Eastern Sun, 14 September 1969

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  • 24 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY -V Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1118 Sunday Edition 14 September 1969* •fr MC(P) 0737 Price 15 centi
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  • 411 1 ADDIS ABABA, Sot. (Reuter) Two men today hijacked an Ethiopian airliner with 44 people on board and diverted it to Aden. The Ethiopian news agency reported that security men at Aden airport or someone on board shot and wounded one hijacker as he tried
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  • 36 1 TOKYO. Sat. (Reuter) Miss Satu Ostling of F.nland won the Miss Photogenic title in the Miss International Beauty contest here tonight. The 22-year-old Miss Ostling was chosen by a panel of photographers and journalists.
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  • 261 1 NEW ACCORD NEEDED KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Malaysia will >«nd a four-man detection to the 13th meeting of the International Tin Council in London to discuss the fate of the present export restriction scheme. The meeting called under the third International Tin Agreement Is scheduled to begin
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  • 103 1 LONDON. Sat (Reuter) —A Member of Parliament today apologised to the Playbov Club for referring to the state-owned British Overseas Airways Corporation as "The Bunny Club Airline." Libera] MP. Mr. Feter Be?sell used the phrase in a tirade yesterday against BOAC'e offer to fix up b'.ind dates with
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  • 837 1 MacDougal Changes Plea A managing director of an insurance brokerage firm, Ronald Hal* kerstone MacDougal, was find $lO,OOO on two charges of corruption in the First District Court yesterday. This followed a dramatic turn in the proceedings when 47-year-old MacDougal pleaded guiltv to the charges of
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  • 231 1 ADELAIDE. Sat. (Reuter)— Australian Prime Minister John Gorton today denied there was any proposal for an Asian military pact with the Soviet Union and said such a development "would be dangerous for Australia." "The possibility has never been considered," he told an
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  • 70 1 TOKYO. Sat. (Reuter) Miss Valerie Susan Holmes of Britain won the Miss International beauty contest here over 46 other beauties. The 22-year-old blond was selected by an International panel of judges Second wa* Miss Satu Ostling. 22. of Finland and third was Miss Mana Lacayo. 19.
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  • 59 1 A seventeen-y a r-old girl was reported raped by two Indian youths late last night. The girl *a s returning with her father from the Sin Min Communitv Centre when she was gagged and dragged into the bushes by the youths. The father suffered knife cuts on the hand
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  • 476 1 THE Singapore Government yesterday announced that it had reached a general understanding with o large United States corporation on plans to develop Bali into a dollar-drawing tourist centre. The American firm is the Dillingham Corporation which conducts large diversified operations from it* Hawaii base. Yesterday's
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  • 44 1 CAIRO. Sat. (Reuter) Egyptian planes today attacked Israeli positions and installations on the eastern coast of the Suez Gulf and South Sinai. a military spokesman said here. He added that all planes returned safely to base without being Intercepted by enemy aircraft.
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  • 369 2 HONG KONG, Sot. (Rtuftr) Tht official Chinese news nvsdia has failed to give further details on Thursday's surprise meeting in Piking between Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and his Chinese counterpart, Chou En Lai. Radio Peking monitored here continued to broadcast the three paragraph rather terse, report
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  • 54 2 LONDON. Sat (Reuter) British bookmaker! threatened today to state alt-down demonstrations on the nation's racetracks unless a new betting tax is lifted. "If they don't reoeal this tax the bookmakers will create merrv hell,** said a spokesman for the Bookmakers' Action Committee. "They are sick and tred of
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  • 574 2 MOSCOW, Sat. (Reuter) The Soviet Union today kept silent on the details of the dramatic Peking meeting between Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin and Chinese Premier Chou En Lai, and gave no hint that any breakthrough in Sino-Soviet relations might result. The brief official announcement of
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  • 134 2 UNITED NATIONS. Sat. (Reuter) —U.N. SecretaryGeneral U Thant broke his long silence on the Vietnam question yesterday to declare that a settlement "may be in sight." But he said there must be "de-escalation of fighting and creation of conditions whereby the Vietnamese people themselves will
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  • 50 2 LEEDS, England, Sat. (UPD Darren Hill came up with a new way to avoid going to school. Darren, 4, aprayed his hair silver with his sisters dye, plastered himself with her make-up. His mother said Thursday he cannot go to school until the spray comes out, probably a week
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  • 49 2 TWO Colombo Plan students from Singapore who are studying at the school of engineering, Canterbury University, at Christchurch, New Zealand Lau Cho Chu (left) and Ng Yew Peng are both third professional bachelor of engineering degree (mechanical) students. They are shown undertaking experimental work in a sub-sonic wind tunnel.
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  • 121 2 NEW YORK. sat. (UPI) Bemadette Devlin's tour of the United States raised about 95.000 dollars —less than 10 per cent of her original goal —for relief and civil rights activities in Northern Ireland, the National Association for Irish Justice said Friday. But the association, the official
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  • 659 2 MANILA, Sot. (Reuter) Only two of the 47 people aboard a Philippine Air Lines BAC 111 jet aircraft survived when it crashed down a steep hillside 14 miles east of Manila last night. A Philippine Air Lines spokesman said 41 of
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  • 170 2 ROME. Sat. (UPI) Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro said Friday negotiations on diplomatic recognition by Italy of Communist China were continuing "in the appropriate setting." He did not elaborate or say where the contacts were taking place. Moro said in a report to Parliament's Commission of Foreign
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    • 130 2 SoeC'ttC oW TOURS EUROPE SPECIAL FLIGHTS:- to London. Paris, Amsterdam. Copenhagen etc. FARE: $B5O/- $950/- $1,380/-Hongkong-Kowloon (Macau) 8 Days $745/Hongkong (Macau) Bangkok 8 Days $845/-Taiwan-Japan-Hongkong 11/15 Days $1,400/- $1,650/-Taiwan-Hongkong-Bangkok 10/12 Days $1,250/- $1,330/Tai wan-Korea-Japan-Hongkong-Bangkok 17/19/21 Days $1,840/- $1,980/Above Tours Depart:- 20/9. 5/10, 21/10. 4/11. 18/11, 2/12. 16/12 Special Bangkok (Chiengmai)
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 210 2 TODAY a Sunday, September 14, 1969. 3 rr m Ki By CLAY R. POLLAN M Your Ooi/y Acfrvf* Conk K "tr According to tko Stan. To develop message for Sundoy, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodioc birth sign. 1 You 2 Pronwta 3 facial 4 T>m» 5 Working
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  • 247 3 OWERBJ, Biafra, Sat. (Reuter)— Biafra today took up a Federal Nigerian offer of peace talks, calling oil Lagos to immediately name a friendly country to help arrange a suitable time and place. A Biafran government spokesman said Biafra was also ready to name a friendly state
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  • 50 3 JAKARTA. Sat. (Renter) Several Indonesians involved In smuggling diplomatic goods into Indonesia had been arrested, the Indonesian Army newspaper Berita Yudha (War News) said today. The newspaper said that some members of foreign embassies also were Involved in the widepread smuggling ring. Police investigations were still continuing, it added.
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  • 548 3 LONDON, Sat. (UPI) Israel and her Arab foes now are as strong as. or even stronger than, at the outbreak of the six-day war In June, 1967, the Institute for Strategic Studies said Friday. It said arms deliveries to the Arabs by the
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  • 239 3 LONDON, Sat (Reuter) An airline's offer to fix op blind dates with British girls for American bachelors brought outraged squawks today from two mem- bers of Parliament. "It is an affront to British fir is," stormed Conservative MP Kenneth Lewis, Chairman •f the Association of
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  • 63 3 TOKYO, Sat. (Reuter) The Laotian Prime Minister. Prince Souvanna Phouma will make an unofficial five-day visit to Tokyo beginning Sept. 29 on his way to the United Nations General Assembly, the Japanese Foreign Ministry announced today. Prince Souvanna will hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku
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  • 56 3 MANILA. Sat. (Reuter) Police have found a Huk tunnel network connecting a cluster of houses in a town in Tarla province, north of Manila. according to police reports here today. Police said they stumble on the rebel hideout yesterday while searching for a reported underground printing press.
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  • 286 3 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) France. Germany and Italv, Western Europe's three main producing countries moved another step today towards an autumn of industrial discontent. Militant striking rail drivers paralysed services throughout France as the country appeared headed for weeks of smouldering social unrest. In Germany three
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  • 79 3 SAN FRANCISCO. Sat (CPI) San Francisco is celebrating Japan Week, but that has not kept some officials here for the occasion from criticising Japan. For instance. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Kenneth N. Davis said that Japanese business interests should not be so reluctant to change their
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  • 104 3 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) —A leading British bookmaker tonight offered 100 against anyone proving the Loch Ness monster really exists. Gamblers rushed to lay money after a television company announced it was setting out to corner the legendary monster before its cameras. "We have been inundated.'
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  • 355 3 UNITED NATIONS, Sat. (UPI) Pakistan Friday formally introduced an Arab-Moslem draft resolution condemning Israel for its failure to desist from annexing Arab Jerusalem and terming the burning of the Al Aqsa Mosque last month a direct consequence of Israel's occupation. The draft was tabled
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  • 159 3 WARSAW. Sat. (Reuter) A tall good looking blonde with the manner of an imperious orchestra conductor today beat male colleagues from all over Poland to win the title of the country's best traffic police officer. Under-sergeant Anna Szymanska scored a total of 72.5 points out of
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  • 504 3 BELFAST. Northern Ireland Sat (UPI) A mob of about 50 Protestant men attacked a pub owned by a Roman Catbo. lie with a battering ram and firebombs late Friday. The violence erupted on Donegal Road, on the fringes of the adjacent
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  • 127 3 NAPLES. Italy. Sat. (Reuter) NATO reconnaissance aircraft today shadowed the Soviet Mediterranean fleet following reports of a further build-up coinciding with increased tension in the MiddleEast. A NATO spokesman here said a full report was being prepared on the size and significance of the new entry into
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  • BRITISH ENGINEERING WEEK IN SINGAPORE
    • 213 4 Ministry of Technology National Engineering Laboratory BRITISH FIRMS Adcock Gr Shipley (Sales) Ltd. W. T. Avery Ltd. British Oxygen Co. Ltd. Coventry Gauge Tool Co. Ltd. The Chartered Bank Denford Machine Tools Ltd. Eaton Yale Towne Inc. F. J. Edwards Ltd. Elliott Machine Tools Ltd. General Engineering Co. (Radcliffe)
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    • 364 4 THE Minister for Science and Technology/ Dr. Toh Chin Cnye, will officially open the British Engineering Week at the Singapore Polytechnic, tomorrow evening. The Week, which will last until Sept. 20. is sponsored by the Singapore Polytechnic and has been organised by the London
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    • 154 4 REYROLLX and Parsona two fimoui companies now combined to provide a comprehensive service in the generation. control and application of electricity will display several sophisticated British products during the British Engineering Week exhibition. Now called the Reyrolle Parsons Group, it will displav Industrial Plugs and Sockets;
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    • 921 4  -  By A.H. Cottrell SHARPLY increasing world technological competition, particularly from the United States of America, has raised new problems for industrially advanced countries All now face the problem of technological co existence with the United States. Th: s adjustment, by Britain, is dealt with in
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    • 135 4 IN this aie of rapid advances in technology It i* difficult to keep abreast of all new product* and technique*. but I am pleased to think that the forthcoming British Engineering Week will give Singapore engineers and businessmen an opportunity to hear about
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  • 303 5 SPACE CENTRE, Houston Sat. (UPI) Moon rock samples brought to earth by the Apollo 11 astronauts were given to six scientists from the United States and England yesterday, the first time the priceless samples have left the manned space centre. The scientists
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  • 270 5 GLENDORA. Mississippi. Sat. (UPI) A train derailment that loosed deadly phosgene gas and routed 30.000 people from their homes was blamed yesterday on an aged man who wandered in front of the train forcing the engineer to apply emergency brakes. There were no
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  • 71 5 MEXICO CITY. Sat (UPI) —The Government imposed a curfew on flooded and abandoned towns along the Papaloapan River In southern Veracruz state yesterday afterlooting broke out in the region Town authorities at Tlacotalpan reported some abandoned homes had been burglarised and asked the navy to impose
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  • 269 5 WASHINGTON, Sat. (UPI) Commerce Secretary Maurice H Stans pledged yesterday to bolster US. exports by pumping more funds into export credit channels. A Treasury official said it would take years to reconstruct traditional U.S. trade patterns. Stans told the National Export Expansion Council, "we
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  • 325 5 GENEVA, Sat. (Reuter) The United States vesterday circulated to its allies a revised draft treaty to keep nuclear weapons off the world's seabeds, diplomatic sources said here. T'ne American text does not differ substantially from a revised Soviet text handed privately to the US.
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  • 85 5 WASHINGTON. Sat (Reuter) The Atomic Energy Commission conducted a wea-pons-related nuclear test of low vield at its test site in Nevada yesterday, it was announced. The commission said tnat after detonation, instruments showed some radiation readings slightly above the normal natura' radiation readings in the test area, but
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  • 202 5 BOSTON. Sat fßeuter) Senator Edward Kennedy's appeal over rule® of procedure for the inquest on Mary Jo Kopechne will be the first case on the list when Massachusetts supreme judicial court session opens on October 8. The appeal was put ahead of 55 other cases
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  • 221 5 DETROIT, Sat. (UPI) Black revolutionary Robert F. Williams, who fled the United States eight years ago, flew home yesterday to face and fight kidnapping charges in North Carolina he said vvere a "frame-up." Protected by a flying wedge of black legionnaries of the Republic
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  • 126 5 LONDON. Sat. (UPI) A French shipowner placed a new one million pounds (U.S. $2.4 million) order for a 7.700 tons tanker with the Robb Caledon Shipyard to coincide with the scheduled launching yesterday Its 3.800 tanker. Port Tudy. from the same shipyard Robb
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  • 30 5 RAPID CITY, South Dakota Sat. (UPI) John Franklin was injured on the job recently. An alligator bit him Franklin is an alligator wrestler at a tourist attrao tion.
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  • 158 5 TOKYO. Sat. (UPI) Imports Ucensea in August totalled U.S.$ 1,164.500,000 for an increase of 19 4 per cent over August a year ago. the Ministry of International Trade and Industry announced yesterday. The ministry said import increases 30.8 per cent were re-, gistered in
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 219 5 >f... A -ry Ti MM MM... It COULDNTP6 YDGf HE'S BEEN PLAYIN© WITH HIS BOOMERANG ALL DAY. Vi I V m I iU m •r s*fc s8BS! R' B wi I '4 «5/W. 1 UB3 K Km 4. I i ii! i i I 5* i i 9S §8 m
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  • 295 6 W<++++4»J'+++ I CHUR i H ifiS®! j, 4 y&\ Xje&Guisfc lr\^rp THE President of Harvard, Nathan Pusey, once made a succinct observation: "Young people today all over the world are looking for a song to sing; a creed to believe; and a banner to march under."
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  • 45 6 THE Asia Evangelical Literature Fellowship, formed during the Congress on Evangelism held here last November, will hold the first "Asia Evangelical Literature Conference" from April 6 to 11 next year. Venue of the eonferenct will be decided later The chairman requests for prayers.
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  • 199 6 THE executive secretary for Christian Literature and Literacy of the United Methodist Board of Missions. New York. Dr. Dons E. Hess, spent four cays in the Republic last week to study the various Methodist establishments, particularly the bookroom. Dr. Hess
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  • 321 6 SOME 450 students packed the main lounge of King Edward VII Hall to hear Mr. Gregorio Tingson give the last Mission address on the subject "Resurrection", on Friday. Summing up his previous addresses. Mr. Tingson said: "Unless you know the power of the
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  • 290 6 A public meeting was held at 8t Andrew's Cathedral last nieht to honour delegates of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, (1.F.E.5.), who have been holding their executive committee meeting in Singapore since Septembr 9. The speakers were: Dr. Bodo Volkmann, Chairman of the 1.F.E.5.,
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  • 208 6 THE aim of "Christ Is The Answer Singapore Crusade" is to reach the masse* with the message of power in action and to inspire all Christian workers. This was spelled out by Mr. Figueiro. co-ordinator and speaker of the Crusade m an interview
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  • 561 6 Some Miracles In Brazil "THE People of Singapore will see what they have never seen before and I can promise them that.'* Mr. A Figueiro, co-ordinator of "Christ is The Answer Singspore Crusade" to be held at the National
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 210 6 HAKKA MLIHOUIST CHURCH 1-B. Lveiyn l!i*ad. Singapore 11. 900 a m. tia&ka Service Preacher: Rev. David Wong 000 a m. Sunday School < hng <& Chinese) 1100 a.m. English Service Rev. Peter Lim CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH (English) 48. Wan Tho Avenue. Telephone: ***** Sunday 945 a m. Sunday School 1100
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    • 205 6 BKKTHKKN BKTBE>I»% < HATONU) IiI'KCH 17. Pennefather Koad. Singapore 15. Sunday 830 a.m. Lord s Supper 9.30 a.m. Ministry ot the Word 10.16 a.m. Lord s Supper (Malay i 11.00 a.m. Ministry ot uw Word i Malay 11.45 am Sunday School (Junior Kindergarten Session i 400 p m Sunday School
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    • 211 6 SOLIHLAST AM A OftlOft COI LL'lifc <731 tpiM-( trruniooß Moan. Singapore, 10. i bngllftb) *3O a m saDbatD School 1100 am. service o t Aorsnie 3 45 Dm Youth Maeting ST. ANUHIWB CATHKDKAL <Anglican) 700 a m Holy Communion 800 am. Pariah Corn nr.ui ion 9 30am Service in Chinese
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    • 227 6 RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS THOMSON KOAl» BAPTIST ClllKtH (Teochew English) 45 mom son Read. Singapore 1L relepuone: *****. Sunday 9 15 am. Sunday Scßool 10 30 am. Sunday Worship 345 pm. trcl'.sn 8 8 500 p-m. Leg I:6b Worship KATONO CKKSHYTIiKIAN I HI Kl H Hnr«hippiiiK in kuo Chuan (iiris hooi Kveritt
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    • 209 6 WLSI.LV MLIHOIM9T CHURCH Fort Canning Road. Mnsapore 7 30 am. 10 00 am. > Woraftip Sarneea 6 30 p m. 845 a m. Sundav Scnooi for all ages 10 00 a.m. Junior Church ILIOK tM.AMIAII I HINKMS MKTHUUhI I HI HI H l Wlilun Hoaa. Singapore «HBdav i3O p m.
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    • 193 6 PKtSBYTtkIAN CHIKCH MMiAPOKE C nrner Orchard Krt.. Penan* iid. 9 00am. 6i 600 p m. Sunday Service® 0 00 mm. Sunday School üßiiia or IHIIS. ST) Block 41. ran«Ur Hi t Road. A i. Tel: M3O7S >aadar Bibia ClatM I am Morning worahtp it a Cveoiaa Worthlo o m CHI
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    • 180 6 &AMPONU KAPOK METHOUISI CHIKIH Singapore (Off Caff Road) /.SO a.m.. Si 930 am. Berne* in Bngilsh 1100 am. Service in Malay 8 15 am. Sunday School 11KOX) CHKIMTIAN I'HIKI'H iaman Jurong <«> 846 am Sunday School 10 00 am Worship Seme* in English Sso pm Worship Samoa in Tamil 8-00
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    • 191 6 RAV POH KU4U BAPI Isl CHIRIH (Cantonese English) I KM Pob Road. Singapore 10. reiepbone: ***** wOO am. Sunday School 10 16 am. Sunday Worship 7.46 P.m. Gospei Meeting (First Sunday; QUEKNBTOWN BAPTIST «U5 Margaret Drive •00 am. sunoay School 10 00 am. Worship Service 1115 a m. Frainlng Onion
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 118 7 NAIROBI, Sat (UP I) Japan is interested In increasing Its investment in Kenya by establishing new factories and finding more goods It could import. T. Teraro. the leader of a Japanese trade delegation said yesterday. The delegation from Osaka's Chamber of
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    • 312 7 LONDON, Sat. (UPI) Britain's balance of payments stated a dramatic improvement in the first half of this year to show a surplus of £4B million (U*****.2 million) on combined current and long-term copital account, Treasury figures showed on Thursday.
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    • 150 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Mr. Jochen von Mueller, district sales manager for Lufthansa German Airlines for West Malaysia leaves next week for a two-month holiday in Europe. Mr. von Mueller will first visit Honq Kong before proceeding to Germany on a hunting holiday. Prior to
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    • 88 7 WASHINGTON, Sat. (UPI) Micronesia's development aid budget will be increased by U. 5.58.380,000 to accelerate the development programme in the islands if Congress approves a request made yesterday by the White House The increase was requested by the President on the recommendation of Interior Secretary
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    • 88 7 BERNE. Sat. (Reuter) Switzerland yesterday raised ita bank rate by three-quart-er® per cent from three to three and three-quarter per cent to take effect on Monday. Yesterday's announcement by the Swiss National Bank follows the action by West Germany on Thusrday In raising the West German bank
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    • 41 7 NEW YORK. Sat(UPI> Dow jone* ckis.n« averages on the New York Stock Exchange yestercay: 30 industrial* 824 25 20 rails 198 45 15 utilities 113-91 65 stock* 273.54 40 bond* 71.45 Commodity future* index 140.68 up 0 53.
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    • 13 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $639.00 per picuj, down $0.12*.
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    • 188 7 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) The market ended the account narrowly mixed The Bank of Eng.ana quarterly review had a depressing effect, but late bear covering enabled a small recovery to be staged In late ceaings. Towards the close the FT index showed a loss of 0.7 at 378
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    • 82 7 LONDON. Sat. (UPI) Rubber market closed Arm yesterday with spot 27-1/4. 27-3/4 nom. SETTLEMENT HOUSE. Oct. Nov. Dec. and Oct /Dec. 27-3/8. 27-5/8 nom. Jan/March 27. 27-1/8 April/June 26-7/8 27 Juiy/Sept. 26-3/4. 26-7/8 Oct./ Dec. 26-5/8. 26-3/4 Jan/March 26-7/16. 26-5/8 April/June 26-5/16. 26-1/2 July/ Sept.
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    • 49 7 NEW YORK: Sat (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged to 35 points higher on the New York Commoditv Exchange. There were no sales. (BID) (ASK) Nov. 2800 29.35 Jan. 28.85 Mar. 27.75 28.70 May 2860 July 28.50 Oct 28.45 Locally. No. 2 RSS was 28 cents per pound.
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    • 238 7 THE following is a berthing list released by the Port of S.ngarpore Authority for S«pt. 14: DEPARTURE Godowns Vessels 1 2 Tarantel 3 4 Madison Lloyd 6/7 Anna Bakke 3 9 Jhelum 10 ll Golden Summer N W 1 Gian-g Lee N.W. 5 Perli» 27/23 Ceylon Maru
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    • 719 7 T ONDON, Sot. (AFP) The London gold L market yesterday celebrated its 50th anniversary after successfully warding off the threat to its existence created by the setting up in March 1968 of the double, official and unoffi- cial, gold market. Following the frantic
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    • 88 7 TUB oooo pnre* at IM HHlC» porr rtilfir** ProdOkO KHMRIt )C*<rrd*J ••«>— m um tr»' loconnl U*l 48.50 FOB) Balk lM«inui On (FOB.) Drum SI 00 l«pn 10-50 Mnntuk Whit* P*PD*r 1(10 00 (FOB.) mm 4»r«Mik Wbllr f»PO*t IS?-AO (FOB) mm HamWiik *nwtat Bturl Pfpp« (FOB) Wl* 115.00 KL.W,
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    • 66 7 CM»n«ier»* Wfii of S»pl. IB) iSIA UNIT T8C6T8 Mai. In VMt Fund 1-15 141 8I>0 IPOKL UNIT 1 RL'gTt 1«t Malayan CM Jnd Mala>an 2 03 3rd Malaru I SO The Coin. Ind 1#J Thf Sir. Fund xd... l-0§ 9(rrlini fooi 5 t 113 Lii H K TW5T
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    • 229 7 BANGKOK. Sat. Thai Airways International have been appointed the official overseas carrier by air for the 10th International Federation of Asian Western Pacific Contractors Association Convention which will be held in Bangkok from March 7 to 14. 1970 The IFAWPC, of which Singapore
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    • 695 7 Rtf the vocabulary of regional co-operation In Asia, a pregnant phirase la anathema regional integration. Now the cat ia at last out of the bag. One of the country's leading economists, Mr. Sixto Roxas 111, Is quoted by Fortune magazine as follows: "All this
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  • POPPING AROUND with Platter Pete
    • 236 8 ANEW 16-track album by the Beatles mostly recorded only within the past six to eight weeks is to be released by Apple in September Title of the LP is "Abbey Road," inspired by the address of EMl's recording studios in London's St. John's Wood. One
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    • 465 8 JJI THERE! HAVE you heard the good news yet? You should nave since it's already started more than a weefc ago. And if you're hip, you'll know I'm talking about Eastern Sun's fabulous new TIME THE SONG Contest! It's on e*enr Wednesday, and if you're still not
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    • 87 8 FLEETWOOD Mac has signed a three-year recording deal with Warner-Reprise for world-wide distribution on the Reprise label. Thi* follows the group's break from Immediate Records. The new contract is a considerable achievement for WarnerReprise. in the face of strong competition from Apple, who Had been favourites to
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    • 168 8  -  Despite fans' protests.... By Derek Johnson ELVIS PRESLEY: Clean Up Your Own Back Yard (RCA). THIS isn't nearly as bad as I was led to believe. The Elvis Presley Fan Club dismisses this track as tantamount to rubbish and is campaigning for the coupling to
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    • 408 8 COMMON TO Mi Present disc label Track Recording Manager: Pet# T ownshend Personal Manager: Peter Pudge Read Manager: KeitH Musical director: Pete Townshend Current hi*: "Somethirif In The Air" TNUNQMCUP MWMAM. tofl*—, «M CI r) JCNN VKDT BUM, JtM PITMAM-AVUT umm ««U pwfc JIMMY tmitCM Mi
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    • 611 8  -  by Gordon Coxhill "T'M broke", said Divy A Jones to the attractive girl talking to him. "You've got more money than I've got. I owe the taxman quite a bit, and I've got a pile of unpaid bills at home." The settin* lor
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    • 169 8 CLODAGH RODGERS (RCA Victor) A ROUSING mixture of country, rock and bigvoiced ballad is offered on this first album since Clodagh's big single hit. Come Back And Shake Me, which is one of the 12 tracks here. Similar to it in uptempoed gaiety is Paul and John's Get
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    • 262 8  - Jim Jack Quit To Form Rock Group GREEN" 00 RICHASD The two newest members of Thunderclap Newman Jim Pitman-Avery and Jack McCulloch have both left the group. They made the final decision last Friday and are to form their own outfit. Jim joined Newman in April as bass guitarist and
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    • 488 8 WORLD CHARTS JUST to prove a record can be a hit without what many consider as the vital radio plug' the controversial "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus" shunned bv radio producers in Britain and Sweden is now tn the top ten in both countries The record, which has even been
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  • THE NEW FILMS
    • 414 9  -  By Goh Eng Kee IN the cause and course of justice and mercy, the weighter judgment of the law often has been tempered or suspended by fringes of the constitutional rights of the individual. Consequently, basic concepts of "right and wrong" tend or appear
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    • 640 9  -  By Florence de Santis YORK, Sat. it used to be that a new night club star needed a voice, a personality and a dinner jacket. Now he thinks as much about fashion as about songs in put- ting together an act.
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    • 541 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: The guy I love is on pot. It's making a vegetable out of him and a nervous wreck out of me. When we first met, Steve was a top student. He had a magnetic personality and a thousand
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    • 550 9  -  >//*•/*/./#i// f»f Sheilah Graham NEW YORK. Sat. Will the murder of Sharon Tate and her three companions ever be solved? "It won't be." saya seer Maurice Woodruff If he Is right, and he often is. the tragedy will Join the growing list
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    • 131 9 SHOES, with high and broad heels, important metal trims, bold details like perforations and scalloped edges. THE stretched-out. easy look to dresses. In soft knit, with tunic Jacket or vest at will, a flip of pleats to the skirt or a bias flare THE sweatery looks for lean
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    • 160 9  -  By Gloria-mae THE students of the Department of Business Administration of the University of Singapore are at present conducting a survey on the purchasing pattern of cosmetics in Singagapore. They choose cosmetics as their product since the students feel that it would be easier to
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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    • 244 9 LIDO Phone 284)4 OPENS TODAY No Free List 11 4 m 143 4 00. «.3n 813 p.m. Julie Yah Feng <St Jenn*- Hu "FAREWELL MT LOVE" 'A SHAW PRODUCTION) Mandarin in Shawaeope Color V;it Change School Children tl to any feat at all shows Nancy K*an James Shiget* 3 FLOWER
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    • 13 9 KIT TO EASTEHN SUN FILM RATINGS Poor Fair 1 Cood Very Good. Excellent
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    • 262 9 EXTRA! SPECIAL! Now Shewing it Cltki; A Olton APOLLO 11 A GIANT LEAP FOB MANKIND IN COLOB IODEON 2111 6J LAST 2 DATS! U a.m. ISO IN, IJI ».y> p m Carol White Paul Burke A National Genera! PieturM RKue In Technicolor OPENS TUESDAYI 'Mandarin) Chang Yana Tl»e Flying Tiger'
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  • 1331 10 KIM l: CL. 4 Div. J-« F—1.1S pMU ($4,000) 9 00 9.00 900 900 9.00 8.13 8 13 813 811 8.11 810 810 808 808 807 900 E Breuk Dawkina 13 t s 2. 100 8. 08 4. M 5 330 6. 418 7. 03 8. 360
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  • 891 10  -  GOING: VERT GOOD By Big Ben OPEEDY Kudadin can toppU the class four division two opposition in Raca Two at Ipoh today, second day of tht Perak Turf Club Gold Vase matting. The Enley Moor gelding is retaining his last start winnine form. Twice In the
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  • 24 10 BIG BEN Kudadin Riverbanks Outspoken Jimmy Lad Troposphere Asian Pride Rina II Cisco Kudadin Johnara Outspoken Zodiac Asian Pride Maxwell Garden Riverbanks
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  • 206 10 DONC ASTER, England. Sat. i Reuter) Aggravate owned by LE. Van Moppes won the Park Hill Stakes run over one mile, three quarters and 132 yards here yesterday. Mrs. PW. McGrath's Myastrid was second with P.G. Goulandis's Paul Mary third of six runners. Ernie Johnson
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  • 102 10 BANGKOK, Sat. (Reuter)— Burma will host the second South-East Asia shooting championships in immediately after the fifth South-East Asia Peninsula (SEAP) Games end on Dec. 13. according to the official working People's Daily The newspaper said the tentative programme of the shooting chamoionshipg was: Dec.
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  • 155 10 BIRMINGHAM, Eng. land, Sat. (Reuter) South African Golfer Coble Legrange strengthened his grip on the £8.450 Dunlop Masters tournament near here yesterday with a thirdround two-under-par 70. Legrange, leader from the first round, added two more shots to his overnight advantage to take a six-shot lead with
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  • 156 10 BIG BEN JIMMY LAD CISCO ZODIAC RACK I THE BOSS Conflict Sporting Sam TBOPOSPHERE The Boss Getalnng THE BOSS Sporting Sam Troposphere SPORTING SAM The BOM Fraser Hill II BACK t KUDADIN Motion Picture IV Everything Better uslihemb KUDADIN Catterick Motion Picture IV B SUCCESS Kudadin Ulysses II BACK
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  • 425 10 NG EK HWANG emerged champion for the third year in succession in the women's section of the AUPE's third annual swimming carnival held at the River Valley Road Swimming Pool on Friday night. Ek Hwang of the Telecommunications Department scored 11 points from four events
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  • 29 10 BOMBAY. Sat. (Reuter) The New Zealand cricket team led by Graham Dowling arrived in Bombay thi9 morning from London for a one month tour of India.
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  • 165 10 LONDON. Sat The leading sports car race run in Britain, the BOAC 500-mile (804 km) international event, will be the first British race to be staged over a metric distance In 1970. The race will be run at Brands Hatch, Kent, Southeast England, over 1.000
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  • 136 10 ATLANTA. Georgia. Bat. (Reuter) A crowd of more than 1.000 turned out for the first day of the world tennis championship show here and saw Australians Tony Roche and John Newcombe. the flying Dutchman Tom Okker and Earl Buchholz reach the semi-finals. Roche, meeting heavy resistance from
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  • 253 10 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) Derek Underwood, prolific wic-ket-taker for England and Kent, ended with a t w o-inning s total of nine wickets for 41 runs against Somerset yesterday In a brilliant end-of-season burst. At one stage Underwood claimed three wickets in four overs as Somerset crumpled
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  • 197 10 US Baseball Results Standings NEW YORK, Sat. (Reuter) Results of yesterday', major league baseball games: NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 1, Pittsburgh 0 (1st); New York 1, Pittsburgh o (2nd); Montreal 4, Philadelphia 0; Chicago 5. Cardinals 1 Atlanta 4. Houston 3; Los Angeles 5. San Diego 3; San Prancisco 1.
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  • 516 11 Thomas Cup CHRISTCHURCH. Sat (Renter) New Zealand ton! eh t beat Singapore by *even fames to two to win the Australasian Zone final of the Thomas Cup badminton competition. Nrw Zealand which had t 3—l lead after th« first session last night, won the remaining three
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  • 1407 11  -  Bv BIG BEN IPOH, Sat American jockey John Sellers scored a double on Romantlca In Race Four and Caramoor in the last race here today. Romantlca paid $12 while Caramoor Sl7. There were two three figure dividends Tee Up $ll2 and Courageous $ll6. The going was
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  • 295 11 SERVICE FAULTS RULE CHRISTCHURCH, Sat. (Reuter) Singapore's badminton team have demanded clarification of the rule governing service faults in their Thomas Cup zone final against New Zealand here. Team coach Wong Peng Soon was seeking consultation with New Zealand official* this afternoon before the final games In
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  • 115 11 Fathul Kinb trounced Armed Forces s—l in a FAS division one league fixture at the Jalan Be«ar Stadium.last night. Fathu; led 2—l at half-time. Hussein Abdullah (2). Syed Ahmad (2) and Majid Ariff (1) netted for Fathul while Ismail Jantan scored for the loaers In the other
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  • 650 11 Godfrey Jalleh wa» the star performer in the Flash Sports Club first annual athletic meet held at the St. Patrick's School ground yesterday. Competing in the men's Junior division. Godfrey was first in the 100 metre® (11.5 sees.). 400 metres (55.5 sees >. 800 metres <2
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  • 76 11 HONG KONG. Sat. (Reuter) Japan won all four matches in the eastern section of the Thomas Cup badminton competition agamet Hong Kong here today. RESULTS: SINGLES: Ippe; Kajima (Japan) beat Koo Man-For (HK) 15-6, 15-3; Junji Honma (Japan) beat Chu Sai-Wah (HK) 15-1. 15-4. Doubles: Kojima
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    • 221 11 Classified Ads. Houses Land For Sale DOWN PAYMENT HJflO/Immediate Occupation Katong Seaside (Opposite ShaWa Villa. 440 A East Coast Road) Freehold 2/3-storey luxury semi-detached bungalow 4 rooms. 3 balls, split level. S balconies, quality equipment large kitchen, gpadous garden at Katong First Class Residential Area Hilltop facing sea Convenient transportation.
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    • 49 11 BIG SWEEP Total Pool $34,636. Ist Prixe No. *****1 $8,572 2nd Prixe No. *****5 $4,286 3rd Prist No. *****2 $2,143 Starters ($217 each) Nos: *****7 *****2 *****0 *****2 *****6 *****7 *****6 *****1 *****5 *****4 *****7 Consolation: ($166 each) Nos: *****2 *****3 *****4 *****6 *****0 *****4 *****2 *****2 *****8 *****4.
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    • 1365 11 (CHANNEL 5) A M 10.00 Opening Announcements in all Language? A- Skippv The Bush Kangaroo No Trespassers; 10.30 The Nurses Pa*iv Girl; 11.15 Pesta Poo. PM 12.10 Mr. Ed the Talking Horse Mr. Ed Writes Dear Abbv: 12 35 Hollywood Palace Milton Bcrle; 1.30 Prog. Summary in all Languages; 1
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  • 246 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sot. A $3 million flyover across the railway line at the Johore Causeway to ease traffic congestion was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Raxak. This formed part of the four-point plan to speed up traffic across the causeway which
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  • 123 12 POLICE have recovered the five valuable birds which were stolen by thieves from the Jurong Bird Park during the week. The birds including a pnzeeassowary from New Guinea, two peacocks and a pair of storks, were handed over to the Police by a shop-assistant from a shop
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  • 85 12 THE fifth issue of the "Prospect" published by the Ministry of Education, will be on sale as from Monday, Sept. 15. Some of the titles in this Issue are: The Arab-Israeli Conflict. t Angkor, a travel guide to the great monuments. Who wants to read, a
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  • 123 12 A STUDENT. Albert Lee. 18. and three at his classmates were robbed of two watches and $1 bv three men, one armed with a v eg e t able knife and the other two with sticks, at Sime Road on Friday evening. Albert, of Toa Pavoh
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  • 138 12 The First Lady, Puan Noor Alshah. the patron of the Singapore Olrl Guides Association. performed a treeplanting ceremony to mark the end of the Association's eight-month long celebrations to commemorate Singapore* 150 th Anniversary, yesterday evening. The ceremony was followed by dances and pantomlnes performed
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  • 107 12 THE Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Culture, Enche Sha'ari Tadin spoke yesterday of the need for a greater number of local people to come forward and donate blood to save their fellowmen. Enche Sha'ari said this was because in the past, a considerable number of
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  • 44 12 "FREEDOM From Arbitrary Arrest International Human Rights" will be topic of a public lecture to be given by Dr. Parvez Hassan at the Physics Lecture Theatre 1, Bukit Tim ah Campus of the University of Singapore on Sept 18 at 5.00 p.m.
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  • 65 12 TELEVISION Singapura will provide a special service for students sitting for their School Certificate Examination, this vear. Special transmissions will be made over Channel 8 on the following davs on the following plays:— 0 "Macberth" on Sept. 14 (today) at 1.10 pm. "Where Angel® Fear to
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  • 173 12 THE Majlis Ugama Islam. Singapura, has awarded 41 scholarships to Muslim students studying at the University of Singapore, Nanyang University, universities overseas In religious subjects; in the Higher School Certificate classes and religious schools of the H.S.C. level. The announcement was made in a news release yesterday.
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  • 129 12 A BUS conductor. Chua Khoot Tee. 41, was killed or the spot after he was hit by a passing mini-bus along MacPherson Road, yesterday. As a result of the accident, the van rammed against an obstacle, skidded and crashed on its side in the middle
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  • 61 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat:—A junior technician of the Royal Malaysian Air Force who returned from a two-year course in Britain in June was killed last night when he accidentally walked into the moving propellers of a Caribou aircraft The bodv of the airman. A. Buyaneswaran. 21. was taken
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  • 324 12 THE practical educational potentialities of the Museum here should be fully exploited in the teaching of natural history in Singapore schools. This was stated bv the Chairman of the National Museum. Mr. J. F. Conceicao at the ceremony conferring certificates of attendance on
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  • 54 12 KI'ALA LUMPUR. Sat A Thai teacher lost her cash and valuables amounting to $1,572 when her room in a rest house at Kuala Kangsar was burgled yesterday. The victim. Madam Apiromya Sankosik. 40. from Bangkok told police that she work up this morning to find the
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  • 20 12 THERE were a total of 53 accidents during the last 24 hours in the Republic. Seven were serious.
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  • 688 12 'OCCUPATIONAL SINGAPORE'S Minister for Science ond Technology, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, has for the second time in two days called for a bias towards inter-employment mobility in the training accorded in local universities. Speaking at the University of Singapore Science Society's annual dinner
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  • 289 12 A POLITICAL detainee. Tan* Chee Kiong, 29, who was one of the persons who took delivery of a consignment of Are arms, ammunition and explosives and smuggled it into Singapore from Indonesia in 1962 for sabotage purposes, had been released from detention earlier this
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 91 12 Time 6t Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 12.13 p.m. (8.8 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 0.13 a.m. (10.9 ft.), 12.35 p.m. (10.4 ft) Low Tide (Todoy) Singapore Town: 6.00 a.m. (1.6 ft 6.05 pjn. (1.7 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 5.55 am (2.0 ft), 6.05 p.m. (2.1 ft) High Tide (Tomorrow) Singapore -Town:
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