Eastern Sun, 30 July 1969

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  • 24 1 Eastern Sun 3rd ANNIVERSARY BONUS: PRICE 10 CENp<3 SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1073 Wednesday, 30 July 1969. MC(P) 0737
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  • 244 1  -  Border Manhunt Mounted By YAP KOON HUI KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Malaysian security forces have mounted an intensive operation along the Malaysian-Thai border against a gang of communist terrorists who ambushed a Malaysian patrol last Sunday, killing six soldiers and wounding six others. The patrol
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  • 113 1 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Britain, basking in one of Its best summers this century, had a rude shock today as storms swept the country, causing widespread damage and spoiling holidays for thousands Hieh seas crashed onto west of England sea-fronts normally parked with tourists and capsized a
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  • 28 1 HONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter) —The Peking People's daily today accused Japan of uniting with India. Indonesia and other countries to form a new military alliance against China.
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  • 672 1  -  MULTI-MILLION DO "y PETER LOKE THE Government is taking action to stamp out a multi-million doffar advertisement racket operated by "get-r i c h-quick" publishing firms working hand-in-hand with some officials of certain sports and recreation associations that have the appearance of a Government
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  • 358 1 HOUSTON, Tucs. (Reuter) Moon dust contains an abundance of small, "wonderfully lu st r o us glass-like spheres and organically seems to be equivalent to very, very poor poor earth soil, which is unlikely to support any form of life, scientists at the
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  • 352 1 BANGKOK, Tues. (Reuter) President Nixon was authoritatively reported tonight to have won Thailand's agreement to his policy that Asian countries must handle internal subversion without American combat troops. White House sources quoted Thai Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn as saying he was in
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  • 46 1 CAPE KENNEDY. Tues. (Reuter) A new communications Intelsat satellite launched from here on Friday failed to achieve proper orbit over the Atlantic, space officials reported last night. Preliminary findings indicated the project failed because of a fault in the rocket, officials said.
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  • 315 1 PASADENA, California, Tues. (Reuter) Television cameras aboard the U.S. spacecraft Mariner-6 were switched on last night as it zoomed towards Mars to probe the mysteries of the red planet. An electronic signal from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here was sent out some 60 million miles to
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  • 67 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Malaysian Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman now in Penangi on a current six-week explora-J tory tour of West Malaysia: agreed with President Nixon's suggestion that Asians should' look after themselves. Speaking to newsmen after a meeting with the Penang State Operations Council this morn-, ing. the
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  • 118 1 SYDNEY. Tues (ATP) —j The commander of the Japan-j ese Maritime Self-Defencej Training Squadron. Rear Ad-j miral Tetsuro Motomura pre-' dieted today that the Japanese and Royal Australian Navies would work more closely to-' gether in the future. He was speaking at a press conference on the
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 93 2 ENCHE Sharom Ahmat, a lecturer is the University of Siafapore history department returned to the Republic yesterday, after spending two years of university life in London. Enche Ahmat who was accompanied by his wife a sociology graduate and their baby was met at the airport by
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  • 275 2 SINGAPORE was elected a member of the Administrative Finance Committee of the International Rubber Study Group for 1969 /70 at its 20 assembly held in London last week. The other new committee members were USA. USSR. Malaysia and France. As far as
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  • 194 2 AJON bin Shariff, 46, was sentenced to two years' Jail and four strokes of the rotan by the Ninth Court Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Foenander yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing. Ajon. who has been unemployed for many years, admitted
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  • 105 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Forty-three families made homeless during the recent disturbances moved out from the last refugees centre at stadium this morning. There were given accommodation at the vacant Old Folks Home at Serdang. The director of social welfare. Dato Haji Aniang who was on
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  • 215 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Deputy Premier and Director of Operations. Tun Abdul Raxak today urged the older members of the communities to give guidance to the youths. Speaking at the 15th Annual General Meeting of the Outward Bound Trust of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, Tun
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  • 92 2 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) A 105-year-old Filipino woman died yesterday after telling relatives she was ready to die "now that I know man has landed on the moon." The Philippine News Service, reporting the death of Basilisa Hipollto of nearbv Bulacan Province, said she was already ailing when her
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  • 115 2 The Adult Education Board will be holding a new fiveweek course In Advertising commencing on August 11. This course Is designed for both beginners and practising artistsThe class will be held at the Adult Education Board Annexe. 9 Fort Canning Road, on Mondays and Thursdays from
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  • 186 2  -  By K. S. SIDHU MISS Setsuko Hasegawa. a promising Japanese stage dancer is willing to give up the glamorous life of the stage on one condition. If she finds her Mr. Right. And her dream man should be one "who is kind, patient,
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  • 213 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Four cases of arson and a case of assault was reported bv the Malaysian Police Control Centre today. The Centre said a $4,000 car left overnight after an accident at Kanchong Bangkok, Telok Dato yesterday was completely burnt this morning
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  • 271 2 A LOCAL business company his secured large quantities of free7e-dried Tubifex worms to meet the shortage of this miracle fi*h food in Singapore. Though the aquarium fish industry in Singapote is now enjoying an attractive export market overseas. the supply of life
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  • 52 2 TWO top Shaw ftlm stars. Miss Angela Yu Chien and Miss Ting Pel from Hong Kong will arrive at the Singapore International Airport at 5.10 p.m today. They are her* to participate in and make personal appearances during the current Singapore Film Festival which ends on
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  • 113 2 MORE than 4.000 locally manufactured signature ceramic plates wer e presented to guests who attended the opening of Starlite Ceramic Industries Ltd. by the Minister 'or Finance. Dr. Goh Keng Swee On Sunday. To commemorate the 150 th Anniversary of Singapore, a specially designed plate with
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  • 61 2 THE body of a drowned Singapore Poytechnic student was found by the Marine Police, in the sea off Katong a t 3 p.m. on Monday. Police identified him as Tan Keng Jeng. 23, of Guillemard Road Tan had on Sunday gone for a swim with his younger
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  • 104 2 A 20-YEAR-OLD snatchthief was sentenced to three years' jail by the Fourth District Judge yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing Ane Soon Wah, unemployed. admitted that on July 27. he snatched a S6O gold chain with a locket from a lance corporal
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  • 181 2 The Strathmore Primary School in Singapore can nowi boast of the fact that it is' one of the few schools in the Republic that has a small fountain of its own. The kidney-shaped fountain,, costing not more than $3OO. was jointly constructed by the teachers and
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 165 2 Red Cross Draws FOLLOWING are the results of the Singapore Red Cross Society's Final Lucky Donor Draw and Jul, Lucky Donor Draw held on Monday: Final Lucky Blood Donor Draw: Ist Prize: No.' 2260 Motor 17— rator. *****, 3rd Prize: No. 2053 Televi- 10DSW, 8 n Set 9501> 4th Prize:
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  • 382 3 SAIGON, Tues. (Reuter) President Thieu dismissed one of his senior advisers, Huynh Van Trong, more than two weeks ago because of reports that the National Liberation Front had been trying to contact him, a Government spokes- man said to-day. Official sources
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  • 224 3 UDON, Thailand. Tues. (UPI) Guerrillas who raided a U.S. airbase outside this north-east Thailand province capital early yesterday a few hours before President Nixon's visit may have had accomplices working inside the base. They said a joint ThaiAmerican Investigation Team concluded that five satchel
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  • 195 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. (Reuter) U.S. spy ships have been ordered to fight back if necessary while on Electronic Intelligence Missions, Defence Secretary Melvin Laird disclosed here yesterday. He said the Defence Department had reviewed all intelli-f;ence-gathering activities blowing North Korea's capture of the Intelligence Ship
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  • 161 3 SYDNEY. Tues. (Reuter) Surgeons yesterday used skin taken from a dead hospital patient in a battle to save the life of a severely burned eight-year-old girl. Surgeons at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children cut the skin into strios and laid them across the
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  • 66 3 CHU LAI, Vietnam, Tues. (UPI) Units of th e U.S. Army reported finding one °f the more interesting North Vitnamese supply caches of the war during a sweep last Friday along the upper coast, spokesmen said yesterday. They uncovered 30 packs containing 20 brassieres (size
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  • 168 3 PARIS. Tues. (UPI) North Vietnam and the Vietcong are expected to make no changes in their Peace Talks position until they have made a full assessment of President Nixon's Asian trip, Allied officials said yesterday. Allied officials are looking to the visit to
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  • 232 3 TAIPEI, Tues. (UPI) A massive typhoon-spawned tidal wave smashed into southern Taiwan yesterday, driving thousands of persons from their homes, according to reports received here early to-day. Typhoon Viola, now downgraded into a tropical storm, has been reported to have taken a toll of
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  • 276 3 SEOUL, Tues. (UPI) South Korea's ruling Democratic Republican Party (DRP) plans to formally propose a constitutional Amendment by mid-August to enable President Park to seek a third term, informed sources said yesterday. Leading members of the party held another meeting yesterday morning to work out
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  • 172 3 INZING. Austria. Tues. (UPI) Hundreds of rescue worker* yesterday due for a six-year-old boy believed to be buried under landslides that hit this Tyrolean resort Saturday. Wolfgang Oefner. 6. from Innsbruck, was among 1.500 tourists who visited the newlyopened village swimming pool shortly before two huge
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  • 101 3 ADELAIDE, Australia, Tues. (Reuter) Adelaide School teacher Anne McMenamin. who chained herself to a railing at the State Parliament House yesterday, defied Police and slept through the night guarded by a fierce Alsatian dog. She took the action In protest against the gaoling of student Robert Hall for
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  • 415 3 LAHORE. Tues. (UPI) President Yahya Khan announced yesterday elections will be held in Pakistan within a year and a half and disclosed Martial Law regulations will be amended to allow more room for political activities. Political meetings and processions have been prohibited
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  • 749 4 OWERRI, Biafra, Tues. (Reuter) Biafra yesterday proposed a truce while Pope Paul is in Africa and announced it would send a delegation to Uganda for his visit there on Thursday. Federal Nigeria has already said it will send representatives to Kampala.
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  • 147 4 TEL AVIV, Tues. (Reuter) An Israeli border policeman was wounded this morning when his army vehicles was attacked east of Ashdod Yaakov by machine gun fire from across the Jordan River, Israeli sources said here During the night Arab guerillas fired bazooka and mortar
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  • 334 4 SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Tues. (UPI) Scientists examining one of the plugs taken from the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts said yesterday they had found a glassy, peanut-shaped object inside. Prof. Roald Fryxell of Washington State University, one of tne scientists performing the operation, said
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  • 85 4 LEEDS. England. Tues. (Reuter) Extra police were patrolling the immigrant area of this central England city today after a weekend of racial violence In which 23 men were arrested. several policemen injured and a youth stabbed to death. The weekend was marred by demonstrations against Indians
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  • 53 4 BANGKOK King Bhumiphol Aduldej of Thailand (left) President Nixon, Mrs. Nixon and the Queen of Thailand (right) listen to welcoming speech for the Nixons on July 28 at the Bangkok Municipal Pavilion by the Lord Mayor. Mr. Nixon pledged that the U.S. would support Thailand against foreign enemies or internal
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  • 109 4 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Prostitutes who lacked the energy to carry on their trade found a ready helper in Polish-born Dr Karol Zawisza he prescribed massive doses of pep pills for them. "They were downThey were absolutely down They were so tired", he told a medical
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  • 38 4 NEW YORK, Tues. (Reuter) The New York Times today described Britain's exchange of Soviet spies Peter and Helen Korger for Gerald Brooke as "a precedent that can haunt every free state in the future."
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  • 547 4 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Reuter) Senator Edward Kennedy, deeply depressed by his involvement in a fatal accident, has virtually ru'ed out any thought of seeking the US. Presidency in 1972, Congressional sources said yesterday. Even though his Massachusetts constituents have given him rousing
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  • 183 4 WASHINGTON. Tues CReuter) A nerve gas weapon which sprang a leak at a U S base on Okinawa and injured 24 Americans has been completely dismantled and is now safe, the Pentagon said yesterday. A spokesman said an Army Department civilian Inspection team was on
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  • 96 4 PRETORIA, Tues. (Reuter) A device with a built-in alarm signal intended to warn of Impending heart attacks 72 hours before they happen has been developed here by a leading South African electronics engineer. Weighing only a few ounces, the Instrument is the size of a wrist-watch
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  • Article, Illustration
    58 4 Houston A scientist uses a probe (long dark line) to point to peanut-shaped object found inside plug of lunar crust brought back to earth by Apollo 11 astronauts. The small glassy object was about i inch long, when found by NASA officials who split a core sample to
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  • 144 4 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Gold prices slipped yesterday in routine trading on markei3 here and abroad. In London, gold fell 13 rents at the morning fixing but regained 5i cents for a second fixing of 41 775 U.S. dollars a troy ounce. Gold closed
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  • 68 4 LONDON*, Tues. (Reuter) A seven-nation working group set up to consider wavs of tightening the sanctions net against Rhodesia holds its first business meeting here today. The session is expected to be dominated by reports from United Nations sources indicating the sanctions barrier is far from
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  • 64 4 SACRAMENTO. Tues. (Reuter) The California Senate yesterday approved a major reform in the state's divorce law. throwing out century old grounds for divorce such as adultery and mental cruelty and eliminating the word "divorce" itself. Under the reform measure approved bv a 25-8 vote any decree granted
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  • 61 4 WASHINGTON. Tues (Reuter) U.S. Defence Secretary Melvin Laird warned yesterday 'hat North Vietnamese forces in Laos were probably capable 0 f over-runnine the neutralist country at any time they wish, ed. He called for international diplomatic action under the 1962 agreement that provided for
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  • 93 4 TONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Low-flying Royal Air Force planes hedgehopping over a nudist colony are panicking farmer Ted Duckering's pigs. v i said y esterd *y at his farm near Laughterton in Central England that he plans to protest to the nearby RAF base. M r
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  • 255 4 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Reuter) Former Vice-President Hubert Humphrey said yesterday he was seriously considering a political come-back by running for the U.S. Senate next year. Mr. Humphrey. 57. came close to winning the Presidency against Mr. Richard Nixon last year even though the Democratic
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  • 171 4 VATICAN CITY, Tues (Reuter) Swiss witter Kurt Berna yesterday personally presented the Vatican documents and photographs which he claims show that Christ# heart was still beating when he was taken dows from the cross. Mr. Berna claims this theory *s based on
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  • 115 4 SAMSUN. Turkey. Tues. (Reuter) —A prisoner was killed and 11 seriouslv injured when rioting prisoners fought with their guards at the jail here early yesterday after taking two warders hostage Protesting against alleged brutal treatment in the jail, a small group of men
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  • 114 5 XTEW YORK, Tues. (Reuter) Composer Frank Loesser. who wrote the World W ar II song ''Praise The Lord And ■rass The Ammunition," died yesterday i n Mt. Sinai Hospital. here. He was 59. Mr. Loesser also wrote the broadway play "How To Suci? Xl L Business
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  • 1068 5  -  By Shellah Graham -London, Tues.. ELIZABETH TAYLOR stated recently she has retired from films unless something irresistible comes along. But she said nothing about not starring on stage in a play. She is planning to appear in the West End with husband
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  • 102 5 Ayako. THE Internationallyfamed virtuoso pianist last Sunday gave a remarkable performance at the Conference Hall with the greatest ease. It was not merely the technique that marvelled the listeners but a sense of supreme feeling of uplift that was powerful and penetrating. Rich Tone His whole
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  • 574 5  -  By Sheilah Granam LONDON, TUES "Where do you find a 16-year-old virgin s asked director David Greene, who has just completed "I Start Counting." which is about a 14-year-old virgin. From all I read and hear, the species is becoming rare, if not
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 336 5 .b SHAW 1 RATION L I D O Phone ***** H LAST DAT: U >-45. 00. 6.30 A 9.15 p.m. Joan Hackett ASSIGNMENT TO KILL" Pana vision. Color (WB-7 Arts) OPENS TOMORROW' Suzanne Pieshette. Lan McShan* It It Tuesday This Must Be Belgium" Co'.or (UAI CAPITOL Phone 2975? LAST 2
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  • 841 6 IN his first three stops of the world tour which U.S. President Richard Nixon is undertaking at the moment, he has been quite articulate in explaining the shifts in the new American policy toward Asia. He has obtained qualified support from Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos
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  • 24 6 However treat a happiness is, there is still one greater, which is that of being worthy of the happiness enjoyed Stanislaus Leszcynski.
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  • 374 6  -  By JIM BENTLEY DAWSON, Georgia, fßeuter) Black Muslims, who seek a separate Negro state in America's deep South, have established a farm here and are leasing land in several other southern areas. Farm produce is being shipped to Black Muslim communities in Chicago. Detroit, New York
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  • 235 6 NEW YORK. (Reu t e r) Time magazine In an outspoken report on the Kennedy case, said today that Senator Edward Kennedy often flirted with pretty girls, was a daredevil driver, and a heavier drinker since his brother Robert was assassinated last year. In a six-page cover story
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  • 881 6  -  By Kingsley L. Symons Gemini News Service COLOMBO Ceylonese have now come to expect a general election earlier than March 1970, when the five-year term of rightwing Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake is due to end. This expectation comes after Senanayake announced at the recent
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  • 791 6  -  JOSEPH ALSOP MUNICH In all of Western Europe, the problem of West Germany's future is by far the most interesting. It takes first place for the reason indicated in a remarkable dictum of the tough and very able Minister of Finance, Franz Josef Strauss, "Economic success," he
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  • 474 6  -  By RICHARD BECKETT NAIROBI, (Reuter) The murder of Tom Mboya, Kenya's Minister for Economic Planning, and the subsequent disturbances have raised the spectre of tribalism in a country which on the surface has been relatively free from one of Africa's most vexing problems. Mr. Mboya was a
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  • 550 6  -  By DALE MORSCH NEW DELHI, (UPI) Amar Singh, 28, had just crawled from hit rope bed on the sidewalk in old Delhi when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. Amar, a cart-puller who earns about 80 U.S. cents a day hauling freight, was oblivious to what was
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 96 7 HANOVER, (DaD) For three years this penguin led a nondescript existence at Hanover zoo until he fell ill and a keeper discovered an inflammation on his left leg that proved a matter of life or death. The leg: had to be amputated. At -i hospital
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    • 665 7 CANBERRA, Australia In each of the six State capital cities of Australia there is one large school, which differs from all other schools in the city. It has a full complement of fully-trained teachers but its oiii:e staff is larger than usual and its quiet corridors never
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    • 386 7 WASHINGTON Rapid and pinpoint analysis of "life chemicals" in inorganic materials is possible with a unique instrument developed in the United States. Called the laser mass spectrometer, the device can detect and identify ultramicroscopic bits of organic or biological substances in rocks, minerals and meteorites without destroying
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    • 99 7 HAMBURG. (DaD)— George Balanchine, the 65-year-old founder and director of the New York City Ballet, will work closely with the German Opera in Berlin during the next three years. In view of his other obligations. Balanchine will not become the chief choreographer after Kenneth MacMillan leaves in
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    • 410 7  -  Dr. Johann Mauthner HAMBURG (DaD) The loudest medical successes do not always follow the greatest accomplishments. Even those quieter victories, which later help overcome illnesses which are infrequent and therefore unknown, deserve our attention and recognition. Thus modern medicine has been able to win the
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    • 327 7 WASHINGTON: Can more protein be put in milk? Yes, according to dairy scientists at Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Rov S Emery, one of these scientists, said he and his colleagues have found two methods for increasing milk
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    • 158 7 HAMBURG. (DaD) Since July, the largest seamless extradited plas tic pipe in the world has been made by machine in the Europlast Pipe Works in Hamburg Wilhelmsburg (Federal Republic of Germany). It is 1.20 metres in diameter and its length is according to order. Large plastic pipes
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    • 556 7 SCIENCE NOTES: A simple, kitchen nutmeg-grater has been opening the way for heart diseases to be diagnosed by doctors at least three times faster than before. It sounds ridiculous. doesn't it? What can a nutmeg-grater have to do with heart disease? Well, here's the explanation. The
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    • 135 7 THE Mathematics Society of the Junior College is organising the All-Singapore secondary Schools Mathematics Competition in connection with the 150 th Anniversary of the founding of Singapore. The competition is among Secondary Four students of the Republic and is adjudicated bv means of a threehour written examination to
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 117 7 AMY By Jack Tipprt "Mom, can I sleep over at Rosemary's? PLEASE? Pretty please with peanut butter and jelly on it?" DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Alden McWKams DID LEGS MAKE ANY KIND OF A,ER...DBAL WITH THP POLICE?...! MEAN...DID ANSWER A LOT OF PUftT' iS ABOUT, AH THfc •ROUS'
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  • 1103 8  -  By Peter Cook HONG KONG— Just how far would Peking tolerate autonomy for Hong Kong before deciding the city threatened to become yet another (third) China is unlikely to be put to the test. But the problem is constant in the British Crown Colony
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  • 710 8  -  .By DON WHITINGTON SYDNEY The disaster off the Californian coast last January, when an offshore oil rig blew out and polluted the entire coast around Santa Barbara, is having repercussions in Australia. The drilling companies are casting covetous eye s at Queensland's Barrier Reef, which is
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  • 239 8 WASHINGTON*: (USIS) Superlatives abound in the summaries of the Apollo-11 flight. Almost everything about the mission appears to have been the "first,' most." "biggest" and "heaviest". Yet, statistics show that in at least one category, man's first landing on the moon does not rank
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 321 9 By OUR MARKET REPORTER wh at mlled in the Stock E ch »ns« of Malaysia and tended BUrJnal 8 aga n lapsed lnto th QU'et and price movements The market opened slightlyeasier on new selling and continued profit-taking. Thereafter. renewed speculative buying
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    • 1051 9 "DUSINESS 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 BEN SI 73 CI); Borneo SI 61 (6) $162 (1*; Camel Plywood SI 84
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    • 153 9 ONDON. Tues. Eight London buses line up for their long journey to Japan to take part in the British Week promotion in Tokyo, from Sept 26 to Oct. 5. And there to give them the "once ever is BOAC stewardess Miho Suzuki (see pictures). The eight
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    • 140 9 VENICE, Tues. (Renter) Experts from 14 countries last Saturday agreed on a plan of action to have Venice from sinking into the sea. The experts meeting under the auspices of the Italian Government and the United Nations Education. Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), unanimously
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    • 57 9 TOKYO. Tue*. (UPI) Petroleum industry circles and foreign exchange banks said last week they nave agreed to shift USS4S million of import dollar loans to yen loans to counter the extraordinary rise in money rates abroad. The so-called yen shift will become effective from late July until the
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    • 179 9 TAIPEI, Tues. (AFP) The Association of South-east Asia Lines of the Overseas Joint Shipping Office has asked the government to give priority to Chinese vessels plying within tne Southeast Asian area it was reported here yesterday. The association in a petition submitted to
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    • 132 9 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 Mar* $77.0700; Holland Guilders $84.7500; Swiss Francs $7l 4575, Belgian Francs $6.1450; French Francs
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    • 38 9 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 806 23 20 Rails 194.06 15 Utilities 117.17 65 Stocks 274.49 40 Bonds 72.39 Commodity Futures Index 138.20
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    • 386 9 NEW YORK Tues. (UPI) Inflat;on. tight money and the market's own momentum combined yesterday to send prices sharply lower in moderately active trading. Investor concern over inflation was heightened by a report that the government's raw materials index, considered one of the best leading indicator of
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    • 338 9 RUBBER: 77 3 8 Cts. August first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 77-3/8 cents per lb., up three quarters of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was steady quiet. After opening one-quarter cent steadier in line
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    • 13 9 The tin price for yesterday was $638.12J per picul, up $3.125.
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    • 252 9 THE following is a herthini list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for Jalv 30th:DEPARTURE: Godowns Vessels 5 Relamce Amity (clinker t 19 Shosei Maru N W. 5 Trang 27 Kinabalu 33/34 Straat Chatham 44 Vishva Siddhi 46 Master NiCOs N.W 5 Tronoh ARRIVAL: Godowns Vessels
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    • 156 9 LONDON. Tues (UPI) Stock markets drifted aimlessly yesterday on continued lack of confidence and the main body of industrials ended narrowly mixed. Government stocks continued as big institutionsdisillusioned by the recent performance of ordinary shares pinned their faith in governments. Gains were up to onefouith.
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    • 704 9 SINGAPORE Stock Exchange sold and other prlt-es officially luted at the close ot business. INDUSTRIALS B. 6 AC MA 1 70 1 72 Ben A- Co CD 1 71 1 80 Borneo Bhd 1 62 1 63 Bnustead 1 .9 Camel Plywood XBl 1 84 1
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    • 97 9 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Rubber market yesterday closed quiet with sellers reserved. No. 1 RSS spot 27-1/8. 27-3 8. Settlement House Aug deleted Sept 27-1/8. 27-3/8 Oct 27. 27-1 4 Oct Dec 27. 27-1/4 Jan/Mar 26-9 16. 26-s'B April June 26-3/16, 26-3 8 July/Sept 26. 26-1/4 Oct/Pec
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    • 65 9 HONG KONG, Tues. (UPI) Monev Quatatlons: HK$ 6 080 per US dollar. HK$ 6 ***** per U.S. dollar TT HKS 14 54 per pound lingHKS 307 25 per tael of gold 94 5 per cent fineness HKS 161 6 per 10.000 Japanese yen. HKS 133.2 per 100 Philippines
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    • 94 9 THE noon prices «t the Sin gapore Chinese Prod nee Exchange \e*terda> were:— Borer selier Coconnt Oil (F.OB) Bnlk 48 25 Coconut Oil 50.75 (FOB Drum Mixed Copra Muntok unite Pepper 80 50 (FOB.) 135 00 Sarawak White Pepper (FOB) 132.50 Sarawak Special Black Pepper (FOB) 1)6% N.L.W 95
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    • 49 9 (Manager* Price > 1ft Malayan XD 2.56 2nd Malayan XD 1 85 3rd Malayan 117 The Com. Infl .94 104 The saung Fund .99 109 M Invest Fund 1.20 1 30 1st Hong Kong 1.50 1.56* 2nd Hong Kong 1 02 1.07* Sterling Com. 5/4 <»Hont Kong currency)
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    • 54 9 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Rubber futures closed 20 points higher yesterday on no sales on the New York Commodity Exchange. BID ASK Sep. 28 80 Dec 28.05 Jan (70) 27.30 27 45 Mar. 2705 27 20 May 26 80 27.30 July 26.35 27.05 Locally, No 2 RSS was
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    • 425 9 ARRIVALS. 500 a.m. MSA MLO29 Kuala Luinpur. 7.25 am SAS 5K972 Bangkok. Tashkent. Copenhagen. 9.00 am. MSA MLII 9 Kuala Lumpur. 10.10 a.m. GAKIDA GABOO Jakarta 10.15 am. MSA MLI2I Kuala Lumpur. 10 25 a.m. MSA MLOOS Penang, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur. Malacca. 10 50 am. THAI TG423 Bangkok
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 167 10 LONDON, Toes. (Reuter) Sir Gordon Richards, regarded by many as the best jockey in British turf history, may retire from his post as one of the country's top trainers late this year. Sir Gordon, aged 65, was knighted in 1953, the year he rode
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    • 244 10 GOODWOOD. Eng., Tucs. (Reuter) The coughing epidemic that has hit racehorses in England this season will cause depleted fileds for Goodwood's fourday summer meeting which opens here today. But the course manager, Mr. Ralph Hubbard, said yesterday that Goodwood would be better off than if the
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    • 153 10 EDMONTON. Alberta. Tues. (UPI) New Zealander Denis Hulme. one half of the McLaren team, breezed to victory yesterday in the Klondike 200-leg of the Cana-dian-American Challenge Cup series here. He covered the 80-lap. 200mile (321 m) course in 1 hour. 56 minutes and 34.8 seconds, to
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    • 29 10 THE Malayan Racing Association Secretary. Mr. D.R.H. Brown said yesterday that the ban on importation of horses for registration imposed on Dec. 7 1968 is now lifted.
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    • 915 10 Horses Glass 3 Div. 3—6 Furs. 035 Martello Tower 3y 900 Mai Pen Rai Bougoure 353 Koala Sclangor 6y 8.13 Sultan of Selangor Osma n 753 Powell* II 6y 8.12 S.S. Stable 010 Willtop 5y 8.10 T.W.T, Kongsi Daniels 838 Pica 4y 810 Arscott Stable 000
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    • 130 10 IPOH, Tues. Salah Sangka did an impressive workout over 3f in 37 4/5 on a firm track here this morning. He was ridden by apprentice Velayutham, reports Big Ben. Midas Gift who scored an easy win last time out is maintaining his winning form. With Glynn Pretty
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    • 118 10 EAST ST. LOUIS. Illinois, Tues. (Reuter) Thirty-two race horses died in a fire which swept a private stable near here last night. The owner of the stable at Cahokia Downs racetrack. Mr. Guy Marlin. who trains for several owners, said he suspected the fire had
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    • 65 10 ACCRA. Tues. (Reuter) Accra Great Olympics drew 1-1 with the Brazilian Club Palmeiras here yesterday but later Ghanaian officials admitted that the local club had 13 players on the field when they scored their equaliser. The Ghanaian Amateur Football Association today apologised for the "unfortunate incident", explaining
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    • 186 10 CALCUTTA. Tues. (Reuter) The Royal Calcutta Turf Club yesterday cancelled their monsoon meeting in August after trainers Issued a memorandum saying they would not work until the safety of trainers, assistants and horses could be guaranteed. The memorandum followed a fire in Bangalore last week in
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    • 462 10 SYDNEY. Tues. (Reuter) Sydney newspapers today described the controversial victory of Australia's world featherweight champion Johnny Famechon over Japan's 'Fighting' Harada here last night as "Australian boxing's most humiliatine night" and "a great miscarriage of Justice." Sydney Morning Herald boxing writer Rod Humphries and
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    • 503 10 THE Stipendiary Steward's report on the Ipoh races over the weekend: SATURDAY RACE 1: Apprentice Rao (Four Wishes) was reprimanded for not commencing his run early enough. RACE 2: After passing the winning post the first time Native Boy (Podmore) slight'y crowded The King I (Ne'.son).
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    • 117 10 MONTREAL. Tues. (Reuter) Tommy Aaron won the Canadian Open golf championship by two strokes yesterday after an 18-hole playofT with Sam Snead. Aaron, leading by one stroke at the 18th. made sure of victory by rolling in a 25foot (seven metres) eagle putt. Snead's gallant attempt
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    • 64 10 MEXICO CITY. Tues. (ATP) Mexican boxing promoter Pablo B. Ochoa confirmed today that the world flyweight championship match between holder Efren Torres, of Mexico, and Japan's Hanagata will take place in Mexico on Oct. 19. Hanagata, who is scheduled to arrive here on* month before the bout,
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    • 72 10 NEW DELHI. Tues. (Reuter) India will not take part in the Asian youth tennla tournament In Hong Kong next month. Mr RK Khanna. honorary secretary of the All-India Lawn Tennis Association, said here yesterday. India had asked for a postponement because their junior players, now
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    • 271 10 SYDNEY, Tues. (Reuter) "I made a mistake in adding the scorecard It was an honest mistake, and I don't think it hurt anyone," said Willie Pep yesterday. Pep. 46. said he added his scorecard for the featherweight title between Johnny Famechon of Australia and
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    • 39 10 NEW YORK. Tues. (Reuter)) Results of yesterday'! major league baseball: American League (No games scheduled). National League. Chicago Cubs 4. San Francisco Giants 3 (10 Innings). St. Louis Cardinals 2, San Diego Padres 1. (only garnet scheduled).
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    • 154 10 FOUR countries will compete in the Women's Football Association of Singapore international 1969 'Football Fiesta* to be held in conjunction with the Pesta Sukan. at the Jalan Besar Stadium from August 12 to 16. They are Australia. Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia Hong Kong will be
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    • 234 11 BIG WALK TWO of Singapore's top walker® will represent the Republic at the forthcoming SEAP Games at Rangoon in December. They are B. K. S. Maniam and A. Kannan, the only competitors to complete the course for the 50 kilometres (about 31 miles) race, out
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    • 105 11 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Derek Underwood, England's slow left arm bowler, won the £lOO prize for the best bowling performance in the first cricket Test against New Zealand, which ended at Lord's here yesterday. Underwood took seven wickets for 32 runs in New Zealand's second innings
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    • 118 11 CARDIFF. Wales. Tues (Reuter) The Rest of Britain beat Wales 1-0 in a soccer friendly to mark the investiture of the Prince of Wales here last night. English international Francis Lee scored the winning goal in the 33rd minute after centre-forward Derek Dougan had split the
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    • 365 11 TAN Kai Kok captured the 1969 National junior men's singles table-tennis title with a 3-0 win over Chan Peng Kong in the final played a*, the Khee Fatt School on Sunday. Results 1 Junior women's double* (semi-final) Ng Aik Choo Toh Chuw e Kim
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    • 327 11 ATHLETICS SINGAPORE wai field a ttrong team against the British Combined Service? at the annual athletic championship* at the Farrer Park Ath'-et-c Centre on Sunday. Srhool-teachir Avta r S;ngV\ holder of the I.SOO metre, and 800 metres national records. i« expected to scor» an
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    • 276 11  -  By EASTERN KNIGHT THE Marathon Lightning Chess Exhibition organised by the Raffles Institution Chess Club proved a great success. Altogether 397 games were played in the 24 hours and the individual results achieved by each of the panel players were: P W D L Pts Tan
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    • 216 11 WHO said they were the weaker sex? Just a glance at the young ladv above will perish that thought. For she's practising the art of Tae-Kwon Do. generally re- cognised as a man's sport. But Tae-Kwon Dn is really catching on In
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    • 80 11 HONG KONG. Tues (UPI) —An 18-member football delegation representing Hong Kong will leave Aug in for Singapore to olay in the Pesta Sukan Merdeka women's football tournament Miss Teresa Pang, Secretary of the Hong Kong women's Football Club, said the Hong Kong team consist of
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    • 333 11 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) John Snow, the England paceman ignored by the selectors for the First Test against New Zealand, continued hi s devastating form for Sussex in the English County cricket championship yesterday. Snow shot out five batsmen as Hampshire crashed to 136 all out
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    • 193 11 MOSCOW Tues. (Reuter) Eduard Streltsov. sharpshooting hero of Moscow soccer fans who made a brilliant comeback three years ago after serving a Jail term for rape, has won a reprieve from expulsion from his club side, It was learned here today. Last week a
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    • Article, Illustration
      68 11 JOHN FAIRFAX. 31, the British oarsman who Is attempting to row the Atlantic single handed, crosses his oars in a triumphant gesture when he was sighted 140 miles south-east of Miami, Florida, near the end of his epic voyage. He left the Canary Islands on his 23-foot
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    • 109 11 ZURICH. Tues (AFP) Most probably 16 teams will participate in the Munich Olympic football tournament, announced FIFA, the governing bodv of world football in their statement published here toaay. Following talks between Sir Stanley Rous, President of FIFA and Mr. Avery Brundage. President of
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    • 134 11 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I. TAN AH HENG alias TAN SUAN AIK of No. 12. Bain Street. Singapore, have applied for a transfer of Samsu Shop and Beer House (2nd Class) licence in respect of premises No. 12 Bain Street (YIK HENG) to LOH WAI HING Singapore, and
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1158 11 <CHANNEL 5) English: 9.15 What Others Say P M 3 0(1 Opening Announce- English: 940 Green Acres ments in all Languages A* House- Man for the Job: 10 05 The 11th wives Matinee Pa-t 1 of a Hour You're Smart. Why Hnkk Film Sorrowful Song": Can't You Be Good: 10.55
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  • 234 12  -  By PATRICIA CHAN "RUGGEDNESS", confidence and good discipline were "mirrored" by the 1,600 healthy pupils of the Singapore Chinese Girls' School when they efficiently carried out a colourful programme of beautiful dances and interesting displays to celebrate their school's 70th anni- versary yesterday. The teachers,
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  • 448 12  -  by SUHAIMI BIDIN "Regionalism" has become the keyword in the promotion of political and economic stability in South-east Asia. This was stated on Monday night by the Chairman of the South East Asia Film Co. Ltd., Mr. Herbert Lim Eng Kwan when he spoke
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  • 19 12 THERE were a total of 69 road accidents of which four were classified as serious, on Monday.
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  • 62 12 SONG BENG SWEE, 22, a Malaysia Singapore Airlines' passenger services hand is our next lucky reader. He was caught holding the copy of the Eastern Sun, while waiting for his bus at the Upper Paya Lebar bus terminus. He can claim his token prize of $lO C. K. Tang gift
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  • 243 12 A DRIVER-CUM-SALESMAN. Khoo Poh Beng. told the Seventh Court Magistrate, Mr. George Sandosham, yesterday that he was assaulted by two Police Officers at the Joo Chiat Police Station on Oct. 13. last year when he refused to admit to a cheating charge and sign a
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  • 298 12  -  Another MSA Milestone By OOI ENG CHEANG MALAYSIA-Singapore Airlines reached another milestone on the road to progress when the first of its five new Boeing 737s arrived at the Singapore International Airport yesterday. The aircraft, costing $l4 million including spares, was commanded by Captain V.
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  • 188 12 $50,000 SAWN timber ready for shipment to Italy, Japan and South Africa went up in smoke when fire gutted a sawmill at Jurong early yesterday morning. The damage to the Kay Ham Timber Company at the 11 m s Jurong Road was estimated to be around
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  • 48 12 A .22 revolver and 49 rounds of ammunition were recovered by a pobce party who raided a house at Jalan Simpah. off 11 m.s. Tampines Road, yesterday morning. Police who were acting on a tip-off. also arrested a man who were found sleeping in the house.
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  • 327 12 A NEW media of advertising will soon be introduced into the local advertising scene. I* is known as ♦he "Visiomatic" a new poster-changing machine which offers a new approach to the poster advertising medium. The method is carried out on a revolving basis
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  • 62 12 THE Director of Telecommunications yesterdav announced that te'.ex service between Singapore and Okinawa would be available from August 1. The service will be continuous daily and the charge will be 5536.90. minimum charge as for three minutes, and S$ 12.30 for each additional minute or part thereof. A
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  • 20 12 PICTURE shows one of the pavilions at the "150 years of Development" exhibition to be held at Elizabeth Walk Sunpix.
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  • 505 12 LET SLEEPING DOCS LIE? THE Republic's docfors should give no place to apathy and Indifference in their attitudes towards society in general and their profession in particular, declares the latest issue of the Singapore Medical Association's 'Newsletter' published yesterday. In a hard-hitting and lengthy editorial,
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  • 62 12 THREE robbers way!aid 8 Port of Singapore Authority worker a t a back-lane in Jalan Bersak and robbed him of a watch value at $45 and cash $lO yesterday. The worker Letchman an. of Kampong Eunos was walking alone in the unlit lane, when the
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 105 12 Time Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 11.52 am. (8 1 ft.) 10.42 pm (9 6 ft). Naval Dockyard: 11.56 a.m. (10.1 ft.) 11.01 p.m. (10.4 ft.) Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town 4.51 a.m. (-0.6 ft.) 449 p.m (3.8 ft.) Naval Dockvard: 4.27 a.m. (-0.1 ft.) 4 50 p.m. (4.6
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