Eastern Sun, 17 October 1969

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1151 Friday, 17 October 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 577 1 NEW YORK, Thurs, (Reuter) President Nixon today faced massive new anti-war protests unless he Heeds nationwide demands to pull out of the war. Hundreds of thousands possibly even millions of Americans turned out in cities, towns and villages across the country yesterday to protest at
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  • 329 1 BRUSSELS. Thurs. (AFP) The Atlantic assembly began a closed-door meeting here today to study military and economic questions including a prooosal for creation of a "European Defence group" hinged on the nuclear power of Britain and France and the ground forces of West Germany. The meeting of
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  • 227 1 THE Polio Issued a special notice yesterday (or one Teow Chu Soon also known as Tiu Chiu Sun and as Ah Tee to help them In their investigations into the case of the theft of Ave birds from the Jurong Bird Park Bukit Peropok.
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  • 71 1 CANBERRA Thurs. (AFP) Detectives are making extensive inquiries into an explo sion of a home-mane bomb in the ground* of the Soviet embassy early this morning. It was the second bombing incident at the Soviet embassy In March this year several molotiv cocktails were thrown into the embassy
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  • 90 1 HONG KONG. Thurs (Reuter) A Scottish sea Captain re eased Chines authorise* today after 15 months detention in China, celebrated his freedom at the bar of the Mariners' Club here drinking Scotch Captain Peter Will, master of a cargo-passenger ship was detained bv Chine?* authorities at Tangku.
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  • 105 1 LIMOGES (Northern France). Thurs. (AFP) —Former French amateur bantamweight champion Gaston Fayaud is today in hospita 1 after the mo«t ferocious fight of his career with a badger. Fayaud. now in his fifties, was returning from a fishing expedPion last night with a friend when their car hit
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  • 215 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The government is now empowered to declare any licensed bank in the country as a "protected bank" to safeguard the interests of the public, shareholders and depositors of the bank. The Essential Protection of Banking Companies Regulations 1959 enabling the government to
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  • 47 1 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) The Japanese government today announced it will donate 500.000 doses of cholera vaccine to South Korea where 123 persons have died since the disease began to spread on August 26 The vaccine will be delivered through the Japan Red Cross
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  • 57 1 MONTREAL Thurs (Reuten Nine prisoners escaped from a bu« taking them fr° m goal to the Montreal courthouse today when three gunmen attacked the vehicle and forced it to stop. Early reports said gt least on? of the escaped prisoners had been recaptured by police who raced to
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  • 186 1 CANBERRA. Thurs. (Reuter) Former British Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker today predicted a detente in Europe between the United States and the Soviet Union. He said that tor the first time in 150 y® a n0 one is really afraid of a war starting in Europe now."
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  • 145 1 BULGARIA may soon start an air service linking Singapore with its capital, Sophia, the leader of the visting Bulgarian delegation said yesterday. Mr. Latchezar Avramov. Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria was talking to reporters after calling on Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. He
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  • 108 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (UPI) The House Armed Services Committee voted unanimously today to allow President Nixon to Institute a draft lottery. It refused, however, to halt student deferments that now are almost automatic. The committee approved the lottery request on a vote of 31 to 0 after rejecting
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  • DIED
    • 103 1 1 Dr. Frans Hemerljckx. of Brussels, who devoted his life's work to lepers in Africa and India. In Loucvain. aged 67. Dr. Hemerijckx left Belgium In 1929 for the Congo where he opened a leprosy hospital at Dlkungu which grew into one of the largest of its kind. He
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    • 44 1 J M. Rusarian, Industrial Attache of the Indonesian Embassy in The Hague, hospital in Rotterdam Wednesday night. Rusman. 46, •was to have returned to Jakarata next December after having worked here for three years His body will be flown to Jakarta next Sunday.
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    • 82 1 a Tso Shsun-Sheng. a .eader *n the China Youth Party on Thursday after a long illness, at 74. Tso had been living m Hong Kong and came to Taipei on a stretche,- on Seot 8 for treatment of a kidnev ailmert He was one of the founders of the
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 254 2 MANILA, Thurs. (UPI) Singapore's first ambassador to the Philippines, Tuan Haji Ya'acob bin Mohamed, said today the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) should continue to work for regional co-operation despite "difficulties'' confronting the organisation. In formally presenting his credentials to President Marcos. Mr
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  • 188 2 In each of the past two years (1967 and 1968) R.A.F. Seletar's Chefs carried off both the A.C.C. Regimental Association Challenge Cup and the Trophy Culinaire, with cake and larder exhibits at the Singapore District Open Cookery Competition. Despite the extreme difficulty of preparing and transporting food
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  • 176 2 The current Blue Cross contest, organised by General Milk (S> Pte. Limited and the Eastern Sun. is based on wit, intelligence and creativity. Those taking part In the next contest, the Blue Cross Contest B. will have to fill up a short phrase which
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  • 456 2 The First District Judge. Mr. D. C. D'Cotta yesterday allowed a hearing to continue when the Defence counsel called tor yet another postponement. A foreman, Karunakaran so Pappu was charged with criminal breach of trust of 135 bags of cement on one charge
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  • 154 2 TWENTY-Eight year old Carol Klessinq and Her colleague Grace Wong, 29, both from San Francisco had already fallen in love with the orient even before they had completed their Asian tour. Both Carol and Grace, who are medica: technologists in State? said that thev were
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  • 177 2 TWO sitters, Barbara and Carey Amick have come a long way from their home in England to learn about countries that lie outside the British Isles. They both claimed that as far as education is concerned, their education did not confine to books alone. They
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  • 349 2 A SENIOR official of Hie Republic's State and City Planning, Mr. Aryeh Doudai, yesterday stressed the need for long-term and comprehensive perspective in development activities in Singapore. Mr. Doudai, who is the Project Manager of the Planning Office, was speaking on "Living in Singapore with
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  • 63 2 Professor Chan Kong Thoe, Professor of Surgery, university of Singapore, has been appointed Honorary' Consultant In Surgery to the British Army In Singapore. I -He Is at present In San Francisco attending a conference of the American College of Sureeons and will attend the 11th Congress
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  • 348 2 THE President of the Singapore Council of Social Services. Mr. Ee Peng Liang, has suggested certain solutions to help collect the money needed annually to keep the Council running. Speaking at the weekly luncheon of the Rotary Club. Wednesday. Mr Ee said that the Council needed
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  • 297 3 UNITED NATIONS, Thurs. (Reuter and UPI) —A 14-year-old Australian girl has complained to the United Nations about what she said was the Australian Government's "unjust seizure" of mining land on Bougainville Island in Papua and New Guinea. A petition from the girl. Fiona
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  • 310 3 SAIGON, Thurs. (Reuter) President Thieu has BANNED all military parades and official receptions on South Vietnam's National Day next month in a decree published today. The most austere measures announced since he was elected President two years ago limited National Day celebrations on
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  • 278 3 MANILA, Thurs. (UPI) A state prosecutor yesterday said evidence presented in the trial of Gunner's Mate 3/E Michael Moomey was sufficient to convict him in any Philippine court of homicide through reckless imprudence. Moomey, 20, was acquitted by a U.S. Navy military court
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  • 256 3 TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) A rewriting of Japan's Constitution, which at present bars the use of force to settle disputes with other nations, was advocated to-day by the director of an organizationo f the country's leading businessmen. Takeshi Sakurada, permanent Director of the Federation of Economic
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  • 119 3 CANBERRA. Thurs. (Reuter) A bomb exploded In the grounds of the Soviet Embassy In Canberra early this morning, shattering windows but causing no injuries to the sleeping staff. Australia's External Affairs Department has told the Embassy Australia will pay for any damage, authoritative sources
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  • 88 3 BRISBANE, Thurs. (Reuter) Time and tide wait for Major V. Simmons of Canungra near here The latter lost his automatic watch in the sea off the Queensland-New South Wales border about nine months ago. Two months later, a fisherman hooked the watch In about 30 feet of water.
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  • 84 3 SAIGON. Thurs (Renter) The American military communique this morning reported NO ground fighting involving US troops throughout South Vietnam yesterday. The communique was issued as day-lon* protests against the Vietnam War drew to a close in the United States, whose time zones are
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  • 75 3 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) Japan's Supreme Court has ruled that a Japanese translation of a book written by the Marquis de Sade is obscene In al3to 5 decision yesterday. the High Court upheld fines levied against the translator and publisher of de Sade's "Juliette Ou Less Prosperities
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  • 44 3 HOUSTON. Texas. Thurs. (Reuter) Two Soviet spacemen are to visit the United States and will start with a tour of the U.S. manned space flight centre on Monday, sources here said today. The names of the cosmonauts were not revealed.
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  • 82 3 CANBERRA. Thurs (Reuter) Prime Minister John Gorton said tonight if the United States continued withdrawing troops from Vietnam. "Austra lia would not s tay there JNTIL LAST.*' He tdd a television Interviewer. "We would expect to be phased into such a withdrawal plan
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  • 371 3 LONDON, Thurs, (Reuter) Conservative Opposition members in Parliament last night pressed the Government about its military contigency plans after British troops have been withdrawn from Singapore and Malaysia by the end of 1971. They said troops, flown from Britain to the Far East at the request
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  • 97 3 HONG KONG. Thurs. (Reuter) Forty-four-year-old divorcee, Yolanda Schreyer, thought she was Just entering another ordinary contest when she filled in a form and mailed it off. Yesterday she got the biggest surprise of her life when she discovered she had entered a beauty
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  • 409 3 NEW DELHI, Thurs. (Reuter) India's Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, yesterday sacked four junior ministers in a surprise move to strengthen her administration and apparently weaken her rivals in the ruling Congress Party. The 51-year-old Premier sprang the surprise in letters asking the four
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  • 285 3 MOSCOW, Thurs, (Reuter) The Soviet Union yesterday signed an agreement to supply North Vietnam with wide-ranging aid, including arms, it was officially announced here. Soviet Prime Minister. Alexei Kosygin, and Premier Pham Van Dong of North Vietnam signed the agreement, which covered new
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  • 157 3 HONG KONG. Thurs. (Reuter and UPI) China today released another detained Briton. Captain Peter Will, who had been in jail since he was taken off his ship on the China coast in May last year. Captain Will, 46, crossed the border between Hong Kong and
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  • 607 5 IN a brilliant green evening outfit of Indian Silk Is Lady de la Mare, wife of the British High Commissioner in Singapore. A short blouse which opens in the front with a row of buttons is worn over a floor-length skirt also of Indian Silk. The
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  • 277 5 CHICAGO. Thurs. (UPI) Defender* of the rovrrnment's handling of the Vietnam war on Wednesday accused Moratorium Day demonstrators of aiding the enemy Many show cd their opposition by flying American flags or driving with their headlights on. Most of the "counter" activity took a verbal
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  • 266 5 BOSTON. Thurs (UPI) Sen Edward M. Kennedy called on the Nixon Administration on Wednesday to announce an "irrevocable decision" to withdraw a".l U.S. combat troops from Vietnam within onp year and support forces bv no later than the end of 1972. The Massachusetts
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  • 62 5 KARACHI. Thurs (UPI) The fanatic Jamat-I-Lslami Party demanded on Saturday that the US 'Time' magazine be banned from Pakistan for depicting Adam and Eve In the nude In a statement to the Press, the Amir of the Party. Sablr Hussain Sharafl. accused 'Time' In It* Oct. 3 publication of
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  • 426 5 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Ameriran students abroad, including 100 from President Nixon's alma mater, marched in several European and Asian capitals Wednesday in support of Vietnam Moratorium Day, Non-Ameri-cans stayed on the sidelines and most of the demonstra- Tions were orderly. Students fro m Whittier College
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  • 56 5 MOSCOW. Thurs (UPI) The Sovlei news agency Tass said on Wednesday's anti-Vietnam Moratorium was the greatest peace manifestation in America's history. "Millions of Americans across the country raised their vo:ces today in a mighty chorus of protest against the continuation of the Vietnam war." the agency said
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  • 62 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg yesterday called for a unilateral U.S. ceasefire in Vietnam and acceptance of the principle of a prompt withdrawal of all American troops. In a speech here on the Vietnam Moratorium. Goldberg also attacked President Nixon's argument that
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  • 301 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) Military officials must not let the armed forces be influenced by "those few in uniform who prefer gall to guts," Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Wednesday. Wheeler, who has Just returned from a visit to South
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  • 120 5 SANTIAGO Chle. Thurs fßeuter) Collaboration between American and Soviet scientists is becoming closer everyday and for the two nations to have indenticai space programmes would be illogical, leading Russian spare scientist Leonid Sedov said here. Prof. Scdov known as the lather of the Soutnik. to d re;a?t
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  • 228 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) Republican National Chairman Rogers C. B. Morton Wednesday repudiated a letter he signed calling for "sudden and major escalation" of the Vietnam war, saying it was misrepresented to him. Morton was one of 15 Congressmen listed as signers of a letter, circulated by
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  • 314 5 HOLLYWOOD, Thun. (UPI) The lieutenant of detectives signed: "Yes, Diane Linkletter knew Abigail Folger, and probably was an acquaintance of Sharon Tate." He added that Ed Durston the young man who was with Mtss Linkletter when she jumped to her death last week was a
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  • 113 5 LONDON Thurs. (UPI> The heir to the throne o* the kingdom of Great Britain has turned television interviewer. Well, almost Prince Charles will appear on British television early next year, interviewing Welsh farmers in his capacity as chairman of the Welsh committee of the countryside According to reports
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  • 88 5 NEW YORK. Thurs Router) Senator Eugene McCarthy said yesterday the Vietnam Moratorium was "the only effective way we have to change the eovernment." Sen. McCarthy. Interviewed at a Moratorium rally at Bryant Park, said the Moratorium was the first time such massive national demonstrations have be«*n tried to
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  • 145 5 NASSAU, Bahamas, Thurs. fßeuter) Frank Sinatra suddenly turned up In Freeport on Grand Bahama Island, bought himself a bright mod jacket and visited two casinos apparently unruffled by a warrant out for his arrest. The actor-singer arrived at Freeport on Tuesday with a number of guests and
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  • 120 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Thurs. <Reuter» An Investigation :nto an alleged police burBlary ring operating out of the Hall of Justic here, has led to disciplinary charges against three policemen. The probe **as launched two months ago following reports that about a dozen officers were stealing goods from
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  • 575 6 A SPATE of speeches, marches and demonstratlons sprinkled with a modicum of violence marked "M" Day or Moratorium Day in the United States. One is not quite sure what the meaning of "moratorium" is in this context as the word has almost alwajs been used more legally than in
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  • 343 6 A FOREIGN television chain is reported to be willing to pay big money for exclusive TV rights for inside shots at the world's first pornography fair in Copenhagen next week. The organisers say the offer is "so tempting it will be difficult to turn it down." The fair is
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  • PHOBIAS and coming to terms with them
    • 694 6  -  By Gamini Seneviratne (Gemini News Service) LONDON: The middle-aged woman at London's Waterloo station didn't seem to be looking at anything, yet she was looking everywhere. Her head jerked from side to side, her eyes constantly on the move as she stepped cautiously, sometimes
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    • 690 6  - Cars Must Be Tailor Made For 20 MPH Bermuda By RUSSELL GRIFFIN, (Gemini News Service) BERMUDA: It had to happen. Bermuda has got its first traffic light. I can just hear the island's preservationists remarking that this is yet another sign that we have surrendered more scenic appeal to that
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    • 719 6 LONDON: HAVE YOU PLANTED HAPPINESS? asks a psychologist Be honest with yourself in answering these questions and you'll find out. Life is really like farming you reap precisely what you plant. That's why It 1* tremendously Important to plant the right seeds all through life.
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    • 395 6 The Lighter Side By DICK WEST WASHINGTON, (UPI) Steady readers of this column, and probably even those who totter a bit need no introduction to the theory that skirt lengths reflect the state of national economy. The postulatlon that hemlines rise during periods of prosperity and
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    • 501 6 SPACE CENTRE, Houston: In a little mora than a year, U.S. Apollo astronauts will land on the Moon with the precision of a helicopter alighting on a pad, then drive off in a lunar Rover car to explore the surround* ing moonscape.
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    • 91 6 The human story does not always un fold like an arithmetic calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make Ave or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 499 7  -  By Our Market Reporter SLIGHTLY easier conditions prevailed in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday as general buying support was marginally withdrawn. Trading was moderate. Federal Paper Products again was the main feature as it found opening business at $2.30. Thereafter, operators moved in
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    • 949 7 T) USI N ESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1»000 units unless otherwise specified:• INDUSTRIALS C. SUGAR $4.30 < 8) $4 23 i 2'; DIM *4
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    • 134 7 Korea To Take Part In WorldWide Trade Fair SYDNEY. Thurs. (UPI) Korea will take part for the first time in the T JSS2O-miUion Fifth International Trade Fair which opens at the Showgrounds today. The display ha s been organised by the Korea Trade Pro. motion Corporation a government agency representing
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    • 307 7 NOVEMBER first grade rubber buyers closed tt 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 714 cents per lb., up five eighth* of cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was very quiet. The market ruled verv quiet and with a reserve
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    • 65 7 NEW YORK. Thurs (LPI I Rubber futures closed unchanged to 25 points lower on the New York Commodity Exchange yesterday There were (Close) <Prev) Nov. 28.25 28 25 Jan. 26 518 .75 26.75 Mar. 26.008 40 26 10 May 25.758 26 25 26.00 Julv 26.25 26.25 Sept 26
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    • 221 7 THE Port of Singapore Authority has announced the following berthing arrangements for ships in port today, Oct. 17 (Friday)— DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 5 Ph a Shwe Gyaw Ywa 8 '9 Elkman NW. 1 Serampang N.W 2 Serdang E.W. Jetty Giang Ann 24 Rajah Brooke 27 Usushio Maru
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    • 409 7 British 'Cars Of The Future Make Debut In Show LONDON, Thurs. Three British "cars of the future" made their debut at the preview of the London International Motor Show on Tuesday. The long, low futuristicallystyled trio has been produced for three separate reasons. British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC), which has
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    • 179 7 SYDNEY. Thurs. (UPIi Thursday's closing S>dney Slock l.xrhangc selected •hates:MINING Acmex 2.10 ASS Min 7.60 Austral Mia .36 Aust. Dev. .50 Barrier 2.20 BH South 405 C Norse 450 C Gold 8.0 CRA J7 59 Emper 1.70 Enaur .65 GM Ks'g 1 40 GT Boulae- 1 70
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    • 16 7 THE tin price for vesterday was 564 C 00 Per picul. down $0 121.-
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    • 104 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (I*PP Slock market averages frr.shed in both directions yesteiday a* profit taking restrained demand after two strong advances. At the close, the UPI market wide indicator was CP 0.42 per cent on 1,614 issues crossing the tape. There were 826 gains and
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    • 406 7 GRETA Gar bo wear* them. So do Dustin Hoffman the trapeze artistes of Ringling Brothers Circus and a fasnionconscious matron of blue-blood Boston society. They are all walking on clogs, solid wooden footwear out of Sweden's peasant past, almost as noisy as a
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    • 144 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI> Gold prices gained In routine trading yesterday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold rose 2-1/2 cents to 40.725 dollars at the morning fixing and remained at the level for the second fixing Gold In Zurich remained unchanged at
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    • 86 7 LONDON Thurs (UPI> Rubber market closed steady yesterday with spot 26-1/2, 27 nom SETTLEMENT HOUSE. Nov. 26-1/2, 27 nom. Dec. 2G-1/8, 26-1/4 Jan. 25-1/4, 25-1/9 Jan/Mar 25. 25-1/4 Apr /June 24-7/8. 25-1/8 July/Sept 4-11/16 25-15/1® Oct./ Dec 24-9/16, 24-13/16 Jan /Mar 24-1/2, 24-3/4 Apr./ June
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    • 205 7 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) The market drifted slightly at the close as buying support waned. Towards the clos-e the FT index was up 3.9 at 383.6 after an earlier rise of 4.3. Bats led equities higher with a 2/6 rise at 105-1-1 2. and gains of around
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    • 669 7 SINGAPORE ciiinrt aoio uO officially luted at buatneaa. other the eh Elpricjct MI af INDUSTRIALS ACMA B. 1*5 tm gi sL— 1 78 1 76 1-81 178 Boustead 1.95 1-99 C. Sugar C. Plj wood 424 i it 4 30 Chemical Co Cold storage 2 38
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    • 139 7 HONG KONG, Thun (UPI) Seven hundred employees of the President Hotel here continued their sit down strike yesterday to support their three demands before the American Hyatt International take over the hotel. A representative of the employees said they would stop their strike onlv
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    • 57 7 NEW DELHI. Thurs. (Router) India has signed an agreement with Rumania to buy 10 bulk carriers worth 240 million rupees (£13.300,000) from Rumanian shipyards. The ships are all of 15.000 tons. Nine are for the stateowned Shipping Corporation of India and the Moghul Lines and the
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    • 93 7 THE noon prices at the Slnrapore Chinese Produce t-xchanse yesterday were:Bnyer Seller Coconut OU (FOB.) Bulk 54 25 Coconut OU (F.O.B) Drum mm 5275 Mixed Copra Muntok vstute Pepper XI-AO (F O B mm 237 50 Sarawak White Pepper (FOB) ***** Sarawak Special Black Pepper <(.OJk) tM« Mff mm
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    • 5 7 (•Hone Konc Currency)
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI)— Dow Jone? closing averages on the New York Stock yesterday:— 30 Industrial* 830.00 20 Rails 197.39 15 Utilitie< 114.90 65 Stock r 279.7(1 40 Bond? 70.41] Commodity futures index 142 34 up 0.43.
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    • 456 7 ARRIVALS: 5 00am Mb A 029 K Lumpur 9 00 am. MbA 119 R. Lumpur. 10 15 a.m. MSA 121 R I umpur. 10 -5 a m. MSA 005 Penang. Ipoh. R. Lumpur, Malacca. 1.10 p.m. MSA 451 Rurhlnc. 2.25 p.m. M>A 04? Rota Bnaru. Trengsanu. R. Lumpur.
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  • 488 9  -  By Glorla-mae THIS IS no gossip column. I fear that most of you readers have mistaken the meaning of Tete-a-Tete Corner. Experiences of your daily life, including that wait at the bus-stop and what you had observed, what happens in the home with the children or
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  • 368 9  -  By K.S. Sidhu A BEVY of six pretty British girls and two striptease dancers have "raided" a leading night club here, where they will perform for the next 28 days. Billed as the "Les Jolie Belles", this swinging lively top show from Paris fresh
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  • 193 9 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) The tendon Philharmonic Orchestra wants to return to the Far East to help musicians in four cities there to form their own symphony orchestras, Eric Bravington the LPO's managing director said yesterday. Mr Braving ton told a press conference
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  • 618 9  -  Ann Landers DIAR ANN: I fell in i love with a very attractive 1 man whom I met at work. He has a charming peri sonality, makes a won--1 derful appearance and gave me something to i live for after
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  • 588 9  -  V#*#iI. i tiff <n Sheilah Graham TTOLLYWOOD. Thurs 11 If you have a babv without benefit of marriage I suppose that Is your affair and the baby's, always assuming the baby will be as strong-minded and unconventional as you are when it grows up
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  • 78 9 LOS ANGELES. ThuraGeorge Kennedy and Eii Wallaeh who star with Anr.e Jackson in MGM'c Freeman-Ender s Production "False Witness." have Llired recruitment-edu-cational television spots for the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department False Witness." directed by Richard Colla. produced by Robert Enders and Everett Freeman and written bv John
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  • 183 9 LONDON. Thurs (Reuter) The government yesterday turned down a Labour Member of Parliament's request to ban United States folk«inger Bob Dylan from Britain because bis performance lee was too high. Parliamentarian Marcus Llpton complained to Mrs. Barbara Castle. Minister for Employment and Productivity. that Dylan
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 255 10  -  By Big Ben OENANG, Thurs. Conflict, a course scratch- ing last week-end, did a sparkling workout on a soft track here this morning. With London Chimes for company they broke from the half mile to run the last 3f in 40 with Conflict finish- ing well
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    • 170 10 LONDON, Tburs. (Renter) Tom Cartwright, the former England all-rounder. advised his club, Warwickshire, of his decision to retire from flrst-daas cricket In a letter to Warwickshire Secretary. Mr L.T. Deakins, Cartwright said he would not be accepting the club's contract for 1970, Cartwright, 35,
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    • 98 10 LONDON, Thar*. (Renter) Cassius Clay. America's controversial ex-heavyweight champion of the world, was not the greatest. So said James J. Braddock. heavyweight champion from Jane 1935 to June 1937, when he flew into London yesterday to make a guest of honour appearance at the Anglo-Ame-rican Sporting
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    • 382 10 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Manchester City raced to the last eight of the English Football League Cup with a 2-0 win over League pacesetters Everton last night. England forwards Colin Bell and Francis Lee scored the first half goals that proved decisive for last
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    • 58 10 PERTH. Scotland. Thurs. (UPI) Ann Jones. Britain's Wimbledon Women's singles champion now reinstated as a player under British rules, her professional contract having finished, won her first match In the Dewar Cup covered court championships easily yesterday. She won the last 10 games in a 6-3. 5-0
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    • 2264 10 SATURDAY Raee lx CL 6 Div, 1-Sft P—*-30 (MB. (94.500) 1. 702 Bright Eyes IV 8y 9 00 Rodgers Rsjoo 2 2 51S 8 12 Samsuri Shaari 8 3 931 8 11 Teh P K Leong 12 4 237 Better Lock 8v 8 11
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    • 350 10 PERTH. Thurs. (Reuter) The Australian cricket team left Australia yesterday on a 22-week tour of Ceylon. India and South Africa. Under captain Bill Lawry the Australians will play five Tests In India and four In South Africa. Since Bob Simpson's side suffered
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    • 31 10 SEOUL. Thurs. (Reuter) Australia drew 1-1 with Japan in a World Soccer Cup qualifying match her® today. Halftime: 1-1. Scores: Japan Teruki Miyamoto (five minutes). Australia Tommy McColl (39).
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    • 51 10 MELBOURNE, Thurs. (ATP) Bob Stanton, a youn« New South Wales professional turned in a brilliant five under par 68 for a two stroke lead at the end of the first day of the first day of the WiU s International Masters golf tournament at the Victoria Course here
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    • 65 10 Tb* Singapore Teachers* Union wil: hold a series of basketball tournaments from Saturday to Get 28 at the PeoP i A. ,socl ®tion Headquarters in Kallang The tournament, open to teachers from all government and government-aided orimary and secondary schools of the four language streams, is on nightly
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    • 160 11 ENCHE OTHMAN WOK. Prnidtnt of Hi* Smgaport and Sports Council, yesterday replied to the New Zealand Badminton Association President criticising the behaviour of Singapore Coach Wong Peng Soon and Thomas Cup team captain Wee Choon Seng during the Thomas Cup-tie at Christchurch on Sept. 13-14.
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    • 956 11 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) A wild throw by relief pitcher Pete Richert in the 10th inning after Ron Swoboda saved the game with a diving catch in the ninth, gave the New York Mets an exciting 2-1 victory yesterday over the Baltimore Orioles and
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    • 269 11 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Rhodesia will not compete in the Commonwealth Game g In Edinburgh next year. Mr. William Carmichael. Director of Organisation for the Games, told a press conference here yesterday that the Commonwealth Games Federation had issued an instruction not to Invite Rhodesia
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    • 123 11 ELMIRA. New York. Thurs. (Reuter) British race car driver Graharr. Hill last mfht released from Amot-Og-den Hospital where h* had been treated for serious leg injuries suffered in the united States Grand Prix 11 days ago The 40-vear-old Hill suffered a triple fracture of his
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    • 66 11 The Soon Chin* basketball team wrj the overall winners of the Junior Youth Basketball Cup Tournament held at the People's Association HQ Kalians Sports Centre recently. The tournament was organised by the Basketball Association of Singapore for players within the age limit of 15years Kampon# Kapor Community
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    • 67 11 HYDERABAD. India. Thurs (Rftuter) Rain washed out the second day's play today in the third cricket Test here between India and New Zealand Tomorrow it a rest day in the flve-day match, so weathe r permitting New Zealand will resume their fir*t innings on Saturday with
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    • 135 11 J A C K S O N. Mississippi. Thurs (Reuter) The Mississippi Athletic Commission have unanimously rejected an application by former champion Cas«ius Clay to fight in the State The three-man commission sa:d they could not permit anyone to box who was not in food
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    • 61 11 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Sweden lest night became the eighth country to qualify for next year's 16-nation world Soccer Cup finals when they beat France 2-0 in the decisive group five qualifying match. England, the holders, end Mexico, the hosts, qualify automatically and Belgium, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay end El
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    • 428 11 CLASSIFIEDS... CLASSIFIEDS... WATTEN ESTATE PHASE n CAUrORMA TTPE latere* Garden Bungalow at 44 m BuAit Timah Road. <opp Ch:neee High Scnoo :> apaciou* compound 5-rooms. 3-halla. 3-bal-ccniM. facing Watten Estate p-opo»ed Public Park Ele\ated hilltop, high-claa* reiiaential area rood free, only 5 minutes drive to city. Luxurious fitting* Freeh* d
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    • 409 11 TENDER NOTICES P.W.D. SINGAPORE TENDERS are invited from PWD registered contractors under "Supply of Mechanical Equipment" for the following:— SME. Tender No 50 89 Supply and delivery o? Heavy Earth Moving Machines viz:— (a) 3 Nos. Crawler Angledozer (b) 2 Nos. Tractor Scraper (c) 2 Nos. Front-end Loading Crawler Loader
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    • 576 11 C.S.O. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS for the supply and delivery of the following items are invited by the Chief Supplies Officer. Singapore and close at 12 noon on the dates shown: Closing Dates 1. Metal Furniture for Schools 29-10-69. 2. Office Metal Furniture 29-10-69 3. Case Sheet Folders 29-10-09 4. Minute
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    • 120 11 TENDERS TENDER NOTICE TENDERS to opera t* the Airport Staff Canteen Catering Concession with effwt from Ist January 197® for a period o# three year* will be received at the OfTW of the Director of Civii Aviation. sth Floor Operations Block. Singapore 19. up to 12 NOON On NOVEMBER 19«9.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1156 11 (CHANNEL 5) P M 300 Opening Announcements in all Languages A* Morning Star; 320 Woman's World English; 350 A Diary of Event? :n Singapore This Week English; 355 It's Happening in Singapore English; 4 10 Scarlet". Hill Hole in the Skv <EPs. 4 A 5». 455 C'ose; 555 Prof Summary
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  • 228 12 THE Transport Advisory Board is attempting a study of the possibility of introducing a uniform system of bus fares. The Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, disclosed this at a recent Parliament sitting. He was answering a question from the MP
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  • 95 12 Two persona were killed in fatal road accidents on Wednesday. One of them was a 60-year-old Chinese woman who was pronounced dead on arrival at the General Hospital She was hit by an automobile on Collyer Quay. She has not been Identified and was carrying Joss sticks
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  • 112 12 Many requests for tickets to the special Recital of Sacred and Classic Music at the Victoria Theatre last night by Dr. F. Springmann and team have been turned down due to limited seating capacity. The sponsors, the Singa-pore-'Malaysia Council of Christian Churches, who refuses to disappoint the many
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  • 123 12 SINGAFORE scouts are preparing to use the airwaves to meet some of their 12 million brother scouts around the globe in sconting' s unique "Jamboree-on-the-Alr" commencing from Oct 18 to 19. The programme includes a message from Mr. Chu Chui Lum. the Chief Commissioner, exchanges of scout friendship
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  • 22 12 The Office of the High Commissioner of India will be closed on Monday, Oct. 20 in observance of the Desshera festival.
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  • 323 12 CAMPAIGN THE Health Ministry's house-to-house survey* during the second week of this month has found that more than 21 per cent of the 6,432 premises visited to be breeding mosquitoes. In almost all the premises where there were mos-quito-breeding grounds, they comprised of
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  • 142 12 THE Minister for Defence. Mr. Lim Kim San. has disclosed that there were a total of 369 traffic offences involving drivers of Singapore military vehicles and the public for the first nine months of this year. He disclosed at the recent Parliament sitting that of
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  • 55 12 The National Museum has set up an exhibit on the "Hornets of Singapore" in response to public inquiries. Recently, two persons were stung to death by hornets in Singapore. One of them was a YMCA youth leader, a girl,, who had accldently stirred up a hornets' nest in
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  • 328 12 IF THE Singapore government could negotiate with European countries the removal or reduction of quotas and tariffs on manufactured garments, they could be exported in large quantities to Western Europe, Mr. A. P. Jessen, Managing Partner of Jebsen and Jessen, said Wednesday, Mr.
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  • 98 12 SINGAPORE is currently participating in the Second Asian Trade Fair held in Teheran, Iran. The Exhibition Stand of the Republic is organised and manned by the Trade Division of the Ministry of Finance. The exhibits cover a wide variety of Singarpore-made products, ranging from silk, textile, refrigerators to hair wigs,
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  • 230 12 MALAYSIA-SINGAPORE Airlines, yesterday inaugurated its Singapore Bali service with 53 passengers on board its Boeing 737. The "VIPV on the flight included 20 guests of MSA; 15 travel agents and five journalists. Mr. David Craig. Managing Director of MSA was also on the flight. At Denpasar
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  • 126 12 THE Political Secretary to the Minister for Education. Inche Ghazali bin Ismail, will open a four-day meeting of international educationist* in Singapore next Tuesday. The conference, to be held at the Ministry of Education's premises here, will be the sixth meeting of the Steering Committee of
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  • 157 12 Three unlicensed graves have been discovered at the SAFTI New Camp in Tanjong Goal during an earth levelling operations. Police are anxious to get In touch with the relatives or friends of the dead so that they may be reburled at the Chua Chu Kang Cemetery. The
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  • 232 12 TENNIS star, writer and a popular radio commentator, Mrs. Eileen Larsono, 57, left for Jakarta yesterday afte* spending seven days in Malaysia collecting material for her forthcoming novel, "The Java Sparrow." Mrs. Larsono. who had graduated from Peking University before the Second World War.
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  • 223 12 Police are investigating the death of an American uo*nan who fell to her death from the 15th floor of Helel Equatorial Wednesday night. She was identified as Mrs. Truth Wellins. 43. wife of Dr. Howard L. Wellins. and she was a member of a partv of American
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  • 59 12 Thirty-three American cankers arrived in Slneapnre yesterday tor a four-day visit after attending the ajj*nual American Bankers Association Convention at Honolulu. The convention had catered to 13.467 bankers in the Untied State? and about a 1.000 of them are now touring various parts of Asia. The group
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  • 116 12 The Senior Mechanical Engineer of Public Works Department, Kallang. has ordered an auction of 98 lot* of confiscated, unclaimed, rerelict and used motor vehicles. plants and stores on Oct. 21 and 22. The auction will be held at Nos. 4 and 4-1 Collyer Quay on Oct. 21. On
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  • 37 12 THREE International Labour Organisation experts will arrive In Singapore tomorrow to attend a four-day seminar on electronic data processing which begins next Tuesday, Oct. 21. They are Messrs RO. Boyce. J.B.D. Dey and JP Meyer.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 137 12 TOTO DRAWS THE following were the numbers drawn in the Toto draw: 23. 14. 11. 43. 37 and additional number Is 16 The three extra numbers drawn were 7. 30 and 36 The Toto draw No. 53 was drawn at the Broadwav Hall staee. New World Amusement Park, last nleht.
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