Eastern Sun, 23 October 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Esrd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1480 Friday. October 23, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 379 1  -  By Tony Chandran SINGAPORE'S "Chicago" the sprawling Too Payoh estate will have a police station soon. But residents, outraged by recent brutal murders ond an upsurge in robberies and other crimes, will still form their "vigilante squads." Minister for Home Affairs, Professor Wong Lin Ken,
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  • 140 1 ONG KIAN KEK, 23, freed by the Supreme Court when his death sentence was quashed on Wednesday, was rearrested yesterday. The arrest is believed" to have been made yesterday by the C.l.D.'s Special Investigation Section. Ong will be charged soon in court with armed
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  • 77 1 SANTIAGO. Chile—Gunmen in three cars yesterday shot and seriously injured the Chilean Army Commander in Chief, General Rene Schneider, as he drove to work. A Defence Ministry communique said the unidentified gunmen forced the general to stop with three cars. Thev then ran over to his
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 153 2 Mystery shrouds the origin of a carronade which has Joined the exhibits of the Sentosa Gun Museum. The 1840 Carronade, presented by Lt.-Gen. Sir Peter Hunt, Commander of Far East Land Force*. Is now temporarily housed at the Jurong Town Corporation Site Office. The carronade
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  • 284 2 Air pollution is Hie most serious environmental hazard thai threatens mankind. Dr. Chew Pin Kee declared yesterday. Dr. Chew, Commissioner of Public Hea th. was speaking at a Lion's Club dinner in Cuscaden House, Man needs about 30 pounds of air each day to survive
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  • 398 2 THE Rubber Association of Singapore yesterday gave its account of how Indonesia was excluded from the protem committee of the International Rubber Association. This controversy has already prompted an angry outburst from President Suharto. The Indonesian President accused "a certain country'' had
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 153 2 AROUND TOWN 8.30 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. Exhibition to mark 25th anniversary of the United Nations at National Library foyer. 9.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. Painting; by Wee Kong Chai at National Library Lecture Hall. 10.30 a.m. International Labour Organisation's Danish Seminar at Conference Hall. 3.30 p.m. 3 film shows
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  • 241 3 OFFERS to adopt Ah PfDg, the five-year-old son of a dead bar waitress, poured in yesterday and were rejected by a distraught aunt. Madam Teo Ham Tee, 59, is determined to bring him up as her own son. The offers were made by several sympathetic
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  • 169 3 fWO Malaysia-Singapore Airlines employees were stabbed in a bar-room brawl involving a hot-el manager late on Wednesday. The MSA workers Peter Bernard Cheah and Johnny Sim, both 24 are now in hospital where their condition has been described as satisfactory. Police yesterday
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  • 232 3 A man was yesterday awarded $7,232 in damages for injuries sustained in an accident after a judge had conducted "experiment" in a parked soft drink van. Muthusamy Kumarasamy. 47, had claimed that he was riding his bicycle past the van parked at Cuff Road
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  • 258 3 A MAN, who felt suspicious of his wife working to support the family, hanged himself outside his flat, a coroner was told yesterday. Somasundram Joseph, 44, was found hanging by a rope to a water-pipe outside the eighth storey of a block of
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  • 101 3 TWO men armed with daggers threw pepper into the eyes of a supervisor and robbed him of $2,000 yesterday. Boh Huay Kee, 35, supervisor at Lye Huat and Company in Robinson Road was walking up the steps of his company when the two men confronted him.
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  • 160 3 Greater efforts to he 1 o underprivileged children in their education was yesterday urged b v Mr. Chan Chee Seng, Parliamentary Secretary for Social Affairs. He made the appeal when speaking at a ceremony m which $5OO worth of books classics, textbooks and fiction
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  • 170 3 The Industrial Arbitration Court yesterday ended its Hearing into a dispute between Hotel Malaysia and the Food, Drinks and Allied Workers' Union. Making his final submission, Mr Chue Shue Yoong, advocate for the Union, rejected the hotel's contention that the industry would face a
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  • 312 4 M uufhur Gopjlamenon RjniaclundrM in short MGR, South Indian film idol yesterday Mid has tussle w»Hi Television Singapore was all "misunderstanding." MGR came under heavy criticism from the Press for ordering a T.V reporter and cameraman out of his Press conference last week.
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  • 327 4 KUALA LUMPUR All South-east Asian countries have been urged to co-operate in family planning to face the challenge of population explosion in the region. Tun Abdul Razak, who described regional co-operation as a double-edged instrument for progress, made the call when he opened
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  • 226 4 KUALA IUMPUR The Democratic Action Party, Hie largest Opposition party in Malaysia, Wednesday called for an all-party forum to discuss H»e Rukunegara or National Ideology. The call was made by the DAP's secretarygeneral, Mr. Llm Kit Slang, who is also MP for Bandar Melaka, at
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  • 93 4 TIIK City Towers' luxury Penthouse, formerly occupied by Mr. Charles F.n. former chairman and managing director of the defunct Kupoc Pulp and Paper Industries Ltd., was yesterday auctioned tor $216,000. Another bungalow at Sunset View could not find a buyer. The properties were being auctioned at Cheong Hock
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  • 95 4 KUALA LUMPUR Tun Abdul Raiak said Malaysia's new non-aligned foreign policy will not affect moves to set up a joint Five-Power Defence arrangement for the Malaysia-Singapore region. "We are seeking a new defence arrangement with the other four powers and every country has the right
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  • 188 4 KUALA LUMPUR The \ttorney-General a odce was informed of the impending return of the former Malaysia-Singapore Airlines' secretary and legal ad riser, Mr. Gerald Fernandes, to Kuala Lumpur, the Attorney General. Tan Sri Abdul Kadir bin ¥usof, said. He was clarifying Wednesday a
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 158 5 Chua Hoi Ntni, 21, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months' jail when he pleaded guilty to cansing grievous hart to Murat bin Mohd. Tahir, 26, at the Hotel Merlin construction site. Beach Road on April 22. The Deputy Public Prosecutor, Mr. Glenn Knight, told
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  • 81 5 KUALA LUMPUR Eight goods wagons travelling on the East Coast line were derailed at the Bth mile Gemas-Bahau railway track early Wednesday morning. No-one in the four passenger-coaches was injured and the train, which was travelling from Gemas to Kual® Krai, continued on its journey half
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  • 540 5 NEW YORK Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, believes any proposal to bring stability and peace to Southeast Asia will have to have the blessings ol China. Even if the big powers the United States and the Soviet Union were to agree
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 219 6 JAKARTA A pregnant woman, who rlaims her unborn baby can already speak, has submitted herself for physical examination before a panel of Indonesian doctors. Mrs. TJut Zaharafonna, 22, claims she has carried the child for the past 19 months now. The baby can allegedly speak and
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  • 335 6 MANILA More Am 1,000 persons died in the South Philippines in 2 typhoonv The death toll is expected to go much higher i n tfv country's worst disaster since World War 11. the Red Cross announced The organisation is now appealing for worldwide help.
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  • 302 6 11TASHINGT0N Cambodian Chief of State Cheng Heng appealed in Washington for sufficient arms to equip his soldiers to fight North Vietnamese invaders. He was addressing a National Press Club luncheon. Cheng Heng disclosed that when th e Vietcong launched their invasion 6 months
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  • 97 6 PRINCE AY A, the second son of Crown Prince Aklhito and Princess Michiko, resolutely holds a pair of twigs in his left hand while standing on a go game board. This unique ceremony, 44 Fukasogi no gi," marks his passing from babyhood to boyhood
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  • 39 6 AMMAN. An observer from the Arab Committee Observer Mission (ACOM) has been wounded and a Fatah captain killed in renewed clashes between the Jordanian Armv and Palestine guerrillas at Ramtha near the Syrian Border.
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  • 260 6 PHNOM PENH Cambodian aircraft bombed 20 miles south of Phnom Penh for the third straight day yesterday in an attempt to destroi a concentration of North Vietnamese regiments The T-28 fighters hit suspected North Vietnamese positions in a heavily wooded area Just west of
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  • 246 7 LONDON An immigration appeals tribunal has closed a loophole In Britain's laws by overruling a decision to grant a new British passport to a Kenya Asian girl. Shaheen l,akdawalla, 19 now living la North London, last Augu.st wan her claim for a aew passport to replace
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  • 61 7 President Nixon (background) watches a demonstration by the Customs Bureau on the White House lawn of the use of dogs in detecting hidden marijuana. The demonstration was held with a daylong White House crash course for about 70 radio station executives on drug abuse and an
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  • 369 7 VVfASHINGTON Six enlisfed men hove charged ftiej were ordered to droft imajinory acts of combat heroism so that a U.S. Army general in Vietnam could receive two medals. Spec. 4 Roy Trent claims his unit was ordered to draw up the
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  • 188 7 MELBOURNE, Explosive experts yesterday defused a bomb in the ruins of the shattered Yugos av consulate. The two-storey consulate building was wrecked by an explosion on Wednesday night. A few hours after the blast a detective spotted a plastic container under the front steps
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  • 91 7 WASHINGTON A new reason for sppos* taf the midi ikirt has been pu| forward by the While Bom* Its possible effect on the economy. Latest government statistics show the coa. tamer price i wrfes rose last month, sad one factor was »abstantial increase in the
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  • 79 7 DUBLIN, Ireland's bank clerks have returned to work alter a six-month strike to find 852 1,000 million worth of business waiting to bt cleared. This mammoth sum, representing more than seven times the repub ic's annual 853.000 million budget, accumulated dur ng the
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  • 422 8 Wife kidnaps husband on wedding day BANGKOK Police are looking for a woman who kidnaped her husband just as he was about to take another wife. A group of women broke into a wedding ceremony at the Lottery Bureau and carried off the wouldbe bridegroom, Seri Tipkrachang.
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  • 255 8 T ONDON Britain's teenagers caught up in the Permissive Society are paying a high price for playing "love roulette" sex without precautions. The result is a record level of abortions, illegitimate births and venereal disease. This is revealed in a report by the Government's Chief
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  • 71 8 DR. NORMAN BORLAUG, U.S. director of the Wheat Study Programme at International Wheat and Maize Improvement Centre in Mexico, shows some of the wheat that he helped develop for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize. However, he warned that all his work would be useless
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  • 177 8 MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay Uru?uayan Cabinet Minister and a enator fought a duel with cavalry sabers to settle a question of honour. The minister won when he opened a gash on the right arm of the man who had challenged him. The duel, which is legal out strictly
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  • 145 8 LONDON Every time Hywell Morgan kisses his attractive wife, they get an electric shock. The best way to stop it is to keep a kettle boiling permanently in the corner of the room. However, Morgan, a 37-year-old father of 2, knows exactly what is causine the electric tingles
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  • 178 8 ST. LOUIS, Missouri A St. Louis police officer was shot near Hie Hotel where another officer was held hostage for more than 6 hours* He was shot as he attempted to drive a car t>e!ieve<i to be that of 2 suspects from the scene
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  • 28 9 PARKED SHOES were left in West Palm Beach, Fla., by customer who apparently was in such a hurry, whrle-you-wait service wasn't fast enough.
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  • 50 9 CAIRO. Illinois, Police grabbed submachine guns, pistols." and rifles to blaze away at snipers a s fresh violence erupted in this ra-Oally-torn city. of shots rang out Wednesday night and Mayor Albert Thomas said c»ty policemen and Illinois State troops wer e firing at "every muzzle-flash they •ee."
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  • 532 9 <S|ANTA CRUZ, California A bizzare note left by the murderers of the Ohta fomily pinned to their Rolls-Royce has given some possible clues to the motives for the mass killings, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office revealed here. The killers dedicated themselves in
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  • 162 9 NFW YORK, fifty old master drawings brought t&s**22f (551.101.C75) on Wednesday night at tb« auction that set foar world records and proved art h> still fhe best itorlu to hoy km the investment market. The sale exceeded the top estimate by the Parke Bernet auction galleries
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  • 278 9 FORT HOOD, Texas Lieutenant William Calley, chief defendant in Hie alleged My Lai massacre, may testify in defence of Staff Sergeant David Mitchell, according to informed sources at the court martial here. Calley, due to face a court martial In Georgia next month charged with the
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  • 160 9 LOS ANGELES Hippie Charles Manson was brought back into the Sharon Tate murder trial for the third time on Wednesday in two weeks so that Miss Tate's landlord could identify him as the man who called at the actress' house four months before
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  • 55 9 SANTA ANA. California. —Best selling author Truman Capote entered Orange County jail here Wednesday night to serve a three-day sentence for contempt of court. The sentence arose Out of a television interview capot® author of "Breakfast At Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood," did recently with a prisoner o
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  • 46 9 Mrs. Rose Kennedy stands with her son. Sen. Edward Kennedy, at a fund-raising affair at the residence of Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy. Mrs. Rose Kennedy is attired in a fashionably long midi-dress, at the event, recently. UPI photo. UPI photo.
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  • 629 10 MOOT Southeast Asian leaders subscribe to some modification of the Domino Theory. Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, whose country is adjacent to the conflict in Indochina, has excellent reasons for believing in it. Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak considers it an excellent possibility and wants the
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  • 708 10  -  By Joseph Alsop, PRESIDENT Nixon's people-greeting, bill-signing, grassroots-patting foray into Connecticut was only a beginning. This is likely to be remembered, in fact, as the off-year election in which a President of the United States played the most active role in recent political history. The all but incredible
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  • 408 10  -  By DICK WEST, The other day as I was reading an artiele about some sophisticated new equipment used in electronic eavesdropping, I found my thoughts galloping off in two directions. With one part of my mind, I resented the invasions of privacy that advanced bugging techniques make possible. Meanwhile,
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  • 122 10 WASHINGTON Tha cost of living for Americans registered an increase of one-half of 1 per cent in September, the government reported today. Price rises occurred over a broad range of categories including such essentials as clothing and shelter. The increase was more than double
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • THE MORNING AFTER
    • 1255 12/13  -  with Weatherbee Wong rpODAY, I'm going to introduce you to -L the saviour of Weatherbee Wong. On numerous occasions, usually in the morning, this man has acted unselfishly and without concern for his own safety to rescue me from misery.
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  • Page 12/13 Advertisements
    • 280 12/13 ftp reoE&fo Th««|rt NtghtClub "LB I'NISEX" U here) Never before seen u> Singapore! Ultra mod choreography! Love dances! Ballet in "see nothings"! Live "(tatues' leap, pirouette, twirl In ciaaslc ballet stances An Int'l ciust with Natascha. star o( famous Crazy Horse Saloon In ParUl Costumes In aluminium, plastic, leather' Don't
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    • 53 12/13 0 H a Timi 8 Chef Soeller s "Flaming Sword Try dishes flamed with champagne, brandy or cognac for a dramatically delicious 1 For reservations ring Stetla *****1 Ext. 179. The Supper Club Tonight.Song* and dance* of the 'fun crowd'. Vibrant with energy. Enjoy the excitement of the Jet-Set Showtime*:
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    • 180 12/13 n AMBASSADOR HOTEL On (he Waterfront at Katon; PROUDLY PRESENTS THE CONSULATE BAR: For that quiet after-wo'k dnnk Of those pre-dinner cocktails join yOUr friends In the Consulate Bar the NEWEST cocktail bar ir Singapore. Soft pile carpets, deep luxurious seats relaxing rrusic, and sensible prices. Why not drop m
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  • 723 14  -  dceettce By David Dickson, Every step in man's technological development tends to bring with it both advantages and disadvantages. The trouble is it's usually only the advantages that w« first become aware of, while.the disadvantages often do not become apparent until some time later. Take, for example,
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  • 427 14  -  By Lawrence E. Lamb, M. D. Despite all the knowledge that has been accumulated about food, you will still have trouble applying it when you go shopping. Why? Because foods are inadequately labelled. Often H is impossible to tell if a given food
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  • 563 14 Deaf children used to be considered unteachable. But today their main problem is recognised as communication, not lack of intelligence. A New York City school tries to improve the students' ability to communicate. YORK: On a recent morning in New York City, 10-year-old William
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous

  • 603 15  -  By Harold Heffernan, Two cleoncut teenagers, one a handsome dork-eyed 17-yeor-old swinger, the other, 19, an open-taced, crew-cut serious student, are spending the next three months in cons an companionship, purposefully determining the measure of each by cautious, but continuous probing. A e re
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  • 401 15  - Back home experience key to Hollywood By Dick Kleiner, A bit of magic remains in that word, "Hollywood.'' Young people with acting ambitions still have the urge to invade that land of promise and take a stab at glittering fame. The best advice is don't do it. Monique James, West
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 212 15 SOHSI At\IISATIQt\J I HARD 174>44| NOW SHOWING! No frN Llit. Dally 4 Shows! I N, 3.45, 6.M 15 P Sundays and Holidays Extra Show at 10 30 a noRichard Harru. Alec ouinness in Columbia's "CROMWELL" Technicolor Panavlsloo School Concession *1 00 To Any Seat Dally At Day Showa Sundays at
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    • 265 15 b SHAW I mtRS ISATION LID 0Ph0n.*****4 OPENS TODAY! 11 am. iM. M.I ft MS pa Due r» Film'* Lrnitb 4 SHOWS Not. Tim rat Dirk Bogarde. Ingrid Thalia "TIIK DAMNED" in Color (Warner Bros> CAPITOL PHONO 297J9 Nun Showing —No t'rff Liil 11 am 1.3*. 4. ir». M "Swordswomeu
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  • 141 16 Gorgeous isn't he or rather aren't they. This is Brian Bullock, aged 16 Months and friend, Llama, of unknown age. They both live in Oakland, California Brian with his parents, and Llama in the Baby fcoo. Brian fell in love at first sight And just to show
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  • 550 16  -  By Marianne Pereira IN the good old doys young couples expecting their first child did not hove the 'Book of Names' to foil back on. There were Victorias, Elizabeths, Constances, Angelos, and Marys by the dozen. There was a family I knew during
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  • 144 16  -  By Marianne Pereira T discovered a Swop Shop down Orchard Road the other day. Phila Mae Shaw opened the shop four months a go, and found that even though she has not advertised, business is brisk and the turnover surprising. And she doesn't take
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  • 219 17 O O K FOR the change in after-live clothes... the semi-sport look of fine wool and leather, mated to form easy dresses, usually in black, worn with stockingsoft boots. panne velvet jumpsuits, often with hoods that convert to cowls, in silver, or purple or forest green,
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  • 343 17 Dear Ann Landers: i was going with a man I loved very much (still do). A couple of months ago, 1 thought for sure 1 was pregnant. I was certain he would marry me but I was wrong. Instead he gave me $2,500 and
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  • 365 17  -  Florence de Santis Man-made items In some fashion fields are relatively new, but not in gems. It's been more than 60 years since Auguste Victor Louis Verneull perfected the process thai produces man-made star sapphires and rubies, still known today as Verneull method. Nowadays, ecological
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  • 130 17 LOOK FOR the soft looks in holiday clothes... the "cocktaildress, returning as a gently curved midl, all crystal pleats from a high-berib-boned waistline. fan-pleated selfruffles, whirling about the neckline and sleeves of Japaneseprint silk crepe dresses, bias-cut. new curves and ripples In jewellery, with dragons, panthers and other
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1801 18 LOOKING AND USTENING....tv and from (he Carroll Righter Institute GENERA L TENDENCIES: Fixed conditions of an adverse />uure could follow after putting lona-time plan into action. Use extreme caution to avoid delays, obstacles and limitations of an unfortunate nature. Avoil borrowing or lending as payments could be difficult with loss
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  • Students' page
    • 589 19 The First Company of The Boys' Brigade in Sin gapore was formed, in 1930 at the Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church by James M. Fraser, M.B.E. who was originally from Aberdeen, Scotland. The movement which was first founded by Sir William A. Smith in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1883,
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    • Article, Illustration
      559 19 JN this country, locally grown fruits con be bought cheaply. Due to climatic conditions, plants and trees grow abundantly and the fruits produced copiously. The low price of fruits does not mean that they are of poor quality. It simply means thaf they have got to be sold
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    • Article, Illustration
      224 19 It Is wonderful to have a pet which can be a bird or a dog or other creatures. One will not feel so lonely If one has a pet to keep company. I have a pet and It is a dog. I got it when It was a
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    • 167 19 The Boys' Brigade will be conducting three thanksgiving services on Its Founder's Day, Sunday, (25th Oct.) to commemorate Its 40th Anniversary of its formation In Singapore at Trinity (Serangoon Gardens) Methodist Church at 8.30 p.m., at Barker Road Methodist Church at 5.30 p.m. and at Prinsep
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 195 19 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe iiiMMAiiiiiii The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. Prize money Is: $lO for Senior* and $5 for |union for every essay published
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  • 286 20 T>USINESS in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday was relaxed and extended rhe previous day's downtrend. Trading was minimal across a broad front. Recent hot bsues were lightly transacted as most of the activity was still confined to newer securities. Profit-takers also came In full force
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  • 180 20 THE market fluctuated quite widely during the period under review, first falling by some 1J cent*, then recovering most ox the loss before losing ground again. The sensitivity of the present market was demonstrated by the fact that these fluctuations were unaccompanied by a relatively good turnover.
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  • 13 20 THE tin price for yesterday was $663 per picul down $2.00.
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  • 270 20 November first grade rubber buyer* closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 48-3/8 cents per lb. down 1/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. The market ruled quiet and slightly below last night's levels whilst traffic
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  • 86 20 TUB noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Exchanic vfvlrrtla) Produce «ai:> Bb 8. Coconut Oil (fob.) hulk 55.50 Coconut oil <f.o.h.) drum 5K.00 Mixed Copra 3300 Muntok Whit* WWW (fo.b.) ASTA 100% NH'.L 182.50 Sarawak Whit* Pepper (f.o.b.) »6% N WL 172.50 Sarawak Special Black Pepper (f.n.h.) M% NW.L.
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  • 114 20 HONG KONG Thursday's 5 p.m. currency rales (supplied Investment Ltd.): by Foreign Exchange and (Bayers) (Sellers) 190.5 197.5 per 100 strait* dollars 150 153 per 1.000 Taiwan dollar* 676 6.775 per Australian dollar 840 360 per 1.000 Burmese kyat* 610 530 per 1.000 Indian rupees 145 165 per
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  • 679 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business in the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange vesterdav were: INDUSTRIALS Arnu 132 AJibumoM) 195 VH.H1 140 Allied liue. 2-75 2 77 BM. l.QC BerJ.k) a L14 1.16 Borneo 1.68 Uoustud IS# 1.93
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  • 873 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 Alcan $1.40 (3) $l4l (1) $1.39 (2); Allied Choc. $2.75 (2); Berjaya $l.lB (3)
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  • 419 21 SYDNEY Buoyant trading in all sections of the mining market Thursday lifted share prices in a resounding full-day recovery on Sydney Stock Exchange. IMC reacted strongly early in trading and by the close had add 1.30 dollars to 4.30 dollars. Turnover for this Issue was at a
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  • 535 21 ARKIVAKS Ms\ lis KH«la l.anipur T.M >t > A 121 ftiuU Lumpur M tu |.v KmU l.uaipur II4* a m Ms A 434 Pruin Kuala Lumuur ll-Maoa MH« 303 Jakarta 1.30 p iu MSA lit karhlnt Z •T.p m M*» 041 Kola Huhru. Kuala Lumpur. Milaraa 3.15 pm.
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  • 193 21 NEW YORK. Gold prices continued to r se on Wednesday in moderately active trading on markets here and abroad. London gold rose 12 i U S cents at the morning fixing but slipped 3 US. cento for a second fixing of 37.97 US. dollars
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  • 41 21 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 759 65 20 Transp 151.05 15 Utilities 106 88 65 Stock 243 87 40 Bonds 67 48 Commodity futures index 144 92 off 0.23
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 205 21 NOTICE GOVERNMENT OP THK ItKl'l ltl.l( (>r BINOAPORK THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT INI EGR ATION ORDINANCE, 11*3 (NO. 18 OP IJHS3) NOTICE UNDER SECTION 19(2) NOTICE ta hereby given, pursuant to Section 19(2) of the Local Government Integration Ordinance. Itf63 that the Director of Public Work* requires the execution of streetworks
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    • 860 21 TENDER NOTICES P.W.D. SINGAPORE TENDERS are Invited from P.W.D. Registered Contractors and Irian other suitable contractor* for the following words > Extension to National library at stauifocd Koad. Singapore. Showround: Contractors to meet SO at the main entrance of National Library on 27- ..0 70 at 10 00 a.m. All
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  • 2677 22 E Saturday Race 1 s CI. 4 D!v< 5—5V2 F.—2.15 p.m. ($6,000) i. Bush Girl* 4y 900 Tjong St Ford (Mansor) N« 2 a. 8 Frisco 5y 900 G Baptist < Allan) 12 i. 8 No Compromise 4y 900 AG (J Donnelly) 14 4. 870
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  • 276 23 SUGAR DADDY (Kang) and Purple Gem (Lim) did a sparkling gallop here this morning. Steadily clapping on the pace, the West trained pair raced stride tor stride over 3f in 37 1/5 with very little between them at the finish. FIERY DRAGON XYeo) showed good
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  • 146 23  -  By LESLIE NAKASHIMA TOKYO Challenger Masao Ohba of Japan knocked out World Boxing Association's Flyweight Champion Berk rerk Chartranchai of Thailand in the 13th round of their 15-round title match last night before 7,500 spectators at the Nichidai Auditorium. Referee Enrique Jimenez Jr.
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  • SPORTS BRIEF
    • 182 23 TRAFFIC won thr MSA Pesta Sukan soccer final at the Airport yesterday, when they beat Service* after extra time. TOKYO Matchmaker Lope Sarreal Sr. of Manila said last night new World Boxing Association (WBA) flyweight champion Masao Ohba will make his first title defence against former
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  • 213 23 physically and vocally ATLANTA, Georgia Cassius Clay proved that he is back in shape—physically and vocally —when he underwent an examination with Jerry Quarry for their 15-round heavyweight fight next Monday night. Clay boxed seven rounds, but Quarry took the da v off from training and
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  • 473 24 YORK Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko soys "artificial conditions and demands" should be attached to the resumption of Middle East peace talks. Gromyko, in a hard-line speech at the United Nations 25th anniversary commemorative session, apparently referred to Israel's demand that violations of the
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  • 39 24 PARlS,—French Maoist leader Alain Geibmar, 31, was sentenced to 18 months' jail yesterday for provoking violent® against police Geismar who faced a maximum thre e yeari in jail, has already served four months whll« awaiting trial.
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  • 268 24 MONTREAL Quebec Liberation Front kidnappers of British diplomat James Cross, maintained their silence last night on the fate of their captive. Cantious hopes had been raised when police received three calls from an anonymous person claiming to represent the kidnappers. The person said the FLQ was
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  • 197 24 LONDON Britain's plans for Southeast Asian defence and the future of the aircraft carrier Ark Royal will be announced next week. It Is now widely believed the Conservative Government has decided to keep the 43,000-ton carrier in active service into the mid-1970's thus reversing plan
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