Singapore Herald, 9 March 1971

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  • 15 1 THE SINGAPORE Herald No. 195 Singapore Tuesday, March 9, 1971 MC(P) No. 2525 15 CENTS
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  • 1378 1 The same again: NO new taxes NO NEW TAXES or changes m existing taxes were announced yesferday by the Finance Minister, Mr. Hon Sui Sen, for the next financial year. He told Parliament that the Government's policy of promoting fast economic growth had paid off and increased revenue from normal
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  • 385 1 YOU'LL have to tune to Television Malaysia's Channel Three at 10.45 this morning for "live" coverage of the world heavyweight title fight between Mohamed AH and Joe Frazier. TV Singapore negotiated with Television Malaysia over the possibility of taking the fight on
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  • 29 1 ALL postal, telegraph and money order services to Britain have been resumed, following the end of the British postal strike, the Postal Services Department announced yesterday.
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  • 236 1 Teachers who quit: The annual average OTHER BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE- TEACHERS m the Eng lish stream have been resigning at a "consistently high" average of 405 annually over the last six years, Parliament was told yesterday. Over the same period, teachers m the Chinese stream have been resigning at
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  • 168 1 BLAST KNOCKS OUT RAILWAY BRIDGE BUTTERWORTH, Mon. An explosion seriously damaged a railway bridge at Sungei Jarak, about 20 miles north of here, last night and cut rail services between Malaysia and Thailand for 18 hours. The blast, which, also knocked out two telephone lines, was heard at a police
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  • 380 1 A hippy? Not if he's a healthy hitch-hiker I Quote I 9 I WHEN is a hippy not a hippy? When he's a healthy hitch-hiker. This was disclosed by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mr. L.P. Rodrigo. m Parliament yesterday. He was replying to the Member
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  • 313 1 ALERT, BUT ALL QUIET IN MID -EAST NEW YORK, Mon.— The war fronts between Israel and the Arabs were quiet today despite Egypt's refusal to proclaim an extension of the ceasefire. A military spokesman m Tel Aviv said there was no fighting along the 103-mile Suez Canal. Journalists were barred
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  • 269 1 Civil war alert: Britons advised to flee Dacca LONDON, Mon. The British Government has advised the 1,000 Britons m East Pakistan to leave the country if their presence is not essential because of the threat of civil war. The Foreign Office said it had no reports of any Britons being
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    • 7 1 EXCERPTS FROM THE BUDGET SPEECH: PAGE 2
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  • EXCERPTS FROM Mr. HON SUI SEN'S BUDGET SPEECH
    • 4829 2 Steady on course after another boom year B Quotes S GDP: A 15 per cent growth rate m 1970 Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the Financial Year Ist April, 1971 to 31st March, 1972. The Development Estimates for the Financial Year Ist April, 1971 to 31st March, 1972. The
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    • 761 2 Tuesday, March 9, 1971. THE SINGAPORE HERALD Despite clouds on the horizon MR HON Sui Sen's first Budget statement does not reveal any significant change m Government financial policy. He is keeping the ship steady, m his own words, on the course set by his predecessor, Dr Goh Keng Swee,
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    • 1208 3 INDUSTRIAL GROWTH For new ventures, more selective promotion now... lftoie^^^~ IN MANUFACTURING, the leading growth sector m the Singapore economy, a record number of very large projects by well known international companies were announced m 1970 and are now m the pipeline. The amount of such commitments m 1970 exceeds
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    • 962 3 Promise of rapid growth— and what's being done... OF ALL the areas of economic activity which were fostered and developed during 1970 to offset the loss m foreign exchange and other effects of the military rundown, one of the most promising was th« tourist industry. The statistics of sea
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    • 768 4 ON the Development Estimates, Mr. Hon said: THE Development Estimates provide for a total of $635.9 million, after pruning. The total proposals submitted were for $849.85 million. It has been possible to allocate to the social sector 39.5 per cent or $61.74 million
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    • 33 2 THE PICK OF |\inch -^q^v.o' B*^ if 1/ H if J I IfTO. TORONTO TELEGRAM SYNDICATE "Talk about broken promises. Government m power for over a month and we're still paying Income Tax."
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 95 3 Mrs. Helen Goh says: I've been using this Prestige Pressure Cooker for the last nine years. It has made cooking a real pleasure for me. Imagine, slow-cooking dishes like curries and stews are done m 10 or 15 minutes! Just think of the time and fuel I save! What's more,
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 47 4 BEETLE BAILEY y By Mort Walker S* 0O THE GENERAL AND MOT AI F /JN soMp I'LL BRIEF TELL E LIKE I DOS J J>W WA/5 I YOU ON tUF V 'HAT. ILL PUT IN ppccco SVSTEMMFRE >— >v A <SOOD WO^P j. T QT I T Up
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  • 375 5 Pernas to help boost Malay role in industry KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The National Corporation (Pernas) is to act as "a catalyst" to further intensify Malay participation m commerce and industry and promote industrialisation m the country. The corporation's general manager, Wan Abdul Hamid bin Mohamed Salleh, said today that towards
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  • 270 5 KLANG, Mon. The Sultan of Selangor, today described those who are against the Constitution (Amendment) Bill as traitors to national solidarity, peace and prosperity. He said the amendments were to prevent irresponsible elements from exploiting the existing freedom to create and inflame
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  • 57 5 KUCHING, Mon. A round-the-clock curfew has been imposed m certain parts of Kuching sub-district from 6 a.m. today. A police spokesman said that the curfew, m force until further notice, was to facilitate security forces' operations. Three kampongs are affected by the curfew: Kampong Sungai
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  • 190 5 PENANG, Mon. About 500 people, including members of the consular corps, have been invited to a ceremony at the City Hall here on Wednesday when Tunku Abdul Rahman will receive the key to the Freedom of the City of Georgetown. This is
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  • 330 5 FIRST INTAKE OF ABOUT 10 STUDENTS KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A Government approved school for training Malaysian pilots is being set up at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Pioneered by a group of Malaysians ,the school the Malaysian Aviation Academy Sdn. Bhd hopes
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  • 189 5 3 years' jail for former clerk on graft charge KUCHING, Mon. A former senior costing clerk with the Sarawak Development Finance Corporation, Jaswant Singh was today sentenced to three years' jail by the district court here under the prevention of Corruption Act, Jaswant Singh, 30, pleaded guilty to a charge
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  • 178 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Department of Inland Revenue is considering increasing the penalties for those failing to submit their income tax returns on time. The Director General of Inland Revenue, Tan Sri Lim Leong seng, said today that the department was also planning to
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 153 5 ■^^888 Hi Now you can have Europe like it was mm a sightseeing day tour out of Singapore. We give you our daylight express way to Fiironp LUIUpC. Bui,, Breakfast m Singapore. i Dinner m Frankfurt. Short breaks for the gas stations at Bangkok, |J||i|iP' v Bombay and Karachi. Then
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 28 5 X.l.<> > >W 1».1.. 1.. I" U VMM ..yl.l. J "I wish it were that simple to remove your name from the two-year supply of letterheads we had printed."
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  • 772 6 TODAY'S map shows seven services to be operated by the United Bus Company (colour yellow) when the reorganised transport system is introduced on April 11. SERVICE NO. 140 Toa Payoh, Lorong 6Prince Edward Road: Toa Payoh Lorong 6 (near Block 27) along Lorong 6, Lorong 1, Lorong
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  • 231 6 RED CARPET WELCOME FOR 675 ROTTERDAM TOURISTS TOMORROW SINGAPORE'S tourist industry will get a big boost with the arrival of one of the largest cruise ships m the world, the Rotterdam, tomorrow. During her 22-hour stay here the C 75 passengers will have ample opportunity to go sightseeing and shopping.
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  • Viewpoint
    • 401 6 Why the HSC results are poor WHY are the recent H.S.C. results so poor? Firstly all the good teachers have been drawn into industry by better pay. As a result, H.S.C. classes get newly-graduated teachers who do not have any experience and are merely experimenting with their various newly-acquired teaching
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    • 271 6 The heavy burden of housemen in Govt hospitals IT is high time the authorities concerned open their eyes to the oppressive conditions under which housemen m Government hospitals are working. My brother, who has just completed his housemanship, described it as one long, dreadful nightmare. The atrocities that a houseman
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    • 198 6 'BLESSING' OF HOTELS I FEEL bound, as a member of the Anglican Church, to express my utter horror at the recent practice m this country of "blessing" hotels. One may ask "What are they blessing?" The hotel as a building and as an industry? ODD This is un-Christian and so
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  • 368 7 Israeli gunboat coup 'for cash' COPENHAGEN, Mon. The Israeli coup spiriting away five French Navy speedboats m December 1969 was masterminded by a Dane, the newspaper Politiken reported yesterday m a despatch from its Rotterdam correspondent. The correspondent named the organiser as 53-year-old Capt. Knud Lindholm Petersen, who m October
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  • 101 7 BELFAST, Mon. Petrol bombs, rocks and bottles flew here last night when 40 women, dressed m military-style uniforms and wielding sticks, led a 300-strong march past a paratrooper base. The protest procession by Republican elements calling for Northern Ireland to be reunited with the
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  • 102 7 KHARTOUM: A number of Britons living here, together with Somali, Zambian and Nigerian students from Khartoum University, occupied the British Embassy here for two hours m protest against Britain's decision to resume selling arms to South Africa. ODD PHNOM PENH: A French freelance journalist Jean Duquesnay,
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  • 199 7 LONDON, Mon. Less than half of Britain's post offices re-opened today after the system's workers voted overwhelmingly to end their costly 47-day walkout. Postal chiefs appealed to the public to hold back all but urgent mail for a few days so they could clear the
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  • 373 7 PORT ELIZABETH, Mon. The number of people reported shot when police opened fire on rioters here last night rose from six to eight today. All are Coloureds, a hospital statement said. No one has been reported killed. Observers described yesterday's
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  • 118 7 JAKARTA, Mon. The independent Daily Nusantara suggested today that a member of the North Vietnamese embassy m Jakarta be declared Persona Non Grata for allegedly insulting the Indonesian armed forces. The attack on the North Vietnamese staffer, identified only as Thinh, followed reports
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  • 252 7 Malik: Invite Hanoi to Asean meeting JAKARTA, Mon. Foreign Minister Adam Malik proposed today that North Vietnam be invited to attend the Fourth Foreign Ministers Conference of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) m Manila which begins this week. In a pre-taped interview to be shown on Indonesian television
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  • 98 7 PARIS, Mon. An American peace group said today that Hanoi's chief negotiator Xuan Thuy told them he has had repeated private meetings U.S. Ambassador David Bruce In efforts to obtain a date for American withdrawal from Vietnam. Allan Brick, member of the group
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  • 79 7 Life's a walkover LIFE'S just a walk-over for this chap. He's Elzear Duquette and our local big- walkers have nothing on him. For ••-yearold Elzear has been walking since he was sacked from his job as a Montreal commercial artist 38 years ago. 'TRAMPING' And wherever he goes, Elzear takes
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  • 280 7 CHESS...by Herald Knight j SCHOOLGIRL Chee Lay Kirn is doing well m her first chess tournament, organised by the Singapore Chess Federation. After three rounds, she won two games and drew one. In the following game, Lay Kirn defeated her much younger opponent, schoolboy Reginald Lim,
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  • 76 7 BANGKOK, Mon. A terrorist camp m Pattalung Province m Southern Thailand believed to be the largest ever found there was saturated with bombs and rockets yesterday to allow ground forces to close m and capture it, officials reported here today. The camp, discovered
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  • 302 7 LONG BINH, Mon. Nearly a battalion of South Vietnamese troops have been wiped out at Snoul, a well informed source said today, while American military sources said heavy communist resistance has forced South Vietnamese to pull back from two other key positions.
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  • 280 8 WASHINGTON, Mon. The first negro director of General Motors said yesterday that the possibility of a black revolution m the United States depended on whether America helped him train a million workers m the next decade. There are 100,000 black Vietnam veterans coming
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  • 301 8 Mendoza is insane says psychiatrist MANILA, Mon. A psychiatrist testified today that Benjamin Mendoza, accused of trying to murder Pope Paul VI, is insane and cannot distinguish between right and wrong. Dr. Rodolfo Laserna was the second psychiatrist to appear for the defence to say the Bolivian painter suffered mental
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  • 73 8 It's a man, mad, world PARIS, Mon. Hippies staged a new kind of protest against the "consumer society 4 —by sacking a Left Bank boutique. They pushed the 29-year-old manager around the shop and told him: "We're against the consumer society. We're here to help ourselves/ As he stood by
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  • 313 8 ASIANS ATTACK RACE BILL LONDON, Mon. The British Government faces rising opposition against its Immigration Bill which comes up for a second reading today. More than 70 groups have already formed a "Standing Conference of Asian Organisations" to campaign against the Bill. Mr. Ghani Prem, of Birmingham, chairman of the
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  • 83 8 WAKEFIELD (England) Mon. Drug squad police arrested tl teenagers here yesterday m one of the biggest narcotics raids ever staged m Britain. Fifty police converged on the Metro Bistro discotheque m this Yorkshire county town of St,Mt as 15t youngsters danced into the
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  • 254 8 NEW DELHI, Mon. Thirteen people were killed and 32 injured m Calcutta and other districts of West Bengal m new outbreaks of pre-election violence during the last 24 hours, it was learned today. Unknown assailants killed two railways security personnel and seized four
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  • Article, Illustration
    489 8 Defence Minister hits out at Gorton: 'Your conduct was disloyal' CANBERRA, Mon. Prime Minister John Gorton's cabinet was tonight faced with a crisis that threatened the Government's future, following the resignation of Mr. Malcolm Fraser, the Defence Minister. Mr. Fraser accused the Prime Minister of "significant disloyalty" m
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  • 246 8 MELBOURNE, Mon. Melia Sancho of the Philippines has been crowned Queen of the Pacific m a beauty contest drawing entrants from 28 countr es. Her prize was a six-week tour of Asia, U554,450 and a trophy. A student of journalism at the University
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  • 288 8 Planes join hunt for airmen ANKARA, Mon. Reconnaisance planes and rugged jeep-type vehicles provided by the United States for opium control joined m the search for four kidnapped American airmen yesterday. But the gang of leftist extremists who seized the four radar technicians on Thursday continued to elude thousands of
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  • 192 8 Allende: 'Work extra hours without pay' SANTIAGO, Chile, Mon. President Salvador Allende says he will ask Chilean workers to stay at work three or four extra hours a week without pay to help overcome economic problems. The Marxist leader also announced that starting today he will head an action committee
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  • 148 8 ENUMCLAW, (Washington), Mon. A 16-year-old youth fired dozens of shots at vehicles on a highway yesterday before turning the gun on himself, the Washington State Patrol said. Three people were wounded and two others injured by flying glass before Sheriffs officers found the body of William
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  • BACKGROUND TO THE FOREIGN NEWS
    • 723 9  - Rescue from the enemy J.T. WOLKERS-TORFER From m QUANG TRI "IT feels great to be back, Capt. Ralph ("Butch") Elliott, 23, said Sunday describing how it was to be shot down over Laos and to spend from Thursday afternoon until Sunday among North Vietnamese ground troops. One of the six
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    • 1195 9 Strange road to friendship with China Peking hits at Sato and the Emperor AND tries to win over the Japanese public CHINA has embarked on a new and positive approach to Japan, apparently aimed at forging links with the Japanese moderate right and influencing the broad range of Press and
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    • 574 9  -  LISA WOHL By m NEW DELHI THOUSANDS of hippies are choosing India, one of the most tradition-conscious nations m the world, as the place to escape the social conventions of the West. No-one keeps statistics on how many hippies come to India, for
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  • 314 10 Don't make Britain's mistakes, warns education expert SINGAPORE shows signs of making British mistakes m its institutions of learning by underestimating its future undergraduate force a British educa tionalist said yesterday. Professor Colin Adamson, Director of Central London's Polytechnic is acting as adviser to Dr. Toh Chin Chye, Singapore University's
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  • 370 10 New system to classify films will mean fewer censor's cuts A SIMPLE system of film classification will be introduced by the Government m the near future. Announcing this m Parliament yesterday, Culture Minister Jek Yuen Thong said it would only act as a "useful complement to film censorship" and not
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  • 189 10 ALL unlicensed hawkers from roadsides and unauthorised places are to be moved into indoor accommodation and markets, Health Minister Chua Sian Chin said yesterday. He re-stated the Government's policy when replying to Kallang MP Abdul Aziz Karim during question time m
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  • 95 10 THE Upper Thomson Road Shopping Centre, being built by the Housing and Development Board, will be completed this year, Parliament was told yesterday. All the shopkeepers and hawkers affected by the widening of Upper Thomson Road will be given premises m the centre. Replying
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  • 211 10 $30,000 jewel raid on house in mourning THE Cuscaden Road home of Singapore's first High Commissioner to Malaysia, the late Mr. Ko Teck Kin, was broken into on Sunday night and more than $30,000 worth of antiques and jewellery were reported stolen. Police went to the late millionaire's mansion, adjacent
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  • 201 10 EXCITING BEAT OF VOODOO DRUMS AT THE BALLET SELDOM has a dance group had such an electrifying effect on a Singapore audience as the Felix Blaska Ballet. Performing to a packed house last night. Felix Blaska and his dance group jerked, glided and moved pulsatingly m strange acrobatic formations to
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 85 10 Pf BOAC-the all America airline! They fly to 11 American "v Cities!"^_^/ For some people there is only one airline. We fly to New York, Washington, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Miami. Stopping at London very briefly. Then we wing you across the Atlantic. Or you can travel via the Pacific
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  • THE SINGAPORE Herald Section II
    • 411 11 TOO COLD AIR CON LOWERS EFFICIENCY SOME Singapore firms are "freezing" their workers' productivity with too much air conditioning according to a lecturer m engineering science at the Polytechnic. Mr. Sze Yu Kok, who is doing a survey on the interior environment of Singapore factories
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    • 595 11 'DEATH LEAP WIFE WAS HAUNTED BY BLACK MAGIC TERROR' CORONER'S COURT TOLD JUST before she leaped to her death a wife accused her husband's mistress of torturing her with black magic. And m a suicide note addressed to police she asked them to protect her children from her husband and
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    • 178 11 EXPERT'S HELP SOUGHT IN $43,000 COPRA FRAUD CASE A HANDWRITING expert is being sought to help the police track down a man who took delivery of 1,150 bags of copra, valued at more than $43,000 from an Indonesian vessel Surya Kantjana last week with a forged shipping document. The copra
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    • 460 11 THE following candidates have passed the Second Professional Examination for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery m Bacteriology Parasitology and Pharmacology: Abdul Aziz bin Mohamed Nather, Miss Ang Swee Chai (with Distinction m Bacteriology Parasitology), Arthur Beng Kian Lam, Chan Peng Mun, Chander
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    • 363 11 Labourer sues Toto firm for $171,000 jackpot A LABOURER yesterday sued the Singapore Pools (Pte) Ltd., for $171,577 which ho claimed was the Toto jackpot he won m a special National Day draw m 1968. Ng Soo Yuen, of Margaret Drive, told the High Court that when he went to
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    • 33 11 CHOO Sik Chun of Kwong Cheong Thye Sauce Factory was fined $200 yesterday by a magistrates 1 court for having sold a chilli sauce containing an excessive amount of benzoic acid.
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    • 139 11 Hoots mon, Bill couldna' get a caber HIGHLAND laddie Bill Anderson was determined to have a fling when he came here. But today he left a disappointed man. For caber tosser Bill wanted to throw his weight around but couldn't find the right sort. Back home m Aberdeen, lft-stone Bill
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    • 93 11 Two get two years' jail for robbery LEE Keng Hong, 20, and Lim Geok Kee, 19, were each jailed for two years yesterday by a district court when they pleaded guilty to armed robbery on Jan. 12 m Lorong Ah Soo. The court was told that Lee and Lim held
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    • 44 11 THE Singapore University School of Postgraduate Mefli cal Studies will hold the Master of Medicine (Paediatrics) examination from Sept. 6,1971. Entry forms and further details are available from the Secretary, School of Postgraduate Medical Studies, Singapore University, Sepoy Lines, Singapore 3.
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  • 228 12 Probing their apathy to civic activities MOST of the 9,000 residents m the Jalan Kaki Bukit area are indifferent to the many activities organised by the Community Centre. This has prompted the Junior Chamber of Singapore and the management of the centre to embark on a unique scheme to help
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  • 376 12 Patterns that could hold key to cancer WHY are Chinese and Indian men m Singapore more prone to cancer than women, and why are the liver, digestive and respiratory tracts the most common sites for cancer among Singaporeans? These are questions which cancer epidemiologists could examine, Dr. Toh Chin Chye,
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  • 101 12 THE Extra-mural Studies Department is conducting a new course Design and construction of rigid and flexible earth retaining structures for practising engineers. Dr. S.D. Ramaswamy, a lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Singapore, will conduct the course, which will discuss topics ranging from
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  • 302 12 HOSPITAL FOR THE AGED SICK WHO ARE NOT WANTED BY THEIR FAMILIES A MINISTER'S visit meant a change m the daily routine of 66-year-old Cheong Hong Fatt, an exTuberculosis patient who has been at the Kwong Wai Slu Free Hospital for more than 10 years. Cheong posed for pictures with
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  • 212 12 Defamation case against Vetrivelu of United Front THE United National Front's secretarygeneral, Mr. R. Vetrivelu appeared m the First District Court yesterday on a private summons on five counts of defaming the CID Chief, Asst. Commissioner Ong Kian Tong. The allegations were carried m a Press statement issued by Mr.
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  • 101 12 MR. JUSTICE Choor Singh dismissed a $7,500 accident claim yesterday without calling the defendant, taxi driver Lee Cheng Eng, 46, to testify. Lee was said to have driven negligently m Tanglin Road on Dec. 1, 1969, causing bartender Lim Yu Lian to swerve and fall off
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 178 12 GRAND OPENING TODAYS SIMULTANEOUSLY AT ODEON IT ORCHARD 11 AM, 1 .30, 4.00, W 11 AM, 1 .30, 4.00, 7.00 9.30 PM SHOWS 7.00 9.15 PM L=CASH BOPKINGS ONLY NO FREE LIST ASIA'S TWO GIANT SWORDSMEN TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME CLASH IN THE MOST SPECTACULAR SWORD DUEL EVER! ZZBB,
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 22 12 DENNIS THE MENACE O O I /IL nnnnMrjLXXAAAIII iTinn^MMrnfi 1 x. *I GOT A RIOOLE FOR *WtWl6 QOTA 616 WOSE.SMOK6S yA.A'IR.IMISOHI' APIPEAN'YEUSAri.mi£Krosr
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    • 109 12 10 a.m. 8 p.m.: Display of German products at the Baharuddin Vocational Institute, Stirling Road. 7 p.m.: Night bazaars at Guillemard Road (between Lorong 18 Geylang and Tanjong Katong Road); Indus Road; Jalan Batu; Jalan Rumah Tinggi; Kirn Keat Avenue; Lavender Street (between Serangoon Road and Beatty Road); Opera Estate;
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    • 19 12 TODAY: 9.11 a.m. (8.9 ft.); 1t.53 p.m. (T. 7 ft.) TOMORROW 9.55 a.m. (8.6 ft.); n.12 p.m. (8.9 ft.)
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  • 417 13 SOUTH PACIFIC TEXTILE INDUSTRIES did well m the year ended S c p tember 1970, improving its profits by 25.28 per cent to $1,318,231 m the face of stiff competition. The profits represented a return of 18.83 per cent on the company's $7 million
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  • 279 13 SINGAPORE-MALAYSIA Merchant rates fixed yesterday by the Association of Banks m Malaysia-Singapore. HONGKONG (Rates m Hongkong dollars, for March 8). On New York TT 6.0175 On New York DD 6.***** Gold (99% fineness, per tael) 290.75 Note Rates: China (per 100 renminbi) 180.00 India (per 100 rupees)
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 115 13 DUNLOP ESTATES had its after-tax profits cut by 20.8 per cent m 1970 to 17,653,352 from 1969s profits of $9,665,985. Taxation absorbed 53. 8 million compared to $5.1 million previously while an unchanged $2 million was allocated to replanting reserves. No money was provided for general reserves which received
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    • 69 13 MALAYAN BANKING'S after-tax profits for the six months ended December 197 0 amounted to $925,000 13.5 per cent more than those for the same period m 1969. The directors expected the second half's profits to equal if not better those of the first six months. The bank will
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    • 103 13 LONDON, Fri. Dalgety Ltd. announced an interim of four per cent for the half-year to Dec. 31, (five per cent for -the year ago period). Profit, after tax, was £152,000 (£131,000). Group pre-tax profit was £635,000 (£1,881,000). Tax took £483,000 (£850,000). The Board said that m the light of
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    • 27 13 THE Government has earmarked $tt million as a further line of credit to the Development Bank of Singapore during the financial year lf7f-71. From yesterday's Budget.
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    • 36 13 WILKINSON PROCESS RUBBER will pay a final dividend of 25 per cent on March 25 to shareholders on the register on March 19. This makes an unchanged total of 35 per cent for 1970.
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    • 68 13 LONDON, Sun. Associated Portland Cement (Manufacturers) Australia announced a final dividend of six per cent for 1970, making a total of 1114 per cent for the year, (compared with a total of 11 per cent for 1969). Net profit totalled A52,207,205 (A51,944,187) after depreciation of A52,131,632 (Asl, 982,966) and
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  • 347 13 S'pore Takada, the plant manufacturer The Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) and a local businessman, Mr Kee Choo Chong, have set up a joint venture with Takada Industries, a Japanese plant construction company, to manufacture plant and equipment for the steel and other heavy industries. The new company, Singapore Takada
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  • 123 13 -QuoteFrom Finance Minister Hon Sui Sen's Budget Speech yesterday: WITH regard to the Stock Exchange, I need not repeat the reasons for the legislation now known as the Securities Industry Act 1970 and the related Companies (Amendment) Act 1970. Conditions m the Stock Market had led to such a loss
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  • 379 13  - Japanese declare unilateral export restraints TOKYO, Mon.-The Japanese textile industry today issued a declaration unilaterally restricting textile exports to the United States. The declaration was made by Toyosaburo Taniguchi, president of the Japan Textile Federation. But he made implementation of the Japanese agreement contingent on similar export restraints by other
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  • 591 13 The market closed steady yesterday. Business was minimal vith a lack of sellers underpinning prices. The UK postal workers' return to work and the pre-weckend Wall Street uptrend aided sentiment but the continuation of the Ford stoppage and uncertainty over the general economic situation induced caution. Toward
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  • 264 13 PEOPLE in business shriro (China) Limited announced that Mr ROBERT TODD, director and general manager for Singapore and Malaysia, will be leaving Singapore early next month to take up a new appointment with the Shriro Group. He will be based m London. Mr MALCOLM SHAW, presently assistant manager for Singapore
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  • 44 13 (Yesterday's closing prices, m U.S. dollars per ounce) Singapore (1) 40.30, (2) 151.50. Hongkong 40.16, Beirut Delayed; London 38.79, Zurich Delayed; Paris 39.13 Note: (1) Export price to non-sterling areas m U.S. dollars. (2) Local dealers' price m Singapore dollars per tael.
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  • 27 13 (Closing buyer/seller Prices for March 8, m sterling per metric ton). Tone: Steady: Spot 1458 1460; 3-month 1459 1460: Settlement 1459; Total turnover 675 tons.
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  • 63 13 Stock prices rose sharply yesterday m very active early trading that pushed the NYSE tape three minutes late briefly. Stanpoors industrial average gained six cents and advances led declines by two-to-one. IBM introduced a new low cost computer yesterday. IBM stock was little changed though off
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  • 198 13 WASHINGTON, Mon. Rumania is interested m joining foreign partners m their search for oil, an American Petroleum Institute report said. The report by a seven-man group from the U.S. petroleum industry, who visited Rumania last autumn, said: "Rumania apparently is interested m obtaining concessions abroad and
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  • 224 13 AMSTERDAM Internationals were narrowly mixed yesterday. Shippings, local industrials were also mixed, with Heineken firmer and Van Gelder weak. In banks, Algemene Bank Nederland was firmer. Investment funds gained some ground. Insurances were led lower by Amev. State loans firmed. PARIS Trading was very quiet yesterday and the
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 133 13 L/f ADVERTISEMENTS Personal (Marriages, Births, Engagements. Deaths, etc.) Minimum $4/ for 10 words, each additional word 40cts. All other classifications: Minimum $2/ for 10 words, each additional word 20cts. BOX SERVICE CHARGE $1.00 A LEADING LIFE INSURER needs officers tor rapid expansion Allowance plus Bonus plus Commission, etc. Applicant must
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    • 92 13 DIPLOMAS. CERTIFICATES. Testi monials. Bring these to Motion Smith 13 Battery Road and have permanent copies made while you wait. REDIFFUSION T.V. RENTALS. H.P. OR CASH We have a complete range ot models and prices at our SHOWROOMS 182 Clemenceau Avenue 233 People's Park Complex. Ist Fl. 149 Joo Chiat
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  • 458 14 fWITHaII the confusing trends and changes m fashion, it is hard to imagine a wardrobe that is not obsolete after one year, or a style that will be "good" until it wears out. But we predict one constant pants. The tops range
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  • Article, Illustration
    261 14 [GAB- ABOUT] A "Love is a feeling that overwhelms the person m love because it is pain, joy, passion and tenderness all rolled into one. To me, love is something which is demanding because It demands dedication of the heart and body." "To be m love is
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  • 303 14 ...or rather, we'll let the poets and philosophers say it for us this time and share with you some of our favourite lines about love. Janette Chan likes Socrates' definition: "Love is a serious mental disturbance." Jack Leong's quote is from Samuel Johnson. **A man who marries
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  • 587 14  - Bridge the age gap— give a little JACK LEONG By WHAT scares me most about the generation gap is that few parents are willing to admit it exists. I can recall the father whose 16-year-old son found every possible excuse to get out of his house. "He used to give
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  • TOP FORM
    • 685 14 A BOYFRIEND, observing a numbers of cats (females, he naturally assumed), m the throes of a "clawy" blow-up, grinned and chortled: "Just like the 'V' girls at Fort Canning." Trust the opposite sex to make exaggerated statements. But any thinking-being must admit that life at any
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  • 348 15  - A crowded oasis in a cultural desert A.K. LEE By IF Singapore is a cultural desert, the oasis is getting a little crowded this week. The Felix Blaska Ballet is m town, and so another theatrical event has become a non-happening. Dulcie Gray and Michael Denison (right), the British actor
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  • 211 15 CONNERY TO PLAY 007 IN 'DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER' NEW YORK: Scan Connery, the original James Bond, lan Fleming's British secret agent who is licensed to kill, has been signed up for Diamonds Are Forever and will play the part he has made world famous. Producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R.
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 867 15 RADIO lIIIIIIIM MIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Jo L^B^oJNSLKKI^MCj 3.00 General Hospital 10.45 a.m. Opening And Pro--3.20 For The Family (Malay) gramme Summary 3.55 A Diary Of Events In Singa- 10.47 Special Programme (explain pore This Week (Malay) ing how the fight between Joe Fra--4.00 It's Happening In Singapore zier and Mohd. All
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    • 558 15 Star 1 view I ONE wonders how many 2 TV sets will be turned on 2 this morning and how 2 many pairs of eyes will be 2 glued to the tiny screen, 2 watching the two giants 2 Mohammed Ali and Joe 21 Frazier fight for the world 2
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    • 460 15 Be on the alert to You ma y often be on jump into the breach at the rather conservative a moment's notice slde but this da y brin s 2 when a golden "P some unusually opportunity arises to do progressive ideas for yourself a good turn; y° u io
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  • ECCONOMIC AFFAIRS
    • 260 16 BANGKOK, Mon. The 1970s will be a decade of "great opportunities" for investment m Thailand despite domestic and international economic and social challenges, Premier Thanom Kittikachorn said. The Government would further accelerate the rate of economic growth while maintaining political stability,
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    • 70 16 TAIPEI, Mon. The eighth world Chinese traders' conference will be held m Los Angeles from May 17 to 24 to help promote sales of Taiwan products. The Government Information Office said over 350 Chinese businessmen from some 30 countries are expected to attend the conference which will take place for
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  • 1470 16 STOCK EXCHANGE OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE FRASERS INDUSTRIAL INDICES KEY Closing buyers' and sellers' prices are followed by the business done. Figures, m bracket* denote traded lots m I.OOO's. When the price is not followed by a figure m brackets, it means only a single lot of
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  • 80 16 (Managers' prices for March 9) B. S. ASIA UNIT TRUSTS I HONGKONG UNIT TRUSTS (In Hongkong dollars) Fint Hongkong 2.42 2.50 Second Hongkong 1.65 1.72 Mai. Invt. Fund 1.30 1.35 Mai. Progress Fund 1.07 1.12 CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS Singapore Growth Fund 1.00 1.14 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS Third Singapore
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  • RUBBER/TIN/COCONUT/PEPPER
    • 226 16 RUBBER M.7S cents per kilo (down t.25 cent). After an extremely slow start yesterday, first business traded was m March IRSS at 96.50 cents per picul, 0.50 cent lower than Friday's closing level. The market continued to be very thin and featureless with turnover small as prices edged
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    • 70 16 (Yesterday's official buyer /seller prices, m new pence per kilo). Tone: Neglected; ClF's March 14.4 nominal buyer 14.6 nominal seUer, April 14.7 nominal buyer 14.9 seller; Spot 15.2 15.4; Settlements April 15.4 15.6, .ay 15.6 15.8, June 15.8 16.0, April/June 15.6 15.8. July /Sept. 16.4 16.6, Oct/Dec. 16.9
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    • 125 16 TIN $632.82^ a picnl (up $2.5«) The Straits tin price continued on its uptrend yesterday and gained $2.50 to $632.62^ a picul on an official offering of 255 tons, up 59 tons on Saturday's turnover. With moderate support received from the United States, Japan and Europe, the market
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    • 146 16 (Yesterday's 1.30 p.m. prices, m sterling per long ton, inless otherwise stated). COPRA (U.S. dollars per long ton): Philippine /Indonesian April ami May 214 both resellers. COCONUT OIL: Straits March/April 140 seller; Malayan March/April 160 seller, Philippine (U.S. dollars per long ton) March/April 300 seller; Ceylon March/April 165
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    • 243 16 THE PORT OF SINGAPORE AUTHORITY HAS MADE THESE BERTHING ARRANGE.MENTS FOR MARCH, 9. OUT: Jastarina Bor 1/2; Maron 8/9; Let Margo 19; Yamatomi Maru 23/24; Mulungushi 25/26; Jens Maersk 29/30; Centaur 33/34. IN: Holstenstein (after Galini) 44; Oranienburg (after Colombo Maru) 47; Thomas Maersk (after Jaladhir) 46;
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  • 169 16 LONDON, Mon. Grain shippers fixed a cargo from the U.S. gulf v South Korea at US$lO Id (free discharge) for April and paid £74,425 for 23,000 tons from Lakehead and St. Lawrence to Avonmouth for first open water/May. A cargo of soyabean meal was covered from the
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  • 377 16 Prices held steady throughout yesterday and trading was fairly active but the turnover was only 200 million units for the day. The stock average gained 14.35 yen to close at 2,273.38. Buying support was noted m insurances, housing related issues, constructions and real estates. Among major gainers
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  • 615 16 Leading uranium stocks Queensland Mines and (Catherine Investment continued their strong, progress and all sections of the market closed firm yesterday. Queensland Mines finished 52.30 up at 524.50 and Kathleen Investments gained 10 cents at Si 0.50. Poseidon closed up £1.50 at t38.50 and Samin rose 50
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  • 257 16 The market was well maintained m featureless trading yesterday. Banks local put on Si to S l6l but the London register remained unchanged at Si 43. In the industrial section, Jar dines at 53 1.75 and Wheelock at $13.90 were fractionally lower. Hutchison-Boag remained unchanged at $6.40.
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  • SHIPPING GAZETTE
    • 758 17 Including ALL ships bound for the Americas, e.g. Coast ports of North, Central or South America ships sailing east out of Singapore to Pacific and through the Panama Canal to the Gulf ports, etc AGENTS and TELEPHONE NUMBERS APL American President Lines ***** AUS Austasia Una ***** BEN Ben
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    • 688 17 II borberQfeg SAILINGS TO E. CANADA, L.S. ATLANTIC Singipo.. P.l'hi" Panang N.Torh Bo. ton N'F«tk B'mof* M«ntr«al SUNNTVILLE G. 2//28 In Apr 19 Apj 24 FERNLAND Mar 16 Mj'.. ij Mdr Mjv Jay v May* TARANTEL Mar 18/20 Mar«rj/^4 May 4 May May 2* May i BRONXVILLE Apr 2/4 May
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  • 437 18 Including ships sailing out of Singapore for Far East ports to the north-east. ANNA BAKKE Mar 11/13 P. S'ham. Penang. Hongkong, Japan, Vancouver. KNUT/SB ANNA TAYLOR In Pt/Mar 10 Quinhon. Danang, Cam Ranh Bay. SSV/BA BARBER MANGAN Mar 18/20 Vancouver B.C. (Apr 12), Seattle (Apr 11), Tacoma (Apr 20).
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  • 268 18 Including snips calling at Malaysian and Indonesian ports. AUBY In Pt/Mar 10 B.S. Begawan. SSC/SSC BLIGO in Pt/Mar 10 Djakarta PL/Pl CHERRY BAGUS In Pt/Mar 13 Kuching. LS/LS CHERRY LAJU in Pt/Mar 12 Djajapura, Biak. LS/LS DARPO EMPAT Mar 18/20 Pekan Baru/Dumai. SI/SI DARPO LIMA Mar 16/18 Pangkal Balam.
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  • 186 18 Mainly ships bound for Australia and New Zealand. AUSTRALASIA Mar 11/13 P. S'ham (Mar 14), Singapore (Mar 15), Fremantle (Mar 22). AUS/AUS AUSTRALASIA Apr 1/3 P. S'ham (Apr 4), Singapore (Apr 5), Fremantle (Apr 12). AUS/AUS BRORIVER Apr30/May2 Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney. SSL/TC BROWIND Mar 26/28 Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney. SSL/TC
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 491 18 *$T MALAYSIAN INTERNATIONAL Jj fe SHIPPING CORPORATION BERHAD No 101 Jin XmpuiL' Kuala I umpur H rhe National Shipping Line of Malaysia FAR EAST/EUROPE SERVICE P-r*«« NM«I ArrIVMK BUNGA RAT A 2&/2« Mar Api 2/ J Apr Havr« Lodnon 30/4 Hamburg 6/ b R'dam 8/5 Antwerp 10/ b Bremen Jj
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  • RACING HERALD
    • 542 19 JASBO, A CLASSIC PROSPECT JASBO is a classic prospect m the making. The five-year-old New Zealand gelding by Red Jester put up a tip-top performance when he whipped the fancied Royal Mark over lOf at lpoh on Sunday. He returned the smart time of 2 mins. 5-4/5 sees, which was
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    • 44 19 LONDON, Moil- A French horse owner, Daniel W ilde nstein, has offered £200,000 for a two -year -old English horse that its owner bought for £3,000 last year, it was learned here. The horse, Levanter, is fancied to win this year's. Epsom Derby AFP
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    • 57 19 MANILA, Mon. The Sultan of Pahang's Royal Polo team lost the first of three matches here yesterday. The Manila Polo Club defeated the Malaysians, 12-3. Tengku Mahkota, who scored two goals, gave his team its first goal early m the fourth chukker. Ali Ismail scored Pahang's third goal. The second
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    • Article, Illustration
      1084 19 RACE weights for this weekend Singapore Derby meeting at Bukit Tim ah. SATURDAY Cl. I— Div. 2— lM Eurodollar 9.00 Forest Jim 8.13 Sir Knight 8.13 Special Steel 8.12 Jaldast 8.10 East Coast Ocean 8.09 Kachang Kuda 8.09 VJ.P. II 8.07 Forget-Me-Not 111 8.07 Moonbeam 8.06 Joint Command
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    • 639 19 THE STIPENDIARY Steward's reports for the weekend races at Ipoh. SATURDAY RACE ONE: A furlong from the start, Racon Lady (Podmore) lost some ground when the mare bumped Coup De Main (Miller) and shifted onto the heels of Zanzibar II (Shaari). RACE TWO: About the 5 furlong,
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 367 19 TWINSET CROSSWORD 19 W/M JHf ■HHHH ACROSS DOWN 4. Value of a horse perhaps? (6) 1. Room where the brushes 8. Proposition mainly attri- belong (6) butable to mother (7) 2. Great shaft of light perhaps! 10. Not a convincing way of (4) seeing eye-to-eye with someone 3. Female member
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  • 677 20 I'LL BEAT ALI INSIDE 10 ROUNDS FRAZIER NEW YORK, Mon. "He's a loud-mouth, he's a nut, he appeals to fools I will beat him inside of ten rounds," says Joe Frazier. "He's just a home-made champion, an amateur, ugly and awkward It will be no contest, I will win," boasts
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  • 109 20 THE Minister for Law and National Development, Mr. E.W. Barker, who is also President of the Singapore National Sports Council, relinquished his post as President of the Singapore Hockey Association at its annual general meeting at the Singapore Cricket Club yesterday. His successor is Mr.
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  • 371 20 A FINE performance m goal by Lee Keng Seong failed to save the match for Vosper Thorny croft against Fraser, and Neave m the Singapore Business Houses Football League and Cup Division 3A match at Farrer Park yesterday. Fraser and Neave won 2-0. Guthrie
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  • 213 20 Hilton off to a good start HILTON Hotel made an impressive start m the Singapore Business Houses Division 3B League and Cup tournament when they defeated Singapore Tobacco Company 3-1 at Geylang Stadium yesterday. A wild chase for goals marked the start of the game. Hilton missed several sitters but
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  • 42 20 Jimmy Stewart, the winner of the amateur title m the Singapore Open on Sunday with his trophy. His score of 283 was 18 strokes m front of his nearest rivals Hassan AH and Bobby Lim of Malaysia.
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  • 64 20 SINGAPORE Cricket Club trounced Ceylon Sports Club 5-0 m the Singapore Women's Hockey Association league match on the Padang yesterday. SCC led 1-0 at half time through Sharma. The other goals came from Jean Langlois (2) Dot Pragnel and Indra Huxtable. YUSOF Kadir's goals gave Singapore Recreation Club
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  • 216 20 NATIONAL Junior College beat American School 3-0 and Hai Sing Girls' High defeated Chung Cheng High also by the same margin on the opening day of the national volleyball championships for secondary schools yesterday. The championships are being held at the Chinese High and Dunearn High
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  • 422 20 PORT OF SPAIN, Mon. India led the West Indies for the second time m succession when they finished at 247 for four m reply to the West Indies total of 214 at the close of the second day's play of their Second
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  • 274 20 England only 86 runs ahead AUCKLAND, Mon.-With two leading batsmen— Colin Cowdrey and Basil D'Oliveira— injured, England were only 86 runs ahead with six second innings intact by the end of the thrill-packed third day of a Second Test against New Zealand here on Sunday. Led by a brilliant century
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  • 48 20 MADRID, Mon. Results m yesterday's 24th round of the Spanish major league soccer championship: Barcelona 5 Sevilla 2; Malaga 1 Granada 0; Zaragoza 2 Espanol of Barcelona 2. Celta of Vigo 3 Elche 0; Atlefico De Bilbao 0 Real Madrid 1; Atletico De Madrid 3 Valencia 0. AP
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 34 20 DAVY JONES By Sam Leff •V^fe^^ pScOVERV wL.-< /^s£r~~ —^L "^1 l^sl!^ YE T QUIT BLISS WORKING AROUND /Mt ßE'' 1^ [C 1970 b t Umi«)» fntot sT«*<.|..5 T «*<.|.. I M v» ->^\ **9L9\ «.v\V*l
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