The Straits Times, 28 January 1960

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  • 19 1 AVEHAGE DAILY (ERTIIIHI SALE EXCEEPS 80,000 Neti-" It**** The Straits Times Estd. 1845. THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1960 15 CENT^f
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  • 669 1 'It will set off chain reaction' forecast Trade greets $600 m. project SINGAPORE, Wed. The setting up of a $600 million steel mill as proposed by the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, can set off a chain-reaction of new secondary industries turning out finished products
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  • 179 1 Watch for the NEW Singapore Free Press A new year wish by Mr. Lee SINGAPORE, Wed. The Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said today that he hoped the Year of the Mouse would be a year of peace, happiness and prosperity for all. In a Chinese New
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  • 4 1 COUNTER PRO'
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  • 99 1 SINGAPORE. Wed—Members of the public may petition the Legislative Assembly through a member of the Assembly, a Government Press statement said today. The statement continued: "The presentation by a member of the Assembly of a petition would not necessarily mean that he supports the petition. "Members
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  • 54 1 Chinese New Year's Eve in Chinatown's Pagoda Street, Singapore, last night a festival of lights as hawkers do a roaring trade. The street and its neighbourhood were so jammed with last-minute shoppers that all motor traffic was shut off completely. Straits Times picture
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  • 93 1 SINGAPORE. Wed. A stray dog which has bitten eight people in the past three days is believed to have been frightened by crackers. The dog. a *****, whelped recently in a kampong off Lorong K Teluk Kurau. Mr. Andrew Ya Fook Lin. who
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  • 24 1 The Straits Times Berita Harian Malay essay competition closes at noon tomorrow send your entry today. The best essay will win $500.
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  • 280 1 PARIS, Wednesday. UOLITICAL moves to solve the four-day old Algerian crisis were resumed 1 here early today, while French troops and diehard settlers still faced each other across the barricades in Algiers. I The Prime Minister, M. Michel Debre, talked for half-an-hour with
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  • 141 1 SINGAPORE. Wed. Fire broke out in a China, town grocery in Duxton Road early tonight when a stork of fire-crackers exploded into flames. About ten families living above the shop were about to sit down for their Chinese New Year's Eve reunion dinner when they
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  • 59 1 SEOUL, Wed. An American Army serviceman was killed at Camp Page, near Chunchon. South Korea, on Jan. 25 during a "fast draw" contest, a United Nations Command official release stated today. A third soldier had joined the contest, unwittingly picked up a loaded pistol and fired at
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  • 263 1 SYDNEY. Wed.— The Malayan Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, said here today that he thought too many young Malayans wanted to go to school In Australia "just for the sake of It." He had instructed the Malayan High Commissioner to take particular Interest In the
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    • 9 1 A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR CHINESE READERS
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  • 519 2 The lowest number of strikes, man days lost in last 10 years THE year 1959 was an outstanding year for industrial relations in the Federation. It was the year with the lowest number of strikes (39) and man days lost (38,523) in the last 10
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  • 279 2 STRUCK-OFF VOTERS TO BE PUT BACK ON POLL ROLL SINGAPORE, Wed. People who had their names struck off the electoral registers for falling to vote in the last general election here are now appealing to the Government to have them restored. A Ministry of Home Affairs statemen* today said: •Applications
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  • 94 2 POLICE SEAL AMUSEMENT PARK IN GANG CHECK-UP MALACCA Wed. The City Park Malacca's open air amusement centre —at Bunga Raya Road was sealed off by police last night for three hours, from ten o'clock. This was the third police operation this month aimed at roping in c»nxsters and secret society
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  • 60 2 ALOR STAR. Wed Kedahs padl harvest this season will be "much above the average." the Kedah State agricultural officer. Mr. J. Hitchcock, predicted today. t i He estimated a total yield of over one million gantang*! about 25.000 more than last season's production. 80 far harvesting in
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  • 382 2 'SEGREGATION' AT THE UNIVERSITY COMES UNDER FIRE SINGAPORE. Wednesday. THE man-in-the-street here is against the decision A to base the entry of Malayans into the University of Malaya's two divisions on residential qualifications, according to the latest issue of the Malayan Undergrad. organ of the university's Students' Union. Publishing the
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  • 126 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. Mor» than 100 former empoyees of the Whay Hln Pineapple Cannery, now picketing outside U.e factory In Guillemard Roaa. were each given a Chinese New Year "ang pow" by the Shell Employees' Union, today. The "ang pows". each containing two crisp $l notes,
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  • 78 2 NO WELFARE OFFICER FOR COUNCIL KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Municipal Council today rejected a Socialist Front move for the appointment of a welfare officer to look after the council's 2.000 daily-paid workers. Introducing the motion. Mr. V David said that most big commercial firms had welfare ofn>"- < v 80
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  • 122 2 10.000 FIX MEETING TO DISCUSS DEMANDS SINGAPORE, Wed. The 10.000-member Singapore City Council Labour Unions Federation will meet on Feb. 14 to discuss 13 outstanding demands put to the council. The federation will also discuss its request to the council to abolish the staff committee which replaced the former disciplinary
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  • 258 2 lOHORE BAHRU, Wed I Massage parlours which have mushroomed in Johore, following a clamp on them in Singapore, will shortly come under Government control. This Is foreshadowed in a Bill to come before the State Legislative Assembly on Feb. I on a certificate of
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  • 189 2 'Carry on good work 9 Lord Selkirk SINGAPORE. Wed The United Kingdom Commissioner In Singapore. Lord Selkirk, is confident that the British European Association here will contribute In full measure towards the prosperity of the new State In the future. In a brief message to the members of the association
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    • 135 2 How long 4*\ since YOU m$ felt like this /Jl/ You can't feel cheerful and full of lift when you're H| J» suffering from constipation, upset stomach, acid ',<• 1 indigestion, heartburn, or biliousness. You lose m your appetite. You feel listless, irritable, uncom- £&^M' fortabk. This is the lime
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

  • 273 3 Monckton Commission witnesses being intimidated: Govt. LUSAKA (Northern Rhodesia), Wednesday. rpHREATS of violence have been made J- against persons intending to give evidence before the Monckton Commission, it was disclosed today. Mr. Ralph Nicholson, acting Chief Secretary, told the Legislative Council that the Northern Rhodesian Government
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  • 294 3 Ranting anti-Macmillan mob's ardour cooled by downpour BLANTYRE, (Nyasaland), Wed. The noisiest nationalist demonstration of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's African tour petered out under a torrential downpour here today. More than 50 Africans, including three women, were arrested. A crowd of about 500 Africans yelled slogans, brandl- shed placards
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  • 47 3 MOB MURDER: 40 CHARGED DURBAN. Wed.— Police yesterday charged 40 people with taking part In the slaughter of nine policemen here on Saturday night. Altogether. 217 people had been arrested by midnight as authorities investigated an attack In which nine policemen were stoned and hacked to death.
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  • 131 3 HE FACED DEATH FOR 12 MINUTES NEW YORK, Wed.— Window cleaner Ferdinand Ekberg hung for 12 minutes 13 floors above fashionable Park Avenue today after his safety harness broke. When be was rescued be took a drink of Scotch In the flat whose windows he had been cleaning and went
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  • 55 3 NICOSIA. Wed.— A section of Karmi village was evacuated last night, while British Army engineers tried to blast 1.000-tpn boulder perched on the mountain side which threatened to fall on their poofs. As a result of the blastings. «Ie rock now shows signs of Inching down
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  • 26 3 TOKYO. Wed— Two people died from gas poisoning early today when a main broke In one of the most congested sections of Tokyo.— U.P.l.
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  • 247 3 THE BLACKOUT ON SUEZ— BY IKE i WASHINGTON, Wednesday. PRESIDENT Eisenhower told his Press conference yesterday, in commenting on Sir Anthony Eden's i memoirs, that for two weeks prior to the Suez action in October, 1956, Britain imposed a blackout on offi- cial communications to Washington. I The President aald
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  • 40 3 NEW YORK, Wed.— Twelve toplevej Russian Government officials will fly here on Friday to begin a 24-day tour of 10 states. The party was invited by state governors who visited Russia last summer. U.P.I.
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  • 225 3 Volunteer to make desperate rescue bid LAST HOPE FOR TRAPPED MINERS fOAJiBROOK, (S. v> Africa), Wed An estimated 440 miners sealed deep underground by a rockslide even if they are alivewill have to stay in their tomb for at least another month. Observers at the rescue scene said yesterday that
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  • 208 3 SECOND TALKS BOYCOTT OVER LONDON, Wed. The four European delegates of Kenya's rightwing United Party returned to the Londoii conference on the constitutional future of the East-African Colony this morning after their one-session boycott yesterday afternoon. Air Commodore E. L. Howard-Williams, an independent European member who had joined the United
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  • 141 3 LONDON. Wednesday. BRITAIN is offering an independent Cyprus economic aid worth approximately £8 million over a period of about five years, an authoritative source said yesterday. The offer is understood to be £2,500.000 spread over a five-year period, and a loan of £5 million also over
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  • 59 3 NEW YORK. Wed.— A surgeon's wife, two women servants and a taxi driver were found bound and shot to death yesterday In the physician's fashionable home In North Brunswick. The murders took place In the home of Dr. Francis* M. Clarke while he was performing
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  • 24 3 LOS ANGELES. Wed. Frank Spagnulolo. a 36-year-old blind man. pleaded guilty here to taking racing bets and recording them In Braille.— U.P.L
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  • 40 3 LONDON. Wed— Fog closed London Airport for 12 hours yesterday as visibility fell to 15 yards. Ships in the Thames had to anchor hurriedly because of the suddenness with which the fog descened U J».I.
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    • 197 3 KONG HEE FATT CHOY Cold Storage Organisation wishes all its Chinese Customers a very happy and prosperous Chinese New Year Wishing All Our Chinese Patrons A Happy A M*rosperaus JVeu? Yeur Jicttct I MAKE JQHORE C mcuiT WINNER! I JPi hVbrutry 20th— 21st i»the dateof the Johore Coronation utmost from
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    • 479 3 Your radio today... RADIO SINGAPORE RADIO MALAYA Medium Wave 476 metres NATIONAL SHORTWAVE AM. 6.30 Good Morning; 6.32 mkdU^m'wwlT SERVICES Morning Prelude; 7.00 The News: Kuala Lumpur 341 metres 7.05 A Date With Music; 8.00 The Penane 166 metrea News; 8.05 A Date With Music; JK|, era 8.30 Melodies And
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  • 240 4 A SHOPPING SPREE TO WELCOME YEAR OF THE RAT SINGAPORE, Wed. Hectic preparations to usher in the Year of the Rat were in full swing in Singapore tonight. With only hours to so before the bin day tomorrow, housewives today hurriedly did their last-minute shopping. Many streets in Chinatown, jammed
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  • 179 4 SINGAPORE COULD LEARN A LOT FROM INDONESIA' SINGAPORE, Wednesday. pUTURE Indonesia-Singapore co-operation in the cultural field may include the exchange of personnel between Radio Singapore and Radio Indonesia, a Government spokes- man here said today. Such exchanges, he said, would be of mutual benefit to
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  • 32 4 SINOAPORE. Wed. The Blood Transfusion Centre will not be open for donors tomorrow and on Friday. There will oe the usual last-Sunday-of-the month donor session at the Centre.
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  • 34 4 BINOAPORE, Wed. A Sathurthi ceremony will be held at the Sri Senpaga Vlnayagar temple. '9. Celyon Road from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday. There will also be a religious lecture.
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  • 205 4 SINGAPORE, Wednesday. A MARRIED woman. Koh Kirn Eng, told a court A today that her husband, Gay Hock Chew, a postal department clerk, had considered the birth of their daughter a "curse" on him. Koh. of Dakota Crescent, said this at a hearing of
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  • 71 4 PEON TO PAY FOR CHILD'S UPKEEP SINGAPORE. Wed. A peon, employed at the Police Training School, divorced his wife when she was an expectant mother, a Magistrate was told today. Bakrl bin Matsom was ordered to pay $10 a month for the maintenance of the child. The wife. Hadijah told
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  • 29 4 SINOAPORE, Wed. The English service of Radio Singapore will broadcast the rugger match between North and South Malaya on the Singapore Padang at 5 p.m. on Saturday.
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  • 198 4 Constable is cleared of graft count SINGAPORE, Wed— A guard police constable, Syed bin Babu was today acquitted on two charges ot corruptly accepting six eggs, one papaya, one katty of sweet potatoes and $6 on Sept. 14 and Oct. 17 last year. Today, at the end of a twoday
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  • 34 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Minister for Culture and Mrs. S. Rajaratnam will be present at the opening performance of the American Dance Jubilee at the Happy World Stadium at 8 p.m. on Saturday.
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  • 108 4 MOTHER CHARGED WITH BID TO KILL BABY SINGAPORE, Wed. &A mother, tentatively charged today with the attempted murder of her three-month-old daughter, was ordered to be remanded at the Woodbrldge Hospital till Feb. 10. Koh Keok Lan, 29. of 13-1 2 milestone Mandal Road, was alleged to have chopped the
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  • 161 4 CINGAPORE, Wed. S Anthony Ho Thiam Swee, Jobless and with two wives, paid in a court here today $150 as part of the maintenance arrears, due to Adeline Ho, his first wife. Ho. of Changi Road, had been warned by Mr. Goh Heng Leong,
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  • 24 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. Th# Minister far Health, Inche Ahmad bin Ibrahim, today declared Alleppey. a port in South India, a small-pox Infected area.
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  • 23 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. There will be no collection of nightsoil by the City Cleansing Department tomorrow. Refuss will be collected as usual.
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  • 458 4 SINGAPORE, Wed— Five donations to the National Theatre Fund, received by the Ministry of Culture today, have brought the total to $365,201 67 Today's donation* came from: National Loyalty Week Celebrations Committee of the PAP and other organisations or Toe. Payoh and
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  • 100 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Government today warned the public against buying ice-cream and other Iced drinks prepared under unhygienic conditions. It also warned that, under the Food and Drug Regulations, summary action would be taken against those who endangered lives, especially unsuspecting children, by manufacturing or selling
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  • 117 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. An attractive young woman, Annie Chla. was one of five people who were fined in a Traffic Magistrate's Court today for speeding. She was fined $25 after pleading guilty to driving at 45 miles an hour along Nicoll Highway on May
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    • 321 4 j CATHAY p"; O»*»ANISATIOIM I WISHES ALL THEIR CHINESE PATRONS A HAPPY NEW YEAR SJ M.IAIU 10.45-I.IS-4.00 ■M .41 A 9 30 t.i: mv NOW SHOWING! PAT BOONE JAMES VASON lsi/\ JOUHUsT '31 I* /fJgW JFlkk cmn» fmk m vi«r/v fm!*l C Scope-Color- Fox No Free Lists, gf MIDNIOHT Tomaht,
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 171 4 The diary GEYLANG STRAITS CHINESE METHODIST CHURCH (Al Junta. Road): Chinese New Year thanksgiving sen-Jce p.m. PAYA LEBAR METHODIST CHURCH (Boundary Roadi: Pnyr Circle meeting 9 15 p.m. R.A.0.8.: Pride of the Bast Lodge weekly meeting at th« Straits Merchant Service Oulld, 14 Raffle* Quay, B.SO p.m. SINGAPORE RED CROSS
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    • 316 4 The Saint By Leniie Charteris f THANKS I'VE S£EN ALL THC 50 A6<WN YOU WILL 86 ON THE COLONEL WKVDE z *ISS KINIAN BOOKED .•A X SkSKTS AW FEET CAN STAND. SAME PLANE WITH ME IT ISAS IF ON AiPEUTOPE PU6HT 4CA t)6ewG\M 01. WHAT *?£f A AND I MUST
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    12 5  -  LUCY HUANG A WISH FOR HAPPINESS THE CHINESE WAY 'By
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  • 563 5 LEGEND OF THE NEW YEAR DEMON THOUSANDS of years ago there lived in China a terrible demon whose home was in the bottom of a well. He was a horrible creature with fangs and claws and horns, with drooling mouth, blood shot eyes and scaly skin. Every year in the
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 298 5 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS 6. There's no-one but come* uf 1. Verae-wrltlng magistrate? with a subterfuge (7). That's fitting (6 7>. 7. "Oolden lads and girls all 8. Pliers go over accounts (10). must as come to dust 9. Wise men have a certain iCymbeline> a-8). amount of Imagination (4).
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  • 48 6 M ITente lit (Minimum) THE FAMILY OP the late Madam Tham now of Kwong Ban Hla Ships' Laundry expresses their heartfelt thanks to all relatives, friends and well-wishes who attended the funeral, seat wreaths, loan of cars, messages of condolences and rendered valuable assistances at the funeral.
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  • 168 6 >• "/ore's tit (Minimum) VANITY'S HALF PRICE Sale hegtßS on Saturday. Open to p.m. 32 Raffles Ftace. Spore. THE H.M.V. SALON 101 TangHn Road will be opened today from 11 am. until 6 p.m. AIR-WICK MIST will freanea the atmosphere In home or office. Atr-wtek Mist Is obtainable from
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  • 620 6 The Straits Times Thursday, January 28, 1960. Success Of A Mission Mr. Lee Kuan Yew has not returned from Indonesia bearing an agreement neatly disposing of all problems between Singapore and Indonesia. He did not expect to perform seven-day wonders when he set out on his journey, nor could they
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  • 366 6 Mr. Dahanayakc's chances of remaining Prime Minister of Ceylon after the coming elections do not appear good. That there should be what is I termed subversive activity is i almost axiomatic in the circumstances as also is Mr. Dahanayake's desire to make as much of it as
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  • 233 6 If it is true, as Mr. David asserts, that there are children in Kuala Lumpur who go to school every morning "undergoing near starvation", then it is indeed "pitiful and pathetic". Welfare officers are slipping up badly if such is the case and Mr. David should hasten to
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  • 533 6 Science tests a new weapon against disease LONDON. Wednesday. IN laboratories scattered throughout Britain, teams of scientists are beginning intensive research into interferon, a substance that can inhibit the growth of viruses. They are trying to perfect for human use the first antibiotic against virus diseases. If these investigations are
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  • 696 6 BEHIND THE PAGE ONE DRAMA... THE KEY TO THE CRISIS AND THE MAN AT \w THE CENTRE OF IT ALL SO the bullets are flying again, troops with machine guns and grenades are out in force, the acrid tang of tear gas hangs in the air, the
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  • 392 6 STAGE IS ALL SET FOR THE BIG BOMB BLAST... ...and across the Sahara PARIS. Wednesday. SPECIAL French army units are now on their way to Reggane, the nearest oasis to Hammoudia hi the "Thirsty Desert" area of the Sahara where the French are preparing to explode their first atomic bomb.
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  • 1368 7 INSPECTOR TELLS OF CONVERSATION WITH TWO OF THE GROUP THE DAY BEFORE THEIR ARREST ON ILLEGAL ARMS CHARGE rpWO of the 36 self-confessed Indonesian rebels now on trial in Penang were alleged in J- the magistrate's court today to have told a police officer that they
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  • 81 7 NEW LEADER OF NUPW BRANCH IPOH. Wed —Mr. S Ramasamy was elected chairman of the Perak branch of the National Union of Plantation Workers for the next two years at the biennial conference here yesterday. He succeeds Mr. A. Venugopal, who did not contest the election. Mr Venugopal Is now
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  • 61 7 SINGAPORE. Wed.- A student, Ong Beng Kee. 12. was killed after he was knocked down by a taxi at Bukit PanJang Road here today. He and his brother. Beng Hin, 10. were walking to school when the accident happened. Beng Kee died instantly while Beng Hin. who was
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  • 49 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Gabriel Dennis Netto. 33, of Ipoh Road, was today bound over for six months in $100 for possessing two gallons of petrol valued at $3.98 suspected to have been stolen on Jan. 20. He admitted this in the second magistrate's court.
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  • 151 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Ministry of Transport today told all departments under its charge to use Malay during National Language Week. A statement said that officlal designations on letters and letter heads would be In Malay. The statement also said that ANNOUNCEMENTS at Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 198 7 IJUALA LUMPUR. Wed— A middle-aged confidence trickster struck again for the •second time In a week when he cheated two housewives out of a total of $36 at Jalan Pelandok off Pasar Road last night. The man, posing as a salesman from a well-known
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  • 43 7 WITH only a matter of hours to go before the big festival, these girls make a hasty Chinese New Year Eve selection of fresh flowers for making obeisance to the deities. and fur adornment of their homes. Straits Times picture.
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  • 235 7 HEAR UNIONS, BYRNE TOLD SINGAPORE. Wednesday. "THE Singapore City Council Electrical Workers' Union has written to the Minister for Labour and Law. Mr. K. M. Byrne, asking for clarification on the provisions of the Industrial Relations BUI, which seeks to create Industrial peace. Among other
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  • 52 7 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Wed. Teoh Bak Chool, 18. today pleaded not guilty to a charge of voluntarily causing hurt with a knife to a woman hairdresser, 00l Chin Yong. on Jan. 24 at 11 p.m. at Teoh Aun Cheng Lane here. The case was fixed for hearing on
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  • 67 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Next Wednesday's meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club will be conducted In Malay to mark National Language Week. The nominee for District Governor. Tuan Hajl Mustapha Albakri. will preside at the meeting, which will be addressed by the chairman of National Language
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  • 36 7 BUTTEEWORTH. Wed. A planter, Hassan bin Ismail 20. was sent to hospital this morning after he had been gored by a buffalo. He was allowed to go home after treatment to his right thigh.
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  • 59 7 BENTONG. Wed. Dog shooting teams from th« Veterinary Department. Pahang, will shoot dogs not wearing licences from Feb 15 onwards. A Veterinary Department notice said today that all dogs over three months old must wear a 1960 licence disc on Its collar. The licence costs
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  • 45 7 ALOR STAR. The Kedah Government has stopped registrations for alienation of land In rural areas for six months from Dec. 7. An official statement today explained this was to enable the Government to deal with the 36,000 applications so far received.
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  • 180 7 ENGLISH CLIMATE TAXES A MATHS 'WIZARD' SINGAPORE. Wed. Lee Wai Mun, Singapore's top-flight mathematician, has come home with one problem unsolved how to adapt himself to the Manchester weather while doing research there. He emphasised, however, that he would not allow the cold to beat him and that he would
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  • 43 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Inche Mahmood bin All hai been appointed chairman oi the Board of Visiting Justice) for Johore. Two women Puan Zaidah blnte Abu Bakar and Puan Rahman binti Abdul Manaf. are among 24 members of the board thli year
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    • 355 8 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS Applications are Invited from sen-Ing officers and also from Federal Citizens and State Nationals for appointment as Typist ln the Public Works Department. KelanUn, Kota Bharu. on the following salary scales: Probationers $100. Grade HI $115x7.50-145 J Grade II $160x7.50-190 Grade 1 $205- Candidates must noi be less
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    • 159 8 l^aM M i (Continued from Page 6) SITUATIONS VACANT ft Ward* Si (Min.)— Box tt et*. extra ACTIVE VOUNO British European Assistant required for Import Department of A. Clouet Co. Previous experlencc of Imports an advantage but not essential. Salary will be paid In iccordance with experience and position offered
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    • 144 8 ACCOMMODATION VACANT M Word* ti (Mln.)— Max it et*. txtrm THREE BCOROOMED FURNISHBO bungalow with large compound ln Circular Road near Oolf Club available April August inclusive. Apply Box A 9741 B.T. K.L. COMFORTABLE BUNGALOW Braddell heights, fully equipped for six months from end March, two beeiioaws aircondltioned. Study Patio
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    • 1027 8 HOUSES LAND FOR SALE M Word, ti Mln.)— Box tt et*. uln MODERN SHOPS and Flata at Changl Road. 51 mile. Opposite Mobil Station. Easy Terms Arranged. Apply Mi B'pore *****, *****. *****. FOR CHINESE New Tear! Buy a Flat/Shop at Tanjoag Katong Road. Lorong 24A. or Kampong Java Road.
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    • 454 8 AT YOUR SIRVICI <$'*©*) it Ward* tit (Minimum) Uail, i month. It Ward* SlJt (Mm.) HIFmOIRATIOH AIR CONDITIONING repairs and scnrica. Osu Broa k CO.. Binsapon. Tslcpbons: *****. PHOTOSTAT aßWVtCß— Documants coplwl aY completed In 1 hour. Kotomatlc. M Robinson Road, *****. B'pore. plan printing from tracmes Sole agents. "Oca
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    • 50 8 HAVE YOU MET |H?fW| I W \r 1 The 7th Century master-detective I is on the trail of the killers in I —The "whodunit" with a difference I now being serialised J in I The Magazine for all the family I B RADIO WEEKLY Every Friday -Only 30 cents J
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    • 1740 9 THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE TO ADEN. IUtRPOOI. GLASGOW. LONDON B CONTINENTAL PORTS. Due S'pori Saili P. S'nam Ptnang MX LutrpMl. G'asgow —II Port/lM 11 Jm 11/1 EUMAEDS Haw., Oub ,n Jm 31 Frt 2 Frt 1/ I Frt I CYCLOPS LivtriMl Il 'trt Frt I Frt 1/ I Frt 1/11
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    • 910 9 nilbins THE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. "bit? 1 i SINGAPORE (Ittariaratrt it tkt Ulitrt K:»0m) I LINES UILINBI TO ADEN. U.K. B CONTINENTAL PORTS. S'pori P. Sham Ptntng BENCUUCN for Hbur|, L'don, 6'moutn a/11 JM MNVEMU for Littrpool. RotttrOMi. Holl 4/ S Frt a Jrt/ 1 frt 1/ B Frt
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    • 855 9 W McAUSTER <Sc CO., LTD. Vb->w HI.I.IBMAii LINE KLAVENESS LOIS UtBNM. aAMBURB. ROniRBAM. NAVBI. LBS ANBELES. SAN FRANCISCO. t HUH. SEATTLE, VANCOUVER B PORTLANO MM for Canada A U S.A Nortti Atlantic ports Auoptiag cargi Iw Ctttril 1 Statl CITT If COLOMBO Aatrica. Sport P. Sham Ptnang BRONXVIIIE 14 71
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  • 434 10 INDUSTRIALS MININGS CLOSE FIRM FOR HOLIDAYS OFFICIAL PRICES SINGAPORE, JAN. 27. RUBBER: $1.15, 4 per ib. (up three-quarters of a cent). TIN: $389.12 per picul (up 12} cents). Estimated unofficial offering 260 tons up 10 tons).. By Our Market Correspondent INDUSTRIALS and tins closed very firm yesterday on the Malayan
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  • 114 10 MELBOURNE. Wed. JNVESTMENT shares were firm and active here today. Herald eased Is. Base metals and oils traded steadily. Loans were firm. Con. Zinc 96 10' i Mount Lyell 8 2 North Broken HUI 148/6 Peko 12/3 buyer Oil Search 5/11 i Timor Oil 4/10 seller Con. Tin
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  • 154 10 I.'l BIU \HI first grade rubber buyers fob. closed in Singapore yesterday at 51.15 per lb., up three-quarters of a cent on Tuesday's close. The closing tone was Idle. Closing prices in cents per lb.. yesterday were: OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R.SS. Spot f.o.b. buyers 116> 2 sellers in
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  • 265 10 SHIPS Ivlnj alonriide the Slnfapore Harbour Board wharves today are: Pres. Jackson 4. 5, Bradeverett 6A, Oleneajrn 6/ 7. btraat Van Diemen 8 9, Benreoch 15/16, YuJclkawa Maru 19, Rajah Brooke 23, 24 Nanu&a 25, Benveg 26. Obokil 31 32, Drente 33/34. Olaucus 35/36. Danakul 40/41. Outer
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  • 117 10 ALL Malayan Exchange Banks' Association rates were unchanged yesterday as follows (all rates to $100): New York: buying airmail T.T. 32 15/16, OX). 33 1/16, 90 d st 33 1/2 credit bills, 33 9/16 trade bills Canada: buying airmail T.T. 31 3 8, OD. 31 1/2. 90 d/st
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  • 109 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices per plcul yesterday were: Copra: quiet: UK/Continent January, February shipments $42 buyers, (43 sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $63 sellers, drum $66 sellers. Pepper: quiet, no business was reported done; Muntok white $411, Sarawak $410, special Sarawak black $270, garbled Lampong black
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  • 23 10 Malayan Share Market: Jan. 27 Jan. 26 Industrials: 126.25 125.56 Tins: 131.39 150.33 S Rubbers: 219.92 219.82 Jan. 1 1958 100
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  • 423 10 THE Malayan Share Brokers' Association reported yesterday: "Industrials and tins continued to improve while rubbers were steady. The turnover was small." .Singapore brokers reported the following business up to 12 noon: Industrials: Fed. Dlsp. $1.18; Fraser and Neave ords $1.75 (O): Gammon $2.50; Henry Waugh $1.48 (O), $1.49;
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    • 1065 10 Express U.S.A. Pacific tft Atlantic Coast Sarviea E.T.A. E.T.A. E.T.A. Spore P. S'rjm Penang H'tonf L. Angeles New York ■Kiaikiwa Mam Ist Call 27 21 Fek n Fik 1 Mm 2*i Call 3/ 4 Mar I Mar 2J Mir IS Apr "KMikawi Mara Ist Call 24 25 Mar 21 i!
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    • 154 10 AVERAGE PRICE The averace rubber price in January was 114.11 centa per lb.. compared with 117.07 rents in December. UNION OF BURMA SHIPPING BOARD FROM RANGOON, MOULMEIN. AND MERGUI LOADING FOR PENANG AND BURMA PORTS PYIDAWAYE" Spore 30 Jon Pcnong 1 Feb Agent: INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING AGENCY 338/342. Telok Ayer Street.
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    • 257 10 TENDERS D.I.D. TENDER NOTICE The State Drainage A Irrigation Engineer. Pahang, Kuantan will receive tenders from contractor! of clan "E" and above for the construction of Reinforced Concrete Headworks at Paya Atok. Muklm Sega, Pahang. Full particulars may be obtained from the Drainage 6c Irrigation Engineer, West Pahang, Raub. W.
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    • 726 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENT PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS Applications are Invited from serving officers and from Federal Cltisens for appointment as Stenographer, Public Works Department, Kota Bharu. Kelantan. on the scale $253x14--351 /Efficiency Bar/ $366x14-422/ Vacancy Bar/Special Oracle $450x20-530. In addition, COLA and other allowances at current rates will be paid. Candidates must not
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    • 646 10 NOTICES NOTICE MEMBERS or the Public are Informed that all Roads on Land Allenlated to South Malaya Pineapple Growers Coy Ltd.. Pekan Nanas Estate, Pontlan will be closed to all Traffic on 30th January 1960. THE TOWN BOARDS ENACTMENT (F.M.S. Cap. 137) IPOH TOWN COUNCIL NOTICE. Notice is hereby given
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    • 475 10 NOTICES NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Mr. Ow Kirn Seng has been appointed Managing Director of the Company with effect from 26th January, 1960. BENG HIN COMPANY. LIMITED 297. Beach Road. Singapore, 7. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Mr. Tan Kirn Hui. Managing Director of the Company, has
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  • 1025 11 RACING with EPSOM JEEP TIMBERLANE WILL PROVIDE THE CHALLENGE BUT— Bestcrete looks set to score an easy double today BESTCRETE, who routed his opposition in the 6f Henggeler Memorial race on the first day, looks set for an easy double in the Class 1, Div. 1 6f handicap (Race Five)
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  • 397 11 Race 1—2.30: (Class 4, Div. 3)— Abt. 7 Furs. 1 ***** Lucky Gaaae (Metropole St.) Hobbs. 5 9.0 Franklin S 2 ***** Calvados (J. H. Laidlaw) Rodger*. 4 8.13 > 3 ***** Dancing Water (James H St.) Sullivan. 6 8.11 (F) Taylor 3 4 ***** Kinaoalu (Newborn St.)
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  • 794 11 SELECTIONS EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER ROSE II R. SQUARE TWO TAIL8 Race 1 Two Tails Straight FUght II Straight FUght II Dancing Water Dancing Water Russian Rase II THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU gut t Mississippi Jesker HI tfaorl Boy Joaker III Cargo Rioe r"iTn CONQUISTADOR DEMARARA CARBON
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  • 850 11 SINGAPORE. Wed. A total of 200 horses 9i Class 2 and 109 Class 3 have been entered for the Singapore Turf Club Meeting on Feb. 6 (Saturday), 11 (Thursday) and 14 (Sunday). There will be eight races each day, starting dally from 2.15 p.m. CLASS 2
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    • 160 11 INSECT BITES need immediate treatment if the risk of a more Knout mlection if to bo avoided. Soothing, healing, antiseptic DDD cleans the wound, kills tho scrim and prevent* the spread of 10--fecuon. Itching stops and healing commences tho moment DDD is used. Remember! DDD heals all skin troubles faster.
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    • 289 11 The flavour t n fl a^ aßM^ a^ B lM^ llßßB aiH^ B^ lH^ B a a 11Hail>> >a j' I i uJ" C O iS OB i I J fC iaatt/ cacao* CJ^) aL__ L t AX yfr> TM VAN HOUTEN MAKERS OF REAL CHOCOLATE .^^kgg^* INDUSTRIAL GASES Slngaaara
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  • 437 12 KUALA LUMPUR. 1V Wed. A move was made today to retract a "confession" said to have been made by a man accused in a $194,--000 fraud plot. It was made by Mr. Kam Woon. counsel for Koh Eng Chua, 36. Jointly charged with Koh
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  • 444 12 'EXPLOITATION— A WORD OF THE PAST, SAYS Dr. GAMBA SINGAPORE, Wednesday. AN ECONOMIST. Dr. Charles Gamba, said today that the term "exploitation" must no longer be used by trade unionists in cases of trade disputes "with revolutionary changes now taking place in the industrial field." Dr. Gamba. a senior lecturer
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  • 97 12 SINGAPORE, Wed. A University of Malaya (Singapore division) survey of Malayan rural families to increase their income and living standard Is being financed by a $7,500 grant from the Council of Economic i and Cultural Affairs. Inc. of New York. The survey is being conducted by
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  • 141 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Why has the gang which kidnapped the millionaire- contractor. Mr. Bong Sin. 16 days ago not made any moves for a ransom? Has he been kidnanped by a Singapore gang? These are two of the puzzling question* facing the Federation police as they
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  • 37 12 SINGAPORE. Wed Eight >plum addicts had their lentences stayed today by the Eleventh Magistrate. Mr. H. Teo. The reprieve' will enable :he addicts to have Chinese flew Year reunion with their amilles.
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  • 62 12 MRS. NC KOK NIN (Mm Uooi Ah o*p. 77, pasiu-d away pvacrfully .1.60 li-avint; h'hind five nonx. S»« Dong. Khoon. Bwve Krc. Sw-rr ■on*. f»« Kooi, four daughters. Mr*, lum Kok Khi-anK. Mr*, l.l'w Si.-w MU, Mm. CttoonK Hoi. Mrs. Chan on Koon. numrrou> Krandrhlldrrn, rat grandchildren to mourn
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  • 28 12 ITHI FAMILY of the late Mr. I»» i-rf Khrk thanks friends and relares for thrir anslntancr. condoienct iriiramK. urrathn. lo.in of cars, atticlanci etc.. hi the funrral
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  • 21 12 ro ALL OUR Mmt* in MpiMt, ilaya: Kong Her Fair Choy In. in and MM. Wong Kook klun and ally.
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  • 439 12 SPORT. ..a back page roundup SINGAPORE, Wed. South Malaya, with the two prized trophies in Malayan rugby in their keeping, will go all out for a grand slam when they meet North Malaya in the annual Malayan Rugby Union classic on the Singapore
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  • 297 12 SCRC decides to open its doors to all races KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. OELANGOR Chinese Recreation Club, one of the oldest communal associations in the country, is to open its doors to all races. I The club proposes to accept I non-Chinese as associate members. Associate members will be granted every
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  • 35 12 SINGAPORE. Wed.—Perhimponan Setla beat Sukaramai "B" 4-2 In their M PA. league match at Bale&tier Road today scoring through Jaffar All. Mohd. Talb. Bahalm and Kemat Abas and Jaffar scored (or Sukaramai.
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  • 146 12 Jabbar likes along walk walk C ABDUL JABBAR i likes nothing better r than a long walk, and where there are fellow 5 5 hikers he believes it all s s the more enjoyable. 5 He will be among 5 S the field contesting S the Hi-mile Free s I
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  • 35 12 SINGAPORE. Wed.— Entries for the 1959 Mr. Singapore contest Hiid the senior welghtllUlng championship, sponsored by the Singapore Amateur WeightUftliig Federation, to be held at New World on Feb. 13, close next Wednesday.
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  • 28 12 SINGAPORE. Wed. The FARELF i Singapore Zone hockey final between H.Q. Nee Soon Garrison and Royal Signals ended in a 1-1 draw at Oillman Barracks today.
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  • 347 12 LONDON. Wed— London stock markets developed a firmer ten* dency during the early part of the session but buying Interest appeared to slacken later and In response to some proflt-takine many uidustrial equities reacted. Engineering snares were generally belter but steel shares were finally below their best after
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  • 188 12 Malaya draws Thomas Cup bye ONDON. Wed. Mahas received a bye into the semifinals of the Asian zone in the 1960 Thomas Cup badminton tournament, according to the draw for the Asian and Australian zones announced here today by the headquarters of the International Badminton Federation. Malaya will meet the
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    • 215 12 Wardt Sl» (Minimum) VISVALINCAM MAHALUKSHMI. tUKhter of late Mr. P. Velupplllal. Postmaster. TaiplnK and In. Vrluppilai. to ViKvalmiiam. Sc St. Thninii- Colligr. Matalc. rylon. on Krb. 2 at Thanuodm. •ralnagar. Jaffna. Oylon. A SMALL AD. WILL HELP THAT V^TZZMi* SOMEONE AND MAKE CASH FOR YOU! tZj^Jl^ TIMM HOUSE. WIVCW VALL'V
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    • 155 12 EXCURSION FARE Now fly to Tokyo at this new low Excursion fare— only $1087 round trip. En route enjoy stopover privileges in Saigon, Manila and Hong Kong. Fly Pan Am's giant fourengine Clippers* all the way take 23 day* to complete your trip. Save $305 over regular round-trip tourist fare.
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