Eastern Sun, 19 September 1969

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  • 22 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY VV Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1123 Friday, 19 September 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 481 1 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter, AFP), The Beirut newspaper Al-Jarida reported today that large-scale transfers had taken place in the Egyptian Army Command. It quoted "an exclusive report" from Cairo that Lieutenant-General Ahme Ismail, the chief of staff appointed after the death of General Abdel-Moneim Riad
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  • 67 1 Tw 0 Chinese boys, sporting two feet long b'.onde hair and latest pop-art dresse? were fined $75 each by the Ninth Court Magistrate. Mr E C Foenander. on charge? of soliciting for immoral purposes Toh Man Foo. 22. and Tan S'ian Yeow. 21. pleaded guilty to the charge*, committer
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  • 424 1 UNITED NATIONS, Thurs. (Reuter) President Nixon appealed at the United Nations today for an international effort to persuade Hanoi to begin serious talks to end the Vietnam war. "Once there Is a genuine willingness by the other side to reach an agreement,
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  • 257 1 HONG KONG, Thurs. (Reuter) Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said here tonight his country accepted the Soviet Union's statement that it wanted to co-exist with nations of South-east Asia. "We accept this." he said in a television Interview The Prime Minister, who arrived
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  • 144 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs The Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman has accepted an invitation to attend the three-day Islamic conference at Rabat in Morocco. The conference scheduled on Sept. 22 to 24 will discuss the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the subject of the Holy
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  • 907 1 A common religion, language or culture is no insurance for preserving national unity, at least in the political sense, Mr. C.V. Devon Nair said yesterday. Speaking at a luncheon of the Rotary Club (Singapore West) at the Hollandsche Club Mr. Nair was specially critic
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  • 74 1 LONDON. Thurs.(AFP) —President Gam a l Aba«l Nasser of Egypt has forestalled a COUD and placed his left-hand man Aiy Sabn under house arrest, the Guardian newspaper said today, quoting Cairo pres« reports. In a report from its Jerusalem correspondent the Guardian s aid that discontent
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  • 125 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The need to stabilise commodity prices will be raised by Malaysia at the five-day World Bank-International Monetary Fund meeting commencing from Sept. 29 in Washington. This was stated by the Assistant Minister of Fn ance. Enol.e All bin Haji Ahmad, at the
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 238 2 THE Senior Lecturer of the Physics Deportmint of the University of Singapore, Mr, Hon Yung Sen, yesterday told the pupils of the Queenswoy Secondary School that they should make full and profitable use of their school days because those are the happiest days of
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  • 97 2 THE Political Secretary to the Minister for Education. Enche Ghazali bin •Ismail, has called on local teachers to nurture a positive attitude and be bold enough to experiment with new innovations in each and every leamfrig situation and. if need be, adapt them to fit
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  • 164 2 A Regional Export Manager of Special Treatment Petroleum (STP) Corporation. Mr. Stanley N. Webb, arrived here last night lor a three-day visit to promote sales of the Company's products. Mr. Webb who is currently on the world business trip was met on arrival at
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  • 887 2  -  A Study In Political Contrast By LESLIE MURPHY KOTA KINABALU, Sabah, Thurs. (Reuter) Sabah, billed on its tourist brochures as the "Land below the wind" and Sarawak, where the winds of change blow more freely, provide many intriguing contrasts after six years within Malaysia. The federation's
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  • 126 2 SINGAPORE offers the best choice as the regional centre for printing in Southeast Asia because of its geographical advantage, skilled labour and sophisticated machinery. This was stated by Mr. B.S. Hansen, new Regional Manager for the Far East and East Africa of the East Asiatic
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  • 388 2 A man, Sim Sui Peng, was sentenced to five years' jail by the second District Court Judge, Mr. Donald Yeo Hock Chwee, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of bringing a woman into Singapore for prostitu- tion. Senior Inspector Joseph Low,
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  • 154 2 THE German Ambassador in Singapore. Oswald Baron von Richthofen and Baroness von Richthofen gave a House Concert and Dinner at their residence in Ewe Boon Road earlier this week. The House Concert was a recital given by the wellknown German pianist Mias Evelind# Trenkner. Among the
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  • 52 2 A book-stall owner. Wee Ah Meng. was fined $2OO by the Ninth Court Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Foenander, for possessing banned publications. The books Included "Fanny Hill,'' "Sexus", and others. In mitigation. Wee said that he had taken over the stall from a friend only two weeks before
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  • 149 2 SINGAPORE aquarista have again scored tremendous success in the 16th International Guppy Show held at Berlin, West Germany recently, winning 10 major prizes out of 12 entries submitted for the competition. Local entries at the show took six first prizes, three second prizes
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  • 179 2 REAR Admiral G. S. Ritchie, Britain's Hydrographer of the Royal Navy, arrives here on Sept. 25 to have talks on hydrographical services and the metrication of nautical charts. He is also visiting Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. The Hydrographie
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  • 271 2 THE Ancient, Mystical Order Rosac Crucis (AMORC) will celebrate the traditional Pyramid Building Ceremony at the Y.W.C.A. Hall at 5* Raffles Quay on Sept. 21 at 7.80 p.m. The AMORC Is a nonsectarian fraternity devoted to the investigation and study of the higher principles ol life as
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  • 68 2 THE Chairman of the Adult Education Board. Dr Ta: Chen Hwa. will speak on the "Future of Adult Education" at the first luncheon meeting of the new board of directors of the Y's Men's Club of Singapore, Beta Chapter, at the Viking Room on Saturday, Sept. 20 Members
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  • 32 3 A. U.S. ADVISER in South Vietnam sports a black headband and a necklace of grenades as h e wades through high grass while on patrol near the Cambodian border recently. (UFI photo).
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  • 360 3 UNITED NATIONS, Thurs. (Reuter and UPI) The General Assembly's Steering Committee yesterday decided without a vote to inscribe on the agenda the question of Peking's admission to the world body. Only Taiwan's Ambassador, Liu Chieh, opposed inclusion of the item. In a plea to
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  • 81 3 SYDNEY, Thurs. (Reuter) Three Chinese seamen reported to have attacked the master of the 8.437-ton freighter. "Precious Jade." were flown back to Hong Kong last night. Sydney Water Police were told the seamen attacked Captain Barrv Peters, 33. while the ship was in international waters
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  • 239 3 MANILA. Thurs. (UPI) a Filipino businessman was killed and a local movie idol was seriously wounded in a shooting incident last night which police said might have been caused by rivalry over an actress Renato Pangilinan, 28. Executive of a Manila Engineering Company,
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  • 213 3 PARIS Thurs. (UPI and Reuter) The North Vietnamese told four U.S. Air Force wives yesterday they would soon receive letters disclosing whether their husbands, shot down over North Vietnam, are dead or prisoners of war. The wives met diplomats from Hanoi for
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  • 237 3 SAN DIEGO. Thurs. (LPI) Recruits in a Special Marine Corps Disciplinary Unit were handcuffed to a mirror and forced to look at themselves for hours to "stimulate an attitude change.'" the Marine Corps confirmed yesterday. A spokesman said the handcuffing was ended last month
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  • 72 3 UNITED. NATIONS. Thurs. fUPI) Foreign Secretary Carlos Fomulo of The Philippines turned movie star yesterday in a documentary on the United Nations. National Educational Television interviewed the General at his Waldorf Astoria suite for the film What Happened To The Dream Of 1945?" which the company is
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  • 70 3 New York. Thurs. (UPI) A Korean scholar yesterday suggested North Korean leader Kim II Song is determined to unify the country under Communist rule by 1971 even at risk of war with the United States. The theory was outlined in the October Issue of "Foreign Affairs Quarterly "by
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  • 41 3 LAGNY. France. Thurs. (Reuter) A man trying to gas himself here forgetfully lit one last cigarette, caught his clothes alight in the resulting explosion, and drowned in a large barrel of water where he jumped to extinguish the flames.
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  • 343 3 TOKYO Thurs. (UPI) A Japanese businessman, who may hold the key to settling one of the bitter issues in a tug-of-war in the Philippine Presidential Campaign, has suddenly vanished. Those who may know his whereabouts are not saying where he is.
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  • 437 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) The Nixon Administration's plans to reduce and reform the draft are coming at a time when total armed forces strength already is nearly 100,000 men below what it was a year ago. The peak strength of the Vietnam War period was
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  • 209 3 TOKYO Thurs. (Reuter) Queen Elisabeth's younger sister Princess Margaret arrives here on Saturday for a six-day State visit and as top saleswoman for British goods. She will launch a British Trade and Cultural Promotion Week and giv« the sales drive a boost by
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  • 127 3 BRISBANE, Thurs. (Reuter) A young Papuan porter had an unexpected flight to Australia in the baggage compartment of a Trans-Australian Airlines Boeing 727 yesterday. The porter, 25-year-old Surua, who speaks only pidgin English, was accidentally locked in the compartment at Port Moresby. It wasn't until Surua
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  • 126 4 MOSCOW. Thurs. (Reuter) Moscow television last night ahowed Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin and Chinese Premier Chou EnLai shaking hands warmly at the end of their surprise meeting In Peking last Thursday. The sequence came in a twominute film of the meeting Included at the
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  • 104 4 CAPE TOWN. South Africa. Thurs (UPI) About 80 Japanese and Chinese merchant seamen brawled yesterday in the streets with knive*. fists, rocks and chairs, the police said. Four were killed and several others injured, police said. At least two of the dead were thought
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  • 174 4 CAIRO, Thurs. (UP I) President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt is losing interest In the forthcoming Islamic summit conference *nd probably will not attend personnally. informed Egyptian sources said yesterday. The sources, men close to the Egyptian Government, said Nasser most likely would
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  • 41 4 MUNICH. Thura. (Reuter) West German nationalist leader A doll Von Thadden last night blamed left-wingers for the shooting which wounded two young men in Kassel last night and said it was possible the gunman had been aiming at him.
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  • 119 4 LONDON, jhurs. (Reuter) A judge yesterday ordered hippies to leave the elegant Georgian mansion they nav® been using as their home s ince the beginning of the week. Mr. Justice Eveleigh granted an order that all persons occupying the premises at 143 and 144
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  • 242 4 UNITED NATIONS, New York, Thurs. (Reuter) Relations between Britain and Israel at the U.N. have suddenly deteriorated following British backing of on Arab-inspired resolution in the security Council earlier this week, informed sources said yesterday. Britain voted with Russia, I France and eight
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  • 230 4 PAFIS. Thurs (UPI) President Georges Pompidou yesterday intervened personally in Frances threatening labour unrest to warn he is determined "republican order will be maintained" at all costs. Pompidou, speaking out for the first time on widespread labour unrest and nationwide strikes, told
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  • 55 4 EAST BERLIN, Thurs rßeuter) Right-wing West German politicians and generals have prepared a plan for a Greek-style military coup which would install Finance Minister Franz-Josef Strauss as dictator. East Germany alleged yesterday Propaganda Ch:ef Professor Albert Norden told a press conference here that East Germany had documents
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  • 72 4 LONDON. Thurs. <UPI) The Beatles said today their new phonograph album includes a song about Queen Elizabeth with the words "I'm gonna make her mine." Beatles spokesman Derek Taylor said a copv will be sent to the monarch. "Paul sang that knowing the Queen would
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  • 293 4 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Thurs. (Reuter) Miss Angle Brooks, elected on Tuesday as President of the U.N. 24th General Assembly, yesterday urged a bigger role for women in world affairs. The first African woman ever to hold the office. Miss Brooks told a
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  • 200 4 WASHINGTON Thurs. (I P!) The Senate voted yesterday to put a ceiling on overall U.S. troop strength and to limit any l* S. defence of Thailand and Laos to providing supplies and equipment not men The Amendments, with the Pentagon's stamp of approval,
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  • 40 4 BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Thurs. 'UPI) —Men. women and children working in a steady, cold drizzle yesterdav began tearing down barricades in Roman Catholic areas of Belfast. Another 450 British troops landed in the city to help protect them.
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  • 107 4 OWERRI Biafra. Thurs (Reuter) An Irish-born missionary nun was killed and a second was wounded in a raid by a Nigerian jet plane here yesterday. Roman Catholic ■ourcea said. The nuns were on their way to a refugee clinic when the jet swept over here
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  • 298 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) —A special task fore# yesterday recommended to President Nixon that the United States concentrate on exploration of the moon in tfie immediate future while putting off a manned Mars landing until the 1980's or later. Vice President Spiru Agnew said in an
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  • 78 5 ABILENE. Kan Thurs (Xj-pi» Mamie Eisenhower, widow of the former President, paid a tearful visit late Wednesday to the stark little chapel where her husband is buried It was her first return to this Kansas prairie town Ike knew as a bov, since his burial April 2. Mrs
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  • 91 5 SANTIAGO. Chile, Thurs. (Reuter) Twenty-one people. including 12 children, were rescued from a remote area of southern Chile yesterday after their aircraft cushion-landed on the tree tops of a thick forest Just short of a 3,000-foot precipice The only ill effects were colds suffered
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  • 133 5 MEXICO CITY. Thurs. (Reuter) Five home-made bombs exploded In Mexico City last night, blowing out several windows but causing no casualties Two of the blasts were outside the Attorney General's office. The others were at a television studio, the main entrance of a national newspaper
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  • 179 5 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI) Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is expected to propose Soviet-American talks on Strategic Arms Limitations (SALT) to begin next month, probably in Helsinki, diplomatic sources said Wednesday. Gromyko was expected to make the move when he meets with U5 Secretary of
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  • 79 5 BUENOS AIRES Thurs '(UPI) Rosario. Argentina's second largest city was put under military rule Wednesday n ght as demonstrators participating in a general strike were ordered shot on sight. The action followed ciashe Wedresday between thousands of workers and students battling police and troop* of the 2nd army
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  • 77 5 WASHINGTON. Thu r s (Reuter) President Nixon announced today that he will ask Congress next week to approve a 10 per rent increase ;n Federal Social Security benefits. Speaking at a bill-signing ceremony. Nixon said older American citizen s living on a fixed income had suffered the
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  • 168 5 BETHPAGE. N. Y Thurs. <UPI) Astronaut Neil Armstrong Wednesdav to d a cheering crowd at the r>lant where the Lunar Landing Module (called LEM) was made that "craftsmanship made the difference" between success and failure Armstrong said, "LEM lived up to every bit of my expectations.*
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  • 103 5 VANCOUVER. Canada Thurs (Reuter) A Pacific Western Airlines plane crashed northwest of Vancouver last night and first reports said of the 15 people aboard were killed. The plane a twin-engined Convair 640 was on a flight from Vancouver. British Columbia. to Campbell River on Vancouver Island. It crashed
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  • 126 5 LOS ANGELES. Thurs. (Reuter) A Los Angeles jury yesterday found Paul Ferguson. 23 and his brother Thomas Ferguson. 18. guiltv of first degree murder i n battering silent screen idol. Ramon Novarro to death in the actor's Hollywood Hills home on Oct. 30. 1968. Paul Ferguson faces
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  • 129 5 NEW YORK. Thurs. (Reuter) A crewless ghost ship, to roam the seas like a modem Flying Dutchman is being developed to perform a variety of scientific missions. The robot sailing craft, called Skamp" (Station Keeping and Mobile Platform), will be able to remain in one
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  • 332 5 SACRAMENTO. Thuri. (UPI) A bottomless Go-Go dancer clad only in golden sandals and a silver ring rocked to "Kansas City*' In a honky tonk bar Wednesday while Municipal Judge Earl Warren Jr.. held court, sipping water from a beer glass. Warren, son of the
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  • 485 6 WAS Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman serious when he said in Hong Kong that he wants to step down from his position as the head of the government? If he wasn't he could have been joking, but it is hardly a subject one jokes about especially when outside
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  • 361 6 THE yawning gap between the Soviet Union and China is causing great concern among the Asians in particular. Not only are these two Red giants not in a position to compromise but their tactics and counter-tactics which are admittedly propagandist in nature. Is keeping smaller Asian nations
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  • 830 6  -  By Gregorio C. Pagsanjan MANILA (UPI) 'Nakakahiya" (Shameful"), said tha police corporal at precinct. I had just told him how three men threatened to stab me and robbed me of my wristwatch and cash at 12.00 a.m. on Monday. "Where did it happen?" Cpl. Juan
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  • 527 6  -  By ROBERT EVANS MOSCOW, (Reuter) Be on guard with foreigners, every Westerner may be a spy this is Hie message drummed home to Russians in dozens of articles in Soviet newspapers and in radio and television programmes. Western agents, newspaper articles warn,
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  • 372 6  -  By TAKESHI SATO TOKYO, (Reuter) Japanese industrialists are setting up a joint firm to exploit coking coal resources overseas to meet a growing shortage of coal for steel production in Japan, f The Japan Coal Mining Association said the projected joint firm
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  • 435 6  -  Br PHIL NEWSOM NEW YORK (UPI) On the issue of Okinawa both the United States and Japan are practicing diplomatic brinkmanship. Before the arrival of Japanese Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi for his Washington meeting with Secretary of State William P. Rogers, it had been hoped that conditions for the
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  • 586 6  -  by JAMES POST OTTAWA: The Canadian Arctic is on the brink of development. The world's major oil companies are hoping that an oil strike in the billion-barrel category will follow the big finds in Alaska. The Canadian Arctic contains the same sedimentary geological formations beneath
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  • 191 6  -  toilers... CPT. D. WYATT Public Relations Officer. Ministry of the Interior Sc Defence Singapore Dear Sir, This is with reference to the letter by 'A Parent* published on 21.8.69. It Is the policy of this Ministry to encourage as much sporting activity as it
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  • 12 6 To know Is nothing to imagine is erorythiaf. Anatole France.
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 434 7 By Our Market Reporter THE steadier tendency of the pest two days was reversed on fresh profit taking in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. The market opened on a steady though quiet note after Wednesday's trend. Profittaking appeared on the scene in
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    • 1274 7 OCSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms U of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS Acma $1.87 (2) $1.86 (1) $lB5 (1); Ben $1.84 (1) $1.83 (2) $1.82
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    • 248 7 THE following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for Sept. 18: DEPARTURE Godowns Vessels 6'7 Dimitris P Lemos 18 Aeneas 19 Choko Maru 21/22 Houshun Maru 23/24 Makevertt 33 34 Jan Matejko 38/39 Hermdonax 40 41 Wakato Maru 44 Centaur 13/14 Stefan
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    • 50 7 A 16-ton propeller was one of the more unusual freight unloaded by the Blue Funnel ship, Anchises, when she berthed at Singapore on Tuesday. The propeller was ordered by Jurong Shipyard Ltd. from Britain for use by an 18,000-ton tinker.
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    • 278 7 OCTOBER first grade robber biner* rioted at 5 Dm. in Singapore and Koala Lumpur yesterday at 76-1 cent# per lb. up half a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet Slightly steadier although quiet conditions marked the morning's trading with price* fluctuating
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    • 115 7 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (Router) Mr. Maurice Stans. the Secretary of Commerce, said yesterday he did not expert the U.S. Trade balance —this ♦his year barely breaking eve n —to be significantly bette r in either 1969 or 1970 un.ess something was done about it. In announcing new steps
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    • 63 7 SAN FRANCISCO. Thurs. (UPr» Officials of the Japan Trade Fair, an attraction of Japan Week, said yesterday the event is drawing record crowds. The most popular attractions are the 250.000 US dollars scale model of the U5 Capitol and the Video-Phone exhibit Trade director Hiromichi Eguchi
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    • 217 7 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) The International Tin Council, meeting here, yesterday announced an increase in tin export quotas for the next quarter. They said the quotas for the quarter October one to December 31 will be 41,500 long tons for the six producing countries. This compares with
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    • 310 7 COPENHAGEN, Thurs. Mr, Knut Hagrup Has been appointed President of Scandinavian Airlines System to succeed Mr. Karl Nilsson who is retiring on Sept. 30. The decision by the Board of SAS was announced here recently by the Board'* Chairman, Mr. Haldor Topsoe.
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    • 155 7 rriHE Singapore Rubber Broken Association bu supplied the follow1 int In respect of business transacted la S M.Rs:— SMR 6 CV (HC) Sept. Pallets ♦J cents premium traded 4 Pallets cents premium sellers. Oct. 3) cents premium nominal SMK 6 L (HC) OctPallets 2» cents premium buyers
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    • 626 7 SING API) KB Stwt Elrtaanre *01(1 and other price* officially luted at the c»o M Of bnaineaa INDUSTRIALS 8. AC.MA 1W g«n A Co Borneo 1.81 1.83 1-80 BouMead Lt5 1.99 Camel Plywood 1.78 C. bugar Cold Morale 432 4.34 2.36 2.41 8K* c rt *f
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    • 64 7 THE Association of Bank* In Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following in It* rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency). SELLING T.T. or OD. ready: Deutsche Marks 577.7875; Holland Guilders $B5 1325; Swiss Francs $71.7200, Belgian Francs $8 1325; French Francs
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    • 65 7 NEW YORK Thurs (UPI) Rubber futures closed 35 points lower to 50 pointa higher on the New York Commodity Exchange yesterday. There were no sales. (Close) (AA) (Prer) Bid Nov. 28 SGB 29.50 A 28.00 Jan. 28.50 29 35 2885 Mar 27.75 28 75 27.75 May 2860 28.60
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    • 13 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $632.37| per picuL down $0.25.
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    • 87 7 THE noon price* at the Sinrapore Chinese Produce Exchange yesterday were:— Buyer Coconot OU (F-O.B.) Bulk 49 50 Coconut Oil 52.00 (F.O.B) Drum mtm Mlved copra SO so Muntok White Pepper 157 50 (FO.B) mmm Sarawak TThite Pepper ***** (FOB) Sarawak Special Black Pfpp« i( OU) w* ***** VLW
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    • 5 7 (•Hone koni Currency >
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Dow Jone s closing average* on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrials 826.56 20 Rails 198.89 15 Utilities 113.31 65 Stocks 278.93 40 Bonds 71.39 Commodity futures index 142.18 off 0.01.
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    • 412 7 ARKIVALS: 5 00a.m. MsA 029 K. Lumpur. 9.00 a.m. MSA 119 K. Lumpur. 1015 a.m. MSA 121 K. I ampur. 10.25 a.m. MSA 005 Penang. Ipoh. S. Lumpur, Malacca. SA 451 Kwhlnc SA 047 Kota Bnaru, Trengganu. K. Lumpur. 5.25 p.m. MS AM) 9 Bangkok. 3.25 p.m. MSA
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 699 8 GSI& ®HEfe MOST leaders of the New English movement think it means much more than new grammars. They are less interested in restructuring the classroom, however, than in rebuilding the curriculum. The schoolmarm approach is out. The kind of class in which teachers
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    • 155 8 STUTTGART. DaD) "Siggi", newspaper secretary in Stuttgart (Federal Republic of Germany) is the fastest girl in the world. Not on foot but with her fingers. She is able to have them fly over her electric typewriter so fast that she recently became the world champion
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    • 345 8 4,000 New Substances—1 New Medicine HAMBURG. (D»D) The amount of money spent on research work by the pharmaceutical industry of the Federal Republic of Germany has quadrupled during the last ten years. This expansive industrial branch herewith reached a share of research expenditures ranging from ten to twelve per cent
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    • 374 8  -  The Barking By COLIN MANN DARWIN, Australia It's wise to site yourself carefully when you camp out around Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Near the centre of Australia, this area has a ground-dwelling spider, fat, hairy and nocturnal, definitely traumatic company in a sleeping
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    • 683 8  -  Date-line By Ele and Walt Dulaney Dear Walt: My parents have a rule that wnen I am away from home I must Khone in each hour on the our. If I leave at 7.30 and return at 10.30, I must call them at 8, 9 and 10. If
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    • 249 8 The Government of Western Samoa hat announced ♦hat a $4 bird stamp, the highest value in the definitive series, will be issued on 6th October, 1969. The stamp features the Samoan White Eye (Zosterops samoensis) and is the same large sue as the $2 value Issued on
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    • 53 8 It's foolish to suppose that we can liberate ourselves from conventional wisdom a no other cost than that of deriding conventional wisdom History is full n f examples of lonely thinkers who were belittled by the established figures of the time and who. it now turns out. were deservedly
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 202 8 QUIZ Corner 1. What is a kitchen fee* 2. In which country would you find the Berbers? 3. Who created the detective 'Father Brown* in fiction? 4. What do you call an alloy of copper and zinc* 5. From where quinine is obtained? rnoipirp V* niojj 's eswa f O
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  • 563 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: I need your cool, detached counsel. My husband gets home from work about 4 30 p m. I get home about 5 30 For the past several weeks I've had the peculiar feeling that somebody had
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  • 577 9  -  Spaakiny inr Sl' it... Sheilah Graham N'EW YORK. Thurs I hadn't realised how long Hugh Downs has been with the Today show, until he made a mistake when Introducing some American high school students. He said they were the first, young
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  • 23 9 NEW DELHI. Thurs. fßenter) will hold its fourth international film festival here from December 5 to 18. it was announced yesterday.
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  • 473 9  -  By Geoffrey Morris SYDNEY, Thurs. Jeannie the sunfish has become a film star in the interest of science. It's not the sort of movie to set boxoffice records. After all, who but marine biologist or university researches would be interested in the everyday life of
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  • 167 9 LOS ANGELES. Thurs. (UPI) Australian-born actor Rod Taylor was granted a divorce yesterday from actress Mary Hilem. whom h« accused of being jealous whenever he kissed other women on television. Taylor. 39, told a superior court judge his wife had no understanding of his
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  • 126 9 NO VI SAD. Yug<Hlavla. Thura. Director Brian G. Hutton recently blasted away with his big guns, destroying a World War II German freight yard tor MGM'j warcomedy "The Warriors.'' currently shooting here An hour later Mother Nature staged her own encore, with 80-mile an
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  • 91 9 T ONDON. Thurs (Reu- Farmer Malcolm Eckley's neighbours are annoyed because he disturbs them every midnight by singing his pigs to sleep His favourite rendition a rousing version of "Onward Christian Soldiers" which he says relaxes the pigs and makes them drowsy. Eckley, 32.
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  • 43 9 NEW YORK Thura. Denn.a Waterman who recently completed his starring role opposite Romy Schneider, Donald Houston and Patricia Brake in MGM's Sagittarius Production "Don't You Cry." will star next in the new stage play "The Enemy", lor next aoa&on In London.
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  • 313 9  -  By K. S. Sidhu LOCAL musicians received a pat on their back from a leading vocalist, pianist and organist from Melbourne who says thftt the standard of local artistes is "pretty good." Harry Lynn who arrived Here a few days ago with Peter
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 236 9 SHAW I ORGANISATION LIDO Phone ***** i n*r: 11 m lis ♦o« «.r,o 4915 pm. V ?r Henrv A: Su an George I "All Nut In Blark Slwkinii" Ea-stmancolor SB 4-Thc MMMfht Tomorrow MDO CAPITOUEEX-6KT LIDO OPENS TOMORROW l'r Lice Po. U Chin* In Shav Productions "TBS S SMILES" Ml.nda.rl3
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    • 217 9 TODAY and YOU... Friday, September 19, 1969. yjWdi r. s ja ■.By CLAY 1. K YoorDaify AdMfy Guide M According to ffce Stars. To develop message for Friday,, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign. 1 BHng 3lKmp «lt«ubla 2 Fr,«nd»y 32 Day 62 Enthusiastic 3 Radiate
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    • 325 9 NOW SHOWING: I 11 m 1 30. 4OA 630 >BO pm. I FRAULEIN DOKTOR' co»r CAPUCINE KENNETH MORE A Paramount Picture O PEON *****| NOW SHOWING: I 11 a m 1.30. 4.00. 6 30 9.15 pan I Columbia's "PENDULUM Color George Peppard Jean Seberg On Stag* Tonight 9.1S p m
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    • 2275 10 SATURDAY B aee 1: CL 6. Div. 2—9 Furs.—2.15 P«n. ($4300) (FOR LOCAL RIDERS ONLY) 1. 500 Top Kingdom Samron's Pride Shyree 6y 6y 6y 7y 6y 9y 8y l2y 5y lOy 5y 6y 900 8.13 7.12 7 11 Top Kingdom Stable Heddle Leong
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    • 330 10 ATHENS. Thura (Reuter)— East Germany and the Soviet Union scooped up all the gold medals on the second dav or the European athletics championships while West Germany continued to watch from the sidelines. Triple jumper Viktor Saneyev. the world and European record-holder and
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    • 79 10 S'pore For TaekwonDo Championships HONG KONG. Thurs. (Reuter) The ftrst Asian Taekwon-Do championships, believed to be the biggest international event ever of the Korean art of self-defence, will be staged In Hong Kong starting on Sept. 28 The three-day tournament, organised by the Hong Kong Taekwon-Do Association, will be attended
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    • 242 10  -  By BIG BEN TPOH, Thurs. Gold Vase candidate Desert Apache (George Podmore) did a smart sprint this morning. With Blast Off for company the pair galloped strongly from the half miU to return 38 2/5 for the last 3f. Magic Jim strode out fluently over 3f in
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    • 85 10 MELBOURNE. Thurs (AFP) Leadsn* American jockey. John Sellers due to ride in Singapore Gold Cup meeting at the end of this month, will ride a the Invitation Stakes at Caulfield course next Thursday. Sellers will be riding against the top jockeys from every part of Australia
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    • 83 10 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Lester Piggott, the English champion jockey, will ride the Duke of Devonshire's Park Top in next month's Prix de L'Arc de Triocnphe. he stated today. The big French race will be in Paris on Oct 5. His decision means that American Mr. Charles
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    • 54 10 BUENO AIRES. Thurs. (Reuter) Nicoiino Loche. Argentina's world junior wel-ter-weight boxing champion, will defend his title against Joao Henrique of Brazil here on Oct. 11, it was announced today. Henrique, ranked third in the world, replaces American Adolph Pruitt who was originally scheduled to meet Loche here
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    • 122 10 SYDNEY, Thurs (Reuter) Australian top Jockey George Moore who dramatically surrendered hit Jockeys badge yesterday hinted last night he might ride overseas again. The world renowned Jockey who has ridden hundred! of winners in many countries handed in his badge after a dispute with a
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    • 109 10 LONDON. Thurs. (ReuterV Jockeys riding arrangements for the Ayr Gold Cup handicap to be run over 6 furlongs Ayr on Friday are: Great Bear R. Hutchinson. Lyrical R. Ferguson. Wee Caley W. McCaskiil, Royal Smoke unjockey. Wilbur Wright W, Williamson, Askabanj T. Kelsev, Welsh Warrior unjockey.
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    • 95 10 THE Chinese Athletic will meet Arsenal Sports Club in the annual "Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce Challenge Cup" soccer match at the SRC Padaog, tpday at 5.15 p.m. The C. A. team will be chosen from the following: Lun Tow Chong. Pek Swee Tee. Loke Che e
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    • 36 11 BRITAIN'S Henry Cooper it seen using a medicine ball during strenous training jt a London gymnasium tor his 15-round heavyweight contest with America's Jimmy Ellis at Wembley Stadium, London, on Sept. 27.
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    • 627 11 LONDON, Thurs, (Reuter) Some high-scoring marked first-round matches in the three major European soccer tournaments the European Cup. Cup-Winners' Cup and Fairs Cup when nearly 100 teams went into action last night. Dutch champions Feynoord led the scoring spree. crushing the inexperienced Icelandic players
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    • 161 11 General Hospital Nursing Staff, the defending champion*, defeated Dental Nurse* 26-14 in the A.UPE's annual netball tournament final played at the A U P E ground. Serangoon Road, yesterday. The winners were superior in all department*. Sallm Lamah and Chew Kim Bee combined well and
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    • 99 11 Omar Ibrahim will meet his brother Ismail Ibrahim in the men's singles Anal of the Singapore Malays Badminton Association's annual championships at the SBA Hall. Guillemard Road, at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow Puan Sania bmte Dollah. wife of Enche Buang Omar Juntd. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry
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    • 219 11 US Baseball Results Standings NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI)— Results of baseball matches playen yesterday:— AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 6 Seattle 4, Ist. Chicago 2. Seattle 1. 2nd. New York 2 Washington 1. railed off after 5 innings, rain. California 6 Minnesota 4. Detroit 5 Cleveland 0. Oakland 3 Kansas City 2.
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    • 389 11 PATRICIA CHAN smashed two more records vesterday. third day of the four-day Singapore Combined Secondary Schools' Sports Council 10th annual championships at the Chinese Swimming Club. Pit broke th* records in the girls' 'ooen' 200 m freestyle and in the 'B' girls 100 m freestyle
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    • 53 11 JAKARTA. Thurs (Reuter) Indonesia will send a s:xman team to Jaipur. India, for the first round of th e Asian western zone in the Thomas Cup championship, a spokesman of the Indonesian Badminton Federation said today. Thev ar e Rudy Hartono, Parmadi, Muljadi. Indratmo. Indra
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    • 314 11 WORLD CUP Alfred Duntaill Limited of St. James London, the major sponsors of the 17tn World Cup Golf tournament to be played on the Bukit Course of the Singapore Island Country Club from Oct. 2 to 5, have offered a cash prixe of $lO,OOO to
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    • 522 11 TENDERS art Invited frdm P.WD. Registered Contractor! for the following Work:— Execution of Earth Retainlac Structure, Excavation and Piling (Phaae II) for the Central Provident Fund Buildlnf at Robinaon Road. Singapore, Restricted to P.W.D. Resiatered Contractor! in Civil Engineering. Building or Piling above $750,000/- «nd to Specially Regiatered Contractor! for
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1002 11 Jft- §p (CHANNEL 5) AM 300 Opening Announcements in all Languages and Morning Star; 325 Woman's World (No 3> 'English); 3.55 A Diary of Events in Singapore This Week (English*; 400 It's Happening in Singapore (English* 'Repeat*; 415 Scarlet Hill i Dividing Line'. 500 Close 600 Programme Summary in all
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  • 468 12 A WEEKLY pictorial feature by the*:* Eastern Sun based on the photo-*;* IC graphs taken by our cameramen official functions, parties, shopping centres etc. 4* •j* LOOKING pleased in this printed silk dress is Mrs. Molly Lorenz (left), wife of Mr. O. E. Lorenz, an executive
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  • 1036 12 BUDDHISM is all for a permissive society but this freedom cannot be given to people without scruples and principles for to do so would be inviting the risk of converting a permissive society into a bedlam of chaos and promiscuity. Dr. Tan Choon Kim of the
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  • 115 12 A WELL-KNOWN professor of Sinology from Germany. Professor Wolfgang Franke has arrived in Singapore to join Nanyang University, as a visiting professor, Dr Wolfgang will give lectures to students in the Chinese and History Departments. The German professor has been the professor and director of the
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  • 73 12 TWO senior executives of the Eaton Yale ana Town® organisation have arrived in Singapore to attend the British Engineering Week and Exhibition held at the Singapore Polytechnic. They are Mr. D. Doble. the export manacer. and Mr. G. E Haywood the service manager of them
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  • 188 12 THE University of Singapore has acquired a priceless Shang Dynasty Relic found in a curio shop in Singapore. The curator of the University's Art Museum, Mr. William Willetts. is the discoverer of the piece of valuable bronze which is said to be a sacrificial
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  • 133 12 A MECHANIC was fined s7sp or four months' jail by the Third District Court Judge Mr. K.T. Alexander, yesterday, after he was found guilty of causing the death of another man. Mr. Alexander further ordered that Tan Teo Seng. 23, be disqualified from driving all classes
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  • 161 12 MEN of 249 Squadron. Royal Signals, from Singapore flew to Suva. Fiji, recently to set up a radio station linking Fiji with Melbourne and into the Commonwealth defence communication network. The Royal Signals which comprises 15 men will ©Pirate the station for a month
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  • 177 12 The Police yesterday called on the public to inform them immediately if they were approached by extortion racketeers. The call was made by the Police spokesman, Mr. G. Tolson. when he disclosed how a hawker. Ng Peng Seng. £j, stood to his ground and
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  • 38 12 THE Singapore Infantry Regiment's Band will perform at the Botanic Gardens on Sunday, Sept. 21, from 5 to 6 p.m. On the same da*, the Police Band will play at Katong Park at the same time.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 99 12 Time dfc Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 3.50 am. (67 ft). 2.49 pm (8.2 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 3.39 a.m. <B5 ft). 3.00 pm. (9.5 ft.) Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 8.47 a.m. (4 8 ft l. 10.07 p.m. (1.7 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 8.41 am. <5.8 ft.). 9.32 pm. (2.3
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    • 30 12 Mid Week Tolo Draw THE numbers drawn tn last nleht's mld-wrrk Toto Draw were: 41—36—45—42—9 The additional number drawn wax: 30. In the "three eircle" draw, the drawn were: 14—13—16
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