Eastern Sun, 10 March 1971

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  • 19 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's ovK^hafjlaSJy 10 cents Estd. 1966 Vol. 5 No. 1591 Wednesday, March 10, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 10 1 MAMOAS FOR T/9AVEL. 22-A, Raffles Place, Singapore 1 Tell *****
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  • 103 2 Luscious Angela Duxon never wanted to dance toples« on stage. But love changed her mind. She feU in love with Samir Syed, a night club actor in Cairo. They got married and becam« th e Angela Duo. "I agreed to dance topless became I
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  • 428 2 Two police officers on a hotel raid, arrested two couples, released their boyfriends, then raped the girls, it was alleged in the High Court yesterday. Charged with raping the two women are expollce inspector Amanuar Rahman, 24. and st a fT-sergeant Zainal Abldln bin
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  • 195 2 A Judge yesterday criticised Singapore Pool* Private' Ltd. for employing "unreliable agents." Mr Justice D. C IXotta w as hearing evidence in a High Court case brought agates! Singapore Pools h* Ng Soo Yuen 26, a labourer of Margaret Drive. Ng I* soring the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 73 2 In i SINGAPORE TOWN 4.00 am. (4.2 ft.>: 9.55 am. (8.6 ft.)? 4.46 pm (1.5 ft.) 11-12 pm. (8 ft) TOMORROW 4.33 am. (36 ft 1032 am. <S.» ft); ill pm. <1.6 ft.); 11-29 pm. <B-# fU NAVAL DOCKYARD 357 am. (4.!* ft): It.2f am. (9.-7 ft.); 421 pm (2.3
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  • 451 3 A ROLDIER found shot dead In a tamp was "obsessed with the Samurai spirit and loved everything Japanese." A Japanese sworn Interpreter, Mr M. Sasaki, said this yesterday in the Coroner's Court. He has arrived at this conclusion after reading Japanese
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  • 277 3 The Johore Speciol Branch has bonned the entry of a book obout the fall of Singapore in 1942. Now publisher Donald Moore wants to know whether the Ministry of Home Affairs or the Johore Special Branch banned it. The book is "Singapore Too
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  • 325 4 "rjERELICT motor vehicles and old machinery are important to the iron and steel industry, the Minister for Science and Technology said yesterday. Or Toh Chin Chye said scrap iron was a major raw material. He was addressing the inaugural meeting (or the South-East
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  • 278 4 TOP commercial and industrial circles yesterday hailed the new budget as realistic and satisfactory. They claimed It was a clear Indicator of the country's sound economy and would pave the way for accelerated growth. The Minister for Finance. Mr Hon Bul Ben. presented the
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  • 135 4 FOOD glorious FOOD (Test magnificat-! Tender young French beans are only 55 cents a kati at the markets today. Today's prices (la pounds unless otherwise mentioned): NEW ZEALAND BEEF Scotch steak $2.65 Ox liver $1 -65 Ox tail $1.35 Shin beef $1.85 Veal chops $1.89 Rib
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  • 33 4 Mr John Vernon Rob a former British High Commissioner in Singapore—hag died in London after a long illness. He w*s 55 He was High Commissioner here from IMS-
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  • 141 4 Ministry of Health officials have tracked down a typhoid carrier in the Geylang Serai area. The man. an unlicensed Jalan Übi food hawker, was lound after an investigation of more than 400 hawkers and food handlers. He was selling "ajrer batu bandung" and iced orange drinks which
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  • 43 4 Lite is l*ard tor many people and when you'r# old, like Hm man, it'« good to stop while to rest and think, An EASTERN SUN cameraman caught the Singapore "veteran" at he paused in the afternoon sun this week.
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  • 89 4 A (actor; worker was killed in a road accident on Monday night and his brother badly hart. The dead youth was Chew Kweng Chye, If, of or 4 Road. He died of head and body injuries la Thornton Road Gene ral Hospital. His
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 438 5 M > M m National M m m k i II H. m H \sfs S n -j r4 •^=J > <4 y f %**> FREE-SHOPPING MONTHLY CONTEST 39 Valuable prizes must be won! FIRST PRIZEuptoS2jOOO/-Plusldayandl night all expenses paid stay in Singapore or Kuala Lumpur. For further details see
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  • THE WORLD THIS MORNING
    • Article, Illustration
      31 6 Ann Bay, a 22-year-old Sydney waitress, hopes to succeed in the modelling field. Her candid pose for the photographer may soon get her a job and realise her dream.
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    • 201 6 LONDON Britain i s to lose o«e of it* 10 national daily newspapers because of rising production costs, the publishers announced yesterday. Th e popular tabloid Dally Sketch, will close In mid-May. Its title will be merged with the MlddleBrow Dally Mall, which. Is
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    • 272 6 Egypt hos evacuated civilians from the Suez Canal area, fearing the end of the sevenmonth truce could start an accidental war in the Middle East. The Interior Ministry imposed a partial blackout on the capital. Official sources said three Israeli planes flew over Egypt's Canal
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    • 109 6 MIAMI A 16 yrarold youth with his father's gun yesterday hijacked a national airlines jet, but surrendered to the pilot on the way to Canada. The youth, Thomas Marston of Mobile. Alabama, hijacked the plane at Mobile Airport and ordered it to Montreal. But about 45 minutes
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    • 212 6 LONDON Britain has announced that it* plan to save the Rolls Royce KB-211 engine project was flexible and open to a counter-bid. This was announced by Aviation Supply Minister, Frederick Corfield in Parliament on Monday. Any counter-bid need not necessarily be connected with the
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    • 133 6 ANKARA Four kid napped American airmen were inexplicably abandoned yesterday by their leftwtng terrorist captors. They have been held at submachine gunpoint under a ransom •r death threat for four harrowing days. The airmen strained and tired but otherwise in good health, walked Into
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  • 42 7 Twenty y ear-eld J tjtc Wears tier scores another Milt for Womei'i Liberation when the takes the vheel of a ani▼ersitf service has. Joyce is a sophomore at Ohio's Kent State University. She DHs in as part-time bus driver.
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  • 105 7 QUITO, Ecuador At least 30 people were killed last night when a huge landslide buried vehicles on an Andes Mountain highway. The slide occurred near the town of Santo Domingo De Los Colorados about 60 miles southwest of Quito. Heavy rain had caused ■mall slides
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  • 56 7 JAKARTA HI an i army officers have beer arrested in Bandung for alleged secret ties with the communists. The sonrees said the} were under lnterroga tion. The officers from the Infantry training rentr In Bandang Included colonels, majors and captains. The centre eomman der, Brigadier-Genera
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  • 177 7 r>ELFAST, Northern Ireland A member of the outlawed Irish Republican Army (IRA) was shot deod and several others wounded in a gun battle between the army's rival factions yesterday. The shooting took place in the dorkened streets of a Roman Catholic oreo. Machine run
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 246 7 r /vrv. H/t* S frv A/ v am i compul ic calculator by Canon d generation M H fl B the Canola JL r The Canola electronic calculator researched and developed by Canon Mm now unveils the second generation electronic calculator the Canola 164 P. No larger than a portable
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  • 80 8 This is one canine who really could qualify as a guard dog, but not the type that guards property. He was seen recently getting in on the act at a ceremony in Wartaw, Poland. Amusing enough tor the watching crowds, but not so funny for
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  • 118 8 DELHI About 150,000 troops and police have taken up positions in West Bengal as violence continued. At least six persons were reported killed in clashes on Tuesday. State Governor S 3. Dhavan appealed to Bengalis to vote In today's poll despite mounting
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  • 111 8 LISBON The Portuguese Air Force says saboteurs put a time explosive in a hangar at one of Portugal's biggest Air Force bases, Tancos, destroying and damaging several planes yesterday. An official communique said no Air Force personnel were hurt. Unofficial reports said fire severely damaged 11
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  • 190 8 WASHINGTON Army captain Ernest Medina was yesterday ordered to face court-martial on three charges of the premeditated murder of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in March, 1968. Captain Medina was the company commander when U.S. forces swept through the South Vietnamese village In search
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  • 119 8 A Nationalist Chinese diplomat left Switzerland for Peking yes terda T after defecting to Communist China. Swiss police said. Mr Sun Chi Chou, a middle ranking diplomat. left of his own free will, the police said. They denied a claim by Nationalist China's Central
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 46 8 j j'jl TOMORROW'S DRAW NO: 19/71 (11-3-71) Ji|) WILL BE HELD AT THE SINGAPORE WONDERLAND AMUSEMENT PARK AT 7.45 P.M. s; CASH JACKPOT IS V TO WINNERS WITH 5 NUMBERS CORRECT THE OTHER GROUP PRIZES REMAIN THE SAME PLUS FREE ENTRY FOR 3 CIRCLES CORRECT $5OO/-
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 540 9  -  says Elliott Gould laurie lee FILM stor Elliott Gould could Hove been spooking for o lot of Singaporeans when he soid recently: "I'm not against the Institution of marriage. "But when it was invented in the third century BC the average lifespan was 30 to 35 years. 'lt
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    • Article, Illustration
      49 9 THREE pretty maids *ll in a row try their skill in a playground at a California beach recently. The bikini clad girls ar« (left to right) Adriana Hentley, Joyce Williams and Margaret Markov. All work for MGM and appearing in "Pretty Maids Ad In A Row."
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    • 478 9 If •nly they asrd to say, Britain could balance its books all would *>e well. Tear after year England luMrrrd from Uif trade rap'' and nothing any Chancellor of the Excheowr. Conservative at Labow, tried to 4o ■H to make moch difference. Sofltaifi the rap
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  • 528 10 In Singapore have every reason to celebrate. The excellent budget that was presented by Finance Minister Hon Sui Sen reflects our affluence. We had a fantastic economic growth rate of 15 percent and we hope to maintain it. Our achievements In the industrial sector have been nothing short of
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  • 558 10 The Art Buchwald column WASHINGTON Whot happened to all the anti-war protestors of yesteryear? Well, In spite of what you read in the newspapers, they're still around. Only they're a new breed and in many ways rnuch tougher. I went to an antiwar rally at the Washington
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 104 10 SIR: I)R David Chew, director of The National Productivity Centre, has pointed out that the use of kaolin in manufacture causes a lung disease called silicosis. Bamboo Grove Park Estate, where 153 houses are sited, has been subjected to a very strong smell resembling kaolin by
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    • 106 10 SIR: ON a recent visit to the Jurone Bird Park, I was disturbed to see a youth violently shaking the deer park fence. He was carrying a camera and obviously wanted to attract a deer's attention so that he could photograph it. But fHe deer paid no attention,
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    • 111 10 SIR* fFHE stench from the canal along: New Bridge Road is an absolute disgrace. It Is nauseating to have to stand at one of the bus stops there and breathe such polluted air. The People's Park shopping complex is listed in the guide books as a
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    • 109 10 SIR: Government seems to have embarked on a new wav of petting rid of the monkevs in the Botanical Gardens. There is a new sign w*hieh says "Please do not feed the monkeys." This, if I am not mistaken, means that the poor animals are to be starved
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  • SUN SCOPE
    • 551 11 18 years, U.S. troops ore preparing for their final withdrawal from the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), a sometimes very militarised zone that has cost 33 American lives since the armistice was signed in 1953. The pullbock will give Washington more flexibility in deciding
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  • 367 12/13 There's a fascinating new world under the waves If OU think skindiving is a dangerous sport? You're wrong. Ask members of the Singapore Sub-Aqua Club and they tell you it's no more dangerous than life on dry land. They'll say the greatest danger Is not from
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  • 112 12/13 Royal Air Force divers are fighting a strange enemy in the seas off Singapore the giant Crown or Thorns starfish The starfish, which eats living coral, has destroyed coral reefs In many parts of the world. Now It Is posing a threat to marine tourist attractions in
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  • 865 14  -  relax bf LIZ SHERRY 1)0 you foil for tho "sexy-sell" or is status-snobbery your particular failing? Whatever your weakness the odvertising-men hove it all worked out. You may think you tray that particular brand of Scotch because you like the taste
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  • 491 15 Star£ vie Scoffs d to refuse an Award nomination Georae Scott's 'no' J JOLLY WOOD George C. Scott is obsolutely correct in the eyes of most movie actors: it is folly to single out one performance by an actor as the very
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  • Article, Illustration
    45 15 TWO stars collided recently wit en New York Giants star quarterback Fran Tarkenton, left, met a star of another order in Danny Kaye. The two playfully "fought" for the ball backstage after a performance of Kaye's current Broadway musical "Two by Two".
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  • 101 15 IRENE Worth has -1 been cast as the Dowager Empress, mother of Tsar Nicholas 11, in "Nicholas and Alexandra". Her most recent Aim was "King Lear" in which she played Goneril. The film repeated one of her greatest stage performances and co-starred her with Paul
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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    • 160 15 ODEON ORCHARD i Ml I 1 ;,,r,MK WOW SHOWING! iWo free Lutt (CASH BOOKINGS ONLfI Beth Theatres Show. ODEON: II 4 1 IM ORCHARD: II I :*O, 4, 7 R uoiaeo Hart cat Preeauu *a«i T« Hhioiaro Rataa ti "ZAroit HI AND IHt ROVING SWORDSMAN Ho Mandarin I DT*llHcooe EutmaocoK
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  • 528 16  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR Ann: I am a 16-year-old K irl with a problem I can I talk to anyone about. My older sister is 20 ana net married. She lives about 100 mi let away. Rosemary moved out of th® bouse about a year ago
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 890 16 CARROL. L RIOHTBR'9 TAURUS GENERAL TENDENCIES: Until mid-afternoon very adverse aspects are In effect. You would be wise to carry through with whatever promises you have aiade without making any changes or taking any chances, but you And later you are able to calmly and rationally think out a course
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  • 476 17 author Dale Wasserman has dared to write a letter to the director of Moscow's Mayakovsky theatre calling Soviet producers thieves and felons. When Wasserman discovered the theatre would produce his Man of La Mancha, he wrote a letter to Andrei Goncharoy. I regret to say that I
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 844 17 today's TV SIIMGAPURA CHANNEL 5 OPENINC ANNCTS. followed by HOUSEWIVES MATINEE Unexpected Fortune" (Part 1 of a Cantonese film) with English Subtitles. FOR THE FAMILY A magazine series presented In Chinese A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (Chinese) DAYS OF OUR LIVES A dramatic serial about a dedicated
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  • YOUN SUN
    • 182 18 THE Crffdfitf Clearwater Revival has been reduced to a trio with the departure of ita (onadtr aad rhythm guitarist. Ton Fogerty. There is ao Question of Tom being replaced. The outfit will remain as a three-piece unit—comprising John Fogerty (TOM'S younger brother), Stu Cook and
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    • 112 18 POSTBAG For the people who have asked, today Tin publishing a picture of DAVE EDMUNDS. He'i rot groovy lone hair hasn't he? Please address all letters to Platter Pete c/o Eastern Sun, 23-B Cantonment Road, Sine aDO re Dear fete. Where
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    • 536 18 DISC-CUSSION P INK FLOYD: ATOM HEART MOTHER (Harvest) The cover off this album depicts nothing but o fat cow. But who cares about the cover when you've cot music like which is on this album. TOe originality of this fantastic album stands out like
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  • WOMEN
    • 409 19 Jewellery 'pHE fad for doing hand-worked jewellery is affecting the general fashion trend in jewellery. If everyone can make her own bead necklaces or pins of glued-down braid, then such things are going to find less success over the counter. Money is going to
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 247 20 Except for selective issues, there was a general lack of incentive to deal the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Buyers were scarce and most operators still preferred the sidellness although the budget presented In Parliament on Monday was described as a painless one. The
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    • 65 20 TUk ntiKi orvr *1 Ibr M*l«poi« I Mnrw IickuiK PiiKlarr a ft. Cwnii Oil |lAb.t bulk #r» CWMIt Oil ffo.b.) df MB 0OO© ('•rpr* S&.09 Mmm.li WMI« 1*1.5* Mramk White ff*pp«r MJ% II1.M Bar4Milk snrclAl sn.- r 102 Mi torawafc AMI ear* mm IH.VlKi LM>PUOK Hlarfe Ana iJo* *10
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    • 261 20 March first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 pm. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 97 cents per kilo. The tone of the market was quiet. Opening Quotations were marked up following improved London advice* and the market ruled quiet and fluctuated narrowly in the
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    • 126 20 BONO KONG Yesterday'* 5 pm currency rates (supplied bj foreign Kit ha net and Investment Ltd.): < Ho vera) (Sellers) ***** 106.20 pt>r 100 Strait* dollar* 146 50 146.50 per I.Mx laiwat oiuar* 670 0 7b per Australian dollar 34 0 360 oer l.WH Burmese kyau 460 480
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    • 694 20 BID and offer price* officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Cxcbange vesterdai INDUSTRIALS B. 8. Aetna 1.27 1.39 Ajinoraoto its Ale tin 1 43 1.45 Allied Cbocn ZKO 2.90 Ben 1.27 1.28 Berjaya 1.25 1.26 Borneo
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    • 769 20 BrsiNESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Eirhanjce of Malavsia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS A lean $1.44 <5); Ben $l2B (2): DIM $1.29 (6) $1 28 (1); Berjaya
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    • 152 20 The associate company of a Singapore concern, the Indonesian Navy and an Indonesian mining firm have entered Into a $630,000 contract to remove obstructing rocks from the entrance of TJllatJap harbour In Southern Java. With the removal of the rocks Japanese ore carriers of up to
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    • 31 20 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages on the Ne w York Stork Exchange 30 Industrials 898.62 20 Transport 202.86 15 Utilities 122.67 65 Stocks 296.90 40 Bonds f 7018
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  • 112 21 Singapore Industrialist* were yesterday encouraged to manufacture ready made cloUte* especially shirts. Mr Werner Jw, Manager of CarlwMa and Company from Bangkok said that the shirts produced In Singapore were of good Quality. Industrious The workmen here •re skilful and are very Industrious, he remarked. Mr
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  • 276 21 BOAC's computer team, who made Hie airlines $343 million Boadicea complex an industry pacemaker, have landed their biggest ever exoort contract. They have been commissioned to computerise Malaysia-Singa-pore Airlines at a cost of over Ss22 million. The contract was recently signed In Singapore and Involves
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  • 99 21 There will still be an Important role for conventional shipping to play in spite of developments in container transportation. This is the view of Mr David McElwaine, newly appointed General Manager of Mansflelds' Shipping Division. Mr McElwaine, has Just returned from a visit to the London
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  • 405 21 SYDNEY Buyers moved buoyantly into speculative miners on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Star of the speculative section, Antimony Nickel, soared 25 cents to 50 cents while the contributing shares jumped from 13 cents to 30 cents at the close. Stock Exchange officials staged an inquiry
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    • 329 21 APPOINTMENTS PEOPLE'S ASSOCIATION APPLICATIONS are Invited from Singapore CiUsens for the following appointments:L CLKKIUL^ASMSIANI Age: Between 18 25 rears ualHUullons and Experience Cambridge School Certificate or A credit In English will be an advantage Candidate* with experience In auditing/finance work preferred. Salary: »165x10A-195/2.0x15A-J.lO/34&xl(>A-4M (Consolidated) U HTOKKKKhPhK Age: ao 45 year*
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  • 1316 22 CI. 1 Div. 2-1 M. ***** 4y 900 jcMtn E Breuk ***** 1114(1 HOW Kwctt Jin 8|r Kiiiclil by 4y 8 13 a 13 8 13 Income Lee At 1-rong J Rmlntf Moon Teh Donnelly 1 .cc •1260 ***** 5CM3 434(0 ***** ialdiib Lul ComI Orfu Karhaof
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  • 507 22 TIOMAN, with Ho Soon Keng astride, worked like a winner at Bukit Timah here yesterday. With stalemate INTELLECTUAL for company, the Daniels trained pair raced over 3t in 36 on a good track with Tioman II striding out better at the finish. Another good gallop
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  • 101 22 NAAFI Imperial has withdrawn from the Singapore B us i ness Houses Football League's Cup*and League competitions. NAAFT's withdrawal was due to retrenchment of its players, who were the employees of Navy. Army and Air Force Institutes. NAAFI's withdrawal has caused disappointment to Singapore Pools, who were scheduled
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 1317 23 Champion floors Ali in final round NEW YORK Joe Froxier is king. The former Philadelphia slaughterhouse worker won the "Fight Of The Century" here Monday when he slugged former champion Muhammad Ali to a 15 rounds points defeat in the Madison Square Garden. Frazier retained h is
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    • 40 23 ROUND nnnnnnnn CHEEK] EDGE REFEREE Arthur Merconta iBDQBB BDQfl JUDGE Arthur Aj'dolq BBBBBBBB A A F F A A 1 f a e JUDGE Bill Rcchf BBBBBBBBBB BBBB gone UPI F QQOQQQOQQSQQ9QDBQD I II— 1 I II ——I
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    • 104 23 Ocean Sports Club scored a 2-1 victory over Singapore Cricket Club in a friendly soccer fixture played at Padang yesterday. SCC, which held Ocean to a one all draw in the first-half, played a splendid game in the first-half but centre-forward Grice. booted away a number
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    • 300 23 Fiftv six schools are participating In the Singapore Schools Sports Council's National Softball championships 1971. The participating teams are divided into A. B and C groups for boys and girls and grouped under two separate groups for each division. The participating teams are:
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  • 140 24 250 Reds killed in Laos battle PAKSE, Laos At least 250 North Vietnamese troop* were killed yesterday in two abortive regiment-sited attacks on a government hilltop position on the northeast rim of the Bolovens plateau 300 miles south of Vientiane, a government spokesman said. BANGKOK Prime Minister
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  • 380 24 YORK World heavyweightchampion Joe Frazier gave Muhammad Ali a brutal body battering and earned a points decision here yesterday. Ali could not absorb the punishment that Frazier dished out. All was knocked down In the last round. The first defeat in his 32-bout career
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  • 200 24 CANBERRA Former Australian Defence Minister Malcolm Fraser bluntly told parliament yesterday that Prime Minister John Gorton was not fit to lead the country. Mr Fraser, who resigned in a bitter personal feud, pat Mr Gorton squarely on the spot and left him fighting for
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  • 190 24 UNITED NATIONS Secretary-General U Thant has authorised that the U.N. staff and their dependents in East Pakistan can evacuate if the situation deteriorates. He has left the fnal decision to the senior official of the U.N. Development Programme based there. The latter. Carlfrltz Wolff,
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