The Straits Times, 20 July 1957

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times flew**** Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1957 15 CENTS
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  • 849 1 JAMIT SINGH AND LEE TO GET TEMPORARY PASSES they can enter Harbour Board area to prepare workers'' ease pmtofendto I the go-slow 0 campaign !1 of inquiry directed yesterday that the (»ro Harbour Hoard should issue temses, valid until next Tuesday, to the Harbour Hoard Staff Association's
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  • 359 1 MO JOBS FOR FRIENDS, SO 200 QUIT 14 strangers in pine factory A BOUT 200 employees of the Lam Huat Hup Kee Pineapple Co. at Kranji, Singapore, stopped work yesterday because the management refused to employ 14 of their friends. They had told the company that they would take an
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  • 84 1 RAWANG. Fri.— .More than 300 vehicles were held up for two hours this afternoon at the Kanching Pass, seven miles from here, as a crane pulled out an Army lorry which plunged into a ravine yesterday. Soon after the road was clear a timber lorry
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  • 33 1 DAMASCUS. Fri. The Syrian President, Mr. Sabri Assali, yesterday said that Syria rejected President Eisenhowers Middle East doctrine because she wanted to maintain her strict neutrality between East and West. -A.P.
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  • 24 1 LONDON, Fri. The Queen today received Mr. G.W. Tory at Buckingham Palace on his appointment as British High Commissioner in Malaya. Reuter.
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  • 14 1 H.R.H. PRINCESS MARGARET
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  • 247 1 PRINCESS The rumours buzz again... V T EW YORK, Fri.— The A New York Daily News said that "Buckingham Palace is buzzing with rumours" that Princess Margaret's engagement will be officially announced today. A London cable to the paper said: "Some reports tip Lord Patrick Beresford, 23, and three years
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  • 14 1 Tlie two-day military and police internal security exercise in Singapore ended yesterday.
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  • 177 1 A one-kiss honeymoon then back to jail for bridegroom ADELAIDE. Fri. A New South Wales girl has married 21-year old convici serving five years in Adelaide Jail for breaking and entering. Wardens dressed the bridegroom in his best clothes and a jailer acted as best man
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  • 179 1 STRIKERS SAT AT DEPOTS' GATES 'THE riot squad rushed early yesterday to the depots 1 of the Hock Lee and Tay Koh Vat bus companies in Singapore when about 350 of their striking employees tried to prevent vehicles from being taken out. I Strikers
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  • 68 1 Worker stops airport fire spreading A I' IKK broke out on the tarmac of Singapore Airport yesterday but prompt action prevented it from spreading to giant passenger planes parked nearby. The fire, which started in a ditch on the southern side of the airport, was spotted by a KIM mechanic.
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  • 34 1 HOLLYWOOD. Fri. The mother of pianist Liberace was brutally kicked and beaten up by two hooded men who attacked her last night in the garage of the Liberace home— A.P.
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  • 58 1 Survived died telling it PARIS, Fri. Seventeen people were killed and about 75 injured early today when the crack Nice to Paris express was derailed at BollenlaCrolslere near Avignon. Raymond Vermersch, 40, survived the wreck only to die ot a heart attack as b* was telephoning Ms wife to assure
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  • 50 1 AMSTERDAM. Fri. Royal circles said today that former Queen Wilhelmina, 77. is sinking. She has been confined to her country estate and ordered to tak e absolute rest. She is said to be suffering from the accumulative effects of advanced ag P rather than any specific illness. U.P.
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  • 31 1 Th c Katong area of Singapore was in darkness for more than two hours last night. A Pasir Panjans power station engineer called it "a local interruption of supplies."
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  • 75 1 KUALA lUMPUR, tr;. Two public holidays will be declared >n the Federation to "elebrate merdeka. Saturday. Aue 31 .hen independence will be pro. claimed will be a public holiday throughout Micountry. The other holiday will infixed by the states. The Federation Government has fixed
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  • 729 1 Boyd to Malaya: Best wishes LONDON, Fri. The House of Commons today passed a Bill providing for the establishment of the Federation of Malaya as an independent sovereign country within the Common- wealth. It now goes to the House of Lords. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Lennox Boyd. moving the third
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  • 28 1 NEHRU ON MID-EAST NEW DELHI. Fri— Mr. Nehru told closed meeting of Congress Party parliamentary group today that "most difficult" situation existed in Middle East. Reuter.
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  • 26 1 PARIS Fri. The five-week-old Government of Mr. Maurice Bourges Maunoury won a confidence vote in the National Assembly today on its Algeria policy. Reuter.
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  • 21 1 About 30 gangsters clashed with sticks and bottles in Teochew Street, Singapore, late last night. Police detained a man.
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  • 76 1 BAHREIN, Fri. A tribal rising in the Arabian kingdom of Muscat and Oman has had "some initial success." an official British spokesman I said here today. The Sultan of Muscat is usinp; his private army, which has British officers, to suppress the rising, which is
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  • 251 2 ARMY OFFICERS, EX-MINISTERS ARRESTED CAIRO, Friday. PRESIDENT NASSER announced last night that he had foiled an attempt by army officers and civilians including two former cabinet ministers to overthrow his regime. The attempt was made in April, said a statement distributed
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  • 95 2 PRINCESS V ASM IN, grand-daughter of the late Aga Khan and halfsister of- the new Aga Karim Khan, among mourning women of the Ismaili sect at Geneva. The princess, daughter of Prince Aly Khan and actress Rita Hayworth. remained in Geneva when her grandfather's body was flown
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  • 206 2 Filter or plain? The experts don't know WASHINGTON, Fri.— f Two experts told a Government sub-com-mittee yesterday that they don't know whether filter tip cigarettes provided any more health protection than the plain variety. Dr. E. C. Hammon, research director for the American Cancer r-^iety, said he believe a might
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  • 233 2 AGA KHAN BURIEN IN COUNTRYARD OF ASWAN VILLA Cairo. Pridas I rpHE AGA KHAN was buried in a temporary A in the courtyard of his white-c the edge of the River Nile at Aswan Hundreds of Ismaili Muslim leaders flocktrj villa from all parts of the world for the cerem<
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  • 52 2 LAS VEGAS. Fri. The first air-to-air atomic rocket tired from an aircraft in the United States burst over the Nevada Desert today with a flash that paled the morning sun. The missile exploded at an altitude of more than 15.000 ft. and sent up a pink
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  • 102 2 BUDAPEST, Fri.-Hunfan is to hold its first bif beaut\ contest, it was as nounced yesterday. Before last autumn's mat: the Communists frowns on beauty contests is "cosmopolitan" or "An*. rican." During the winter a fti small ones were held, li March
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  • 34 2 WASHINGTON FT: Arthur Miller, ptajwj husband ol Marilyn Mjn» was today sentenced c US$5OO iMSI.SOOi fin P aM» suspended Jail sentence one month for contempt c. congress. He gav c noi.ee appeal.
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  • 184 3 RIGHTWING MASJUMI PARTY DROPS TO BOTTOM OF THE LIST Ri;n RNS IN CENTRAL JA VA ELECTIONS PUTS THEM IS DOMINATING POSITION JAKARTA, Friday. t ITEST returns from this week's general elec- (o city and regional councils in Central today showed that the Communist Party 1 overwhrimiag
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  • 107 3 Case of the woman who wants to wed stepfather AUCKLAND, Fri The New Zealand Court of Appeals deferred judgment today on the case of a woman who wished to marry her stepfather who also is the father of her child. The legal tangle started in 1342 when William Woodcock married
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  • 19 3 I. Fri. A special ing the visit of the Prince Philip to 1 > tuber will be UP.
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  • 91 3 GENEVA, Fri. A Swiss court has acquitted Walter Flachsmann. 29, co-pilot of n Swiss airliner which nun out of fuel and crashed into the j English Channel three years ago, on a charge of having by his negligence caused th<» deaths of three passengers who died in
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  • 29 3 LONDON. Fri.— Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, British Foreign Secretary, was guest here last night at a dinner given by the heads of 10 South-East Asian diplomatic missions. Renter.
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  • 196 3 A ROBBER ORDERED TO PAY BANK DAMAGES OF $170,000 ONDON, Fri. A convicted bank robber was ordered in the High Court here yesterday to pay nearly £20,000 (about $170,--000) damage to a London bank he robbed two-and-a-half years ago. The action was believed to be the first brought by a
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  • 252 3 France sells Far East service ships PARIS, Friday. CEVEN French ships, including the country's third largest liner, the 30,400-ton Pasteur, and others formerly used on Far East routes, have been sold to foreign buyers, it was disclosed here yester- senator has tabled a >n in the Council of jpubllc (Upper
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  • 131 3 'Amok' drove at 80 m.p.h. in the heart of London LONDON, Fri. A motorist, who "ran amok" In his car and sped at 80 miles an hour through London's West End just before dawn pursued by police, was banned from driving for 20 years here today. He is Alexander Henry
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  • 182 3 A HOAX TURNS BACK A PLANE BOSTON, Fri.— An Air France plane bound for Europe, with 59 passengers turned back and landed here today after a woman had telephoned the airline's reservation office at New York's International Airport that a bomb was aboard. The plane, a Super Constellation, was 140
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  • 43 3 LENINGRAD, Fri. The British Trans-Antarctic Expedition, now on the island ice cap, and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition have established radio contact, according to a report from the Soviet expedition, quoted by the Soviet news agency Tass today. Reuter.
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  • 39 3 LONDON, Fri. Prospects of more trade between China and Hong Kong are expected to be discussed here next week between the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Alexander Grantham, and the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd. Reuter.
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    • 68 3 f ONG BEACH, Fri.— Miss U.S.A. Leona Gage, 21—who had reached the semi-finals of the Miss Universe beauty contest here, admitted today that ■he had been married and was the mother of two children. She was disqualified from competing further under the rules of
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    • 12 3 BUDAPEST: Hungary .s to import 10 American films for public showing soon.—U.P.
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    • 25 3 BAGDAD: Twelv c people were killed and six injured in a tribal clash over irrigation in Diwania Province, southern Iraq. Eighteen tribesmen were arrested.— A.P.
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    • 29 3 BOSTON: Three gunmen locked 21 people including a policeman in a vault and robbed a Canton, Mass., trust company of $94,500 and took about $1,000 from bank patrons. —A.P.
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    • 24 3 LOS ANGELES: Dr. Constantine T. Kavassiades a member of Greece's Atomic Energy Commission, said his country would get its first nuclear reactor next year.—Reuter.
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    • 22 3 TOKYO: A BOAC Bristol Britannia ianded at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, inaugurating the first turbo-jet aircraft commercial service to Japan. —Reuter.
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    • 20 3 RABAT: The Sultan of Morocco, will visit the United States on Nov. 25 at the invitation of President Eisenhower —Reuter.
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    • 27 3 GENEVA: Mr. Dag Hammarsicjoeld, United Nations Secretary-General, left by air for New York after attending the 24th session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. —Reuter
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    • 60 3 LONDON, Fri. Interplanetary travel will require space ships at least as large as the liner Queen Mary, the chief engineer of the American Atlas long-range missile project, said yesterday. Mr. Karel J. Bossart made the statement in a paper presented to the high altitude and satellite
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  • 249 3 Closing middle prices of selected ;tocks not Including stamp duty vere: LOANS Consols £49-. +V 4 Funding A7c £87',. +H War 3' £67 :l +>/* BANKS Merc. (5 Btt pu) £6'i Eastern (£5) £8 S 'x Chartered (£l> 40/Hongkong ($l2) ClOl'j INSURANCE :om. Un (uts.) 79/6 +1/4% Royal
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  • 31 3 LONDON, Prl. Spot 27' id Aug. 27»id., Sept. 27\d.. Oct Dec. 27Hd., Jan-Mar. 27\d. April-June 27»»d.. July elf 27' id.. Aug. ell 27 Nd., sept, c.i.f. 27'4d. Tone: Quietly steady.
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  • 20 3 LONDON. Pri. Buyers £747 sellers £747>/a. Forward buyers £745>-_. sellers £746. Settlement £748. Turnover a.m. 125 tons p.m. S.
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  • 35 4 BENTONG, Fri. A verdict of "death by misadventure" was recorded yesterday on an 11-year-old girl. Lam Foong Lin, of Shanghai Pahang Estate. She was mauled by a tiger on Jan. 23.
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  • 129 4 TWO SENT FOR TRIAL rO charwallas, lltekhar Ahmad and Mozaffasul Hague, were yesterday committed for trial at the Aasizes on a charge of murder ing Habib Anuwar on May 19 at the 7 1 mile Tampines Road. A van driver, Ahmad Khan, told the court that he met Iftekhar at
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  • 30 4 The Bishop of Smuap. the Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, will confirm nine candidates and preach at St. Paul Church. Upper Serangoon Road, at the 8 a.m. service tomorrow.
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  • 352 4 BOOST MALAYAN COAL MTUC ASKS GOVT. Colliery heads: Sales down yet 6,000 depend o>u KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE Malayan Trade Union Congress today urged the Federation Government to reexamine the possibility of the Malayan Railway and the Central Electricity Board buying 3,000 to 5,000 tons more coal from the Malayan
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  • 109 4 rpHE Singapore Telephone X Board Employees' Union is prepared to negotiate with the board on its wage demands but will not call off the strike. The unions secretary, Mr. Jamit Singh, said yesterday that this decision had been conveyed to the Labour Ministry, which
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  • 50 4 Representatives of the Singapore General Employees' Union and the management of Lam Soon cannery met at the Labour Ministry to discuss the dismissal of a clerk for allegedly refusing to obey orders. No decision was reached. Both parties will meet again on Monday for further talks.
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  • 44 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Buddha Jayantl temple in Circular Road, built to commemorate the 2,500 th anniversary of the death of Buddha, will be opened tomorrow by the Kuala Lumpur philanthropist and banker, Mr Cheong Yoke Choy. Tlie temple cost $50,000
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  • 136 4 Black-white colour scheme irks tenants rpHE Singapore ImproveX ment Trust thought that a black-door-and white window colour scheme would be an attractive change from cream for the flats in Alexandra Road and Prince Philip Avenue. But they forgot one thing. Most of the residents of
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  • 103 4 A SINGAPORE magistrate yesterday spent the whole morning hearing a case which he later said was "a waste of time." Mr. Choor Singh, the magistrate, said that the police had produced no evidence against the man on trial before him. He acquitted Tan Chew
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  • 44 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. The Johore Bahru Town Council thinks that licensed of beef and mutton stalls in the town's main market are trying to create a meat monopoly by deliberately leaving them unused. So it has decided to reallocate licences.
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  • 23 4 KUALA LUMPUR. *Y1 The Municipal Council i s in be asked to approve morthan $633,800 for ant! malaria work next year
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  • 65 4 Water-skiers to elect 'Miss Barbecue' A "MISS BARBECUE" will be elected at a barbecue which the Malayan (Tater Ski Association nil hold at Loyang, Singapore from 7.30 p.m. on Aug. 10. One of the main attractions will be a spotlight demonstration by some of Singapore's best waterskiers. Tickets are available
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  • 16 4 PENANG, Fri. Juru new village in Province Wellesley has elected an 18-man goodwill committee.
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  • 258 4 RUBBER FASCINATING DECLARES THE WOMAN EXPERT Firsr rime /or her to meet workers-* she's thrilled DENANG, Fri ber? It's one of the most fascinating Jects ever tackled by Miss N. K. FishS I British civil servant "This is my 0 East, and I c thrilled to see how rubber is
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  • 51 4 Singapore naval auth yesterday began an li ation into the ramm kelong ort Pulau Übin or. Tuesday night. Two Colony were having dinner 111 tr hut of the kelong when tw incident occurred. A lar§ f section of the fishing staßs was reported to have beer, torn
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  • 139 4 They will be away for one yeai T<HREE boys and a girl will leave Singapore at i r end of this month on a Teenager's Pre sponsored by the U.S. department of State They are Gay C and Koh Yew SI Presbyterian Boys' SfW»Tan
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  • 27 4 The Yio Chu K:-i gol. nunplnes branch Singapore Labour F be opened by the r sident. Mr. Cb< tomorrow at the Vio Chu Kane Road.
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    • 171 4 NAMLY PARK ESTATE 111 9 New, Different American Designs sth MILESTONE, BUKIT TIMAH ROAD (opposite raffles park) FIRST PHASE WILL BE COMPLETED ON THE BEGINNING OF DECEMBER, 1957 Selling Price: $25,000 upwards. 3 Bedrooms, Dining Room, Living Room, 2 Bathrooms with long baths, Kitchen, Terrace, Car Porch, Servant's Room, Servant's
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 158 4 RADIO MALAYA ft P T a c r a ade 6a 4 n 0 c 0 c; Li^0 A^=y SINGAPORE 476 metres 41 ley: 530 Bandstand: 5.50 I metres. j>: 00 aPProx. sport's Hour; 6.30 KUALA Ll'MPl'R 341 metres. ™"°F7 :in r c e Summary; t ;.32 light PENANG 3«s
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  • 309 5 RDEROUS ASSAULT ON DEFENCELESS COUPLE, SAYS THE JUDGE KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. v() i;i JOSEPH MANICKAM, 35, a former instructor, was today sentenced to 5' jail by Mr. Justice Sutherland in the uiirt here for the attempted murder of a ■tuple, Mr. and Mrs. Vasuthevan.
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  • 129 5 Reply to 33: Bad news on that bus THE Straits Times yesterday received a memorandum, signed by 33 residents of Queenstown. Singapore. They warned to know what had happened to a report two months ago that a bus company had applied for a licence to run a through service from
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  • 162 5 RED CHINA LURES BICYCLE SPIVS PROFITS that can be I got from the sale of bicycles in Red China are believed to be one of the main factors which lured a larger number of Singapore Chinese to China on brief visits last year than in previous years. The increase, said
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  • 37 5 KUALA TRENGGANU, Frl. —Inche Abdul Halim bin Abu Yamin has arrived here from Penang to become Fisheries Officer, North-East Malaya, in place of Mr. K. H. Bain, who has retired under the Malayanisation scheme.
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  • 218 5 Inquest told of prediction...* A SCHOOLGIRL told a coroner's inquest yesterday that her mother died on a day she herself foretold. Tae Peck Yong. 15, said that in periods between delirium her mother, Chow Y'.t Len. 38, gave her a pathetic
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  • 41 5 KLANG, Fri. Mr. M. R. Nambiah, 36, an estate conductor of Batu Tiga, 10 miles from here, was stabbed to death today. He had four stab wounds in the neck, shoulder and chest. Police have detained a man.
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  • 58 5 Thief takes $11,000 in empty home PENANG, Fri.— A 'hief stole $11,000 in cash and jewellery from a merchant's home in New Lane yesterday. The thief entered the house while the Inmates were visiting some relative* in Jelutong. They found the louse locked from the inside when they returned home
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  • 56 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. Chan Nee Pee, a contractor, was fined $800 at Mersing yesterday and ordered to pay $100 costs, for giving a bribe of $30 to Inspector Raja Mahmood not to take action against people found gambling at Jemaulang on Feb. 14. Chan said
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  • 27 5 The New Zealand Commissioner, Mr. Foss Shanahan, last night held a reception for officers of the newly-ar-rived cruiser H.M.N.Z.S. Royalist at his Nassim Road home.
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  • 30 5 One of the newest warships in the United States Navy the 18.000-ton U.S.S. Tulare, an attack cargo ship is due in Singapore today for a five-day informal visit.
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  • 143 5 WAS HE A THORN AMONG the YWCA ROSES? AMONG the 28 women at a flower arrangement class at the Singapore Y.W.C.A. in Collyer Quay yesterday sat a lone man. From the back of the class he earnestly took in the lecture on Japanese flower arrangement by Mrs. E.S. Pohair. He
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  • 46 5 KUALA TRENGGANU Frl —The staff of the Central Electricity Board here gave a dinner last night to Mr C. O. Virgis. officer in charge of the board, in Monour of the award of the Meritorious Service Medal to him by the Sultan of Trengganu.
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  • 31 5 Ismaill Muslims in Singa pore attended a mass prayer meeting at the Young Men's Muslim Association premises in Moulmein Road yesterday afternoon in memory of the late Aga Khan.
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  • 26 5 SEGAMAT, Frl.— Fo r carryIng three piculs of vegetables In his private car, Tan Kirn Tay, 27, of Labis, was fined $100 here. 1
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 414 5 YMCA (Orchard Road) Movie Serangoon Garden Estate, noon to Circle show "Thunder Bay" 8 p.m.: 6.30 p.m. Senior Cambridge Malay classes YWCA (Rallies Quay): Intema. beginners 2.30 pm., ad"ance 3.30 tional cooking class "Sukiyakl" p.m.; Chess Club 3 p.m.; body- by Mrs. Y. Nomura and Mrs. M. building, weightlighttng 4.30
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  • 28 6 20 Wont* Sit (minimum). FAMILY OF the late Mr. Lee Guan Swee wish to thank friends and relatives who sent condolences, attended and assisted at the funeral.
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  • 70 6 10 Wordt $10 (minimum). TREASURED MEMORIES of our beloved father the late Lye Boon Hong, died 31st July, 1956. Life moves on but memories stay. MRS. TAN TECK LENG— Alias Urn Chin Choo). Treasured memories of our beloved wife and mother who died 20-7-56. "We remember you In
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  • 306 6 2(1 Wordt Sit (minimum). A MUST for musty odours Air-wlck— lt kills musty smells and keeps tthe home "country fresh". CHILDREN'S WEAR— Special offers in all items at Wasslamull's Children's Shop, 35 High Street. MC.VTTTE PRICE'S Biscuits •re always fresh, crisp, tempting, suitable to every taste, even to the
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  • 605 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat. July 20, 1957. The Honesty Of Sterling How honest is sterling? As honest, says Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, as Britain chooses to make it. The same question is being asked of Malaya's dollar, and of course the two are linked, but the doubts about
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  • 255 6 Malayan doctors have the skill to locate a brain tumour or diagnose, with great accuracy, other serious and complex neurological afflictions. Having diagnosed the malady the neurologist is left to contemplate that the patient will go blind, be paralysed or die a slow death. These neurological cases
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  • 276 6 Mr. Francis Thomas' statement on the Government's indecision over a unified public transport system for Singapore needs interpret inc. Mr. John Ede asked what progress had been made. The short answer was "none." But Mr. Thomas preferred a long answer, and took a bus ride all
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  • 1083 6  -  CYNICUS by WILL the inquiry into election malpractices and corruption in Singapore produce anything more than the thunder-cloud of suspicion and innuendo which darkened the Assembly proceedings? I doubt it Who is going to come forward with hard evidence? The bribers? The voters who were bribed?
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    9 6 PLAYING SOLDIERS Photo by Soong Hon Sin
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  • 732 6  -  Sir A tec Kirk bride By T*HE young kings who A occupy the thrones of Iraq and Jordan are the great grandsons of the late King Hussein of the Hejaz who was personally responsible for the national movement which is now known to history as
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  • 116 6 (From the Straits Times of July 2(), 1907) WHEN the Oriental Tele- phone and Electrical Company commenced operations in Singapore in 1882 there was an exchange providing a service for 38 subscribers. This has since grown to 900 subscribers and the capacity at Telephone House at present
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  • 70 7 WINSLOW GETS THE No. 2 LEGAL DEPT. JOB ir Crown Counsel. k s V. Winslow. Uj s been promoted s first Malabo r solicitor-General. P rak. Mr. Winhad his early edu- penang Free Scholar, he B.A. LIB. de:rom Cambridn.- Unl- wai railed to at the Middle Tern- 1940. he joined
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  • 22 7 Netherlands Vice- Singapore. Mr. due to arrive Hague today. Un ac- i his wife, will Baron Wibrand van
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  • 60 7 Cigs. seized but man gets away WHEN a six-man Customs party uait!n. in ambush at the junction of dulega and I'pprr Changi roads. Singapore, stopped a lorry at 4 a.m. yesterday the driver leaped out and escaped into thr darkness. In the lorry the Customs men found cartons containing 159.(J1G
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  • 47 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri RIDA has given $2,000 to Yahaya bin Bongsu, of Batu Pahat, to plant 10 acres of coconut land and 5450 to Haji Basri bin Haji Musa. of Batu Pahat. to improve and plant five acres of coconut Lino.
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  • 53 7 trying children spent rday in a Singapore ip with their Chow Ah Chong. 31. nleaded not gull- I ty to a charge of having 27 gallons of uncustomed intoxicating liquor at her home in Geylang on May 1. She could not find a bailor until later
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  • 680 7 WOMAN WHO LEFT HER HUSBAND AFTER SIX MONTHS ACCUSES HOME GUARD OFFICER SERVANT ALLEGES: HE TOOK HIS WIFE TO HOSPITAL, THEN CAME INTO MY BEDROOM >qvit* d SEREMBAN, Friday. A *<>"* kAR-OLD Chinese woman who said she left her husband six months after
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  • 20 7 PENANG, Frl— The Penang assistant Port Officer, Capt. J.N. McCaughan, has left for Britain on six months' leave.
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  • 42 7 TAN JONG MALIM, Fri. A local girl. Miss Kumari Kamala Menon. has entered Bombay University for a fiveyear course in architecture She is the eldest daughter of Mr. K. p. B. Menon. senior technical assistant of the P.W.D. here.
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  • 29 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Kuala Lumpur airport will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday nights next week for minor repairs and maintenance to the runway.
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  • 150 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. All countries in the free world will get news films of I the merdeka celebrations free within 24 hours of the events in Malaya, the Straits Times was told today. More than 11 countries, including America, Britain. Canada and Australia, have
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  • 93 7 HELLO, what are you doing up here!" says the Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, as his daughter Mariam, 6, toddles onto the speaker's platform. Little Mariam felt lonely sitting among the V.I.Ps and decided to Join daddy at the ceremony of
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  • 20 7 Tengku Rahman, persuading Mariam to go back to her seat. Straits Times picture.
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  • 145 7 'Too many cigarettes a peril' KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. a FEDERATION Government doctor tonight ap- pealed to the older folk to discourage young people from smoking. In a broadcast on "smoking and lung cancer" the doctor, whose name was not disclosed said smoking was
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  • 126 7 TRIPLE-PRIZE FILM ON TEMIARS FOR COLONY rE triple-award winning Malayan Film Unit colour film, "Timeless Temiar" will have its first screening in Singapore at the Rex Theatre tomorrow and in the Federation immediately after th« Singapore run. The film, which is now being' shown in London, is a documentary of
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  • 40 7 TAIPING. Frl. The Old Girls' Association of the Lady Treacher Girls* School, renamed the Treacher Methodist Girls' School Taiping, will hold its annual meeting on Aug. 3 at 530 pm. to be followed by the annual reunion dinner.
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  • 26 7 TAIPING, Fri. Fire Officer Abdullah bin Abbas nf the fire brigade here .las been awarded the Colonial Police and Fire Brigade Long Service Medal.
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  • 111 7 A BLIND WIDOW GETS 12,000 IN DAMAGES rpHE blind widow and A four children of a trisha rider, Lee Ah Song. 44, who was killed in a motor accident last year, were awarded $21,475 damages and costs in the Singapore High Courl yesterday. The acting Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Knight,
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  • 87 7 KEMAMAN, Fri.— Two terrorists, the last of the ganc in this district, surrendered to the police near here this morning. One a Malay, was admitted to the District Hospital for treatment to his hand. He is believed to have been wounded in an, ambush
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  • 22 7 A sum of $13,031 was raised during the Red Feather Day held recently in aid of the Cheshire Homes. Malaya.
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  • 159 7 Wins gold medal as best of 778 prints in photo exhibition 'THE picture of a beauti--1 ful girl hiding shyly behind an umbrella won for Mr. Kwan San Hoi, A.R.P.S.. a Singapore ace photographer, the President's Gold Medal in the fifth Pan-Mala-yan Photographic Exhibition, which opened yesterday at
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    • 167 7 -W-mTTM m W''^- 'Of Mmro Wall's Sausages, Wml LM M M i.^fe what a treat Just watch ■•^irVjJKJ 9 the family tuck mi i t enjoying the juiciest cuts of J-f-\S\ U-^Si+->lf\f'4~ fr esh pork at its tenderest, \J #ti UCrS^-'^SrC tastiest best. And delicious, I extra-meaty Wall's come to
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  • 928 8 Parampalam disagrees with WHO experts' statements on conditions at hospital 'THIS IS 1954 REPOBT...VD RATHER NOT COMMENT' JPOH, Fri. The Assistant Superintendent of the Central Mental Hospital, Tanjong Rambutan, Dr. S. Parampalam, disagreed today with the reports of experts from the World Health Organisation on conditions at the institution. When
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  • 109 8 SINGAPORE'S most exclusive trade union claims a 100 per cent membership. It is the Singapore Government Executive Officers' Association the elite of the Government clerks, all superstate men. The association, formed last August, is registered as a trade union. A spokesman told the Straits Times
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  • 218 8 UNION MAN: STRIKES LAST RESORT THE Singapore FederaA tion of Unions of Government Employees said yesterday that the Government's General Orders should not stand in the way of pensionable employees taking drastic action to press legitimate claims. The Federation's vicechairman. Mr. X, Thillaimpalam. said Government
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  • 223 8 SO DIFFICULT WHEN ONE DOESN'T KNOW ENGLISH LACK of knowledge of the Faglish language has indirectly curbed the progress of Laos and Cambodia, said Mr. L. Villiam, 23, a teacher from Pavie College, Laos, in Singapore yesterday. It limited their ability to adopt the methods of development used In Commonwealth
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  • 30 8 PENANG. Fri. Penang's "Golden Voice," to represent the settlement at the national contest in Kuala Lumpur in September, will be picked at a competition here on July 30.
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  • 48 8 SEHEMBAN, Fri. The Negri Sembilan Council of State accepted a recommendation by a committee which investigated grievances by bullock cart owners that licence fees for bullock carts fitted with pneumatic tyres should b e cheaper than licence fees for those using iron-shod wheels.
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    • 387 8 26 Be back, Crosby, in decline Straits Times Crossword 27 ssm? heat ofthe Ules 28 In the small enclosure from T"| nTT 4 te^ge' I that place (6> SSS m 2 O r d a n measure and deed (5). §SSS §8S §S§ 3 Near the compound of clay SSSSSa
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  • STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE
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    • 28 9 "outdoor* strain!" -c care refreshes strained eyes ends! dropi „f 1 i''."tanllv rflii*c 1 bj tun- > 'Irwnir, Hind! I'.itho un.l ft tktmm -'■i.Tiiiiic" tym U.k imtllr j <;,. t
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    • 280 9 ENERGY' |i \Cf OOSE Oo.Pill three hM i^s \-I tin>"S doi <j or oi f'f> I m* prescribed 1-J2 fSI «ir» Moat in England by I 53 Scott Bowne 10 il ?jSI MNFC. CHEMISTS. iQ LONDON. SCOTT'S W^^mo HALIVITEf Whether at work or at play Scott's Halivite Pills supply you
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    • 191 9 tiox 3 1 organ 3t.D. 3tarthcM m s problewn r^±L~ '^v"~-"H r PERHAPS —"T ACTUALLY YOUR PKOStEM V 1/ WIU. IOU LET US MAKE >** "Ny p -*S AMONG THE I NOT A* 6KEAT AS THAT J THE NECESSARY I —l OONT TUP human BODt I* £U*CETi»LE V^MS^H UNINFORMEP' OF
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  • 276 10 DEMAND FOR SHARES CONTINUES IN INDUSTRIALS By Our Market Correspondent IJUYING activity continued unabated in the industrial section of the Singapore Share Market yesterday in what some sharebrokers described as the strongest-ever buying interest with sellers reserved. Exchanges at lower levels were still an insignificant proportion of total exchanges. Some
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  • 448 10 ANOTHER week of masterly inactivity with any bullish or bearish factors seemingly ignored, reports Holiday, Cutler, Bath and Co., Ltd., in a current review of the Singapore Rubber Market. Any slight rise immediately brings out profit-taking, which, as It dwindles. Is In turn replaced by covering, but
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  • 81 10 The sale of Pahang Para Rubber Syndicates Atbara Estate at Kuantan has been completed for £60.666 and the company's as.<"ts now consist of cash and securlti»s only. Thp break-up value of its assets In the event of liquidation Is estimated at approximately 2s2d. per 2s. share, but an
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  • 80 10 Ships lyir alongside the Singspore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: President Jackson 1-2, Patroclus 4-5, Flintshire 6A, Benmhor 6-7, Steel Chemist 8-9, Bencruachan 11. Malay 13-14. Straat Ball 15-16, Glenfjyle 18, Frederick Clover 21-22, Tong Thay 23, Perak 24, Hikone Maru 25-26. Kinabalu 27-28, Falstrla 29-30,
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  • 586 10 The Malayan Share Brokers Association reported: "There was a further sharp advance In industrial prices- Tins were firm and rubbers quietly steady." Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following busine- me yesterday: Fed. Disper.sary $2.30- Fraser <b Neave pref. $4 xd, ords $2.82% to (2.85; Gammon 52.73H (overnight),
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  • 43 10 On the free exchange market In Hong Kong yesterday, the U.S. dollar was quoted at 6 03\ f or i cash and 6.0 1 1 for T-T. Sterling was quoted at 16.36 and I I one tail of gold at 262^4
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  • 153 10 August first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore on Friday at 93 Vi cents per lb. up threeeighths of a cent on Thursday's close. The closing tone was steady. flowing prices in cents per lb. yesterday were: OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R.S.S. Spot fo.b buyers 92' i, seUers
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  • 18 10 OFFICIALPRicb j I SINGAPORE 9 ri-bber J. ul> m m Per lb. Up wJ P«cul (down I
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  • 114 10 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS Investmen'f^K^i moving Mthta M& on the Melbourne today. Trad,-. B**8 t«9 lower, in I JUT"* s L other moves I Gold generally A although I IS. 2d. Trau. <!*■ held around I Loans 3 V I Loans 3., I Bank of Con. Zinc £2 Mount Lyell I N.
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  • 108 10 Singapore Chine., rWM change: noon prices p< I terday were:— I Copra: s-e. j -.^B buyers, $26 sellers. CocS? I steady; bulk Mu-, wJJrjH $45 sellers. p pppfr r^M about 30 tons of busing i 9 done; Mumok I wak $109, qwcUl E I $74 (all i; I
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    • 1452 10 NOTICES TRADE MARK NOTICE GLOBE 11 11 ]p>H FABRIC NOTICE is hereby given that the Trade Mark depicted above Is the absolute and exclusive property of Globe Traders of No. 108 A High Street, P.O. Box 2124, Singapore and Is used by them in respect of Nylon Sheers, Nylon Glass
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    • 184 10 NOTICE NOTICE TO KHOO SAY HAI: Mother very anxious about you. Please return, all forgiven. Anybody knowing whereabouts of Khoo Say Hal. 19, please inform Madam Yeoh Kirn Keok c o Anglo Oriental, Mallm Nawar. SHIPPING NOTICES VY.K. LINE (Nippon Ynsen KaUha). m.T. "KYOAN MARU" Arrived: 13-7-57. A General Survey
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    • 476 10 KNUTSEN LINE orient service I FROM CANADA/US. PACIFIC PORTS —3p DAYS I Sailing San Vancouver Francisco Spore P.Swetr. Penan? F r Elisabeth Bakke In Port I Cjertrud Bakkc 4/ 6Aug 7Au? 9Ao? TiM Ellen Bakke 27 July 26/28Aug 29Au 31Au, vA Kriitin Bakke 3 Aug J7Aug 16/18 Sept 19Sept 21Sept
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  • The STRAITS TIMES saturday forum
    • 107 12 IS IT TREASON TO QUIT A UNION? I AM a normal studentteacher. Recently, I resigned from the Singapore Teachers' Union, because I did not agree with its views. The next aay when I arrived at school some of my male colleagues shouted at me: "Treason, traitor." Is that the way.
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    • 802 12 f|UR Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, not very long ago expressed his concern over the circulation of malicious rumours that the value of the Malayan dollar is going down and that Malaya is threatened with inflation. But did he know about the way our cost-of-living
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    • 213 12 AT the last meeting of Singapore City Council, the President In reply to a complaint by a councillor said that most of the consumers of water, gas and electricity do not understand the bills rendered them, was reported to have said that nothing
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    • 453 12 from pain caused by Rheumatism, Fibrosifis, Lumbago, Gout, etc. D6SI PIUROMIL is a if illi 49 cleansing internal IPwdfl' 'BP t treatment which I' vCS lon g lasting \W***(tl* relief DIUROMIL il M W&ft -lushes and cleanses heving pain by attacking the cause Turn to o f trouble. Qinromil Purifying
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    • 121 12 Going to EUROPE? A JfTake a closer look. h STOP-OVER '^&j£S^^P*^ JJtj^s^^EP^B mOU II Sl'6 yj^fo'**^4p% less time mr The Alia Insurance Building y Rayon Yam A THREE GOLDEN HORSES v*A\ x KURALON Filament Yam. 'IvX*\ /ivlX KURASHIKI RAYON CO., LTD *•.••••*< Heod Office, 2, Umeda Kira-ku, Osoko r /,•*•*•*<
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    • 431 13 (Continued from Pate 6.) VITIATIONS VACANT •fin.)— Box St cts. extra. \N FIRM Requires Stenographer also okf stenographers: ;n strict confidence, 1 Post Box 2735. riVE Position in Europel Agency offered respon- >t have experience bookings. Reply in Advertiser, PO. Box ipore. "NIOR CLERKS with or with. required for British
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    • 430 13 SITUATIONS VACANT Words SS (Mim.)-Box St ets. txtra WANTED CHINESE DOCTOF for well established Dispensary Please send personal particular and qualifications to No 34 Mot Ouan Terrace, Singapore. WANTED: GENERAL AM A* iralned European household fa Plat District 10, 2 adults 1 baby duties Include occasional baby sitting. GPO Box
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    • 791 13 I ACCOMMODATION VACANT JO Word, SS (Mi*.)— Box SOrt: txtra. t VACANT TWO ROOMS $50 each, Water/Lights Included. SeaI side Bungalow, near Bus Stop. View/Apply after 5 p.m., 650-3 Bedok Road. I DIRECT OR AUG. Bachelor r Eur. > offer nice place by bachelor .use of whole house L- bath
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    • 848 13 ACCOMMODATION WANTED to Words SS (mm.)— Box St ets. txtrm. EUROPEAN BACHELOR WISHES to share Flat or Mess Districts 9, 10 or 11 preferred. Box A 3707, S.T. FLATLET ABOUT TWO Rooms plus In reasonable district by European business woman. Would consider sharing. Phone ***** after 530 p.m. EUROPEAN FAMILY
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    • 985 13 VEHICLES FOR SALE M Word, SS (Him.)— Box M fi«. sxtrm. 1955 WOLSELEY 4/44. 1954 Studebaker Champion. View 28, Grange Road. 1954 BLUE STUDEBAKER Saloon. One owner Syce driven. Recently overhauled, $3,250 on.o. Phone ***** 1955 ROVER 60, Black, one Owner. 21.000 careful miles, Beautiful condition. $6,500. Phone ***** Office
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    • 601 13 VEHICLES FOR SALE H Words SS (Mln.)—B»x it ct: mmtrm. FIAT 500 CC Convertible, October 1953, 30,000 miles, well Maintained, Tiptop condition, newly Repainted Corinth Blue, new Hood, New Upholstery, Extras: Wing Mirror, Wind Deflectors, Upholstered Rear Seats. Best offer over $1,500 Secures. Phone Holmberg 1 Office *****. Home *****.
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    • 130 13 TOO •O O IBp j^*^*' DELICIOUS V'Mr^U MMm-Mmm l|p^ Hff Ih|h| Made in Englanc JtSF^^^^^B^^^^^^WrSHn rcfTl choicest f rui I mm t^L^'^ J JlffHr I Strawberry 8m \ii t&ilC**- V^^ A Blackcurrant Raspberry Victoria Plum AVAILABLE AT ALL GOOD GROCERS Wt Brandyman is quite a lady's man! A popular penonaliry
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  • 951 14 CROP OF NEW RECORDS EXPECTED ON NEW CTNDERS TRACK, BUT.. BROMLEY WILL MAKE IT TOUGH FOR EDWARDS AND SISON Ken Perera is good for 880 in 1:57 By NORMAN SIEBEL WHEN the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association's cha m pionships are held at the new Fairer
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  • 112 14 T»HE Japanese Thomas Cup 1 badminton team will play a friendly match against Singapore next Friday night at the S.B.A. Hall, at Guillemard Road. The Japanese team, now in Colombo for their first round match against Ceylon starting tonight, will arrive on Thursday by
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  • 26 14 St. Joseph's Institution beat Bartiey by nine wickets at Bras Basah Road yesterday. Bartiey 55 (Martens 4-10p St. Joseph's 66-1 (De Vaa 34 no.).
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  • 206 14 TAUNTON, Fri. AFTER struggling in damp conditions on the first two days the West Indies cricketers took advantage of a firm pitch and brighter weather to gain some batting practice in drawing their match against Somerset here today. With Garfield Sobers hitting 104 and
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  • 444 14 BATSMEN HAVING A LEAN TIME SINGAPORE batsmen are having a lean time in tournament cricket this season. So far, only three batsmen— Bob Barker (S.C.C.), Thuraisingham (Ceylonese) and Douglas Ross (S.R.C.) have passed the 300-run mark. Barker, the S.C.C. left hander. heads the batting list with
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  • 176 14 Cooper out in fourth round SHOCK No. 1 CHICAGO, Fri. ASHLEY COOPER, the world's No. 1 amateur tennis player since Lew Hoad turned professional, was beaten in the fourth round of the U.S. clay court championships here yesterday by Grant Golden, America's 10th ranked player. Golden won 4-6. 6-4. 6-2.
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  • 92 14 JOHORE announced their team to inert Singapore in the first round of the inter-state badminton tournament for the Foong Seong Cup at the Singapore Youth j Sports Centre today and 'omorrow. The Johore team, to be led by non-playing captain Ng Ngoh Tee Omar Manap, Pang
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  • 25 14 ASCOT. Berkshire. Fri. Mr. J.J. Astor's Rally won the Brown Jack Stakes, run over two miles, six furlong and 34 yards here today.
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  • 94 14 PENANG, Friday. A NOTHER 12 records were broken on the second day of the Penang and Province Wellesley Combined Schools athletics meet at the City Stadium today. Maureen Augustine of the Bukit Mertajam Convent did a splendid 16ft. 2>/ 2 in. in the She bettered
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  • 146 14 GIM HOCK-HOE BENG CLASH WILL BE CSC MEET HIGHLIGHT HIGHLIGHT of the Chinese Swimming Club championships at Amber Road today will be the clash between Thio Gim Hock and the 16-year-old junior champion Fong Hoe Beng in the freestyle events. Gim Hock, a member of the Singapore water polo team
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  • 44 14 ALOR STAR, Fri. "THREE State records were broken at the North Kedah A.A.A. championships on the Sultan Abdul Hamid College ground here today. Schoolboy Ahmad Mansor, who won three other events 100 yds, 220 yds and long Jump was champion athlete.
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  • 251 14 4 CHANGES IN MCFA TEAM FOR HO HO CUP KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. SOUTH CHINA, who are representing Hong Kong Chinese this year in the annual Ho Ho Cup match against Malayan Chinese at the Princes Road Stadium tomorrow, have named the team which trounced SinoMalays 9-2 in Singapore last Saturday.
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  • 66 14 IPOH, Frl. Anderson School became champions of the Central Perak zone Merdeka soccer competition when they beat AngloChinese School 4-1 on the padang yesterday. They will meet the champions of the South Perak zone, Government English School of Tapah, next week at Kampar and the winners
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  • 32 14 LONDON. Frl. Brain Londong of Blackpool, and Kltlone Lave of Tonga, will meet in an eliminating bout for the British Empire heavyweight boxing title at West Hartlepool on Aug. 12. Renter.
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  • 230 14 all out for 29 MIDDLE^ second lo and wen I innings and 22 I After bein» 51 run. v on the nrsi L sex had k, 11 runs at 1 m terday. and four remainin.; wi C b^ runs m h;i I Veteran Uu-hyshir. Cliff Glad win st a L*H
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    • 757 14 CLASSIFIED ADS. "AT YOUR SERVICE" 20 Words $10 (minimum). Daily 1 month. 10 Words $2 JO (Mm.) EJECTION WATCH SERVICE Station. Chun Chong. 62 South Bridrs Road, Singapore. WaTERM ATI'S PEN Service Station at 30b Clemen;eau House, Penan? Lane, Tel: ***** CYMA WATCH SERVICE Station. ISS North Bridge Road. Capitol
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    • 86 14 ijftjfr A world of pleasure uithirM your reach... if you oirn i Small, handy, speedy in operation, reliable and low in price these features have made Agfa Silette the most popular miniature carrier. since 1954. Coated, colour corrected Apotar 3 Shutter Speeds up to 1/500 sec; Rapid a: film-wind lever
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 252 14 TODAY i!* S»n«»l>ore v Johore (at IWMI Youths Sports Centre. 8 p.m.). BADMINTON: Foom Seonr Cnp CWCKET: Singapore v Malacca Ue Singapore v Johore (at at Padanj), st'A Senior tourYouth Sports Centre. 8 p.m.). *!f!j? ent m t n e» Ceylonese v CRICKET: Singapore v Malacca CS (at B»l««er Road).
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