Eastern Sun, 31 December 1970

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Estd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1536 Thursday, December 31, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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    Lock icon Hunt for grenades in Bukit Timah Canal
    208 1 LIVE hand grenades part of the staggering arsenal belonging to the gang believed to have been behind the $946,000 Chartered Bank Robbery are hidden In a Bokit Timah Canal at Chestnut Drive. Police who learned of the hiding place oo Tuesday night have
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    Lock icon THE DARK CLOUDS ON OUR HORIZON
    594 1 130LITICAL instability in Malaysia and Indonesia will seriously affect Singapore, Defence Minister Gob Keng Swee told Parliament yesterday. Justifying ''our defence build-up", Dr. Goh painted a gloomy picture of Southeast Asia. Malaysia and Indonesia, "our two immediate neighbours," he said, "are faced with acute
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    Lock icon Parliament elects a new president
    115 1 Parliament yesterday elected Dr. Benjamin Sheares. 63, to succeed the late Enche Yusof Ishak as President of Singapore. He will take office on January 2. ...One of hia first duties will be to receive heads of Commonwealth governments arriving for next month's conference. The motion
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      12 1 How to avoid a hangover: Weatherbee Wong s answer Page 12 1
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    Lock icon A call for increase in our earnings
    428 2 SINGAPORE must urgently strive to increase both exports ond invisible earnings to offset Hie predicted strain in the overall balanca of payment position. This warning was sounded by Mr. U.F.T.B. Lever, President of the International Chamber of Commerce, when he spoke on "Singapore's
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    Lock icon No substitute for National Service
    178 2 Defence Minister Dr. Gob Keng Swee yesterday rejected in Parliament that School Cadet Corps service should count as part of full-time Na- tional Service. Dr. Qoh was replying during question time to a parliamentary question by Mr. Tay Boon Too. M.P. for Paya Leber. The
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    Lock icon MAN ACQUITTED
    56 2 APPADURAI s/o Peraman, 30. was yesterday acquitted and discharged for outraging the modesty of a 30-year-old Hindu housewife. The Seventh Magistrate, Tan Teo w Yeow. in acquitting him, to!d the woman that there were some discrepancies between her evidence and her police report on the next day of
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    Lock icon Former Changi Jail inmate is back
    214 2 A man who celebrated his 21st birthday km Chan pi Prison a 0 a prisoner of «ar has retaraed here after 21 years (or brief visit. Mr. TOM Daria, aa ambulance superintendent from Cobar, New Sooth Wales, arrived yesterday on board the tourist ship.
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    Lock icon STOCKS BILL PASSED
    99 2 The Securities Industry Bill, aimed at protecting investors from unscrupulous manipulation and rigging in the Stock Exchange was passed in Parliament yesterday. The Minister for Finance. Mr. Hon Sui Sen. in moving the Bill, explained it was necessary to remedy such short comings and deficiencies to "ensure
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    Lock icon CAUGHT TAKING $50 BRIBE
    125 2 A police constable. Wong Wee Tecfc. was yesterday sentenced to year's jail when the First District Court found him guilty of accepting a $5O bribe. He accepted the bribe from a traffic offender. Llm Ken Hee. 20. to "make the matter less serious" at Sepoy Lines
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    Lock icon SILICOSIS HAS CLAIMED 8 LIVES IN SINGAPORE
    218 2 Health Minister Mr. Chua Sian Chin disclosed yesterday that silicosis, an industrial and occupational disease, has claimed eight lives. A total of 10 persons has already succumbed to slllco-tuberculosis iii the period from January 1961 to September this year. However. It Is not
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      17 2 •Sorry, Archie of boy. ..I know you'd love to have a bite, but it'd spoil your dinner."
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      44 2 Around town 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p>m—"Peasant painters of Bali" Art Exhibition at National Museum. 7.30 p.m —New Year's K»e Buffet Dinner and Dane* by International Folk Dance Club of the Chinese YMCA at Homer Chens Auditorium--8.30 p.m—John Calvert MaVir Show at National Theatre
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    Lock icon $1,000 WATCHES STOLEN IN $3,000 HOLDUP
    229 3 robbers three armed with revolvers escaped with $2,000 in cash and watches worth $l,OOO in a holdup yesterday. Before fleeing, they also took a qold chain valued at $BO from one of the clerks. The robbers entered a finance company, Soon Huat Credit (Pte)
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    Lock icon Reconvened Malaysian Parliament 'a new one'
    155 3 PENANG The reconvened Malaysian Parliament would be entirely different from the "old one," the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Ismail announced yesterday. i, He added that during the sitting of the new Parliament, the special rights of the Malays and the status of Bahasa Malaysia
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    Lock icon BALLOTING FOR STALLS
    51 3 Professor Wong Lin Ken, the Minister for Home Affairs and the Member of Parliament fo r Alexandra. w iH officiate at a balloting ceremon v to be held next Tuesday. The balloting i s for the allocation Of hawker stalls at the Mei Ling Hawkers' Centre, Queen
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    Lock icon A warning fund misusage
    83 3 Bank accounts of a mutual benefit organisation might be frozen if the funds were misused under the new bill passed by the Parliament yesterday. Mr. Othman Wok, Minister of Social Affairs, said the freezing of bank accounts could only be ezer- cised after the Registrar of
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    Lock icon $2,000-a-month pension for our former First Lady
    140 3 Parliament yesterday approved a life pension of $2,000 a month for Puan Noor Aishah, former First Lady of Singapore. The provision of this pension was made by an Amending B'U to th* Civil List and Pension Act 1970. It was moved by Prime
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    Lock icon Govt. declares war on smoking: School education call
    468 4 rPHE Government yesterday declared war against cigarette smoking. Parliament virtually bacama the "war opeiatian room" where measures to curb smoking were outlined. A The Minister for Culture, Mr. Jek Yuen Thong, presented the Prohibition on Advertisements Relating to Smoking Bill which was
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    Lock icon Cowboy town -in Kedah
    79 4 BVNGAI PETANI Sufai Petaui, the second biggest town la Kedak, bas beea described as a Cow bay" town because of tbe naif cows ia UM> (own. T** District Officer. Kuala Muds. Oslo Sjred Osmaa ldud. aade this obscrraUM at tbe Parents Day of the Snngai Layar
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    Lock icon Pay incentives for SAF members
    302 4 High financial incentives starting tomorrow were given those who are in or who will join the Singapore Armed Forces. Defence Minister Dr. Ooh Keng Swee told Parliament yesterday that soldiers and officers could get an increase of from $4O to $4OO a month. The Increases
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    Lock icon Merchant's $1,084 loss
    75 4 FIVE robbers, all armed with daggers, held up a wine merchant and robbed him of $4lO in cash and property worth sfi74 on Tuesday at 7.55 p.m. Soh F,w See, 39, proprietor of Joo Huat Wine Store. was about to close his shop after business when five
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    Lock icon Weather improves
    133 4 KUALA LUMPUR The situation in most of the flood -stricken states of West Malaysia yesterday showed aa overall Improvement except in Johore. About 70 people In a village were evacuated as flood hit the state of Johore yesterday A report from Johore Bahru yesterday said that a village
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    Lock icon Cake treat for children
    126 4 At first little Loo Suan Kuen. 10, was feeling nervous as he held a knife in his hand to cut a huge cake. He looked around with curious eyes at his mates who were with him 20 children at the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital in Tanjong
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    Lock icon CATHAY HOTEL HONOURS LAST GUEST
    344 5 AN Australian tourist wasn't at all surprised when he was asked to pack his luggage yesterday. In fact. Mr. LarklmBrown, 40. from Adelaide. was being honoured as the "last guest" to check out from an old hotel. It Is the Cathay Hotel which announced Its
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    Lock icon Jail for two with dagger
    89 5 Two labourers were yesterday sentenced to two years' jail and six strokes °f the cane for possessing a dagger between them. Chang Ngian Shin, 20 who has two previous convictions, admitted tucking the dagger inside his trousers last Tuesda v morning. 4 The other accused,
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    Lock icon Music exam on March 6
    44 5 The Royal Schools of Music written examinations wiU be held on March Entrv forms are available at the Examinations Division, Ministry Of Education, from next Monday till January 22 The examinations for Seventh-Day Adve,ntists candidate* will held on March
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    Lock icon Compulsory safety hat
    28 5 Compulsory wearing of Crash Helmets comes into effect tomorrow. Persons failing to comply to this requirment will be liable to a maximum line of $2OO.
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    Lock icon BIG GOLDEN HANDSHAKE
    291 5 of Cathay Hotels (Pte) Limited will get monetory compensation after the closure yesterday of the hotel which will be converted into offices for commercial firms. An agreement was reached between the employers of Cathay Hotels (Pte) Ltd and the Singapore Catering Services btaff and Workers' Trade Union
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      143 5 Count on m 1 t W Canola 1210 Canola 162 Sofe Agents:' Quickly. Silently. Precisely. Thi* is how every Canola calculator works. Thanks to tiny ICs (integrated circuits) and optically perfect display panels. Canon's precision in optics and electronics makes the difference. And Canon design ensures aesthetic perfection. Canola 163
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    Lock icon Indira's plank for New Year elections
    428 6 ftfEW DELHI The Indian Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, said her Congress Party did not plan any further nationalisation measures if it was returned to power at the elections she has called for the new year. The main plank of the campaign would be
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    Lock icon Handover of boats to Saigon ends
    166 6 SAIGON The U.S. Navy yesterday completed the transfer of all 650 of its small coastal and river combat craft to the South Vietnamese Navy. In a ceremony at the South Vietnamese Naval Headquarters pier on the Saigon River the commander of US. Naval Force#
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    Lock icon U.S. defoliants causes many stillbirths
    451 6  -  By JOAN DEPPA CHICAGO—A team sent to Vietnam by Hie American Association for the Advancement of Science to investigate effects of defoliant sprays said precautions to protect the local population from chemicals had failed. The team said a study of one heavily defoliated province showed
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    Lock icon MISSION FINISHED
    129 6 SAIGON A 2.500-man South Vietnamese task force has pulled out of Central Cambodia 15 days after answering an urgent appeal from Phnom Penh to relieve the Mekong river city of Komptong Cham. A military spokesman said the four battalions of paratroopers were airlifted from the strategic area yesterday
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    Lock icon 'Kidnapped' girl is with suitor
    109 6 MANILA A pretty Filipino-American girl who was reported by the police to have been kidnapped at gunpoint Sunday, is safe and plans to get married shortly, a Filipino congresssman said yesterday. Congressman Roque Ablan of Hoc os Norte province, 230 miles north af Manila where
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    Lock icon 'PREPARE EGYPT FOR WAR' CALL BY SADAT
    382 7 governors According to the official Middle East News Agency, he instructed that "all the executive, poll tical and legislative apparatuses of the nation be put in battle formation and that they should have a plan for the battle." The exact import of the
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    Lock icon Gold a emphasises a point...
    183 7 JERUSALEM Uracil Premier Golda Meir (above) has appealed to Egypt to open a new era of peace in relations between the two countries at tbe resumed Middle East peace talks. Bat at tbe same time ■b e warned there would be no Israeli withdrawal from
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    Lock icon Student killed as bombs fly in Thai clashes
    78 7 BANGKOK One student was killed and three injured in bombthrowing clashes between rival Thai student groups. Students from four schools fought with bottle and plastic bombs to bring the five-dav Interschool track and field Championships to a violent end. Nineteen students were
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    Lock icon German pays big ransom to Guinea for wife
    261 7 HAMBURG Hamburg Industrialist Frledrich Pleuger, who claims his wife Is being held to ransom In Equatorial Guinea, has said he hopes she will be able to return home this week. Berr Pleuger, 71, told reporters that he has arranged for a guaranteed
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      43 7 5 OUT B 49 WILL BE HELD AT GREAT WORLD AMUSEMENT PARK AT 7.45 P.M. TODAY'S DRAW NO: 104/70 sa CASH JACKPOT IS TO WINNERS WITH NUMBERS CORRECT THE OTHER GROUP PRIZES REMAIN THE SAME PLUS FREE ENTRY FOR 3 CIRCLES CORRECT $5OO/-
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    421 8 Letter protests torture around the world MONTREAL The International Anti-Torture Front (FIAT) has tent an open letter to newspapers »nd radio stations in Montreal to (protest arbitrary detention and torture In several parts of the world. It wag addressed to the governments of Brasll, Spain. Greece. Haiti.
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    Lock icon COLUMNIST INSISTS: Snowdons will be divorced soon
    295 8 WASHINGTON Society columnist Maxine Cheshire has repeated her claim that Princess Margaret ond Lord Snawdoit would be divorced despite official denials from London. Interviewed on television station WTOP in Washington, she declared that if people knew her source, they would know that the
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    Lock icon Severe snow storms hit Western Europe
    203 8 LONDON Parts of Spain's Mediterranean coast had their first snow in 20 years, skiers were marooned in North Italy and blocked roads brought chaos to France as severe winter storms yesterday hit Western Europe. Southern Spain normally a winter refuge for sun-starved northern Europeans
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    Lock icon FLQ SUSPECTS IN COURT
    57 8 The three prime suspects in the kidnap-murder of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte have made a formal appearance in Montreal Court. The three, Jacques Rose (left), Paul Rose (centre) and Francis Simard (right) are shown in police photos after their arrest on Monday at an isolated
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    Lock icon 8 HELD IN $2M DUD MONEY CASE
    183 8 WIESBADEN, West Germany Police have arretted eight persons in connection with a 552,211,000 dud money case, believed to b« the largest in West German history. late st arroit was made in Cologne on Tuesday where a lithographer. Kari Beuth was picked up Police
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    Lock icon Vietcong kill local chieftan
    116 8 BAYAP, Cambodia Villagers in this settlement o( stilted wooden houses two-and-a-half miles from Phnom Penh's central market were preparing to cremate their chieff —killed by Vietcong on Tuesday in th« guerrillas' closestever infiltration to the Cambodian capital. Village chief Ak Neak, aged 38, w as shot
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    Lock icon Zanuck resigns as head of film company
    300 9 NEW YORK. Richard Zanaek, 3«. has relifßrd m Prnidrnt of the financially troubled 20th CenturyFox film corporation under pressure from the Fox Board headed by his father, Darryl Zaßiek. The younger Zanuek's rniinallua, at a special meeting of the Board followed new corporate
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    Lock icon Demonstrators in Rome decry Basque verdict
    64 9 Public reaction to the death sentences passed on six Basque extremists in Burgos recently has been both varied and strong. In the picture above, demonstrators in Rome wave banners reading "Free Spain" outside the Spanish Steps. General Franco has had a meeting with his
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    Lock icon CUSTOM BAN
    41 9 ROME The colourful custom of giving presents to traffic police On January the day Of Epiphany, has been banned by officials in Rome, Milan and several other cities. *n»e step was taken because the custom was becoming too com-
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    Lock icon G.I. held in gun incident
    267 9 ATLANTA, Georgia A G.I. accused o# two murdrrs during tl»e alleged My Lai massacre was among 17 persons charged wi!h a shotgun slaying in Atlanta's hippie district, Tuesday but police said he "did not fire the shot." Detective* said murder charges against Robert Tsouvas, 21,
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    Lock icon 'ACCUSED GIRL COULD HAVE BEEN TATE'S GUEST' CLAIM
    379 9 LOS ANGELES A lowyer has suggested thot the fingerprints of one of the girl defendnnts in the Shorcn Tote murder trial might hove been found ot the scene becouse Mis* Tote invited her there. Haul Htzgerald, summing up 22 year old Patricia
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    Lock icon 'Be educated on Russia', US congressman tells Admiral
    173 9 WASHINGTON A U.S. Congressman ku told a U.S. CAast Guard Admiral that the Admiral ought to take a trip to Russia "to eompFfte jour education" (or having ordered a wouldbe defector from a Soviet ship returned It Ite Russians. Rear Adm. William
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    Lock icon BOOMING SINGAPORE
    627 10 'J'HE crash of pile-drivers, It has been said, symbolized Singapore In 1970. There Is a large element of truth In this because It succinctly describes the city state as a boom town that is all but bursting its seams because of the rapid growth it has achieved. The
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    Lock icon MY NAME'S HOWARD
    515 10  -  Art Buchwald WASHINGTON Every man has one big dream in him that keeps him going for all of his life. My dream is quite a s*mple one: I'm taking an airplane from Las Vegas to Paradise Island in the Bahamas, and sitting next to me is a
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    Lock icon Tunnel linking Britain & France: Heath is still wavering
    592 10  - Tunnel linking Britain France: Heath is still wavering By David Lawday THE bold concept of a tunnel joining Britain and France under the English Channel is still on the drawing board with Paris pushing hard for the project and London apparently wavering. Though the French are possibly keener than ever,
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      58 10 foreign new* and teacure* appearing In all editions of the Eastern Sun 4no The Hun are from Reuters United Pren International. A gene* trance Presse Editors Press Syndicate Newaoapei Enterprise Association Publishers Hall indicate. I.os Antele* Times Syndicate tlemlni News service North American Newspaper Alliance, Plrst Peat area. Inter-Press Feature*
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      Lock icon Pakistan in brief
      186 11 8fec: 365,529 square miles (with its two wills ieftarated by 1,00# miles of Indian territory) West Pakistan 310,403 sq. miles. East Pakistan 35.126 sq. miles. Population: 126 million (56 per cent In East Pakistan, mainly Bengalis). Religion: Muslim. Form of government: ruled under national law by President
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      Lock icon Prisoner disproves torture report
      140 11 ATHENS Offlrials hare displayed an imprisoned communist leader to foreign correspondents to prove be had Mi been tortured to death. Efs ratios Tsambis, a member of the Communist Party Central Committee, was presented to newsmen at the KOrdydallos Prison in the port city of Pierens after
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      Lock icon PAKISTAN'S AIM OF SOCIALISM MATERIALISES
      772 11 —The year 1970 saw the Socialist? Sweep to rictory at the polls in Muslim Pakistan. It ended o yeor of confusi >n in a country which seemed destined for greater chocs even under the rule of martial law. For President General Yahya Khan, the Army
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    Lock icon BIZARRE REMEDIES FOR A NEW YEAR HANGOVER
    1196 12/13  -  By Weatherbee Wong Tomorrow is colled NEW YEAR'S DAY by everybody* But I call It the day oX THE GREAT HANGOVER. WHEN OUR FOOD specialist RUTH BAKALAR blows her cool and talks about drinks, It Is easy to realise how the human mind
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    Lock icon Indonesia's last transvestite priests keep a dying tradition alive
    633 12/13  -  By DAVID STUART-FOX INDONESIA It was an ordinary plonk house where the centuries-old heirlooms were stored. Three women sat crosslegged around small wooden chest The opened chest contained packages wrapped in yellow or orange cloth Behind them, Its heavy door open,
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    Lock icon U.K. firm invents 'snappy' new chair
    57 12/13 What a way to relax! A London firm's come up with a rother original idea in the realm of fun furniture. This chair, colled the 'Dentist Chair' is made in the form and colour of teeth. Pretty Jenny Chapman seems to be having a
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    Lock icon New problems and new opportunities
    1210 14  -  By A. Doak Barnett WASHINGTON This constitutes a new American posture, for different from that of the post. It has not been fully translated into new policies but a few steps of considerable symbolic importance have been taken to liberalise travel regulations and reduce trade
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    Lock icon Look for these signs to spot Hiatal Hernia
    415 14  -  LAWRENCE E. LAMB Dear Dr. Lnb—l have hiatal hernia. Can you tell me exactly what it to? Dear Reader —There are several different types of hiatal hernia. Rarely is a person bom with a large hole in the diaphragm that permits stomach
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    Lock icon Persistent suitor becoming a pest
    374 14  -  DATELINE *y Ele and Walt Dulaney DEAR WALT: A boy asked me to go to his prom next spring. I don't want to make any commitment that far ahead because I don't know How fit feel about kim then. It's entirely possible that I may
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    Lock icon MYSTERY CALLER UPSETTING
    97 14 Dear Ele and Walt: I have a problem. A boy calls at my girl friend'* house and asks for me. He never identifies himself. He Just asks for me and when my girlfriend tells him I'm not there, he calls her a liar. He told her once
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    Lock icon NOT THEIR BAG
    106 14 Gentle readers: We in live and let live perpia and are glad when anyone has found some philosophy or (aide to r.fe that works for them. But, astrology bulla, please respect as as non-believers. We cannot and wl 1 not provide the blrthdates, birth hoars, etc. of
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    Lock icon 'Husbands' espuses freedom
    612 15  -  By Roger Doughty Next fro S p i r o Agnew, America's most celebrated Greek-American of 1971 may well turn out to be John Cassavetes, writer, director, actor and former boy wonder. John's claim to fame U a movie called •'Husbands'' (he denies he'll follow up with
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    Lock icon Paul Newman-again boxoffice champion
    264 15  -  By Vernon Scott The boxoftlce champion of motion pictures for 1970 is Paul Newman. In a poll of theatre owners the guys who count the money Newman won for the second consecutive year. The blond, blue-eyed leading man piled up votes on the strength of "Butch
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      265 15 msm ORGANISATION I I I> O .17,141 1 tnd BIG WEEK! II M. 1.30. (.30 A lit Charlton Heston Si Tina Chen "MASTER OF THE 18LANDS" Bcope-Co!or >UA( COMINO SOON! Mick Jagger "The Kelly Brothers'' in Color iUAI TONIOHT MIDNIGHT at CAPITOL-LIDO-SKY ROXY THE IRON RI'DDH A* (A SHAW PRODUCTION!
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      50 15 OPENS TODAY! CATHAY ST*« (Our BIG New Year Attraction) THIS IS ONE WAY-OUT COMEDY THAT'S WORTH GOING OUT OF THE WAY FOR! v*L I paramount wpuars mstNis JACK LEMMON SAND A HEN. SIMON STORY THEOUT-OROWNERS m vttiu t MM F»n*jcedN PHI. MRM ONMwIMHi BUH «.W*«X.*'OA-C COU* Br A PWWMOUNT HCTUfIf
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      271 15 DEQM 7 HH) tad WMk! No FrM List II am. 1 SO 4.M. 6.50 A D M "Home Of Dark Shadow*" Jonathan Prtd. Color. (MOM) ORCHARD 3 76s 811 Sad Wwk! No FrM LUt Daily 3 Shows: t.30, ft.45 BO* p.a "TOKA" Starts: t.30. 805 A »40 M (Suas A
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    134 16 GENEVA The International Air Transport Association <IA 1 A has forecast that airline passenger traffic would Jump 10 per cent next year to the 265 million mark. But Director-General Knut Hammarskjoeld added that decreasing yields and rising costs this ypar had offset the financial advantages to be expected
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      800 16 aiies taurus a Z\ germm Si B»!a cancer EgSSI e > 2 CARROLL RIOHTER'S GENERAL TENDENCIES: Until evening take no chances in any way but make your preparations for bringing in the New Year 1971. The early evening has little influence but you can enjoy yourself very much if you
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      25 16 LADIES DAY 'fa" Otv > «at ,iO~, "So the favorite wins the first! For a long shot cross my palm again with five dok hui r
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      1141 17 today's m P.M. CHANNEL 5 3.00 Opening Announcements, followed by General Hospital Daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital. 3.20 Another Song Another Melody (Repeat) (National Language) A light musical programme featuring: Ungku Fadillah bt. Ungku A. Jalil. 3.40 It's Happening In Singapore (Repeat) (Chinese) A
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    Lock icon Hospital was like hell...
    394 18 Last year, when 1 was in Primary Biz. my school had arranged for a doctor to look at our health. We were in the clan and were very excited to know what waa going on in the next class. One or the nurses stood at the
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    Lock icon Benefits of education
    474 18 We cannot deny the influence of education npon society because it shapes human personality which is revealed in the political, economical and social life. That education nourishes a starving mind is a fact we all must acknowledge. To absorb knowledge from books Is never a waste because
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    Lock icon "Head-up" display—the plane man's guide
    839 18  -  SCIENCE NOTES B, E. C. Thomson Anyone whu drives a car knows yon can't watch the road ahead and keep a continuous eye on the dashboard as wclL It's one thing or the other: If yon glance at the speedometer, the petrol gauge or the
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    69 18 THE fallowing were elected to the Executive Council of the Boys' Brigade for 1971: President Mr. Tan Hoay Gie; Vice-Presi-dents Maj. Khoo Buan Hin; Mr. Fok Tai Loy. Secretary Mr. Lee Liat Cheng; Asst. Secretary Mr. Tan Boon Yeow; Treasurer Mr. L. F. Strange; Asst. Treasurer (to
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      187 18 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe Hie Eastern Sun's essay writing contest tot boys and giHs of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. PrlM mon*v b: $lO lor Senior* and S5 io» tumor* tor every essey published Ail
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      107 19 Debbie Shelton, Miss U.S.A. of the Miss Universe contest 1970, changes her basic costume by using hats. *1 love hats", she says. "My mother doesn't wear them, but I and my friends do. "They can change your mood, your looks really make an outfit.
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      332 19  -  Ann Landers Dear Ann: May 1 comment on the letter from Mrs. ggg the woman who was mad because the 3-year-old hoy next door ran around the yard naked and ''cheapened the neighbourhood." As a mother of eight children I can tell you that boys
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      451 19 Five years of export hove convinced a large Australian sportswear manufacturer that styles designed for tho Australian way of life are also readily acceptable on the Asian market. Kevin Abrahams, Managing Director of Sutex Industries Ltd., has just returned to Australia from one
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    281 20 CREED in business is slowly accelerating again after months of lethargy in the Stack Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Waves of speculative buying continued to creep into the industrial front as confidence rose among operators. A rood turnover of 1.6 million shares were recorded. The fairly
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    106 20 MANSFIELD Co Pte. Ltd. have announced the appointment of Mr. Yuen Cnin Chang a* Assistant Sales Manager for their import freight section, beaded by Mr. G. W. With this appointment Mansflelds will be giving a better service in the way of answering queries or problems concernkxg imports from
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    56 20 (Msnarer him for DM, 81st) aBIA UNIT TKIBTS M Invest F»nd_ 1.18 1.84 M*la Prof. 1.04 1.08 iTMKTKKKD IMI TBI'STH BO Pond 88 104 MMMPORB I'Ml THI'STB Sod X'por* l.fH) 3nl S pore 1.88 Com. ind. .W 1.04xd The Mfloi 1 imrt 103 108 B.P. Fund .101 (Manager
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    256 20 January first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 48-3/4 cents per lb., down 7/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet after eesier. The market suffered from lack of buying support in front
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    111 20 K10NG KONG Ifslfrdaj'i B p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): < Buyers) (Sellers) 196 197 per 100 Straits dollars 146.23 148.25 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6.75 6.77 per Australian doilai 340 360 per l.OOo Burmese kyats 460 480 per 1,000 Indian rupees 140 164
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    81 20 THE noon prices at tne Singapore Chine** Produce Exchange rertrrda; was > 8 Coconut Oil (f-0.b.) bulk 69-00 Coconut Oil (f.0.b.) drum 61.50 Mixed Copra 35.00 Muntok Whit* Pepper (f.0.b.) ASTA 100% NWL 180.00 Sarawak Whits Pepper (lob) 56% M.W.L. ***** Sarawak Speelai Black Pepper (f.0.h.) t*)% K.H.L 157.50
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    675 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business in the Sing spore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday INDUSTRIALS B 8 Acma 1.29 132 Ajinomoto 1.85 1.90 Alcan 1.31 1.38 Allied Choc. 2.63 Ben. .88 90 Berjaya 1 16 1.20 Borneo
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    896 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 Ints of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS ACM A $l3l (1); lten 88 ctd (1) 90 cts (1); Beriaya $1.16 (2)
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    306 21 CYDNEY Trading yesterday continued on a quiet note on the Sydney Stock Exchange with all sections of the market remaining firm. Rises easily outnumbered falls once again but turnover continued at a Sow. For the second day running, bargain hunters moved Into shares selling below
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    297 21 Fibremakers has been awarded an Export Award for its outstanding export growth and development since 1967. The awards were presented by the Governor-General, Sir Paul Hasluck, to leading companies engaged in export in Canberra on Nov. 26. The Fibremakers ex- i port story Is
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