Eastern Sun, 9 October 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents E»td. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1469 Friday, October 9, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 357 1 JgRITISH Intelligence officers ore crocking down on illegol octivities of British servicemen ond their wives, it was reveoled yesterday. Reliable military sources said, "a serviceman or his wife tarnishing the name of Her Majesty's forces in Malaysia or Singapore will be severely dealt with in
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  • 120 1 OFFICE receptionist Grace Lum (above) shows off the form which she hopes will win her the Miss International Bikini contest, to be held at a leading nightclub tonight (October 9). Miss Lum (35-23-35) was one of two girls who showed up at a peek
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  • 194 1 Singapore has won landing rights in London for Malaysia-Singapore Airlines. This was announced yesterday in a Joint statement at the end of negotiations which started 10 days ago between British and Singapore Government officials. Under the new air agreement, MSA will be given a trunk
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  • 67 1 OTTAWA Canada yesterday offered to negotiate for the release of British diplomat James Cross, whose terrorist kidnappers have threatened to kill him if their ransom demands were not met by noon 1600 GMT.(II 30 p.m. Singapore) yesterday. External Affairs Minister Mitchell sharp called on
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 473 2 f jpEAR stalks Too Poyoh in the wake of Wednesday's brutal slayings of a girl and her younger brother in their flat. As police launched an all-out hunt for the killer or killers, residents appealed for more policemen to patrol the sprawling satellite
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  • 102 2 10.M a m. Horticultural Show. Turf Club. Rrkit Tlmah 10.04 a.m. Caliagraphy Exhibition. Victoria Memorial Hall (Lower). 3.00 p.m. Young People's Film Show, National Library Lecture Hall. Admission Free. 4.30 p.m. Speech and Priie-Giviar Day. Changkat Changi Secondary School. 5.30 p.m. Art Exhibition. Cedar Girls* Secondary School. Open
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  • 223 2 A man responsible for thefts of coins from 151 telephone booths Has been arrested by Paya Lebar police. He committed the thefts between July 1 and Sept. 23. a police spokesman said yesterday. When arrested recently, the man told acting ASP Ying Yoke Chang.
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  • 144 2 THE University of Singapore Students Union last night condemned the anti-Eng-lish language demonstration recently by the Malay Language Society of the University of Malaya USSU secretary-gene-ral, Mr. David Ho. In a statement said the USSU viewed with 'grave concern' the demonstrations demanding an Immediate
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  • 471 3 jyjORTALLY-wounded Lim Chye Huot, 20, told his brother-in-law before he died that he had been shot by a police officer, the Coroner's Court heard yesterday. This was related at the resumed hearing of the Coroner's inquiry into the death of Lim, a coffee-seller, on
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  • 317 3 Six masked men armed with spears, parangs and daggers attacked and killed a man just as he was leaving a bar on November 20 last year. An Inquiry Into the death of Tan Teck Huat, 20. at the Sin Hong Bar at the Jalan
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  • 89 3 KOTA TINGOI, The Ministry of Health has proposed a capital investment programme of $26.8 million for Johore under the Second Malaysia Plan, its Minister, Tan Sri Haji Sardon bin Hajl Jubir, said here yesterday. Of this, a sum of $2.5 million would be used for
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  • 103 3 A 'pau' (Chinese buns) eating contest will be among the highlights of the Red Cross Grand Food Festival and Exhibition to be opened by the First Lady Puan Noor Aishah tomorrow. Those able to consume the most buns within a time-limit will be awarded prizes at the
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  • 44 3 A sub-contractor was yesterday fined $5OO for employing an illegal immigrant at his Toa Payoh worksite from Sept. 2 to Sept. 7. Tan Hor Koo. 40 pleaded guilty to having employed Suparmen s/o Sarajih who had entered Singapore without a valid pass.
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  • 59 3 Teenager Lim Beng Seng, alias Ah Seng, 17, was yesterday committed to stand trial for the alleged murder of Lee Ah Kheong, alias Ah Lek, on March 21 last year. Lim, represented by Mr. Amarjit Singh, is charged with being a member of an unlawful assembly
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  • 57 3 AN International Labour Organisation management expert has joined the staff of the Hotel and Catering Centre. Mr. L. A. Marcus, formerly instructor at the Hotel School of Stockholm in Sweden, will assist in the expansion plans of the Centre. He will also assist In setting up a
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  • 198 3 Bring your mats, drinks of lime or honey; sit itop Mount Faber, one of Singapore's beauty %pots on a Sunday dawn and fast away for a day. This is the Singapore Natural Health Society's way to health and longevity. This unique support ia given in answer
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • 267 4 A LOR STAR Prime Minister Tun Abdul Raxok yesterday said Malaysia would guarantee its security with its own defence capabilities. "Malaysia will not become a strong nation unless it is willing to stand on Its own feet," he told 3,000 Alliance
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  • 411 4 KUALA LUMPUR Full support and financial kelp for setting up the Islamic Secretariat lias not been forthcoming from the Muslim countries, es- pccially the "richer ones," Tunku Abdul Rahman said here yesterday "Islamic countries" seem to be divided ijot only on racial lines and Ideas
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  • 58 4 Two armed robbers gagged, tied and blind-fold-ed a housewife on Wednesday at Yio Chu Kang Road. Madam Quek Geok Eng. 34, was robbed of $4BO in cash and her gold chain valued at $2lO. The robbers walked Into her house through the kitchen door and held
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  • 52 4 Forty-eight more 'pirate* taxi-drivers registereJ themselves for alternate •mployment Thi s brings the total to 384 since registration began 8 days ago. 'Pirate* taxi-drivers using vehicles with registration numbers from 9000 to 9999 can register today at the Ministry of Labour. Registry of Vehicles and the Chinese Chamber
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  • 75 4 SINGAPORE yesterday received two trainer aircraft for its Air Force from New Zealand. Picture shows Act fast Prime Minister aad Minister for Defence. Dr. Goh Ken* Bwee (right), looking at «ikr of the Airtowrer TS aircraft Mr. HE PrandsJ Ne w Zealand's High Commissioner here
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  • 86 4 KUALA LUMPXJR Member countries of Asean yesterday called for the setting up of an Asean machinery to improve "the standard ot operation and main, tenance of telecommunication v networks la this region. The Permanent Committee on transportation and Telecommunications. which ended here yesterday, said this
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  • 80 4 The Adult Education Board is conducting a course on "Learning tha Recorder for Beginners.* It is scheduled to begin on October 25. The course is designed to teach those to play simple tunes and songs on the recorder and popular songs within tha range from C
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  • 262 4 KUALA LUMPUR The Ministry of Transport is to spend about $ll4 million on development projects within the next two years lor improving port and airport facilities in East Malaysia. This was disclosed yesterda v b v the Minister of Transport Dato Abdul
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  • 176 5 A young woman wept hysterically yesterday as she threw herself across the body of the man she married a month ago. Madam Yap Law Chan, 20, was hysterical when she and her mother-in-law claimed the body of her husband from the mortuary. Tan Pay Kah,
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  • 128 5 Two men were yesterday committed to stand trial on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to Toh Sicw Hong at Jalan Membina Barat last Monday. Tan Kwee Huat, 23, and Khone Tak Kon. 21, pleaded guiltv to having committed the act with another unknown person.
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  • 179 6 I OS ANGELES Block militont leader J Rom Karenga was or rested after he failed to appear in court to answer charges. He is alleged to have tortured 2 of his girl followers with a soldering iron, a vice and caus- tic chemicals.
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  • 389 6 CAIRO Egyptaim were assured yesterday of a new loader who lias premised the same mixture of Socialism ami resistance to Israel- Anwar Sadat. 51. was unanimously endorsed as the single candidate for the Presidency by the National Assembly. Egypt's Parliament, on Wednesday. He was
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  • 86 6 Airborne South Korean troops descend towards the Yoido Island Stadiam while soldiers and armed vehicles display their forces daring the 22nd Araaed Forces Day celebrations. The ceremony, held in the soathern sector of Scod, was attended bv President Park Chang-Bee, El, Salvador's President Fidel Hernandez,
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  • 72 6 NEW YORK Police have raided a miitinf plant in Brooklyn and seised tons of obscene books 1 and pictures worth an estimated Two brothers, whom police described as the ringleader s in an international pornography ring catering to teenagers. were arrested. Eleven employees at the printing olant—the
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  • 37 6 NICE A Paris mechanic has survived six days on a raft in the Mediterranean with only a turtle to eat and no water. Officials said that Jean Claude Hofbaver, 28, is in good condition.
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  • 166 6 KJKKLARELI, NorthWest Turkey —Aa East (ie rat an en gin err on Wednesday sig-zagged through a hail of bullets as he ran from Bulgaria into TUrkey. Hans Jochen Hermanns, 28, reached Turkish soil uninjured and asked lor political asylum. He now hoped to take the first
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  • 203 6 NEW YORK—Jaeqneiine Oussis has bees lined ii 553.991.305 damace ndt (lied by a free-lance pkotoprapher. He claimed she prevented him from taking her pietnre. Ronald Galella, of New York, disclosed in the salt that Mrs. Ousds and 3 U.S. Special Agents prevented Urn from taking the
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  • 96 6 SAIGON Within hour* after the (J.S. Command issued new military Payment Certificates (MFC) to hamper black market transactions, the marketeers were in operation with a limited supply. The Command recalled old military scrip used in lieu of IJ.S. dollars on Wrdncsdav In a surprise move.
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  • 260 7 NEW YORK United Nation Secretary General (J Thaat has turned down an invitation to a White Hone iH—er oa Oct* her 24 to mark the SSth of the U.N There fc also doobt whe the* General tkmrm hly fifiht E ward luh mm MmmSkj toaU heads
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  • 386 7 DHNOM PENH Gongs, bells and 101 gun solute will today herald Hie proclamation of N»a world's newest Republic and tbo and of a monarchy dating bock to the year 819. The proclamation will be read out at the National Assembly here by its
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  • 336 7 NEW DELHI Seven major opposition parties lure challenged Prime Misnter Indira Gandhi on the central government's take over of the administration of her home state of Uttar Pradesh. They have decided to ask lor a special session o 1 Parliament to debate the imposition
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  • 88 7 BANGKOK Govern-ment-owned Thai Airways Oomp» 7 has banned its aircraft on Domestic flights from stopping overnight at provincial airports. This is the latest move to prevent hijacking, Company sources explained. The Compaq operates a uail v network of flights throughout Thailand. It feared that hijackers
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  • 51 7 OOOOPPPS! This appears to ke the terminus. The driver of this bus in Berlsso, Argentina, lost control on a slippery corner. The bus skidded into the guy-wire supporting a lamp post and came to rest with the delicate balance of a tightrope walker. No one was
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  • 206 7 BLACKPOOL The Conservative Party hat overwhelmingly approved Hi e government's now deal tor industrial relations published this week Delegates stood and cheered after Minister ox Employment and Productivity Robert Carr, said support which his new charter has received may hare been stimulated by the terrible state
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  • 467 8 Visit to fix Bonn-Prague relations BONN A senior West German Foreign Ministry official will visit Prague next Tuesday to discuss future relations between the two states. Juergen von Alten of the Ministry's Eastern Europe Section Is however, not expected to start concrete negotiations now to normalise relations.
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  • 78 8 KO SING TSUN, 58, a FilipinoChinese Buddhist monk, floats on the water in Hon* Kong with his legs crossed, a typical posture of monks' sitting position. By this feat, Ko demonstrated one's ability to control the thoughts and thereby float on water in a "sitting position.'*
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  • 210 8 pLENEAGLES, Scotland Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home declared Britain has not yet decided on arms sales to South Africa. He hence called for an end to talk about a Commonwealth breakup over the Issue. He was addressing the quinquennial conference of the
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  • 285 8 BRUSSELS Security-con-scious Belgian officials cancelled President Tito's scheduled visit to a diamondcutting factory and Antwrep Port installations. Special precautions have been taken for the 78-year-old Yugoslav leader's state visit In Brussels. ThLs followed bomb attack* on the Yugoslav Embassy in Brussels earlier this year.
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  • 50 8 "THIS IS LARRT. Please take care of him. I can't support him." This message was found on a note pinned to this little boy's shirt. Ilie 2y ear-old was found abandoned in St. Louis, Missouri, and was placed in a foster home while police searched for hi* parents.
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  • 246 9 T OS ANGELES Charles Manson and his three young women co-defend-ants apparently are bent on boycotting their murder trial. \\anson, 35, bearded hippie cult leader, and the three female members of his so-called "family," may be permitted to return to court it
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  • 161 9 BUFFALO, New York A prisoner, who turned himself in to authorities, killed one policeman and wounded another in a run battle outside a has pital admission office on Wednesday, before he was shot to death himself. The prisoner, Elijah "Williams. 33, turned himself in at police
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  • 315 9 PORT HOOD, Texas —A military judge on Wednesday d missed four prospective jurors in a surprise move at the first court martial over the alleged My Lai massacre. The four wer e among a panel of Id officers appointed by the Army to try
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  • 147 9 NEW YORK Prison guards, held hostage at three of New York City J»Us during the past week, said Wednesday they feared more rioting unless City officials moved quickly to change the situation. "Both the prisoners and the guards are the victims,' said a W. Green, 50, working
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  • 89 9 Whatever he may think, former President Lyndon Johnson is still in the public eye. This huge carnival mask is part of a new exhibition called "Celebration: The World of Festivals" at the Halmark Gallerv in New York. Jane Colon (left) and Maureen Boyle of the Gallery's
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  • 125 9 CLEVELAND, Ohio A teenage gird hypnotised hy a classmate, who was unable to break the trance, was reported in satisfactory condition, bat still un der the spell in which she kept muttering "I'm freezing, I'm freeling." Cynthia R. Perkins. 16, and nine other Classmates were hypnotised
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  • 742 10 TtfANY political commentators agreed re--ITI cently that President Nixon has revived the lost art of brinkmanship and well it might be because he was the Vice President at the time whei> John Foster Dulles, as the Secretary of State, enunciated the theory and practised the art of
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  • 735 10  -  By Joseph Alsop, months, the titanic drama of the Cooper Church amendment absorbed the Senate, convulsed Washington and covered the front pages with acres of breath less, though not deathless prose. Passage Its ffinol passage, by a narrow majority, was fulsomely saluted as. a decisive triumph for
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  • 356 10  -  By Dick West, WITHIN the past couple of years a number of colleges and universities that originally excluded either men or women have taken at least token steps toward becoming co-educational. Which probably is a good The end of separation of the sexes doesn't necessarily mean, however, that
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • 752 11  -  Mao's people are becoming more literate By Robert Crabbe FTER 21 years of Communism, China is a country where men ride bicycles to jobs in computer factories. She has orbited a satellite that broadcast music from outer space the work of crafismen who never saw
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  • THE MORNING AFTER with Weatherbee Wong
    • 1580 12/13 GOOD morning folks. It's almost tnree months since "The Morning After", your favourite column along with Art Buchwald, first appeared. Since that first fatal day my life has changed radically, and, I'm afraid, will never be the same again. Once I was
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  • Page 12/13 Advertisements
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    • 130 12/13 AMBASSADOR HOTEL On the Waterfront at Katong PROUDLY PRESENTS THE CONSULATE BAR: For that quiet after-work drink or those pre-dinner cocktails join your friends in the Consulate Bar, the NEWEST cocktail bar in Singapore. Soft pile carpets, deep luxurious seats, relaxing rrusic, and sensible prices. Why not drop in tonight?THE
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    • 58 12/13 WHY FLY TO TOKYO OR OSAKA FOR KOBE BEEF? M.4 TSUZAK.i (Knbo) BEEF is available right here in Singajyore Specially air-flown to you from Japan by Cathay Pacific Airways Exclusively prepared by Bird Bottle; Matsuzaka Beef costs lesser than you think. E-'l BIRD BOTTLE RESTAURANT fr BAR 377, Bukit T
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  • 443 15  -  Bv Ernesto Mendoza, SUPERSTITION lurks behind the skyscrapers and the steel and concrete facade of modern Hong Kong. Buildings are often constructed according to specifications not only of an architect but also of a "Fung Shul" expert. 'Fung Shul" In the Cantonese dialect means the
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  • 114 15 DUBLIN Principal photography on Columbia Pictures' "Flight Of The Doves" has been concluded here under the direction of Ralph Nelson, who also produced. "Flight Of The Doves" reunites Ron Moody and Jack Wild the famed Fagin and Artful Dodger of "Oliver!" in a suspenseful story of
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  • 611 15  -  By Roger Doughty, If you subscribe to Morshall McLuhan's theory I hat television is o "hot medium/' be prepared to watch the mercury in your thermometer bubble over this fall when Lisa Todd turns up on the tube as a permanent member of the Hee
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  • 157 15 CULVER CITY Rock Hudson recently played host to thirty members of the Little Angels, the national folk ballet of Korea, at a luncheon at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Hudson 1« currently at work at the studio on "Pretty Maids All In A Row", the first picture to be directed
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 121 15 I 161| QRGAINJIS AT I n rvi nCHARD-***** 3rd MONTH! 7Xod DAT! mows: 1.44, S.15 B.3t pm \<lm: II :x> R.M M.N THE ADVENTUBEB8 (Par I PanaVtslon Color CAT AY 00 1 CD n ED r\j »TH 8CBEAMINO DAY! 11 Mi. 1.3*. «.M. •■SO "Here*® And Scream Again" Vincent Price
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    • 246 15 L I D O Phon 3734 1 4 OKN« TODATt 11 m, 1.4#. Ml, 1 11 p.a. Katharine ROM RoMrl Bedford "Th* Binlrr. The Hinted The Girl" Khiiivimou Color (U1 HBl CAPITOL PHc Open* r»d»ft Ne free li»l Due 4o film* Length Note RevUed Times: 10 30 am. l.M, 4.
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  • WOMEN
    • 655 16  -  By Marianne Pereira A PERSON who hos hod lengthy sojourns in hospital is something of on authority visitors and gifts. "First of oil bring yourself/' advises o veteran patient. There is nothing more sad than the hospital patient whose expected visitor doesn't turn
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    • 135 16 TOLD you last week we had our eyes on Rente the smart little miss in even smarter knits. The knits are very, very fine, and not, as yon would expect, too thick for Singapore's climate. They're neat, cool and very chic.
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    • 369 16 In the rash to revive the fashions of the Thirties, some spillover is evident into the Twenties on one hand, and the Forties on the other. Latest Forties look is the small, body-hug-ging sweater, which made the term "sweater girl" famong in that era. It** another indication that
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  • 620 17 There's no controversy that dossn't hurt someone and help somebody else. Right now, the fur furore is giving the fur industry a big headache, but it's causing makers of fake furs to do jigs of joy. Latest round in the controversy came recently,
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  • 579 17  -  Ann Landers Dear Ann: After, two children and five miscarriages my husband and I decided I should be sterilised. The doctor explained it was i simple surgical procedure of tying the tubes and he offered to do it. In the course
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1870 18 LOOKING AND LISTENING....^ GKNIUi mUMBNCIES: One of the best day* possible to get togtttwr with friends Arrange what yw can do in days ahead V> have greater accord between jruu and cement important tie*. Good for ffttin« off In evening to interesting place where you can ipeod rvfning or weekend.
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  • Students' page
    • 367 19 Trade fairs and all kinds of exhibitions have become common features in Singapore. These attractions play an important role in promoting ovr trade and tourism. Recently, I went with several classmates to the Singapore Spring Trade Fair at the Great World Park. We entered
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    • 63 19 CHANGKAT Chan c i Secondary School will hold its speech aid prize tiving day today in the school hall at 4.30 p.m. Mr. Phua Bah Lee, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications will he guest mi honour. A fun complement of hras s band instruments costing s7
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    • 567 19  -  DATELINE By Ele, Walt Dulaney DEAB ELE: My boyfriend is very, my popular with my family. He nits and talks with everyone, including my grandmother who's partly deaf, and my three-year-old brother. I am very proud of this and wish I
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    • 398 19 AS a vivid picture flashes across my mind about a certain incident, I begin to think of the thousand and one faces, fashions, personalities and characters in this workl. Every person has his distinct characteristic features and traits. To use this character to the fullest
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 192 19 TTTTTT ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe Hie Eastern Son's essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears ia tfcis page from Monday to Friday. Prize money Is: $lO for Seniors end $5 for |uniors tor every essay published
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  • 252 20 Trading was sluggish in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Volume of shares transacted contracted as operators lacked confidence. The market closed on an uncertain note with a majority of shares turning slightly hesitant. Price change however were within very narrow limits. Btoploss
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  • 296 20 Ironically, rubber saw the lowest price for some 21 years whilst the I RJ3.G 21st Assembly was taking place in Singapore this week. 47 cents was touched briefly for current month. The persistence of weight of physicals bearing against insufficient offtake, together with liquidation and switching out
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  • 276 20 October first grade rwbb*r buyers doted at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 47-1/4 cants per lb- down 1/2 cent from Hie previous close. The tone of Hie market was quiet. After a nearly unchanged opening the market slipped by some cent as
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  • 173 20 A local shipbuilding organisation has won a contract for its parent company in the United Kingdom tor the supply of ships' stabilisers to Japan in the face of stiff competition from both the United States and the U.K. The Sale s Manager of Vosper Thornycroft
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  • 13 20 The tin price for yesterday was $656.25 per picul up $2.75.
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  • 661 20 BID and offer prices officially listed At the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterdav were: INDUSTRIALS B B. Arms* 132 Ajinomot.. Alcan IN 1.34 1.34 BM. Berjaja 101 L87 102 104 Borneo 145 1.48 H^wtesd IM 1.80 C.
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  • 827 20 BUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Acma $1 34 (1) $133 (1); AI ran $136 (3) $135 (7 >; DIM
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  • 400 21 QYDNEY Mining shores experienced a widespread rally on Sydney Stock Exchange Thursday, as buying enthusijsm flowed back into the market. e s ar buyers rushed the two uranium heavyweights Kathleen Investments and Queensland Mines, setting th e trend for the rest of the market. Queensland
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  • 472 21 ANMIVUJ 143 am MMA 1U Kuala Lumpor 1 Jf tm. MM* 181 Koala IMt-m Lumpar MM A 453 K.UAU 11 O .'I I M Lumpar MM* 454 Prnnac. UMrrn Kuala Lumpur M.H 2«M Jaanrfa JWp m MMA 431 Cat Mi fi.m ching MM Ml Koala l.umpur. Malacca Mftta.
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  • 98 21 Mr Eric White, Chairman of the Eric White Associates International public relations group, visited Singapore this week tor discussions with the local office management. While in Singapore Mr. White also took the opportunity of meeting a number of the company's clients. His visit to Singapore
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  • 33 21 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 783.68 20 Trans® 157.45 15 Uttls 107.14 65 Stocks 251.02 40 Bonds 65.81 Commodity index 145.42.
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 329 21 NOTICE AIK YEW RATTAN CHICKS CO. We would like to Inform the public that our company has been registered and formed under the Singapore Companies Act on Ist Octooer. 1970. Registration Certificate No: *****. We specialize In producing rattan chicks, made of specially selected materials of the highest quality. The
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    • 758 21 TENDER NOTICES TENDER TENDERS will be received In the Ministry of Defence. Pearl's H 111. Singapore 2. for the following Items up to 12.00 Noon on dates shown sgalnst each item:— I. Crane-Truck Mounted. Seml-.Moblle, Fullslcwing type (Capacity 1© Ton) Cloning Dale; 20 11.70t. Crane-Truck Mounted. Heml-Moblle, Mill slewing type
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 321 22 WENTWORTH, England American Jack Nicklaus, the blond Ohio giant known at the "Golden Bear", is favourite to win the 5,750 sterling first prize when eight of the world's top golfers tee off in the Piccadilly World Match Play Championship here today. The 30-year-old
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    • 82 22 The finals of the second Singapore Taekw a n-do tournament sponsored by Peter Stuy. vesant will be held on October 23 at the Singapore Badminton Hall. Currently competing In the preliminary rounds at the Gay World Stadium are some 106 'participants from the main gymnasium and 17
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    • 54 22 COUSINS—SI years removed. A tire used in winning the Indianapolis "500" in 1919 is compared with a wide 1970 racing tire. Howdy Wilcox averaged 88 miles M hour in winning the 1919 race. Drivers on the track today reach speeds of more than 200 miles an hour
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    • 222 22 MEXICO CITY Columbian cyclist Martin "Cochise" Rodriguez yesterday set up a new world amateur one-Hour time-trial record, beating the previous record held by Dane Mogens Frey Jensen by just under 40 metres. The 28-year-old South American ace covered 47.553,24 kilometres In the 60-mlnute sprint around
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    • 139 22 NEW YORK, —A seventournament Women's Professional tennis circuit, with six events in the U.S.A. and the other at Wembley, London, was announced by promoter Gladys Heldman yesterday. Mrs. Heldman, Director of the World Tennis Magazine, said Ave other tournaments were being planned. The first of
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    • 85 22 NEW YORK The heavyweight title fight between Joe Frazier and light heavyweight champion Bob Foster will be televised live and in colour over closed circuit television, Nov. 18, it was announced yesterday by the Theatre Network Television division of TNT Communications, Inc. TNT President Nathan
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    • 42 22 PROS' NOSES touch in greeting at Las Vegas between Jimmy Durante and Pat Pallnkas, the only female pro football player in game's history. Mrs. Palinkas holds ball for field goal kicker on the Orlando (Fla.) Panthers in Continental Football League.
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    • 186 22 MANILA Bernabe Villacampo will challenge Hie winner of the Oct. 22 World Boxing Association (WBA) flyweight title match between champion BerfcreHc Chartvanchai of Thailand and Masao Ohba, his business manager said yesterday. Lope Sarreal Jr. said he and Villacampo will fly to Tokyo next
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    • 109 22 MANILA Asia's top golfer Ben Arda maintained his lead yesterday In the first leg of the Philippine Golf circuit with a two-under-par 70 for a 134 score. Fort y-o n e-year-old Arda had coasted to a record-breaking 8-under-par 64 on Wednesday at the Rolling Holiday
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    • 88 22 SYDNEY Yugoslavborn boxer Rocko Spanja died in hospital at Wallsend, 60 miles north of here, after being knocked out in the last round of his 13th professional fight. Spanja, 21, who settled in Melbourne after Ahdwiing in Australia two and a half years ago, wag counted
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    • 176 23 Singapore's 4 x 400 metres relay team for the Asian Games failed to qualify yesterday although it returned the fastest time for the event (3:15.4 seconds) this season. However, the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association will recommend the team C. Kunalan, Ho Mun Cheong,
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    • 56 23 SEOUI Japan dominated th e Orient Boxing F«- ration <OBF) ratings for October by placing Ave champions according to the OBF officii! rating list announces yesterday. "orea and the Philippi '-.es followed with three and two titles, respectively. There were no change s from last m
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    • 78 23 LONDON Positions after 18 holes in the 36hole first round matches in the 18,400 sterling (SSI 33,000 > Piccadilly World Match-Play golf championship at Wentworth near here yesterday: ack Nicklaus (United States) and Gene Littler (United States) all •quare Tony Jacklln (Britain) led Gary Player
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    • 128 23 The Singapore Karate Association awarded to thirty-five members of Hie Association the black belt rfhodan. This was announced yesterday by Hie Hon. Secretary of the Association. There were four girls Included in the IVK and one of them is Singapore Prime Minister's daughter, Lee
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    • 41 23 The Swift Athletes' Association will b« organising the "King of th« Mountain Race'" on October 17. The six-mile —divided into running and walking sections will be from Aye r Rajah Road to Mount Faber. Entries by post are accepted.
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    • 133 23 BARCELONA—West German swimmers liare again achieved world standing. Nineteen-year-old Hans Fassnacht from Manheim (West Germany) was the big victor in the Barcelona European championships. Fassnacht won gold medals for settine up new European records in the 200 ana 1.500 metre events in 1:55.2
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    • 158 23 MELBOURNE Lionel Rose, the former world bantamweight boxing champion who earlier refused to sign a 500 Australian dollar bond to make the lightweight limit of 135 pounds by Saturday morning for hi* fight here that night with Ishlmatsu Suzuki of Japan signed yesterday after Suzuki
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    • 111 23 OSAKA, Japan Takaaki Kono, who tied for 12th place in this year's Masters Tournament last April, fired a three under par 71-70 141 yesterday to win the Grand Monarch Oolf Championship with a nine under par 279 for 72 holes. Kono maintained his one-stroke lead In
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    • 129 23 NEW DELHI Twentynine Indian motorist* will take part in tha 6.700-kilometre (4,154mile) second Asian Highway Rally from Teheran, Iran to Dacca, East Pakistan next month; a rally official said yesterday. I. D. Bhargava, In. dlan offlcial-ln-charg« of the rally, said the final list of
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  • 185 24 ABIDJAN Former Biafran leader General Ojukwu has been ordered to leave the Ivory Coast, where he has lived since the end of the Nigerian civil war, an Ivory Coast Government spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman refused to confirm or deny rumours circulating in Abidjan that
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  • 543 24 YORK Much of the non-Communist world reocted with praise yesterdoy to President Nixon's call for an immediate ceasefire in the search for peace in Indochina. But some governments and statesmen expressed doubt of its success. South Vietnam said it agreed with the proposals. The
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  • 144 24 PIINOM PENH, Communist forces at divisional strength were locked in bitter combat with Cambodian troops around a small village north of here yesterday, following President Nixon's appeal for an Indochina ceasefire. The Cambodian military spokesman, Major Am Rong, said between 7.000 and 10,000 Communist troops attacked the
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  • 69 24 LOS ANGELES A young man trying io board a plane here carrying a knife and a pawn-off shotgun was caught Wednesday by a metal-detector, installed to thwart hijackers. The Marshal's office said the man who gave his name as T. Johansen, 20. was charged
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