The Straits Times, 19 December 1955

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  • 12 1 The Straits Times. Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1955 15 CENTS
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  • 345 1 telephone Board and police on 24-hour alert to protect lines Mystery of cut wires I RING THEFT IN DA YLIGHT q| K a 24-hour police jjuard against sabo--0 overhead telephone wires were myscut and stolen near a residential area i ihi re yesterday. wires In Malcolm
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  • 91 1 Marshall: Talks, talks all the day LONDON. Sun. •RES Chief Mr. David now In the his Britain, had with Sir I E Vlllr. ral of the Ith Parlia-I tion. I talks wit h Mr Gordon Walker, Common- na Secretary. an evening Mi Marshall's W. friend will call at the :norrow
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  • 20 1 Bun The I ilnei lias decided 1 al law imposed in in Ankara and tlal law remains
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  • 32 1 NEW YORK. Sun— Mr. P. G. Wodehouse. the British author became an American citizen yesterday. Now 74 Mr Wodehouse has been living in the. United I since 1947.- Reuter
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  • 80 1 BOYS from the Suiißei Besi Boys' Home show their paces in the "hunters' dance" at the fllllmj t uih. Kuala Lumpur, where they were given a treat by men of the 22nd. Special Air Service Regiment yesterday. Children from the Purr Life Society's Home and the
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  • 171 1 Margaret makes them gasp LONDON. Sun. PRINCESS MARGARET, who is wellphiced on nearly every list of best dressed women, stunned style •<perts today with a 'jni'j costume which, they say, violates the rules of fashion. •She shocks the tashion world," said a front-page headline in the Sunday paper. The People.
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  • 25 1 LONDON. Sun. Air tickets to Russian cities win be on sale for the first time tomorrow in British European Airways booking offices. Reuter.
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  • 239 1 TROUBLE FEARED: THEN ALL QUIET KLANG. Sunday. OOLICE RIOT SQUADS rushed to the Funt; Keong rubber factory here this afternoon to prevent a feared clash between strikers and workers the management had called in to remove machinery from the factory. Fear of trouble arose about
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  • 101 1 WHEN THE WRONG WENT LONDON, Sun. ONE of the most astonishing "freak" goals ever seen in a big football match marked the ArsenalBlackpool First Division game at Highbury yesterday. Arsenal were leading 4-0 when, a few seconds before full time, someone in the 45.000 crowd blew a long blast on
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  • 19 1 LONDON, Sun. Film star Diana Dors has passed her driving test after trying for seven years. Reuter.
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  • 103 1 NOW HE IS REALLY MARRIED RENO, Nevada, Sun— Alford Fine, the lumberjack who "married" Mrs. Una Schmidt not knowing that her airman husband was still alive in a Chinese prison, married 18-year-old Irene Asher yesterday. Mrs. Schmidt. 20. was reunited with her husband Daniel after long uncertainty when he was
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  • 103 1 niilli l yesterday drew a L security "blanket" over the arrest un Saturday of two Chinese students under Singapore's Public Security Bill. Mr. A. E. G. Blades, Director of the Special Branch, said there was a possibility of court charges but he was unable
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  • 33 1 WASHINGTON, Sun.— The White House and the U.S. High Command sent Christmas greetings and hope for continued peace today to America's soldiers, sailors and airmen stationed round the world.— A. P.
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  • 36 1 JERANTUT. Sun.— A shopkeeper, Lim Mong, 46. is to stand trial in the High Court at Raub on a charge of murdering one of his shop assistants. Yong Yoke Fah. 40, on Oct. 17.
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  • 26 1 WASHINGTON, Sun.-Bri-tain and the United States have offered to help Egypt build the U551, 300.000,000 Aswan dam, the State Department announced today. Reuter.
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  • 29 1 PHILADELPHIA. Sun. The use of luminescent thread in childrens clothing to make them easily visible at night Is being tested hei-e as a new road safety measure.—Reuter.
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  • 195 1 THIS has been Singa-; pore's blackest year of Industrial unrest. A I record 271 strlkea occurred up to the end! of November. They involved more than 57.000 workers and 800.000 man-days were lost six times as many as in 1954. Fin- ancial losses ran into
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  • 209 1 'Reports that all is settled are just humbug', says Rahman Xl ALA Ll'MPl'R. Sunday. T<HE Federation Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, is still waiting for a letter from Chin Peng, the terrorist leader, to confirm a dale and venue for their "peace talks." The Malayan Communist
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  • 180 1 RUBBER: U.S. sets new record NEW YORK. Sun. RUBBER consumption in the United States, up by more than one-fifth since 1954. will have reached a record annual total of 1.500.000 tons by the end of this year, it was announced here today. In addition an estimated 312.000 tons of reclaimed
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  • 182 1 Penang races 'as usual' PENANG. Sun. THE Penane; Turf Club, in a one-line communique, today announced that its Christmas and New Year meeting would bo held "£s scheduled." This means then will be racing on three days Dec. 24. 28 and 31. There has been no development in the reported
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  • 50 1 THIS LITTLE PIG GOT. HIC! DIJON, Sun. A little pis who escaped while on the way to market yesterday was later 'ound drunk beneath a barr'.l of brandy at Santenay- I les-Bains near here. Before that it had been seen sipping wine from a drlppllg barrel in a cellar. Reuter.
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  • 37 1 <\NTr rv Dl Mil AMMAN. Jordan. Sun <>nr men was killed and i -i tv ill-, rif moT-fr.il' <l here Udaj against British proI H> 'I hoiilrl join Righdad r.ict for Middle r ■<■ r. nre.
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  • 60 2 OTTAWA. Sun. Four people a mother and three of her five children died yesterday in a tire which swept a two-story frame dwelling here. Month-old twins, the only •urvivors. were taken to the Ottawa civic hospital in a critical condition. Those who died were Mrs. Florence
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  • 64 2 KOH ENG KHENG and Dr. Irene Lim Tean Kiaw (above) laughed happily as they were showered with confetti and confrratulations by friends after their wedding in Sin»ipore on Saturday. The bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A 1. F. Lim and the bridegroom is
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  • 65 2 About 1.000 people attended the Menorah Club's nrst garden fete in Bencoolen Street, Sir.eapore-. yesterday afternoon. 1 ii> programme featured a variety of games and a shooting gallery. Food and refreshments were served. Proceeds will go to the club fund. The club, formed a year ago. h.is
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  • 305 2 ALLOWED GAG MOTION -BUT HE WON'T BE GAGGED HIMSELF DEFIES PARTY CHIEFS' 'RESIGN' DEMAND JOHORK KAHRI Sunday. 'THE Mentri Besar of Johore, Dato Wan Idris, will ignore a demand for his resignation made by the Johore United Malay National Movement. The Movement, which aims
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  • 123 2 A three-in-one show for Xmas A THREE-IN-ONE show 'Dancing Waters." the Cesar Valesco Latin American band, and the Wong Bong Foo troupe of Chinese acrobats will open at the Happy World Stadium on Friday. "Dancing Waters," direct from New York's Radio City, has been seen by three million people in
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  • 54 2 A Danish psychologist who helped to select prospective Danish Air Force pilots will i arrive in Singapore soon to devise tests for selecting students to secondary schools in the Federation. Mr. Kaj Spelling's visit is sponsored under the technical assistance programme of the United Nations Educational. Scientific
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  • 59 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. 'THE Federation's former Attorney-General, Mr. x Michael J. Hogan, is to attend the talks on the constitution of the Federation in London next month. Mr. Hogan, who is now Chief Justice of Hong Kong, will be an adviser at the talks between the
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  • 116 2 Dearer now to be in the swim Higher wages the cause CLUB FEES GO UP ]l/fEMBERS of the i 1 Singapore Chinese Swimming Club will nave to pay higher subscriptions from Jan. 1. The present fees, unchanged from pre-war, are $2 a month for men and $1 for women and
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  • 26 2 COPENHAGEN, Sun.— The 500-ton ship Elln S. is missing in the Atlantic oft* the south coast of Greenland, it was announced yesterday.— A P
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  • 24 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Mr. M. L. Webber has returnei from leave in Britain and resumed duties as Johore State Forest Officer.
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  • 157 2 IN PORT— BUT NO SPORT 'We're broke' say U.S. .sa/fo* happy crews. They were disappointed. Most of the men were broke. They had spent their money on Christmas presents before they arrived. Many sailors from the destroyers John R. Craig and Floyd B. Parks and the submarine Oreenfish— were content
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  • 66 2 Community centre to protest JHE Serar, Communit> hold a meetln day, to ctTsc annual val the ertat< Board. The meeting wil the Upper S munity Hall al Rood at 8 The Member i Assemblym. Choon Moni the meeting. M president or thi preside. Meanwhile. understands tl I of owner n
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  • 723 2 The names of prizewinners in the Malayan Monthly's $20,000 Must- Be-YVon Word Puzzle "Q" were announced in the Sunday Times, yesterday. Here are observations on what the judges thought were the most apt and accurate answers to some of the more difficult clues.
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  • 211 3 P^SI^N_WONj^BE^TAKEN IN BY THE 'STUNTS' OF TJIEJHJSCHIEF^ MARSHAL TACTICS IN INDIA REPEATED AGAIN i- \K.\CHI. Sun. The Jv i oreißii Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Hamidul Hague (howdhury, said 1( ro last nißht that Mars l,ii Nikolai Bulganin's .Lup|H>rt for Pushtunist.ui reported from Kabul today,
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  • 254 3 Macmillan: Red leaders are godless 'If Communism loses out...* j What* Britain must do LONDON, Sun. COVIET leaders Marshal Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev are "godless and deliberately starve their people of religion." The charge was made in LONDON last night by the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Harold Macmillan. He said in
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  • 45 3 TEHERAN, Sun.— Admiral Arthur Radford. chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has arrived here on a three-day official visit to inspect U.S. and Allied military installations and to discuss with Iranian officials increased U.S. military aid to Iran. —A. P.
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  • 35 3 PARIS. Sun. Mr. John Foster Dulles, the American Secretary of State, left Evreux military air field by air yesterday for Washington after attending the two-day 15-nation Atlantic Pact Council meetings in Paris. Reuter.
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  • 43 3 NEW DELHI. Sun—lndonesia plans to introduce the Indian pattern of community development next August. A 15-man Indonesian delegation, which arrived In Bombay on Dec. 4. is now making an on-the-spot study of the various community centres In India.— UJ.
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  • 140 3 Cousin of Queen suicide LONDON. Sun. A CORONERs jury at Castleblaney. Ireland, decided yesterday that 35--year-old John Michael Blair, cousin by marriage of the Queen, committed suicide. Blair, second husband of the Queen's cousin. Lady Nacy Blair, was found shot dead in bed on Friday while a guest at Lough
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  • 47 3 FT. LOUIS, Missouri, Sun. j Wanda Jennings, "M America" of 1954, filed r divorce yesterday < charging general indignities. I The 29-year-old housewife said that her husband refused to accompany her to any public function or public place unless she paid the bill.— U.P.
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  • 143 3 FRENCH BORN American airman, John D. Jones. who lost his memory at the ace of nine and then recovered it at the sight of hb. parents last September. He lost his memory in 1944 when he was knocked unconscious by incendiary bombs dropped on
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  • 45 3 CHICAGO. Sun. Robert Hart knew something was amiss when he awoke nearly frozen in his apartment. He went downstairs to investigate. During the night, he learned, someone had broken in and stolen the oil burning unit from the furnace. A.P.
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  • 22 3 VATICAN CITY, Sun. The Vatican announced yesterday that it had officially recognised the Republic of South Vietnam— Reuter.
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  • 128 3 LONDON, Sunday. ATOP wartime scientist claimed yesterday he had invented "the last word in engine design" a friction-free motor engine that will do 200,000 miles without overhaul. George Bradshaw. 67, a millionaire inventor and chief scientist at the Admiralty during the
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  • 88 3 TUNIS. Sun. Tunisian police had made 42 arrests since Friday night in a sweep on a terrorist organisation, a joint communique issued by the Tunisian Government and the French High Commissioner's office said last night. j They also seized many documents and arms. Investigations are continuing.
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  • 66 3 HONG KONG, Sun. j Eight people were burned to death and three injured yesterday afternoon when a flash fire swept through a crowded tenement in ShauJtlwan. Five of the dead were children and the remainder women. The Injured, a father and his two children, were sent
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  • 270 3 Ike's future rests in lap of gods, says heart expert GETTYSBURG, Sun. rE world's leading heart specialist. Dr. Paul Dudley White, of Boston, yesterday examined President Eisenhower and said the President's future rested in the lap of the gods. The Boston specialist was called in as a consultant soon after
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  • 226 3 NICOSIA, Sunday. DRITISH troops and police fired tear gas into the funeral procession of Archbishop Makarios' terrorist cousin yesterday afternoon and the angered crowd of thousands answered with a barrage of stones. i Greek Orthodox priests, Cypriot women and boys ran crying
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  • 143 3 From Page One country wear, and neither Is the right thing for a race meeting. You can't mix suede shoes and a suede handbag with p.gskln gloves.' 1 Said No. 2: "The coat la too short for an ordinary coat and not short enough for a short
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  • 173 4 MR. JUMABHOY REPLIES TO HIS CRITICS ON CITY COUNCIL SINGAPORE'S Assis tant Minister for Commerce, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, who is also a City Councillor, yesterday called his council colleagues "silly" and "childish"for accusing him of concentrating on Government work and neglecting council duties. Mr. Jumabhoy, who has
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  • 227 4 WOMEN FOR APPEAL BOARD? NO, THEY'RE TOO SENTIMENTAL 'A PUBLIC COURT— AND WE MUST BE RULED BY THE HEAD NOT THE HEART SINGAPORE'S Chief Kathi Is against the idea of Muslim women sitting on the Marriage Appeal Board because they are "too sentimental." The Appeal Board
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  • 161 4 Proud men of Penang who did their duty PENANG, Sun. rM)KMER members of r "D" C hinesej t ompany. 3rd Bn., Straits Settlements Volunteer Force. who helped to keep law and order when Penang was an "open town" 14 years ago, held a reunion dinner last night. "We have never
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  • 22 4 A middle-agea Chinese I living in Fraser Street Singapore, was taken to hospital yesterday critically ill from suspected caustic soda poisoning.
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  • 207 4 v Mess expected j too much A strike is in the offing PORT DICKSON Sun. A COOK who has a let- ter of congratulation from Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, the former High Commissioner, has been sacked by an officers' mess at Port Dickson. And as
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  • 79 4 The 1956 Written Examination of the Associated Beard of the Royal Schools of Music, London, will be conducted in Singapore on March 10 next year, it was announced by the Ministry of Education yesterday. Schools and teachers of music are reminded to state the approximate number
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  • 54 4 New officials of the KatonE Presbyterian Youth Fellowship are: President. Mr. Kok Siew Hoon: secretary, Mr. < Lim Khuat Siong; assistant j secretary, Mr. Chen Hui Jen; I registrar-treasurer. Miss Gah Poh Kirn; auditor. Mr Felix Lee: committee. Miss Mary Chee, Messrs. Chew Seong Cheng. Seah Soo
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  • 223 4 SELANGOR LABOUR PARTY SAYS: D.O.s POWERS ARE TOO DRASTIC KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. T*HE Selangor division of the Malayan Labour Party may protest to the Alliance Government against the powers of District Officers in Selangor to seize property of new villagers who have failed to pay iheir
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  • 39 4 Twenty eight Chinese pleaded not guilty In a Singapore court on Saturday to gambling in a house in West Hill Road on Friday. They were oaoh allowed ball of $100. The case was adjourned to Dec. 24.
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  • 129 4 MALACCA, Sunday. INCHE AHMAD BOESTAMAM, ex-detainee leader 1 of the new Party Raayat, today told the local branch of the Pan-Malayan Ex-Servicemen's Association that they should not let their political leanings influence the association. Boestamam, who is the adviser of the Ex-Servicemen's Association, was speaking at the
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  • 67 4 KOTA BHARU, Sun.—Kelantan Malay teachers have put aside $1,000 from the profits of the State Teachers' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society to start a fund for the education of their children. At a meeting yesterday members were told that the society's assets now stood at nearly $400,000.
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  • 40 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— A patrol of th e Ist. Bn., Royal Hampshire Regiment, fired on five terrorists in the Rawang aiea of Selangor on Thursday. The terrorists fled. A small quantity of food and clothing was recovered.
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  • 45 5 Mr. Khoo Teng Eng, Singapore amateur magician, gave shows at the Church of St. Peter and St Paul Queen Street, and at the Qantas Empire Airways Christmas parties yesterday. Mr. Khoo will give another show at the Trafalgar Home tomorrow
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  • 27 5 As Chief Scout of Singapore, the Governor, Sir Robert Black, will present Queen's Scout certificates at Sands House. Armenian Street, at 6 p.m. on Friday
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  • 27 5 The Chief Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode, and Mrs. Goode are expected baci in Singapore on Wednesday after a holiday in South Africa.
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  • 292 5 TRADE BRISK— SO MORE FOR TAX MEN UP go profits, UP go wages— and UP goes revenue $65 m. yield next year INCREASED trade profits should give Singapore $65,000,000 income tax revenue in 1956. Announcing this yesterday, the Comptroller of Income Tax, Mr. D. H. Tudor, .said this year's tax
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  • 322 5 City traffic plan gets poor reception A.A. chief's three ideas THE proposals of the 1 Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, for easing Singapore's traffic problems are "ridiculous, fantastic and impossible," Colony roadusers said yesterday. Mr. Thomas has asked the City Council to ban cars from the city
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  • 43 5 FOUR-TIERED CAKE FOR A HAPPY COUPLE Mi: ROBERT PNG POH SENG helps his bride, the for mer Miss Chan Mvi Iliartß. to cut the cakr after their wedding in Singapore on Saturday. A reception was held at the Singapore Hotel. Straits Times picture.
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  • 121 5 Fishermen won't co-operate in Govt. marketing plan KOTA BHARU, Sunday. THE Sultan of Kelantan told a State Council meeting here yesterday that fishermen had failed to co-operate with the State Government's new nsh marketing scheme. One depot opened at Bachok this year, he said, had handled only
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  • 35 5 Officials of the Katong Presbyterian Youth Fellowship for next year are: President. Mr. Kok Slew Hoon; secretary, Mr. Lim Khuat Siong: assistant secretary. Mr. Chen Hui Jen and re-gistrar-treasurer, Miss Goh Poh Kirn.
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  • 19 5 About 600 people attended the opening of a branch of the Peoples Action Party at Sembawang yesterday.
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  • 22 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. There were 73 traffic accidents in Kuala Lumpur last week, four of them fatal and one serious.
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  • 15 5 About 60 boys from Boys' Town were taken for a Christmas picnic yesterday.
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  • 68 6 10 Hnrrfj $10 (minimum). SYMONS. ARTHUR NORMAN peacefully at Seremban General Hospital. 18th December, 1355. MRS. LENA G. TIPALDOS, age •6 passed away peacefully at her residence No. 50L 3rd Floor Armer.ian Street after a very long illness patience borne. Relatives and family In Nederland and Djakarta Funeral will
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  • 127 6 M w. ■<(. Sin (minimum) MR AND MRS. WOON ENO CHWEE thank relatives and friends for attendance at their »i(ldin(! and the many valuable presents MR. MRS- HENRY UM KIAN TECK thank friends and relatives for their kind attendance and i present! on the occasion o: heir Marriage on
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  • 753 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon. Dec. 19, 1955. Welcome Change Among the several changes 1 of heart which Singapore's Chief Minister has had, none was more welcome than the dropping of his desire to place the Civil Service under his own control. Whether it was the Secretary of State, who
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  • 417 6 The first batch of 270 pupil* for Singapore's secondary technical schools which open in February will be chosen soon. They will be selected from the 2,000 boys and girls who are expected to enter secondary schools next year It is not clear yet how the choice will
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  • 760 6 IF "I told you so" were j not the most unreS warding sentence in the language, one 5 would feel very tem- pted to say to Mr. Marshall: "I told you so." The day he left for London i wrote an article listing
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  • 1428 6 Nasser purchased Czech arms because the United Nations refused to face up to the Palestine problem, says J. B. SLADE-WALKER DELATIONS between the West and the Middle East have reached a climax. For nearly seven years we have put the problem
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    • 139 6 Responsible sta temen ts TWO months ago the Resldent Commissioner, Penang, announced the intended transfer of the P.W. South District Headquarters from its present site at Nibong Tebal to Sungei Bakap, and acquired land for that purpose. Now after adverse public opinion from the residents of Nibong Tebal he Informs
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  • 113 7 LEE SACKED AS HEAD OF M.C.A. IN SELANGOR K. LUMPUR, Sun. q deration Minister ansport, Col. h. was today ousted the presidency of ingor branch of an Chinese atlon which he held for seven it even nominated >. orking committee meeting of the ber general comiter for Posts and munications,
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  • 16 7 LUMPUR. Sun. to either the or the security re reported in the ion today.
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  • 79 7 IPOH, San.— All school teachers who do not try to break down communal barriers are doing Malaya a disservice, the British Adviser Mr. I. \V Rlelloch. said in Ipob yesterday evenine. Mr. 111, -llm h was addrrsNing the Perak Chinese middle school teachers at their
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  • 349 7 Wage cuts— T.U.C. up in arms A CHALLENGE AND WE WILL FIGHT IT, SAYS UNION BOSS THE BIG FIVE WILL SEE BRAGA— AND THE BUS STRIKES ARE ON AGENDA JHE Singapore Trades Union Congress yesterday passed a resolution condemning the Government for condoning attempts by employers to reduce wages under
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  • 60 7 IPOH. Sun. An Isolated kampong with an "excellent record" for resisting terrorist pressure, will soon be given a school and a community centre. RIDA has agreed to spend $6,000 for the buildings at Kampong Temengor, three days' march north-east of Grik. and one of the most isolated
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  • 70 7 IPOH. Sun. Chin Ming Sung, 24, was allowed bail by the Ipoh Magistrate's Court yesterday when he pleaded not guilty to a charge of committing mischief by maiming a bull in Chemor on Dec. 7. Inche Abdul Kadir bin Yusof, the ipoh magistrate, said:
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  • 39 7 PENANG, Sun.— More than $15,000 worth of stamps were on display at the two-day Penang Stamp Club's first exhibition which was declared open by the Resident Commissioner, Mr. R. P. Bingham, at W&stlands School Hall yesterday
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  • 34 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Tan Than was fined $350 or three months' Jail in the Magistrate's Court at Kluang today for unlawfully taking away two loaves of bread from a food restricted area
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  • 29 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.— A record sum of $2,200,000 has been provided by the Johore Government for improvement and extension of Malay and English schools in 1956.
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  • 25 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.— Dr. A. Sornasundram has left Johore Bahru for Pari f Buntar. where he Intends to set up In private practice.
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  • 53 7 KLUANG. Sun. Twelve local beauties six European, five Chinese, one Malay —were rehearsed today for the finals of the "Miss Kluang" beauty contest to be held here on Tuesday. The contest the first of Its kind In booming Kluang is in aid of the Soldiers'. Sailors' and
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  • 49 7 IPOH, Sun. Mr. S. Murugesu, 35, chief clerk in the Ipoh District Engineer's office of the Malayan Railway, has retired after 36 years' service. Mr. Murugesu was president of the Perak Sangeetha Sabah, a musical society, and a committee member of the Perak Ceylonese Association.
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  • 98 7 A 22-YEAR-OLD wlreman. Kwok Wing Sun, living in Sago Street. Singapore, was admitted to hospital yesterday with seven knife wounds in the back. Kwok told police that he was attacked by about five Chinese when returning home through Smith Street from a midnight film show.
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  • 216 7 rE president of the Singapore Trades Union Congress, Mr. S. Jaganathan, yesterday criticised a provision under the new Shop and Office Employees Bill empowering the Commissioner for Labour to determine rates of pay. He said: "It is a bad policy. I don't believe in the
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  • 54 7 Two men were Injured when the motor cycle they were travelling on crashed against a lamp post in East Coast Road just after midnight on Saturday. Tay Koh Wan, 18. of Upper Weld Road, was admitted to hospital. Robert Tan, 25. of Geylang Road, was
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  • 30 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. The Government has set up a tribunal to advise Government servants on the interpretation of post-war circulars with regard to salary revision, recruitment and promotion.
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  • 63 7 THE Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, yesterday ordained a deacon and a priest in a colourful double-ceremony at St. Andrew's Cathedral. The Rev. Edward Charles was ordained as priest and the Rev. C. John Thomas as deacon. Straits Times picture shows Bishop Baines
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  • 207 7 IF it's NOT REDS it's AN ELEPHANT RENGAM, (Johore), Sunday. VOBODY gets much sleep on the Consolidated A Eastern Plantations Estate near here. Almost every night terrorist gangs are on the prowl, shooting up bungalows and staging nuisance attacks. The estate's Layang Layang division
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  • 147 7 Christmas music and carols THE Singapore Musical Society choir gave a concert of carols and Christmas music at the Victoria Memorial Hall last night. A full house, including the Governor and Lady Black, enthusiastically applauded the high quality of the choral work and the conducting of Mrs. Aisha Akbar. Mrs.
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  • 46 7 Seng Kirn Hoo. 57, was killed when he was knocked down by a car in Telok Blangah Road at 1.35 p.m. last Friday. Police are seeking information about the accident Eye-witnesses are asked to contact Inspector Hardial Singh of the Traffic Police.
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  • 26 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. The Johore Bahru Civil Service Club will hold a fancy dress Christmas party for children on Dec. 21 at 4 p.m.
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  • 311 7 6,000 SAY: WE'LL FACE DEATH TO KEEPBUSESIDLE Clenched fist pledge in Colony VIORE THAN 6,000 P.A.P.-led workers yesterday aT pledged to sacrifice their lives to prevent the Singapore Chinese bus owners put their vehicles on the roads again before a settlement was reached with their locked -out employees. Meeting in
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  • 156 7 IMPORT OFFER Rice men have subsidy plan KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. rE United Rice Importers Association of Malaya has agreed to offer the Federation Government a $1 subsidy on every picul ol rice imported into the Federation if the Government Is willing to decontrol rice imports. The subsidy paid by the
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  • 226 7 'IT'S IMPORTANT TO MALAYA' KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. T<HE Federation's Chief Commissioner of Boy Scouts, Mr. E. M. F. Payne, today told state and settlement Scout commissioners here to keep their minds clear and give loyalty to the Alliance Government. "Some of you may favour the policies
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  • 48 7 Alias bin Yfeeob was charged in a Singapore court yesterday with attempting to extort $1 from Tan Kirn Pong at Leng Kong Tiga off Chan?! Road on the afternoon of Dec. 15. Bail of $1,000 was offered. The case will be mentioned on Dec. 24.
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  • 23 7 A 10-day "Thiruvempa Pooja" will begin at the Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple in Ceylon Road. Singapore, on Tuesday M 5.45 a.m.
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    • 164 7 The weather MINIMI M TEMPER ATLRE: (7 30 pm on Dec. 17 to 7.30 a.m. on' Dec 18>: Singapore 71 decrees. Penang 74. Kota Bahru 72, Kuala Lumpur 73 Ipoh 73, Kuantan 72. MAXIMVM TEMPERATURE: (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Dec. 18) Singapore 81. Penang 81. Kota Bahru 82.
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  • 286 8 RAIL RATES AND PAY BOOST IT surprises me to read that rail fares and freights will have to be increased in order to meet the pr-.y demands of railway workers. What next? An Increase in hospital charges every time, say, the nurses are given enchanced salaries and a surcharge on
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  • 393 8 Illllllllllllliroilhr Sir.... TO THE EDITOR.... Dear Sl^J_^J ifflill INCHE R. A. Karim (Trade Unions) is reported to have said that what this country required was "real" fighting forces: further, that this country did not require volunteers at all. It must be perfectly obvious
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  • 179 8 ra taxpayer, medical service is an essential requirement ,and in Kuala Langat we have been hoping that the medical services will be improved by the early provision of a hospital. We are now informed that the only medical officer in the district of 120,000 people is being
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  • 803 8 ISTENTNO to Sir Robert kJ Black's broadcast the other night I noted with added pleasure his references to Singapore's "Botanic Gardens." As a student of botany I worked for a considerable time in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, and Edinburgh's pronunciation is not often wrong even
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    • 318 8 SS The Elegance ami Beauty of V- -EASICLENE" g '.fl KITCHEN AND BATHROOM EQUIPMENT tt are the Pride and Convenience fa •n of the Modern Housewives! JK *s i I ff. "EASICLENE" Quality Products fej iff- are manufactured by Easlclene "ff 7k Porcelain-Enamel <1938» Ltd., JT; •jg (Division of the
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    • 50 8 Pensioners have a grouse IN conjunction with the recent adjustments to the pensions scheme for Government employees, the Government caused payments to be made to pensioners on Nov. 12. But the Central Electricity Board which is supposed to comply with Government regulations, has not paid its pensioners. C.E.B. PENSIONERS. Taiping.
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    • 257 8 PYRAMID THE TOOTAL HANDKERCHI In white and colour* for men and women pyramid handkerchiefs carry the tootal Guarai i. Be sure to look for the Registered Trade Mark label on every "handkerchief KALATAM REPRESENTATIVES WILLIAM JACKS CO. (MALAY X'MAS NEW YEAR I FESTIVITIES EMBASSY HOTEL X'mas Eve Dinner (Chinese or
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  • 1441 9 &fc\ Blindly Imtt-tl rt'fnrms SUPER RACE jif EXPERT He opposed ail reform efforts HvSnrtt lau>m ihriunt out Sank painfully into svat ONE hundred and thirty-eight years ago today, a heavy coach jolted to a halt outside a fish shop in Charing Cross, London. The
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    • 86 9 GENUINE PARTS oo fire BEST for CARS and IRUCKS oo Bec**s* they MADE RIGHT FIT RIGHT LAST LONGER lIIVERSAL CARS LTD. Ipoh IJ Porting IEARNE BROS. LTD. Scrcmban Malacca ORG BAN HONG LEONG LTD. AN BESAR, SPORE HOHAMED JAFFAR&CO-.'TD. Kota Bharu. mi TIONG YEONG Kota Bharu. ■■<cment of >tor Company
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    • 159 9 Hex ffon/firi. 3M.D. W© cotUUing -r. /'vtS CO MOBGivM,' WEIl] Fl SEE THAT OR. »VOSGAN y^oTwTlAVTOKf— J t WISH SOME Of THESE 1 EXCUSE ME.' C"| L^p__ >^' J CHANGE THE CCDERS J>j I CHANGED MY ORDERS.' DID EXCEPT THAT HE -4 STAFF MEN WOULD LEARN yf THAT'S ONE OF
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    • 500 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS ARCHITECT (One) Required by the State of Brunei, Borneo, for one tour of 3 years, with possibility of extension, at an Inclusive salary of $1,500 per month Malayan currency. (I Malayan dollar equivalent to 2/4 d. Sterling or 2/11(1. Australian approximately.) Successful candidate wiii be required to take
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    • 313 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS MAL A V ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE: Applications invited from Malays. Division II Timescale •478 X 25 578/ Bar/615 x 25 715/ Bar/738 X 25 813. Division I Supersede $836 x 28 1.032 Cadet On entry, unpassed $415. passed $450. On confirmation (normally after 3 years) they will enter 'he
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    • 397 10 NOTICES UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA I The University proposes to let a contract for the supply and preparation of food for about I fifty students and others at Urn nrw cllnlcpl residence at Kandang Kerbau Hospital. Applications from those desiring to accept the contract must reach me by 24th December, ISSS.
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    • 782 10 NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE THIS IS TO ANNOUNCE that all bridle paths through and access to Torklngton Estate will be closed to the public on 25th December. 1955. J. D. GOSLING, Manager. Torklngton Estate. THE SUNGEI BESI MINES LIMITED DIVIDEND THE DIRECTORS have declared an Interim Dividend of 4 4/sd. per
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    • 715 10 MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW Rubber shares take lead By Our Market Correspondent i OI'BBER shares came into their own in a big way on the Singa- j pore Share Market last week and saw the best appreciation in price i and experienced probably the most considerable activity since the years
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    • 752 10 SALE RUMOURS HELP tion to the commodity price 45 cents a pound more than a year a«o and above the dollar level since June 10— and the present geneial upward rise is going a long way to rectify this. llif['i dividend flood The present upward trend has been set off
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    • 770 10 nounced a final dividend of 20 per cent for the year ended August 31 1955 and an interim of 10 per cent for the current year. This makes a total of 30 per cent for the past year compared with 10 per cent for the whole of the previous financial
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    • 211 10 overall turno'.-, thyprwiou Tbe highiici Monday Co. (Mai their Usui by a boo of one million rate of one 1 sent held. The opmtion out by the million from which Is to bt stock. A special mt<' holders has berr: i 4 to approve ti.p Is beln K put foi
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    • 1010 11 buu N d?ngTHE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD ti A 17 n SINGAPORE (Incorporated in the United Kingdom) > LINK SAILINGS TO U.K. AND CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P. Sham Penong BENCLEUCH for Liverpool, Rotterdam, Antwerp In Pert 21/21 De* ■BENREOCH for London, Rotterdam 27 Dae/ I Jan Direct errlves London 27
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  • 643 12 Second round of English league starts LONDON, Sun. ARSENAL, enthusiasA tically led by their new centre-forward Vie Groves, beat Blackpool, the English First Division leaders, 4-1 here today. Thousands of Arsenal supporters left the ground thinking their side had won 4-0. But the whistle which sent
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  • 98 12 KINGSTON. Sun. Mr. Cyril Merry, secretary of the West Indies Cricket Board, today denied reports that West Indies cricket professionals had refused the Board's terms for the 1957 tour of England. Mr. Merry said no replies had yet been received from the professionals who ha.c
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    • 139 12 For straight backs and ±j|Jk|^ sturdy limbs give your baby this pure mill Mothers do well to ask for Ostermilk when breast feeding is not successful. Vitamin D has been added to this fine nourishing milk to build strong bones and teeth iron has been added to enrich the blood.
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    • 287 12 Straits Times Crossword f I 14- I T p 'if Y~ Hi ~"~*li~ is k mi* is 3F 18 19 ,20 TT 23 27" 25 aT m "27" ACROSS 1. Sharp practice hindered by ORa's Dyke? (8, 1, S). 9. 'Juice of cursed In a vial" ("Hamlet") (7). 10. More
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    • 295 13 N rioNS v ai \vr in <-r. rxlrm. \SIAN StenograClerks— No preGeneral office 1 I Iteri. C.E.S. I I F.IHOPEAN i supervisor by Applications I s and expen- ulum vltae held to be S.T COLONIAL united requires i v i fe- above abUlty. Apply expercqulred to riispen- I lain manulii
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    • 397 13 !a SITrATIONs WANTU) riord. $> (M,n.)-H.,r SO et. xlrn WELL EDUCATED. lnitlaMve and hardworking (ocjtl ChlnS? 'm yrs. oldp seeks position v. th mil -TvT ter v poM connected with aales. Po«e S excellent Menace* and over six years experience ir Retail Distribution. .<£," a r!d Market Supervise,, u luting
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    • 385 13 M COMMODATION WANTED 10 Word, $S (Min.,—H,,x SO et,. txtm RKSPECTABLE family requires accommodation also willing to i-.ouse in Upper Serangoon or Put Lebar mea PO Box 403. BUNGALOW JK KLAT required from Ist January. No objection i old hum* provldr-d rent reasonable Telephone ***** during office hours. MODERN HOUSE
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    • 394 13 TUITION Word, $S (Mln.)-Box SO et,. txlro NEW CLASSES START Id Dre-ssmaklng, Cooklnc. Cakemaking, Icing. Mariam Marie. 134 Orchard Koad. Tel: *****. CAMBRIDGE PREPARATORY: REGISTER now (a) Special Prep, class open to passed Std. VIII students for 1957 Senior (b) School Cert, course 1954 (o Qualifying Test. Evenings 6-9 p.m.
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    • 991 13 I VEHICLES FOR SALE I 20 Word, ti (Ml*-) In M et, utra. FIAT 1400 1951 In excellent condition. 5 Brand New Tyres Car Radio. 12,500 0.n.0. Ring 7584 office hours. FOR SALE Vauxhall Velox IBM (November). Mileage 16.000. Perfect condition. Property deceased Government Officer. Telephone Alor Star 88 Ext
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    • 822 13 TENDERS j P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS will be rerelved at the I Senior Executive Enirlneer'a Office. Sei-embun. up to NOON ot J4TH DP; EMBDI. ISM from persons interested In the purchase of used asphalt drum sides from Temiang Quarry and old P.W.D. Workshop Store at Templer Road In SeremIban. for
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    • 502 13 £HBQ9^yjß B^iiflHKLssssssssssf^ Pr -ects your beauty and your kuitl Now- scientific mouth protection! Scientifically curved /wo itays. Dr. West's Miracle- x^T^iHv Tuft brush reaches where ordinary brushes can't. fjrf^_\ It gives you whole mouth protection cleans and polishes teeth, massages gums without irritation. tTTYi Now Get Dr. West's own dentist's
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  • 265 14 SINGAPORE JUNIORS OPEN WITH 5- 0 VICTORY IPOH, Sun. SINGAPORE Juniors, playing with better courtcraft, beat Perak Juniors in their first inter-state badminton match at the Perak B.A. Hall last night. Although Perak lost all their games, they gav e their opponents a hard fight. Spectators were given a good
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  • 235 14 Well beaten by Selangor juniors KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. SELANGOR scored as easy victory over Singapore in their first inter-state junior badminton encounter when they beat the visitors 4-1 at the Selangor B.A. hall tonight. Except for the doubles, a threeset affair which Singapore won. the other games were decided in
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  • 144 14 MALACCA, Sun. THE Federation Minister for Local Government Housing and Town Planning, Inche Sulaiman bin Abdul Rahman, today opened Malacca's new (55.000 badminton hall. He deputised for the Chief Minister who was Indisposed. The President of the Malacca Badminton Association, Mr. Mah- indasa, said that the
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  • 47 14 HEADINOLEY. Sun— New Zealand ended their English Rugby Union tour yesterday by beating Britain by 28 points to 13 in the third and final test. Britain won the series by two matches to one, but this was the Kiwis best display of the tour.
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  • 285 14 HOPE FOR THOMAS CUP CONTENDERS -SCHEELE LONDON, Sun. THE KESI'LT of this year's Thomas Cup tournament tends to suggest that Malayan dominance In world badminton is even greater than before, according to Mr. H. A. E. Srheele, British secretary of the International
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  • 322 14 lOC PLEA TO END POINTS SCORING LAUSANNE. Sun. TH E INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee has sent a letter to all national committees condemning in the strongest terms the scoring of points for performances at the Olympic Games in an effort to try and show political or social superiority among the different
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  • 147 14 Royal Singapore Golf Club December monthly medal ibogey) results: "A" DIVISION WINNER: M. C. Bain and C. H. Beamish tied (all square). OTHER CARDS: J. M. Palmer (2 down i. R. Mlddleton-Smith (3 down). R. D. I. Scott (3 down i, J. Abbott (4 downi, J. CPollock
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  • 243 14 SINGAPORE'S badminton champion. Thomas Cup player Ong Poh Lim, Was surprised and disappointed to hear yesterday that his doubles partner. Penane; Thomas Cup player Ooi I rik Hock, has decided not to compete in the All England championships and Scottish B. A. world
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  • 96 14 NEW D2LHI. Sun— Sweden's Sven Davidson won the men's singles at the Indian tennis championships by beating Kurt Nellsen. of Denmark 6-4. 6-1. 15-17 6-3 here today Miss Althea Gibson (U.S.) beat Miss Sachiko Kamo < Japan) 6-2. h-2 in the women's singles final The men's
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  • 57 14 TAUNTON, Sun. Maurice Tremlett. the 32-year-old Somerset cricket all-rounder, has been appointed the first professional captain of Somerset in their 62 yfcirs as a first-class county team. Tremlett started with Somerset on their office staff In 1938 and received his county cap in 1947. He has
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  • 28 14 DACCA, Pakistan, Sun. India beat Ceylon 4-3 In the Asian quadrangular soccer tournament here today, after leading 2-1 at half-time. Yesterday Pakistan beat Burma 4-2. Reuter.
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  • 38 14 MUAR. Sun. A goal by skipper GovlndaraJ five minutes from the end enabled the Aryan Gymkhana soccer tourists to draw 2-2 with a Muar Invitation XI In the !ast match of their Federation tour here today.
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  • 50 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— The a 11 -conquering Singapore Combined Schools swimminc team. which arrived In Kuala Lumpur today will after all meet a .Selangor team In a combined swim dm tomorrow si 6 p.m, Origlnall] swimminu i I boys were to bavi five water-;'
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  • 25 14 Baden K- n jane Assik i Uoi 4 weries Kami fixture at i Score: Shakni. C: In "B" DI xandra F Jong Ro'.ii
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  • 39 14 THE HONG Kong Regiment goalkeeper. S. Kadir. makes a spectacular save off a shot by Manmohan Singh, the Malayan Sikhs centre-forward, during the first matrh of the visiting team's current tour. The Malayans won 0
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  • 186 14 By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT HONG KONG. Sunday. MALAYAN Sikhs Invitation XI won their second hockey match with a 3-0 win over Nav Bharat here today. Play was keen throughout with the Malayans having a slight edge over the homest;ers. After 25 miiutea the I
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  • 180 14 PENANG Sun L^ONG SEOW SAN established a new record of 62.1 sec. when he won the I'M 1 mere, freestyle at the Penang open championships for the fifth successive year at the Chinese Swimming Club In Tanjong Bungah today. Leading all the way. he won
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  • 67 14 NEW DELHI. Sun— lndia. 187 for three wickets at the close today, needed 114 more runs to avoid the follow on against New Zealand In the' cricket Test here. Continuing at their overnight total of 24 fur no wicket India were 101 for one at lunch.
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  • 49 14 RI'CiGEK R.A.F. Selelar v S.C.C. "B", pa dang. HOCKEY Senior knockout cup: Wanderers v S.H.B. Police, Shell ground. Friendly: S.R.C v 5.C.8.C., SRC. SOCCER Malay Juniors v It N Kranjl, Farrer Park. BOXING G.H.Q. and District Championships (quarter-finals) Singapore Knglneer Regt. v G.H.Q. Signals, Tanglin, 8 p.m.
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  • 148 14 SEREMBAN, Sun. A NEGRI SEMBILAN team com- posed of members of the 11th Hussars and The Royal Welch Fusiliers beat Singapore Police In a charity boxing match at the Gurney Stadium here last night. There were seven bouts and two exhibition fights. The
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  • 256 14 LONDON, Sun. DESULTS of Rugby Union and League matches played In I Britain yesterday were: Second English trial: Probables 9 Possibles 5. Club matches: Blackhealh 3 Richmond 3; Ouy's Hosp. 3 Llanelly 15; London Hosp. 8 London Welsh 16: London Scottish 16 Blrkenhead 8: Met.
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  • 338 14 COLONY BLUES BEAT NEGRI TO STAY IN CUP SEREMHAN COMBINING effectively and wtnnin scrums and lineouts, Singapo-c A All Blues by IP points (two goals, a trj alties) to 12 (two tries, a dropped alty) at the King George V ground t Blues rugger competition. The Negri and Selangor Al!
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  • 94 14 A milkman shows his heels to Hungarians MEM SANDOR II! Karlan bo] 5.000 metre., countryman, join* holder ol metre.*- record. ing beaten o\ here yesterday Olympic "hopi hens Stephens km milkman', we fir.M time metres and *-c record of 14min ThU best of iSmin ih. it us in i Australian
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