Eastern Sun, 23 September 1970

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  • 266 2 TAXI OWNER Quek Boon Yan, 35, wot yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for the alleged murder of his elder brother, Kwek Ah Chye, 40. He is alleged to have used one of his five taxis to run
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  • 190 2 An unemployed youth, who was released from prison last month, was yesterday sentenced to three years' Jail for cheating a woman by Impersonating a police officer. Michael Prakkrama Dabarara. 24, who had four previous convictions, admitted In the Ninth Magl st r ate's
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  • 126 2 THE Institute of A Southeast Asian Studies has up-to-date received a sum of $463,000, since the campaign started In June. Yesterday, one of the biggest oil companies in Singapore Esso presented a cheque for $lOO,OOO to the chairman of the
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  • 80 2 The acting Prime Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, yesterday senA a cable to Tun Abdul Razak, congratulating him on his appointment as the second Prime Minister of Malaysia. ''We look forward to working closely with you and your Government in a spirit of mutual understanding
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • 198 3 An elderly couple, who were admitted to the General Hospital following an explosion of a kerosene cooker, died yesterday. Both were placed on the dangerously ill list on admission but succumbed to their burns late yesterday evening. The husband, Quek Ling Hoe
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  • 150 3 This is not a new-style Field Marshal's baton being displayed by Air Chief Marshal the Earl of Bandon (Retd) but an Irish cudgel better known in Eire and Northern Ireland as the shillelagh. The Air Chief Marshal took the shillelagh with him on his 8,500
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  • 149 3 Medical officers are working hard to trace the origin of the current conjunctivitis epidemic as more of the eye disease are reported. Many schools, firms and Government offices report an average of six cases of conjunctivitis a day. Sleuths Medical sleuths from
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  • 94 3 Sawmill worker. Tan Chai Hin, 17, who was attacked by four men on Monday night, is now reported to be recovering at the Thomson Roaa General Hospital. Tan was walking horn# along Jalan Cheng Hwa, when four persons fronted him. One of them pushed him from
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  • 78 3 Office workers and commuters were caught unprepared when a sudden downpour flooded lowlying areas in the City centre and rural areas yesterday afternoon. The lunch-time floods saw many stranded and drenched. The Meteorological Department recorded a total of 2.43 inches of rainfall since noon.
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  • 287 3 QNE of the four men on trial in the High Court for gong robbery yesterday claimed a restaurant cashier tried to cheat him. "I told him I was not a foreigner ond he hod to return me the change for a
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  • 505 4 JOHORE BAHRU Lee Wong Tiong, 29, was "seriously intoxicated, confused and temporarily and violently insane at the time he allegedly killed Esther Chan, a prominent Singapore psychiatrist told the High Court yesterday. This was stated by Dr. Wong Yip Chong, 41, in his expert
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  • 175 4 AUCKLAND, New Zealand Singapore student Joseph Cheng, 17, failed in a claim for the return of S$U3O fees and 554.504) general damages from a business college he attended in New Zealand for two days. The claim wag heard In Auckland Magistrate's Court by
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  • 109 4 A leak in a 30-inch water main off Airport Road has been the cause for low pressure and a cut in water supplies since Monday. The Public Utilities Board announced that Its engineers and workmen have been carrying out the necessary repairs round the clock.
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  • 237 4 Former South-East Asia boxing champion 36-year-old R.A.F. Sergeant John Ross, is now a hero to the dogs at Tengah one of three RoyaS Air Force stations in Singapore. During the past 18 months, he has found new homes for 500 dogs. Their former
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 410 5 f OS ANGELES Shell cosings found of Spohn Ronch were fired from Hie tome pistol used in staying of the Shoron Tote Home, o bollistics expert testified ot the murder triof. The lost link connecting the .22-colibre
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  • 203 5 DUESSELDORF, Germany One of three men charged with stealing a U.S.-made Sidewinder Rocket told a court he did it as one of the "favours" demanded by the Soviets in return for a lucrative building contract. Manfred Ramminger, a 39-year-old architect, admitted hia part in
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  • 67 5 SUVA, FIJI The French Government hag French Polynesian demands for self, government, Tahltlan delegate to the South Pacific Conference Romuald Allaln disclosed. Allaln, an executive member of the French Polynesian Government, stressed he did not want Independence but wanted to remain French under Tahiti's own Government. He believed
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  • 43 5 CHICAGO Pregnant women near their delivery time should not take aspirin. The latter could cause circulation problems lor the baby during the first few days of Its life, warned an article In the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 185 5 a rri ji» \.*r <&< fam V UK i Hi *V «i M >* *> -c- I.* i m* S* Like Ong Beng Teck, successful businessmen have a BOAC VCIO behind them. Direct to London. j The most pleasant way to Ak J get down to busineea in London it
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  • 133 6 /COPENHAGEN Cars were overturned, windows of American and French businesses smashed and traffic halted by hundreds of left-wing student demonstrators rampaging through Copenhagen. They were protesting against the World Bank, whose annual conference opened on Monday. Their main target is its President, Robert McNamara, former
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  • 27 6 WASHINGTON President Nixon announced that he would meet Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato when the latter comes to America for the United Nation's celebrations.
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  • 266 6 PARIS Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew arrives in Paris today for a week's official visit to France. He will have talks with President Georges Pompidou and other government leaders. Mr. Lee's talks -here are expected to centre on world problems, particularly situation
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  • 77 6 A six-week-old Minneapolis boy became the youngest kidney recipient in history on Sunday when doctors replaced his defective kidney with one from an unnamed 6-year-old who had just died. Dr. John Najarian, Surgery Chief at the University of Minnesota Hospital announced William Aukland was in satisfactory condition. However,
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  • BRIEFLY AROUND THE WORLD
    • 361 6 TOKYO, Kyodo News Service quoting Japanese Foreign Ministry sources disclosed that China may carry out a nuclear experiment around Its National Day on October 1. Kyodo said the sources speculated that the nuclear detonation would be on a small scale with a missile carrying
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  • 200 7 IHLGRADE, Yugoslavia President Tito announced thot a collective body would rule Yugoslavia in the future rather than the President alone. Addressing social and political workers at Zagreb. Tito added it would be made up of two or three representatives of the nation's seven constituent
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  • 90 7 PAGO PAGO. American Samoa Authorities abandoned a search for 8 Korean fishermen off the coast of this U.S. territory. The men disappeared on Saturday from the 150- foot tuna vessel •Namhae 225.' which crashed on a reef 300 yards offshore and rolled on its side.
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  • 68 7 BANGKOK Thai police have arrested a village headman but appear to have lost track of the communist guerrillas who ambushed and killed three top Government officials in northern Chiang Rai Province. The village chief. Sanpad Sitlhi, was charged by police with leading the Governor of Chiang Rai
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  • 148 7 MANILA Rescuers yesterday doe Ringerly through mud covering a mine shaft in the southern city of Toledo in an attempt to save 8 miners trapped within since Sunday. Mud had then cascaded down and sealed the shaft. There was no way of telling
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 216 7 save germany for later Save it for after the others have closed. We promise you will be surprised. Especially if you thought nightlife was something invented by those other countries. A swing through Germany's nightspots is like wrapping up the Folies, the Windmill, the Via Veneto and Las Vegas in
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  • 654 8 desperate plight of Jordan is clearly revealed in her request for assistance from the United States and from "other major powers", obviously the Soviet Union included, to help her resist the attacks made by the Palestinian guerrillas and the Syrian troops. It is reported that the request for
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  • 495 8  -  By Art Buchwald, IT has been reported that the president of the Toyota Motor Co. has had a half-million dollar shrine constructed in Japan for the repose of th« sou's of people killed in Toyota cars. The question that immediately comes to mind is. "Will
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  • 489 8  -  By Geoffrey Murray, FACED with growing public outcry against pollution of the environment, Japan's industrial giants are on the defensive. Their plants are being forced to curtail or halt production, factories are on the move looking for new homes throughout Japan
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  • 269 8 Mid east trouble: It's plot by Nixon Peking HONG ...KONG, The Chinese Government in a strongly worded statement has condemned tha U.S. for allegedly instating Jordan to launch an unprecedented!? larrescale military offensive la a bid to wipe out Palestinian guerillas. Radio Peking declared Chinese support for the Palestinian Armed
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • 1255 9  -  After 3 years he realised it wasn't worth it... By Jacquie Lee youth leaned bock ond dragged hard on his cigarette. Ihe smoke flowed smoothly inside his mouth. He sighed, exhaled slowly in gentle streams and passed the cigarette to his friend. He
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  • Article, Illustration
    7613 10/11 ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE DELEGATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC YOUTH LEAGUE OF FINLAND FOR THE "KANSAN UUTISET," CENTRAL ORGAN OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF FINLAND. September 2, 1969 u. QUESTION: U.S. lmper'alism has Intensified its manoeuvrings against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Do you
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  • POPPING AROUND WITH PLATTER PETE
    • 250 13 HI THERE{ Like Holy Tsk Tsk I've received so many letters asking me about the flip-side titles of discs like "Magical Mystery Morning" by the Cats, and "Mama Told Me Not To Come" by Three Dog Night, and "The Long And Winding Road" by the Beatles, that
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    • 373 13 JIMMY CLIFF SINGS CAl< STEVENS SINGLES JIMMY CLIFF "Wild World'' (Island) Most people tend to associate Jimmy Cliff with nothing; but reggae. I wouldn't describe this as a stigma so much as unfortunate type-casting. This single goes a long way towards lifting Jimmy out of that rut. A CAT
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    • 378 13 TRAFFIC the magical musical union of STEVE WINWOOD. JIM CAPALDI and CHRIS WOOD is once more. A new album from the trio, recognised during their last spell together as one of the world's most exciting and adventurous groups, is in preparation and scheduled for
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 248 13 SHAW I ISATION SB 5^22 L I D O Phone *****4 U>i iiit;: No Krw Lul II a.m. 1.45, 4. 6.39. IMS THE UNGRATEFUL ONE' Mandarin ID Scope. Color OPENS TOMORROW D. H. Lawrence's "Women la Lave" Color lUBi CAPITOL Rhone *****j LAST 3 SHOWS! 11 am. 1.45, 4.00 pm.
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    • 114 13 STARS' BIRTH DATES HI THERE! For those of you who have asked for it, here's another list of stars' birthdays, which you may share with. Sept 16: BERN CALVERT (Hollies). Sept. 23: RAY CHARLES. Sept. 24: ANTHONY NEWLEY. Sept. 28: HELEN SHAPIRO. Sept 29: JERRY LEE LEWIS. Sept. 30: JOHNNY
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    • 130 13 RGAINJISATIOIM OdEOfM '***** 1 PJ CHARD -***** CATHAV -***** last oayi J' ••■a 1J». m •'LOLA BABY" EaMmancolor U»U» Palana Peter MarlelJ OPEN 8 TOMORROW I (NO PR IK LIST) Clint EaMwood In UOITi "KELLY'S HEKOKS" Telly Havalu. P*VUIoo. Color MA JESTIC-***** LAST DAT! -THE riUT TlME"(Bcope> English Chinese Sub*
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 1960 14 LOOKING AND LISTENING....fv radio guide I CARROLL RIOHTER'8 fiom the C si roll Kightcr Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: You have a big chance now to charm others and get your emotional problems adjusted. Make a big point to do your marketing and whatever merchandising you have to do whether it be
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  • 315 15 WHEN you're worn out at the end of a hard day's work and put your feet up to watch television, do all those glossy well-groomed people make you feel miserable? Do they remind you oil the more about your wrinkles, your lumpy
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  • 312 15 Tie dying in Japan is far from a thing of making knots in fabric with rubber bands or strings. According to Reiko Ehrman, who learned the art as a child in Japan, the design is achieved very precisely, not at random. It's traced in chalk on the
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  • 228 15 BY now, everyone has a number of scarves, so designers this fall are turning their attention to new, unusual designs. The idea is that women have now become collectors, buying new scarves only when the design and colour exert strong appeal. At Echo Scarfs, for example, they're doing
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  • 85 15 This could be attributed to the camera lights. The bags under the eyes are dealt with a lighter tint of foundation which disguises them completely. Double chins are no problem either, with an expert that Is. Darker tones of foundation are shaded In and
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  • Article, Illustration
    79 15 rhe fringe is In. Long thin, short and fat size doesn't matter as long as It's fringing. Fring bags, jeans, skirts, hats, belts anything, but put a fringe on it. You don't need to go quite ag far as this Canadian model with a fringed skirt that's almost all
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  • 691 15  -  Ann Landers Dear Ann: I am a foreign-born woman with more than one college degree. I am also beautiful. My marriage was going poorly after one year so I consulted psychiatrists, clergymen and two doctors. They all said. "Divorce him.'* After five
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 301 16 Better conditions ensued in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday with selected issues at a slightly improved leveL Under the recent cautious mood operators preferred the sidelines. Elsewhere on the board was hovered mainly with quotations as trading was very light. Transactions in hotels
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    • 254 16 October first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur jesterday at 50-1/2 cents per lb. up .1/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was very quiet. Opening prices were marxed down 3/8 cents thereafter the market lost
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    • 57 16 (Manater** PrJc* rot sept. 23) ASIA (JNn TBCJ8T8 M Invest 1JW 1.28 M ill Proa. l.oo 1.05 CBAKTEKt.D ('Nil TBU8T8 8. O. rand 102 1.07 .SINGAPORE CJNli TR08T8 *nd 8*pore 1.71 Srd Spore MS Com fad ii 1.01 The Savins Fajnd .08 l.OSxd 8- P Pand M 98xd
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    • 13 16 The tin price for yesterday was $661 per picul down 3-3/8.
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    • 249 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Private investment in tiie manufacturing sector showed a "strong upward trend" during the flrst quarter of this year although the level of economic activity dropped slightly compared with the same period last year. The quarterly economic bulletin of the Central Bank of Malayda said that
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    • 121 16 HONG KONG—Tuesday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and invest* men! Ltd.): (Buyers) (Sellers) 190.5 197.5 per 100 strait* dollars 150 152 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6.7425 0.7525 per Australian dollar 340 960 per 1.000 Burmese kyata 475 495 per 1.000 Indian rupees ISS 156 per
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    • 655 16 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS 8 Aetna 131 L 34 AJinomoto 196 Z.M Aku L4S L4S Allied Choc. 275 2.78 Ben. 199 1-06 Berjaya 1.19 1J26 Borneo
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    • 820 16 BI'SINESS done In and reported to the trading rtons of the Stock Exchange of Malavsla and Sinrapore with the nnnber of shares traded in brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS ACMA $134 (6) $133 (1); Alcan $l4l (1) DIM $1.43 CI); Allied Choc. $278
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    • 79 16 THfc mob prfm at the Klncapore Cblnm Exchinff ytttertij Produce were: i IH Oil III Ol) <»• oat Bulk 54 00 Coconut Oil if II M.) Dram 5*50 M. Copra 30.50 Monioh Whit* W», 1854)0 SariRHl White Prppe* 182.50 Sara waft speetai BIIH k Pepper (FOB.) ***** utmpoii* Hpeclai
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 1072 18 a. 1 Div. 2-9 F. ***** Great Sign 4y 900 Agasam Daniels ***** Feature Film II 9y 8 12 Shaw Tulloh ***** Yangtze Kiaag 6y 8.12 Sung Bros R Breuk ***** Maatrel Boy 8y 8.11 Loo St Chong Tulloh •1584 Medal Music 8y 8.11 Music
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    • 230 18 TOKYO California challenger Raul Rojas, preparing for his world junior lightweight title fight here next Sunday, boosted h»s prestige yesterday as he sparred four rounds in a public workout before some 60 boxing experts. Japanese boxing critics including former World Flyweight Champion Yashio Shirai, now
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    • 46 18 LONDON Tom Etzel, a New York policeman made his third successful English Channel swim when he crossed from France to England in 14 hours 14 minutes yesterday. Following him was Robert Lyle, a California journalist who landed after 16 hours 35 minutes of swimming.
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    • 71 18 Two of tiie top Singapore bowler* who win In the finals of the South Pacific Bowling Classic on Sunday will represent Singapore in the International SPBC In Sydney. The 1970 SPBC will be held in Sydney from Nov. 11 to NOT. 14. The finals will be
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    • 63 18 LOS ANGELES —South African tennis star Bob Hewitt was rushed to hospital with a slight brain concussion after he was knocked out by a 70-year-old spectator at a tennis championships here yesterday. Hewitt was knocked out in the locker room minutes after losing a men's singles
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  • 422 19 XJEWPORT, R.I. Australian yacht Gretel II Monday was disqualified from the second race in the America's Cup in which she finished 67 seconds ahead of the U.S. defender, Intrepid. The disqualification followed protests by both yochts after Gretel II hod collided with Intrepid, causing damage to both.
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  • 159 19 LOB ANGELES Arthur Ashe had to 90 all-out Monday to turn back fighting Francisco "Pancho" Segura, the patriarch of open competition at 49. in a hard-fought men's first round singles match of the 44th Annual Pacific Southwest Open tennis championships Ashe won the first set 6-4 and
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  • 1014 19 By DENNI BOY S/EECHMAKF.R, trainer Mansor bin Matban's sole entry in the Singapore ('Old Cup this Sunday, showed splendid form here yesterday morning. After goin? round once at a steady pace, Speechmaker, with Subian Dalwee astride, clapped on the pace to run the last 3f in
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