Eastern Sun, 28 May 1970

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    23 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY -fr Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1354 Thursday. 28 May 1970. MC (P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon U.S. JETS BOMB NORTH VIETNAM
    573 1 NEW INVASION OF CAMBODIA CAIGON, Wed. (UPI) U.S. Air Force Phantoms have bombed gun positions in North Vietnam, which fired on American reconnaissance aircraft, military spokesmen said today. The F4 fighter-bombers bombed the positions 60 miles northeast of the coasto! town of Dong Hoi. Spokesmen
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    Lock icon Thai Arms Mission Arrives In Cambodia
    103 1 PHNOM PENH Wed. (Reuter) A 30-member Thai military mission, led by Interior Minister General Praphas Charusathien. arrived today to discuss assistance to Cambodia The mission will be in Cambodia for two days. They met Prime Minister General Lon Nol today, and later discussed technical
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    Lock icon 12.000 Victims
    27 1 SAIGON. Wed. (UPi) Wore than 12.f>00 South Vietnamese civilians have been killed, wounded or kidnaoped in Vietcong terrorist •cts this year. the government said Wednesday.
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    Lock icon Gangland Party For The Boss
    181 1 TOKYO. Wed (UPI) About 750 gangsters from Tokyo and its vicinity held a party at a plush restaurant in Tokyo yesterday. The occasion was to Introduce Tadashl Shtmtfu. 45. as the new boss of The organisation known as Nippon Kokusul-Kai (Japan Nationalist Society). The gangsters
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    Lock icon Brothel Keeper Wants A Duel With Police
    60 1 BANGKOK. Wed. (Reuter) —A Thai brothel keeper has challenged a oolice colonel to a duel for Jepriving him of his livelihood. According to r>olice the challenge was contained in a letter in which the man complained police action in closing his "house"' had
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    Lock icon Troops Hit Second Red Jungle Base In Thailand
    272 1 BANGKOK, Wed. (Reuter) Malaysian and Thai troops, today began to climb 2,000 ft. up to a newly-discovered Communist camp in hills on the Malaysian border. Helicopters spotted the camp under the canopy of thick jungle at the end of a three-day siege
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    Lock icon Moore Expects Freedom In Time For Cup
    295 1 BOGOTA, Wed. (Reuter) England soccer captain Bobby Moore expects to be released from custody in Colombia today in time and catch a late flight to Mexico City. Moore is being held under guard during investigations into the disappearance of a 554.200 gold bracelet
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    Lock icon Rotten Eggs Hurled At American Embassy
    103 1 SAIGON. Wed. (Reuter) About 120 Saigon students riding on motorcycles today hurled rotten eggs and vegetables at the American Embassy before being dispersed by tear gas. The students distributed leaflets protesting th e U.S. invasion of Cambodia and attacking U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. Representatives
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    Lock icon Cholera Deaths
    27 1 CALCUTTA. Wed. (Reuter) At least 180 ocople ha\> died of cholera in Calcutta City and the Mikir Hills district of Assam according to local officials.
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    Lock icon Mob Burns Harijan Village
    80 1 NEW DELHI. Wed. (Reuter» Caste Hindus have burned down the entire Harijan (Untouchable) colony of a village in the State of Orissa. Thirteen families of Harijans lived in the colony. Orissa Excise Minister Santanu Kumar Das did not say if anyone was killed or injured. He
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    Lock icon Sihanouk Seeks Aid
    128 1 Cambodia's deposed Head of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk is met at Hanoi airport by North Vietnamese President Ton Due Thane (left) and Premier Pham Van Dong (right) when he arrived to discuss aid for his government in exile. Sihanouk called on all Indochina people to "fight" the
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    Lock icon Vietcong Bridge The Gap
    87 1 PHNOM PENH. Wed. (UPI) The manager of the French rubber plantation near Chup 55 miles northeast of Phnom Penh had a communications problem yesterday when he tried to fly a light plane from the plantation to Phnom Penh. He could not contact Phnom Penh airport on
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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    Lock icon $300,000 BLAZE AT FACTORY
    301 2 A fire which swept through the Hiap Nam Huat Company, completely gutting the wooden structure at Lorong Melayu, caused damage estimated at $5OO/000 yesterday afternoon. Four fire engines took more than half an hour to put out the fire which started at 1.30 p.m. No one
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    Lock icon WOMAN KEPT DEADLY SECRET FROM FAMILY
    386 2 THE Coroner's Court was told yesterday that none of the family members of a young unmarried woman knew that she had undergone an illegal abortion before she died on May 2. According to the Assistant Pathologist of the General Hospital, Dr. Chao Tie Cheng,
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    Lock icon JURONG AVIARY
    40 2 The construction of a flvemillion dollar aviary in Jurong is almost -ompleted and will be officially opened on June 28. The aviary which covers 50 acres of land will be one of the greatest aviaries in the world.
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    Lock icon Souvanna Dares Assembly
    58 2 VIENTIANE. Wed. (UPI)— Prime Minister Prince Souvanna Phourna today challenged the National Assembly to vote him and his government out of if it doesn't like the vay they are handling anti-Commu-nist efforts Souvanna. 69 threw oown the gauntlet in an angry exchange in a closed-door session with
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    Lock icon MYF Show Friday
    93 2 The Methodist Youth Fellowship will be organising a variety concert called "Second Time Around" at the Victoria Theatre, on May, 29. The concert is in aid of mission projects, amongst which will be the adoption of a Senoi child. Rev. Ong Chaik Ghee, the President of the
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    Lock icon Sabah Polls June 21 To 27
    151 2 KOTA KINABALU, Wed. The Chairman of the Elections Commission, Tan Sri Ahmad Perang disclosed here today that parliamentary elections in Sabah will be resumed from June 21 to 27 in five constituencies. He told newsmen this after a two-hour meeting with candidates and representatives
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    Lock icon MSA MAY FLY SAIGON ROUTE
    147 2 KUALA LUMPUR Wed. The Acting Minister of Transport, Dato V. Manickavasagam said today Malaysia-Singapore Airlines should soon be able to include Saigon in its regional network. Dato Manickavasagam who is also the Minister of Labour was speaking at the opening of air negotiations between the
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    Lock icon Fall In Rubber Exports
    114 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Rubber exports for April fell by 25.695 tons compared with the previous month of March. Department of Statistics figures released here today showed that 111.707 ton s of rubber were exported in March but this fell to 86.012 toi.s in April. West Malaysian
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    Lock icon Financial Assistant Faces 3 Charges
    183 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Senior Sessions Court President, Mr. James Loh has set aside five days from Sept. 14 for the trial of a financial assistant of the Commerce and Industry Ministry on three charges of Criminal Breach of Trust. The accused Haroon bin Monamed
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    Lock icon FLAG DAY
    30 2 The Sree Naravana Mission will hold their annual flag day this Saturday. Proceeds from the flag day will be used to provide scholarship, study loans and welfare assistance.
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    Lock icon COURT HEARS OF ALLEGED 'TORTURE'
    513 2 Kidnap-Killing, Day IS An accused in the Ong Beang Leek kidnap-murder case yesterday alleged that he was fortured into signing a cautioned statement. Lim Kim Kwee, one of three men charged with the killing on May 24, 1968 was not making his defence yesterday. He
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    Lock icon TOTO PANEL TODAY
    58 2 Mr William Tay, the manager of Tay Buan Guan Supermarket is the chairman on the panel of judges in today's toto draw to be held at The Singapore Wonderland Amusement Park. The other panel members are Mr, Lee Sze Ghor, a toto agent and Mr. William Tan,
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    Lock icon Employers Fed.'s AGM
    148 2 J.D.H. NEILL of Fraser Neave (Singapore i Private Limited was elected President of thr Singapore Employers Federation recently. Other members are Lim Hong Keat of Metal Box Company of Malaysia Limited and C-T. Smith of Firestone Singapore Private Limited (Vice-President); Mr. R.F. Jenkins of Guthrie Waugh Singapore
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    Lock icon 'Full Gospel Churches' Banquet For NZ Visitors
    179 2 SOME 300 people from the various "Full Gospel Churches" attended a banquet on May 25 in honour of Full Gospel eßusiness Men from New Zealand. The lavish banquet was held at The Golden Phoenix, Hotel Equatorial. The dinner was held in the honour
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    Lock icon CEYLON GOES TO POLL
    211 3 COLOMBO. Wed. (Reuter) Big queues of voters formed outside polling stations throughout Ceylon long before they opened today. The general election to choose a new government is now going on. Police have deployed almost their entire force of 12.000 men to man the booths and patrol
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    Lock icon Strikers Cause Traffic Jam In Sydney
    100 3 SYDNEY. Wed. (Reuter) More than 200 police were rushed to suburban Newtown early this afternoon to control striking labourers. More than 150 building workers marched 16 abreast down Sydney's busy George Street. The latter Is the main outlet from the city, causing chaos to
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    Lock icon Teacher Shortage In Canberra
    95 3 CANBERRA. Wed. (Reuter) A suburban high school parents and citizens association here will fly a school teacher from India. Pakistan or Ceylon to comba* teacher shortages. President of the Deakln High School P and C Association, Allan Menere disclosed. "We urgently require maths and science teachers
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    Lock icon Suharto's Indochina Solution: Get All Foreign Troops Out Of Cambodia
    251 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter and UPI) President Suharto told President Nixon last night that for the sake of peace in Indochina, all foreign troops should be withdrawn from Cambodian soil. The Indonesian leader did not specifically mention the US and South
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    Lock icon Man Sleeps Through $300,000 Robbery
    206 3 LOS ANGELES, Wed. (UPI) Comedian Joe Brown. 78. bed-ridden and under sedation. slept through a *****.000 robbery yesterday. His wife and »wo male nurses were bound. Police disclosed the invaders cut the telephone lines at the house in the fashionahle Brentwood Heights area The robbers
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    Lock icon NZ Opposition Chief Coming Here On S.E. Asian Tour
    182 3 WELLINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) New Zealand Opposition Labour leader Norman Kirk leaves tomorrow on a three-week tour of South-East Asia. He will visit eight countries including Singapore and war-torn Indochina. Kirk will travel from Auckland to Singapore in a Royal New Zealand
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    Lock icon Deranged Man After Torture Is Now 'Normal'
    117 3 SEOUL. Wed. (UPI) Sohn Ho Gil returned deranged from a 65-day detention In North Korea following the hijacking of a Korean Air Lines (KAL) plane. He was discharged today from hospital In normal shape. He had been treated at Seoul National University Hospital
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    Lock icon 200 Terrorists Burn 2 Filipino Villages
    216 3 MANILA, Wed. (Reuter) The Philippine Government has ordered troops to seek and arrest some 200 terrorists in constabulary uniforms. They burnt 2 northern villages to the ground. National Police Chief. Brig-General Eduardo Garcia, last night returned from an on-the-spot inspection. *le announced that tension
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    Lock icon TELL IT TO THE MARINES
    53 3 SYDNEY. Wed. (Feuter) A skin-diver has found a bottle of beer at least 70 years old on the seabed off Sydney. The bottle is firmly corked and still containing frothy beer. It is marked with the name of an Australian brewery which went out of
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    Lock icon 3-YEAR SONG CONTEST
    60 3 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) A three-year-old contest to compose songs to Inspire North Vietnam's farmers has ended. The North Vietnam News Agency reported today that twenty-fonr songs won awards. They included a song called. "Ballad to the Five -Ton Campaign." This was a reference to Hanoi's drive
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      172 3 Bob and Mary Fuller drank in the scenery as well as the beer. On a BOAC cruise down the Rhine When Bob and Mary O Fu er decided on Europe im?. isc f° r a holiday, BOAC did more than just take them there. After flying them to Zurich in
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    Lock icon Anywhere, Any Time Peace Talks Offer By Meir
    692 4 JERUSALEM, Wed. (Reuter) Israeli Prime Minister Mrs. Golda Meir yesterday offered to meet Arab leaders anywhere, and at any time to end the war. I am prepared to go to any place to meet any responsible Arab leader of any Arab country,
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    Lock icon Lower Taxes If Tories Win: Heath
    290 4 LONDON, Wed. (Iteuter) Britain's Conservative Party put the emphasis on cool, considered administration yesterday in an election manifesto that soft-pe-dalled specific proposals for change. Conservative leader Edward Heath promised a new-look government contrasted with the gimmickry he aaid was typical of Labour Party rule,
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    Lock icon £205.000 Theft: Man Faces Charge
    55 4 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) —A man will appear in court today. charged with stealing American express travellers' cheques worth £205.000 from a south Lon don printing works. George Jones. 28. was arrested \-esterday after a high-speed police -hase through London's West End. A police car rammed
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    Lock icon BIG FOUR: 35th MEET
    86 4 UNITED NATIONS. Wed. (UPI) The Big Four ambassadors held their 35th private meeting on the Middle East yesterday and adjourned until June 12 without reaching agreement on a peace formula for Israel and the Arabs. The envoys of the United States, the Soviet Union. Britain and
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    Lock icon Nato Offer To Warsaw Pact
    59 4 ROME. Wed. (Reuten Nato foreign ministers will today reiterate their two-year-old offer to the Warsaw Pact for negotiations aiming at a balanced reduction of forces by both sides in Central Europe Their declaration will accompany a communique on the results of the two-day annual ministerial
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    Lock icon PHONE CUT
    32 4 LONDON, Wed (UPI) International telephone links between Britain *nd most parts of the world jvere severelv disrupted last night by a two-hour walkout by 140 operators at the international exchange.
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    Lock icon JACKIE DENIES HAVING MARITAL TROUBLES
    406 4 ATHENS, Wed. (UPI) Mrs. Aristotle Onassis sipped potent Greek ouso yesterday and brushed aside rumours she is having marital Oh my god. What will they think of next." said the former Jacqueline Kennedy when a UPI reporter a*sked her to comment on rumours she and
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    Lock icon BMA Calls For Doctors' Revolt
    80 4 LONDON. Wed (UPI) The British Medical Association called for a doctors' revolt against Britain's socialised medical service if Prime Minister Harold Wilson does not act on their pay demands b v Friday. Within hours of the "threat being made public. Wilson and his Minister of
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    Lock icon Police Battle With Students
    49 4 ROME. Wed. (Reuten Riot police fired teargas and made baton-charges in street clashes yesterday with several hundred stone-throw ing students protesting against the Nato ministerial conference here. At least one policeman and several students were reported injured in the fighting in a poor Rome suburb.
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    Lock icon Refugees Pour Into Beirut
    344 4 BEIRUT, Wed. (U Pl) —Thousands of border refugees yesterday poured into Beirut and demonstrators yelled "we want weapons, not wheat" then had to do without bread after new Israeli incursions into southern Lebanon. Most businesses closed for th§ day. Beirut's international airport was shut down three
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    Lock icon A Generation Of Half-stoned Pot Heads
    652 4  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: I am 16 and worried. Most of mv friends smoke pot. Some of them have freaked out on LSD. I don't touch any of it. My folks got upset once when thev found an ordinary cigarette butt in mv room
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    Lock icon Pakistanis Fight For Jordan
    198 4 JERUSALEM. We d. (Reuter) Israeli Minister of Defence. General Moshe Davan. had said Israel was aware that Pakistani soldiers were on active dutv in Jordan. General Dayan was replying to questions in the Knesset (Parliament) here on Monday night He said that Israeli soldiers had not
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    Lock icon Standby Peace Force Call
    108 4 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Wed (Reuten Secretary-General C Than! called on member governments yesterday to equip th» C.N. with a standby peace force, and to accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the World Court in their disputes These steps were essential for the enforcement of C.N. decision,
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      88 4 TODAY and YOU.]. Thursday, May 28, 1970. STAR GAZER^V By CLAV R. POLLAN H Your Doily Activity Guide JK According to the Stars. To develop messoge for Thursday, read words corresponding to numbers 74.7g.R4 aQ H cf your Zodioc birth sign. LIMA Sf»T. il r~t»r OCT. 13- 27-34 60 74-78-84
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    Lock icon NIXON-SUHARTO MEET
    512 6 "INDONESIAN President Suharto's visit to the United States, planned a long time ago. was primarily intended to say "Thank you'. The United States played the major role in obtaining a moratorium for the crippling debts which Indonesia had accumulated with western countries and Russia during the Sukarno regime.
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    Lock icon SPACE EXPLORATION
    376 6 "pOR a long time the patterns of space exploration followed by the United States and the Soviet Union have been emerging and their divergence is now clear. Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Yeliseyev told the 16th Congress of the Soviet Kosomol that the main trend in Soviet space research is
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    Lock icon THEY'RE GIVING OUT Ph.Ds FOR BOX-TOPS
    1230 6  -  The State Of T By R.W. Cocking (GEMINI) LONDON: The United States' genius for mass production is achieving startling and worrying results in higher education. Some 26,500 Americans received their Doctor of Philosophy degree last year, or three times as many as 10 years
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    Lock icon ETIQUETTE
    407 6  -  By DICK WEST (UPI). WASHINGTON Your chances of getting rich yourself are pretty remote. and if you aren't rich your chances of heinr invited to hobnob with rich people are practically nil. Nevertheless, there is always a slim risk that some rich friend will ask vou out to his
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    Lock icon What The Israelis Fear
    783 6  -  By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON The Israeli in. telligence analysts now fear indeed three quarters expect that air combats between their pilots and the Soviet flyers In Egypt will become unavoidable before very long. The persistent bearer of bad news is always unwelcome, especially if the news
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    Lock icon Now Banda Gets Tough With His Asians
    576 6  -  By ALAN RAKE (GEMINI) LONDON: Following the example of the other East African countries, Malawi is starting to squeeze its Asian traders. President Hastings Banda has given Asians a clear warning to move out of African villages and only trade in Government-declar-ed trading
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  • COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon WEAK TRADING ON INDUSTRIALS
      340 7 INDUSTRIALS continued on its downward movement yesterday in the Stock Market. This deterioration was due to the influence of the overseas market. Many counters either remained unchanged or plunged deeply with heavy losses in a few. Turnover issued after the market, eased from 1.6 million units
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1072 7 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms ot the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number ot shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDL'STRI \LS ALCAN Si 50 (2) SI 43 (3) 147 *3> 51 45 «3» SI
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      Lock icon London Rubber Neglected
      55 7 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Rubber market closed neglected vesterdav with spot 20-.V8."2n-3 4 Settlement House July 20-11/16, 20-15 16. Aug. and .Tuly/Sopt. 2015 16. 21-3/16. Oct/De-. 21-3/8. 21-1/2 Jan/March 21-7/16, 215 8. April/June 21-1/2, 21-3/4 July/Sent. 21-9/16. 21-3/4. Oct" Der. 21-5/8. 21-13/16. Jan./ March 21-11/16, 217/8. April/June 21-3
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      520 7 ARRIVALS 145 am M*\ |»,5 k Lumpar 625 am. MvA 554 Colombo iOam Ms-% lis K. I umpiir >l>.\ 452 K. Luntpur 11 »tu M>A 154 Penang, R. Luinpur 3)»«am. M>A 101 Jakarta 130 p m MsA 4">l Kuchtnc 2-3o pm. M>\ »»i K Lumpur, Malacca 335 p
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      Lock icon NEW LOW FOR INDUSTRIALS
      107 7 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Prices took a battering and ran back In broad fronted retreat on the stock exchange yesterday driven lower by Wall Street's gloom. Before trading ended the Industrial share Index had plummeted 13.8 to 315.5 to set a new 1970 low putting {>rices down
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      Lock icon Gold Prices Retreat
      79 7 NEW YORK, Wed. (JPI) Gold prices retreated on markets hers and abroad yesterday. gold was four cents lower at the morning fixing at $35.85 per ounce and slipped another 21 cents to $35 825 at the afternoon fixing. Continental gold markets also were easier Handy and Harman
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      Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING PRICES
      632 7 BID and offer prices officially listed yesterday at the close of business in th« trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore were: IXDrSTRIALA B8. Alran 1.40 148 Borneo Berhad Cd 1.59 1.62 Boustead Co 1.76 188 Camel Plywood •8 Central Sugars S-90 3-94
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      Lock icon DJ SUFFERS ANOTHER BEATING
      179 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (CPT) The Dow Jones industrial average, which tumbled more than 20 points on Monday, took another beating yesterday following the collapse of an early technical rally. Trading w as heavy. The closely watched barometer of 30 selected blue chips was off 10.20 to
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      Lock icon Peso Unchanged
      26 7 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) The Philippine peso remained unchanged yesterday at 6.165 pesos against one U.S. dollar. Sales on the interbank currency market totalled U*****,000.
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      Lock icon TEN PRICE
      30 7 On the Straits tin market yesterday. business was done at $642-3/4 Der picul down $26.25. This w as the lowest price recorded since the beginning of thig year.
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      Lock icon Rubber: 57 1/8 Cts.
      269 7 June first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 57-1/8 cents per lb. down 1-1/4 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was slightly easier. Lack of follow through in London made for an easier market
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      Lock icon DOW JONES
      39 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 631.16 20 Transp 131.53 J 5 Utilities 97 84 65 Stocks 208.66 40 Bonds 67.71 Commodity Futures Index 133.99 off 0.34
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      44 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) —Rubber futures yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange: (Close) (Pre?) July 22.50B 22.50 Sept. 22.50B 22.50 Nov. 22.00B 22.00 Jan. 21.75B 21.75 Mar. 21.75B 21.75 May 2175B 21.75 Locally. No. 2 RSS was 21-3/4 cents t*r pound.
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      Lock icon Mining Shares Recover
      376 7 Sydney Stocks, Closing Prices SYDNEY, Wed. (UPI) BHP and several mining leaders made a partial recovery this afternoon on Sydney Stock Exchange after buyers ravaged them this morning. Soon after trading opened It appeared that Tuesday's deluge of selling orders would continue However, when BHP dropped to
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      87 7 I'HK n<K>n pnm »t the Mneapore Chinee Produce Exchance re«terdaj »ere> t» B. Coconut oil (FOB.) Ham ft* no Cot<>nut Oil (FOB.) Dram 60 SO Mixed Copra 85-50 Muntok White Pepper (FOB) 1.12.50 Sarawak White Pepper (FOB.) 150 00 Sirauak Special Black I'epper (FOB) NLW 115 00 La mpone
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      81 7 (Managers' Price for May CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS 8 Growth Fund .99 1 04 ASIA ITtfT TBI SIS M Invest Fond xd 1.13 1 18xd SINGAPORE UNIT TRUST 4 1st Singapore 2.52 2nd Singapore 1-80 3rd Singapore 1.11 The Com. Ind 85 l (M»t4 The Sav Fund *d -98
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      Lock icon TODAY'S SHIPS IN PORT
      82 7 The Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for today. May 28 ARRIVALS Godowns Vessels B'9 Gurdun Bakke 6/7 Ragna Bakke 33/34 Robert Maersk 40/41 Johneverett 27/28 Shavit 47 Glenorchy 20 EAST Sirusa 21 WEST Scudai E.W. Jetty Rokan 149 DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels
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      386 7 KIAW AIK HANG FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED (INCORPORATED IN THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE) BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31st DECEMBER, 1969 SHARE CAPITAL Authorised: 50.000 Shares of $lOO/'- each Issued:— 5.003 Shares of sloo'- each fully paid RESERVE FUND UNAPPROPRIATED PROFITS CURRENT LIABILITIES PROVISIONS Fixed Deposit Accounts Savings Accounts Provision for Income
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    Lock icon What Is International Milk Day?
    326 8 INTERNATIONAL Milk Day? Hardly anybody has heard of It in Singapore. So. nobody celebrates It. But it exists and countries in Europe celebrate It today like they have been doing for the past decade. Australia, a major dairy country, has also been celebrating International Milk
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE $5 ESSAY WINNERS
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      Lock icon MY MOTHER'S ADVICE
      107 9 One day I wos walking t 0 the market when suddenly the whole sky becartie dark. Heavy rain began to pour. I ran for shelter under a big tree There \*os a very bright lightning and then came a loud thunder. A branch from the tree snapped,
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      Lock icon The Three Men Were Wearing Black Shirts
      412 9 1 REMEMBER an Incident that happened a few years ago when I was alone at home on a night. Whenever I think about it, I feel very frightened and dare not stay at home alone at night. My mother was sick and was
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      242 9 Cancer is a disease which claims a steady toll of human lives all over the world. It is a perilous disease which is second only to diseases of the heart and arteries. Cancer is also a disease which arouses violent emotions. People Prefer to shun those who have cancer.
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      186 9 RUBPER is the maior p*nnrt of Malaysia. It Is a very important raw material because it can be used for making tyres, raincoats, toys, and many other useful things which \*e use in our daily lives. What is rubber 3 It is a kind of juice obtained from a
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      272 9 TODAY when we consider the value of anything at all, we often ask what can it do for us, what advantages does it have Many of us think that other subjects have their advantages but history alone escapes. What i? history s Everyday is history. Everything that happens is
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      414 9 We are living in the age of science Heavy machines can now do the work which even the strongest men could not do in the post. To use these machines we need the knowledge of science not the muscles of Hercules To operate the machine is an
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      470 9 THE Olympic games ore so called because they were held on the plains of Olympia, near El is in PeloDcnnesus The actual date of the first festival is unknown, but it was probably about 1222 B.C. The ancient Olympic games lasted for five days The first doy was
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      242 9 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essav writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears to this page everv Thursday. One of the objects of this contest it to encourage young boys and fflrls to express themselves properly. And what better iray to
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      67 9 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Alden McWiliams V KNOW, IN A WAr, THE KID REMINDS ME o«= My sister.wehdv. SHE'S ALWAVS SOT A V SNAPpy COME-BACK BUT, AT THAT MOM C NT, IN WENDy PAVEN*S ACWPTMENT... POB'N JACKSON HAS M 1 L a i >♦ > f it! THE
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    472 11 RANGOON, Wed. (Reuter) When Burmete boxers go into action the band strikes up and western fighters step quietly out of th e way. For this sport, once banned for its brutality, is making a rugged comeback here with a range of kicks, elbow jabs, knee blows
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    108 11 TAIPEI. Wed. (UPD Judoists from nine countries and one region will take part In the second Asian Judo championships tournament scheduled to open in Kaohslung on Friday Teams from Japan. Singapore and the Philippines arrived in Taipei yesterday. The rest of the field are expected
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    117 11 CONTESTING THE MARK one of the most striking features of Australian Rules football. Th e players fly high to take a fair catch, from which a free kick results. Reaching for the ball from in front of one of the sets of four bamboo goal posts at
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    512 11 French Open PARIS, Wed. (Reuter) Australian Lew Hoad was forced to draw on all his experience to reach the men's singles second round in the French Open tennis championships here yesterday. The 35-year-old Sydney player, the 12th seed, was involved in more than
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    237 11 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) Berkrerk Chartvanchal of Thailand was asked yesterday to defend his World Boxing Association (WBA) flyweight title against Bernabe Vlllacampo of the Philippines In a return match In Manila next July. Vlllacampo's business manager. Lope Sarreal Jr.. said he has cabled the offer to
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    625 11 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Lancashire scored the first win over their old rivals Yorkshire since 1960 yesterday to stay on top of the Enalish County cricket championship. They won by ten wickets to boost their points total after four matches to 66. Surrey, who
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    88 11 PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida, Wed. (UPI) U.S. Open champion Orville Moody shot a steady one-under-par 71 yesterday to defeat PGA champion Ray Floyd by two strokes and set the target score ♦or National Golf Day participants. The one-under-par will be the target for an estimated 100.000
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    206 11 W-Cup Rally FORTIN, MEXICO, Wed. (Reuter) Finnish driver Hannu Mikkola in a Ford Escort appeared the certain winner of the gruelling 16.000-mile World Cup motor rally from London to Mexico which ended here yesterday. Mikkola. who had built up a good points lead, crossed the finishing
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    118 11 LONDON. Wed. The John Player golf classic at Hollinwell, in the north of England. the tournament with the world's richest first prize. will take place from Sept. 3 to 6 in spite of rumours that it is to be canrelied or postponed to October. The
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    75 11 The annual Police Military hookey match will be played at the Padang today. Mrs. E. W. Barker, wife of the Minister foj Law and National Development, will give away the prizes. The Teams: POLICE:- SharilT; Savinder. Hardial (Captain); Rayat Ahmad. W. Skinner, Juruwal. Ranjlt, Lee Kok Seng. Balwant,
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      1142 11 CHANNEL 5 3.00 Opening Anncts ill all Languages and General Hospital. I Another Song Another Melody (English) < Repeat). It's Happening In Singapore (Chinese) Repeat). > Housewives Matinee (A Strange Woman Part 2 of a Mandarin Film) English Subtitles, i Close Opening Announcements in all Languages and Dr. Who. i
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    324 12 Robbery-Killing Inquiry Gunshots and shouts of hands up" stopped a PUB cashier as he was about to take out a bag containing $124,799.65 from the boot of a car, a magistrate's court was told yesterday. The cashier, Mr. Joseph Lee Tene Poh, pave a vivid account
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    258 12 A MOTHER yesterday refused to bail out her son who was convicted of stealing her gold bracelet and gold ring. Mohamed Hasir bin Ahmad. 18, admitted that he stole the articles valued at $350 from his mother, Marhiati binte Juarhir, 40. The
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    203 12 THESE girls (above) all beauty queen title holders will take part rr» the "Queen of Queens" contest to be heid at the Golden Lotus Saturday night. The lucky winner will represent the Republic at the forthcoming Miss Universe contest at Miami Beach
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    105 12 Five persons stopped a ear and requested the driver to take them to Taman Jurong, yesterday. The driver of the car. Ong Yin Hock. 47. of Lorong 32. Geylang agreed to the request. He was then travelling along Margaret Drive at 7.50 p.m. when the five
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    356 12 BERSATU PADU' WARM-UP AT the end of the second day of Exercise "Spring Handicap' a score of prisoners had been taken by the troops of the British and Singapore 'Bcrsatu Padu' Brigade operating an anti-terrorist operation in the Endau-Kota Tinggi Wild Life Reserve and the
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    74 12 KUALA TRENGGANU. Wed. The Malaysian ambassador designate to Italy, Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee, today received his credentials from the Yang di-Pertuan Agong at the Istana Badariah here Tan Sri Wone nnd his wife were received in audience by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja
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    49 12 Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah yesterday dismissed an appeal by Sea Kuang Lain against his conviction and sentence. Sea who was found guilty of dishonestly retaining stolen property was sentenced to 18 months' Jail by a Magistrates* Court. The offence was committed on January 18 this year.
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    84 12 Three youths stole copper wires valued at SIOO belonging to the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, a Court was told yesterday. The eldest of the three. Rar.endran %'o Subramaniam. 18 yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge r A stealing the insulated 260 feet, of
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    18 12 There were a total of 60 accidents, five of which were described as serious, on Tuesday
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    185 12 Newly formed Air Travel Club, aimed to foster a spirit of brotherhood, friendship and better understanding amongst airline and travel agents, held their first general meeting recently. Formerly known as the Airlines Staff Association, its new-elected President Mr. Ismail Kadir said that .ASA has changed Its
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    37 12 The Rotarv Club of Singapore West will present Laboratory fcquipment to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health. Mr Choo Yeok Eng. June t at the Singapore Blond Transfusion Laboratorv, Outram Road. General Hospital.
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