Eastern Sun, 6 January 1970

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    23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY VV Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1228 Tuesday, 6 January 1970. ft MC(P) 1016 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon QUAKE ROCKS SOUTH CHINA
    294 1 HONG KONG, Mon. (Reuter) China maintained silence tonight on a severe earthquake which rocked the southern province of Yunnan and touched off speculation here that the mountain city of Kunming had been hard hit. The Royal Observatory here said the epicentre of the "potentially destructive" quake
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    Lock icon THREE LEBANESE PRISONERS FREED
    194 1 TEL AVIV, Mon. (Reuter) Israel has freed three of the 22 Lebanese prisoners it took in weekend border raids. Observers here considered the mov> as a goodwill gesture intended to show Lebanon that the rest of the prisoners would be re'eased a$ soon as an Israeli
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    49 1 DID you read about the world's greatest gate-crasher? Or did you read about "Boxing's Baddest Boy" in yesterday's issue of your Eastern Sun. Whether you did or not, you must not miss reading the exciting story about 'The Battle on a Soccer Pitch" apoearing on Page 11 today.
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    Lock icon Thai Reds Kill Policemen
    69 1 BANGKOK. Mon. (UPD A band of Thai Communist terrorists killed a policeman and wounded another in an ambush In Pattalung province. about 450 miles south of Bangkok, official reports reaching here said today The reports said the terrorists opened flre on the flve-man patrol police on
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    Lock icon Zambians Cross To Rhodesia
    170 1 SALISBURY. Mon (Reuter) Rhodeslan security forces said today that a party of terrorist* from Zambia had crossed the Zambezi River into Rhodesia and shot up a police patrol boat. A communique issued by security force headquarters said the incident was being Investigated. The communique said: on
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    Lock icon Brown Confers With Nasser
    88 1 CAIRO, Mon (UPI) George Brown. Deputv Leader of Britain's rulln? Labour Party, conferred with Egyptian President Gamal Abd*i Nasser Sunday, hours after urging Egypt to *ake the lead In searching for a peaceful settlement in the Middle East. Nasser's meeting with Brown author of tne 1967
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    Lock icon Meos, Reds Join In N. Thailand
    114 1 BANGKOK. Mon. (Renter) Rebel Meo tribesmen and Communist guerrilla* have Joined forces In North Thailand to form small well armed bands. Interior Minister Gen. Praphas Charusathlen said today. Praphas. Just back from an Inspection tour of the North, told reporters that teenage Meo rebels
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    37 1 JAKARTA. Moo (Reuter> President Suharto will visit Malaysia late thi 5 rear. Foreign Minister Adam Malik said today. "The dat« of the visit has yet to b« set," Malik told reporters after talkg with the President.
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    128 1 LONDON, Mon. (UPh A pigeon-egg-sized "ruby", centre stone of Queen Elizabeth's imperial state crown, is not a ruby at all, a gem expert said yesterday. The red stone has been in the royal family for 600 years and allegedly was worn by Henry V at the Battle of
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    Lock icon These men under the keen eye of an Army official are not handling "mini missiles", but two 9-inch shells, each weighing 380 pounds. These shells were presented by the 3 Base Ordinance Depot to the Singapore government for the proposed museum of Jurong Town Corporation, to remind Singaporeans of the guns that once protected the island from invaders. Sunpix by William Ng shows the men trying to load them on to trolley.
    72 1 These men under the keen eye of an Army official are not handling "mini missiles", but two 9-inch shells, each weighing 380 pounds. These shells were presented by the 3 Base Ordinance Depot to the Singapore government for the proposed museum of Jurong Town Corporation, to remind Singaporeans of the
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    Lock icon Agnew Holds Talks With Nepalese Prime Minister
    336 1 KATMANDU, Mon. (Reuter) United Stotes Vice President Spiro Agnew today met Nepal's Prime Minister Kirti Nidhi Bisto, for wide-ranging talks centering on aid and international issues including China, Vietnam, and the Middle East. Agnn»w told reporters after the 45-mlnute meeting that the United
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    Lock icon ALL QUIT SHIP OFF MALAYSIA
    181 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. All personnel on board the Esso drillship "Discoverer II" were safely evacuated when the vessel ran into trouble in the sea northeast of Kuala Trengganu today. ine dril-shtp. belonging to Esso Exploration Malaysia Inc.. was located approximately 85 miles northeast of Kuala
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    Lock icon Heath Due Tonight
    75 1 British Opposition leader Mr. Edward Heath will arm> tonight for a «-hoUr visit to the Republic. During his brief stay here he win have discussions with the Prime Minister. Mr. L*e Kuan Yew the Financ* Minister. Dr. Qoh Keng B*ee. British officials, and military chiefs. Mr. Heath
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    Lock icon Ceylon Floods
    56 1 COLOMBO Mon. <Reuter) Ceylon s Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake was told today that 200.000 people in the "eastern province Batticaloa district alone were affected by last week's floods The Prime Minister was on his second tour of areas ravaged by floods which claimed 54 lives and caused damage
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    Lock icon U.S. Secret Service Men Invade K.L.
    114 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.'— American secret servicemen have started pouring into the Federal capital here ahead of the U.S. Vice President, Spiro Agnew's scheduled threeday official visit to Malaysia. The servicemen who have begun arriving here today will make security arrangements for Agnew and his
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    Lock icon TET TRUCE
    67 1 BAIGON. Mon. (Reuter) The Vletcong today announced they would observe a four-day ceasefire during Tet (Lunar New Year) next month. The guerrillas* clandestine radio said the truce would begin at 0700 Saigon time on Feb. 5 and end at the same time on Feb. 9. The radio said
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    Lock icon Thai Pilots
    63 1 SAIGON. Mon. (Reuter) The United States and Thailand has signed an agreement to allow Tnai pilots to gain combat flying experience in American helicopters in South Vietnam, the U.S. Command said today. The agreement was signed by Major-Gen. Allen M. Burdett Jr., Commander of the U.S. First Aviation
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    Lock icon Probe Into 'Censorship' Of US Forces' Networks
    398 3 SAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) U.S. Military Command has ordered an official investigation into allegations of censorship on the armed forces radio and television network. The news announcer who startled television viewers with the allegations Saturday night told reporters yesterday that he had been warned
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    Lock icon Flexible Policy By Japan's Reds Now
    298 3 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) —The Japan Communist Party, which scored a marked gain in the recent general election, is expected to embark a more flexible and realistic road to further bolster its strength, the Public Security Investigation Agency said yesterday. In a report on Communist
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    Lock icon Tiddlywinks Record
    90 3 LONDON. Mon <Reuter) A new woriH record was claimed hei> last night hv eight schoolbovs who have spent "4 hours flipping ♦iddlywinks (small discs the size of a coin) into a jar. The previous record wa* 83 hours and after reaching this, the London schoolboys earned on for
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    Lock icon Colour TV Breakthrough
    71 3 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter> The Soviet Union has invented a gadget to convert black-and-white television into colour. Radio Moscow claimed yesterday. The radio said the device was fixed In front of the set and provided stable colour on an unusually brilliant screen measuring five-and-a-half by seven inches. The
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    Lock icon World's First Mini Digest
    64 3 CALCtTTA. Mon (Reuter) —An Indian language monthly, claimed bv its publishers to be the smal est in the world, made its first appearance in bookstalls and news stands on Saturday The mini magazine in Bengali Is about the size of a packet of 20 cigarettes. Named
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    Lock icon V-C Attacks Kill 12 In Refugee Camps
    175 3 SAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) The casualty toll from yesterday's Vietcong mortar attack against two refugee camps near Danang has risen to 12 killed and <2 wounded, the United States Command said toaay. About 40 mortar shells crashed into the camps destroying 11 corrugated iron
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    Lock icon Licking The Problem
    119 3 LAGOS. Mon. <Reuter> Women with lipstick have been barred from taking holy communion at some Lagos churches. Church officials fear frayed marriages and broken homes if husbands return home from church with lipstick traces from the chalice round their mouths. One church leader. Rev. Jonathan Seremi Adeniyl,
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    Lock icon Crew Of Grounded S'pore Ship Safe
    112 3 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) A'l 3" crewmen were rescued safe and sounn tocav after their freighter, the 4.880-ton •Fortune Trader' of Singapore, went aground in South Japan last night The coastguard said the crewmen had managed *r> lani on rocks On the coast of Iki
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    Lock icon The French Arms Embargo's Double Standards: Israel Raps The French Treatment Of Gunboat Case
    461 3 JERUSALEM. Mon. (Reuter and UPI) The Israeli government yesterday instructed Foreign Minister Abba Eban to work towards improving relations with France and said French arms embargo had a damaging effect on prospects for peace in the
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    Lock icon THE 'INVISIBLE' INDON GOVT.
    476 3 JAKARTA Mon (Reuter) Three army Generals stand unseen behind Indonesia's President Suha rto, guiding him through difficult policy decisions and helping him run the country. President Suharto, himself a four-star General trained in military theory and practice rather than politics, has relied on friends he can
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    Lock icon 16,258 Die On The Road In Japan Last Year
    180 3 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Traffic accidents killed 16.258 Japanese in 1969 for a new national record, the police agency announced today The figure was 2.002 lives higher than the 1968 death toll of 14.526. All but two of Japan's 47 provinces showed
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    Lock icon Drop Of Sex Crimes After Legalizing Pornography
    202 3 COPENHAGEN. Mon. ;UPI> Criminologists yesterday cautioned against crediting a drop in Danish sex crimes during 1969 to the new laws legalizing the sale of pornography. Overall. 1969 sexual crimes In Denmark dropped 31 per cent from 1968 figures But deputy police chief Christian
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    Lock icon 30 Czechs Defect In Milan While On Tour
    114 3 MILAN. Italy. Mon (UPI)— Thirtv Czechs tourists, including seven women, marched to Milan police headquarters yesterdav in a group and requested political asylum. Authorities said the group w-as scheduled to return tc Prague by air todav after Christmas tour of Genoa Florence
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    Lock icon Air Hostess Exposes USSR Spy Plot
    297 3 BONN, Mon. (Reuter) A young airline stewardest helped western intelligence agencies to uncover Soviet plan to use international airline personnel to carry secret material, according to a report published yesterday by the mass circulation, "Bild Am Sonntag." The report, which could not be officially
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    Lock icon SHOOTING IT OUT
    63 3 BEIRUT, Lebanon. Mon. (Reuter) Three men died and a fourth was seriously wounded here yesterday during a quarrel over a dead game bird. Police here said the men. all hunters, spilt Into two groups and began firing on each other when an argument developed over ownership of
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    Lock icon Dullsville
    31 3 LAGARDELLE France, Mon (Reuter) Nothing happened In this tinv South France commune (population last year no births no deaths, no marriages nothing, nothing. At least that's what official statistics say.
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    Lock icon Skidding Car Kills 5 More In Funeral Procession
    170 3 VERCELLI. Italy. Mon. (Reuter) Five people leading a funeral procession Into a cemetery were killed yesterday and about 20 injured when a car skidded into them. Those killed included the parish priest, two altar boys, a sexton and a woman whose son
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    Lock icon Inquest Begins Probing Crime In Cause Of Mary Jo's Death
    529 4 EDGARTOWN, Most. Mon. (UPI) The inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopeehne will aather oil available information obout tha accident whieh took hor lifa and tnr to determine whether Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, or anyone elte, wo« criminally responsible
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    Lock icon HE SAVE HIS PANTS -AND HIS BABY
    126 4 WARWICK. England. Mon. (UPI) Donald McGin>y saved hia twonnooth-old son Gerald from a smoke-filled biasing farmhouse yesterday —but onlv because he had forgotten his ©ants McGinley. 39. hi» wife Cynthia and their other seven children all ran from the house when they saw
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    Lock icon NON-STOP READING OF BIBLE
    87 4 OLENDALE. Calif. Men. (Reuten A non-stop raiding of the Bible ended here after 87 hour* and 46 mlnutea of continuous reading Eighty-one reader? took part in the marathon which began at midnight on New Year's Eve and ended yeaterdav afternoon. The read-In was organised by the
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    Lock icon NEW PESO
    80 4 BUENOS AIRES. MOO (tTIi Banks opened their donn today for the flrsrt time in Ave davj to put into circulation a "New Peso" that represent* the (overwnenfg determination to eep the nation's money hard The New Peso 1* worth 100 times D much a* the old one and
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    Lock icon Paper Strike
    30 4 BALTIMORE. Mon. (Reuter> Negotiator* for striking printing press operators and Baltimore three strikebound newspapers agreed today to resume talks tomorrow in an effort to nd i three-day-old stoppage
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    Lock icon U.S. Holiday Traffic Toll
    115 4 CHICAGO. Mon. (UPI) The first four-day holiday of the New Year entered its final hours yesterday with Americans dying at a rate of four an hour in traffic accidents A National Safety Council spokesman said If the present trend continues. "We'll be in the very low
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    Lock icon U.S. Jobless May Increase
    80 4 WASHINGTON. Moo (Reuter) President Nixon'® chief economic adviser yesterday warned that the administration's anti-inflation drive would possiblv mean lower profit* and higher unemployment Paul W. McCracken Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, asked in an interview oubllshed by US New s and World Report about
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    76 4 SAN CLEMENTE. California. Mon (UPI) President Nixon and hi* family flew to Palm Spring* on Sundav for a leisurely overnight stav at the luxurious estate of Walter H Annenberg U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. Going alon* with the President were his wife Pat. daughter Trlcia and his close companion.
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    Lock icon Humphrey On Chemical War
    107 4 CHICAGO. 1111. Mon (UPI] Former U S Vice-President Hubert H- Humphrey said yesterday continued use or chemical warfare by the United State* will le* v or than honour of the I B at stake" "This is more than a question of America's image or of the
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    Lock icon U.S. TO STUDY BRITISH FINDINGS ABOUT 'PILL'
    350 4 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) U.S. health officials soon will begin analysing data which convinced British medical authorities that women using certain birth control pills run greater risk of serious, some- times even fatal/ blood-clotting. Jesse L Stemfeld. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health. Education and
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    Lock icon Drifting Ship To Be Sunk
    135 4 PEAFL HARBOUR. Hawaii. Mon (UPP The Navy said Sunday the drifting, explosion wrecked "Badger State' would be sunk by gunfire from a seagoing tug. Officials said Instructions came from Adm Thomas H. Moorer. Chief of Naval Operations. to sink the vessel by using "maximum safety
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    Lock icon Fingerprint Linked To Hippie Cult Murders
    250 4 LOS ANGELES, Tues. (UPI) Documents sent to Alabama for use in extradition proceedings ogainst Patricia Krenwinkel, indicted here on seven counts of murder in connection with the Sharon Tate slayings, reportedly disclosed that Miss Krenwinkel's fingerprints were found at the muratr scene. It was
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    Lock icon Transplant
    55 4 PALO ALTO California, Mon (Reuter) William Van Buuren. a 40-y»ar-old builders' hardware estimator, has become the flrat person to receive a new heart in 1970, StaMordUr.iversitr Medical Centre reporter yesterday Van Buuren. a father of three, received hi» new heart In a four-and-a-half-hour operation performed last nlfht by Dr.
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      Lock icon Take Colour Pictures At Night (Guide III): Exposures.
      490 5  -  NowFotorama Trains Its Camera To Sea Side Shots by WSF In taking colour pictures, the exposures are very important. An incorrectly exposed negative will not result a good colour balanced picture. Photographers who belong to the average group of KNOW HOW TO
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      Lock icon CONTEST A-12
      349 5 IHE PRIZES Ist PRIZE: $3OO CASH VOUCHER 2nd PRIZE: $lOO CASH VOUCHER 3rd PRIZE: 50 CASH VOUCHER Plus Certificates of Merit and one roll of AGFACOLOR CNS each to the next 10 best entries THE RULES I. To Participate tMi contest, alt you heve to do Is te
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    Lock icon Electro 35GT Gets Coveted "G" Mark
    503 5 In addition to the high praises showered by dealers and users alike, the elegant, black-finished Yashica Electro 35GT Gold Mecanica has lately been selected for another big honour— designation by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry as a "Good Design" item. Accordingly,
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    Lock icon HEATH'S VISIT
    485 6 BRITISH Conservative Party leader Edward Heath arrives here today after a triumph at the Sydney-Hobart yachting classic and brief trips to Indonesia and Malaysia. Perhaps this has not been primarily a political trip for Mr. Heath but he has taken the time to discuss with political leaders in
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    Lock icon ISRAEL'S SPECTACULARS
    353 6 WHILE the Israelis have thumbed their nose at the United Nations Security Council resolution and have given two hoots for world opinion that they must return occupied territories to the Arabs, it is impossible not to admire them for the spectacular international "robberies" they pull off. There can
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    Lock icon 'SELLING' RACIAL HARMONY-VIA ADS
    725 6  -  By PETER WATSON Gemini News Service LONDON, Racial jok«» and bottles of tomato ketchup are among the technical p.op* used by some of London's leading advertising agencies in a bold campaign designed "to promote racial harmony." Advertising techniques can do a lot to help ease Britain's
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    Lock icon S'pore's Abortion Law
    501 6  -  lean MRS. R. KOPPA Singapore It was with deep regret and sorrow that I read the news in the "Eastern Sun" that the Abortion Law was passed. Regret and sorrow for all the babies who6e lives will be ended by human hands. Regret and sorrow for the
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    Lock icon Still No Light In The Dark Continent
    689 6  -  By BERNARD MELUNSKY LONDON, (Router) For Africa, the 1960's were the decade in which the slumbaring giant awoka from centuries of colonial rula. New nations with new names burst onto the world scana with bewildering rapidity, giving political independence to mora than 200
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    Lock icon The Problem Of Priorities
    738 6  -  By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON, Figures are always depressing. Yet a few figures are essential to anyone who wants to understand the grinding problem of priorities that now confronts a worried President, a muddled, self-indulgent Congress and. indeed, every one of us who are Americans. ITEM: In
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Little Buying Interest Marks Stock Exchange
      301 7 THE Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday eased on profit-taking oyer a broad front. There was little change in the pattern of trading as operators had little buying interest. Initiative was kept down to the minimum with the popular speculative industrials marginally lopped
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1000 7 BUSINESS 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 Acma $2.18 (1) $2.20 (2); Alcan $lB6 (3) $1.87 (9> $l.BB (10) $1 89
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      Lock icon Philippines To Import $100m Cattle Stock
      307 7 MANILA, Mon. (UPl)—Wim for Hit Philippines to import 50,000 hud of braiding cattle from Australia or Indonesia art txptcttd to bt submitted to President Marcos for approval by the end of Hiis week. The scheme Is to cost an estimated US$lOO million to be
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      Lock icon Japan Studying US Textile Proposals
      199 7 TOKYO. Mon (Reuter) Japan is carefully considering new United States proposals for a five-year agreement restricting exports of Japanese textiles to America, a government spokesman said today. For this reason Japan was unable to meet an American request to immediately resume their preliminary textile talks
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      Lock icon Japan To Run Air Charter
      125 7 TOKYO. Mon. <Reuteri All Nippon Airways <ANA), a privately owned Japanese domestic carrier, said today it plans to inaugurate an international chartered air service this autumn With Boeing 727-lOos. ANA may operate short-haul chartered nights U Asian cities Including Hong Kong. Taipei, Seoul and Bangkok,
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      Lock icon U.S. Can Up Agriculture Exports
      255 7 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) Improved economic activity in areas Including Western Europe and Japan will help US. agricultural exports rebound to a total of more than US$6 billion for this fiscal year \grlculture Department economists predicted today. Economists Dewaln H Rahe and Joseph R Corley said
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      Lock icon Japan Waiting To Buy S. African Ore
      117 7 TOKYO, Mori. (Reuter) The Japanese steel industry is ready to buy a large amount of iron ore from the South African Iron and Steel Corporation (ISCOR > tf it s Iron mines development pan approved by the South African government, the Fuji Iron
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      292 7 The Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthine arrangements for ships in port today Tuesday 6: DEPARTURES Godovns Vessels 3 4 Chitral Kashima Mary 8/9 Philippine Mail Garrybank 15/16 Benstac Straat Colombo 21/22 Rajah Brooke 31/32 Ungkal Maru No. 6 35 36 Clytoneus 38 39
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      Lock icon BOAC Offers 'Antique Safaris' In A Rolls Royce
      248 7 LONDON: Antiqua hunting "ufirii" through England by Rolls Royca ara boing offered to ovarsaas daalart by BOAC and tha Antiquas in Britain Organisa- 1 tion. Daalart' sociatias in Japan, th« USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa hava already axprassad intarast in tha
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 70 3/8Cts.
      313 7 January firat «rade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur vesterdav at 70-3/8 cents per lb., up one eighth of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was slightly steadier. Opening business was about one cent higher than Friday's
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      Lock icon Sydney Closing Prices
      136 7 SYDNEY, Mon. (UP I) Monday', dosing Sydney Btock Exchange (»eleeted tiaras): MINING Barrlc r 1.40 Bh Smith 870 C Noret 7 00 C Gold 10 60 CRA 24.00 Empey 1.40 Endur .00 Gm Kalg 1.15 Gt Bould 4.90 Kath Inv 190 K Karrpap .70 Lakp View S
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      Lock icon London Stock Market Surge In December
      142 7 LONDON. Mon- (UPl)—Business on the stock market continued to surge ahead in December paced by brisk trading in British government bonds, official trading figure* showed Monday. Turnover In stock* bonds and shares reached 3.03 billion pounds (7.27 bil'ion U.S. dollars) an increase of more
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      72 7 HONG KONG. Mon (UPD— Monev Quotations Monday:— HK $6.***** per U S dollar HK $6.0625 oer US. dollar TT HK 514.49 per pound sterling HK $279,375 per tael o* gold 94.5 pe r cent fineness. HK $l6O 5 per 10.000 Japanese Yen HK $109.5 per 100 Philippine peso?
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      Lock icon Tin Price
      14 7 The tin price for vesterday was $636 23 per oicul. down -$l.OO-
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      Lock icon Slock Exchange Closing Prices
      643 7 SIS GAPOIF—Stock Iiehanre Mid oilier price* omciall? listed it the closa of business. I>DL ST RIALS ACMA Alcan Hen A Co. 2-0 1M 1.71 Borneo Bhd 1 111 Boustead Co. C. Pi?wood 2 04 5 »-06 >40 C. Suitrt 408 4.10 Jc 1M 1 2 48
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      127 7 THE Association of Banks In Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes In Its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency) BELLINO T.T. or O.D. ready: Deutsche Marks $83.8675; Holland Guilders $85.4525: Swiss Francs $71.6825; Belgian Francs $6.2375; French Francs $55.6750;
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      83 7 THE noon puma at pore Cbinne ntxJoe* )Mt«rdkf wer*> Coconut Oil (FOB-) Bulk Coconut Oil (FO 9) Dram Mixed Coon tHe BJngai inebange nje» fceilav (WOO 8100 17.00 Mnntok White Pepper (FOB.) 19X00 Sarawak White Feppei rr.n.R.) r 192 SO Sarawak «pwU| fltao* Pepper IF-O-B-) 9%% 142 50 lampong
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      77 7 (Manager*' Pricea for Jan- 03 (HAKTERLD UNIT TBL81 Growth f und 1-00 U1 At»u unit TRimra Mai. Invest, mod ISO 1-40 DIMMPORE I'M IT TMOT» lit Malayan xd I* tnd Malayan xd 104 3rd Malayan l-t» The Com. lad xd 103 l-l« The Sav Pnnd. 1 Oft 1
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      93 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) A local garment firm. Smart Shirts Limited, ig issuing 1.25 million shares of HK$ 3.00 for sale to the public. Each share, which will be so'.d at HKSIO will receive a dividend of 90 cent® this vear, sccordlng to a prospectus for
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      400 7 ARRIVALS 5 00am MsA vtv K Lumpur 900 am MsA lit* K Lumpur sua.m UAKIUA UAVSS Jakarta 1018 am. MsA 121 R Lumpur 10-28 a.m. MSA 005 Pana n g. Uoh. Kuala Lumpur, alacea 100 pm MAS aKv7i Copenhagen. laibkrot. Bangkok. LlO p.m. MSA 481 Kuehlnc 1-30 pm.
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      331 8  -  by Masako Susuki, Gimini FOR the average Japanese male, Christmas is synonymous with getting drunk and merrymaking dressed in the national costume. For the average female, it is an occasion for a special traditional hairdo and to sport a special plastic flower to
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      138 8 TOKYO. Moil. (Reuter) Three out of four Japanese youths want to travel abroad while young, according to a government survey. Nearly 4,000 unmarried men and women between the ages of 15 and 24. were Interviewed during the recent survey. The survey showed that 76 per cent
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      384 8  -  ANGELS IN THE SNOW by Penny Sanger, GEMINI NOTHING separates the old from the young In Canada like snow. Generation gaps may come and go. but that first snowfall one gloomy day in November will go on for ever (vagaries of the polar ice-cap permitting). The old.
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      361 8  -  by Hezekiah Wepukhulu, GEMINI. ON the sands of the Kenya Coast washed by jade waters of the Indian Ocean, African and Arab children spend the hot and dry season splashing in s» —ming matches and races along the beach. Up-country many Kikuyu youngsters
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      117 8 DATELIKE: DANGER! fay John Saunders and AkJenMcWliams TOOV SENDS HIS GREETINGS AND PEGPET3, WfcNCfy' IT SEEMS TWEPE'S A BLOND WHOTIS THE SEASON TO BE MERI?// DAN LET'S HOPE yOUR PARTNER "NJOSTHE HOLIDAY/ r m Va M TO EACH HIS OWN .'OL'DAN WILL SETTLE POP A NCE QUIET DINNER WITH YOU
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      17 8 AMY By Jack Tippit W J think the generation gop means grown-ups have more money than kids**
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    545 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: Your esteemed counsel appears in the Bangkok press and I pray for a swift reply. Forgive please my English, Madame It is not my best language. Americans do not realise their luck in having no worse marriage problem than the eternal triangle. Life
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    927 9 SHOWBUSINESS it, in faet, the biggest business on campus today, owing to students' thirst for both entertainment and education. Live performers range from singers and dancers to lecturers, and nearly all are welcomed to campus by educational authorities who see entertainment as part of the development
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    584 9 OVER the past ten years the whole pattern :n the glove Industry within the Federal Republic has changed drastically Whereas In 1957/58 10 million oa:rs of leather glove* were produced, 1967/68 saw this .igure drop back to 5 5 million pairs The reason behind
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    460 9 Frankfurt Main (INB). Statistically it has long baen shown that ehamical fibres or "man made fibres" as the Americans appropriately describe them belong to tha future! In 1968, the production of chemical fibres in Germany rose by 25 per cent to reach 621,000 tons. Synthetics
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    249 9 SINCE the last war the foundation garments industry In the Federal Republic of Germany has gone from strength to strength The reason benind this isn't so much the often cited "German lndustrlousness" or even the "economic miracle" but Instead a long overdue revolution in women's underclothes.
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      Lock icon Marcos Stops Govt. Aid To Sports
      336 10 MANILA, Mon. (AFP) Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Has touched off a nationwide uproar with his decision to suspend govern-ment-sponsored sports competitions during 1970. President Marcos took the unprecedented measure to minimise government spending in keeping with his administration's economic austerity programme It immediately sparked
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      140 10 LONDON. Mon (Reuter) The draw for the English Football Association Cup fourth round to be piayed on Saturday, January 24. was made here today as follows: Sheffield Wednesdav vs Scunthorpe United; Middlesbrough v s York City or Cardiff City; Southampton vs Leicester Citv Nottingham Forest
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      391 10 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) World featherweight boxing champion Johnny Famechon of Australia and challenger Fight, ing Harada of Japan hoth said today they were confident of victory in tomorrow's title fight in Tokyo Famechon won their first clash by one point in Sydney last
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      99 10 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter> The Golden World Soccer Cup the Jules Rimet trophy has left England for Mexico, scene of the next World Cup final series between May 31 and June 21. The Cup has been Insured for £5.000 following its theft and recovery just
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      238 10 MELBOURNE. Mon. <Reuter> Victoria scored a convincing outright Sheffield Shield win over South Australia here today, when they won by six wickets with a day to spare For the first time in Melbourne the umpires invoked the new rule which allows for a half
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      119 10 TAUPANGA. New Zealand. Mon «Reuter> Btuart Jones. 44-year-old New Zealand amateur, scored a shock win in the NZ$5 000 < £2.300) Spalding Masters golf tournament here today. Jones flred a five-under-par 65 In the final round to finish one stroke ahead of Australian professional Barry
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      85 10 HOBART Mon. <Reuter> South Australian twins Chris and David Tlllett won the world Cadet yachtln* championships after sailing to victory in the seventh and final "race here vesterday. The Tlllett twins won five races and were placea second and third in the other two
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      57 10 NEWCASTLE. Mon. <Reuter» Ronnie Potgieter the South African Rugby Union tighthead prop, is to return home next year because of a knee Injury. It was announced here yesterday. Potgieter was Injured In last Saturday s match against South-West counties at Exeter. Springbok manager Corrle Bornman said
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      706 10 MINNEAPOLIS. St. Paul, Mon <UPI) Scar-faced Joe Kapp. cool and confident on an icy field, ran for on touchdown and passed for another Sunday to lead the Minnesota Vikings to the National Football League championship with a 27-7 route of the Cleveland Browns. It
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      340 10 OAKLAND. Mon. (t*P|) F.mmitt Thomas. a fourth year pro from Bishop Collate, set uP a second half touchdown and a field toal a pair of Intercep tion* yesterday to end three years of frustration for th» Kansas City Chief* with a 1?-* victory over
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      217 10 THE Managing Director of Jackie's Bowl. Mr. Herbert Lim Eng Kwan, has been awarded a commendation certificate for kit "personal special efforts and enthusiasm in fostering the development of the sport of bowl- ing in Singapore." The certificate was awarded by Mr. Rodnev C. Gott. Chairman
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      15 10 IX>NDON. Mon. (Reuter) Results of vesterday's Rugbv League match. Vork 5 Hudder«fleln 25.
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      183 10 PRETORIA Mon. tßeuteri The Australian cricketers are expected to go all out for runs when they open their three-month tour of South Africa with a three-day match against North-eastern Transvaal here tomorrow. Tne Austrauans nave made only one change from the tpam which beat
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      838 10 Weights For Ipoh WeekEnd Races IPOH. Moo Fallowing ar e weighty fo p the week-end races here: SATURDAY Claas 5 DIT. 1 81 Furs. Stay Free 9.02 Lord Carrig 8.10 Pacific 8 08 Asian Prida 8.05 Chaichana 805 Red Tulip 8 05 Gypsy 8.05 Aramanda 8.03 Super ago 8 01
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      299 10 SYDNEY. Mon. (Reuter) A fine bowling performance by young leg spinner Kerry O Keeffe and a good Innings of 158 by batsman Tony Steele today gave New South Wales a good chance of outright victory in the Sheffield Shield match against Queensland. At stumps today Queensland
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      1037 11 Strange Stories Of Sport (3) The world of of stories.... but there are none stranger than those in this third of four articles by Alan Hart. WITH so much in. ternational honour and repute involved, it is surprising that most World Cup games are played in
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      306 11 Hockey Tourney BOMBAY, Mon. (Reuter) India <Dark Bluet) crushed Italy 6-0 in the preliminary tingle-pool League match of the seven-nation hockey tournament here yetterday. w The Dark Blues fielding six Olympic players and the stronger of the twc Indian teams In the tournament, scored three
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      Lock icon Noor Wins Keppel Club Caddies Title
      183 11 MOHD. Noor bin Awang Chee (H'cap 10) shot a 3938 =77 to win the Keppel Club Caddies "Handicap" Championship with a nett-67 after a countback from Leman bin Buane (H'cap 5). A caddy for 10 years, this tournament was Noor's first victory although hv
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      166 11 LONDON M-n. ißeu'er) 1 Leading English Cup and League fOcre r gn»:»ror*rs: DIVISION ONE 15 Jeff A»tle (Wf«t Bromwich Albont, Pete r Osgood 'Chelsea* Jr> Rovl e (Evfrtor< 14 Colin Bell 'Manchester Citri,j Geotgp Be s t >Manch«bter United», Hugh Curran tWoL ver'iampton Wanderers*. 13
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      82 11 THE Jets Sports Club will hold a Big Walk from Chye Kay Community Centre to Ahmad Ibrahim Integrated Secondary School, on Jan. 18, at 700 a m There will be three sections for members the men's under-16 and over-16 and the women's. For non-members, there
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      72 11 AUCKLAND. New Zealand. Mon (Reuter) Auckland batted stubbornly to force a draw with Central Districts In their Plunket Shield cricket match here yesterday. The Shield holders, needing 324 in 293 minutes for victory. were 251 for eight at the close, but could have been in deeper
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      Lock icon Australian Cricketers 'Did Not Play The Game' Charge
      625 11  -  By R. C. Pande NEW DELHI, Mon. (UP!) The touring Australian cricket team, many Indians say, did not play the game. That charge, the ultimate crime in a sport steeped in a tradition of gamesmanship. is the most common answer given by
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      103 11 ARCACHON France. Mon (Reuter) Fifteen players and spectators were hurt here yesterday when a minor club ru(fby union match developed into a general brawl. Arcachon and their viaitors Saint Medard En Jalles, were meeting in a top of the division clash and after several stoppages
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      63 11 BRISBANE Mon (Reuter) Withering above century temperatures helped Australlan professionals to easy victories over European players in the A$lO.MO (£4 666) lawn tenni» tournament here yesterday. John Neuvombe beat Yugoslav Nlkki Pllic 6-2. 6-3 and Tony Roche took only 45 minutes to beat Dutchman Tom Okker 6-4. 6-1
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      1078 11 (CHANNEL St sW) PM. Opening Annrts in all Languages and Morning Star 3 20 woman's World (Malay) 3 45 A Diarv of Events In Singapore This Week < Malay* 3 50 It's Happening In Singapore (Malay —repeat» 4OS Peyton Place with CHjnese subtitles 455 Clo»e 6.05 PM. Opening Anncts in
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    Lock icon Presentation Of Souvenirs To Museum Unnecessarily Delayed
    520 12  -  By K.S. SIDHU THE presentation of two vintage shells used once by the Coast Guards to protect Singapore from seaborne invaders for a proposed museum in Jurong almost did not come off yesterday when two government officials at first refused to accept them
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    219 12 THE destiny of South-east Asia is not to be determined by any single nation but by nations in the region working out a common approach to problems to maintain peace and stability, Mr. Diosdado Macapagal, former president of the Philippines, said before leaving Singapore yesterday. He said
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    Lock icon Stole Books From Sister
    134 12 LIM Chee Hwa, 18. was yesterday charged In the Ninth Magistrate's Court for stealing his younger sister's school books which totalled $33 50. On Dec. 17 at 2.00 ptn. his sister Lucy Lim placed her books on a shelf a t home and found them missing
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    79 12 The Ministry of Education yesterday announced the 1970 dates for the National Language Examinations. The April examination, which begins on April 13. is confined to civil servants whose service conditions require them to sit for the examinations. The dates for registration will be announced through departmental circulars shortly.
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    Lock icon ONE of Singapore's three Scouts at the Second Australian Senior Scout Venture held at Nunawading near Melbourne, Yeo Aik Khoon (second from left) swaps badges with two Australian Seniors. More than 1,500 scouts from Australia and Asia are attending the venture and taking part in a wide range of activities including rock-climbing, caving, brick laying, and gliding.
    57 12 ONE of Singapore's three Scouts at the Second Australian Senior Scout Venture held at Nunawading near Melbourne, Yeo Aik Khoon (second from left) swaps badges with two Australian Seniors. More than 1,500 scouts from Australia and Asia are attending the venture and taking part in a wide range of activities
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    Lock icon Charged With Possessing Silver Sword
    146 12 A two-foot long silver sword used by temple mediums to Inflict wounds on their backs was produced In a court yesterday during a case In which man was tried for possessing an offensive weapon The sword was shown after Lee Kim Toh, 25. pleaded guilty
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    72 12 Two National Servicemen were both sentenced to three months In Jail, by the Fourth District Court, yesterday, for being absent from training. They are. Yong Kin Fatt and Ong Gin Poh. Yong was absent from the Vigilante Training Corp* centre at Buklt HO Swee Secondary School from
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    105 12 Tai Yung Neuk wa» fined SISO or must serve one month in jail at the Tenth Magistrate's Court, yesterday, after he oleaded rui'.tv on a charge of having in his possession a copv of an obscene book. 'Teenage Price-'' Inspe-tor M Amaldasa. prosecuting, to'd the court
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    Lock icon X-Ray Urged For Jurong Residents
    273 12 THE Chairman of the Jurong Town Residents' Association, Dr. Chau Sik Ting, last night called on the people in Jurong constituency to have a chest X-ray even though they think they are not suffering from tuberculosis. He was speaking at the opening ceremony of Singapore
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    75 12 The Singapore Sweet* Draw No 1/70 will be held todav at 630 o-m. at the Cultural Centre. Canning Rise. Judges for the Draw are Mr M Ba'a Subaramamam, Postmaster General; Mr. Chan Kam Yau Chief Reporter of the Eastern Sun. and Mr. Wong Teck Chow, a Singapore Sweep
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    125 12 THE 14,000-ton liner, Chitral, which has brought nearly 10.000 tourists to Singapore since 1961, leaves for U K. for the last time this evening. The departure of the liner will also mark the termination of a 134-year regular P O passenger servica between the U.K. Europe and the
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    272 12 THE winning numbers for the Toto Luck) Drow on Jon. 4, based on the serial numbers printed on the coupon are: Ist Prize: *****1 Ford Capn GT 1600; 2nd Prize: *****7 Mazda 1200 Saloon; 3rd Prize. *****6 Vauxhall Deluxe. 4th Prize: ***** Grundig Radiograms. sth
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    203 12 INSURANCE companies have a very promising future ahead, considering the fast-ex-panding economy of the Republic, said Mr. K. Mizusawo at a press conference yesterday. Mr. Mizusawa. Chairman of the Tokio Marine and Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. of Japan, arrived here Sunday night for a three-day stay.
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    114 12 THE Blood Transfusion Service yesterday appealed to the donors to come forward to help build up an adequate reserve of Group O blood. The reserve blood stocks on the whole have fallen slightly over the past week from 728 units to 697 units, yesterday morning,
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    84 12 A 35 YEAR-OLD housewife Madam Neo Kwai. who had been ill since the past two year# was yesterday found drowned in a well ne*r her home at Lorong Bajak. off Jurong Road. Her husband Mr Poh Chenf Chee recovered her body Poh told th# police that his wife
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    127 12 THE Council of Representatives of the Port Workers* Union appointed a caretaker committee after accepting the resignation en bloc of the Central Committee of the Union at. an extraordinary meeting held vesterday. The meeting also resolved to: Call on the care-taker committee to review all decisions
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    85 12 Police are appealing for eye-witness in two hit-and-run road accidents in which ♦wo pedestrians weie rushed to the General Hospital, where their condition was described as not serious. The first accident took place at 5 p.m. when a motorcycle. knocked. Long Fook Seng. 18. along Aljunled Road. Th#
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      86 12 Time 6c Tide TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 3.05 a m (53 ft.); 846 a.m (91 ft 1 348 p.m (0.9 ft.); 11.02 p.m. (8 5 ft.) NAVAL DOCKYARD: 3 09 am. (6.2 ft 8.45 a m (109 ft 3.26 p.m. (16 It.); 1101 p.m (10.3 ft.} TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN 3.57 am.
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