New Nation, 21 September 1972

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  • 20 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Thursday evening, September 21, 1972 No. 516 Price 15 cents —*3—— ll «11l IMI ■HOWfeMM—————'— NEW NATION
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  • 11 1 Police reported 58 accidents yesterd ay. Four were serious.
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  • 91 1 Trading was light and selective In the share market this morning. Prices were barely steady. Imperial Hotel, relisted today, moved from $1.40 to $1.86, to $1.79 with an estimated turnover of 80,000 shares. Slme Darby lost 10 cents to $7.40, Tong Meng eight cents to $1.48, Pacific
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  • 29 1 Baltimore, Thursday. Richard Wright, 25, was sentenced to Four years Jail yesterday for placing hits of glass in sweets given two jroung girls at a Halloween
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  • 24 1 I LATE NEWS] Ottawa, Thursday—lsraeli diplomats in Canada have found seven booby-trapped letters, similar to those found In London and elsewhere.
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  • 766 1 New York, Thursday Muhammad Ail stopped Floyd Patterson at the end of the seventh round in their scheduled 12-round fight at Madison Square. Garden when the ringside doctor ruled Patterson was unfit to continue because of a bad cut over the left eye. All rushed from
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  • 214 1  -  By Rav Dhaliwal, Teresa Ooi A police patrol car and a Volkswagen (above) collided In heavy rain this morning at Singapore's Jinx accident spot in Mountbaten Road eight hours after another car crashed in the same place, and two days after two other accidents there.
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  • 120 1 Reuter Tokyo, Thursday.—Prime Minister Mr. Kakuel Tanaka will visit China from Sept. 25 to 30 for talks expected to lead to the establishment of diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Peking. An official announcement said Mr. Tanaka had accepted an invitation to visit Peking given by
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  • 163 1 New York, Thursday.— New York Btate, with the fanfare of a coronation, yesterday turned a 71-year-old woman's whimsical US$3 Investment Into a potential UBsl million bonanza. The woman, Mrs. John Mlzerak of Little Falls, New York, was tentatively Identified by state lottery
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  • 422 1 Police screen all Israeli mail Reuter Tel Aviv, Thursday The number of lethal mail bombs delivered to International Israeli establishments climbed to at least 23 yesterday when more turned up in the post in Europe, North America and Israel itself. Another three suspiciouslooking letters
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  • 253 1 Reuter Nairobi, Thursday. Five Libyan aircraft carrying troops, military equip ment and ammunition for Uganda were forced to land at Khartoum yesterday after being refused permls- slon to overfly the Sudan. The Kampala Radio Immediately broadcast an appeal for the Sudan to release the aircraft.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 388 2  -  By Jenny Lee There are eight convicted murderers in "death row" at Changi Prison. Almost all are fighting for a lastminute reprieve but at least two are expected to hang before the year is out. They include dance hostess Miml Wong, 33, and her
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  • 231 2 A Society of Industrial Safety is to be formed soon to curb the rising number of industrial accidents in Singapore. A pro tem committee was elected last night at the Singapore Institute of Management's premises in Oxley Rise. Mr. N.V. Samuel, assistant training superintendent
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  • 400 2  -  By Mary Lee Meet the original bombshell, Miss Robyn Hughes, 20. This curvy Australian, a former hair dresser, is the youngest member of the Los Angeles Thunderbirds now in Singapore to show us what the roller game is all about When she's working,
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  • 58 2 The National Youth Leadership Training Institute Alumni, will hold a film show From The Highway In Mandarin at the Metropole Theatre on Sunday at 9 a.m. to raise funds for its various projects. Tickets at $1, $2 and $3 are available from the institute and
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  • 474 2  -  Trade team studies possibilities By Long Kum Thong An Italian industrial delegation representing six medium-sized industrial corporations say they will invest $15 to $20 million in Singapore if conditions are favourable. This was stated by Dr. C. M. Garzia, an official of the Italian Ministry for
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  • 344 2 Singapore's potential as an international financial centre has attracted Britain's Barclays Bank to set up a representative office here. In an interview Mr. R. O. Dyson, the bank's director who is here on a familiarisation tour of Asia, said: "We will send
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  • 86 2 A 17-member trade delegation from New Zealand flew in here last night to study the prospects of joint Investments with local businessmen, The team —the fifth to visit Singapore is led by Mr. E.P. Chapman, president of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Chapman said:
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 77 2 that's the new circulation record of New Nation. During August 1972, New Nation's average daily net sale achieved the highest circulation ever recorded by an English language daily in Singapore over the past 10 years (except the Straits Times). And sales are on the increase. More and more influential and
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    • 136 2 CHARTERS BY BRITISH CALEDONIANS SABER AIR Departures Doily Except Monday from S pore L Amsterdam S 540 Dusseldort S 570 Barcelona S 650 Frankfurt 610 Brussels S 540 Hanover 620 Cologne S 570 tondon 525 Copenhagen S 700 Geneva 620 Los Angeles ***** Por.v Madrid 710 Rotterdam 3 540 Munich
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 95 2 rwiTin Temperatures in cities yesterday: Kuala Lumpur Manila Taipeh Jakarta Seoul Hong Kong Tokyo Bangkok Naha Paris New York Moscow Sydney Melbourne Canberra 22 Perth 32-24 C 31-24 C 32-21 C 34-26 C 25-14 C 30-26 C 26-18 C 33-24 C 29-21 C 15- 7C 25-19 C 11- 4C 21-11
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    • 454 2 I HRPPEmncs WHAT'S ON TODAY Mr. R.S. GAE, permanent secretary to the Ministry of Law and Justice in India, will give a lecture on Religion and Society at the Ramakrishna Mission in Bartley Road at 4 p.m. Four hundred secondary students will attend a talk on ENGINEERING CAREERS at the
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    • 124 2 A Today's winning number *****2 If the last six digits of your Singapore identity card number are those shown above, you can claim a $300 Post Office Savings Bank Gift Voucher. Your voucher will be paid into a Post Office Saving Bank account in your name, fall with your identity
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  • 275 3 Adult pedestrians topped the list of those killed in road accidents in August this year. Police said that the 35 fatal accidents In August, 17 were pedestrians one juvenile and 16 adults. The number of adult pedestrian fatalities is double the figure for
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  • 64 3 The First Lady, Mrs. Sheares, will open the annual exhibition of Japanese Flower Arrangement at the Conference Hall on Sept. 29 at 5.30 p.m. The exhibition Is organised by the Singapore Sogetsu Association In aid of St. Andrew's Mission Hospital, Little Sisters of the Poor
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  • 23 3 An art exhibition by artist Seah Kim Hock will be opened at the National Library Lecture Hall at 5.30 p.m. tomorrow.
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  • 440 3  -  By Sunny Wee Two officers of a, British freighter today spoke of their nightmare in June when their skip was mined off South Vietnam. They arc George Anderson from Aberdeen, Scotland, and Ken Bradshaw from Preston, England. Mr. Anderson Is a Junior engineer
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  • 376 3 US move to stop traffic through Thailand United Press International Washington, Thursday Singapore Is becoming a greater outlet for narcotics smuggled from Burma through Thailand, US officials said yesterday. "It Is only a slight increase, but it is an increase," one of
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  • 326 3 'Only a bid to protect MAS' The Malaysian government's plan to clamp down on charter flights will not affect Singapore, charter agencies and travel agents said today. This is because casual charter flights in Kuala Lumpur are almost non-existent, except for the scheduled charter flights
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  • 396 3  -  By Ng Foo Ngok Kuala Lumpur, Thursday The government announcement on Tuesday that it would curtail its "open sky" policy is the final blow to the local charter flight industry. Several charter operators folded ud lons before the announcement and Pelandok Airways is
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  • 22 3 The Singapore Polytechnic Photographic Society will hold Aperture Nite "72 at the Shangri-La Hotel's Island Ballroom on Oct. 15.
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  • 128 3 The morning economy flights by Malaysia-Singa-pore Airlines will be put back an hour when Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines System begin operations on October 1. Instead of 5.30 ana., the daily morning flights by SLA will take off at 6.1S a.m. while MAS will start
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  • In Person
    • 897 4 AND DADDY HAPPILY PICKS UP THE BIRTHDAY BILL Conducted by Ruth Moses, Tel: *****X LITTLE girls are made of sugar, spice and all things nice. And that's exactly how Mr. J.E. McMullen feels about his only daughter, Debra, 9. Deb can only get to see her
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  • 615 4  -  Roller-skating clashes turn out to be a grind CINEMA By Edgar Koh KANSAS CITY BOMBER starring Raquel Welch, with Kevin McCarthy. (C&thay coming). The main thing about this film is an American fad being introduced into Singapore, a showy blood-sport called the roller derby. And it
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  • 248 5 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday Cooks are one category of non-citizens whom employers find hard to replace with MWaysians, the Labour Ministry's SecretaryGeneral, Encik Abdul Kadir Talib, said yesterday. Since July 1969, when the law on employment permits came into force about <500 non-citizen workers
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  • 482 5  -  Chai tells of his immediate tasks By Teresa Ooi Nanyang University would play a bigger and more important role in the future education of Singapore, the new Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chai Chong Yii, said today. Chinese education In Itself could
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  • 278 5 At 43, Senior Superintendent of Customs, Mr. Eric Paglar, believes that he is 23 .years too late in fulfilling his obligations to his parents. But he has no cause for regret. For since migrating here from Thailand at a tender age, he has
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  • 140 5 Lieutenant Colonel James Chia Poh Kwang (above) of the Singapore Infantry Regi- ment, is among officers from 11 countries studying at the Australian Staff College, Victoria. He is seen with the Commandant, Brigadier W,J. Morrow, near an historic cannon marking the entrance to the Australian
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  • 41 5 Mr. and Mrs. Koh Yui Heng after thetr wedding at the Church of Our Saviour in Prince Charles Crescent. Mr. Koh is a schoolteacher. His bride, formerly ,Miss Lim Chwee Huan, is a clerk with Sime Darby.
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  • 156 5 The Chung Hwa Free Hospital building fund now stands at $1,200,000, according to Mr. Ngoh Eng Kok, secretary of the Chinese Physicians' Association, which is handling the project. Mr. Ngoh said more donations a still coming in, from the different associations. The Singapore Business
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  • 470 5 A sunset lodge, in lush greenery isn't' exactly what people make of old folks' homes. But as Christian soldiers march into battle against social ills, the Salvation Army in Singapore has marched into the kingdom of the needy aged and come up with
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  • 56 5 Three youth leaders Mr. Quek Pin Eng, Mr. Chan Chee Kwan and Mr. Tan Kok Khlang of the People's Association, will leave tonight for a four-week visit to Britain. Sponsored by the Central Offlcice of Information in London, they will study the various schemes and organisations
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  • 53 5 The Jurong Big Walk 1972 will be on Sunday at 7 a.m. About 250 participants will start-off at the Jurong Town Primary School and end at the school. Number tags for the participants will be available from the Jurong Town Residents' Association on Friday from 7 p.m.
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  • 276 5 The changeover of telephone lines beginning with the number 8 to double 8 in the Paya Lebar area went smoothly, according to a spokesman of the Singapore Telephone Board. The spokesman said: "There was no confusion and we have not been Inundated with calls
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  • 44 5 The Young People's Service of the National Library will organise a talk In Malay on Health and the Teenager on Sept 23 at the Library meeting room at 10 a.m. The speaker will be Che Sharlfah Oammal. a make-up expert with RTS.
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  • 183 5 Shipyard boom if 7th Fleet moves in Local shipyards may have a mini boom if the US Seventh Fleet calls here for maintenance and docking. According to shipyard circles, It is likely these naval vessels may dock at one of the local shipyards at Sembawang if they call. This is
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  • 24 5 The Rosicrucian Order will hold a Pyramid Ceremony including a buffet dinner at 86 Sophia Road on Sunday at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 45 5 Singapore Air Force aircraft will conduct live firing and bombing training at the Southern Islands Live Firing Range at Pulau Pawal from Sept. 25 to 29, dally from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The public is warned to keep clear of the range.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 303 5 WIII3II? Last Saturday's quiz photograph showed a pair of tweezers. The first prize of $15 goes to Madam A. M. Ling, a housewife, of Jalan Limau Purut. Her entry was the first correct one opened by the Editor last night. The next correct answers from a man and a woman
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 1446 6  -  The day the CPA jet blew up On the afternoon of >June 15 a Cathay Pacific Airlines Convair 880 jet with' 81 passengers and crew on its way from Bangkok to Hong Kong exploded in mid-air over the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. All on board
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    • 504 6 THE PRIME WITNESS The principal witness in the case against Somchai is a pretty nightclub hostess who had earlier turned down the suspect's offer to accompany his seven-year-old daughter Sonthaya to Hong Kong for an abnormally high fee of 35,000 baht (about $4,600). The hostess,
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    • 704 6 The prime suspect in the CPA sabotage case Somehal Chaiyasut has been described by Thai police as a difficult loner, a social misfit and an often temperamental younr man who always longed for a life of luxury beyond his reach. Somchai's classmates at Hua Hin Pilot Training Centre
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    • 293 6 One major piece of prosecution evidence in the case against Somchai is a lady's travelling bag with two tell-tale holes on both sides. The bine bag was picked up by Thai police when they searched Somchai's sleeping quarters in Bangkok immediately after his arrest on August SI. The
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  • 394 7 Defer debate, says UN committee Reuter Washington, Thursday The United Nations General Assembly's steering committee last night recommended deferment until next year of debate on a bid to get the UN out of Korea. The vote represented victory for the Western powers In the first
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  • 258 7 Reuter Bangkok, Thursday. An American political scientist has said that it would be In the interest of Thailand to link Itself with the United States rather than with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the South East Asia Treaty Organisation
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  • 137 7 The look of alarm on this motorcyclist's face gradually gave way to one of relief when he learnt he was to be left off with a warning after all. He had expected to be "booked" and fined for weaving in and out of the
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  • 377 7 London, Thursday. The British Home Secretary, Mr. Robert Carr, predicted yesterday that Asian immigrants expelled from Uganda would contribute as much to Britain as they took out. Mr. Carr said the East African Asians had a welldeserved reputation for selfhelp, enterprise and hard work.
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  • 332 7 Reuter •London, Thursday. A campaign to crack down on pornography exploded in Britain yesterday with cleanup under heavy Are from defenders of free speech. In the middle of the controversy there was a brief public confrontation between Lord Longford leader of the cleanup campaign
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  • 351 7 New York, Thursday—The UN Secretary-General, Mr. Kurt Waldheim, yesterday proclaimed 1974 as World Population Year and said it would be marked by a UN-sponsored international conference on growing demographic problems. Mr. Waldheim said it was Impossible to think of solutions to the major
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  • 61 7 Mexico City, Thursday.— Police were looking yesterday for a 72-year-old Jealous husband accused of shooting and wounding his wife, 70, and her suspected lover, 71. Maclovlo Salgado Sotelo, fled after wounding his wife Maria Felix with two shots in the chest and Serafln Alvarez Norales with one
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  • 35 7 Istanbul, Thursday.—Two self-confessed members of the underground Turkish Peoples Liberation Army were sentenced to life imprisonment here yesterday. Ten others, including two women, received sentences ranging from one to 16 years.
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  • 406 7 United Press International New York, Thursday. Mao Tse Tung and Chou En Lai offered to come to Washington in the last months of the Second World War to talk personally with President Franklin Roosevelt, but their message was never relayed directly to the President,
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  • 474 8 The warning by the Minister of State for Health against the invidious effects of materialism is neither the first nor the last we will hear of such admonitions. Materialistic attitudes are a phenomenon of modern urbanised society, and they will become pervasive in the Republic
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  • 62 8 rrmTv^rrv^Tv^ 1 by ISPY Talk about the understatement of the year. A Polish newspaper, I am told, reported the PAP's recent electoral success In this way: The PAP won a majority by obtaining 65 seats in Parliament Conveniently (or was it out of ignorance?) the report failed
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  • 867 8  - Hie Jews in the USSR where leaving is as hard as staying PAKIR SINGH Last week, while sitting at a sarabat stall with an old friend a friend who, unfortunately is prone to mouthing socialist slogans as if he was spewing melon seeds discussion inevitably focussed on the plight of
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  • Letters
    • 494 8  -  K.S. LIM Your editorial Parliamentary Opposition and Democracy (NN. September 13) is misleading to say the least and full of false assumptions and has no relevance whatsoever to the existing actualities. You say: "It is assumed that since the British Parliament has an opposition, for parliamentary democracy
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    • 159 8  -  CHOO YEOK KOON I was delighted to read your editorial of 13th September 1972 In which your conclusion was that the people had decided on a one party Parliament. But Mr. Gerald de Cruz writing In your columns on sth September 1972 states: "In this election,
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    • 75 8  -  YEONG KUM KEE Public Relations Officer, Ministry of Law and National Development Singapore, 2. With reference to the letter by CW. Ng (NN, September 8) the provision of a bus shelter in Lorong 1, Toa Payoh at the locality referred to has been included in
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    • 101 8  -  LAWRENCE S.H. LOH Public Relations Officer, Singapore Police Force, Singapore. 2. I refer to the letter headlined Police and Traffic Jams (NN, August 25). In response to numerous requests from members of the public, a police constable is posted to the Clemen ti C.rcus daily during
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    • 130 8  -  JOHN CHOO Hats off to the University Education Press for bringing out Memoirs of a Migrant (Francis Thomas), Once The Horseman and Other Poems (Chandran Nalr), China Affair (Klrpal Singh) and Son of Singapore (Tan Kok Seng). Whatever their merits, literary or otherwise, they deserve to
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    • 70 8  -  S.K. LIM Recently my sister was appointed as a typist by a statutory board. What shocked me was that she has to undergo a 3-year probation period. As a matter of principle, isn't the board, as an employer, exploiting the employee? Does it take the board three
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    • 77 8  -  C. H. KOH It has been observed for quite some time now that the Singapore Telephone Board has been levying a Government tax of 15 per cent on all their bills, whilst the Public Utilities Board has remained consistent at 10 per cent. Surely this discrepancy
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    • 115 8 Recently I have had occasion to visit two restaurants in Orchard Road and have been disturbed to find bottles and half-bottles of French wine referred to as quarts and pints. A bottle of wine contains approximately 26 fluid ounces or about 11/3 pints, considerably less than
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • 222 9 REMINISCENCES BY TWO SINGAPOREANS Tan Kok Sens: and Francis Thomas are both Singaporeans but from completely different backgrounds. For English-born Cambridge educated Thomas, Singapore is his adopted homeland. Thomas, principal of St. Andrew's School, is primarily a school-teacher by his own ad- mission, but he has been involved
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  • 1576 9 Sixth year of school, the last month, after this, the end. Every year near Christmas the school's disciplinary officer prepared a fun fair, and each year this Included a play. As finishers, it was from our class that the teacher chose the players. By
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  • 2047 9 The convoy was about 15 ships, with a couple of destroyers for escort. Somewhere off the Vietnam coast somebody, no doubt the Americans, started to torpedo us nightly. They were in no hurry; two ships a night seemed the ration. Ours was
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  • Article, Illustration
    2004 10 ENERGY Is the name given to the ability to do work. Work and energy are measured in the same units. People often confuse energy, power and force. Force is a push or a pull on an object or body. The amount of work is determined by the strength
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  • 2607 10 The story of the development of atomic energy from nuclear physics, the basic science on which it is founded, goes back to the last century, when for the first time men began to Sove to their own satisfaction that e matter which to us appears to
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  • Page 10 Advertisements

  • 1488 11 FRUIT Is grown, eaten, and enjoyed by man in every oountry in the world. The varied colors of different fruits range from red and yellow to blue and purple. Their many flavors range from the sweetness of the banana and strawberry to th* tartness of
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  • TREND
    • 1236 12  -  r male bOK Presented by Mary Lee G.G. One of the more successful playboys I know has never bought a girl a present. Or so he says. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, there must be a moral here somewhere.
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    • 602 12 Eighty-three-year-old billionaire expects to live till 100 Melbourne Herald The first time American billionaire H.L. Hunt's secretary found her 83-year-old boss crawling around on his hands and knees, she asked, "Sir, have you lost something?" "No," Hunt replied without getting up, "I've found It." What he's found,
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    • 113 12 Doors, more often than not, are neglected items in the home. They look plain, dark or- just something that one uses unnoticeably. Given a chance and thought, the appearance of doors can be greatly enhanced by a solid-looking and unique door-knocker^ The horSe-shoe door
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    • 73 12  -  N 1 TALKING sSfeSHOP TERESA OOi Scatter them on the sofa, on the bed or just on the floor—they still look so delightful and cuddly. Especially attractive are their colours and shapes (not 36-24-36) but that of a strawberry, apple, pear and orange. Give your children
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    • 89 12 "Rock a bye baby on the tree t0p...." so chimes the musical box but with a difference as the music plays on soothingly, the eyes of the dog-face musical box move from side to side! Cheeky, yes but so adorable. In fanciful colours from hot pink
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    • 58 12 Let your baby do his or her own thing in style baby potties with detachable Donald Duck's or Black Beauty's head, help pacify and amuse baby while he is at his daily routine. For more practical use these pottles come in two sizes. Made of light
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  • Commerce and Finance
    • 404 12 AGENDA INCLUDES FUTURE OF STERLING Reuter London, Thursday Commonwealth Finance Ministers open a two-day meeting here today to discuss ways of reforming the international monetary system and the impact on world trade of an enlarged European Common Market. Ministers or deputies from 31 countries
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    • 277 12 United Press International Washington, Thursday The stock market closed lower again yesterday in slow trading on the New York stock exchange. The Dow Jones Industrial average of 30 selected bluechip stocks was off 2.93 at 940.25 at the close. Declines led advances 769 to
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    • 235 12 Allied Cbem 27 Alcoa 54 Am Brands 40*4 Am Can 34% Am Motors AT T 47 A A P 5% Anaconda 18 Beth Bteel 29 Boeing 23% Catery Trac 65 Chrysler 30 Coca-Cola 132% Cont Oil 33% Control Data 70% Corn G1 Wka 233 Mi Dow Chem
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    • 34 12 Jakarta, Thursday. Twenty-six countries will attend the meeting of the International Tin Council (ITC) to be held here from October S to 5, director for the Indonesian Tin Company A< Tajlb said.
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    • 124 12 Reuter London, Thursday—The market closed quietly firm yesterday at the slightly higher levels established shortly after the morning's opening. Trading was rather light and mainly limited to bear covering and bargain-hunt-ing after the recent decline. At 3 p.m. the Financial Times index was up 1.1
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    • 202 12 Industrials showed signs of further improvement on the share market yesterday. But hotels and properties were rather mixed. Island Peninsular Development announced that the Capital Issue Committee of Bank Negara Malaysia has approved the exchange of 4.8 million I P shares for 2.4 million shares of Austral Malay
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  • 760 13 The /big leap' into containerisatidn The modernisation of the port had been timely. Had the Port of Singapore Authority not taken the steps it did as far back as 1966, Singapore as a world port would have declined In Importance regardless of the contributions
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  • 701 13 wmm Efficient transport and warehousing facilities have contributed greatly towards the development of Singapore as a leading world port. The absence of adequate storage and transport facities would have impeded the flow of Koods in and out of Singapore as a trading port. with rapid
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  • Cargo Handing A NEW NATION
    • 852 14 Speedy service day and night Quick location of goods, minimal damage and delay The $137 million container port in Singapore offers three main advantages to shippers: They are round-the-clock operation, less possibility of damage to goods and a speedy system of inward cargo-location. The port was
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    • 694 15 Last month saw the arrival of the first Trio container-ship at the newly completed East Lagoon container port which was officially opened in June by Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, Singapore's Communication Minister. In his speech, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin said: "Singapore has made a
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    • 417 15 Refrigeration today plays an important role in warehousing and transportation. Thousands of tons of perishable goods can be stored for days during the journey from one country to another as long as they are kept in deep freeze, throughout the period. Most
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    • 765 16 Equipment being loaded into open-top container Containers, if properly used, bring many advantages to the shippers. They can lead to considerable savings in packaging, alteration to package size and reduction in damage and inventory. With the growth of containerisation here, new methods in stowage and distribution
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    • 973 17 With the introduction of the through-trans-port system here, cargo handling methods have become varied and sophisticated. New equipment is being used which gives the greatest efficiency with economy and which makes full use of any existing faculties and equipment available. The fork-lift
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    • 649 18 Singapore's air cargo volume is expected to rise to new peaks this year. Several air cargo firms are optimistic that the 1972 figure will rise by another 30 to 40 per* cent. Last year 24.000 tons or cargo were handled com?ared with 19,000
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    • 630 18 Australia's extensive air, rail and shipping services have resulted in the development of important service industries to meet the needs of cargo handlers and cargo carriers. A wide range of equipment to handle an equally wide ranee of cargo Is now
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    • 431 19 T V NEW NATION ANNOUNCEMENTS UN (/DANCE NimV to 1 rtw 'Sounds of Hawaii' at Aloha Rhu Hawaiian Viljoge, Tanoh Merah with Barney Morrior and his Hawaiioires Romantic South Seas Atmosphere Table Reservation: *****4/*****5. HAVING A PARTY WE CONVERT YOUR HOME* IN A DISCO WITH EXCITING POSTERS AND LIGHTING EFFECTS.
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  • 204 20  -  By Sonny Yap The Parliamentary Secretary for Social Affairs, Mr. Chan Chee Seng, has called for a proper system of control over the teaching and learning of martial skills. "Until we have such a system, we must ensure that the students of such skills
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  • 260 20 Brussels, Thursday Belgian runners yesterday bettered five world track records at an International track and field meet at the Brussels Haysel Stadium. Emile Puttemans set the three-mile record at 12:47.8 and the 5000-meter record at 13:13.0. Gaston Roelant set a new record for the
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  • 131 20 Tokyo, Thursday Results of the eleventh day of fall sumo tournament: Daiyu (5-6) beat Toehlfujl (8-5) YorltaoshL Yoshinohana (9-2) beat Yoahioyama (5-6) Yoritaoahl. Ryuo (8-3) beat Maklmoto (3-8) Tfcukiotochl. Dairyugawa (5-6) beat Tochiteaml (4-7) TsuridaahL Mutsuarashi (7-4) beat Wakanoumi (6-5) Sotogake. Asa no bo rl (4-7) beat
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  • 31 20 CENTRAL LEAGUE Yakult 5 Taiyo 4 Yomiurl 2 Hanshin 1 PACIFIC LEAGUE Kintetsu 6 Lotte 1 Toei 7 Hankyu 1 Nankal 5 Nlshltetsu 5 (tied in 10th Innings)
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  • 38 20 is courageous and acrobatic. He shows it here. But he still couldn't stop Armed Forces from hitting five past him in the other quarter-finals. SAF&A won 5-2.—Pictures by Jerry Pictures by Jerry Seh
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  • 191 20 London. Thursday.—Cricket. thanks in large part to the Australians, is still counting the cash raked in from a golden summer. Every county side will get at least 8*90,000 from the Test and County Cricket Board for this season. Test receipts, commercial sponsorship, TV rights and general
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  • 122 20 The Singapore Chess Federation will be organising an inter-club team championships beginning on October 15 at the PWD Club at Kallang. There will be two divisions with a maximum of six rounds to be played in each division. Each team shall consist of five players and two reserves
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  • 149 20 Latest standing*: NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST W L PCT GB Pittsburgh 90 52 .634 Chicago 78 65 .545 12 New York 71 66 .518 16ft St. Looi* 76 74 .466 21 Montreal 65 77 .456 25 Philadelphia 52 M .366 38 WEBT Cincinnati 68 55 Jl5 Houston
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  • 45 20 The quarter-finals of the Keppel Club Dawson Cup competition will be played over the Bukit Chermin course on Saturday. The draw: t ML—T&Hb Baran r Ml Hone; l«-D. Muri v Stephen Wee; £.14—P. G. —t J J«mat Singh; 2JSl—David Lm t David Milne,
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  • 502 20  -  passing SllOlS" Desmond Oon The recently concluded Second Singapore Asian Invitation tennis championships scored many "firsts" in the history of tennis in Singapore. For the first time in championship tennis, matches were played on cement courts silencing many an armchair critic who insisted
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  • 539 20 Skopje, Thursday Wales beat Singapore 3-1 in the second round of the 20th World Chess Olympiad here yesterday. The results; Williams (Wales) beat Tan (S'pore); Jones bt Pang; Hutchings drew with Giam and Gavrllovic drew with Giam. In the first round, East Germany led
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 278 20 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 10 Eye affliction. 11 Short fur capes. 19 Try to surpass. 13 Did a stenographer's chore 14 Careless shepherdess. 20 Antls. 24 Voice organ. 26 Dupe. 27 Make fun of. 2« Horse. 30 Shout. 31 Brit. govt. body. 33 The hall of Odin. 34 Dupe. 35 Presumptively:
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    • 121 20 DR. KILDARE by Ken Bald WHO'S THERE? 15...1S THAT YOU, SUELLEN? Hi '!< b:!T j am U\ !i;i. V BUT W-WHAT ARE *XI DOING HERE? IS SOMETHING THE MATTER? THERE ARE AVALANCHES OF THINGS "MATTER"/ m > m I DON'T UNDERSTAND... :Jr OH, SARAH...CAN'T YOU f SEE WHAT HE'S TRYING
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  • 2295 21 SATURDAY CLASS 2 DIV. 2 6F ($9,000 $6,300 TO WINNER) ***** GAMBANG a (Sultan of Pahang) Tulloh 6 9.00 ***** BERQNOK m (C.S. Llm) Ahmad 6 810 ***** THE CLOWN a (Magic) J. Donnelly 10 8.06 ***** REGAL SINGER a (Park) Lee 8
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  • 560 21 By Blue Peter Penanf, Thursday. Three Orchids who ran a promising race last time out In August when he finished seventh to Red Mink over 6f showed good Improvement in a trial here this morning. With Dick Low in the saddle the five-year-old gelding strode
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  • 406 21 SCRATCHINGS SATURDAY RACE ONE (2.15): CI Five Div 2 BV4f Literati IL RACE TWO (2.45): CI Fire Div 1 BVif Nfl. RACE THREE (3.15): CI Four Div 4 6f Fantastic IL RACE FOUR (3.45): CI Four Div 3 -6f Wunderbar. Fuji San. RACE FIVE (4.15): CI
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  • 239 21 Valletta. Thursday.—Floriana of Malta caused one of the major soccer upsets in the first round of the European Cup Winners' Cup with a 1-0 first leg win over tough Hungarian club Ferencvaros here yesterday. Ferencvaros, former holders of the European Fairs Cup, had been expected
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  • 66 21 London, Thursday At the final forfeit stage yesterday the following ten horses were taken out of the two feature races at Ascot today. Clarence House Stakes (1330 GMT) Fire Drake, Cesarea, Long Bowman, Gypsy Baron, Roman Way, and Rose And Crown—leaving mine declared runners. Qumberland Lo
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  • 25 21 Katong Socce rites beat Mount Emily 4-0 in a friendly football match at Geylang stadium yesterday. Scorers were Remanathan (2) and Razali (2).
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  • 24 21 Get your free lift-out of the race form guide with full details on the Penang racing this weekend in tomorrow's New Nation.
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  • 165 21 Edinburgh, Thursday. Dale Hayes, the 20-year-old South African, spreadeagled the field with a sizzling record breaking seven-under par-65 in the first round of the 15,000 sterling Wills Open golf tournament at Dalmahoy here yesterday. The giant South African set out shortly after dawn, when conditions
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  • 183 21 Johannesburg, Thursday. —The South African Golf Union (SAOU) has been given permission to invite amateur golfers from eight nations to play in an international event and compete in the South African amateur championships early next year. Mr. Basil Keartland, president of SAGU, told
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  • 70 21 Seoul, Thursday.—South Korea scored an easy 3-0 win over Thailand but Malaysia struggled to edge Cambodia 1-0 in the opening matches of the Second Asian soccer tournament for the Korean President's Cup here yesterday. Burma, who represented an Asian zone in the Munich Olympics, and Indonesia, third
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  • Back Page THURSDAY
    • 913 22 GINSENG WON'T HELP IN SEX: DON Los Angeles Times For those who believe that ginseng root will increase their sexual capacity, the associate dean of the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy has some disconcerting news. It won't. But the so-called "Queen'
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    • 69 22 Joan de Souza, the shapely 22-year-old supervisor at Sea View Hotel enjoys spending a day at the beach. "I think that a little swimming and exposure to the sun is healthy," she said, joan finds her job very interesting as it affords her
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    • 82 22 The city of Jacui in Brazil will erect a statue of a local homing pigeon that has broken the world distance record. The bird, also named Jacui, covered 1700 kilometres (1000 miles) from Northern Tereslna in 14 days and lost 150 grammes (live ounces)
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    • 152 22 Today is Thursday. September 21. the 265 th. day of 1972 with 101 to follow. THE MOON: Approaching its full phase. THE MORNING STABS: Venus. Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STABS: Mercury and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. English author and historian
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    • 50 22 AH FOOK: It was a lovely morning for sleeping. I wished we could start work later as they do In some Western countries! MEI LIN: Why can't you stop ape 1 n g Western ways for once? What's good for them need not necessarily be good for us.
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 329 22 S Siagapsra Opening and Where the Heart Is For the Family (O) Then and Now A Look at Housing (C—Rpt) Housewives' Matinee Murder In the Wind (Cantonese Film Pt. 2) Close Opening and Rocky Jones, Bpace Ranger Pirates of Prah (Ch. 3) News in Brief What Others Say (C) Arts
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    • 458 22 Trust your lucky star IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY Born today, you are a highly original thinker but one who needs others to develop bis creative concepts into feasible, profitable enterprises. Details interest you only Insofar as they may be essential to the process of describing your ideas and plans to
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    • 57 22 FM STEREO 6.00 Opening and Prog. Summary 6.0s Sunset Serenade 640 News 6.40 Public Service Anncta. 6.45 Share Market Report 7.00 Classical Showcase V 7 .SO Music for You 7.46 Chinese Instrumental Recital A Newe 8.10 Public Service Anncta. 6.16 Oreat Instrumentalists 9.16 Time to Swing 9.46 Many Voices, Many
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