Eastern Sun, 12 September 1969

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  • 21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1116 Friday, 12 September 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 589 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The chairman of the Capital Investment Committee, Tun Tan Siew Sin, today announced increased tariff protection and other investment incentives for 29 items of commodities for which viable industries could be set up. He explained in a statement that the proposed tariffs
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  • 178 1 THE Malaysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and his family, were among some 210 passengers who were on the P and 0 liner, S.S. Chitral, which sailed in yesterday morning from Port Swettenham. The Tunku Is on his way to Hong Kong for a
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  • 97 1 WEST CHESTER. Pennsylvania Thurs. (UPI) Cattle farmer C Burtis Coxe shot and killed a lion here when it stampeded his herd The lion had escaped from his cage on the property of animal trainer Rudolph Alexander. A commotion wakened coxe and he saw the lion stalking the
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  • 116 1 PARIS. Thurs 'AFP) Prime Minister Jacques Cha-ban-Delmas' government was todav faced with a major labour conflict for the first time since it took office on June 20. as a result of a surprise walk out bv train drivers that all but crippled the French state run
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  • 177 1 THE Minister of State at Prime Minister's Office, Tuan Haji Ya'acob bin Mohammed yesterday received a cheque for $lO,OOO from King Faisal of Saudi Arabia towards the building fund of a Muslim religious secondary school in Jalan Eunos, here. The Counsul-General of the
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  • 66 1 FRANKFURT. Thurs <Reuter) West Germany today raised the official hank rate by one per cent from five to ox percent. The West German Central Bank Council held its fortnightly meeting today Afterwards. it said the new rate would be rffective today. Before today's decision, financial circle*
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  • 50 1 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPl)— The pro-Peking Chinese Merchants Association today rejected a Japanese government proposal that its 76 members visit China for reunion with their relatives. The Justice Ministry holds the position that they will be permitted to leave and return to Japan only for humanitarian reasons
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  • 493 1 TEL AVIV, Thurs. (Reuter) At least seven Egyptian aircraft were shot down during two air battles over Sinai today, a military an- nouncement said here. A military spokesman said that after an abortive attempt to strike at Israeli targets in NorthWestern Sinai earlier today,
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  • 107 1 MANILA, Thurs. (AFP) The West German Deutsche Bank Aktierigesel'schaft. leader of an Internationa': bank syndicate and the Asian Development Bank yesterday signed ar. agreement for a 6(i-million-Deutschemark (US$l5 million) bonH issue. ADB announced today. The announcement said the proceeds of the loan will be
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  • 108 1 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) A baby narwhale placed on exhibition at the Coney Island aquarium yesterday. Two weeks ago. he was a homeless waif orphaned by Eskimos who apparently killed his mother in the vicinity of Grlsje Fjord. Canadian northwest territory Sympathetic Eskimos captured the narwhale
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  • 198 1 THE DEATH CHASE AN accounts clerk. William Tan thong Ing 26, has been sentenced to death by High Court Judge, Mr. Justice Winslow. for murdering a motorcyclist, Ahmad bin Yassin, a retired policeman, with his motor-car, on December 8, last year. A special jury
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  • 149 1 TAIPEI, Thurs (AFP) The Veteran's General Hospital here has claimed to have initiated an experiment of tooth transplants of monkeys hoping that someday they will be able to transplant monkey teeth to human gums, according to a report here today. The report quoted Dr. Hul Ching Yuan,
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  • 74 1 L> AHLO VEG A, Oeorgid, Thurs. (Reuter) Local Fire Chief John Porter has been found guilty of arson Witnesses 6aid Porter wanted to conduct his own urban renewal project and arranged for two former policemen to use petrol drawn from a fire engine to burn down an abandoned
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 510 2 MALAYSIA-Singapore Airlinas Has niadt a "grtat lift upward" in its 1968-69 year, making a soaring profit of $9,466,000, mora thas 300 par cant highsr than tha ytar before. This is disclosed in MSA's Annual Report for 1968-69 which was released yesterday showing an impressive table of
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  • 183 2 MISS Tourism Singapura 1969, Rosalind Ong, will fly to Japan this week to join Singapore's high-powered team of 30 at the American Society of Travel Agents to attract flow of tourists into the Republic. Her trip LS part of her global promotional tour during
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  • 394 2 MEMBERS of Singapore's Armed Forces have been called upon to urgently re-exomine their concepts of 'Freedom' and 'Good Life'. The call is made in the latest Issue of the 'National pioneer", the monthly organ of the four-year old Republics Armed Forces. The National Pioneer's editorial said: We cannot
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  • 372 2 A SERIES of public lectures for September will be held at the University of Singapore. School of Postgraduate Medical Studies. Dr. Anthonv Neaverson, M B, BS., M.R.C.C.P.. M R.A CP a Physician in the Sydney Hospital will lecture on "Acid Base State in Coronary Artery Disease"
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  • 121 2 A 32-YEAR-OLD man, Low Seng Tuck, was sentenced to two years' jail to be followed by two years' Police supervision by the First District Court Judge. Mr. D.C. D'Cotta, yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to a house-breaking charge. His accomplice, Chia Vun Ylng. was jailed for
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  • 47 2 MR. Mrs. Sulatman bin Ahmad at their bersanding ceremony recently at No. 1. Lorong 107 Changi Road, Singapore. Mr. Sulaiman Is attached to the Telecoms Department. The bride, the former Miss Dahlia binte Yusoff, is a teacher at the Telok Kurau West Int. School. Singapore
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  • 138 2 Sixteen-year-old Lim Kok Huang was taken by surprise when she was notified that she had won one of the three in- dividual awards in the All-Sin-gapore Secondary Schools Mathematics Competition ori eanised bv the Mathematics Society of the National Junior College Daughter of Mr. Lim
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  • 96 2 Two Singaporeans ire among aome 100 Asian and American scholars now In Washington participating In a discussion called "The American Urban Crisis Through Asian Eyes." They are: The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Law and National Development and the former Chairman of the
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  • 79 2 Small-time "pirates" held up a fisherman and his son at sea. off Pulau Damar Laut, Tanjong Kling on Tuesday night and made off with their motor sampan and fishing nets. The fisherman. Osman and his son, said four men In a sampan rowed up to their boat
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  • 422 2 THE Singapore Institute of Management is organising a series of compact yet comprehensive courses on various aspects of industrial management to beain at end of this month. Called the Junior Management Programme, the series Is so designed and organised so that the various courses
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  • 660 2 THE president of the Singapore Tourist Association, Mr. Herbert Lim Eng Kwan. yesterday stressed the importance of "Visitor Satisfaction" as an invaluable help to the Republic s "emerging tourist industry." Mr. Lim was speaking at the prize-presentation to the winners of the "Most Courteous
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  • 47 2 A voure man of 21 wa| found" to be gutter:ng from serious burn® on him in h;s house at Bukit Timah Avenue yesterday The Police, who rushed h:m to hospital was alerted by a member of the public. No foifl play is suspected
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

  • 509 3 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Peking is reported to have urged Hanoi's emerging leadership to pull out of the Paris Peace Talks. Failing this, they should pursue a hard, non-compromising line at the Vietnam Conference. North Vietnamese politbureau leaders have rejected the suggestion for a
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  • 366 3 TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) The funeral for Ho Chi Minh is over but North Vietnamese authorities to-day were not saying whether the body had been interred. Vietnam News Agency (VNA) broadcasts heard in Tokyo told of foreign delegations leaving for home after attending Tuesday's requiem for
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  • 92 3 HONG KONG, Thurs. (Reuter) Hong Kong may have many vices but over-exposure of sex Is not one of them, according to the toastmasters and toastmistresses here. At a luncheon debate, they rejected a motion, by 22 votes to 14 that sex was over-exposed in the colony. Arguing
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  • 541 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter and TPI) Postponement of public and television appearances by U.S. and South Vietnamese leaders increased expectations yesterday that major decisions will be taken at President Nixon's wide-ranging review of the Vietnam war here to-morrow. South Vietnamese President Thieu. who had
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  • 260 3 SEOUL, Thurs. (UPI) Health Authorities said to-dav they will enforce cholera quarantine measures even though they aren't certain that the mysterious epidemic in South Korea's western coastal area is reallv cholera. The strange outbreak, now tentatively regarded as "cholera." has struck 514 persons killing
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  • 403 3 SUBIC BAY NAVAL BASE. Philippines. Thurs. (UPI) Lt. Ronald Ramsey pleaded guilty today to his part in the collision of his ship, the U.S. Destrover, "Frank E. Evans," with the Australian Carrier. "Melbourne." The gulltv plea came after his Chief Defence
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  • 61 3 ROMFORD. England. Thurs. <UPI> Shop manager Renee Stanley was unable to get to the bank, so he left £125 at the back of the premises until the next day But In the morning, garbage men entered, took cans of rubbish and the box It was
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  • 552 3 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) The Soviet Union has now reached parity with the United States in numbers of land-based continent-spanning nuclear missiles and may take the lead by the end of this year. The Institute for Strategic Studies here reported this to-day in its latest
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  • 162 3 UNITED NATIONS. Thurs (UPI) Japan signed an agreement with the United Nations on Tuesday on the establishment of an Asian Statistical Institute in Tokvo. The project, which i« sponsored by the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP), aims at train.ng highly qualified statisticians for the Asian
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  • 321 4 UNITED NATIONS, Thurs. (Reuter) Arab and other Moslem countries at the U.N. reported to have reached agreement on a draft resolution condemning Israel's military occurr^ r J JS^ )urces SQic j t^e f ina touches were put to the draft late last night but
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  • 363 4 LONDON, Ttaurs. (Reuter) The Arab armies are now better equipped than before the June 1967 war in which thev were defeated by Israel, the London-based Institute of Strategic Studies reported today. The comparative strengths bf the Middle East forces were detailed in
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  • 124 4 JERUSALEM. Thurs. (UPI) Israeli Premier Golda Meir sa.d last night that obtaining the release of two Israeli men held in Syria remained the responsibility of the United S f ates Government and Trans World Airlines Mrs. Meir, making a New Year broadcast to the
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  • 335 4 NAIROBI. Thurs. (Reuter) Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge a 32-year-old Kikuyu. was yesterday sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of Mr. Tom Mboya, Kenya's Minister for Economic Planning. Mr. Mboya died almost instantly alter two shots were fired at him on July 5 in
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  • 79 4 CASTELOANDOLFO Italy. Thurs. (UPI) Pope Paul VI said yesterday the Roman Catholic Church was not undergoing a crisis of faith, but a crisis of distrust that includes some clergymen. Some of them, he said, distrusted him personally as well as certain aspects of contemporary church
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  • 214 4 CASERTA. Italy. Thurs. (Uf»D Relative calm returned to Caserta yesterday followinf two days of rioting by soccer fana angered over the demotion of their team to the third division. Hundreds of policemen patrolled the streets of the city of 50.000. 20 mileg north of Naples, and
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  • 277 4 BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Thurs. (Reuter) —Belfast's feuding Catholics and Protestants spontaneously began dismantling some of their street barricades today, offering slender new hope for peace in the divided city. The Northern Ireland capital had Its second successive quiet night as
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  • 86 4 MILAN. Thurs. (Reuter) "Thats not me." said Bophla Loren and filed a suit against a Milan girlie magazine which published a photograph o! her apparently nude. The magazine claimed that it was a genuine shot, taken in America some years ago Bophla's lawyers said yesterday
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  • 66 4 Where To Please LONDON. Thurs (UPI) The railroad station at Stratford in East London has put a sign saying "Please state your destination" in Chinese. British rail officials explained: "Theses rather a large Chinese population. and many don't speak English. Sometimes ticket clerks asked them where they were going and
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  • 203 4 MELBOURNE. Thurs (Reuter) Twenty-five dockers here are scrubbing out rust In the holds of a 7834-ton Oreek vessels. "Irene Xllas." following the discovery of Khapra beetles, the most feared wheat pest in the world Several larvae were found last Monday by a quarantine officer behind rust flakes in one
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  • 96 4 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Communists joined Arab and African states in blasting Israel yesterdav for her "flagrant and adventurous"' coastal raid on Egypt, Rumania's official communist newspaper. Scinteia. called the action "an adventurous course which couki have serious implications for the security of the
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  • 83 4 GHENT, Belgium. Thurs (UPI) The world's longest living lung-transplant patient died at Ghent University Hospital yesterday a university spokesman said. Alois Vereecken. a 24-year-old steelworker, received a new right lung on Nov. 14. 1968, when he was in critical condition because of double lung
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  • 126 4 LAGOS. Thurs. (Router) The Nigerian federal leader. Major-General Yauubu Gowon. said on his return home yesterday from the African leaders summit in Addis Ababa that prospects of peace In the Nigerian civil war were now brighter than ever before. He told a press conference
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 230 4 TODAY and YOU Friday, Sept. 12, 1969. m —By CLAY H POLLAN JK Your Doily Activity Guide JK According to tho Stars. <» To develop messoge for Friday, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac blrth sign. 1 Probably 31A <IA 2 Taking 32 If 62 Propositi! 3 Bt
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  • 358 5 WEEKLY pictorial feature by the Eastern Sun based on the photographs taken by our cameramen at official functions, parties, exhibitions, shopping centres etc. Going Hawaiian in Singapore? Why not. The weather we have is almost similar Mrs.' Molly Armstrong, (left) wife of the Senior Surveyor of
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  • 215 5 GRAND VALLEY, Colo. Thurs. (L'Pl) A nuclear explosion with the power of 40.000 tons of TNT ripped a huge cavern a mile and a half deep beneath the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday to ret at the 1.2 billion dollars in natural gas scientists hope
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  • 73 5 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (UPI) Indianapolis air traffic controllers warned the government gix weeks ago that radar coverage was weak in the area where 83 persons died on Tuesday when a jet'.mer and a light plane collided in flight. It was reported on Wednesday Stanley Lyman President of the National
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  • 160 5 RIO DE JANEIRO, Thurs. fUPI) —A military source reported Wednesday the arrest of two persons "directly connected with the kidnappers of U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick. but not involved in the abduction itself. They were not identified. Elbrick. kidnapped by leftigt terrorists last week,
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  • 130 5 UNITED NATIONS. Thurs. (UPI) Australia and Japan congratulated the United Btates on the Apollo 11 Moon Landing yesterday and pointed to their own contributions to the success of the American space mission. The committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space opened
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  • 185 5 CLINTON, N Y. Thurs (UPI) —The United Nations must be given authority to actully settle such conflicts as those in Vietnam, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and southern Africa in the next decade, Charles W Yost. U.S Ambassador to the United Nations. sa:d Wednesday
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  • 97 5 SAN JUAN Puerto Rico, Thurs (UPI) —A young Puerto Rican charged with assault and attempted air piracy in the aborted hijack of a US jetliner said Wednesday he joined in the plot only s o that he could get to Havana to "personally insult* Cuban Prime Minister Fidel
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  • 95 5 HOUSTON, Tuil. Ttaur*. (UFI) Dr. Denton A. Cooky, who has transplanted more human hearts than any other surgeon. rat his ties with Dr. Michael Dehakey and the Baylor College at Medicine Wednesday in a professional wrangle over an artificial heart. Cooler declined to asfc the Baylor Research
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  • 173 5 MONTREAL, Thurs. (CPI) Riot-equipped polica used teargas on Wednesday after Molotov cocktaila exploded and extremist French Canadian nationalists foiled barricades at the town limits of St. Leonard, a suburban community torn by dissent over school lan- guage policies. Some 1,000 supporters of Raymond Lemieux. leader
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  • 236 5 ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Thurs. (Reuter) oil Anns spent more than 900 million dollars here bidding for stakes in an Alaskan oil reservoir believed the biggest in the United States. But the sum. although staggering, was lower than expected In the race for 179 tracts surrounding
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  • 63 5 MONTEVIDEO Uruguay. Thurs (UPI) Friends of Italian-born banker-newspaper executive Gaetano Pellegrini Giampietro offered a reward of $20,000 yesterday for Information leading to his rescue from the hands of abductors. Peregnni managed the newspapers La Manana and El Dlario and was an offerer of several bank management groups He
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  • 132 5 MONTEREY, Calif Thurm. (TPI) Cm dr. Lloyd M. Bucher. former commander of the USS Pueblo, predicted yesterday North Korea will continue "renegade' acts like the setting of his ship "until they either grow op or are nd» to do go. Bucher arrived to enroll in the
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  • 69 5 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (UPI) Secretary of State William P Rogers and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko are to meet at the United Nations next week for urgent talks on the critical Middle East situation. State Department officials said on Wednesday arrangements are being made for the two men to
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  • 534 6 CRIMES with an international flavour which will make headlines all over the world and will spotlight a specific local situation have occurred twice recently and bid fair to make their appearance again. The latest, of course, is the kidnapping of American Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick in Rio de Janeiro.
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  • 214 6 NOTHING else is more paying than training the young minds. Unlike other nations Singapore's future entirely depends on its youths and how well they can discharge their responsibilities in the next few difficult years. A good deal of planning, caution and training is required if the youths
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  • 920 6  -  By DEREK INGRAM (Gemini News Service) LONDON: In these days of yore the British Foreign Secretary bestrode the diplomatic earth like a colossus. Today the country's status dictates otherwise. What sort of man does Britain need now as its foreign Secretary and
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  • 414 6 The Lighter Side By Dick West: WASHINGTON (UPI) Every time I began to lose confidence in the mother country, something happens to reassure me there'll always be an England. The secret of England's ability to endure is her capacity for producing the right man for the times, such
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  • 858 6  -  By HITOSHI SATO TOKYO (UPI) Japanese businessmen probably won't even grimace when fed an American pun, but most agree that English makes whole lot of cents. Japan's major trading partners are Englishspeaking countries, and most Japanese companies have found it advantageous and profitable —to have English speaking staffers
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  • 790 6  -  By FREDERICK M. WINDSHIP NEW YORK, (L'PI) Moon merchandise, inspired by America's space programme and the recent Apoilo li moonshot, is beginning to appear in toy, book, game, record, and coin stores across the United States- Space novelties have been on the market for some 10 years
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  • 34 6 Destiny in not a natter of chance it is a matter of choice; it U not a thins to be waited for. It is a thine to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan
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  • 560 6  -  By LESLIE MURPHY K U C H I N G. Sarawak. (Reuter) Sarawak's agricultural planners liavi had to face many hard facts sine* the state was designated the granary of Malaysia but they now predict an end to expensive rice imports within three years. The state
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 540 7 By Our Market Reporter Mixed conditions prevailed fn the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday as profit-taking pared prices gains made following a firm opening. The market opened firm after Wednesday's reason for bearing down in Veneer and and Plywood shares was quashed by
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    • 99 7 MISS Leona Mount flew by Lufthansa recently to join a secretarial school in Geneva. Born in Singapore. Miss Mount received her earlier education in Switzerland and. to show how much .she will miss the Republic, she mad« per parents promise her a Chits'.mas holiday
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    • 155 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Stocks climbed sharply yesterday In brisk turnover Helping bolster the market were improved Vietnam peace prospects and word from Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin that record high Interest rates might have reached their peaks. Shortly before the close, the UPI
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    • 77 7 LONDON. Thurs. (ITI) Rubber Market closed hesitant with spot 26-3/4. 27. SETTLEMENT HOUSE Oct 26-3'4 27 Nov., Dec. and Oct./ Dec. 2613/16 27 Jan./ March 26-5/8, 26-3/4 April' June 26-1/2. 26-5/8 July/Sept. 26-3/8, 26-1/2 Oct./ Dec. 26-1/8. 26-5/16 Jan./ March 26. 26-1/16 April/June 25-7/8, 26-1/16
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    • 12 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $640.00 per picul. unchanged.
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    • 360 7 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) Two Senators yesterday introduced long-threatened legislation to require Presidential action to limit imports of textiles and leather footwear. The Bill, introduced by Senators Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina and Norris Cotton of New Hampshire. would give the
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    • 52 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged to 35 points higher on the New York Commodity Exchange yesterday. There were no sales (BID) (ASK) Sept. 23.35 Nov. 28.00 29.00 Jan. 28.50 Mar. 2775 28.35 May 28.25 July 28.15 Sept. 28.10 Locally No. 2 RSfl was 28 cents
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    • 1221 7 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRLALS Ber. $l.BB (1) $lB7 (2); Borneo sl.Bo (7) $lBl (2): Boustead $1.95 (1): Camel
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    • 226 7 The following is a berthing Ist released by the Port of Singapore Authority for Sept. 12: DEPARTURE God owns Vessels 3/4 Toledo 5 Union Skipper (clinker) 8/9 Unkai Maru No. 6 10/11 Luna Maersk 15/15 Fernmoor 19 Broholm 21 /22 Kinabalu 25 Kunak 2<5 Hua Li 31/32
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    • 136 7 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) Gold prices were mostly lower in moderately active trading yesterday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold fell 7j cents at the morning fixing and an additional 2$ cents for a second fixing of $40.95 the troy ounce. Gold in Zurich
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    • 289 7 SEPTEMBER first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 74-3/4 cents per lb., down three eighths of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was dulL After opening unchanged, the market fluctuated within narrow limits
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    • 39 7 NEW YORK. Thur*. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 828.01 20 rails 198.24 15 utilities 113.75 65 stocks 279.06 40 bonda 71.39 Commodity futures index 139.92 off 0.06
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    • 162 7 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) The market was undecided yesterday. An earlier rise of 13 In the FT Index was replaced by a fall of 0.8 to 376 9 towards the close Leading industrials drifted on lack of interest, although Decca was a dull spot following it s reduced
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    • 600 7 SINGAPORE chanre told ud officially Us ted at business. It othe Lh« M B* r prices class of INDC ft TRIALS Ben A Co. Bornro Bhd. B. S. 184 188 Si 1-82 1.93 197 Bousttad Camel Plywood C. Migar 1.74 1.83 4.14 Cold Storage Chemical co
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    • 93 7 THK noon prlre* at pore rtlnw Prodo*.e >esterda; »rere>— tbe Mnrv fcxrhange Bay a setter Coronal Oil (FO B.) Balk 48.SO (omnut Oil (FO B Dram Mixed Copra 80-50 51.00 Muntok White Pepper (FOB) TT. 162 50 Mar»»*k White Pepper (FOB.) 160 00 Sarawak special Black Pepper (FOB) 96%
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    • 59 7 (Minuen' Prices for Sept. 1») ASIA UNIT TRUSTS M*l. Invest. Fund 12A 1-M SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS 1st Malayan 2.80 2nd M&yan 2 03 Srd Malayan 1.29 The Com. Ind 103 The SaT. Fund xd... 108 Sterling Com 5/4 118 1.18 H.R. TRUST FUNDS 1st Hong Konr 1 86
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    • 55 7 HONG KONG. Thurs. (UPI) Money Quotations yesterday: HK56.090 per U.S. dollar, HK$6 105 per U.S. dollar TT. HK514.52 per pound sterling. HK5307.25 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HKSlfll.7 per 10,000 Japanese yen. HKSI342 per 100 Philippines pesos buyers. HK5135.2 per 100 Philippines pesos sellers Philippine
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    • 454 7 ARRIVALS: 5.00 a m. MSA 029 K. Lumpur. 9.00 a.m. MSA 119 K. Lumpur. 1015 a.m. MSA 121 K. Lumpur. 10.25 a.m. MSA 005 Penang, Ipoh, K. Lumpur. Malacca1.10 pm. MSA 451 Kuchlnc 2.25 pm MSA 047 KoU Bharu. Trengganu. K. Lumpur. S.t5pm- MSA 509 Bangkok. 3 25
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 605 8  -  By KEE FLETCHER HONG KONG: It must be the only place in the world where you con see Mono Lisa plumb next to a risk-] shaw-puller, a fruit hawker and a scantily dressed Chinese concubine. Where else but In Hong: Kong... In a small
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    • 934 8  -  The first of a series of articles on the New English. By Maya Pines QUIETLY, in the post seven years, a revolution has been building up in the teaching of English, and a Hood of New English" programmes may soon hit the nation's
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    • 655 8 SCIENCE ALTHOUGH arthritis and rheumatism are still often semi-incurable illnesses, medical research at a number of centres in Britain is now providing new hope for sufferers all over the world. Most exciting of all perhaps, is the work going on at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at Hammersmith in
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    • 324 8 STUTTGART (DaD) Most Germans have an aversion to wearing glasses. A survey carried out several years ago revealed that this dislike is not based on aesthetic reasons or because the wearer feels that the glasses are a hindrance. Glasses are above all taboo in the lower
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    • 80 8 Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, thev call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. Tact is an active quality that is not exercised by merely making a
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    • 438 8  -  Date-line By Ele and Walt Dulaney DEAR Ele and Walt: I'm a 13-year-old boy and I've got a problem about my voice. It's verv high and everyone mistakes me for a girl on the telephone. If I call up a girl, it takes me a long time
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    • 65 8 "The Singapore Polyteehnle Marine Engineering Societv will hold its Annua] Social Dance on Sept. 13 at the Golden Crown Nite-Club under the distinguished patronage of Dr. Lee Chi aw Meng. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education The highlights for the eight include a Programme Drffct 4 Ticket
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    • 163 8 1. What's Koko Nor? 2. What Is the capital of Nepal? 3. What Is the meaning of the Idiom: 'to let the cat out of the bag*. 4. What does the abbreviation M.88.5. mean? 5. Give the adjectives of: Simplicity, Terror. afqixial 'aidmrs S 1° PUT avpTpafV J® Jopqwg f
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    • 31 8 By Jack Tippfti z I 4 "Daddy, If you •njoy the HttU «klt wo'ro dbout to do, you can show your appreciation fay your appjause, a dog biscuit, end a dint."
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    • 226 9  -  By Mary Sue Miller THREE out of four teena develop acne at some time It's not a case where m-sery loves company, but where misery hag company. Lots of it! So, Miss Teen there is no reason to feel like an outcast if acne strikes You
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    • 568 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: J just read the letter from "Hirsute Hilda", the secretary who had to shave every day. It makes me sick that life is so unfair. I am a 23-year-old boy and I have lots
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    • 349 9  -  By Gloria-mae ALL that delicious food storing up at you and you are counting the extra calories which vou will have to get rid of after that meal to be able to get into that cheongsam or figure-hugging dress won't do,
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    • 132 9 PARIS. Thurs. Shades of the Twenties, the Piano shawl is with us again That large fringed triangle which used to drape your mother's baby grand, and wag sometimes even worn, bv those emulating such movie vamps as Pola Negri, is a big thing this
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    • 41 9 PARIS. Thurs. Pierre Cardin thinks In total effect*, and his covered-up tall clothes have the amall. wrapped hat* and bold gloves they need The Cardin glove designs are available in a special group done for Arl» in this country
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    • 283 9  -  By Florence de Santis PARIS. Thurs. —ln the Paris the favoured silhouette was long and low, with slinky torso that ended in a "waistline" at the hip or even well below it. The long, low line appeared no matter whether the hem was
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    • 134 9 PARIS, Thura. Italian designers are xn love with fancy hosiery, but Paris preferred union suit tights Perhaps they should even be called Dr. Demons, for like those children's sleepers, some of Paris' t.ght* even had the feet in them The idea was to wear
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    • 202 9 I SHAW TION I D O Phon 2841 CAPJXOL Phof-e_29Z59 VOW SHOWING No Fre# Li«t 11 am. 138. 4.00. 643 ft ».30 p m Wans Vu in >l* SON" A 6HAW PRODUCTION l Mandarin In Shawscope Color 4-Thestre Midnight Tomorrow at CAPITOL LIDO-REX-SKY Ju i* Yeh Feng <fc Jenny Hu
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    • 49 9 ILIDO-OPENS TODAY See kids shed their Inhibitions and the final freak-out under he ■HHk of lonoumer George Chokes Rchcd Egcn m IT In COLOR From WARNER BROS.-SEVEN ARTSlflt dan in? gth kxu hy FRANCISCO DtEZ BAR9OSO Production DOUGHS IMS F ORD DAVSON r« EIMJNDO BA£2 •rIINOStfY PftRSHNS oyPTO PARSON
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    • 91 9 E**r<oa* 1* TaJki&f ib»t tfeit PlrMr* —lf r«a kit (M >MR OHIII; •f Lero". Th*n Brlaf Toar faa«l!» To It Toda»r PALACE ?VD RECORD WEEK GALAXY TODAY 1 IWIH *2O n TODAT IIM-1 A ISA Flrtaf Pho#alx (HK) pre»«ata Woaf Pao Cb*n< Chianf Hia "DESTINY OF 10VE" A Modera Social
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    • 2452 10 StfMROAY Baee 1: CL 6 Div. 5 5V4 p.—2.15 p.m. ($4,500) (For Local Riders Only) Bedouin Novelist Jobber Koala Bear Bed Face King's Proctor Aagust Moon Easy Money Fleetmuster II Fighting Fit Chahaya Bnian Victory H RINGS: Walkaway Chiaramella 5y 6y 4y 7y 9
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    • 420 10 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Derbyshire fast bowler Harold Rhodes, once destined for a lone England career until caught up in a throwing controversy, was forced into pre mature retirement yesterday when he discovered he had a cracked thumb. Rhodes. 33, bowled his last seven overs in
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    • 108 10 HONG KONG. Thurs. (Reuter) The Combined Services cricket team from Singapore will play seven matches during their two-week tour of Hong Kong next month. The major matches will be against the Combined Bervices Hong Kong on October 15 and 16. and the Hong Kong
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    • 265 10  -  By BIG BEN IPOH, Thurs. Everything Better who pat op an Impressive debut when third to Lucius Quintus over the Bukit Timah 6f last month showed improved form today. With George Podmore astride Everything Better went smartly over 3f in 42 2/5 in the company of Vantage.
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    • 94 10 HONG KONG. Thurs. (Reuter) Five national teams will participate in the regional hockey tournament being organised by the Hong Kong Hockey Association. The tournament will open on Sept. 20 and. according to a spokesman for the Hockey Association, matches will be played on a round-robin
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    • 142 10 TWO Police Sports Association players were ordered off the field in the annual Police/ Military knock-out final for the Gold Leaf trophy at Jalan Besar Stadium last night They were Abdul Kader and Robin Chan for arguing with the referee. The winners by a 3-2 margin
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    • 26 10 UPINGTON. South Africa, Thurs, (Reuter) The Australian rugby tourists, playing a second-string s»de. swept to an easv 37-6 victory over Northwestern Cape here yesterday.
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    • 475 10 DONCASTER. England. Thurs. (Reuter) Intermezzo. who had not woi a race for 12 months. Lan led the St. Leger Stakes, last classic of the English season, in impressive style here yesterday. Ridden by Australian Ron Hutchinson, the colt hit the front two furlongs out
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    • 400 11 A New Zealand schoolteacher will coach Singaporeana on the finer points of the art of rugby during the next 1} months. He is Mr. Eugene Cheriton. who has been teaching for 13 years at Mt. Albert Boys Grammar School, one of the leading secondary
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    • 232 11 THOMAS CUP CHRISTCHt'RCH, New Zealand, Thurs (Renter) New Zealand and Singapore meet her* at the weekend in the Thomas Cup men badminton Austra- Han tone final. New Zealand will be making their first appearance m the final. They were beaten in the first round in
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    • 143 11 NOTTINGHAM, Thurs. Reuter) West Indies cricket captain Gary Sober§ today married blonde Australian Prudence K:rby. 26 The 33-year-old cricket star had w-anted a quiet wedding but about 50 renorterg and photographers clustered outside the register office here for the ceremony. Th# couple met here Ift months
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    • 41 11 MELBOURNE. Thurs (Reuter) Marathon cyclist Vic Browne of Victoria today smashed Sir Hubert Opperman's 30-vear-old 24-hour eyeing record by 18 miles and 243 yards Browne. 27. covered 524 miles and 639 yards In a similar Journey to Opperman
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    • 210 11 US Baseball Results Standings NEW YORK. Thurs (UPI) —Results of baseball matches played yesterday. NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 6 Chicago 2. San Diego 2 Cincinnati 1. Atlanta 8 San Francisco 4. Houston 8 Los Angeles 1. St. Louis 11 Pittsburgh 2 (I*o. St. Louis t Pittsburgh l (2nd). New York 3
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    • 187 11 LISBON, Thurs (Reuter) Portugal s star footballer Eusebio signed a renewal of his contract with Bcnflca Club for a further three years, an authoritative Bcnflca source told Reuter last night. Eusebio was said to have received 4.000.000 Escudos (about £57.850) for the renewal of his
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    • 102 11 ROME. Thurs. (ReuWD The World Bozlnf Association have officially sanctioned a world title fight between mid-dle-weight champion Nino Benvenutl of Italy and challenger Fraser Scott of the United State* A spokesman for the Italian Boxing Federation said W.B.A President Bruneau sent a telegram yesterday au- thorising the
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    • 358 11 NOTICES NOTIFICATION Notice aider Section 19(2) IT Is hereby notified for general information that the making up of Mount Elizabeth (pt) from Reserve Road linking Cairnhill Road and Mount Elizabeth to lot 23 and Reserve Road linking Cairnhill Road and Mt. Elizabeth under Section 19(2) of the L.G1.0. which appeared
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    • 488 11 GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC Or SINGAPORE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT INTEGRATION ORDINANCE. 196S (NO. IS OF 1963) Notice Under Section 19(10) WHEREAS in exercise of the powers conferred bv subsections (1) and (3) of Section 19 of the Local Government Integration Ordinance, 1983 (hereinafter referred to as "th« Ordinance") the Director
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    • 140 11 TENDER P.W.D. SINGAPORE TENDERS are invited from P.W D. Registered Contractors for the following Works:— Construction of a Centralised Workshop Block at Mat tar in dustrial Training Centre. Mattar Road, Singapore. Building Contractors above $lOO,OOO/-. Closing Date: 26-9 69 at 10 00 a m. Construction of MacPhewon Vocational Institute at
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    • 1284 11 (CHANNEL I) I P.M 300 Opening Announcements in all Languages and Morning Star; 320 Women® World (English); 400 A Diary of Events in Singapore This Week (English); 405 It's Happening in Singapore (English) i Repeat); 420 Scarlet Hill (Citv Mice); 5.05 Close Down; 6 00 Pro. gramme Summary in all
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  • 333 12 To Study Living Asia JAPANESE students believe stronglv In closer cooperation with Asian students. particularly with Singapore students. in promoting an international understanding. This was stated by a pretty 22-year-old Japanese gtudent. Miss Fumlko Suzuki, yesterday when she arrived with a group of 63 students
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  • 318 12 BRITAIN has no intention to desert this part of the world after her military withdrawal by 1971, tha new Commander of the Far East Fleet, Vice-Admiral, L. Empson said yesterday. •M.- «I KA ..J. The Vice-Admiral. 50, arrived here with his family to take
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  • 210 12 Overseas Union Bank Limited has opened a new branch In Jurong Town to serve industries and residents in the fastdeveloping industrial complex. Business started briskly soon after the branch officially opened its doors In the morning. All new depositors were presented with key-chains as
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  • 113 12 THREE men. one armed with a knife, robbed a taxidriver. after having directed their victim to take them to the Camp. Somewhere aiong Upper Redok Road the three men ordered the taxi-driver. Ong Ah Kow. 42. to stop his vehicle. The driver was then tied up
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  • 101 12 A youth, Anthony Tan Kim Ban was fined $4O by the Ninth Court Magistrate, Mr. Francis G. Remedios, after he pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing stolen lipsticks. He admitted committing the offence the rear of a godown of the Port of Singapore Authority on Sept. 10.
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  • 187 12 Twenty-one agricultural and livestock extension officers from U Afro-Asian countries. Including B:ngapore. will attend a special course beginning in Australia late this month. The 11-week course, sponsored by Australia's Agricultural Council and its External Affairs Department, will consist of lectures, practical field visits and a study
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  • 67 12 A BRAVE housewife yesterday put up a fight with a snatch thief who had earlier tried to snatch away her gold chain and pendant worth $lO9. at Kampong Bahru Road. The incident occurred when the housewife was walking to market after alighting from a bus A passer-by heard
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  • 58 12 THE SATA Free Mass X-ray campaign will be stationed at the Mountbatten Community Centre, Guillemard Road from Sept. 15-17. From Sept. 18-Oct. 1, the campaign unit will be moved to Kallang Estates Area Office at 141. Jalan Lima Free X-rays will be available daily from 5.30 p.m. to
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  • 266 12 T\VICE-the-speed-of-sound Lightning fighters of the RAF "4 Squadron (The Tigers) roared off f torn Singapore soon after dawn yesterday on a non-stop. 2,000 miles flight to Darwin. Australia. The four Lightnings ail supersonic Jets are making the flight as a test of mobility
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  • 136 12 The youth of the world should be given more understanding bv the older generation. This was the opinion of the World President of the Junior Chamber International. Mr. Thomas E. Gates, when he met newsmen yesterday. He said people are quick to criticise anything that young
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  • 177 12 DINAH LOVES CHILDREN "CHILDREN here certainly have a way of theli own to enjov and amuse themselves in your 'community centres'" remarked a delighted Miss Dinah Shore who made a call to the Peck Kio Community Centre iast night. Calling the little girls "her
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  • 46 12 PANG Gan Loon wag fined Sljfl by the N T inth Court Mag* tartrate. Mr *"ran<-ls G. Remedios. when he pleaded guilty to a charge of outraging the moaesty of a woman by pinching her breast, on June 19. along Leonle Hill Road.
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  • 155 12 THE Ministry of Health yesterday warned that it has instructed its enforcement officers to promptly hook any one found indiscriminately littering the city. A statement issued by the Ministry said that there were still '"an appreciable number of people" littering public places and not making use of
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  • 170 12 AMERICAN and Canadian, travel agents now in Singapore I are of the opinion that the construction of more first-class hotels in the Republic is definitely a good move ensuring the future of the tourist industry of Singapore. The travel agents, IT of them, are here
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    • 93 12 TIME €t, TIDE High Tide (Today) High Tide (Tomorrow) Singapore Town: 11.31 a.m. Sl ?f Town: 11.51 ajn. (8 2 ft.), 11.15 P.m. (9.2 ft.) j^ 5 11 a 5O 9.3 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 11.48 a.m. M?,Tr y 1211 pm (10.1 ft.), 10.38 p.m. (10.7 ft.) uu>3 Low Tide (Today)
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    • 33 12 Thurs. Toto Draw Results THE following numbers were drawn in last night's mid-week Toto draw:- 4537 40 -38- 13. The additional number drawn was: 33. In the "three-circle" draw, the numbers drawn were:-4-32-9.
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