Eastern Sun, 22 December 1969

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1215 Monday, 22 December 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon THE 60s
    184 1 BY any standards the Sixties was a furious disturbing decade. REMEMBER? The world was almost plunged into the cataclysm of a nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was in the Sixties that man went to the moon and it also became the decade of the Miniskirt
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    Lock icon Jordanians Sentenced
    83 1 AMMAN. Sun. (UPI) Fourteen persons have been sentenced to and two others to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for trying to overthrow the regime of King Hussein, official sources in Amman said Sunday. The sources said the accused four of them Jordan Army officers belonged to the
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    Lock icon Rabat Summit Meeting Opens
    397 1 SCATHING ATTACK ON U.S. RABAT, Sun. (UPI) The Fifth Arab Summit Meeting called to mobilize a!i Arab potential against Israel opened today with an attack on the United States as "standing in the position of an enemy to the Arabs." The attack came from Sudanese Chief
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    Lock icon Indonesia Denies Pro-Sukarno Plot
    183 1 JAKARTA, Sun. (UPI) Indonesian government sources today denied the existence of a plot to restore ex-President Sukarno to power. The sources said the recent arrest of Gen Mursjid. former Indonesian Ambassador to the Philippines, was not connected to any new plot linked with Sukarno The sources
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    Lock icon Bomb Blasts In New York
    130 1 NEW YORK. Sun. (UPII Three bombs exploding only minutes apart «»arly Sunday damaged a lower Manhattan department store and a Puerto Rican bank and the offices of the Puerto Rican Commonwealth. There were no injuries reported In the blasts which caused only minor damage to
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    Lock icon Obote 'Not Too Serious'
    108 1 KAMPALA. Sun (UPI) The Uganda government today withdrew most military p«tro! s from the streets of the capital and cancelled a curfew intended to prevent tribal riotin z over the wounding ot President Milton Obote by a gunman on Friday Obote. 44. a socialist who has
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    Lock icon Catroux Dead
    47 1 PARIS Sun. (UPI) Gen George s Catroux. one of France's most distinguished soldiers of the century, died Sunday at the ase of 92 Catroux who was retired, fought in North Africa, the Middle East and Indochina during a militarv career that spanned nearly 50 years.
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    Lock icon Joint Police Effort Busts Gang Who Robbed Payroll
    439 1  -  By K.S. SIDHU SINGAPORE and Malaysian police co-operating in a joint operation have crippled a notorious gang of robbers responsible for last month's $140,000 payroll grab at the Public Utilities Board and the murder of a PUB labourer. The two day operation
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    Lock icon Woozy Sheila Scott Here For One Hour Recouping
    645 1  -  By OOI ENG CHEANG A DAZED and confused Sheila Scott. Britain's top woman pilot, made a successful landing at the Singapore Flying Club in Paya Lebar International Airport, in the small hours of the morning yesterday (8.15 a.m.). An hour late, refreshed
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    Lock icon Amateurs Rob 1,000 Watches In K.L.
    204 1  -  By K.H. YAP KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. More than 1.000 good quality watches worth about $lOO,OOO were stolen by '•amateur" burglars who broke into the Robinson's Departmental Store in Jalan Mountbatten early this morning. Police believed that the burglary took place shortly after the night-duty
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    96 1 BANGKOK. Sun. (UPI) A comedy team of Bob Hop© and Astronaut Neil Armstron? rehearse-i here today for its debut before American Gls In Vietnam Although punch lines were as classified as the site of the first war zone performance. Hope said his comedy routine with the first man
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    Lock icon Probe Into Alleged Bid On Indira's Life
    474 3 NEW DELHI, Sun. (Reufrer) —The Indian government has ordered a confidential enquiry into an alleged plot to murder Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, usually well informed sources said here today. The allegations appeared in the left-wing Daily Patriot yesterday which attributed the plot to
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    Lock icon Less GI's Die In 1969 In V-nam
    170 3 WASHINGTON, Sun. (UPI) Barring an upsurge In the fighting during the Christmas week, the number of Americans kil ed In action in Vietnam during 1969 will be approximately 3.000 less than in 1968 This would be a decrease of just over 20 per
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    Lock icon Bob Hope Show In Thailand
    115 3 BANGKOK. Sun. (Reuter) American comedian Bob Hope will stage his "Operation Holly" Christmas show tomorrow for American airmen at the B-52 base at UTapao. 110 miles south of Bangkok, with first man on the moon Nell Armstrong as one of the star attractions. Hope, who
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    Lock icon Protestors Impeach 3 Deputies
    269 3 SAIGON, Sun. (Rfuter) About 4,000 demonstrators today burned effigie s of three Lower House deputies who have oeen accused by President Nguyen Van Thieu of having had contacts with the Communists. The demonstrators, mainly Catholic refugees from the North, gathered in Bien Hoa. a centre for
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    Lock icon FREE FOOD FOR INDIAN CHILDREN
    113 3 NEW DELHI. Sun (Renter) The ruling Congress Party executive yesterday decided that a national tax should be levied to raise funds to give free food to children from birth up to the age of Ave. Mr. C. Subramaniam. interim president of Premier Mrs Indira" Gandhi's
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    Lock icon White Tiger Dies In Zoo
    135 3 NEW DELHI. Sun. (UPI) The father of the world s first and rare white tiger succumbed Friday to paralysis in its bind parts. Reports said veterinary experts from Bombay and New Delhi failed to save the 19-year-old tiger called "Mohan" in the former princely state
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    Lock icon Rumour Denied
    50 3 SAIGON. Sun. (Reuter) An American military spokesman today denied that General Creighton W. Abrams. U S Military Commander in Vietnam was being replaced. "Sooner or later someone is going to be right because he can't stay for ever The latest rumour originated with an American broadcasting network report.
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    Lock icon Full Alert For V-C Offensive
    123 3 BAIGON. Sun. fßeuter) The US and South Vietnamese commands today reported only sporadic fighting in South Vietnam, although troops remained on full alert for a predicted Vletcong offensive. Intelligence sources said Vletcong attacks could be expected during the four days from Friday to Monday during
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    Lock icon BANK CONSORTIA TO HELP THE PHILIPPINES
    225 3 MANILA. Sun. (Reuter) The Philippines has successfully negotiated for trade credits with banks in Japan, Europe and the United States, according to President Ferdinand Marcos. The President In a television interview last night told newsmen "A consortium of banks is being organised In Europe.
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    Lock icon INDO-PAK BORDER FIRING
    144 3 CALCUTTA. Sun (Reuter) —East Pakistan border forces opened fire on Indian territory at Bamangola. 170 miles North of Calcutta, today for the second time this vear, an official India n spokesman said. (Last March three Indian border policemen were reported wounded. The Indian side replied and later
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    Lock icon Newspaper Penalised
    73 3 SAIGON. Sun. (UPl)—The government yesterday closed down a major Saigon daily newspaper for 15 days for publishing a cartoon "insulting" the South Vietnamese Armed Forces. The newspaper is the Hoa Blnh (Peace Daily) which has a circulation of about 40,000. The cartoon which the government found offensive show,
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    Lock icon Meir Cabinet Meeting Today
    270 4 ISRAELI-US RELATIONS: JERUSALEM, Sun. (UPI) Premier Golda Meir has called a special cabinet meet tomorrow "to discuss the latest developments in Israeli-American relations," the Government announced last night. The announcement said Mrs. Meir decided to call the meeting in view of Foreign Minister Abba Ebans' impending
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    Lock icon She Frightens Her Away?
    60 4 ROTTERDAM. Sun. (Reuter) A new 253,000-ton Dutch Super tanker, "Esso Nederland." launched herself here yesterday breaking her blocks and gliding down the slipway before the christening ceremony could take place. The wife of the President of the Esso Nederland Company, Mrs. H.E.H. Baarlmaas, boarded a boat
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    Lock icon He Walks 900 Miles On Artificial Legs
    118 4 LAND'S END. England. Sun. (UPI) Norman Croucher completed a 900-mile walk across Scotland and England on artificial legs yesterday, drank a beer and wondered who might want to climb Europe's highest mountain. Mount Blanc, with him. Croucher. who lost both limbs under a
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    Lock icon FISHY MYSTERY
    164 4 LONDON. Sun (AFP) Something very fishy is go- j ing on 100 ft beneath the gold, grey waters of the Atlantic Ocean Someone is playing classical music and talking in English. French and a language which strongly resembles Russian The strange sounds have been heard only a short
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    Lock icon Son Hates Father's Love Affair
    525 4  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: Our teenage son recently discovered that his father is having an affair. Barry spotted his father's car in the alley behind Mrs. X's residence He decided to wait and make certain it was his dad who was in the house and
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    Lock icon Solzhenitsyn's Explusion: 39 Dissidents In USSR Protest
    245 4 MOSCOW, Sun. (Reuter) Thirty-nine Soviet dissidents yesterday protested at the expulsion of novelist Alexander Solxhenitsyn from the Soviet Writers' Union, describing it as "another manifestation of Stalinism/' The qroup included historian Pyotr Yakir, son of a Soviet general killed in a Stalin purge.
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    Lock icon Bonn Replies To E. Germany On Better Relations
    144 4 BONN. Sun. (Rruleti >\ est German President Gustav Heinemann yesterday replied to a letter from East German leader Walter Ulbricht to round off seven day# of intensive political activity between the two estranged states. Presidential State secretary Dieter Spangenberg drove into East
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    Lock icon BERNARD ENGAGED
    102 4 JOHANNESBURG. Pun (Reuter) Heart transplant pioneer Professor Chris Barnard 47. and his teenage Banc** offlciallr celebrated their engagement at a private party here last night "and well be letting vou nave the wedding date soon he said. "But it certainly won't be thla year." said Professor Barnard at
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    Lock icon US Plans 12 Unmanned Satellites During 1970
    313 5 CAPE KENNEDY, Flo. Sun. (UPI) The U.S. Space Agency plans 12 unmanned satellite launchings in 1970 with all but three of them designed to expand earth communications and to improve weather forecasting. Only fwo of the automated spacecraft will have scientific jobs and
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    Lock icon Rusk Will Teach In Georgia U.
    149 5 ATHENS. Ga Sun. (UPI) University of Georgia President Fred C Davison confirmed last night he has recommended the appointment of former Secretar" oi a Dean Rusk to the faculty of the university. Davison said hp has formally asked the Georgia Board of Regents to
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    30 5 TELLICO PLAINS. Tennes (Renter). Mrs Mary Smith, aged I°4. has dlei here leav.rvg <»0 direct descendants two daughters, four sons. 43 grandchildren. 19 great grandchildren and 22 great-great grandchildren..
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    Lock icon Rev. Charged With Rape
    94 5 TULSA. Okla Sun. <UPT> Authorities issued a warrant yesterday for the arrest of a 51-year-old Baptist minister charged with "the first degree rape of several young glrLs" at an orphanage where he was director. The Rev. Floyd D sutterfield was suspended along with a custodian by
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    Lock icon Anti-Poverty Bill Okayed By Congress
    222 5 WASHINGTON. Sun (Router) Congress approved and sent to the White House yesterday for President Nixon's signature a two-year anti-pov ertv Bill minus a controversial amendment restricting free tecaj aid '®r the poor. The BTI provided the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) which administers the »nti-poverty
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    Lock icon Castro Cuts Sugar Cane
    104 5 HAVANA. Sun 'Reuter* Cuban Prime Minister Fie Castro "e-terdsv joined fire Srjth Vietnamese guerrillas and five North Vietnamese worker* for a morning'.; rarecutting to honour th«» ninth anniversary of th#» founding of the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front Wearing a broad brimmed straw hat. Cast ro
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    Lock icon Hijacked Plane Back Safely
    96 5 SANTIAGO. Chile Sun (UPI) 7" C^ lean Airlines (LAN) Jet hijacked to Havana on Fri. csy by a young extremist *nned with a pistol, knife an,* stick of dynamite returned to Chile yesterday with 73 passengers and 10 crewmen The hijacker Patricio Alarcon Romas 23. a
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    Lock icon Female Fagin Gets 5 Years
    106 5 NEW YORK. Sun. (UPI) A 70-year-old, grandmotherly "female fagin" was sentence,! on Fridav to five year* Imprisonment for «ellin* heroin and other dangerous drugs to children. Minnie Towns pleaded guilty to the criminal selling of drugs in State Supreme Court Justice John R Starkey denied
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    Lock icon Kenny Sargent Dies At 63
    104 5 DALLAS Texas. Sun. (UPI) Kennv Sargent, a crooner almost as well known in the golden age of popular music as Bin? Crosby and F rank Sinatra, d'.ed in a Dallas hospital earlv yesterday <>f a heart attack He was W. Sargent went to the hospital
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    Lock icon Most Wanted
    63 5 WASHINGTON. Sun, (UPI L Hohimer. 41. one of the FBl's ten-most-wanted-rrimmals was arretted yesterday in Greenwich Conn., the Justire Department announced Hohimer. who al egerily robbed a Denver Colorado Miljoraire at gunpOfait o! a K r> 57 000 U S dol'ars in jewellry. cash and money orders on
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    Lock icon EXPECTED RED OFFENSIVE FAILS TO MATERIALIZE
    315 5 SAIGON. Sun. (UPI) Communist forces failed to initiate large-scale attacks Saturday on the ninth anniversary of the founding of the National Liberation Front (NLF). allied military communiques showed. American and South Vietnamese forces had been alerted to expect stepped up activity on the anniversary,
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    Lock icon NIXON CONFERS WITH ABRAMS
    297 5 WASHINGTON, Sun. (UPI) President Nixon has conferred privately with Gen. Creighton W. Abrams. his military commander in Vietnam who returned home for an unannounced visit, the White House said Saturday. Press Secretary Ronald Zlegler said Abrams spent about an hour with Nixon and his National Security
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    Lock icon Honolulu Hit
    36 5 HONOLULU. Sun fUPI> Th:rTy-foot waves drove more tnan ion persons from their homes yesterday, before 8n 18. hour assault by giant surf ü b. sid«d. I There xer» ro reports of j major damage
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    Lock icon NIXON'S TIMING
    559 6 rpHE partial lifting of the trade ban beA tween the United States and China was beautifully timed. It is not of any major importance to the trade between the two countries because it is only a small step whereby foreign subsidiaries of American firms are allowed to trade
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    Lock icon THE TWO GERMANYS
    244 6 CHANCELLOR Willy Brandt's government has been in office only two months but it has probed eastwards already to seek large-scale negotiations with Russia and her satellites in Europe. Talks are already underway in Moscow on the mutual renunciation of force and Brandt has proposed to Poland to
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    1349 6  -  One Giant Leap For Mankind By IAN RIDPATH Gemini News Service THREE and s half years after Sputnik I beat the world into space. Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to loop the Earth. Washington was shattered. "What can we do?" a worried President Kennedy
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Trading Perked Up During Week
      769 7 The weekly market review Trading perted U p in the Stock Exchange of Malay- iriT"* past week on speculative activity and some investment buying. Widespread improvement w a registered in industrial, which was considerably steady for the better pert of the week. Blue chips and
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      Lock icon Tokyo Hamburgers
      82 7 TOKYO Sun (UPI) Toshoku Ltd. of Tokyo announced yesterday It will set up a joint venture shortly w;th a leading British foods'uff firm for the franchise sal® of hamburgers In Japan. The new company is called "Toahoku-Wimpy Co." with Britain's ven (about UB- initial capital. Wimpy, a subsidiary
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      Lock icon Industrial Spending In U.K. High
      300 7 LONDON. Sun (UPT) Capital by British Industry AH the up trick thlg week. But on the other aid* of the ledger, official statistic* a.so showed that industrial production turned down In October, probably due to strikes In mid-December the number of unemployed wss climbing af
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      Lock icon 'Merry Christmas'
      72 7 NEW YORK. Sun. (UPI) The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Friday announced that It expects to handle nearly 9.4 million long distance calls on Christmas Day. The company spokesman said the 9 4 million anticipated domestic Christmas calls represent an increase of 16 per cent over last year
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE-INDONESIA IN BUSINESS BOOM
      964 7 UPI Special JAKARTA, Sun. (UPI) Business it booming again between Indonesia and Singapore. Following a decade of confrontation and follow-up reverberations, trade across the southern Malacca Straits has surpassed previous levels and continues to climb. Either government reveals official figures, but private estimates place Singa-pore-Indonesia trade
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      Lock icon US Wheat For ROK
      57 7 SEOUL. Sun (UPl)—South Korea has decided to Import 300.000 tons of wheat from the United States on a 12month deferred payment basla. The U.S. Commodity Credit Corporation will supply the wheat on terms that Its cost will be repaid in 12-months at an interest rate of
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
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      Lock icon Aerial View Of Expo
      85 7 TOKYO: A bird's-eye view of the exposition site at seen from fh« top of the Expo Tower. The ground has a total space of 3,300,000 square metres. The white building on the leftside of the picture is the United States Pavilion. The black domeshaped structure in
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      Lock icon PI Embargo Won't Hit Food s And Medical
      176 7 MANILA, Sun. (Reuter) The Philippines has announced that Its foreign exchange reatrlctions will not apply to food and medical Imports. The Central Bank of the Philippines announced that dollars would be available for food Importers and they could continue operating open accounts.
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      236 7 MIS ING When you're drfvfng down the road and your car engine stops, it's easy to tell if you're out of fuel. There's a gauge on the dashboard that says 'empty'. But it's not the same with medU cines. When something is missing in a medicine, there's no gauge to
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    Lock icon PICTORICAL SOCIAL ROUND-UP
    589 8 WRAF's Twin 21 W.R.A.F. twins Margaret and Kathleen Townsend. serving at Headquarters Far East Air Force at CHangi really did get the keys to the door, when they celebrated their 21st birthday recently. Now that they are "of age" each has a key to the W.R.A.F. quarters
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL TEN DOLLARS ESSAY WINNERS
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      Lock icon No Hippie Culture For S'pore
      252 9 'TODAY'S student is tomorrow's citizen." This reminds us that students have a responsible and active role to play ir their own country. The hippie movement is absolutely misleading in ar>. advancing country like Singapore Singapore needs industrious citizens and not hippies. If all the students
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      Lock icon READING MAKES THE FULL MAN
      314 9 READING, even though it is sometimes treated as a relaxation for enjoyment has many other benefits. As the saying is "Reading maketh a full man." To live more fully is not merely to have a few moments of delight. Choice reading material is important. It
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      Lock icon How A New Dress Becomes A Piece Of Old Rag
      212 9 I was bom in a tailor's shop and I was soiled by my mistress. She *er.t me straight to a washerwoman This washerwoman was a clumsv and selfish woman and did not behev> i n using any bleaching powder or
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      Lock icon Service Without Fanfare
      822 9 ALL of us have experienced, at times, the warm glow that cornea from doing a good deed and getting credit for It But there la a special kind of satisfaction that comes from doing good and keeping It secret. Thos" who practise this higher altruism are connoisseurs
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      Lock icon Autobiography Of An Elephant
      502 9 The world seemed awkward to me when I was born. I was frightened, cold, wet and feeble. She left me in my grass bed to look for food. I waited feeling hungry and cold. I cursed myself for coming into the cruel world. She came back
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      Lock icon Economic Use Of The Honey Bee
      676 9 THERE are over threequarters of a million species of insects of which perhaps only two can be regarded as of economic importance to man the silk worm and the honey bee. The honey bee has Been known since prehistoric times and Its economic value
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      270 9 Students'" CTUDENTS arc reminded that they can continue to send in their essays during the final-term school holidays. Winning entries will be published, as usual, in the Eastern Sun every Monday and Thursday during the school holidays. Winners of essays will receive their cheques through their respective principals when schools
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      83 9 AMY By Jack Tipprt "I wish all boys were as easy to get along with as Archie is." DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Alden McWliams BUT I'D FEEL A LOT BETTER IF THE OLD MAN WAS COMPLETELY OUT OF THE PICTURE/ MArßt WttL APRANGfc TO HAVE NOBLE LEAVE THE
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  • SUN SPORT
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      Lock icon Piper First To Land On Aussie Soil
      569 10 DARWIN, Sun. (Reuter) A cavalcade of small planes droned towards the north Australian coast today as the London-Sydney air race moved into its final phase. Competitors were still leaving Singapore when a Piper Twin Commanche, flown by two Australians, became the first aircraft
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      Lock icon Clark Stops Dunlop In Ninth
      283 10 AUCKLAND. New Zealand, Sun. (UPI) Henry Clark. Californlan heavyweight boxing champion, beat British Empire light heavyweight Champion Bobby Dunlop of Australia by a technical knockout In the ninth round at Carlaw Park here tonight. Clark, weighing 208-3 4 pounds, knocked down Dunlop (190 pounds) twice
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      Lock icon Close Of Play
      49 10 BANGALORE. India. Sun '(Reuter) —South Zone, leading bv 44 runs on first innings, were 13 for two in their second innings at the close on the their threeo i the. AustraliaelewSwteri here today. Scorer* South Zone 239 for nine declared and 13 tor two, Australian* ISS.
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