Eastern Sun, 22 January 1970

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    22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1244 Thursday* 22 January 1970. <& MC (P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Firing Squad For Five In Baghdad
    180 1 BEIRUT, Wed. (UPI) tHrtd military officer* were executed in Baghdad today for attempting to overthrow the regime, Baghdad Radio announced. The radio taid the five were executed by firing •quad at 4.30 p.m. It said they included a Brigadier and a Colonel. The radio
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    Lock icon Israel's 'Handicaps'
    91 1 MAOZ HAIM. Israel, Wed. YT7PI) Israel's ability to strike at Jordan 1* limited by political considerations, according to Defence Minister Moshe Dayan. "It is rather on the Southern (Egyptian) frontier where the Russians sit where we have more freedom of action." Dayan told members of the Kibbutz Maoz
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    Lock icon Big Battle In S. Jordan
    109 1 AMMAN. Wed 'UPI) Arab and Israeli troops fought their biggest battle since the June war of in South Jordan today. The Amman government instructed Its UniteH Nations ambassador to protest to the Security Council against an Israeli attackThe Jordanian cabinet met in emergency session and
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    Lock icon Wilson Disowns Brown's Action
    119 1 LONDON. Wed. fßeuter) Prime Minister Harold Wilson todav disclaimed any responsibility for sending former Foreign Secretary George Brown on the Middle East visit that ended this week amid reports of him arguing furiously with Israeli leaders. "George's visit was In fact undertaken on his own," Mr.
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    Lock icon Delayed Brakes On Speculators
    314 1  -  Federal Paper Taken Off By GOH ENG KEE THE Committee of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday suspended all dealings in Federal Paper Products and delayed a month's dealings in 17 other counters in fresh attempts to curb the recent rash of excessive speculation.
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    Lock icon 18 US Posts Attacked
    57 1 SAIGON. Wed. (UPI) Communist gunner s slammed rockets and mortars into 18 American position* in their heaviest shelling against U.S forces since September military spokesmen aaid today. The attacks Tuesdav and •»arly Wednesday wer# concentrated in the key provinces around Saigon and resulted in tw 0
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    Lock icon US-Bonn Part Company On Armour Project
    307 1 TO EACH HIS OWN TANK WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI and Reuter) The United States and West Germany will go separate ways in the construction of a "Main Battle Tank'' that had been a widely-heralded joint project since 1963, the Pentagon an- nounced. "Exchange of information
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    Lock icon 11 Cholera Cases In Brunei
    169 1 BRUNEI TOWN, Brunei, Wed. (Reuter) Eleven confirmed cholera cases and three suspected were being treated In Brunei Hospital today. Seven people were admitted with the disease yesterday while another four confirmed cases and three > suspected cases were treated today. The State's director of Medical
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    Lock icon 2 HUME EXECUTIVES ON CORRUPTION CHARGES
    1274 1 'Pipes Sot U BSS' KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Director of Public Works, Ton Sri Yusoff Bin Hoji Ibrahim told the sessions court here today though he was technically qualified he would prefer questions relating to testing of cement asbestos pipes to be answered by
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    Lock icon Malaysia's Charge d'Affaires Visits PI Foreign Secretary
    370 3 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) The new Charge d'Affaires of the Malaysian Embassy, Yusof Hitam, called on Philippine Foreign Secretary Carlos Romulo yesterday. Yusof, who was counsellor in Medan, Sumatra, before coming here, arrived Saturday with his wife and son. He described the meeting with
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    Lock icon 'Fat Man' Wanted
    187 3 HONO KONG, Wed. (UPI) Police were today reported •earchlng for a 41-year-old "fat man" as the mastermind behind Hong Kong's biggest counterfeiting ring. Police believed the "fat-man a 41- ear-old Fukienest who holds 'aiwan and Philippines passports, and whose wife and children live in the Philippines," was
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    52 3 TAIPEI. Wed. (Reuter) Farmers here have discovered that ducks fed with flsh meal pellets lay eg? s with redder yolks and thicker shells, the Central News Agency reported today. This is being practised by 17 duck-breeding farms at Chlayi Town In central Taiwan, the traditional duck feed is in
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    Lock icon Fossil Find In Japan
    213 3 TOKYO, Wed. (UPI) Two Japanese fo&si lists have announced the discovery of what they said was a nearly complete fossil sea reptile whloh lived In North Japan about 70 million years ago. The announcement on the discovery of the prehistoric sea reptile was made jointly by
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    Lock icon Peacock Coming
    57 3 CANBERRA. Wed. (Reut«r) Australia's Army Minister Andrew Peacock will begin a tour of South Vietnam next Sundav and also visit Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. A spokesman for Peacock said today the Minister planned to visit all Australian army units In the area. He would not discuss withdrawal of
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    Lock icon Earthquake Hits Hokkaido
    358 3 SAPPORO, Japan, Wed. (UPI) A strong earthquake shook homes and buildings on the snow-covered island of Hokkoido early today but caused no serious injuries or damage. Officials at prefectural police headquarters and the weather observation bureau in Sapporo, the capital of the northern most Japanase island, said
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    Lock icon Wise Up Or Go Bankrupt
    151 3 JAKARTA. Wed (UPI) Indonesia film-makers must improve their products or go bankrupt in the lace of foreign competition, according to Dr. Asrul Sani, a noted Indonesian film critic. Dr. Sanl today warned that a proposed limit on the import of foreign movies will not make
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    Lock icon Sikkim King Holidays In HK
    55 3 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) King Choygal Palden Thundup Namgyal of Sikkim arrived by air from Calcutta last night to Join his Ameri-can-bom wife. Queen Hope, who came here Last Monday, on a private visit. They are expected to stay in Hong Kong for two days
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    165 3 HONG KONG, Wed. (Reuter) The wife of a Hong Kong fisherman single-handedly "rescued" him and their three children from a Chinese Jail, the Hong Kong "Star* reported today. Mrs. Leung Ngau, 47, told the 'Star' her husband and children were kidnapped by the Chinese 18 months ago. After learning
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    Lock icon Suharto: No To Students
    143 3 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) President Suharto ha s rejected the demands of demonstrating student* for reversal o* big petrol and kerosene price increases. He also appealed to the students to halt the protests, and ordered his cabinet ministers yesterday to try to explain the Increases to the
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    Lock icon MORE TERRORISM IN P. I.: Bomb Rips Part Of US Army Building
    340 3 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) A Time-bomb concealed in a car today exploded and ripped through a portion of a U.S. military building in nearby Quexon City. The explosion shattered a concrete block wall, blew out more than two dozen
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    Lock icon PAK RIOTS WORSEN
    223 3 DACCA, East Pakistan Wed. (Renter) Shops were set ablaze m the city's Kamlapur Market yesterday on the third successive day of political violence here. Pickets started the fire when shopkeepers in this East Pakistan capital refused to close in obedience to a call by militant students for
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      73 3 NTERS THE 70s WITH FOUR DOORS AND THE IGER LOWER LOOK rttuimin f> Now, all the Escort saloons—De Luxe, Super (illustrated) and GT, have four big doors. The longer, lower look. 15 cu. ft. boot. Full instrumentation. Vivacious performance. Unburstable o. h. v., five main-bearing engine. All-synch-romesh gears. Rack and
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    Lock icon 'One Foot In The Grave'
    71 4 HALIFAX. England, Wed. (Reuter) John Lock wood had on# foot in the erave literally until firemen came to the rescue Pallbearer John w ®s lowering a coffin Into a crave at the Methodist Church Cemetery here yesterday when the graveside caved In. One leg wag
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    Lock icon Thant: Lagos Govt Will Co-operate On Food Supplies
    366 4 rARIS, Wed. (Reuter) United Nations decretory General U Thant said here yesterday that he was confident the Lagos government would co-operate with the United Nations over the flow of relief supplies to war-stricken areas of Nigeria. U Thant, who flew here on
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    Lock icon Ulbricht's Conditions For Ties With Bonn
    277 4 EAST BERLIN. Wed. (Reuter) East German leader Walter Ulbrlcht yesterday pub-1 licly detailed the essential conditions for the international recognition he demands from West Germany but did not include an exchange of ambassador® which Bonn reject*. The main East German Communist Party newspaper Neue
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    Lock icon Talks With China Useful, Says American Envoy
    454 4 WARSAW, Wed. (UPI) Wofhington end Peking renewed official contacts in a one-hour meeting over tea yesterday between U.S. ambassador Walter J. Stoessel and Chinese Charge d'Affaires Lei Stoessel described the conference as "useful" and said the Americans were "pleased" that contacts between the
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    Lock icon Libya Orders Price-hike For Crude Oil Exports
    272 4 TRIPOLI. Libya, Wed. (Reuter) Libya's revolutionary government, seeking Increased oil revenues, has told foreign companies operating here it wants them to put up the price of crude oil exports. An announcement last night said Petroleum Minister Ezzedln Mabrouk called In representatives of 21
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    Lock icon 25 Years For Economic Espionage?
    210 4 SALISBURY. Rhodes:* Wed (UPI) The Rhode*!an government is considering increasing the maximum penalty for economic espionage from Ave to 25 years, it was announced yesterday, In a television interview. Minister for Justice and Law and Order Desmond LardnerBurke said he was unette to comment on
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    Lock icon EEC Ministers Disagree On New Powers For Parliament
    293 4 BRUSSELS, Wad. (Reuter) Common Market ministers last night failed to agree on new powers for the European Parliament, but Belgian Foreign Minister Pierre Harmel said the dissent would not affect the timetable for British entry negotiations. Mr. Harmel, current president of EEC
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    Lock icon UK Scientists Claim An Astronomical Breakthrough
    283 4 EDINBURGH. Scotland, Wed. (Reuter) British scientists claimed an astronomical breakthrough today, saying they had spotted more than 1.000 young star* in the constellation of perseus where Only 15 were previously known to exist. The discovery was made at the Royal observatory here by a
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    Lock icon FOUND: 'WONDER-POWDER' TO SOBER UP DRUNKARDS
    267 4 DUESSELDORT. Germany, Wed. (UPl)—German research scientists claimed yesterday to have »tumbled on a wonderpower that can sober up a drunk person In the *>ace at a few minutes. Not onlv that. It can be used to eliminate the fattening qualities of rich foods and
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    Lock icon Military Talks
    37 4 PARIS. Wed. (Reuter) The West German and French Defence Ministers Mr. Helmut Schmidt and Mr. Michel Deb re. yesterday discussed military co-operation here at their first meeting since the Brandt government took power In Bonn.
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    Lock icon John And Yoko Cut Their Shaggy Locks
    295 4 COPENHAGEN. Wed. (Renter) Beatle John non, pete* apostle ar *i WP musician, has joined the skinheads. He and his wife Yoko Ono were shorn of their shaggy lock* a couple of day* Ago. According to friend David Nelson, director of an international film
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    Lock icon Bomb In Mail Box Explodes
    60 4 BEIRUT. Lebanon. Wed. (UPI) A bomb slipped into a mail box blew a hole in the wall of 8 Beirut hospital last night and slightly injured a part-time worker. The blast came less than 48 hours after TNT charge plod en outside a Jewish school
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    476 6 SINGAPORE has recently had some controversial British politics, with a local angle, discussed by visiting politicians. First, it was Edward Heath, head of the British Shadow Cabinet and leader of the Opposition Conservative Party, who said that he was confident of becoming Britain's next Prime Minister when
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    Lock icon THE TWO SIDES OF THE PILL
    389 6 rpHE Pill, or to be more scientific 'oral conX traceptlves", has been acclaimed as one of the great achievements of science during the Sixties and some rank it alongside such nearmiracles like the transplant of human organs and the fantastic conquest of the moon.
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    Lock icon THE NIXON DOMESTIC RECORD
    1118 6  -  By HUBERT H. HUMPHREY Former Vice President And Chairman Democratic Policy Council (WRITTEN FOR UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL) WASHINGTON, (UPI) Richard Nixon come to the White House at the end of a decade of dissent and disorder, turmoil and change. It was a decade in which the
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    Lock icon A 'Supermarket System' For Customs Inspection
    663 6  -  ®y Edwin Rosenthal LONDON, (Reuter) For the modern-day traveller, customs inspection is as inevitable as death and taxes. But the start of the winter tourist season, and the introduction of jumbo Jet airliners, are bringing changes. Customs offioers are physically unable to check the
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    1073 6  -  •y Stewart Hansley WASHINGTON, (UPI) During Kit first year in office, U.S. Secretary of I State William P. Rogers has surprised a lot of people including William P. Rogers, The amiable and wealthy corporation lawyer, who was reluctant to accept a post he
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    Lock icon "Barefoot Doctors"
    616 6  -  "y Ernesto Mendoza HONGKONG, (Reuter) Barefoot doctors are injecting fresh vigour into China's hard-worfcing medical services. The Peking press speaks In glowing terms of these semisklled practitioners, products of the Cultural Revolution who generally dispense herbs Instead of pills. Trained largely to give first aid and treat minor
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Stock Market: Officials Act To Right Balance
      492 7 TRADING in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday was clouded by the fresh actions and reprecussions of the Committees' attempt to maintain, once more, normal and healthy stock and share market conditions. All dealings in Federal Paper Products were suspended until
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1159 7 I> US I NESS 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 $2.20 (1) $2.15 (1); Alcan $2.22 (13) $2.24 (7) $?.23
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      Lock icon Mixed Market In New York
      97 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Pollution control stocks were big favourites yesterdav as the stock market turned mixed in moderate turnoverThe UPI marketwide ind'* cator showed a gain of 0.05 per cent on 1.544 issues crossing the tap«- Declines narrowly edged advances, 683 to 612. A
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      Lock icon Order To Reduce Oil Imports
      65 7 NEW Delhi, Wed. (UPI) The government has ordered three oil companies to reduce importation of crude oil bv 20 per cent from the second half of January, Minister for Petroleum and Chemicals Triguna Sen said. Companies a*f e cted by the order are Esso. Caltex
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      207 7 THE following !s a berthing list issued by the Port of Singapore Authoiltv for today, Thursday. Jan. 22 DEPARTURES Godowns Vessel* N.W. 1 Petaling N.W. 3 Lipis 23/24 Shavit 29/30 BenmacahuJ 33/34 Robert Maersk 33/34 Tarental 88/39 Eastern Luck 10/11 South Breez© 5 Eastern Maid N.W. 2
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      Lock icon Sydney Closing Prices
      154 7 SYDNEY. Wed. (UPI) Wednesday's Closing Sydney Stock Exchange selected share*. MININGS ASS Min 8 50 Austral Mia .S3 Barrier 1.03 BH South MO C Norse 10.50 C Gold 10.20 CRA J0,«0 Em per 1.12 Enaur 55 GM Kalg 100 GT Boulder 5.30 GT West .24 Kath Inv.
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      Lock icon EXECUTIVE IN BANGKOK FOR SEMINAR
      121 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Mr. Chov Slew Hoong, engineering sales executive with the Technical Department of Willlam Jscks, left recently for Bangkok to attend »n international seminar on water eupply and sanitation organised by the United States Embassy's Trade Division there. The seminar was attended by
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      Lock icon Tourism A Govt-Private Sector Joint Venture
      217 7 Tourism A GovtPrivate Sector Joint Venture THE development of a successful tourism industry needed close co-operstion and eo-ordination between the government and private sectors, the assistant general manager of Air New Zealand, Mr. H.M. Denton, said on Monday. "We have the benefit of this co-ordination in New Zealand. It is
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      Lock icon Gold Prices Mixed On World Marts
      135 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI)— Gold prices were mixed in active trading on markets here and abroad. In London gold gained 5 US. cents to U5534.80 per troy ounce at the morning fixing and remained at that level for the second fixing. The closing range
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      Lock icon Freight Rates Up
      48 7 SYDNEY. Wed (UPI) Th« Australian Northbound Shipping Conference has announced an inerta*# of 7-J per cent in freight rate* to operate from April 1. The conference chairman. M.N. Speyer said the increased charges were necessary because of continual rises in tie coat oi apertUag I
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 68 7/8 Cts.
      242 7 February first arade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. in Singapore «n<j Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 68-7/8 cents per lb., down one and one quarter a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market w Quiet and easier. After a lower opening reflecting London
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      Lock icon Industrials Down On London Mart
      135 7 LONDON. Wed. cUPI) Industrial stocks turned down in early trading cn the atock market yeateraay an<i wall Street's weakness collected some of the blame. But bargain hunters moveq In late in the session to trim many initial losses and sometimes pyoduce net galna. The loweat
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      484 7 INDUSTRIALS BACMA 2.14 8. tit I)«yn 2 05 2 o: Sen Co 1.83 Borneo *hd 173 r° U p' fa „Si®" 2 10 C. Plywood C. Sunn 1 -SS 412 r Iti IH C C»rrl*f« I6.i 1-74 Dunlop M 3 08 S-io C Siudtlni 7.M 8'
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      Lock icon Seoul To Have Synthetic Rubber Plant
      128 7 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) South Korea's first synthetic rubber plant Is to be built by a British firm at Ulaan, it was announced here today. The Corporation of Stockton-On-Tees. north ea s t England, said It had »i«ned an agreement with the Korean Synthetic Rubber
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      59 7 The Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore ve»terday made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rate« are Quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING T-T- or O.D ready. Deutsche Marks $84.0750; Holland Guilders $85.1775; Swiss Francs $71.7975; French Fran c s $55.7325; Danish
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      83 7 TUB noon prtm at tlM Bluff*pore CblttM rn>4w* fcX 'banc* mtenkr MWW MM Coconut t»ll (FOB) B«!k liMiinui (Mi (FOB) t'rnm MUed Copra 34-50 Mum <>k Mbit* Peppe* (FOB) MruMith White Pepper (FOB-) ttarawak 'P«1«I BUrt Pepper ir-O-R) i dinvni n|H*rlal Black Pepper (FOB.) unipont Black P«r»P*r ASTA »FOB->
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      70 7 (Manager*' Prteea for Jan 2t) (HtKlbKKD UNIT 1BIM 8 Growth Kund 108 MS ASI4 UNIT TRL8T8 Mai tnveat »■unrt 1.80 i40 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUST* in Malavan xd CM 2nd Malayan xd 2-07 Srd Malayan IK Tbe Com lnd 104 1-14 The Sar Fund 1.11 141 (Manager*' Mree for
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 7 The tin price for yesterday was $685.00 per picu] dowm $8.25.
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      375 7 ARRIVAL* 8.15 am. MsA 123 K Lumpnr 945 am- MSA 119 K. Lumpur 12.30 p.m. MSA4SI Kuchlng 2SO p-m- >IP A 021 K Lumpur, Malacca *25 p.m. MSA 458 K> Kinahalu S4O p.m. MSA 521 BanskoK. Pfnang 540'p m MSA 665 Manila 7.10 p.m. MSA 02? K- Lumpur,
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
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      561 8 IN our modern society, books are tools of knowledge. 1 here are thousands and thousands of books in every corner of the world. THERE are different kinds of books, some written by famous authors long ago. Books are very useful to us. They contain informa- tion. facts and history
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      Lock icon SAFETY FIRST
      400 8 The large increase of vehicles on the road has brought a big increase in road accidents. In order to check this, the government has set up a Safety First Council. The duties of this council are to see that road-users obey the safety first rules, hold safety first
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      Lock icon Pleasant Rains
      252 8 It was a sultry and windless afternoon. The sun was at its highest point sending powerful rayi of light on the earth Everyone felt anoonfortahte and «ai yearnJnr for rains. It seemed that Heaven wanted to please us. Thick, scuddling dark clouds soon began to drift slowly from
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      Lock icon KEEP CITY CLEAN
      318 8 NOWADAYS, our government is spending a lot of money to make Singapore into a clean city. Dust-bins are being put at bus-stops and street-corner* for people to throw their waste things If a person is caught throwing rubbish on the streets or from a flat. h« or
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      Lock icon MY FIRST VISIT TO CITY
      988 8 THE news came to me as a surprise. My uncle who had a holiday and had made his home In the city had paid us a visit. It suddenly made my uncle, George, realise that I was then a big boy and that I should
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      Lock icon FROM A LONELY ISLAND TO ENGLAND
      630 8 I was an orphan. At the age of twelve. I was bought as a 'slave' and sent across to Africa by ship. Among the slaves, I was the oldest. On the way. the sky was overcast with thick black clouds and the wind blew
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      186 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essat writing contest for boys and flrls of 14 and under appears in this page ever? Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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      22 8 AMY By Jack Tippif l X> 'M mMMBkm "Hay, Oaddv, you finished raking leaves just in tfmal, New you can start shoveling.
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      95 8 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Santos and AUen McWfcms SIMMER OOws>Si •ELLAH...THERE'S BEEN A MIS- Si UNDERSTAND**® fJ TO US IT IS QUITE CLEARWE PINO A CRCVING OCT/,.. HIDING FROM HIS BLACK NEIGHBORS'/ i i LET 'EM ALONE, JUAN... THEY'RE. STRAIGHT/THE K»« ISNT FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD ...HE'S FROM BACK HOME/ f^y
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  • Jemme
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      Lock icon Japanese Models To Stage Fashion Shows In Singapore
      513 9 SINGAPORE as the Fashion Centre of South-east Asia? The local fashion scene is much talked about nowadays in European., countries. They receive pictures and information and do not at all fail to realise our well-dressed women even on a shopping spree. It
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      Lock icon Promotion Comes True, But Wife Refuses To Move Out
      554 9  -  Ann Landers JJIAR ANN: I am a middle-aged man who has just been offered the promotion he's been dreaming about. It means moving the family several hundred miles from here. My wife refuses to move. She says the kids are doing
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      Lock icon Fashion Futures In 70's
      73 9 MANY moods ol fashion, from strict real auits to Mrden party chiffons, from Art Deco prints to Indian ponchos, from short to lone skirts. THE soft shapes, unconstructed. with a revival of the bias cuts of the Thirties, the clingy fabrics such as jersey and aheer
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      Lock icon Hugh O'Brian: An Actor Who Gives Of Himself
      719 9  -  fn'4i t tnj /of l/i/w/#.. ..it,, Sheilah Graham TOKDO*, Wad. When I ltHehtd with Bufh (XBrlse la London, ho told mo ho would bo la Now York la Jaaaary to start rehearsals for a aow play. Instead, ho accepted another film which
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      346 11 Miscellaneous 40.000 cubic yards of excavation available March/ AprH 1970. Please contact Yeow Tel: *****7. Land Wanted Wanted to buy 150 to 200,000 sq. ft. low lying land suitable for dumping. Offers to Yeow Tel: *****7. TENDER TENDER TENDERS are invited from Registered Shipchandler*. Suppliers and Provisioned for the supoly
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      973 11 CHANNEL 5 PM. 300 Opening Anncts; 303 Morning Star: 3.30 Another Son* Another Melody tT>; 345 It's Happening »n Singapore <C>; 4.00 Housewives Matinee "Mutual Hearts (Part 2 of a Mandarin Film*; 500 Close: 6 00 Opening Anncts; 6.C3 Peter Potumus Show; 6.30 News Brief: 635 Tarzan "Last of the
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    251 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Hie setting up of a Southeast Asian nuclear education training centre to meet the acute shortage of qualified nuclear scientists and technicians in this region was proposed here today. The proposal was contained In a paper presented by the Sonth Vietnamese delegation to
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    158 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed Car dealers were taken by surprised when they were told today that they would have to pay the new excise duty of 25 per cent on any locally assembled car in their showroom or possession if they were not registered before the budget announcement.
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    124 12 MOUNT Fiber Road will be turned into a partial one-way system in view of the increasing number of traffic and the narrowness of the road. The system will be implemented this Saturday. Jan. 24 at 12 noon. The stretch of Mount Faber Road from Kampong
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    350 12 GAMING PROMOTER FINED A FORMER top promoter of elup jo« kee who yt»terday, admitted feeding the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau with false information was fined $l,OOO or six months jail by the Second District Court Judge, Mr. Donald Yeo Hock Chwee. He is Tan Oh Poh,
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    104 12 TWO people were rushed to the General Hospital and placed in the "dangerously ill list", following a road accident at Jalan Bahar. off 13 m.s. Chua Chu Kan* Road, yesterday. The two people were travelling In a motor-van. when their vehicle collided with a MID military
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    176 12 Two people were killed In two separate accidents in Singapore on Tuesday. In the first accident, a oedestrian. Chan Woon, 85. died about two hours after admission to the General Hospital following a collision with a motor cycle at the junction of Neil Road and Duxton
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    210 12 THREE youth* who hare been victimising roadside stalls were arrested by police, recently. A fourth one was charged in court, yesterday. On Jan. 20 at about 4 a.m.. two off-duty police constables were driving along Lorong 104, when thev noticed Ave people in a car, behaving
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    54 12 AN unidentified man. about 60 years of age, was found dead at the foot of Block 82. MacPherson Lane. yesterday. He was clad in a pair of black trousers and a *rey shirt. Tho«e who know him are requested to in touch with Insp Cheong Ah How of
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    446 12 Trial Without Jury, Day 3 MR. JUSTICE A.V. Win»lov, one of the two presiding judges in the "trial without jury" murder case, yesterday rapped police for failing to carry out the investigation according to the proper procedure. Yesterday was the third day trial
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    168 12 TEO YEOW TECK wis yesterday fined $5OO or two months jail by the Ninth Court Magistrate, Mr. E.C. Foenander, after h« pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a car radio cum tape recorder. The prosecuting officer. Senior Inspector Chia Cheng Poh told the
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    133 12 A SHOPKEEPER. Valiyappe* Yakka] Vaputty. 36. was robbed of $3OO in cart l 50 tins of sardines and a tin of Ovaltlne and also was hit on the head with a sharp object when h* tried to stop tour thugs from robbing his shop at
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    40 12 FENANG. Wed. Custon» officials intercepted a sampan and recovered 23 bundles of textiles worth $6,000 off Batu Maung here this morning A customs spokesman said dutv on the textiles is estimated at $1,500A man has been detained.
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    430 12 LADY de la Marc, wife of the British High Commissioner to Singapore, yesterday hoped that husbands and employers in the Republic will be able to rise to the occasion to help fill in the "vacuum in voluntary social services" which will follow the
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      73 12 Time 4kTide lODAT SINGAPORE Town 4.39 a.m. (5 ft.) 10.22 a.m. (9.1 ft.) 5.25 p.m. (1.2 ft.) NAVAL DOCKYARD 12.02 a.m. (10 ft.) 149 am. <5.8 ft.) 10.40 p.m. (9.8 ft.) 5.05 p.m. (1.8 ft.) TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN: 12.18 a.m. (8.1 ft.) 5.15 a.m. (4.7 ft.) 11.01 a.m. (9.3 ft.)
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