Eastern Sun, 26 January 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1248 Monday, 26 January 1970. <& MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cent*
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  • 430 1 GOH ON FACTORS OF PROGRESS Finance Minister Goh Keng Swee outlined Saturday that there are four factors which Singapore can contribute not only towards its economic viability but also for the economic progress in the region. Dr. Goh was speaking at the annual dinner of
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  • 248 1 SAIGON. Sun fßeuter) South Vietnam's Information Minister said today the government was prepared to offer "one or two" ministries to the Communists. "If the Commupists demand one or two ministries In the cabinet we are ready to give them. But on the other hand
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  • 220 1 JAKARTA. Sun. (Reuter) Indonesian high school students plan a sit-down demonstration on main roads In Jakarta tomorrow despite a stern warning by the Army against further demonstrations. Student leaders said today they expected thousands to take part in the demonstrations. which will be in
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  • 189 1 Singapore firemen had busy Sundar yesterday when two fires broke out in two separate places. Fire No 1. which broke out shortlv after 1.30 a.m. rendered 30 peopl» from seven families homeless. Two fire engines rushed to the scene Lorong Bukit Tinggi, off King's Road. Bukit
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  • 428 1 SINGAPORE will no longer be an underdeveloped country by the end of 70's if the people exert themselves to improve s<ills and do not turn away industrial opportunities which are coming their way, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said Saturday. Mr. Lee
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  • 103 1 SYDNEY. Sun. ißeuter) The Australian Minister for the Army, Andrew Peacock, left here today for a twoweek tour of Australian military Installations in Vietnam. Singapore and Malaysia. Before leaving he told reporters: "This Is a routine visit for the purpose of general familiarisation. "I will be
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  • 146 1 MANILA. Sun (UPI) Tight security will be clamped on the Philippine Congrew area in Manila to prevent any eruption of violence In Mondays scheduled rally by university students. Monday marts the opening of the seventh Congress Some 500 Manila riot policemen. 100 traffic officers. 100
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  • 70 1 CAIRO. Sun (Reuter) An Egyptian Army commando unit destroyed an Israeli radar station in Sinai in a pre-dawn raid today, wounding manv of the personnel manning the station. a militarv spokesman said here The station is situated at Hoad Abu Samara about 20 miles east of Kantara. and
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  • 114 1 SAIGON, SUB. (Reuter) A young American soldier wondered whether cupid had been computerised. When RFC Scott Byers, of Cleveland, Ohio, opened a recent letter from his girlfriend out fell 30 feet of perforated tape instead of the usual sheets of scented notepaper. "A typed message ran the whole
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  • 96 1 NEW DELHI. Sun. (Renter) The Indian Parliament's Consultative Committee on Atomic Energy will meet soon to discuss the practicability of making nuclear weapons, informed sources said here today. The decision to hold the talks was taken after a recent meeting in Bombay at which some Parliamentarians
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  • 91 1 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Harold Wilson. British Prime Minister, left here by air today for talks with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau In Ottawa and President Nixon In Washington. Wilson will hold discussions with Trudeau tonight and on Monday morning before fljrtng to New York
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  • 83 1 TEL AVIV. Sun Eighteen people were killed and 42 wounded when an Israel Arm v lorry. loaded with ammunition and explosives, blew up in the military section of Eilat Port on the Red Sea today, an Army spokesman said here. Fifteen of the dead were
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  • 141 1 DUNDEE. Scotland, Sua. (Reuten Britain Is In its best position to negotiate for membership of the European Common Market since entry was first proposed, a government Minister said here today. George Thomson. Minister for European Affairs, stressed that countries of the common market were overtaking
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  • 396 3 MOSCOW, Sun. (UPI) The Soviets yesterday disclosed the formation of new multi-national communist land, sea and air force opposed to NATO. A long article in the army newspaper, 'Krasnaya Zvexda' (Red Star) written by the new commander of the force said the
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  • 246 3 The Right To Be Born—14 Months Later LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) The Sunday newspaper, 'The People,' said here today, a young wife has been awaiting the birth of her first baby for nearly 14 months. Mrs. Carol Williams, 19, called on her doctor in April last year after experiencing symptoms of
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  • 278 3 SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sun. (Reuter) The American Navy yesterday launched a unique deep-diving craft designed to rescue survivors of submarine tragedies throughout the world including those of foreign navies. The 50-feet torpedo-shaped vessel developed by Lockheed Missiles and Space Company ts
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  • 88 3 NEW YORK (UPI) Ringo Starr, the drummer Beatle. today denied rumours the Beatles are splitting up after leading the rock movement for nearlv a decade In an Interview published in the current issue of 'Look' magazine. Rmgo said. "All of us Beatles are just trying to And
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  • 246 3 BRISBANE, Sun. (Reuter) A lioness savagely maul, ed two small children at an animal park near here before their father and two attendants rescued them. The pregnant lioness, named Lena, ran 80 yards with one of the children four-year-old Sandra McNallv in
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  • 63 3 HOUMA. Louisiana. Sun. (UPI) A leaking gas line exploded "like an earthquake" In a downtown manho'.d yesterday. ki'.lin e three persons and demolishing half a city block. 25 were injured An area with the radius of 12 block s was evacuated in the downtown section of the city
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  • 311 3 JUDICIAL INQUIRY OPENS ROME, Sun. (Reuter) A controversy blew up yesterday around a judicial inquiry Involving five top surgeons which could be crucial to the future of transplant operations in Italy. The Rome deputy public prosecutor is carrying out the inquiry to decide whether
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  • 179 3 LONDON. Sun <UPI) The controversy over contraceptive pills has created something of a schism between members 0 f the British and American medical professions. British medicine generally condemns use of 'the pill It has. In fact, studies by two British medical teams—concluding a strong relationship
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  • 130 3 BOSTON. Sun (UPI> a portrait of a voune Italian woman by the great Renaissance artist Raphael has become the subject of a legal tug-of-war between the Museum of Fine Arts which has the painting and the Italian Government which wants it. The museum purchased the portrait, never
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  • 581 3  -  Ann Landers p E A R ANN: Your column, which reported the marriage between two homosexuals in Rotterdam, made a friend of mine very angry. He says he attended the wedding and it wasn't Rotterdam, it was Amsterdam. Furthermore. he insists
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  • 165 3 MOSCOW, Sun. (Reuter)' A Soviet minister yesterday called for sweeping penal and administrative measures to combat drunk- j eness but rejected the idea of total prohibition. Measures recommended i by the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. B. Shumllln. Included a ban on the scale of
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 253 3 LIDO Phone ***** LAST DAY: U a.m.. I.«. 4.00. 6.3* Ift pj». David McCalium. Suzanne Neve "XMqaito Squadron 1 Color <UA) OPENS TOMORROW! ShLrlev Knight Jamfe- Caan •THE RAIN* PEOPLE" Technicolor From WB-1 Art* CAPITOL Phone ***** LAST DAY! No Free U»t! 11 am.. 1.30. 4OA 6.45 p.m. LI Chlng.
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  • Special Feature On Indian Republic Day
    • 256 4  - A Message From The Indian High Commissioner: 'Links Between India S'pore Will Continue To Strengthen' Prem Bhatia High Commissioner rr is my privilege as High Commissioner for India in Singapore to greet Indian nationals in this country on the occasion of our Republic Day. I would also like to use
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    • 838 4 In-keeping with the identity of interests between the two countries, co-opera-tion between India and Singapore in the commercial, economic and technical fields was further strengthened during the past year. While there was an increase in two-way trade, the number of technical training facilities offered by
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    • 774 5 Atomic power started flowing intermittently in the States of Maharashtra and Gujarat on April 1, 1969, from the largest atomic power plant in Asia Tarapur. One of the most advanced ventures in the country, the 380 MW Tarapur Atomic Power Station, situated about
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    • 442 5 A steady improvement in industrial production, a big drop in the balance of trade deficit and heartening agricultural prospects during the year 1969 indicate a period of further rapid growth of the Indian economy. Some of the salient features of the Indian economy during
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 144 4 Congratulations and Best Wishes to the People and Government of the REPUBLIC OF INDIA on the occasion of their REPUBLIC DAY from: M. JAMNADAS CO. 85 Market Street, Singapore RANCHORDAS PURSHOTAM LTD. 43 Market Street, Singapore 1 S. P. MEHTA 623 North Bridge Road. Singapore 7 Congratulations and Best Wishes
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    • 278 4 With Best Compliments From P. GOVINDASAMY PILLAI SONS (PTE) LTD. Importer* Exporters Produce. Piece Goods General Merchants 80 82 Market Street Singapore. 1.. Tel *****-*****. r 4U >*- 'S^titocwl' .^•W* >*n# >--'i_..> r '-feak- r* I P i If 7 9U' •V* m h K'y-w'uf-W mm >u,u V-;. REM Vfr*
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 97 5 Congratulations and Best Wishes to the Government and People of the REPUBLIC OF INDIA < on the occasion of their REPUBLIC DAY THE ORIENTAL FIRE GENERAL INSURANCE CO.. LTD. 66-B, THE ARCADE, SIIMGAPORE-1 TEL: *****/2 CONGRATULATIONS to the Government and People of India on this auspicious occasion on their REPUBLIC
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    • 92 5 Congratulations to the GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF INDIA on this auspicious occasion of their REPUBLIC DAY P. GANGARAM 84-A HIGH STREET, SINGAPORE. Manufacturer's Representatives of Indian Cotton Yarn Textile* of all deaeription. Congra tu and Best Wishes to GOVERNMENT PEOPLE of REPUBLIC OF INDIA on the occ their Republic from:
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  • 431 6 mHE Tunku's current strategy for racial peace J. in Malaysia by publicly appearing to take personal responsibility in organisational ana grass-root level affairs appears a bit too obvious and laboured. Even without recourse to the Parliamentary system of government, as under the present emergency, the history of
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  • 482 6 FTIHE refusal of the Central Bank of the PhillpJ. pines to provide 32,000 U.S. dollars in foreign exchange as prize money of the first leg of the Far East Golf Circuit dramatizes the Philippines economic problem and the stern measures that are being taken to alter the
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  • 1044 6  -  By Stanley da Zoysa Ceylon's Ambassador to Indonesia (Writtan for UP!) COLOMBO: Ceylon's freedom movement wot scarcely marked by those dramatic incidents which arrest the attention of the world outside. The transition from the status of a British Crown colony to that of an independent nation
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  • 558 6  -  ">r Peter Sager BERN!, Switzerland: In early January, the Beirut newspaper. AL-BAYRAQ, retailed a startling piece of information, and to the best of my knowledge this piece of information has not yet been spread far beyond the confines of the Arab world. In a report datelined
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  • 165 6 MOftCOW. (UPD soviet doctors have reported they took an *ar of corn from a young woman's lung after It had been lodged there for nearly 20 years. The newspaper Vechernaya Moskva (Evening Moscow) said the operation was performed on Helen Mlkhallova in the town of Lipetsk.
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  • 741 6  -  By Joseph A lsop WASHINGTON President Nixon is obviously going to submit a highly political budget, ostentatiously pruned and balanced. One even suspects stage-ma-nagement in the well-publicized scene at the White House, when the President abruptly rejected the supposedly final budget estimates, and demanded another $3 billion
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  • 516 6  -  »7 James Kim SEOUL, (UPI) At 10 p.m. on Jan. 21, 1968, a group of 31 communist North Korean commandos sneaked in to this South Korean capital in a daredevil attempt to blow up the blue house, official residence of President Park Chung-Hee.
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  • 391 6  -  »r Dick West WASHINGTON, (UPI)— Now products to look forward to in th« *****: Self-cooking hot dogs gone will be the need for pots, pans or grillj for cooking Frankfurters. These delectable sausages will come equipped with tiny filaments Interlaced throughout the casings. Plug the
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  • Special Feature On Australia Day
    • 1079 8 AUSTRALIA a "■young country big in its resources and the resourcefulness of its people, is bringing to fruition the predictions of industrialists and economists of decades ago. Hopes are becoming achievements. Australia is flexing its industrial muscle and pushing ahead with multimillion dollar
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    • 534 8 AUSTRALIA has x been brought to the attention of more and more people in the world today because of the country's increasing involvement in world affairs and the rapid econ o m i c developments now taking place there. This in turn has brought Australia
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    • 1321 10 THE pace of Australia's development depends not only on its resources, but also on the way they are used. In recent years, Australia's gross national product at constant prices has been increasing by more than 5 per cent annually. This is about one per
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    • 953 10 One would hardly expect the driest continent in the world to provide a plentiful larder for mankind. And yet that Is the surprising designation of Australia, .surprising. that is. to those people not devoted to studying official figures of world food sources. But, In
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 147 8 THIS AUSTRALIAN Will HELP YOU TO GET A BIGGER SHARE OF YOUR MARKET He is an Australian Government Trade Commissioner. He can put you in touch with suppliers of Australian commodities now being sold competitively by importers in over 150 countries. Commodities in hundreds of categories from Food to Cars
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 260 9 MAKERS present sir for young i p y r 1 > J- .y.-4 •< \M. V v •<?? .'C« Fibremakers the people who keep doing exciting things to fabric, have widely established Australian fashions on the international scene. Today,they are setting a strong trend in Singapore with their wide collection
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 28 10 Heartiest Congratulations and Best Wishes to the People and Government of Australia on Their NATIONAL DAY MASSEY-FERGUSON (EXPORT) LID. Shaw House, Orchard Road, Singapore, 9. Tel: ***** *****5
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL TEN DOLLARS ESSAY WINNERS
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      484 11 Next to n*lur§ the most powerful thing on earth Is love. Men, however. have not been given the eyes to see the contents of love. The outward sign of love seems a moon-cake but a further consideration on its background will probably reveal that it'g composition is almost evil.
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    • 375 11 It was about twelve o'clock when I left my friend's house after Joinlne her party. Walking alone along the road. I often turned around to be cautious and alert against any unexpected happenings. The road quiet, with only a few cars passing through. Then, I walked into
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    • Article, Illustration
      518 11 Alcoholism is a habit In which the drinking of alcohol or alcoholic beverages becomes a compulsion and produces characteristic symptoms in an individual. Sometimes, alcoholism it called dipsomania which comes from the Greek word meaning drinking "madness". An alcohol addict cannot control hit drinking. Excess drinking leads to recognisable
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    • 339 11 MODERN Singapore is becoming an industrialised country. And it needs many well-trained workers. Where do they come from? Obviously from Technical Schools, Vocational Schools and various Industrial trading centres. Now there are more Technical Schools than in the past. This is due to the recent emphasis on technical
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      439 11 THE meaning of superstition is: an unreasoning fear or belief of what is mysterious. People from all walks of life have their own superstitions which are believed and practised mostly by the older generations. However, younger generations being well educated hardly believe in these. Superstitions play an important role
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 172 11 Essay writing: Rules to observe All entrants are requested to observe the following rules: 1. Each entrant mutt fill in hu/hmr own writing the entry form appended below in block Utters. 2. No entry will be considered without the entry form properly filled up. 3. The entrant must attach his/her
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 24 11 AMY ly J«ck Ttppif 1 4 *v' m m r "Food that lost story ogoin, Doddy, I fill asiup k In w'kWlo of it.
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    • 114 11 DATELINE: DANGER! WE'RE REACT/ TO LEAVE,OAN...AS IT'S TVtt ROUCE, LEE ROY 'A SOON AS WIND/ THEV WANT TO KNOW WHEN 1 STOPS ■TUPPING VOU'RE SOINS TO BRtNS nco in i^r [J. lll.f MM'' II h 3* r 1T- V > V3i ~*S a wc V v. a by John Saunders
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  • 619 12 THE marine boys in Singapore were regularly in the news last week. Actually they are not marines but members of the booming shipbuilding and repairing community. First there was the visit here by Mr. Robert T. Young, Senior Vice President of the American Bureau of Shipping, Mrs.
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 2387 13 m TUDOR LIGHT, a five-year old Australian gilding by Tudor Monarch, won the Class Two Division Two race at Bukit Timah yesterday, returning a smart time of 1 min. 12 3/5 tecs. Last year's champion trainer, Collin Tulloh, who trained Tudor Light' also sent out two
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    • 79 13 MELBOURNE Sua (Reuttr) Auetralia'j most g'amorous racehorse Vain, broke down after galloping at Epsom track her* today and hit future it in doubt Hi» trainer Jim Mo'.efltr said Vain will be taken to the University of Melbourne'* Veterinarv School early next week where extensive X-rsvs will be carried
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    • 581 13 i U^' Jf* r League champions Leeds United crushed AmaNurt Sutton United 6 0 and Manchester United ousted holders Manchester City 3-0 e 9' amour f,es of the English Football Association Cup fourth round programme Leeds, remembering their narrow third round escspe
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    • 287 13 IN the first Singapore Golf Association (SGA) clash of the vear, defending champion Keppel Club triumphed •ver the hard frjrinj RAF Tengah competitors by 4 matches to 2 in a dose finish, Surprisingly, two of Keppel's strongest combinations were the only teams beaten In the
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    • 86 13 PEBBLE BEACH, California, Sun. (Reuter) American Bert Yancey held a onestroke lead going into the final roun<j Of the $125,000 Blng Crosby golf tournament here today. Yancey had a third round par 72 yesterday for a 54hole total of 309. Sharing second place on 210 were
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 42 13 Ist Prist No. *****7 ($4,186.00) 2nd Prist No. *****7 ($1,196.00) 3rd Prist No. *****2 598.00) Startars ($150.00 aach) Not: *****6 *****4 *****1 *****3 *****2 *****1 *****4 *****6 *****1 Consolations ($lOO tach) Nos:— *****1 *****0 *****1 *****0 *****1 *****1 *****1 *****1 *****4 *****4
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    • 947 13 Anncts.: 3 08 CHANNEL 8 PM. 300 Opening Anncts; 306 Morning Star: 3.30 Woman's World 7T> 400 Singapore This Week; <T>; 405 It's Happening Ip Singapore (T>: Clrt Scarlett Mill "Una Dodds" 500 Close. 6 00 Opening Anncts 603 Monster From Tne Outer Spar#; 6.30 News in Brief; 6.35 Family
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  • 423 14 A PAIR of spectacles and a torchlight lying on a table pointed the way to a trail of blood and the discovery of a gruesome murder of a 56-year-old coffeeshop >wner by a factory watchman yesterday morning. The body of Ho
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  • 269 14 THERE art more than 1,000 persons in Singapore today who are suffering from leprosy but are not receiving treatment because they fear ostracism by their relatives and friends, the Minister for Health, Mr. Chua Sian Chin, disclosed yesterday. These people have failed to
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  • 81 14 A BUFFALO vesterdav went on a rampage at Jalan Potong Paslr and gored two peop'.e before dropping de a d under a hail of bullets fired by members of the Reserv> Unit. A woman. Lim Hock Leong, 53. suffered serious facial injuries and was admitted to hospital.
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  • 86 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Police detained nine elderly men for smoking and possessing chandu and utensils In eight separate raids In and around the Federal Capital yesterday. Several packets of chandu. two syringes, needles and a large quantity of smoking utensils were seized. Some of the
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  • 189 14  -  By K. S. SIDHU TWO buddies who fought side by side in the African theatre during the Second World War did not foresee that one day, they would face each other from opposite camps. But that is exactly what happened in the case of Tom
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  • 128 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The timely arrival of three flreenglnes saved 21 wooden houses from being gutted by a flre which razed three houses to the ground In Kampong, off Jalan Bungsar here yesterday. The flre left 17 people homeless and caused an estimated demage of
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  • 290 14 WHEN Mrs, Paula Browning came to Singapore less than a year ago, she had not expected to be so quickly flung into the local music scene. She has to date. »ung soprano in the opera creation recently presented by the Singapore Music Society
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  • 37 14 PENANG. Sun. Flower thieves struck again last night and escaped with 20 orchid plants worth 5520 from a house In Gurney Drive here. The owner. Mr. Gunn Chit Hoe. 46. reported the theft to police.
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  • 44 14 ORIK. Sun Police arrested six rubber tappers. Including a woman for breaking the curfew at 3.45 a.m. yesterday. A patrol car stopped them while they were cycling to their estates 15 minutes before the lifting of the 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. curfew.
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  • 273 14 MISS Lim Lee Chin once had an ambition to become a successful trial lawyer like television's Perry Mason but she gave up the idea and branched into the hotel industry. A former student of the Raffles Institution. Miss Lim went to London after obtaining
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  • 619 14  - Every Inch A Pugilistic Film Hero —Even At 65 By DENNIS CHIA CANTONESE actor Kwan Tak Hing may not possess the kind of devil-may* care charm and appeal that surrounds Roger Moore (The Saint), Sean Connery (fortnei James Bond) or James Coburn (Derek Flint) but he does occupy a special
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  • 128 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A progress report of the capital investment committee issued today said one of the principal indicators of the increased tempo of industrial activity could gauged by the number of approvals for pioneer and non-pioneer orojects that have been granted within specified period.
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  • 26 14 A 87-YEAR-OLD woman, Goh Hui Keng was found hanging j n a house at Lorong Berhala. off Upper Serangoon Road, yesterday No foul plav suspected
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  • 65 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman cabled congratulatory messages to the Republic of India on the occasion of her 20th anniversary. The Tunku also sent greetings to Australia on her national day. The Tunku in his message to the Australian Minister of
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  • 44 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Mentri Besar of Se.angor, Dato Haji Harun bin Haji Idris. was successfully operated <>n at the General Hospital here this morning Dato Harun is expected to be in the hospital for a few days. His condition has reported satisfactory.
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 31 14 TOTO DRAW THE following numbers were drawn in yesterday's Toto Draw:23 49 14 7 32 The additional number drawn was 37. In the three circles draw, the numbers were:48 36 2.
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    • 81 14 Time 4c Tide TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 1.28 a m. <8.5 ft.) 651 am. (3.8 ft.) 12.47 p.m. <9.5 ft.) 7.17 p.m. (1.5) ft.) NAVAL DOCKYARD: 137 a.m. (10.4 ft.) 649 a.m. (4 5 ft.) 1.09 pm (107 ft.) 7.09 pm. (2.1 ft.). TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN; 1.50 am (8.7 ft) 7.21
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