Eastern Sun, 16 September 1969

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1120 Tuesday, 16 September 1969. ft MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 391 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A court inquiry to determine whether charges of corruption against a former legal adviser and secretary of the Malaysia-Singapore Airlines should be heard in Singapore or Malaysia today opened dramatically with a shock announcement Gerald Fernandez is in London. Fernandez, arrested on
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  • 76 1 CALCUTTA. Mon. (Reuter) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi today declined comment on a reported threat by her former deputy. Mr. Morarji Desal, to use Gandhian pressure to force her to confess lapses in Congress Party discipline. Mr: Desai said he would fight Indiscipline by Gandhian methods of Satyagraha
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  • 67 1 COLOMBO. Mon (Reuter) The Ceylon government has revoked an order which outlawed strikes in the country's oil and electricity Industries and allowed troops to take over distribution t n the current national emergency. Aim of last night's eovernment move, which followed on Saturdays proclamation of the emergency, was
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  • 151 1 LEAMINGTON, England Mon. (I'Pl)—Every week for 30 years, hospital clerk Bernard Fisher mailed away a bet in Britain's national betting pools on soccer games. Every week he looked at the game results and saw he lost. But last week the 62-year-old bachelor leaped up from his morning newspaper
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  • 133 1 NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) The tanker Manhattan radioed yesterday that It had achieved its goal of becoming the first commercial ship to complete the legendary Northwest Passage. A spokesman lor Humble Oil and Refining Co., sponsor of the US$39 million research voyage, said the tanker arrived at
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  • 75 1 CAPE TOWN. Mon. (UPI)— Dr. Christian Barnard's fourth heart transplant patient is in serious condition and not responding to treatment for a blood infection caused by rejection tendencies, hospital sources said. The sources at Groote Schuur hospital said Dorothy Fisher, who received a new heart April 17. was
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  • 151 1 ONE of th« world's biggest "steel giants", the British Stool Corporation of Wales, is now exploring Hie possibilities of setting up a joint-venture steel industry in the Republic. The Managing Director of the British steel giant. Lord Layton. "did not rule out the possibility"
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  • 182 1 TEL AVIV. Mon. (UPI) Israeli warplanes attacked Egyptian "military target*' on the western shore of the Gulf of Suez for 50 minutes yesterday, an Army spokpsman announced. It was the sixth straight day of Israeli air raids against Egypt and the fifth time the Suez
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  • 49 1 KATMANDU. Mon (UPl> Barj weather today again prevented a Kobe Uruvers:'y mountaineering team from flying to Jumla, from where they will try to conquer 22.060foot Mt. Patrasi Himal. Yesterday the team turned back after flying for about 30 minutes in bad weather They will try again tomorrow.
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  • 101 1 BANGKOK. Mon. (Reuter) Thailand has agreed in principle to reduce Import duty on fiah imported from Malaysia. Mr. Prlda Karnasutr. director-general of fisheries said today. Mr. Prida told reporters that the duty would be lowered from 30 percent to three percent In the case of fresh fish
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  • 216 1 SEOUL, Mon. (Reuter) Four angry opposition legislators stormed into the office of National Assembly speaker Gyo-Sang Rhce tumbling down the table and throwing books over the windows. Another group of seven opposition assembly men went to Mr. Rhee's official residence in southeastern Seoul and pulled
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  • 95 1 SEOUL. Mon. (UPI) A heavy weekend rain storm, the worst to hit South Korea in 60 years, killed at least 250 persons and injured 91 others in the nation'* southern coastal areas, national police said today The dismal downpours which started at Saturday noon and
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  • 115 1 DAMASCUS. Mon. (Router) All travellers to Syria of whatever nationality will be given entry visas at the new Damascus international airport. Syria's Director of Civil Aviation said today. Speaking at the ceremony marking the formal opening of the new airport, director Nahedh Al-Khanl said the
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  • 49 1 JERUSALEM, Mon. (Reuter) —Some 20.000 citizens from Arab countries visited relatives in Israeli-held territories under a three-month long summer visit scheme which ended today. The scheme, first put into practice last year, enabled the visitors to stay for up to one month after obtaining special entry permits.
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  • 44 1 FRANKFURT. Germany. Mon. (UPI) Pan American World Airways announced today its first Boeing 747 "Jumbo Jet'' flight from New York via London to Frankfurt scheduled for Dec. 15 had been cancelled because the Boeing 747 could not be delivered in time.
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  • 20 1 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter)— Garuda Indonesian Airways today Inaugurated a weekly service between Singapore and Palembang, in South Sumatra.
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  • 239 1 KY JUMPS THE GUN SAIGON, Mon. (UPI and AFP) Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky tonight said 40,500 more U.S. troops will be withdrawn from South Vietnam by the end of November. Ky made the disclosure to an American and a French correspondent at
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  • 48 1 A KIT A, Japan, Mon. (Reuter) Utajo Hashimoto. 78, blasted himself to death here today by lighting the fuse of a detonator cap and patting ft in his month. Police said he left a note saying he wag committing suicide because he had a nose disease.
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  • 99 1 BUFFALO. New York. Mon. (UPI) A half-paralyzed gunman fell from his wheelchair during a robbery at grocery and was arrested yesterday, police said today. Jeffrey Merukeb. 29. and his alleged accomplice who pushed the wheelchair, were arrested for first degree robbery Police said Leroy Workman. 18, of
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  • 95 1 "Guards" and per*. and a large crowd continued tfc»,jjather at tlt« site of a "beautiful" mystery coffin near midnight. The unusual coffin was uncovered yesterday _by workmen working aloßg Tiong Bahru, opposite Red Hill Estate. The coffin is the only one on the site of former attap huts and
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

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  • 145 4 SEOUL. Mon. (UPI) overnight rain storms killed 131 persons In South Korea's southern coast areas late yesterday to-day Government authorities reported. In addition. 263 persons were missing and 51 others were Injured In the worst rain In Korea In 60 years, according to the latest statistics
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  • 67 4 NAIROBI. Mon. (Reuter) British air ace Sheila Scott was involved in a scuffle with three drunken pilots who tried to throw her into a swimming pool on Saturday night, she said when she landed here yesterday at the end of the East African flying safari. Her
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  • 213 4 6ELDIN. New York, Mon (UPI) A 12-year-old girl died yeaterday and a 15-year-old was in critical condition after taking an overdose of pills prescribed for one victim's older brother. Lynda Lee Sinclair. 12. and her friend Laura Pepe. 15, were playing
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  • 61 4 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) Fire broke out at the Shaw Brothers Film Studio in the New Territories this morning. causing damage estimated at about one million HK. dollars (about 66.000 sterling). There were no casualties. It took 13 fire engines and 80 firemen two hours to
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  • 33 4 LOCH NESS, Scotland Mon. (UPI) —Britain's independent television news service yesterday began a 14-day search for the biabed Loch Ness monster, using anchovy, blood meal and gelatip for bait.
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  • 298 4 WASHINGTON, M6n. (UPI) Israeli Premier Mrs. Oolda Meir said yesterday "the last thing' Israel wants la another war with the Arabs. But she added: "If it comes, there isn't a person In this country who lsn t confident that we will win again." Mrs.
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  • 43 4 CAIRO. Mon. (Reuter)—The Jordanian Prime Minister. Mr. Bahjat A 1 Talhoum. Is due her® today for urgent ta.ks with Efyptian officials, Cairo newspapers reported. The newspapers said Talhoum was also carrying a message from King Hussein to President Nasser.
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  • 486 4 UNITED NATIONS, Naw York, Mon. (Reuter) The 24th Generjl A«sembly of the U.N. opons here tomorrow with a warning from Secretary General U Thant that tha world body has failed in its task of decolonising Southern Africa. The warning
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  • 94 4 TEHERAN. Mon. (UPI) An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman yesterday called one hundred per cent false" Baghdad radio broadcast L h V amie d Ira< *i soldiers had killed 30 Iranian troops and captured 14 others in a border clash. Earlier, military and foreign ministry officials said
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  • 376 4 BELrAST. Northern Ireland. Mon. (UPI and Reuter) Alarmed by the death of two troopers, the British Army today called for reinforcements for the soldiers patrolling on 16-hour sh;ft« to keep a Kind of peace between feuding Roman Catholics and Protestants. Prime Minister Harold Wilson's
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 247 4 SB SHAW SATION ii m j| L I O O Phone 2 8414 OPENS TODAT! U 1». «.M 1 11 »JL School Childrea Coaceaaloa $1 to toy ml at all ahowa NEXT CHANGE' Victor Henry A Susan Oeorga "All Neat la Blark Utoekiafa" Ea.«tmaneolor 'SB> CAPITOL Phone I OPENS TODAT!
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    • 183 4 TODAY an Mi vs. wfi Tuesday, September 16» 1969. TAR By CLAY L POLLAN K Your Doily Activity Guido M, According to tho Start. To develop messoge for Tuesday, reod words corresponding to numbers of your Zodioc birth sign. 1 Fr*ndk 31 Smilw 61 To 2Voguo 32 From 62 Today
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    • 301 4 -J A I HAY JJ4UO TU*f tt 1L 1.80. 4 M. 880 "111 BEST BOUSE IN LONDON" D»vl6 Hammmjs Color <MOM) NEXT CHANGE' Capuclne in "FBArLEIN DOBTOB" Color Kenneth More 'Paramount) r ODE ON 21 116 1 Taday A twmmmm Only! 11 »JB.. 130. 4.00. 7 00 A SO p
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  • Fotorama '69
    • 891 5 Marie Tang Photogenic Of Them All! RTS T:»lc*ntmie 6 1 TV Snapshots Contest Results SHE'S o petite, pixJ#sh four-foot niner. She sings snappy show tunes with a mischievous twinkle in her eye and belts out her songs with the aplomb of
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    • 63 5 How many entries did they pull? Here's the eeore. No. of snapshots Eunice Sim 27 Marie Tan* 20 Loretta Mendota 17 The Muriels 11 Dusky La Gootna 10 M. Ismail 10 Axis Talib 7 Christina Tan 6 The Island Folk 6 M. Aim en f>r 6 Patrick Rudse
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    • Article, Illustration
      74 5 The Star: Marie Tang. The Occasion: Grand Final. The Song: When Chinaboy Meets Chinagirl. The Photographer: Mr. Tan Shee Tiong, 49A Jatan Besar, Singapore 8. Camera: YashicaMai EM Aperture: f 8 5 Film: AgfalSS. Judges' Comments: A splendid example of peak action photography Involving precise, split-second timing. Visually
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    • Article, Illustration
      57 5 The Stir: The Muriels The Occasion: Grand Final. The Song: 'Light My Fire*. The Photographer: Mr. Joseph K. S. Tan. 34 Jalan Kesoma, Singapore 19. Camera: Asahi Pentax Aperture: f 4 5 Film: Kodak Tri-X. Judges' Comments: Another well-timed shot, portraying the group at their best and conveying
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    • Article, Illustration
      48 5 The Star: M Almenor. The Occasion: Grand Final. The Song: Fly Me To The Moon. The Photographer: Miss R. Kaur, 15 Jalan Jarak, Singapore 28. Camera: Yashica TL Aperture: f 3.5 Film: Kodak Plus-X Judges' Comments: A dramatic close-up. depicting the singer at his most expressive.
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    • 201 5 And Now...From The Sublime To The Ridiculous: Or, Some Of Your Favourite Talentimers As You've Never Seen Them Before IN case you don't recognise them, they are, from left to right, top to bottom. M. Ismail, Eunice Sim. M. Almenor and Ainah Ahmad. These four snapshots were among
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    • 147 5 First Prist: Mr. Foona Hon Yuen. 54, Pagoda Street, Singapore 1. (BACK LANE) Second Prise: Mr. Wong Sai Hoong Blk. 22, 551-E, Jin. Tenteram Singapore. (THE LITTLE GIRL) 3rd Prise: Mr. Kee She Lin, 288, Balestier Road, Singapore. !TWO ONLY) Consolation Prixes: (Certificates of Merit).
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    • 347 5 THE FRIZES 1*» PRIZE: $3OO CASH VOUCHER 2nd PRIZE: $lOO CASH VOUCHER 3rd PRIZE: 50 CASH VOUCHER Plus Certificates of Merit to the next 10 best entries THE RULES 1. To participate In this con test, ell you have to do I* to submit or* or mor# po'tMrd-tii#
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  • 562 6 rE sitiiation in which President Nixon finds himself today can be described as the classic Aristotelian dilemma. At a time when most impartial observers believe that the Vietcong have been rooted and militarily North Vietnam is at the end of its tether, Nixon's arm is
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  • 240 6 MUSIC and motor cars are mutually opposed and they haven't much in common. The sweet and soothing qualities of music is very unlike the burrs...putts and the other Jarring notes of an engine. Their ends are also different. Fumes and speed raise tension while melody reduces it and
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  • 1142 6 DARWIN, Australia: Most of the time the Todd River at Alice Springs, Northern Territory, wanders through the beautiful ghost gums as a wide expanse of dry sand. Only on a few days of the year is there any water in the river. Then it
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  • 24 6 The saddest failures in life are those that come from not puttinr forth the power and will to succeed. Edwin P. Whipple.
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  • 788 6  -  By JOSEPH ALSOP TRANG BANG, South Vietnam— The potentially fatal erosion of the Vietcong apparatus in large areas of South Vietnam has been this reporter's first quite astounding discovery on this trip. The facts showing the erosion in Hau Nghia and Binh Tuong provinces have already
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  • 426 6  -  By Alan Thomas MOSCOW. (Reuter) Who discovered that Asia and America ara not joined together? The sea channel which divides the two continents, between Siberia and Alaska, bears the name of the Bering Straits. and most history books credit its discovery to Danish-born explorer
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  • 441 6  -  by Vernon Scott HOLLYWOOD UPI) I It would, appear that female novelists have cornered the market on pornography, or at least clinically oriented stories dealing with sex. The latest to emerge from the stacks of prurient literature is Gwen Davis, who has had five previous books
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 595 7 81NGAPOK* BUMS ex-, change MJd IM other price* 1 omciaiiy onto «x ti« buslneae. INDUSTRIALS AC.MA 1 1 1 B. 87 liw 6. 1 j at a*> Ben A Co l 84 1.1 Ra Borneo slid l.?u Bousteftd 1.96 Camel Plywood 1.75 C. Sugar CD 4.14
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    • 165 7 BRUSSELS. Mon. (UPI) Fore:gn Ministers of the six Common Market nations are expected to set a date for a European Economic Community (EEC) summit when they meet in Brussels today. Common Market sources said yesterday. Predicted date and place of the meeting
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    • 55 7 HONG KONG. Mon (UPI) Money Quotations: HK56.090 per U.S dollar HK56.***** per U.S. dollar TT HK? 14.51 per pound sterling HK5308.25 per tael of gold 94.5 c>er cent fineness HK? 162.0 oer 10.000 Japanese yen HK5133.0 per 100 Philippines peso? buyers HK5134.0 per 100 Philippines pesos sellers Philippine
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    • 99 7 tub noon price* «t pore Cbinete ProdOwa tfit etui* ttsetoaBgf >e»terda; wera»— HOW Coconut OH 49-50 (FOB Bulk mm Imonui Oil (FOB) Drum mm 52 00 Mixed copra 8050 l M tint oh Uhlte Pepper (FOB) 100 00 Ur»WMk White frpptt Pepper (FOB) mm 157 so •ara*<ik special Blue*
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    • 59 7 (Managers" Price* of Sept. 16) ASIA UNIT TKU8T8 Mai. invest. Fund i ts 1-U S1NGAPOHL UNIT TKL6T8 l«t Malayan 2 80 2nd Malajan 2.03 3rd Malayan 103 The com. ind. 1.03 113 The r>ar. Fund xd 108 lit# Sterling Com 5/4 UK. TkLiST FLNUM lit Hong Ronr 1.66
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    • 102 7 LONDON, Mon. (Reuterl Britain will not abandon or cut its overseas aid programme. Prime Minister Harold Wilson pledged last night. In fart his government's aid to underdeveloped nations this financial year would be £227 million about six per cent more than last year,
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    • 208 7 THE following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for Sept. 16: DEPARTURE Godowns Vessels 8 9 Wonogiri 13/14 Ixion 18 Mandalay N.W. 1 Auby 21/22 Yushun Maru 33/34 Priam ARRIVAL Godowns Vessels 33 34 Jan Matejko 38/39 Esso Colon 23/24 Eastern Maid
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    • 408 7 By Our Market Rtporter CONDITIONS in tha Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday war# quiat with a rathar mixad outlook at trading appoarod to conttnuo last Friday's trond. The market was marked up slightly after the opening bell but it eased just
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    • 147 7 HONG KONG. Mon (Reuter) Hong Kong could expect more United States electronics firm* to set up manufacturing plants in the colony, Mr. Burgess Dempster, president of the California-based Electronic Engineering company, told a press conference here today. At present. 60
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    • 68 7 SAIGON. Mon (ATP) Imports of rice from the United States are decreasing sharply. American sources affirmed. They said that this year South Vietnam will import only 300.000 tons of rice, compared with 750.000 tons In 1967. The decrease in Imports is due to satisfactory crops in
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    • 305 7 OCTOBER first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 pjn., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 76-3/4 cents per lb., up one and one eighth of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet Steadier conditions were seen during the morning
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    • 202 7 NEW DELHI. Mon. (Reuter) The government has removed Its limit on tourist charter flights to India by foreign operators, to promote tourist trade. Charter flights were almost completely banned till about three years ago, mainly because It was thought it would affect
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    • 414 7 ARRIVALS 5.00am. MSA 029 K. Lumpur 9 00a.m. MSA 119 K. Lumpur а.HAa.m GARL'UA OAM8 3 Jakarta 1015 a m MSA 121 K.. Lumpur 10.25 a.m. MSA 005 P a n a n g. lpoh. Kuala Lumpur. Malacca 100 p m. SAS 8K971 Copenhagen, Taabkent, Bangkok. 1.10 pm.
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    • 997 7 DCSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms D of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in bracketa in lota of 1.000 unita unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS BORNEO $1.79 (1); Boustead I 51.98 (1»: Camel Plywood $1.78 i (1); C.
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    • 90 7 WELLINGTON, N.Z Mon. (Reuter)—Overseas exchange transactions for the year ended August 31 have produced a record surplus of NZ576.7 million on current account in New Zealand. The Minister of Finance. Mr Robert Muldoon, said in a statement today that although Internal activity had
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    • 75 7 VANCOUVER. Mon. (UPI) Western Canadian coal mines and the Japanese steel industry are assuring one another a solid future. Enji Haseo. president of Mitsubishi Canada Ltd.. said here yesterday. Haseo said that within two years, Japan will be importing more than 12-million tons of coal annually from
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    • 12 7 The tin price for yesterday was p«r ©icul, down $2,121.
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  • 1106 8 Reading And Writin': (2) THE linguists began their rise to eminence during World Wor 11, when they helped the Armed Forces turn out large numbers of people who could speok foreign languages. They were called in because the traditional methods had failed even after several
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  • 126 8 HAMBURG, (DaD) This automatic babysitter can be built by any talented hobby constructor with the help of an electronic construction kit. It was one of the many novelties at the exhibit "You and Your World" in Hamburg (Federal Republic of Germany). Young parents without a grandmother nearby greeted
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  • 251 8 CANBERRA: A new "paint-on" which enables dentists to give porcelain teeth the appearance of gold process has been developed by an Australian dental expert. Marketed under the name of Magsudo Gold", derived partly from the name of its inventor. Mr. Magson of TecDent Laboratories, the preparation does
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  • 763 8 NATURAL gas from beneath the North Soa, now pouring into Britain, it making vast changes in the nation's economy and industry. It's only a few weeks since Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, opened an elaborate coastal terminal on the East Coast where as much as 4,000
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  • 178 8 The Territory of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) will issue a special 5c Christmas 1969 stamp on 10th November. 1969. The stamp was designed by Mr. George Hamori of Sydney, and is being printed in gold, red. blue and brown, by photo, gravure at the Note
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 375 8  -  Pate-line By El, Walt Dulaney DEAR Ele and Walt: Recently a boy I know moved into our neighbourhood. The other night while my parents weren't home he came up to my house end begged me to let him in. He seid I could trust
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    • 54 8 You have to shoot somebody. bum yourself alive, do something violent, in order to get any attention at all, however good your cause or iauses, however patient you have been, however well you have put your case There is an absolute stone wall of indifference All over the world.
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 113 8 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and AtienMcWKams you KNOW WHERE M/ BROTHER, DAN NY'S, THE STUFF RIGHT,TbP../>t>U'RE NOTHIN' CAME BUT A CRUD.' VTXJ SWIPED FROM, THE DYNAMITE FROM MV J WISE GUY? JOB DO TO GET BLAMED If w. >*ll®s!'! m k CAUSE THE BOMB DIDNT GO OFF... AN'THE POLICE
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    • 87 8 1. In which country Is th« volcano Guntur? 2. River Limopo flow* Into which ocean? 3. What is the capital of East Germany? 4. Which country is called 'the land of thousand elephants'? 5. What is the abbreviation for Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians? 4 3'H d S
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  • Jemme
    • 551 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: Ten years ago I graduated from Stanford Phi Beta Kappa. I had always wanted to go to law school, but it was more important that my husband be a lawyer so I went to work for a mail order house I
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    • 494 9  -  By John Rigos ATHENS, Mon (UPI) Shipping magnate Aristotle Onossis may hove spint a lot of money on his wife of one year. But few Greeks believed recent reports that Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis had gdne through US$2O rhillion. The figure certainly is
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    • 235 9 LOOK FOR... THE new fall city wardrobe. based on separate*, with skirts, pants, tunic pullover* and vests matching and contra sting in double knits. THE new head looks, often knitted In caps pulled down to the eyebrows, floppy brimmed in felts of many colours moonlike in silvery helmet*.
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    • 252 9  -  By Mary Sue Miller TT seems the feminine set 1* a bit slow on the uptake where hats are concerned. Doubtless those teased, destructible, crushable hairdo's had something to do with it. Now that the coif Is simpler and smoother hat worthy the virtues of millinery
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 192 10 A BIG-HITTING BLITZ by R.A.F. Tengah's captain, Tony, Lewis, pared the way Friday to victory over R.A.F. Changi in the 'play-off final of F.E.A.F/s inter-station cricket Championship tourney. 1A Changi batted first and scored 150 for 6 off 40 overs, Dougan hitting top score
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    • 209 10 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Th« Players Sunday Cricket League ended their season's programme on a typically lively note today with England batsman Phil Sharp* heading the run-making. Sharpe hit 73 in Yorkshire's 134-run defeat of Nottinghamshire after racing to his 50 in 41 minutes Team-mate
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    • 77 10 FOR THE first time in the history of Singapore's cricket annals loca) fans will be able to see a woman umpire in action this weekend. The umpire is none othe r than .Mrs. A. R. Place, wife of a British air force officer, stationed at RAF Sel*tar. Mrs.
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    • 142 10 MELBOURNE, Mon. (AFP) Ron Clarke, one of the world's top long distance runners is likely to be missing from the Australian team for the Pacific Conference games in Tokyo this month. The world record breaker had already notified the Australian Athletic Union that he was doubtful
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    • 92 10 LONGCHAMP, Mon. (Renter) Outsider Le Chmuan won the French St. Le*er, the Prix Royal Oak, after a photo finish with Honeyville here yesterday. Le Chmuan, ridden by Andre Jezequel and owned by Baron Geoffrey de Waldner, beat British owner James P. Phillips' Honeyville, ridden by Jackie
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    • 498 10 American Pro NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) —The New York Jets opened defence of their American Football League title by whipping the Buffalo Bills 33-19 Sunday on four field goals by Tim Turner and an 11-yard touchdown run by Matt Snell. The Jets' victory, however, was
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    • 195 10 NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST W L. G.B. New York 88 58 Chicago 85 62 3i St. Louis 79 67 9 Pittsburgh 77 67 10 Philadelphia 57 87 30 Montreal 47 100 41 i WEST W L. G.B. Atlanta 82 65 Los Angeles 79 65 li San Francisco 80 66
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    • 444 10  -  By LITTLE NENE ALISDAIR MALCOM. the 17-year-old 2-handicap golfing star snot a brilliant 1-under-par 67 over Hie «i« r »wg to win Hie September A Medal with a nett-65. Partnered by William Marr (8) and F. G Salaysay (8) In the first A-Division group of
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    • 193 10 SEOUL. Mon. (UPI) The government Monday reiterated it® policy of banning the Rhodes, an soccer team from entering South Korea to participate in the elimination tournament of the World Cup 15-A region in Seoul next month. "The policy is firm and unchangeable." a spokesman
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    • 65 10 PHILADELPHIA, Mon. (UPI) The Philadelphia 76ers yesterday signed Luke Jackson to a three-year contract, just three days after it was announced the 6-foot-9 centre had signed with the Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Association. General Manager-Coach Jack Ramsay said Jackson, sidelined with an Achilles tendon injury most
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    • 344 10 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) Australia's Johnny Famechon, the World Boxing Council's (WBC) Featherweight Champion, will meet Japan's Fighting Harada in a rematch title bout Jan. 6 in Tokyo, Takeshi Sasazaki, Harada's manager, announ- ced today. The IS-round championship fight will b« sponsored by the
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    • 134 10 EAST BERLIN. Mon (Router) East Germany's volley, ball team gained a hard-won victory over Czechoslovakia after two hours and 20 minutes of play to head Group One in the World Championships here today The victory gave the host nation four points, one ooint ahead of
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    • 224 10 CATANZARO. Italy. Mon. (Reuter) The referee disallowed the home side's only goal in the last minute, giving the visiting team a 1-0 victory and setting off southern Italy'* second football riot in a week About 1,000 angry fana, some hurling stones, stormed onto the pitch as
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    • 52 10 PRAGUE. Mon (Reuter) Olympic Champions Hungary kept their World Cup hopes alive by holding section leaders Czechoslovakia to 3 —3 draw in a Group Two qualifying match here yesterday But Hungary, two points behind with a game in hand, missed a great chance of victory after building up
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    • 46 10 ALBI. France. Mon (Renter) Graham Hill of Britain won the 17th Grand Prix of Albi Formula 2 motor race here today. Hill, twice world champion, took the chequered flag in his Lotus ahead of France's JV hnny Servoz-Gavin (Matra) and Austria's Jocben Rindt (Lotus).
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    • 74 11 Mr. EUGENE CHERITON, a New Zealand school-teacher, arrived here yesterday to coach rugby players at local clubs and schools. A bachelor at 41, Mr. Cheriton will stay 12 months here under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Malayan Breweries. Sunpix shows him at the airport being
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    • 340 11 DEFEAT IN NEW ZEALAND WELLINGTON, N.Z., Mon. (Reuter)— A New Zealand team official said ♦oday Singapore had no ground for complaint in the controversial foot-faulting episode in the Thomas Cup men's Badminton tie. George Vincent, non-playing captain of the New Zealand team, defended
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    • 215 11 JOHANNESBURG. Mon i AFP) Black Powp r extremists tn America have told Negro tennis star Arthur Ashe they will cut of f h's hand s if he play in the South African international championships in Johannesburg next year, th* Sunday Timeg reported here today A South African
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    • 194 11 BRIDGEHAMPTON. N Y. (UPl>—lt was Denme Hulme's turn to win Sundav as the "flower power" twin* of Canadian-American Challenge Cup racing swert to their sixth one-two finish in seven starts at Bridgehampton Road course. Hulme and hie teammate. Bruce McLaren, dominated the 56.800-dollar Bndgehampton
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    • 840 11 The following are the race weights for tola weekend's racial at Ipoh:SATURDAY CLASS 4 DIV. 4 6 Furl6nit Provoolos 9.00 Matster 900 Sporting Sam 9 00 Diamond Gram 9.00 Getalong 9 00 Speed Orb 8.13 San Franciaco 8 13 Tropoaphere 8.13 Tudor Traveller 8.12 Kampong New Zealand
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    • 120 11 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) —Kenji Iwata of Japan, th« Orient No. 2 junior lightweight, scored a knockdown in the seventh round and wen a unanimous non-title 10-round decision Monday night over Philippine featherweight champion Flash Besande at the Korakuen hall. It was a hard-fought battle all the
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    • 302 11 SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (UPI) Dog-tired Bill Toomey, limpine with a sore back and a bruised left heel, made a valiant bid for the world record in the Decathlon yesterday but fell short by 182 points. Needing a 4:28.7 In the 1.500 metres,
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    • 151 11 BRHUfI KITCHEN CONTEST ORGANISED BY O'CONNORS (PTE) LTD. LUCKY WINNERS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST* 1969 The following art His sight lucky winners of His Contest for His month of August, 1969. K C. ENG. GRAHAM WALL Mrs., 147 Nsil Road, Singapore, 2. 9 Burghley Drive. Serangoon ING HIANG KING,
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1038 11 (CHANNEL S) P M 300 Opening Announcement in all Languages and itommg Star: 325 woman's World (Malay>: 355 A Diarv of Events jn Singapore This Week 'Malay); 4.00 Its Happening in Singapore (Malay) (Repeat); 415 Peyton Place (Repeat); 500 Close: 600 Prog Summary in all Language?: 605 Rocket Robin Hood.
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  • 262 12 TWO different lines of thought were presented to newsmen regarding Britain's role East of Sue* in the seventies by 10 visiting British Parliamentarians, yesterday afternoon. lllk They comprise of five Labour MPs, three Conservative MPs, one Ulster Unionist MP and a Member of the House
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  • 75 12 "HUNGRY** thieves raided th« larder of a housewife at Holland Road over the weekend and escaped with canned food, beer and butter, valued at about $4O. The boueewife, Mrs. told Police that she had locked all the doors and windows of her house before sleeping on the night
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  • 160 12 The Australian Alumni yesterday handed over a cheque $2,400 to the Parliamentary Secretary, (Education). Dr Lee Chlaw Meng. for the promotion of technical education In the Republic. The president of the Alumni. Dr. Geoffrey Chlam. made the presentation. The $2,400 will be given away
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  • 88 12 DR. LEE Chlaw Meng. the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, will declare open a three-man art display at the National Library's Exhibition Hall on September 18. Called the "Autumn Art Exhibition", the show is being organised Jointly by the Singapore Art Society, the Society
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  • 324 12 THE building of a young nation liko Singapore required not only hiqh calibre intelligence but alto a population that was physically sound and healthy, declared the Member of Parliament for Mountbatten, Mr. Ng Yeow Chong. yesterday. Mr. Ng was speaking at the opening
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  • 550 12 THE Minister for Science and Technology, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, stated here last night that Singapore could also achieve technological excellence if it knows clearly the areas in which the country can excel and has the will and staying power to do
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  • 89 12 A $6O-a- month coffee-shop assistant was fined $5OO. in default three months' jail, by the Fourth District Court Judge. Mr. Dalip Singh, on a public lottery charge, yesterday. Ta n Eng Gun. of Lim Chu Kan K Road, pleaded guilty and admitted that on July? 20.
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  • 72 12 A chap-ji-kee collector. Ng Piah Seng, was fined $750 °r fou r months' jail in the Ninth Magistrate'- Court yesteray fcr carrying on a public lottery. He pleaded guilty to the charge which wa« committed o n Sept 13 at Lorong Kinchi r Another woman. Heng Chear Peng.
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  • 125 12 The $lOO,OOO jackpot prize of the Toto Pools is still waiting to be won. In a news release today. Singapore Pools (Pte) Limited announced there were two participants who struck the "four numbers plus the additional number" correct and won for themselves the second group prize
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  • 172 12 O'CONNOR'S (Pte) Ltd. hat announced Hia eight lucky winners of the $45 Braun table lighters in the Braun Kitchen Contest for the month of August. The participants in the contest are all purchasers of a Braun kitchen machine or a mixer. For each purchase, th«y were
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  • 66 12 THE Police has captured another "kingpin" of the underworld who escaped from Police custody a year ato. Since then, it is believed this man, ha<i been involved in a series of armed robberies and theft of several motor car? The Police arrested their wanted man in a
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  • 235 12 A 25-year-old man. Loo Kim Bock, was jailed for three years on two charges of criminal breach of trust and cheating. Loo alias Anthony Loo Kim Bok. had earlier pleaded guilty before the Fourth District Court Judge, Mr. Dalip Singh, to the offences. Senior Inspector Joseph
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  • 174 12 Reserves stock of blood in the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service had fallen to a "below average" level at the end of last week. There are now only 539 units of blood held in reserve. In a statement issued yesterday, it was stated there had been no
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  • 230 12 THE Indian Minister of Law and Social Welfare, Mr. P. Govinda Menon, flew into Singapore yesterday for i three-day visit at Hie invitation of the Singapore isovernmenr. Speaking to newsmen at the airport Mr. Mn»n said be is looking forward to visit
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  • 70 12 TWO persons yesterdav denied a charge of cheating Dato SQ Wong of $3,000. Ng Ah Kwee, and Wor.g Teo Hin. 21. pleaded not guilty to the charge, in which thev were alleged to have attempted to cheat Dato Wong of $3.000 on Aug. 21 at
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  • 49 12 THE Singapore Armed Forces has commenced daily demolition exercises at the Southern Islands ranges at Pulau Senang and Pulau Pawai. The exercises will last till Sept 19 Each day. firing will take place from 8 a.m. to 12 midpubbc is warned to keep clear of these islands.
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    • 94 12 TIME TIDE High Tido (Today) High Tide (Tomorrow) 10 /oa\?V Singapore Town: 1.48 am (8.9 ft.) 1.03 p.m (9.0 ft.) (8 3ft)> j 33 pm (8 9ft Na v«l Dwkyani: Naval Dockyard: 202 am. (10.7 ft.), 1.28 p.m. (10.4 ft.) (102 ft.), i 56 p.m. (10.3 ft.) Low Tide (Todoy)
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