New Nation, 24 May 1974

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  • 23 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE s Friday evening, May 24, 1974 No. 1033 Price 20 cents M.C. IP) 20/74 NE^^nON SINGAPORE FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1974
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  • 227 1  -  Security officers 'on the payroll of bookmakers' 1 trapped By Sonny Wee Five security officers have been dismissed for allegedly taking bribes from bookies at the Bukit Tim ah race course. These officers, it is understood, were hired by the Singapore Turf Club on
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  • 56 1 London. Friday. Beven men convicted of stealing £375,000 (852.1 million) In London's worst series of armed bank robberies were sentenced to a total of 113 years Jail yesterday. Two of them were gven 21 years each afr a three-and-a-half months trial estimated to have cost around
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  • 148 1 London, Friday Prime Minister Harold Wilson yesterday gave his controversial secretary Williams (left) the highest honour he can bestow —a life peerage as a baroness. The peerage for the 41-year-old Mrs. Williams was among 15 announced for three women and 12 men on Queen Elizabeth's authority
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  • 156 1 Pelc football's greatest player, scorer of more than 1000 goals, hero of Brazil's Work! Cup triumphs, the man the world of soccer calls the King. Now you can learn to play the Pele way because he will join New Nation tomorrow. In an exclusive and exciting
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  • 230 1 Tour last chance to win a dream trip to Munich for the World Cup finals comes up next week. Monday will be the start of the final first-leg of the New Nation Lufthansa World Cop Contest So make sore of your copy. Here is what you
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  • 88 1 Singapore is now in the semi-finals of the Malaysia Cup and Sunday's first-leg clash against Penang at the National Stadium is all-import-ant. Singapore must go all-out to score goals so that the team will go to Penang with a big advantage. Will Singapore win? Will our sharp
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  • 276 1 Dr. K still hopeful Reuter Jerusalem, Friday US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger early today held urgent talks with Israeli officials after his latest trip to Syria and a senior American spokesman said the two sides nad substantially narrowed the gap over disengagement Dr. Kissinger returned
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  • 58 1 All 40 stall of the Malaysian High Commission were evacuated from the Jervols Road premises thi« morning as police searched the bullding for a bomb. This followed a telephone call to the High Commission from an anonymous caller that a bomb had been planted in the premises.
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  • 21 1 The New Nation today carries 12-page special feature on Auto Parts and flcrfusnrlfi Make sure you get your copy.
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  • 167 1 A mixed note in selective trading marked the Btock Exchange of Singapore this morning. BUSINESS DONE: City Dev. (3D 1.61 (17) ijh. San Hold. (6) 0.84. (3) 0.84U S. Land (4) 1.46. Chemical Ind. (1) ill. Harlmau (3) 0.81 Haw par (1) ill (1) 3.08. (81) 110.
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  • 13 1 Police reported 106 accidents yesterday. One was serious and one fatal.
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  • 315 1  -  Bid for Munich now By Lan liat Hoe For quality controller Hugh Leicester. 47, winning the free trip to Munich to see the World Cup matches will be two dreams come true—to spend his belated honeymoon and to see the soccer stars in action.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 399 2 System to provide vital data The National Productivity Board is planning to establish an Interflrm Comparison (IFC) system for all industries in Singapore. As the name suggests, the system will enable comparison of each Individual company's performance against the average for the Industry as a
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    • 341 2 An American linguistics expert said yesterday that 81 n g a p o re should hare a department of linguistics at one of the Institutions of higher learning. Prof. Roy Cherrier, a specialist in Theoretical Linguistics at the Regional English Language Centre, said: "Singapore
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    • 270 2 This is what is new In the market price tags. A visit to several markets yesterday showed a lew stalls with these price signs in full view along neat rows of vegetables and fruits, indicating the prices at a glance. They are supposed to minimise if
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    • 38 2 The management committee of the Ppnggol Community Centre, the Women Sub Committee and the Youth Sub-Com-mittee will give a lunch party to residents of the Home for the Aged Sick at Jalan Payoh Lai on Sunday.
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    • 192 3 To enter or not—this is the poser that motorists along Havelock Road near Delta Circus face daily. For standing before them at the entrance to Beo Crescent are two contra dictory traffic signs. One is a No Entry sign while the other is a sign telling
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    • 173 3 Call by Prof. Wong The middle class should contribute towards social welfare programmes to supplement the efforts of the Government, said Prof. Wong Lin Ken, MP for Alexandra, yesterday. Prof. Wong said this in connection with a variety show organised by the Citizens' Consultative Committee
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    • 30 3 Mr. Poo Men Fong has been elected president of the Singapore Society of Accountants. Other officials include vice-president Mr. Reginald John Ftank and treasurer Mr. Kon Yuen Kong.
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    • 34 3 The YMCA is organising a seven-day tour of West Malaysia by airconditioned coach starting on June 30. The tour will cover Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang, Taiping Lake Gardens and Cameron Highlands.
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    • 101 3 An Argentine has offered a $1000 reward at anyone who returns a white envelope containing $4800 in US$2O notes. Mr. Jose Diaz, 37, lost the money yesterday morning. He believed he left It in a taxi which he took from Katong to Seletar Hills Estate
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    • 40 3 Mr. Yee Chlng Jau has been elected president of the Ngee Ann Technical CoUege Academic Staff Association. Other officials are Messrs. Ong He Tian, vice-president, Chan 81ew Leong, secretary, N. 81vakumaran, assistant secretary, and Cheang Chung Kit, treasurer.
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    • 433 3 Caiine Clinic by PG A reader says that the feeding chart in my book, Dogs In The Tropics, was most instructive. But he wants to know if I agree that a dog is a carnivore and therefore the best diet of all is
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    • 453 3  -  Queue-for-you racket at the Malaysian High Commission By Morris John Touts operating at the Malaysian High Commission office in Qoeenstfey are now providing a dfcrtlce for thote who cannot for their entry Dafeses. Par U they will stand In line for yea sometimes m long
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    • 138 3 Foreign physical educationists will take part in a seminar on the role of physical education in contemporary urbanised society organised In conjunction with Pesta Sukan 1974 In August. They are Dr. Earle F. Zelgler, dean of the Faculty of physical Education at the University of
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 264 2 IHiHH ACROSS 1 Bt cetera: Phrase. Phrase 8 Hapless one: Slang 15 Sturdy 10 Church structure 17 Shaded walk 18 Great Joy 19 Do work with 20 Knitter's need 22 Antelopes 23 FUn* 25 Collects bit by bit 27 Weighing heavily (on) 29 History 53 Fine fabric 30 CPA'S term
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS AND FOR YOUR PLEASURE
    • 520 4 ART BUCHWJLLD The key word that keeps popping up in the transcripts of the presidential tapes is "scenario." The President and his aides kept coming up with a scenario for every setback in the Watergate case. The one scenario they never constructed, ana the most vital
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    • 1071 4  -  The Cockneys of East End disappearing ENGLAND From Bill Hartley One of the richest chunks of London's heritage is in danger of disappearing forever. The Cockneys, the sons and daughters of poor Jewish, Irish and Bast European Immigrants who poured Into London's East End slums
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    • 632 4 Sex —not violence —is the big worry in HK: Survey But fans don't want such scenes cut out entirely Reuter Chinese cinemagoers here are more concerned about excessive sex than violence In films, according to a recent official survey. The government-com-missioned survey, conducted by a research firm, shows, however, that
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    • 375 4 flume's diary THE Happy Hour —the popular afteroffice hours get-to-gether, is not confined to cocktail lounges In hotels only. It has found its way on board a ship as well. Setting the pace In Singapore last week, for the first time, was
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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    • 22 4 Superb Chinese Cubine served in pleasant atmosphere PRIMC€ ROOM t ROTUWtr 275-B. 286-B, 2nd. R„ Selene Seiegie Rd., S'pore. Tel: *****1. *****4.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 460 5 British province is close to paralysis UPI, Reuter Belfast, Friday Fuel and food supplies dwindled in Northern Ireland yesterday, bringing the British province close to paralysis on the eighth day of a Protestant general strike. Men standing shoulder to shoulder blocked •bout SO streets
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    • 219 5 Washington, Friday House Judiciary Committee leaders raid yesterday the White House transcripts surrendered for the impeachment inquiry were "inadequate, unsatisfactory" and contained too many misstatements, omissions and errors. Apparently frustrated by President Nixon's adamant refusal to supply more Impeachment material, chairman Peter Rodino Jr., and
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    • 114 5 Islamabad. Friday. Punjab governor As lam Khan Khattak resigned yesterday, throwing the political situation of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province Into further confusion. Mr. Khattak said he had bad a most gruelling time during his 15 months in office and was quitting without any regrets. "Politics in
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    • 305 5 Saigon, Friday Government forces ran Into fierce communist resistance In the first day of a counter-offensive ordered by President Nguyen Van Thieu to recapture three lost positions north of Saigon, military sources said yesterday. The sources said a battalion-size government Infantry force of
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    • 189 5 Los Angeles, Friday. —Patricia Hearst's two younger slaters pleaded with her In tape recordings yesterday to surrender and called upon her to tell the story of why she turned to the Symbionese Liberation Army. Anne, 18, and Yield, 17, said in emotional tones
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    • 226 5 London, Friday Controversy flared yesterday over this week's major British study which concluded that the wellinformed woman should be happy to take the small health risks associated with the birth Pill. Dr. Ellen Grant, a former medical officer with the Family Planning Association who
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    • 239 5 Reuter L o u re nco liarques, Friday—The Portuguese Army wants peace In Moiamblque but will go on fighting the African nationalist guerrillas until a ceasefire Is agreed, a too Minister of the new Lisbon Government said yesterday. Dr. Antonio de Almeida Santos,
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    • 22 5 Peking, Friday A Japanese fishery delegation Is here to take part In governmental fishery negotiations between China and J van.
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    • 111 5 Reuter Canberra, Friday—Australian* (till cannot say for certain who will form the country'! next government following a last general elections. Counting yesterday favoured the Labour Party In six still dubious seats, and the Liberal Country Party coalition In two others. But the coalition still has
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • OPINION
    • 510 6 The fight against rising prices In Singapore should take a turn for the better with the Government's decision to introduce compulsory price-lagging for 15 selected items of essential commodities and with the statement from the Singapore Bakery and Confectionary Trade Association that the price of bread
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    • 111 6 (/WHISPERS' by .spy An invitation has set an unusual poser In the British High Commission. The organisers of the South-East Asia Security Conference have invited the High Commissioner to attend the opening ceremony on May 31. The High Commissioner designate Mr. John Peter Tripp, however, will not have
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    • 1177 6  -  Today will be the first time since World War n that West Germany celebrates Its national day, the ttth anniversary of the founding of the constitotien of the Federal BepsbUc of Germtnj. Although more than 4# years hare passed since Hitler started his ambitious
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    • VOICE OF THE PRESS
      • 444 6 What other newspapers are saying: THE WAY TO PEKING IS NOW CLEAR The agreement reached between Malaysia and the People's Republic of China to establish diplomatic relations has marked an Important phase In this country's International relations. Malaysia becomes the second non-communist Asian country to have diplomatic relations
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    • Letters
      • 578 6  -  TAN TEE JIM At this time last year. I took to task Mr. de Crux's conclusion that President Nixon should resign in order to defuse what he considered to be "the most potent of all the Internal threats to representative democracy." On that occasion, my contention was
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      • 99 6  -  P.T. I refer to your report on Instant Security Measures Call to HJD.B. (NN, 15.5.74). As a tenant of one of those flats of the slab block design that has a four-foot ledge outside the bedroom and sittingroom, I feel that in addition to the installation
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      • 53 6  -  SOON TUAN TEE Public Relations Officer, Ministry of Labour, Singapore 1. Please refer to the letter entitled Odd Job at Factory by Pre-Polish and Buffing (NN. 22.4.74). Your correspondent Is requested to provide this Ministry with the name of the factory concerned so that an investigation
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 311 6 T u UNBELIEVABLE REDUCTION IN PRICES IN AL DEPARTMENTS COME AND SEE FOI YOURSELF HERE ARE FEW OF THE ITEMS SLACKS $10.00 I SHORTS BLOUSES $6.00 I $4.50 TOTI PRTO. JERSEY GEORGETTE PLAIN JERSEY $6.00 PRTD. GEORG SAREE 6 V. NIGHT GOWNS $13.00 I SKIRTS $8.00 PYJAMAS $12.00 I SKIRTS
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • SPECIAL FEATURE
    • 142 7 The National Wages Council's proposals plus the Government's recommendations In a nutshell are as follows: MO plus six per cent of the basic wage on June 30, 1974 without offsetting annual increments. The $25 interim payment wage supplement recommended by the NWC
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    • 176 7  - NWC:Is it a matter of give and take FRIDAY FORUM BY GENE TEO This yeir'i National Wages Council recommendation! as in previous years were eagerly awaited by Singaporeans. There was some dismay that they were not announced 09 May 1. Now that they nave come, what do Singaporeans think about
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    • 447 7 MISS CONkIE CHAN, a bank managerial secretary, feels that she has been left in the cold by the NWC recommendations, which do not apply to executive and managerial staff in the private sector. She said: "It is better to be a clerk Instead. Can you
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    • 312 7 MR. K.T. NG. a sales executive Is sceptical about the NWC recommendations. He said: "If the Government want to encourage employers to follow recommendations, they should be made compulsory. "For employers are employers. How many of them would really follow the recommendations, if they can
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    • 394 7 MR. JAMES SOH, an executive secretary of a semi-public organisation said: "I was overjoyed when I first heard of the NWC recommendations over the news. "But after some calculations and taking Into consideration the Increased rate of contribution to the CPF, I found that the
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    • 481 7 "Someiiilng is better than .nothing," said MR. MAth EW NADESAN, a waiter at a hotel. "Since the cost of living has been spiralling, it is heartening that the Government has again intervened, through the NWC, to help us cope with inflation. "But tne NWC increment
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • SHOPPING
    • 622 8 ITEEPING a large lk lawn, a field or rolling greens trim and tidy is a tough Job. often requiring many pairs of hands and several machines. While scythes and other hajid cutters are fine for small plots, provid.ing you know how to use them, they
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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    • 188 8 EKSr '-f-; «t m CHINESE CABFEIB PEKING TIENTSIN TSIN6TAO Hand woven superfine pur* wool carpets. Latex backad looping carpets. 5* 100% Wool wall to wall carpeting*. Ch<ntM superfine quality carpets are valuette investments at wall n baautiful wortu of art Widest Salactiona Reesonable Prices Com plat* Sizes Orders Welcome Display
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    • 169 8 >j yI CEIUNG&MfILL DECOR4TOR Coraltex has been perfected through research and subjected to repeated tests under all weather conditions in different regions of the world during the past decade. Coral tex is now acdaimed as one of the best wall decorating materials by building industrialists all over the world 748
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  • FINANCE
    • 219 9 Share prices finished on a mixed note, following another day of Cfit taking at the eh Ex chance of Sinpore yesterday. Market operators moved warily in the light of the indefinite trend, with short selling sending prices in most counters sliding into minos territory. Market favourite Haw Par
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    • 214 9 The export of Singa-pore-made products to Japan la still Insufficient although the trade gap between the two countries has been narrowing. This was stated by Mr. K. 8 h 1 m 1 s u. general manager oi Japan Trade Centre, when he opened
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    • 67 9 Talpeh, Friday The Board of Foreign Trade has decided to supervise more closely the Imports of sedans, station wagons, Jeeps, colour TV sets and tubes, a spokesman of the board said yesterday. The board has withdrawn the importing rights of the items from various banks. "But
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    • 425 9  -  'NEED FOR MORE DIALOGUE* By Rav K. Dhaliwal Japan's Generalised System of Preferences to aid the exports of developing countries has not helped Singapore traders to make headway In their attempts to penetrate the Japanese market. The chairman of the Singapore Manufacturers' Association,
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
      • 302 9 Btock prices staged a partial recovery after being broadly lower, turning mixed In moderate trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. Rales at the close totalled 14,770,000 shares, compared with 15,450,000 traded on. Wednesday. Prices on the American exchange tumbled In aulet trading. Closing prices on the
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      • 38 9 The Dow Jonas range of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday was: 30 Industrials 801.5 ft (up 2.06), 20 transport ***** (off 0.70), Ift utlUtiaa 74.00 (up 0.84), and 68 stocks 343.91 (up 0.41).
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      • 77 9 AOD 10c 00 Mi nil Amlt ctg 02 nil AAO 115 130 Do 75c ctg nil 100 Interstate Oil nil SI PHrocmrt) ctg unq A1 Gold susp. A tut Con* Mln 06 05 East Copper unq Arrawata 01 01% Lone Metal 04 nil Metals bp 50 90 Utd Uran
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      • 226 9 Prices rallied In the morning, but lost most of the early gains towards the close in the afternoon The morning session opened firm, neglecting the unfavourable news that the Dow Jones average In New York hit the year's low. The government policy to maintain the credit squeeze little affected
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  • TREND
    • 332 9  -  ANGELA LOKE See Foon Berentson has Just bid goodbye to Singapore and her career as a top flight model. With no regrets, she said: "I am getting old and It's about time I Sve others a chance at e limelight." Certainly there has been no lack
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    • 99 9 Women have refused a plan to hare a birth clinic at their factory because some said it would be embarrassing and others objected on moral and religious grounds. A shop steward, Mrs. John Dean, 38-year-old mother of three teenage children, who put the idea
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    • 96 9 Melbourne Herald Marine tti had discovered that a train which links Naples with Turin, did not have a diner selling refreshments. He boarded the train an hour before departure and set up a refreshment stand. It was not until the train got near
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    • 65 9 Princess Ifarlam, of Johore, who Is 22 and lives In London, has said In a British newspaper Interview she loves the new sllcked-halr of her boyfriend, song writer Barry Ryan. But she added: "When men go bald. It suits them. I hate anyone trying to
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    • 519 9 ssssssssssssssss^^ "The next time I go to the 100, I'm going to sit dowp very gingerly on the bowl," one of my girlfriends announced after she read about the poor woman who shattered her toilet bowl when she sat on
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    • 338 9 DOC Every once in a while a new discovery occurs in medicine which sends quivers of expectations through medical circles. Very often these new findings turn out to be a flash in the pan and disappointment follows their failure. Once in a while however,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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    • 275 9 tc easy days! My life is too precious to waste fussing over those monthly problems. So I've made my life easy. With ob the simple, safe, small tampon, ob is simple. It's so simple and natural to use. No belts or pins. Just the tiniest tampon that slips easily into
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  • SPORTS
    • 640 10 Bangkok, Friday Tang (The Thing') Hslen-Hu of China yesterday beat Tjun Tjun of Indonesia 15-11,15-4 in 29 minutes of brilliant badminton. Trailing 2-8 mid-way in the first set, the second-ranked Chinese pulled off a sensational surge to overpower his opponent In 18 minutes. In the
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    • 89 10 London, Friday All the 101 footballers who played for England during Bir Alf Ramsey's 11-year reign as team manager are to attend a testimonial dinner for Sir Alf here on June 10. Bobby Moore, former England captain and Ramsey's right-hand man during his years as manager,
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    • 285 10 New York, Friday Gary Player has added something new to the US golf tour a South African Zulu motor mechanic with swing like Arnold Palmer's. Vincent Tshabalalal. 32, said "Gary Player is the most beautiful guy in the world." as he prepared
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    • 495 10 The Hague, Friday Holland beat West German First Division soccer club Hamburg SV 2-1 in their World Cup warm-up match here yesterday after conceding the early lead. A crowd of 12,000 saw Hamburg left-winger Memeri ng put the West German club ahead in the
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    • 30 10 Madrid, Friday Spain's former European heavyweight boxing champion Jose Manuel "Utrain" knocked out Briton Richard Dunn in the fourth round of a scheduled eight round bout yesterday.
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    • 294 11 By SCRUTINEER Lucky Stable's Hari Raya, who won three races In. his last five starts, should prove too good for the opposition in Class 3 Division 2 over 9f (Race 0) at Bukit Timah tomorrow. The Make Haste five-year-old gained his first
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    • 25 11 Halmstad (Sweden), Friday Malmoe yesterday won the Swedish soccer cup for the second consecutive year, beating Oester 2-0 after a scoreless first half.
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    • 3482 11 1.45 CLASS 5 DIV 5 (*il A* A** M. 6F WMf (57,500 $5,250 to v inner) 2aU| (apprentice jockeys only) 1 4528 WI|H a (Sea) West 7 8.13 (dd +13) F H. Chan 5 2 0090 Fm icy Thai (Sinclair) Boufoure 3 8.12 (d4+19) F
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    • 546 11  -  with Lim Kok Ann The S i n g a p o re Island Country Club's top man and woman golfer will be decided over the Bukit course on Sunday. The women's semifinals are being played today and the men's tomorrow over the
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    • 265 11 London, Friday. South Procter's first English county cricket championship of the season produced a mighty 157 as Gloucestershire moved Into a lead of 138 over Middlesex yesterday. At the wicket for four hours, Procter hit two and 25 fours. One of his sixes hit a
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    • 134 11 SCBUTDfEKB DANTE Imi 1 Tlakriut Squeegee Fancy That Black Hornet Black Hernet Timber lane InterUrida 8queegee E5BI B«K> KmU WaBf PaclSc Rim Oame Prince IM > Marml Oratisn 8im* Doable Anal Blma Ontario Blma Ontario Oriental Pearl lw 4 Oyw Band* L'Arc de Trtompbe Airway Boy L'Are 4m
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    • 303 11 By BLUE PETER Trainer Colin Tulloh's Kuala Rompin (Dennis McClune up) drew attention to hia chances In the $40,000 Lion City Cup with a splendid gallop at Buklt Tlmah this morning. Accompalned by South Pacific II (George Podmore) the Princelone four-year-old ran 3f in 37
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 479 10 CZUH22ZH3 I <-i>.■ hMM -w MALAYSIAN PRIVATE INVITOOATtOM licence number 011/ 74 88-B, Robln3on Road. Tel: *****/ *****0. Consult Hussein Bin Ibrahim (or any type of enquiries and investigations. We specialise in matrimonial cases. Cases taken In strictest of confidence. EXPERT ADVICE by our En* Specialist from Swltxerland. May 22nd
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    • 377 10 ECONOMY PACKAGE LUNCH tor office workers. We also caters picnic lunches. Free delivery. Golden Klat Restaurant, 1200 Block 184, Bttrl»Road, B'pore 3 Tel: *****7. KIKW AIRCONDITIONINQ REPNQCAATtON. Sales L Service. Specialist in Repairing, res praying and rental. Tel: PROMPT SERVICE! ACE station city Company caters, plan printing document copying multi-colour
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    • 586 10 UMCHTLY UQUIUD for reo&f clients bunootows, houses, flats, any district. Rental (300/- $3000/-. Dhanu's Agency *****6, *****9. WORKING LADY seeks furnished bathroom Attached room. Possibly sharing with another lady In dlst. 13. Reply New Nation Box N2537 B'pore. 2/1 ROOMI HOB flat. Preferably dlst. 12. Contact Mr. Ong, *****5 evenings.
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    • 688 10 yj'! l "I MITSUBISHI OUHL HAMMER 3 tons, 5 ton and 7 tons new model. Contact *****2/ *****8 B'pore during office hour*. CP FULL MTT INSTRUMENTS for cheap sale. Tel: ***** Ho Kar Choon. Block 26, 463 Outrun Park. URGENTLY REQUIRE Office space around 156 200 sq. ft. In dlst.
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    • 681 10 111 I I I 4 > f n t rtfcS iut*x 5w '*'V f V mjy r V#*. +%m m 4 *r *u f» I 4 vcr <** a if' A i V 1 WEEK FIVE. FRIDAY 24. WORLD CUP CONTEST i NEW NATION 1. The contest will mn from
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 90 11 Now available, in limited supply, the golf club you've heard so much about-the Status Mk 111. The clubs with the bigger "sweet spot'', beautiful balance-you feel it as soon as you hit the ball.New shafts, clean, streamlined hosel design. Tailoredmade just for you! See Status Mk Ill's today at your
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    • 235 11 V* •mm j- \m XI" A MV V... I:C V Johnson 's new 9.9 makes this inflatable dinghy skim. <} Our all-new 15 and 9.9 models. Never so much performance in packages so small NMpn v\ |j /5 /dea/ybr smallfishing boats. Fantastic for sailboats and inflatables. You have to see
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 105 12 RENTOKIL OR THt HOME Insectrol Kills all flying and crawling insects. Available in aerosol and powder form. RODINE WARFARIN Clears out rats and mice. Available from main stores and supermarkets or from RENTOKILI SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. wm TEL *****5 6 7 RENTOKIL Guards YuU' Piooerty It's the weekend. Don't forget
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    • 86 12 THE ATRE-RESTAUR ANT-NITFCLUB The Most Mischievous Show You'll Love It! '■jctH fl T a 4 A. 2* Debbie Kelly Sanders Tjjjf Leymons **********11 l Mr ■y* Singapore's liveliest Musical Talentsthe WESTERN UNION BAND K\ at "TILTED TANKARD STADIUM RESTAURANT playing all your favourites every evening Come along and be merry
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 996 12 J RADIO 3.9# OPINING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by FOR THE FAMILY—A magazine series presented In Chinese 135 DAIRY OF EVENTS (C) 3.4# LOVE IS A MANY 8 F L E N DOURED THING Daytime serial on the trials and tribulations of three families in San Francisco. US HOUSEWIVES' MATINEE—AIong The Pearl
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    • 1217 12 BACK PAGE ness; this exaggerated comedy-satire. m ade with Shaws and HK TVB stars, pokes fun at the different facets of life In the colony; directed by Chu Yuan who last made House of 72 Tenants. Life: 1.45, 4. 6.45, 9.15. THE DIRTY DOZEN: Robert Aldrleh's violent war epic in
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    • 273 12 /.vr I* 11 WEATHER New York Showers, 7*-57F, 23-14C. Headline: Nixon rejects subpoenas, tells Rodino he will get no more Watergate data. Parts Cloudy, 6148F. 1«-»C. Headline: Discard d'Estalng meditates on his government. Tokyo Fair, 72-55F, 22-13C. Nixon rejects House panel's subpoena for tapes. San Francisco Fair, 69-51F, 20-IOC. Headline:
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  • 82 12 Susan Ho, 17, is so often seen in batik dresses that friends call her the batik girl. But she does not mind it because she looks good in batik. Explaining her fondness for batik, she said: "I am very fascinated by the beauty and variety
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  • 53 12 AH FOOK: It's bad times ahead for profiteers now that the government is going to introduce compulsory pricetagging for certain essential commodities. MEI LIN: The move is timely. This time those cut-throats will pot be able to absorb the extra cash which the NWC has Just recommended by
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  • 166 12 TODAY is Friday, May 24. the 144th day of 1974 with 231 to follow. THE MOON la approaching Its first quarter. are Venus and Jupiter. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. Queen Victoria of England was
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  • AUTO PARTS AND ACCESSORIES
    • 1687 13  -  Always use the proper set POSER FACING MANY DRIVERS By Jim Watkins In the earliest days of motoring, around the turn of the ceptury, the automobi11st was a pioneer In every sense of the word. Not only did he contend with a balky, recalcitrant car which
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    • 1886 14  -  Good designs on the market these days By JIM WATKINS With new cars costing so much these days It makes real sense to seriously consider keeping, the one you already have for another year or so. Most peopi edo less than 10,000
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    • 516 15 With the steep increases in road taxes and petrol prices the small car has become the choice of most discrenlng motorists. Car assemblers in Singapore are well aware of this trend for small cars. Motor Arms have announced they will {iroduce cars with lowuel
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    • 710 16  -  IT'S MUSIC WHILE YOU DRIVE By Rav K. Dhaliwal The sweet sound of music has found a firm place In the car world with the advent of "gracious driving." The car stereo seems to have become a must. The motorist slips behind the
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    • 1108 18 Buy the recommended grades One Inescapable item of car ownership is the problem of maintenance. Always a tedious business, there Is nothing exciting about an oil change or a set of new sparkling plugs; often necessary at an inconvenient time when
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    • 315 19 One of the principal manufacturers of auto Industry components In Singapore today Is Cooling Systems Flexlbles Pte. Ltd. (CSF). Linked to Its parent company Teksons Pte. Ltd. of India CSF supplies to an International market serving the needs of numerous multi-national automotive manufacturers, and
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    • 534 20 COST BETWEEN $1,000 AND $2,000 Car air-condition-era are no longer associated with the luxurious custom built vehicles. As the fuel crisis drive more big cars off the road, more smaller ones are being insalled with the accessory. Noticing this change In trend, air-condition manu
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    • 239 20 Probably the hardest worked component of the modern car, with a correspondingly short life, Is the exhaust system. No matter how much one pays for a car Invariably one of the first, and most often recurring exBnses, Is to the exhaust. lis continual expenditure
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    • 170 20 For you to remain healthy the air you breathe must be clean. Similarly the air that Is burned In your car must also be clean to obtain maximum power and long life. Ram-Flo's good Altering efficiency, minimal restriction to air flow and low
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    • 1166 21  -  A good tune-up can help t00... By Jim Watkins The best gadget on the market for reducing petrol consumption is undoubtedly the Ignition key. It may seem obvious that an engine only consumes petrol whilst running but, what is not so self
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    • 824 22 The basic electric Ignition system of most cars sold today differs little from that fitted in the twenties. Detail refinement and cost reduction has taken place but, essentially what you get today on your new car Is what granddad got on
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    • 578 23  -  Accessories galore By Morris John To many people the car is no longer a mere means of transport to get from place to place quickly so vital in the fast moving business world. It has become a status symbol. And these people want
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 301 13 In one day we can make your new car last 5 years longer. This year you bought a car that would V gave you money. But a car can't save you A -M' money until you first save the car. And that's J One day is how long it takes
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 565 14 BETTER COMBUSTION EFFICIENCY. NO EXHAUST GAS POLLUTION. LONGER PLUG LIFE. Thundeijet ignition unit not only reduces fuel consumption but also gives the car 30% more power, quicker start, better acceleration, higher cruising speed and virtually no carbon build-up. INSTALLATION OF THUNDER JET Simple to install. Install on all cars, Trucks,
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 276 15 ttTERGENT pro# *N ittVISIBIf > WA A R x-: 5 P« ti SOI E AGENT /TO With specially treated hard waxes and a newly discovered silicone polymer •Tested and proven in fiery Death Valley in America at 135 F Sun-Stop, shields your car from ultra- violet ray deterioration •Super detergent
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 45 16 FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE AND INfERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT YAZAKI YAZAKI wo tnftm Turn Up Kit In Mwtk Cmty/mt Cm* Oompming Tidwmni/C»m dwtll Tm» CbHTnar Ondt ft Ignition CM* Tauar N«f<il«M/GmiMor Tmm THw| Ufhl 230 VMM. TIMING LIGHT 0. C 12V r KS G) Q to best WW
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 284 17 BMW Cars seal of driving pleasure 7 i La BMW 2002 2002 tii Engine 2 litre 4 cylinder, 4 stroke, inline, weter-cooled with overheed cam ■heft, inclined velvet swirlection hemnphertcal combustion Fuel Consumption 28.5 mpg or 10 litres/100 km Beeutiful Performance: BMW 2002 Mex. speed 106 mph (170 kph) Acceleration
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 145 18 SHINE With il I m -> PO r. AUTO POLISH AND CLEANER I j 1 »NS J I NF OPf PATIO* I| jbn-ni pO i M y < <*?• RE-PO 1 GET ONE NOW! It polishes and deans ANYTHING It shines when it touches Try one TODAY for a quick
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    • 224 18 "^DAHi -L. •r>DITIVE MOTOR Oil V*Ot»»-P »«*rrfi (fUttm mtuui »<"•<* ItHf nut! l V All metal suit jet's no matter how smooth appear to be arc actua ly a series o* peaks and valleys and when two sur 'arcs are hrouqht toqether intense local pressures are created with extremely hiqh
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 229 19 w. 9 MOTOROLA >0^ 0cdi AA iC. i -J. cuts your petrol bill! MOTOROLA CDI (Capacitor Di«charne «i Mm* Ignition) Gives your vehicle engine a Taurus International Sdn. Bhd. better performance, saves petrol and your 709, Supreme House 7th Floor monsy Singapore 9. Teh *****5/6 Available at: Chuan Baa Sarvica
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 163 20 Motorists: Here's Singapore's best buy in car stereo combinations MITSUBISHI A ATP-4213 SSSfSPSfe -..a «.vi AAMIM) «PN im, SX7IW J r »f»T if M w riJVI 34M1 HO IOC) MO 16D *Hi rr ■IT hkh&w This 4-track, 2-channel Mitsubishi cassette car stereo has an AM radio with automatic tuning. Automatic
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    • 36 20 in c 0 o| ck INSTALL an WiifiiuiSii: airconditioner in your can TODAY! sales and service s is a+(#■ a) n. 'a- si HIBWHWI AIM An-CMnTHMG (FIDI. 143 v KAMPONG BUGIB, SINGAPORE 12. TEL« *****41/*****93 a
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 104 21 HIGH PERFORMANCE EQUIPMENT tiggr &AM-FIO AIR filters FIT (LYNX RAM-FLO) AIR FILTERS 1) For high filtering efficiency. 2) Minimal restriction to air flow and low cost of maintenance. 3) Suitable as replacement units on ordinary standard vehicles. 4) The cost of two paper elements pays for the Ramflo The increase
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    • 240 21 ARE YOU POUNDING YOUR TYRES AWAY? r UNBALANCE CAUSES: EXCESSIVE TYRE WEAR WHEEL WOBBLE P °awSY N POOR BRAKING STEERING 10 TIMES A SECOND AN BODY RATTLES SQUEAKS. ARE YOU SAFE DRIVING IN YOUR CAR? CONSULT US FOR THE FOLLOWING:- Wheel Alignment (Camber Brake Testing Wheel Alignment (Camber Brake Testing
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 228 22 "w I ■■■Nfearef m RMKL -CrfM It IX CAWJt ADO: "MAMKCO" use KONI-your life may depend on them 1. Shock absorbera play an assent ial part in the behaviour of the car, graatly influencing safety and comfort. 2. The main function of the shock absorbers is to press the four
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    • 97 22 SEMPERIT v> 4 A icy wMh& Imks t Hock Swee Leong's We have the the bigge We are for Our H Fireitone Pireth Bridge premium tyres We have the best and the biggest selection of premium tyres. We are stockist for Ounlop and Goodyear and Firestone and Pirelli and Bridgestone
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 96 23 Rfin ma vi tiikic imiiTinki 524 "ALL-PRO" D.C. POWER ANALYZER "SUPERTRONIC" TIMING LIGHT NOW is the time for RAC TEST TUNE-UP EQUIPMENT. Real Gas savings are a result of a well tuned engine. RAC, Tachs, Gauges Test Equipment all work to save you gas while you keep your engine operating
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    • 212 23 t *sm'\, If ■Bfc L s rV Immediately upon spray application, provides exceptional penetration and lubrication for all metal parts or surfaces where sliding, rubbing, hinging, bearing or threading action is involved. FREES rust-locked pipe threads/ Nuts/Bolts/Machine screws/ Hinges/Turnbuckles. SUPER LUBRICANTS for drilling, tapping, machining, cutting etc. Use on: Boats
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 259 24 KIENZLE 617 electronic CAR CLOCK I WORLD RENOWNED A-' Sole distributors Singapore and Malaysia. "available at all leading motor accessory shops and auto part dealers SIM KHEE MENG AGENCIES A <# f<i tf iS 223 223 A UPPER THOMSON ROAD. SINGAPOHE 20 TEL *****0 «H«« CABLE ADDRESS SIMYAZAKI' SINGAPORE tMMMMHwn
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