Eastern Sun, 27 July 1969

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  • 25 1 EASTERN SUN 3rd ANNIVERSARY BONUS: PRICE 10 CENTS. SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1070 Sunday Edition 27 July 1969. MC(P) 0737
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  • 82 1 STOCKHOLM, Sat. (Reuter) The Nobel Foundation is to hold a meeting of "wise men" from East and West here in September to discuss strategy for human survival. The foundation, which annually awards the Nobel prizes, said today some 35 phi 1 o sophers, historians, lawyers, biologists,
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  • 89 1 MANILA. Sat. rUPI) The 9-year-old son of President Marcos was told tonight he would be one of the passengers on trip to Mars. Ferdinand R Marcos Jr.. popularly known among Filipinos as Bongbong, was told of it by President Nixon at a state dinner
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  • 857 1 HOUSTON, Texas, Sat. (Reuter and UPI) The first rock samples from the moon arrived at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) here yesterday with the astronauts who collected them. Both men and samples are in quarantine for tests. Preliminary tests have begun on the samples
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  • 372 1 'Age Of The Moon' MANILA, Sat. (Reuter) Mankind Had entered a new age, the "age of the moon, President Nixon said in an arrival speech in Manila today. Mr. Nixon said he had come to Asia in the pursuit of peace. '•For I
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  • 27 1 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) Police and greyhound racing officials are probing a suspected attempt at mas s doping at a dog meeting at suburban Hackney today.
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  • 46 1 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) England were 301 for nine wickets in their second innings a lead of 322 at the close of the third day of the first cricket test against New Zealand at Lord's here today. First innings scores*. England 190, New Zealand 169.
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  • 203 1 THE Commonwealth Development Finance Company Ltd. is to increase its activities in Singapore and is prepared to invest $lO-$l5 million annually in the area. The CDFC decision to Increase Investment In the Republic was prompted by Singapore's "excellent potential" in the service Industries, the
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  • 215 1 MARSEILLES. Sat. (Reuter) A Caravelle airliner of Air Aigerie crashed south of Algiers early today, and early reports said 34 of the 36 people on board were killed. The plane was on a special weekly charter flight to the Southern Algerian Oil
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  • 490 1 LONDON, Sot. (Reuter) Israeli planes strafed Egyptian frontline positions today as tank and ground war fighting raged along .u. whole lenath of the Suex Oonol. Today's attack was the fifth by Israeli planes on the area in seven days. Israeli Jet planes streaked
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 99 1 if NS In T Issue... PAGE 2 "Help for those who help themse ves*\ PAGES 3. 4, 5 Your worldgram. PAGE 6 Church page. PAGE 7 Commercial review. PAGE 8— P1 all e r Pete page. PAGE 9 Cinema page. PAGES 10, 11 Sports roundup. PAGE 12 Corruption charge hearing
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  • 258 2 AT the 6th AGM of the Technical Education Society, held recently the following were elected office-bearers for the year 1969/70: Chairman, Mr. Lucas Khoo: Vice-chair-man, Mr. Chen Chee Kwang; Secretary. Mr. Tan Tian Chye; Asst. Secretary, Mr. Chane Cheow Buck; Treasurer, Mr. Joseph Ang Kok Hock;
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  • 289 2 YOUNG MORAL' OFFENDERS SINGAPORE should introduce legislation to make it easier to sentence "protectors" who live on the immoral earnings of voung women in their power. This was suggested yesterday by Mrs. Yong Nyuk Lin, Chairman of the Board of Visitors at the opening of the
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  • 311 2 SINGAPORE'S enlightened social policy guarantees that everybody is treated equally before the law, irrespective of status, said Mr. Chan Chee Seng. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Affairs, at the installation dinner of the Lion's Club of Singapore East at Hotel
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  • 210 2  -  By Ooi Eng Cheang FOUR English travellers who have journeyed 10.400 miles across 15 countries, on a mini-moke yesterday left Singapore on the last leg of their journey by air. The four Miss Iyvonne Jones. 18, a secretary, Graham Town, 21, his brother Malcolm Town.
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  • 122 2 A NEWLY completed Indonesian film. "Laki2 Tak Bernama" or "Man Without A Name" has been entered for the Film Festival Week starting July 28. It is a hard-hitting drama of men and women involved in love and hate, jov, struggle and disappointment
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 211 2 The best things in life are free. Ift where you enjoy them that runs into money The Eiffel Tower. And the Leaning Tower. Angkor Wat. The island of Hong Kong. Niagara Falls. The Canals of Venice. And Osaka Expo 70. They're free for all to feast their eyes upon. It's
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  • 385 3 PARIS, Sat. (UPI) Prince Souvanna Phouma, the neutralist premier of the Kingdom of Laos, said on Friday he supported U.S. efforts in the Vietnam peace conference to restrain what he called North Vietnamese "Imperialism." Prince Souvanna accused North Vietnam of sending 60,000 troops
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  • 70 3 HONG KONG. Sat (Reuter) Hong Kong was today declared free of cholera. The colony was decla re d a cholerainfested area early this month when a 65-year-old man was found to be suffering from the disease. Fiv» more victims were detected later. A massive anti-Cho-lera inoculations
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  • 128 3 WASHINGTON. Sat. (UPI) Radio of Free Asia (ROFA) announced Friday it planned to beam 450 special broadcasts to Mainland China and North Korea to report to those closed societies on the developments of man's steps on the moon. Ambassador You Chan Yang, who is also
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  • 115 3 UNITED NATIONS. Sat. CIJPI) —The new Miss Universe. Golia Diaz of Philippines. broke off New York festivities Friday at the request of Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos to fly home for a gala welcome by her people. The 18-year-old beauty begged off a Mondav press
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  • 110 3 HONG KONG. Sat. fßeuter) A slight earthquake lasting several seconds shook buildings throughout Hong Kong today at 7:50 a.m. but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties The earthquake. which was of similar intensity to one experienced in the colony seven years ago, was
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  • 65 3 TRIVANDRUM. Sat. (Reuter) At least 20 people have died in torrential rams and fierce winds that lashed India's Kerala State this week, officials said here today. The toll includes 14 children killed when their school at Kannavam. Malabar area, collapsed in a storm on Tuesday. Five other people
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  • 132 3 WELLINGTON. Sat. (Reuter) Seven elderly women, most of them partially blind, died today when fire swept through an old people's home in Suburban Karori. Twelve others were rescued as the blaze reduced the twostorey wooden building to ashes The women were to have been moved early
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  • 247 3 WASHINGTON, Sat. (UPI) The State Department Friday denied Communist charges that the United States has combat troops in Laos. Communist Pathet Laos charged on Thursday that the United States and its allies had 12,000 troops in Laos. Department Spokesman Carl Bartch described the accusations
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  • 252 3 SAIGON, Sat. (Reuter) Troops of the U.S. Ninth Infantry Division attacked a Vietcon§ force 17 miles southwest of Saigon yesterday evening and fought them with helicopter gunships and heavy artillery. A military spokesman said the brief action resulted in eight guerillas killed while the infantry
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  • 125 3 CALCUTTA. Sat (Reuter) —The Communist-dominated United Front government of West Bengal was defeated by 28 votes to 10 on a no-con-fldence motion in the Upper House of the State Assembly yesterday. The motion was moved by the leader of the Congress Party group. Nirmal Bhattacharyya
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  • 202 3 HONG KONG. Sat. (t'PI) The authorities Friday recommended tougher measures in bid to wipe out corruption among government officials here. The government move followed growing complaints by same members of the public that the government was not doing enough in Its work to stamp out
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  • 99 3 NEW DELHI. Sat. (Reuter) —About 63.100.000 people were affected by famine and droughts in India during the later part of last year and this year. Minister of State for Food and Agriculture Annasaheb Shinde, told Parliament today. Over 100,000 villages in eight provinces
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  • 113 3 HONG KONG. Sat. (Reuter' Representatives of the official H>inhua News Agency and pro-Peking newspapers in Hone Kong yesterday visited 11 Communist "News Workers" still serving prison terms for their part in the 1967 disturbances here. This was the third visit since the imprisonment of the
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  • 112 3 WASHINGTON, Sat. (Reuter) —The State Department said it received no reports of injuries in yesterday's incident on Okinawa when Japanese leftist students stormed the US. civil administration office and trampled on an American flag. Department spokesman Carl Bartch said a number of the students were
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  • 36 3 MOSCOW. Sat. (Reuter) The Soviet Union has promised to try to fulfil a Japanese request to hold a trade fair in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk next year, it was announced here today.
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  • 172 3 MANILA. Sat. (Reuter) Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos said today he thought the United States was now following a policy of supporting Asian nations in solving their own problems rather than a policy of US. dominance in Asia. Marcos was speaking informally at a post-midnight party he
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  • 43 3 S\DNEY. Sat. (Reuter) Australia wants seven to eight mill.on migrants in the next 30 years. Immigration Minister Bnly Snedden said today. It present flow is maintained, nve million migrants will arrive in Austra.ia by the turn of the century, he also said.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 400 4 Sat. (Reuter) Leaders of Egypt's Arab Socialist Union meeting under President Nasser pledged last night to fight Israel "to the death" to get back their occupied land. The 1,700-member National Congress of the A.S.U. Egypt's only political organisation wound up a three-day
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  • 271 4 ROME. Sat. (Reuter) Italy's Prime Minister designate, Mr. Mariano Rumor, last night reported to President Giuseppe Saragat after failing in his efforts to form a new three-party coalition govern- ment No details of the meeting were officially revealed, but informed sources said that
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  • 31 4 PARIS. Sat. (Reuter) The Mufti of the Paris Mosque. Mohammed Sadek ben Mokhtar. was found dead in the bathroom of his apartment here vesterdav police reported. He was 67.
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  • 184 4 UNITED NATIONS. Sat. (UPI) Four Afro-Asian countries put a resolution before the Security Council yesterday which "strongly censures" Portugal for attacks on Zambia from Angola and Mozambique and demands the return of persons and property seized in such raids. The measure was formally produced
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  • 61 4 LONDON. Sat. (Reu'er) A 23-year-old Hindu woman who fled to Britain because she could not stand the strain of an arranged marriage in Kenya was yesterday granted permission to stay here temporarily. The Home Office reversed Thursday's judgement that Mts. Ranjan Pabari would have to
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  • 235 4 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) A family doctor was ordered to be struck off the medical register yesterday after he admitted faking abortions on three young women because of his religious beliefs. The disciplinary committer of the General Medical Council found Dr. Henry Sloan. 42.
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  • 33 4 KUWAIT. Sat. (Reuter) Kuwait welcomes President Nasser's proposal for a toplevel meeting to review the situation in the Arab world, sources clos* to the royal court said yesterday.
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  • 108 4 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) Gerald Brooke, the freed British lecturer, admitted on television last night that he was arrested in Moscow carrying coding instructions and instructions for receiving radio signals. Brooke. 31. said in an interview that he acted as courier for an anti-Soviet emigre group but
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  • 76 4 LAGOS. Sat. (Reuter) Two Biafran p.anes attacked the federal-held Niger River town of Asaba on Thursday but were driven off by heavy Nigerian ground Are. the army said in the midwest capital of Benin yesterday. The planes dropped four bombs but caused no damage, a military
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  • 98 4 JOHANNESBURG, Sat. (Reuters A 58-year-old grandmother who startled the world by claiming she had given birth to a baby gir| has had the child taken away from her. A spokesman for the Welfare Organisation which left the child in the care of Mrs. Johanna
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    • 111 4 Double tch: u r f v I Sato,* IMF''' Two new Air-India ways to London now via Amsterdam 9 T, Clip out and save Teheran-Zurich-AMSTERDAM-London Beirut-Frankfurt* AMSTERDAM-London Check Air-India's 11 other exciting, Maharajah stop-overs from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. (All routes from India onwards, every week) £5 fi Cairo-London Cairo-Geneva-Paris-Londou
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 239 4 TODAY a Sunday* July 27, 1969. m m ofi m mm IT SCORPIO OCT. uQi NOV. 1- 3- 6-17/ U£m2£S£ 77 m as p» rsi i lAPARTMENT LT LJ«W_^ uuunv> UULJUU I_T L\ uuuuuuu uuuuuuQ uuuuuuu UUUULL U Ll uuuuu u LJ UULJUU LI L_) UUUUUUU UULJUU LJ LJ UIIUUM-ULI
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  • 357 5 HYANNIS PORT, Massachusetts. Sat. (UPI) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, in an unprecedented televised appearance, said Friday night it was "indefensible" to leave the scene of an automobile accident but he denied any "immoral'* conduct with a pretty blonde killed in the mishap.
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  • 206 5 BERKELEY HEIGHTS. N.J Sat. (UPI) The mother of Iviary Jo Kopechne. who was killed when a car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy went off a bridge, said on Friday she would like an autoosy performed if that was the only way to clear her
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  • 82 5 CAPE KENNEDY. Fla. Sat (Reuter) A new communications satellite. Intelsat 111. was launched here tonight towards a position 23.000 miles above the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite, powered by a Thor Delta rocket, completes a worldwide network which includes companion satellites over the Indian and Pacific oceans relaying
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  • 55 5 LIMA. Peru. Sat. (Reuter) The city of Huancayo's 200.(100 people were without drinking water today and 20 villages were cut off by floods following earth tremors In central Peru. Reports reaching here said 17 tremors had been registered in the region around Huancayo. 185 miles south of here
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  • 248 5 MEXICO CITY. Sat. (Reuter) Plainclothes police hurled tear-gas bombs into a crowd of 5.000 students holding an anti-government rally here last night and scattered them in panic. Dozens of students fell and were injured in the rush to escape through a narrow gateway leading out of
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  • 75 5 SAN DIEGO. Call.. Sat. (UPI) Sharon Sites Adams, wearing a sporty new pink outfit and a sail of her 31-foot ketch sporting a two-foot pink stripe Friday ended a 75-<3ay 6.000 miles voyage from Japan The 39-year-old mother of two, first woman to sail across the Pacific
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  • 197 5 MEXICO CITY, Sat. (UPI) Honduras and El Salvador Friday were reported rushing fresh troops to border war fronts on the eve of a meeting in VS ashington of American diplomats to discuss how to end the hostilities. Both belligerent nations were reported to be observing
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  • 97 5 ST. LOUIS. Miss Sat. (UPI) McDonnell Douglass Corp. has been awarded a 2.9 million dollar contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to plan and design a 12-man orbitine space satellite. The contract is part of a plan by NASA for a space station
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  • 308 5 TOKYO, Sat. (UPI) The fantastic achievement of Apollo 11 in blazing the way to enable man to walk on the moon has stirred uP a crazy desire among the Japanese to fly to the moon, the Pan American World Airways said Friday. It said it has received applications
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  • 234 5 LOS ANGELES. Sat. (Reutcr) Dr. Timothy Leary. 49, "High Priest" of the LSD cult, was arrested today as he attempted to hold a press conference to explain how a 17-year-old girl died in a swimming pool on his ranch. A warrant was Issued for Leary'
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  • 48 5 WASHINGTON. Sat. (Reuter) The Chairman of the State Foreign Relations Committee today called for postponement of a vote on the deployment of an Anti-Ballistic Missile system, saying he did not want to see President Nixon embarassed on his current foreign tour bv a defeat in the Senate.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 168 5 MAy&E MB WON'T SEE ME DUCK INTO TMIS ■l* M >% IR5^ THAT'S RICrWT, CMIEF...I H'M KED-WANDED OS TWO COUNTS... "T .FILCHING WONEy... J ...AND IMPERSONATING A CHICKEN!.' «affi El i ffl fcJ? -Uojvta-'Basbem'ff oH< POP'S.' S •"-L. is -V //w THAT'S IT P0P5...61T DOWN HERE WITH SOME POP AH'
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  • 189 6 A Comedy Fantasy Drama.... Specially Designed For YOU PRESENTING the comedy-fantasy, "Revolt at the Portals", a 10-member drama team, The King's Players, from Biola College, will be performing for the public at the St. Andrew's Cathedral and Wesley Methodist Church on Aug. Ist and 2 respectively
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  • 436 6 LETTER My wife and I, and our two daughters, arrived in Singapore on July 1, and we are gradually settling in our new home. We want to send you greetings in the Lord Jesus Christ and to say how privileged we feel
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  • 171 6 A Thinking Poinf GOD could have taken us to be with Himself after we hav e been brought to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. God will take a man straight into His presence although he has just been converted, if He so
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  • 653 6 (retold by David Kossoff. Illustrated by Gino d'Achille). DAVID Kossoff is the incomparable story-teller of our time. He brings to life for children and adults alike, with a vividness no others can match, the magnificent Old Testament stories. The author has an astonishing insight into the characters
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  • 428 6 CHURtiH (Message by Bishop Yap Kim Hao of the Methodist Church in Malaysia and Singapore on the 150 th Years Of Singapore Festival of the St. Andrew's Cathedral). THE celebration of the 150 th Anniversary
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  • 181 6 BREAKFAST ACHRISTTIAN always has the tendency to be sleepy and there are numerous ways of preventing spiritual drowsiness. One way is Christian fellowship, that is conversing together concerning the ways of the Lord. Christian and Hopeful when walking towards the Celestial
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  • 64 6 REV. Alexander David of West Pakistan is in Singapore visiting churches in the Republic. A professor in the Faith Theological Seminary at Guiranwala near Lahore. Rev. David flew In over the weexend after attending the International Council of Christian Churches Conference In Cape May, New
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  • 161 6 THE pastor of Life Bible Presbyterian Church, Gilstead Road, Dr. Timothy Tow will leave on Monday with his wife and daughter to spend Ave months of his sabbatical leave in Israel as short-term missionaries. Dr. Tow who is also principal of the Far Eastern B:ble
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  • 102 6 THE Rev. V.A. Subramamam who spent 30 years in various parts of Malaysia a« a teacher. Methodist pastor, principal, and District Superintendent of the Malaya Annual Conference of the Methodist Church left Singapore recently by air with hi* wife to visit his relatives in India
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  • 77 6 A Dine-In Symposium on Pop* Paul's encyclical on birth control "Humanae Vitae" was held at the Marvmount Convent, Thomson Road yesterday. At this symposium foui speakers. Rev. D Gandolfi. Dr. (Mrs) Gladys Hu (Hon Secretary, Catholic Medical Guild) Dr. K.I. Thommi (Master. Catholic Medical Guild) and
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    • 47 6 PRAY DAILY FOR SINGAPORE KESWICK CONVENTION 18-23 August, 1969 nightly 2.00 9 00 p.m. at Singapore Conference Hall. Shenton Way. Speakers: Mr. Theodore Williams Rt. Rev Dr. Chandu Ray Dr. Benjamin Chew Our Motto: "All One In Christ Jesus'* Prepare your hearts to attena regularly with expectancy.
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 194 7 TRANS World Airlines, operator of a 200 jet-fleet, has appointed a local firm. Getz Bros, and Co. Inc., general sales agents for Singapore and Malaysia. In conjunction with this appointment. and also to service its sea-going clients, the company recently set up a new department
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    • 14 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $635.12\ per picul, up S4 00.
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    • 589 7 Sat. (Reuter) Japan is currently enjoying the greatest and longest prosperity in her history according to a recent government report. A "White Paper on National Economy" approved by the Cabinet said that in a short period of a quarter century Japan
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    • 54 7 NEW YORK, Sat. (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged across the board yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange. There were no sales (Bid) (Asked) Sept 28 60 Nov 27.33 Jan 27.10 27.25 Mar 26 85 27.00 May 2660 27.10 Julv 26.15 26.85 Locally, No. 2 RSS wa s
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    • 207 7 THE following Is a herthlnr list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for Julr 27:DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 10/11 Daiwa Maru E W Jetty Caltex Kartika 27/23 Manoloeverett 31/32 Iwate Maru ARRIVALS 15/16 Rotti 4. South Yanahiro Maru 19 Sho=ei Maru 1/2 Hadji Agus Salim 47 North
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    • 74 7 LONDON. Sat. <UPI) Rubber market closed slightly easier yesterday with spot 27, 27-1/4 Settlement House Aug 26-7/8 27-1/8 Sept 27, 27-1/4 Oct 27 27-1/4 Oct/Dec 27, 27-1/8 Jan/March 26-5/16. 26-7/16 April/June 26. 26-1/8 July/Sept 25-13/16, 26 Oct/Dec 25-11/16. 25-7/8 Jan/March 25-5/8. 25-13/16 April June 25-9/16, July/Sept
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    • 24 7 TOKYO, Sat. (UPI) The number of bankrupt firms in June reached a low of 782, the National Federation of Bankers Association announced yesterday.
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    • 138 7 NEW YORK. Sat. (UPI) Gold prices moved mostly lower in routine trading yesterday on markets here and abroad In London, gold slipped 5 cents to 41.35 U.S. dollars per troy ounce at the morning fixing and remained at that level for the second fixing.
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    • 90 7 WASHINGTON. Sat- (UPI) The World Bank has appro, ved a US$2l million loan to the Ceylon Electricity Board for the installation of a 115 megawatts generating capacity and associated transmission facilities, it was announced. The installation will increase the board's power generating capacity
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    • 55 7 HONG KONG. Sat. (UPI) Monev Quotations: HK56.0755 per US dollar HK56.***** per U.S. dollar TT HK514.54 per pound sterling HK5:i08.265 per tael of gold 94 5 per cent fineness HK$l6l.B per 10,000 Japanese yen HK5136.0 per 100 Philippines pesos buyers HK$ 135.0 per 100 Philippines pesos sellers Philippine
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    • 270 7 NEW YORK. Sat. (UPI) Uncertainty over the fate of the Income tax surcharge and fear that corporate profits and expansion might be cut back puJed stock prices sharply lower in moderate trading yesterday. Shortly before the close, the UPI market wide indicator was
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    • 263 7 A MULTI-MILLION dollar# plant for producing light gauge steel sections will become operational early next year. The director and general manager of Leong Huat Industries Ltd., Mr. Teo Choo Hian who has just returned to Singapore after two months
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    • 103 7 MELBOURNE. Sat. The biggest ever exhibition of industrial equipment in the Southern Hemisphere will open on Aug. 4. The five-day show to be held at the Exhibition Buildings here will display products of more than sixty Austra.ian firms. The show will cover products including highly sensitive precision
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    • 61 7 MORE than a ton of medical supplies arrived at the Singapore International Airport recently for victims of the recent disturbances in Malaysia. The consignment which comprised 34 packages from the Indian Red Cross Society to its counterpart in Malaysia through the courtesy of Air India. This was immediately transferred to
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    • 148 7 LONDON. Sat rßeuter) The market was very quiet yesterday with the number of bargains officially below the eight thousand level. Most activity was centred on bid stocks and those affected by company results. Towards the close the FT index was 0.1 down at 360.8. Leading industrials opened
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    • 72 7 THE directors of NATIONAL IRON STEEL MILLS LIMITED have pleasure in announcing the production and sales figures of the company for the si* months ended June 30. 1969 together with those of the corresponding period in the previous year. Jan /June 1969 Production 63.445 L'tons Sales 58.097
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    • 61 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 T.T. orO.D ready: Deutsche Marks $77.0700; HoL land Guilders $84.7350; Swiss Francs $71.5100; Belgian Francs $6 1450; French Francs
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    • 38 7 NEW YORK. Sat. (UPI> Dow Jcnes closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrial* 818.06 20 rails 196.86 15 utilities 118.58 65 stocks 278.38 40 bonds 72 58 Commodity futures index 139.58.
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    • 461 7 Weehcnd Review Of U.S. Stocks NEW YORK, Sat. (UPI) Most of the economic news coming out of Washington was depressing and prices on the New York Stock Exchange fell sharply for the third week in a row. Activity, however, was
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    • 89 7 THE noon price* tt the Mrkfpore Cbmetf Produce Exchange \esterda> were:— OT1TS3 Belief Coconut Oil 48 25 (FOB) Bulk Coconut Oil 50.75 (FOB Drum Mixed Copra 30.50 I Muntok unite Pepper (F.OB.) 132.50 Sarawak Wblte Pepper (FOB) 130 00 Sarawak Special Black Pepper <FO-B.) 96% N.L.W 0250 Lain pong
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    • 52 7 'Manager* Wen) 1st Malayan XD 2 55 M m 2nd Malayan XD 3rd Malayan 1.84 116 zz The Com. Ind .94 104 Th* Saving Fond St 109 M. Invest Fund 1 20 1 30 lot Hone Ron* 1M 1.56* 2nd Hone Kong 1.02 J.07* Sterling Com 5/6 <*Hong
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    • 438 7 ARRIVALS sooa m. MsA MLO29 Koala Lumpur 9 00am MSA ML 119 Kuala Lumpur 945 a m. MM ML33I Sydney. Jakarta 10 15 a.m. MSA MLII 2 Kuala Lumpur. 12.40 p.m. t'Al 115 Taipei. Bong Kong 10 25 am MSA Ml 0.55 Penang. Ipoli. Kuala Lumpur. Malacca 1.00
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  • POPPING AROUND with Platter Pete
    • 344 8 rpWENTY THREE thousand wildly enthusiastic fans rioted for 45 minutes in Madison Square Gardens stadium after the New York debut of Britain's "supergroup" Blind Faith. Burly New York police with 3ft long batons formed a circle on the revolving stage and beat back teenagers as
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    • 376 8  -  RICHARD GREEN. THE finest possible momenta of the original Rolling Stones, when Brian Jones was still raving with them, is about to be unleashed on the group's countless fans in August. For that is the month when their
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    • 1110 8  -  Am •Saved By The Beit* Beaehes ilo. 19 NICK LOGAN ON the same day last week as the Bee Gees' "Tomorrow Tomorrow" slipped out after yo-yoing in an uninspiring manner around the bottom rungs. Robin Gibb s "Saved By The
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    • 359 8 JJI THERE! r -&3i2 To Bad! DAVE DEE. DOZT. BEAKY. MICK TICH nave always been one of my favourite croups, and one of the most consistent chart-contenders. Now. however with their most recent hit "Snake In The Grass" still in our local charts, the croup is splitting
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    • 221 8  -  ANDY GRAY. PELVIS PRESLEY top* the NME Chart* again this week with In The Ghetto, the 15th time in 12 years? And he's had his name on top for more than a year of those 12 years! Elvis holds
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    • 138 8 AFTER a string of 13 hit records together, Dave Dee is to oart company from Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich at the end of September when their existing commitments have been fulfilled. Dave will branch out as a solo artist, both as actor and singer. The
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    • 121 8 e'< V -J--I sr SR* < y >'S7 /'/n\fofrilQws Meet you Seturday 2nd August 2p.m. 1 Radio Malaysia This show is a real Brought to you by BRYLCREEM Beginning Saturday August 2nd you share one full hour of "happenings" the latest and greatest in music, interviews with celebrities, international pop
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  • Cultural And Music Corner
    • 400 9  -  By Charlie Chan OIT in the comfort of the Four Lions Restaurant of Hotel Singapura Intercontinental tonight or anv other night and find yourself taken on a tour of Latin America by four gav minstrel* from Paraguay. Not the Latin America of football wars, coups and countercoups
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    • 650 9  -  By Ayaho THE 40 member Russian Classical Ballet will arrive here to give us another treat to feast the eyes and ears ot the Republic. They will perform at the National Theatre for two evenings on Aug. 7 and 8. Their repertoire is tremendously wide and
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    • 438 9  -  Goh Eng Kee QHE deserves the superlatives thrown about her because Barbra Streisand leaves nothing out of "Funny G i r I". Barbra is people who needs people and the luckiest people in the world. As Fanny Brice. she personifies the homely girl, physically
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    • 93 9 LATIN SPECTACULAR r-r 0P«, this fabulous world-renowned group is back again at the Four v Lions with 2 shows nightly. Pulsating Spanish guitars, the wonderful Paraguayan harp and the blending of rich harmonious Latin voices provide a musical feast, sure to enthrall and excite all who enjoy true Latin American
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    • 331 9 ROLLING STONES ROLL TO NO. I IN BRITAIN THE reeord "In Th« Year 2525" lumped from fourth to first in 10 in Britain and Billy Preaton's by Zager and Evan* i* holding the British chart* de-throning T Pljnned confidently on to the top spot in Elvis Presley's "In The Ghetto"
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  • 309 11 SINGAPORE'S up-and-coming woman sprinter, Chce Swee Lee. 14, yesterday qualified for a berth in the Singapore contingent for the forthcoming Southeast Asia Peninsular Games in Rangoon in December. She beat the qualifying mark for the 400 metres at the first official trial of
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  • 563 11 A 'fanciful* swimming gala sponsored by the Joint Celebrations Committee of Kampong Glarn. Crawford, Mountbatten and Katong Constituencies was held at the Chinese Swimming Club yesterday. A big crowd was in attendance. This was in celebration of the 150 th Anniversary and the National
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  • 1473 11 By BIG BEN IPOH, Sat. —Sydney jockey George Podmore was off to a flying start. Out of six mounts, he rode four winners and a second here today, opening day of the Perak Turf Club July/ August meeting. His winners were Scorpio II ($8), Sunspot ($3O),
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  • 273 11 The long-cherished dream of the Hua Yi Chinese Middle School to have a sports field of their own will soon become a reality. The two-acre sports field, comprising a running track, a stage and a spectators' pavilion is nearing completion. To raise the
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  • 586 11 KARTAR SINGH of Tan Tock Seng Hospital was the star performer in the Ministry of Health Bth annual athletic meet at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre. yesterday. He won the 100 m (11.5 sec.), 20flm (24.1 ser.). long jump (If) ft. 9$ in.) and triple jump
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  • 129 11 LAST year's league champions. Singapore Cricket Club were defeated by RAF Seletar by Ave runs in the Pesta Sukan knock-out cricket competition for the 'Barker Shield' at the Indian Association ground Balestier Road, yesterday. Seletar. who batted first, were out for 115 runs in
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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    • 1386 11 (CHANNEL 5) AM 9.45 Opening Announcements in all Languages The Carol Burnett Show; 1C.40 The Nurses Postcard from Yucata»i: 11 no Pesta Pop PM 12 10 Mr Ed. The Talking Horse Saddles Gowns; 12 40 Prog Summary in all Languages 12 45 Skippv The Bush Kangaroo Busfi Rai 1.15 Chinese
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  • 129 12 A BEVY of three top cinema actresses from Cathay Organisation. Hong Kong, will fly into the Republic this evening to take part in the Singapore Film Festival, opening tomorrow. The lovely girls are Miss Ingrid Hu. Miss Agnes Koo and Miss Fu Hsueh Mel. They will
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  • 57 12 A POLITICAL forum on "Stateless Persons" will be held today at the SMNO House in Changi Road at 2.30 p.m. Among the speakers taking part the forum are Mr. David Marshall, Haji Ahmad Taff of the Singapore Malay National Organisation. student leaders from the Singapore Polytechnic Students
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  • 255 12 KUALA LUMPUR Sat. HEARING for a preliminary inquiry on tentative charges of corruption against Gerald Fernandez, a former secretary and legal adviser of the Malaysia-Singapore Airline, was today fixed on August 4, 5, and 6 despite heated objections by counsel. I The
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  • 83 12 TWO persons were fined a total of $142.50 by the Ninth Court Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Foenander yesterday for possessing dutiabl? goods. They were Tay Yam Song. 39. and Leong Keng Fatt. 40 Tay had six lbs. of toilet soap and half pound of manufactured tobacco not under
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  • 68 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Thirteen wooden shophouses were destroyed by fire making 80 people homeless at Sungei Besar in Kuala Selangor this morning. The Malaysian Police Control Centre said the fire broke out at 7.20 a.m. and police have established that the cause of the fire was
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  • 62 12 A CONTAINERS Arm was fined $5O by the Eighth Magistrate's Court yesterday for failing to dispose wet and unwanted papers on June 9. to a dumping ground at Chua Chu Kang Road. The firm. Union Containers Ltd of Jalan Jentera. Jurong Industrial Estate, did not comply
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  • 52 12 A youth. Gan Eng Koon. was charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday with theft of scooter tyres, valued at $5O, on March 9 at Geylang Road. Gan. 16. claimed trial and was allowed bail of $lOO in one surety, pending trial in the Fourth District Court on
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  • 214 12 Ke'*>i Marshall runs a Lontlcn driving school, so he was bewildered when people kept telephoning to ask him for soccer match tickets and team pictures. Then he found the Post Office, which runs telephones in Britain, had allotted him the former number of a
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  • 134 12 A 45-year-old American appeared in court yesterday dressed as a Roman centurion and told the magistrate he was "trying to save 600 years of history in Britain." Walter Yea rick a former sergeant in the US. Forces, attracted a crowd of Londoners and tourists when,
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  • 223 12 Lo-Pan's Birthday ONE hundred and seventy feet above sea level. In the foyer of an uncompleted Hotel, a grand celebration in honour of Lo-Pan "Master of Craftsmen" was held by the contractors of the Hotel Imperial. The Master's birthday fell yesterday, the 13th day
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  • 371 12 A school principal who gave up his post a little over a year ago in answer to a call for leadership in national politics was delighted with what he saw when he visited his former school yesterday. The ex-principal was Inche Sha'ari Tadin,
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  • 112 12 A HOVERCRAFT is being pushed around a difficult corner by two British soldiers moving at a walking speed after it came ashore yesterday to take its place at the Transport and Communication Exposition at Kallang Park. The hovercraft which Is 38 feet long and 23
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  • 175 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat: The Senior Superintendent of the Pudu prison. Mr. J G. Fitzpatrick was todav acquitted and discharged without his defence being called on all three charges brought against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The sessions Court President. Enche Eusoff bin
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  • 84 12 YET another lucky reader was "caught" by our photographer and reporter on their rounds in town. Mr. Goh Wee Keong is a staunch supporter of Eastern Sun since its inception. Mr. Goh, a store-keeper in a box and cartons manufacturing firm, finds that the Eastern Sun is "very interesting" and
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 59 12 TODAY'S DIARY 10 a.m. 6 p.m.: Stamp exhibition by Singapore Philatelic Society at Chinese Chamber of Commerce exhibition hall. Hill Street. 10 a.m.: Magic illusion class at National Theatre Club. Clemenceau Avenue. 5.30 p.m.: Kenopanished classes at Ramakrishna Mission. Hartley Road. 5.30 p.m. 6.30 p.m.: Performance by Queenstown Sec. Tech.
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