Singapore Herald, 30 July 1970

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    14 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 8 Singapore Thursday, July 30, 1970 MC(P) 2207 :5 CENTS
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    Lock icon Mobil to build $1 million solvent plant in Jurong
    180 1 MOBIL is to put up a $1 million hydrocarbon solvent plant in Jurong. The plant, to be integrated with its present 150 million refinery, will at first produce four grades of aliphatic and aromatic solvents. It will have a production capacity
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    Lock icon US smog: Patients find it hard to breathe
    154 1 US smog: Patients find it hard to breathe NEW YORK, Wed. Millions on the eastern coast of America went about their business under a thick blanket of smog for the sixth successive day today but no serious side-effects were reported. Doctors said some patients were having trouble breathing as a
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    Lock icon Indon navy: One ship in three operational
    129 1 JAKARTA, Wed. (My a third of ladoaesia's 154 aaval vessels, laclodlag sahmarlßes, are operatloaal bow. Naval Chief of Staff We Admiral R. Soedomo revealed here today. Admiral Soedomo toM the Army-backed aewspaper Pelepor Bam that most of the aaaervteeahle vessels, which are bow
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    Lock icon Dock strike over but food still a worry
    370 1 Dock strike over but food still a worry YM* PEARSON BRINGS PORT PEACE LONDON, Wed. Britain's two- week-old dock strike is over. Union leaders of the 46,000 men tonight accepted the peace plan put forward by a Government court of inquiry led by Lord Pearson. But the dockers' delegates, who
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    Lock icon Two In hospital with stab wounds
    174 1 Two In hospital with stab wounds TWO youths were stabbed in separate incidents last night. They were admitted to the Outram Road General Hospital in a serious condition. In the first incident at 7.30 p.m., Lim Yew How, 17, was stabbed by a group of youths in Lorong 25, Geylang.
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    Lock icon NO ENTRY-UNTIL THE THUGS GO
    186 1 THERE are gangsters among the workers of three bus companies. And until they have been weeded out, the workers will not be allowed to join the new Singapore Industrial Labour Organisation. SILO secretary (and NTUC president) Phey Yew Kok who was the victim of a
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    Lock icon Anolo-Malaysian defence pact to go – it's agreed
    395 1 Anolo-Malaysian defence pact to go it's agreed QUICK 'YES' A SURPRISE FOR LORD CARRINGTON KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Lord Carrington's visit to Singapore and Malaysia Is seen here as an attempt to convince the two governments that the AngloMalaysian defence agreement must go. Both Singapore and Malaysia are believed to have
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      60 1 TESTS on a $200 way to reduce smoke. Page 3 ODD DECISION on tax exemption for M-Day gifts. Page 3 ODD i iwfi GIRLS who create time for bosses. Page 4 ODD PORT MEN to ask for 24 per cent wage increase. Page 6 ODD SHARON TATE murder trial. Page
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  • THE FIRST IS A FASHION: IS THE SECOND CONTAGIOUS?
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      988 2  -  Francis Wong THE TWIRPS WHO SIMPLY APE THE EXTERNALS NEED NOT COST SOCIETY A WINK OF SLEEP By I DISAPPROVAL of hippies is easy to understand. Their ways are impossible to admire. Fear of hippy contagion is another matter. The hippy's sense of alienation arises out
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  • Thursday. July 30, 1970 THE SINGAPORE HERALD
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      Lock icon The case for 'crankiness'
      298 2 The case for crankiness' SINGAPORE does not have many good views. Those we have are worth preserving. The readers who have written anxiously to the Herald on what the new university complex might do to the Kent Ridge sunset scene (we printed one representative letter out of several) will have
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      Lock icon ODDS ON-BUT IT'S STILL A GAMBLE
      181 2 It's odds on that traffic will flow more smoothly tomorrow in all the streets where taxis are to be fobidden to pick up passengers except at designated stops. Hire cars that cruise at a snail's pace when empty, or screech to a halt at
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      Lock icon That coin: Minus 3 percent
      90 2 I REFER to your story about the 1304 coin (Herald, yesterday). Your reporter has forgotten to take into account the Muslim year is a lunar year of 354 days or about three per cent fewer days than the Gregorian year of 365. To compensate for
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      Lock icon TAXI AGE LIMIT: THE OWNERS ARE LUCKY
      196 2 THE Minister for Communication ought to be congratulated for his bold masterplan for improving the overall transport sustem in Singapore. Taxis are lucky the Minister did not impose a five-year age limited. The seven-year limit is very generous. The President of the Taxi
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      Lock icon TEN MINUTES' GRACE....
      98 2 IT SEEMS strange, with today's transport difficulties, that some employers still expect 100 per cent punctuality from tn j ir staff. Yet they still "black-mark" late-comers who are only five or 10 minutes late. The recent Government White Paper on re-organising the transport system has highlighted this
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  • FOR CLEAN AIR — A SIMPLE DEVICE IS DEMONSTRATED
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      Lock icon A $200 way to cut down on smoke
      407 3 A $200 way to cut down on smoke AT THE height of the Government's campaign against air pollution, an anti-smoke device that may provide the answer to the whole problem has been introduced by a local firm. Called "Clean Air", the device is claimed to be able to reduce the
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    Lock icon Unfavourable balance
    52 3 PENANG. Wed. Penang has an unfavourable trade balance of $77.2 million with Indonesia for the first six months of the year, Indonesian Consul Muharam Sumadipradja said today. Indonesia sold $73.7 million worth of tin and $5 million general goods, while its Imports from Penang amounted only $1.5 million,
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    Lock icon That N-Day garden: Cash gifts to be tax-free
    277 3 That N-Day garden: Cash gifts to be tax-free SINGAPORE'S monied class who have been asked to help pay for a garden to commemorate this year's National Day celebrations are in for some good news. The Finance Ministry has decided that contributions to the project will be tax-free. The business community
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    Lock icon Mara to build training slipway
    104 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Mara is to build a $750,000 slipway for its dockyard in Kuala Trengganu, its chairman, Inche Abdul Ghafar Baba, said today. The slipway would be used initially to train workers in ship-building. Inche Ghafar, who is also the Minister of National and
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    Lock icon CBT CHARGE
    32 3 WATCHMAN Soyakan Govindasamy, 38, of Jalan Pipit, denied committing breach of trust of a $245 typewriter belonging to Qui Boon Hock and Company between June 12, 1968 and July 28.
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    Lock icon RAF assists family of farmer who died in crash
    143 3 THE Royal Air Force yesterday went to the aid off the family of farmer Chong See Wee, tt, who died la hospital 20 hours after a Lightning jet crashed into his farm on Monday. Officers and men of RAF Tengah donated
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    Lock icon Tramp Ball for charity
    179 3 SOME of Singapore's best-dressed women are expected to turn up in rags for a Tramp Ball, one of the projects being organised this year in aid of children's charities. The decision to hold the ball was taken at the Istana yesterday at a meeting called by
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    Lock icon BUND MASSEURS
    35 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The acting principal of the Gurney Road training centre for the blind, Mr. N.C. Loke, said today his school is studying a scheme to train blind youths to become masseurs.
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    Lock icon Police probe 'pirate' tapes racket
    79 3 POLICE are Investigating reports that pirated tapes, cartridges and cassettes are being sold In town. The tapes, bearing false copyright numbers, are sold at as little as $5 each. Original ones cost more than $12. The managing director of a phonogram company here, Mr. Ton
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    Lock icon HANS ANDERSON CLUB
    31 3 THE new executive committee of the Hans Anderson Club are: president, Mr. B. Vakil; vice-president, Mr. Tan Kok Siong; secretary, Mr. V. Samuel; treasurer, Mr. P. C. Woon.
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      34 3 BEETLE BAILEY By Mort Walker 6*iHtf*' I TELL "ftJP OLD P I WWINUtK WML/ LU t/ TBU. THE OLP I c IHBWU/ f t V COVIEAIvJD VISIT ME?.' BATTL6-AX BATTUE'AX I Mk? V- fes.^^^
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    Lock icon Hoteliers of S-E Asia to get together here
    211 4 Hoteliers of S-E Asia to get together here THE hotels and Restaurants Association will host the -inaugural South-East Asian Convention of Hoteliers and Restaurateurs at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 28 and 29. Mr. S.C. Huang, president of the association said yesterday that the convention would give countries
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    Lock icon Robbery charge
    52 4 CHOO Teck Hock, 28, of Lengkok Bahru, was charged in the Ninth Magistrate's court yesterday with robbing Mr. Neo Wan Choo of $6,700 in cash and property at Outram Park on July l. No plea was recorded and Choo was remanded in custody, pending further mention on Aug.
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    Lock icon BOOK PRESENTS
    24 4 THE Australian High Commissioner in Singapore, Mr. N.F. Parkinson, yesterday presented $3,000 worth of books to the Institute of South-East Asian Studies.
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    Lock icon Doctor on false sick chits charge
    75 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. The Alliance MP for Kluang Selatan, Dr. Chu Chee Peng, 34, was charged yesterday under the Anti Corruption Act with issuing false medical certificates. He was alleged to have issued the certificates to three government employees on June 23, IS7O. Dr.
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    Lock icon Training camp for school leavers
    79 4 A LEADERSHIP training camp for school leavers is being organised by the newlyformed Young Adults' Group of the Young Men Christian Association on August 8 at the Kranji Holiday Camp. The three-day camp will be run on similar lines as the Outward Bound School. The
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    Lock icon Proceeds of new book going to Gurkha Fund
    172 4 Proceeds of new book going to Gurkha Fund A NEW book, "Gurkha, the Legendary Soldier", is now on sale. The proceeds from the sale of this book go partly to the Gurkha Welfare Appeal Fund, set up to help retired Gurkhas and their families. The book shows the colourful life
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    Lock icon VECTOR GENETICS
    42 4 DR. CHAN Kai Lok, the chief Vector Control Officer of the Health Ministry, will leave for Athens in September to attend a seminar on "Vector Genetics" sponsored jointly by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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      Lock icon The new breed secretary creates time for her boss
      404 4 OLD definition of secretary: Someone who answers the phone and takes dictation. New definition of secretary: Someone who creates time for her boss by taking charge of all that might needlessly distract him from his essential decision-taking function. The old-style secretary
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    Lock icon Write more books in Malay, says Razak
    87 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Acting Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak today called on all scholars, teachers and authors to produce more Bahasa Malaysia textbooks. Tun Razak said this when opening the $2.4 million extension of the Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka here. He added that
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    Lock icon BLOOD DONORS
    22 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. One hundred and two students of the Serdang Agricultural College donated blood at the General HospitaUhere today.
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    Lock icon Accountants from Asia to meet here on Aug. 17
    189 4 Accountants from Asia to meet here on Aug. 17 SOME 330 delegates and observers from 19 countries will attend the Sixth Conference of Asian and Pacific Accountants to be held both here and in Malaysia next month. The eight-day conference is jointly organised by the Singapore Society of Accountants and
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    Lock icon Eight Senate posts vacant now
    71 4 Eight Senate posts vacant now KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Malaysian Senate will have to elect a president and fill seven other seats in the 58--member chamber when Parliament reconvenes. Inche Ahmad Abdullah, Secretary of Parliament, said Tan Sri Haji Mohd Noah gave up his post as president yesterday. The other
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    Lock icon NEW CHAIRMAN
    20 4 MR. LUCAS Khoo was elected Chairman of the Technical Education Society at its seventh annual general meeting recently.
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    Lock icon Supervisees jailed for one year
    83 4 TWO police supervisees, who failed to remain indoors during "restricted hours", were each jailed for a year by the Fourth District Court yesterday. Tan Kang Hoe, 39, of Johore Road and Loh Hong Fook, 18, of Hoy Fatt Road, were arrested on Monday when they
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    Lock icon Forum on youth
    53 4 A PUBLIC forum on "Youth in Revolt" will be held at New Lecture Theatre 1, University of Singapore, at 7.30 tonight. The speakers, Mr. G.G. Thomson, Dr. J.B. Tamney, Dr. Ray Nyce and the Venerable Ananda Mangala Thera, will also discuss the differences in temperament of Asian
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      100 4 THE DIARY 9 a.m.— p.m.: Art exhibition by the Society of Chinese Artists, British Council, Amber Mansions. It a.m. 5 p.m.: Reproductions of Indian paintings, National Library. 7 p.m.: Night bazaars at Boon Tiong Road; Beo Crescent; Clementi Road; Commonwealth Avenue; Jalan Eunos; Kallang Estate; MacPherson Road; Lorong Chuan and
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    Lock icon National Day stamps on show now
    93 5 National Day stamps on show now THREE stamps commemorating National Day 1970 will be sold on Aug. 9 at the General Post Office between 9.00 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. and at all other post offices between 9.00 a.m. and 12 noon. The stamps are now on display at the Philatelic
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    Lock icon GOTONG-ROYONG
    17 5 A "GOTONG-ROYONG" exercise to beautify the Police Academy in Thomson Road will be held on Sunday.
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    Lock icon Japanese contract for our satellite station
    187 5 NIHON Denki of Japan (Nippon Electric Co.) has been awarded the contract to supply and instal equipment for Singapore's first communications satellite earth station at Blakang Mati. The ground station consists of an administrative and engineering building and will cost $8.4 million. ANTENNA DISH
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    Lock icon Singapore's special day at Expo' 70
    185 5 DR. GOH PRESIDES OVER CELEBRATIONS OSAKA, Wed. Singapore today celebrated its special day at Expo'7o with the help of a Japanese university band and 50 girl baton twirlers. Dr. Goh Keng Swee, Singapore's Finance Minister, who presided over the clebrations at the Festival Plaza,
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    Lock icon Joint effort to make S'pore a technology centre
    211 5 Joint effort to make S'pore a technology centre THE Government and the University of Singapore are working closely to help make Singapore "a centre of excellence' 1 in technology. Professor A. Rajaratnam, chairman of the Radioisotopes and Radiations Advisory Committee, said this when he presented certificates to 29 engineers and
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      20 5 THE TIDES Today 10.23 a.m. 6.7 ft 8.33 p.m. 7.5 ft. Tomorrow 11.01 a.m. 7 ft; 9.26 p.m. 7.9 ft.
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    Lock icon STARTING ON TV TONIGHT: A SERIES ON OUR REGION
    89 6 STARTING ON TV TONIGHT: A SERIES ON OUR REGION RTS will telecast a ■ew weekly series "Our Oceaalc Neighbours" on Channel 5, beginning tonight at 7.2t p.m. The tea-week series off Illustrated talks wiU high light opportunities aid problems of Singapore's neighbours which will be •f interest to the Republic.
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    Lock icon MAN ROBBED
    25 6 GOH Gek Hong, 28, of Carpmael Road was robbed of a total of $190 by two armed men near Galaxy Theatre on Tuesday.
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    Lock icon Port men to ask for 24p.c. more
    240 6 PSA TO GET DEMANDS IN SEPTEMBER SINGAPORE'S 10,500 port workers are demanding a 24 per cent increase in wages, with negotiations due to begin in September. A spokesman for the Port Workers' Union said yesterday the more-pay demands' would be made to the
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    Lock icon Teachers await meeting with Ministry
    145 6 Teachers await meeting with Ministry THE Singapore Teachers' Union is waiting for the Education Ministry to fix a date to discuss better pay and work conditions for teachers, a union official said yesterday. He added that the ministry has already been given the 'okay' by the Finance Ministry to negotiate
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    Lock icon 300 Thais intrude Malaysian waters
    96 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A total of 39 motor boats with 300 Thai fishermen have been caught intruding Malaysian waters in the first five months of this year. A Government spokesman today said this number had declined following the signing of an agreement in May last
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    Lock icon Police not playing fair, pirates moan
    233 6 Police not playing fair, pirates moan PIRATE taximen complain that the police are speeding up the chase for them. "We don't have a chance," grumbled one recentlytorpedoed pirate. "The police used an unmarked private car and caught me by surprise." According to the pirates, they used to post a lookout
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    Lock icon NEW NANTAH COLLEGE GETS GOVT SUPPORT
    212 6 THE Government has pledged support for Nanyang University in the setting up of the College of Engineering, announced earlier this month. Dr. Rayson Huang, the vice chancellor, who said this yesterday added that an eightman committee had been formed by the University Council to
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    Lock icon First container seminar in Singapore starts on Aug.4
    247 6 First container seminar in Singapore starts on Aug.4 SINGAPORE'S progress in containerisation will be outlined at a two-day Container Seminar beginning on Tuesday at the Conference Hall. More than 215 applications to attend the seminar have been received from the shipping community, chambers of commerce, shipowners and manufacturing associations and
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    Lock icon Queenstown parties to celebrate N-day
    96 6 QUEENSTOWN's civic groups are planning a weeklong series of parties, variety shows and dinners as part of Singapore's fifth National Day celebrations. The first function will be a children's party at the Community Centre on Aug. 8, at 3:00 in the afternoon followed by a
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    Lock icon POLICE COMMITTEE
    37 6 THE Singapore Police Civilian Staff Association has re-elected Mr. Leong Sum Tien as president of its management committee. Others reelected are Mr. Neo Siong Lim, vice-president; Mr. Eddie Yeo, secretary and Mr. Lawrence Lee, treasurer.
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    Lock icon Girls and guns
    166 7  - Girls and guns LEE CHIU SAN Words: ITS the latest trend for the town's teenagers the lethal look. These girls pack pistols instead of face powder. And they wear the trousers in the National Cadet Corps these days. More than 6,0W of them have now swapped mini-skirts for combat dress.
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    Lock icon $250,000 sister for Lampong
    83 7 SHELL is to buy a 55--foot mooring launch from Vosper Thornycroft Uniteers Ptd. Ltd. It will be nsed by Shell Eastern Petroleum Limited, of Pulau Bukom. It is the second vessel ordered by Shell for buoy mooring and is worth $250,000. The vessel, now under construction,
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    Lock icon Atom study tour of N. America
    78 7 PROFESSOR A. Rajaratnam of the University of Singapore Physics Department will leave soon for a months' tour of the United States and Canada to study the industrial application of radio isotopes and radiation technology. He was appointed for the study tour lasting from Aug.
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    Lock icon Undergrads face no action
    52 7 NO disciplinary action will be taken against the 120 Singapore University undergraduates who sang "Puff, the Magic Dragon", a song banned by the Ministry of Culture. The university PRO said that the Music Society president was however, cautioned against letting students sing banned songs on the
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    Lock icon Bra thief jailed for a day
    141 7 Bra thief jailed for a day A HOUSEWIFE who stole two brassieres valued at $13.90 from the Saint Michael's Store on Tuesday was jailed for a day and fined $200 in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday. Senior Inspector Chia Cheng Poh, prosecuting, said Kothanadapani Mariammal. 33, of Watten Close, was
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    Lock icon Expert to talk on problems of city planning
    119 7 Expert to talk on problems of city planning DR. Gerald Breese, an urban planning expert, will give a lecture to architectural students at the Ladyhill campus of the University of Singapore today. A Professor of Sociology at the Princeton University in the United States, Dr. Breese will speak on "Problems
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    Lock icon $720,000 in rates not paid
    110 7 BUTTERWORTH, Wed. House owners in the Province Wellesley North District owe more than $720,000 in assessment for last year, the Chairman of the district council, Inche Mustapha bin Arshad, said today. He told Bernama that only $551,666.64 of the $1,271,000 due from house owners in
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    Lock icon A CHANCE TO DESIGN NEW WESTMINSTER
    238 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Architects from Singapore and Malaysia are invited to design a new $39 million building linked to Britain's parliamentary complex. The competitition, open to all Commonwealth countries, is run in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects. A British Embassy spokesman
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    Lock icon Now we may get a pro' orchestra
    207 7 SINGAPORE may soon have a professional national orchestra. A planning committee is now investigating the possibilities. Dr. Goh Poh Seng, Chairman of the National Theatre Trust said last night that the committee includes representatives from the Trust, the Ministry of Culture Broadcasting Division
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    Lock icon CHILD CLINIC
    32 7 THE Child Guidance Clinic, at 4 College Road, is open one and a half DAYS a week—and not one and a half hours as reorted in this paper on Monday.
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    Lock icon Peace Corps' 300 men
    46 7 Peace Corps' 300 men PENANG, Wed. Malaysia has more than 300 U.S. Peace Corps workers one of the largest numbers in the world. The Regional Director of the Corps, Mr. Roger Halger said the movement would try to meet Malaysia's demands for more specialist volunteers. DUO
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    Lock icon SPEECH DAY
    21 7 THE Outram Road Secondary School will celebrate its 17th annual speech and the fifth National Day on Aug. 7.
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    Lock icon $42,000 parang gang: Two jailed
    145 7 $42,000 parang gang: Two jailed THREE youths who staged a series of armed robberies during the past three months mainly on watch stores were convicted in the Fourth District Court yesterday. Heng Hock Teow alias Raymond, 20, was jailed for four years and ordered six strokes of the rotan. Lum
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    Lock icon Mum found money couldn't buy her love
    1110 8 Mum found money couldn't buy her love nhmj,m., SOME agony columns play it for laughs, some for smut, others for real. Personal File is the last kind. It treats your personal problems seriously, sympathetically. For a start, here are some real problems, culled from different sources. I COME from a
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    75 8 Polly, the sole destroyer POLLY the parrot's always peckish with a taste for food like old boots. For unless keepers do the old soft shoe shuffle before they enter her cage she'll put a bit of bite into her welcome. The cockatoo from the land of kangaroos prefers Jurong Bird
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      137 8 Champbn Motors in conjunction with the Singapore Herald present the "win a Beetle oortesC" Entry forms are availabb from the VW girls who are touring Singapore, Champion Motors and the Singapore Herald. .■■j^/'"^SRt- Right now there are girls driving the most hipped -^^ttfijflg^MHHg^g^ggfe^ up Beetles this island has ever seen.
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      Lock icon Foreign aid ties could bankrupt US—senator
      541 10 WASHINGTON, Wed. Secret and open American military obligations to foreign governments have so overloaded the defence budget that to honour all of them fully would bankrupt the nation, Senator Stuart Symington told the Senate. Mr Symington (DemocratMissouri) declared that he did not believe Congress
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      Lock icon I cried out: 'Oh, God, stop the killings' says star witness
      351 10 SHARON TATE MURDER TRIAL (Contd) LOS ANGELES, Wed. A sobbing Linda Kasabian testified at the Sharon Tate murder trial that she saw the kilUng of two of the five victims and heard screams from the other victims. Mrs. Kasabian
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      36 10 SAIGON, Wed. The Director-General of South Vietnamese Military Justice today signed the jail order for two young Frenchmen arrested on Saturday for having waved a Vietcong flag atop a war monument in central Saigon.
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      Lock icon Chieftain goes to Manila to see the big chief
      135 10 Chieftain goes to Manila to see the big chief MANILA, Wed. A redtoothed chieftain, leader of 100 minority tribal units in central Mindanao, is on his way to see the President, escorted by the national police chief. Datu Manpatilan, 70, charged with the 1968 massacre of 14 loggers, surrendered yesterday.
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      35 10 NEW YORK, Wed. Subway service was cut temporarily by one-third and telephones were run on emergency power as extreme heat sent electricity use soaring beyond the capacity of a crippled electric utility company.
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      Lock icon KIRIROM FALLS TO VIETS: IT'S A TACTICAL MOVE SAY KHMERS
      503 10 PHNOM PENH, Wed. All Cambodia* troops nave been withdrawn from the mountain stronghold of Kirirom after a bitter lfrday battle. The first two battalions polled wit two days ago after a major Vietnamese-Communist attack. The remaining two straggled down the
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      Lock icon The flap In New Delhi over Madam Binh's visit
      551 10  -  SUDHAKAR BHAT From Herald Correspondent in New Delhi PROJECTING a radical image to a part of India's foreign policy. Bat this has sometimes led to aa e m b a.r r a s s I a g ambivalence, as was the
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      Lock icon Defence plan to downgrade the Service Chiefs
      169 10 Defence plan to downgrade the Service Chiefs WASHINGTON, Wed. Tlie Presidential Defence panel has recommended drastic overhaul of the U.S. Defence Department leadership structure aimed at strengthening civilian control, promoting efficiency and ending serious cost overruns in buying weapons. Chairman Gilbert Fitzhugh, summing up the findings of a yearlong study,
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      394 11 'ISRAEL IS STRONG ENOUGH NOT TO HAVE TO BE DICTATED TO BY ANYONE' TEL AVIV, Wed. Defence Minister Gen Moshe Dayan said last night that Israel had to keep its friendships and alliances and look for compromise solutions with its friends without sacrificing what
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      Lock icon ARABS ANGERED BY MID EAST PEACE PLAN
      174 11 BEIRUT, Wed. The latest U.S. initiative for Middle East peace has stirred up a controversy in the Arab world which could imperil Arab unity, according to observers here. The United Arab Republic, followed shortly by Jordan and Sudan, have accepted the socalled "Rogers
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      Lock icon Aussies don't want the F-111S says Fulbright
      195 11 Aussies don't want the F-111S says Fulbright WASHINGTON, Wed.— A leading Senate critic of the FIII says the plane is such a bad investment that Australia wants to cancel an order for a large number of them. Sen. William Fulbright said he was informed of the Australian sentiment in a
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      23 11 10 MILLION GRANT LONDON, Wed. Britain has granted 10 million aid to Pakistan for the year 1970-1971, the Ministry of Overseas Development Announced.
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      Lock icon YAHYA TO INDIA: PROTECT MUSLIMS
      207 11 YAHYA TO INDIA: PROTECT MUSLIMS KARACHI, Wed. President Yahya Khan today asked the Indian Government to protect Muslims in India because of recent disorders. In an address to the nation he said he hoped the New Delhi Government would protect all minorities. Indirectly referring to remarks on the Kashmir problem
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      Lock icon The buddy way of travelling
      53 11 SAIGON, Wed. The U.S. Embassy has warned its staff against travelling alone in Saigon because of "recent acts of violence against United States citizens." The embassy urged American employees to use the "buddy system" of travelling in pairs and suggested they always advise someone of
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      Lock icon MILLION-DOLLAR BAIL
      44 11 MIAMI, Wed. Bail of one million dollars each wa s set for three of five men arrested by government agents during a raid in which officers seized 2il Ib. of cocaine said to be worth $10 million on the retail market. AP
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      25 11 TRIPOLI, Wed. Two more independent newspapers here have closed, bringing to 10 the total of newspapers closed since last September's military coup.
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      100 11 SAN CLEMENTE (California), Wed. Dr. Thomas Paine is resigning as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from Sept. is. Dr. Paine, who has headed the space agency since Oct. 1968, told newsmen he would be returning to the General Electric Co. in
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      50 11 OVERNIGHT SWEET SUE BLOSSOMED INTO A MATHEMATICAL GENIUS U Olvimiia HHEBQ^^^B international 111 j Ijjllj "I tttttt vf? t M 1 1 1 **^^*^f iiimiim z luiii i i z i fttttttiiiiit|^iiii iftiimmmjjmj Ask for a free demonstration fc^^^^ Dtn BEHN MIVER CO (PTE) UNITED Singapore kuala lumpuo pergANG ip>oh
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  • ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
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      347 12 By Our Tokyo Correspondent JAPAN needs to step up its imports from Southeast Asian countries, liberalize imports and lower tariff rate* in order to enjoy more the benefit of international division of labour, urges the 1970 Economic White Paper prepared by the Economic Planning
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      Lock icon Japanese loan for Manila
      119 12 MANILA, Wed. The Central Bank said yesterday it had secued a US$4 million loan from its US$5O million standby credit line with a group of 15 Japanese banks. A bank spokesman said the loan wfll be used to pay off Government-backed loans made by the Japanese
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      Lock icon DWIKORA TAKEOVER
      101 12 JAKARTA, Wed. The Indonesian Government plans to nationalise the huge PN Dwikora IV tea and rubber plantations by buying up US$4.2 million worth of shares owned by British citizens, the official Antara News Agency said. Most of the company's estates are in the Subang region of West Java
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      121 12 Tamco's new factory KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Commerce and Industry Minister Mohamed Knir Johari will open the $1.25 million premises of Tamco, supplier of electrical and electronic equipment, on Aug. 14. The company, with a turnover of $3 million last year, has done many big Jobs ia Singapore and Malaysia, including
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      71 12 BONN, Wed.— The European Common Market should act to prevent the introduction of new American trade quotas, the West German Chambers of Commerce said today. The Chambers' newspaper, German Industrial and Trade Daily called on the Boon Government to Initiate moves by the Common Market to prevent
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      200 12 TOKYO, Wed. The Japan Woodworking Machinery Association will hold a two-day trade council meeting from September 24 in Singapore under the cosponsorship of JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization). Representatives of 17 major Japanese woodworking machinery manufacturers will participate. The primary purpose of the meeting is
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      758 12 "1 ut ADVEBTISEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ANNIVERSARIES. AN NOUNCEMENTS. BIRTHS. CLUB ACTIVITIES. CON OOLENCES. DEATHS. ENGAGEMENTS, FUNERAL. GREET INGS. IN MEMORIAM. MARRIAGES. MISSING. PERSONAL. P.P.C. REQUIEMS ft REUNIONS. Minimum $8/ for 20 words, each additional word 40cts. All othe* classified advertisements: Minimum $4/ for 20 words, each additional word 20cts. Box Service
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      392 12 VISIT MING ART GALLERY Shopping Arcade Ming Court Hotel Tanotin Road. Largest collection of works of art by foremost local artist. Open daily. MEYER GALLERY has works of art of over 40 local artists from batik to sculpture. Visit 6A Raffles Place Spore *****. MILDAY SOCIAL ESCORT proudly presents charming
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      418 12 fluPmlk *****1 For our Classified nlnffffflfr MM! Tele- Ads Service MICHELLE BEAUTY ft MODEL ACADEMY New Classes commencing Morning Evening on 3rd ft sth August. For further information Ring (S'pore) ***** ask tor Matilda YOU! Certainly have the feet for 3 hours dancing lessons Quickstep, Waltz, S/Fortrot. Chacha, Tango Rumba.
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      236 12 FAIR LADY FASHIONS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Registered Office: Ground Floor, Block 2, Boon Keng Road, Singapore. INTERIM REPORT The Board of Directors has pleasure to inform the Shareholders that an interim dividend of 5% tax exempt has been declared in respect of the financial year ending
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      Lock icon Oil boom to begin next year
      120 13 Oil boom to begin next year NEW YORK, Wed. Indonesia's first commercial offshore crude oil production is expected to begin in the second half of 1971. Atlantic Richfield Co. announced yesterday. The company said the field has been discovered by the Indonesian Govern-ment-owned company Pertamina and a group of American
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      Lock icon Remisiers welcome Stock Exchange's training move
      308 13 IT finally came. That was the reaction of the Fellow Brokers' Association to the Stock Exchange committee's decision to raise the professional standards of remisiers and dealers. Association president Soo Ban Hoe last night welcomed the ruling as a' 'good thing". Mr. Soo said
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      54 13 SAN FRANCISCO, Wed. Bank of America, the largest bank in the United States, announced yesterday the creation of a new worldwide division to serve multinational firms "virtually anywhere." Mr. Ralph F. Young, formerly regional vice-presi-dent for Bank of America in London, will head the new division with a
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      Lock icon Fund for ADB
      54 13 INDIA has become the first developing member country of the Asian Development Bank to contribute money for the bank's special funds. India has contributed Rs. 200,000 (about US$2B,OOO) on a grant basis, which will be used by the bank to finance the hiring of Indian experts and
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Closing prices/business done
      1524 13 KEY Closing buyers' and sellers' prices are followed by the business done. Figures, in brackets denote traded lots in I.ooo's. When the price is not followed by a figure in brackets, it means only a single lot of 1,000 shares was traded at that price. The last
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      79 13 (Managers' prices for July 30) B. 8. S. CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS Singapore Growth Fund 1.02 1.07 ASIA UNIT TRUSTS Mai. Invt. Fund 1.14 1.19 Mai. Progress Fund .99 1.04 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS Second Singapore 1.77xd Third Singapore* 1.18 B. S. The Commerce Ind. .95 1.00 The Saving Fund
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    Lock icon MALAYSIAN GAZETTED PRICES
    46 13 MALAYSIAN GAZETTED PRICES Commodity followed by value with rate of duty in brackets for July 30 to Aug. 5. RUBBER 53-1/8 cents a lb. (2-1/8 cents, total 7-5/8 cents). COPRA £524 a ton (£52.40). PALM OIL £725.25 a ton (£54.*****). PALM KERNELS £428 a ton (£42.80).
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    Lock icon RUBBER/TIN
    493 13 RUBBER 51-S/8 cents a Ib. (down one-eighth cent). The market was quoted at 52 cents value for RSS 1 August at the start of morning trading yesterday. Quiet conditions ruled whilst dealers assessed whether the overnight steady London CIF market was based on new orders. As it happened, there
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    Lock icon PEOPLE in business
    278 13 PEOPLE in business Mr. Stephea Y.F. JEN has been promoted AlU's assistant regional manager for Singapore, East Malaysia and Brunei. Mr. Jen, who has been with AIU for eight years, was formerly the manager of the Singapore branch. AIU, a general insurance firm, also announced the following appointments in Singapore:
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    Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
    226 13 STORE— MALAYSIA The Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore made these changes in its merchant rates yesterday. The following rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency. SELLING TT or OD Belgian Francs 9 6.2725; Danish Kroner 9 41.4075; Deutsche Marks 9 85.6600; French Francs
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    Lock icon SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE
    396 13 SHARE prices advanced in all sections of the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Turnover on the mining and oil board remained relatively light, however. Leading industrials found strong support and many closed with substantial gains. BHP jumped 40 cents to A514.35 in active trading, while Colonial Sugar put
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    Lock icon HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE
    190 13 The market held steady yesterday as the slight easiness, apparent towards Tuesday's close, seemed to have dissipated. Most stocks were little changed. Zung Fu moved up at the start but fell back after the announcement of a 15-cent interim dividend. Nan Fung saw heavy activity, following announcement
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    Lock icon TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    147 13 The market continued to advance in early trading yesterday on increased buying interest and gains were widespread. The afternoon session was fairly active and price movements irregular as selective buying encountered profittaking. Interest switched to chemicals and constructions. The market closed dull after early gains were offset
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    296 13 AMSTERDAM Internationals were firm in a rather active market yesterday. Hoogovens ruled very firm on the after-effects of the 41 per cent rise in net profit in the second 1970 quarter. Philips and Unilever were firm on local demand and Royal firm on foreign buying. AKZO was steady.
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    Lock icon Whitley School tops group 2 rugger league
    241 14 Whitley School tops group 2 rugger league WHITLEY SECONDARY finished unbeaten in Group "A" of the national schools' division two rugger league with five victories and a drawn match. Upper Serangoon Technical finished behind Whitley with four wins and draws. Whitley's victories: beat Monk's Hill 16-0; beat Willow Avenue 17-16;
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    Lock icon S'pore's chances not too good
    129 14 S 'pore's chances not too good KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— SINGAPORE'S Merdeka soccer contingent is not too optimistic of its chances in the 12-nation tournament. Their team of 16 players and four officials arrived here this morning to take part in the annual tournament which begins here tomorrow to mark the
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    Lock icon A double for the Saints in schools cricket
    532 14  -  JASBIR SINGH ST. PATRICK'S SCHOOL scored a grand double when they won the senior and junior national schools cricket championships at Balestier Road yesterday. Hie senior team beat Anglo-Chinese School by five wickets while their junior side defeated Whitiey Secondary School by
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    Lock icon Clarke's goals a going away present to SRC
    296 14 SINGAPORE Recreation Club won the Singapore Hockey Association senior knockout title with a resounding three nil victory over Jansenites, the defending champions, at Farrer Park yesterday. It was a memorable day for Farleigh Clarke as be contributed two of the three goals
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    Lock icon Sharin in Johore open
    51 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. SINGAPORE'S Sharin Osman wiU defend his singles title in the three-day Johore open tennis championship beginning here on Friday. He is expected to meet Ooy Tjie Siang (Indonesia) in a repetition of last year's final, in which Sharin beat the Indonesian for the
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    243 14 RONNIE KHOO will meet Loo Choon Beng in an allraffles final of the Schools' national judo championships (Boys 'A') at Chung Hwa Girls' High School Hall, Bartley Road, at 2.00 p.m. today. Ronnie Khoo qualified for the final by beating Choo Kah Wah of
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      49 14 SOCCER: Wv 2B: Alexandra v SRC (SRC); Sembawaag Shipyard v PWD; Marshall United v Kg. Kapor, Rajaji v Race Coarse United (all at Farrer Park); Vigilante Corp v Chinese Athletics (Gevland). HOCKEY: Junior KO final— PWD v SCC (Padang). JUDO: National schools finals (Chang Hwa Girls High School, l.Jtp.m).
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    Lock icon Taiwanese beaten Shock 5-3 victory by Singapore
    857 15  - Taiwanese beaten Shock 5-3 victory by Singapore ALBERT JOHNSON SINGAPORE PLAYERS performed exceedingly well with the doubles representatives reaching the semifinals of the First Asian schools' table tennis championships, now in its second day, at the Gay World stadium yesterday. Tan Khoon Hong (National Junior College) and Chia Chong Boon
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      287 15 Regal Mate did a sparkling workout on a good track at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. Ridden by champion jockey Glynn Pretty, the seven-year-old Messmate gelding went smartly over 3f in 38 1/5. Movie Lad (George Podmore), a smart winner last Saturday, is retaining his form.
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      1097 15 IPOH.Wed- A TOTAL OF 233 horses for Class 1, 3 and 6 has entered for the Perak Turf Club Sultan's Gold Vase meeting on August 8. 9, 15 and 16. CLASS 1 (6f and 544f straight). Amur River 6f 5V% Able Envoy Vase only, Balcrest
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    Lock icon Kok Hong wins parallel bars senior event
    162 15 CHOW KOK HONG of Upper Aljunied Technical School won the parallel bars event for senior boys in the School gymnastic national championships at the Singapore Badminton Hall yesterday. Kok Hong proved too good for his rivals in this event, where he scored a
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    294 15 Better luck next time says Wok SPORTS Minister Inche Othman Wok said yesterday he was satisfied with the performance of the Singapore contingent at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Inche Wok however warned that the Republic's athletes aiming for stardom in future big international competitions will face tougher qualifying standards.
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    21 16 MANILA, Wed. Activist* plan a massive demonstration tomorrow to protest against "injustice and many social ills in the Philippines.
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    298 16 LONDON, Wed. The British Government does not plan initiating talks in the near future with the regime in Salisbutary to settle the conflit with Rhodesia, it was stated by an official source here today. A Foreign Office spokesman described as "very
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    39 16 Expo greeting for Tunku MALAYSIAN Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman is greeted by Malaysian hostesses as he enters the Malaysian Pavilion at Expo '70 on Tuesday. Seen behind him is the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Inche Mohd. Khir Johari.
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    Lock icon 'Indians go home' cry in Saigon
    93 16 SAIGON, Wed. Riot police today took up positions near the Indian Consulate-General following threats from a Vietnamese war veterans organisation. Leaflets distributed throughout the city called on Indian nationals to "shut up shop" and "go home", and rumours spoke of possible demonstrations against Indian
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    177 16 Now Ceylon breaks with Israel COLOMBO, Wed. Ceylon abruptly suspended diplomatic relations with Israel today till such a time as Israel evacuates the occupied Arab territories. Israeli Charge d'Affaires Itzhak Navon complained l in remarks to newsmen that he had been informed after the press. His legation staff would leave
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    350 16 PARIS, Wed.—President Pompidou today announced France's strategic policies for the early 1970s under which the military budget for the first time in the history of the Republic will be inferior to that allocated for education. The defence estimates, outlined in the military bill
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    310 16 LONDON RUBBER (Yesterday's official buyer/seller prices, in pence per lb). Tone: Quietly steady; ClF's Aug. 18-1/4 18-7/16, Sept. 18-3/8 18-9/16, Oct. 18-1/2 18-3/4; Spot 22 N/Buyer 23-1/2 Seller; Settlements Sept. 20-3/4 N/Buyer 21-1/4 Seller. Oct. 20 N/Buyer 20-1/4 Seller, Oct. and Nov./Dec. both 19-7/8 20, Jan. /March
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    419 16 Military troops screen all visitors to Blitar BLITAR, (East Java) Wed. Military police last night banned motor vehicles from entering this town after dark. The ban was aimed at thousands of travellers on their way to attend today's ceremony held at the grave site of ex-president Dr. Sukarno at Blitar's
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    116 16 TAN Chiang LJa dreamed he woold die violently. So he wrote to Us father who had disowned him and begged forgiveness. Hears later Tan lay dead. He shot himself as police laid siege to Us hideout. The letter was still In Us
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    33 16 NEW YORK, Wed. The New York Times has announced that beginning In mid-September it will open the page opposite the editorial page for dissenting opinions from at home and abroad.
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      150 16 WE'VE all heard of Hyde Park Corner It's a spot in London where people who want to air a grievance or proselytise a cause ANY grievance and ANY cause leap on a soap box and hold forth. The Singapore Herald is setting up a mlnlHyde Park Corner for Singaporeans in
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