); Borneo $1.58 (1) $1.56 (2) $1.55
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      511 7 MNOAPORB Rfoefc Debanre tola end otber orloea offlrlally luirn at tb« ck>*« of Dualneia. INDUSTRIALS B ft ACM A 170 BrA CO CD 1 «5 1.15 Borneo Bh<| 151 tom.i pfewood XBI i C. «uur 3 04 told 1M I'M litem tea I Co 1 41
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      83 7 LONDON. Thurs (UPI) Rubber market closed hesitant yesterday after firm with spot 27-1/2 27-7/8 Settlement House Aug 27-1 2. 27-7/8 Sept 27-5/8, 27-7/8 Oct 27-3/4. 27-15/16 Oct/Dec 27-11/16. 27-13/16 Jan/March 27. 27-1/16 April' June 26-1/2. 26-5/8 July Sept 26-1 4, 26-1/2 Oct'Dec 26. 26-1/4 Jan
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      65 7 HONG KONG. Thurs. (UPI) Monev quotations: HK$ 6 080 per U.S. dollar. HKS 6 ***** per US. dollar TT HKS 14.54 per pound sterling HKS 308 125 per ttel of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HKS 162 0 per 10.000 Japanese yen. HKS 135.5 per 100 Philippines pesos
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      96 7 THE noon ptlrtf at to* Rtni»> pore Chin*** Produce Euiiani* tttludu wtn>— »5nj Metier Loronat OH iroai Bulk ■ASM Coconut Oil fiO.75 if O B Drum Copra 3050 Monro* vsmte Pepper (FOB-) 132 sn Urswil Vlilte Pep pet 1X0 00 'FOB) Saruaan gpeclaj BUd Pepper (F OB.) 96% K.L.W
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      49 7 (Managers PtlOM > l«t Malayan XD t.M 3nd Malayan XD 1S» Jrd Malavan 1.1? Th» Com. ind. 94 104 The f>a<1nx road M Invwi rand .09 1.09 111 130 1»t Hnng Kong ISO 1 2nd Hrtas Kong XD 1 02 1.07' Stirling com. ft 6 I»BODI Kong ftmno)
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      445 7 AKKIVALB: 5-00 a.m. *ISA MLO29 Koala Lumpur. 900 a.m. MSA MLII 9 Koala Lumpur. 1015 a.m. MSA MLI2I Koala Lompor. 10X5 am. MSA MLOOS Penan*. Ipoh, Koala Lompor. Malacca. 1.10 pm. MSA ML 451 Kochang. BXS p.m. MSA MLO47 Kota Bharu. Trtniiano. Koala Lompor. J. 25 p.m. MSA
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      188 7 SHIPPING NOTICE Ideal Holiday Trip to Colourful Hongkong and back Luxurious Passenger Liner M/S "TAIPOOSHAN", 12,000 Tons Cro««. Speed 18 KnotsI FORTNIGHTLY EXPRESS 6EBVICE fOB HONGKONG SINGAPORE PENANG 6in?apar« t5 26 July in ll Aug 26 37 Aug 11/12 Sept Penang 27 29 Jul? 12 14 Aug I g 30
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      216 10  -  By BIG BEN TPOH, Thurs. Two last start winners Marker 1 Buoy (Les Coles) and Bernadetfe Bunty (Kingston) were associated in an interesting workout over 3f in 39 on a good track here this morning. They are retaining their winning form. Fiery
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      156 10 SYDNEY, Thurs. (Reuter) Australian jockey George Moore who fractured his collarbone in a race fall at suburban Canterbury track yesterday will be asked to give up racing by his wife. Iris. Mrs. Iris Moore said today: "I've been trying for years to get him to
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      141 10 INGLEWOOD, California, Thurs. (UPI) World bantamweight champion Lionel Rose of Australia and Mexico's Ruben Olivares. the No. 1 contender signed yesterday to meet in a 15-round fight for the title at the Forum on Aug. 22. Rose a 21-year-old aborigine from Melbourne, will
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      46 10 DUBLIN. Thurs. (Reuter) Ireland's Rugby Union team are planning a short tour of the Argentine next year. A spokesman for the Irish Rugby Football Union said here yesterday that negotiations were already well underway for a seven-match tour in August or September next year.
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      257 10 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter)— Denis Howell. British Minister for Sport said here yesterday he thought the Olympic Games might become open to professionals by 1980. Referring to the 1968 Games, he said: "I suppose looking at the Mexico Olympics one sawlots of professionals knocking
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      353 10 KHOO YEE HOCK, a newcomer to competitive table tennis. entered the third round of the National Junior Table-Ten-nis Championships, when he beat Leow Heong Fook 3-2 at Khee Fatt School on Wednesday nightResults: Junior Women's (Singles): Bottom Section (quarter-final): Toh Chuwe Kim bt Ling Yoke Chee
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      3009 10 A SATURDAY Race 1: Clan S< Dtv. z— «Vi Foes.—2 .00 pan ($5,000) (FOR LOCAL RIDERS ONLY) I. 673 Bintang Singapore 6v 900 Stngapura Stable Samsurt IS 2 710 Court's Gift 5y 813 Puchong Stable Leong 4 3 Sll Rjk.imion 8v 8 13 Gera Stable E
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      173 10 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) The National Baseball League crushed the American League 9-3 for their seventh successive All-Star game victory yesterday before a capacity crowd of 45.259 at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium here. A pair of homers by big Willie McCovey and another by Johnny Bench helped
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      143 10 EAST LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) The Australian Rugby Union team scored a clear 22-9 victory over a spirited Border side here yesterday. The tourists, dominating In the llneouts. scrums and loose mauls, kept play in their opponents* half for most of the game. They played classic passing
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      355 11 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) A paralysing bowling s pell by Northamptonshire's Mike kettle highlighted yesterday's play in the English County cricket championship. The 25-vear-old left-arm medium-pacer ripped through struggling Middlesex's tail with four wickets at the cost of four runs off only 22 deliveries His
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      90 11 MEXICO CITY. Thurs. (UPI World welterweight champion Jose Napoles will defend his boxing title Sept. 2b in Los Angeles against either Ernie Lopez or Emile Griffith. Napoles' manager announced yesterday. Napoles. a native of Cuba but lighting out of Mexico City, will ask USS 100.000 for
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      81 11 BRISBANE. Thurs (Reuter) —Greek inside-left Kritikoupolous was sent off the field for hitting an opponent one minute before full-time in the soccer international between Greece and Australia, which ended in a 2-2 draw here last night. Greece, hoping to level the series following their 1-0
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      331 11 RAFFLES Institution trounced their traditional rivals St. Andrews School bv 24 points to three to emerge the Combined Schoofs senior division league champions, at the People's Association ground yesterday. Raffles' points mace from six tries and two penalties to the Saints' penalty. With this victory. Raffles
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      87 11 SYDNEY. Thurs. (Reuter)— Japanese challenger to the world featherweight title. Fighting Harada of Japan, will be 100 per cent fit for his 15-round match against Australia's Johnny Famechon next Monday, Richie Inoue, spokesman for the Japanese party said today. Harada wi'.l exercise at his motel today
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      49 11 INDIANAPOLIS Indiana. Thurs (VPI) —Luis Ayala. a 36-year-old Chilean who is a teaching pro in Puerto R.co pulled the day's major upset yesterday by beating fifthneeded Bob Lutz of US 8-6 6-2. in the men's singles of the national clay courts tennis championships at W T oodstock.
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      155 11 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter)<The lowly-rated New Zealanders had England reeling at lunch on the first dav of their first cricket Test at Lord's here today. England, electing to bat after winning the toss, were 68 for five at the break after struggling throughout the morning against ag:le
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      385 11 TO LET one unfurnished two room terrace house with hall kitchen 8 Lorong Bengkok. Singapore. Reasonable rent ring *****3. Houses Land For Sale 4 CNIT BLOCK TERRACE HOI'SE "WATTEN PARK A TYPE" 2-Storev Garden Terrace House* at 44 Bu ll w J 1 311 Road. <opa Ch-.nese H:s?h School spacious
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      642 11 TENDER P W.D. SINGAPORE TENDERS are Invited from P.W.D. Registered Contractors and from "Specially Registered Contractors" for the following works: Laying of Main Sewers along Braddell Road Thomson Road Area Scheme (Contract I). Civil Engineering Contractors above $750,000/Closing Date: 26.8.69 at 10.00 a.m. Laying of Trunk Sewer II along Beach
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      573 11 TENDERS F.W.D. SINGAPORE TENDERS are invited from P.W.D. Registered Contractors for the undermentioned works 1. Widening of Aljunied Road from Sima Avenue to MacPherson Road. "Civil Engineering" or "Roads" contractors above $lOO,OOO/-. Closing Date:- 8-8-89 at 10.000 a.m. 2. (i) Jalan Doaun from Balestier Road to Sungei Whampoa. (11) Reserve
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      243 11 NOTICE FAR EASTERN FREIGHT CONFERENCE FAR EAST/GULF OF ADEN AND RED SEA PORTS CONFERENCE RUBBER RATES OF FREIGHT Reference is made to previous announcements concerning the temporary reduction in the Rubber and Latex rates originally introduced for ten months on Ist March 1968. The reduced rates, namely:Rubber, Crepe M U.
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    109 12 WE regret having wrongly reported in our issue of July 22 on this page that Mr. Quek Cheng Choy (misprinted as •Quek Cheng Chong') had testified in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court in proceedings against Mr. Gerald Fernandez, a former secretary of Malay-sia-Singapore Airlines. We have now ascertained that
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    107 12 ENCHE Ismail Sulaiman has been promoted to Branch Manager of IBM World Trade Corporation (Malaysia). He will report directly to Mr. M. C. Overton. General Manager of IBM World Trade Corporation (Singapore/Malaysia). Enche Sulaiman joined IBM in 1953 and was the first local employee recruited by IBM
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    145 12 STUDENTS and staff of the Singapore Polytechnic will observe the Republic's 150 th anniversary this year with a season of "Open Days" at the Poly campus in Shenton Way from the 15th to the 17th of August. The celebrations, organised jointly by the institution s Students'
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    94 12 THIS week's Toto Draw which carries a big "jackpot" prize of 585.000—will be telecast over Channel 5 of Television Singapura "live" on Sunday, July 27 at 3.20 p.m. A director of Singapore Pools (Pte) Ltd., Mr Lim Bian Han will be chairman of the t>anel of
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    245 12 TEN countries will take part in the combined Festival of Chess and the F.I.D.E. East Asian Zone Chess championships, commencing in Singapore on Aug. 3. The countries are: Philippines. Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong. Malaysia. New Zealand, Singapore. U.S. SR. and the United Kingdom. The
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    104 12 AN American journalism, communication and television consultant. Dr. Kenneth E. Christiansen arrived here yesterday for a six-day visit to examine and assist in the study of educational television in the Republic. Dr. Christiansen was met at the airport by Mr. Francis Chia a representative of the Ministry
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    193 12 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board will play hosts to the visiting Hong Kong filmstars, Angela Yu Chien and Ting Pei, who will arrive here on July 30 to take part in the Singapore Film Festival. During their way, the Board will take
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    162 12 Sunpix. THE two girls in striking "newspaper" dresses. Miss Nancy Chua (left) and Miss Priscilla Lim. are members of the Eastern Sun's small task force of promotion workers. Their Mission: to inform the public of our special bonus of 10 cents a copy of
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