The Straits Times, 22 February 1960

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    23 1 Wl.lt M.I-: DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 80,000 Hat* 0 1 1 fie***?* The Straits Times Estd. 1845. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1960 15 CENTS
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    100,000 SEE BIG WALK
    47 1 A high viewpoint of the Malay Moil Big Walk in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Some of the 2,800 contestants are pictured along Birch Road toon after leaving Merdeka Stadium, where the Walk started. More pictures in pages 6, 7 and 14. Straits Times picture.
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    All men's section winners are from Services
    465 1 All men's section winners are from Services ]yjORE THAN 100.. 000 people lined the 11 1 -mile route to see the Malay Mail Big Walk in Kuala Lumpur today. Winners of the sections were: VETERANS: H. Johnson. 43. of the RA."\ who once won a place In the famous London-to-Brlghton
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    Lock icon Special prayers for Queen and baby
    168 1 LONDON. Sun. Special i prayers of thanksgiving for, the Queen and her new baby Prince were offered today in i cathedrals ~nd parish churches throughout Britain. Millions of people answered the call of pealing bells to worship in packed churches. At many .services the
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    LADYM. DIES IN HER SLEEP ON BORNEO VISIT
    1276 1 LADYM. DIES IN HER SLEEP ON BORNEO VISIT SINGAPORE. Sunday. fOUNTESS Mountbatten of Burma, wife of Britain's Chief of Defence Staff and Super-intendent-ln-Chlef of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, died in her sleep this morning at Government House in Jesselton, British North Borneo. She was 58. The Officer Administering the
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    Lock icon Baton charge
    38 1 CHINGOLA, Northern Rhodesia, Sun. Police last night used tear gas and batcn-charged three times to break up a stone-throw-ing crowd of Africans outside a stadium where a Bill Graham evangelist group was holding a meeting. Reuter.
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    New rubber broking firm ft be formed
    246 1 New rubber broking firm ft be formed SINGAPORE. Sun. Ten Malayan rubber dealers are sponsorIng a new broking company. It was learnt here today. The company it Is understood, will be formed as soon as practical It will represent the biggest postwar development on the Singapore rubber market The .companies
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    Lock icon 62 killed in bandit attacks
    86 1 62 killed in bandit attacks YAOUNDE. iCameroons). Bun.— Terrorists launched mass attacks against Government supporters In the Bamlleke region yesterday. They killed 62 people, wounded 60 and burned down 200 hutments. French troops and police struck back and shot dead 15 raiders and Injured "many more." reports said. Simultaneously, a
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    Lock icon 33 'flu deaths
    35 1 PONTBVICQ. North Italy. |Sun. Thirtyone Inmates and two religious nursinj sisters have died In the past 11 days In an influenH epidemic at a mental hot> pltal for old women here. Reuter.
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    STOP PRESS
    14 1 COUNTf MOUNTBATTfcN >|\<. UPOSI S i n r.,,,j^ „i < i Mean! la \IXJIJ
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    Lock icon CHESSMAN: IMPEACH GOVERNOR STORM
    636 2 fI^HE storm over ca--1 piU 1 punishment in California, triggered off by the last-minute reprieve of Caryl Chessman on Saturday, today centred on the man who started it all the Governor. Mr. Edmund Brown. Mr Bruce Reagan, a Republican assemblyman, announced today he was seriously considering
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    Lock icon Satellite telescope'plan
    174 2 Satellite telescope plan 1 ONDON. Bun A new satellite traoclng station, similar in purpose to Britain's Jodrell Bank stat on. is to be built at Wlnkileld. neai Windsor Castle, it was reported here today A front page Dally Telegraph article said the station was one of a chain of ten
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    Lock icon Cyprus: Hopes are high again
    209 3 A NEW TURKISH-CYPRIOT FORMULA MAY SOLVE BASES DISPUTE LONDON, Sunday. BRITAIN may resume talks with Cypriot leaders in Nicosia this week. There was widespread optimism here today that a formula could be found to enable Cyprus to become an independent republic. Mr. Julian Amery, the
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    BOMB PLOT UNCOVERED IN MADRID
    89 3 MADRID, Sun. Polict have uncovered evidence linking a series of terrorist bombings In Madrid with a group of anti-Franco extremists in Cuba, well Informed sources said here yesterday. Police have arrested "several persons" In connection with the bombings, which broke out two days ago. it
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    Lock icon Wife back from jail visit
    43 3 LONDON, Sun. Mrs James Zarb, wife of the British businessman imprisoned in the United Arab Republic for alleged espionage, returned here by air last night. after visiting her husband in jaU. With hei was their sop Gerald. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Snow blanket
    19 3 LONDON, Sun. Snow blanketed the northern part of Britain yesterday, halting traffic on many major roads. —Reuter
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    Lock icon The tramp for a lady is allied off
    240 3 BANGOR. Waieb. Sun. Identical twins Vaughan and Howard Clarke. 19. won't be taking the path of pursuit for the hand of the girl they both love after all. Mother and father have said no. 'A much -publicised walking contest between the twins,
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    Lunch segregation protest
    73 3 NEGRO college students staged new protests on Saturday over segregated lunch counter facilities in Richmond (Virginia). Nashville (Tennessee), and Tallahassee (Florida). Eleven of the Tallahassee demonstrators were arrested. The group took seats at a lunch counter and refused to leave when requested. A crowd of white customers
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    Lock icon SUPERSONIC TRAVEL DECISION SOON
    160 3 LONDON, Sunday. DRITAIN is nearing a crucial decision on whether or not to go ahead with plans for the building of a supersonic airliner capable of flying between New York and London in two hours, it. was reported here today. i The Sunday Express-. In a
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    SIHANOUK: MY DAYS NUMBERED
    66 3 SIHANOUK: MY DAYS NUMBERED PNOMPENH Cambodia), Suji. Prince Norodom" Sihanouk, the Cambodian Prime Minister, who alleged recently that Communists had plotted to assassinate him, today said: ."My days are numbered." The 38-year-old prince. who was opening a meetIng here, declared: "The insecurity of some of our neighbours is becoming more
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    Jury sees 50 slides of Lynn's body
    201 3 BOSTON, Sunday. T^HE STATE showed 50 coloured slides of the body of Lynn Kauffman yesterday in its efforts to prove that a Dutch radio operator, Willem van Rie, 31. hit and kicked her into unconsciousness, then crammed her body through a porthole into
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    Lock icon X-ray shows up Picture fake
    39 3 LONDON, Sun. An Xray photograph has shown that a painting, believed to be a Goya worth £20.000 and belonging to a museum in Barnard Castle, is In fact a fake, it was disclosed. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Ur explorer dies
    33 3 LONDON. Sun. Sir Leonard Woolley. British archaeologist who explored and excavated Ur of the Chaldees. Iraq, between 1922 and 1934. died at a nursing home yes* terday, aged 79. Reuter
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    Lock icon Nasser hits at Britain and US
    69 3 DAMASCUS, Sun. President Nasser of the United Arab Republic yesterday attacked Britain, the United States, and France for what he called recent statements supporting Israel and for supporting United Nations resolutions favouring Israel. He told thousands of wildly cheering Byrlans In Hama, that he.
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    250.000 TO BE RIFLEMEN
    67 3 MADRAS. Sun. Mr. V. K. Krishna Menon. Indian Defence Minister, said here yesterday that 250.000 Indian university students would be trained in rifle shooting before March 1961. They would be enrolled in rifle units to be part of the National Cadet Corps, an organisation (or training
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    Lock icon BRITAIN MUST HELP POORER COUNTRIES: MAUDLING.
    234 3 BRITAIN MUST HELP POORER COUNTRIES: MAUDLING. IpNDON, Sun. Mr. Reginald Maudling, President of the Board of Trade, said last night that Britain's duty "is to help people •in otner countries, particularly in the Commonwealth, whose standards of life are still so far below our own." Delivering a Conservative Party political
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      325 3 Your radio today... RADIO SINGAPORE RADIO MALAYA A.M 6.30 Good Morning; 6.32 NATIONAL SHORTWAVE Morning Prelude; 7.00 The News: -^wavi' s»?£rii 705 A Date With Mu*lc; 8,00 The Lumpur "\E!£. News: 8.05 A Date With Mubic; Penanj 366 taetm 8.30 String Song; 9.00 Close Down: j s!Tl>er« 297 m^tr^ P.M.
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    GHE YUSOF COMPLETES TOUR OF SOUTHERN ISLANDS
    241 4 GHE YUSOF COMPLETES TOUR OF SOUTHERN ISLANDS SINGAPORE, Sun. The Yang di-Per-tuan Negara, Inche Yasof bin Ishak, today visited Pulau Seraya and Pulau Semulun where he was given a tumultuous welcome by the Islanders. 3choolchildren, waving, flagb. lined the routes to the reception centres And sang the State Anthem "Vajulah
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    Free film show
    27 4 SINGAPORE. Sun.— The Independent Missionary Movement will give a free film show at the Trafalgar Home. Ylo Chu Kang Road tomorrow at 7.30 p.m.
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    Musical meet
    25 4 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Singapore Musical Society will hold their annual general meeting at the St. Andrew's Memorial Hall -on Monday at 5.30 p.m.
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    TROPHY PRESENTATION
    74 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. The organiser of the Johore Coronation Polo Match held on Teb. 11. Mr. K. T. John, wishes to contact the two photographers who took pictures of: His Highness the Sultan presenting the trophy to Major General Cher All Khan, captain of the winning Federation of
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    SONG AND A RING RAISED $220
    197 4 SONG AND A RING RAISED $220 nessman bought it for lIM. Disclosing no more than his surname— "l am Mr. Ong" he returned the ring to a surprised Miss Chew Ping and said: "I want to help the National Theatre Fund. "I have come with a group of friends to
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    TEACHERS' PLAN ON EDUCATION
    291 4 SINGAPORE, Sunday. A BIG meeting of teachers here today decided on a formula for carrying out the Government's I education policies. This was disclosed at the end of a three-hour meeting but details of the formula were kept secret. More than 40 representatives of nine teachers'
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    Lunch address
    34 4 SINGAPORE. Bun.— The Minister for Culture, Mr. S. RaJaratnam. will speak on "Malaya's Changing Culture" at the Singapore Junior Chamber of Commerce lunch at the Cathay Restaurant on Saturday at 1.15 p.m
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    Probe date
    33 4 SINOAPORE. Bun. The next sitting of the Building Industry Inquiry Commission will be In the Conference Room of the Ministry of Finance, sth. Floor, Fullerton Building, on Tuesday at 10 a.m.
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    Radio talk by Minister
    65 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Minister for National Development. Mr. Ong Eng Guan, will describe the work of his ministry In the series "Democracy In Action" over the medium and short wave services of Radio Singapore tomorrow. The talk can be heard In Tamil at 8.40 p.m.. in
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    Library meeting
    30 4 SINOAPORE. Bun. The Inaugural meeting of the new Library Association of Singapore will be held at the Singapore Adult Education Centre, Fort Canning, on Saturday at 4.45 p.m.
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    Airport will meet growing needs
    298 4 MINISTER ON SINGAPORE'S SPECIAL PLACE SINGAPORE. Sunday. THE Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, tonight declared that the Government would develop facilities at the airport to meet the requirements of the increasing air traffic. Such development, he said, would be complementary to the work
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    TEACHER WEDS RAF CORPORAL
    94 4 (Pi.. Robert Victor Jamleson. 21 and his attractive bride Florence Lob. U, signing the marriage certificate after their wedding at the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Queen Street, Singapore, yesterday. The bride U the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loh Chye Yong of
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    Services rendered by Fire Brigade
    203 4 Services rendered by Fire Brigade SINGAPORE. Sun Station Officer Mr. Chan Thai Ho from the Geylang division of the Fire Brigade gave a talk on the general functions of the Singapore Fire Brigade at the Wesley Methodist Hall in Fort Canning this evening. Mr. Chan stated that the three broad
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    FREE FILM SHOWS THIS WEEK
    113 4 FREE FILM SHOWS THIS WEEK BINGAPORE, Sun. The field section of the Ministry of Culture will give free film shows at the following places during the week, starting tomorrow. All shows will begin at 7 p.m. Monday: Pulau Seraya: 38-W. Jalan Senang. Changl Road Alexandra Road City j Council Qr>
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    Bethesda meet
    31 4 SINGAPORE, Sun.— Mr. T. Bentley of Kuala Lumpur will talk on "Overcoming •In a Dark Day" at the Bethesda Gospel Hall in Bras Basah Road tomorow at 8 p.m.
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      173 4 Singapore diary7^\ FEDERATION OF BOYS' 10 ML to U »48.; 1 p.m. to CLt'BS (Queen Strsat) Judo t pjn., I pjn. to S pjn.; embroi--6 p.m.; motor-repsiruf. class <Jery olaas 11 ».m. to 1 pa; photography 7 p.m. 3 pm. to 4 pm K A22"fi D "5T 8 'TV* <*D«SB
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    EXCITING FIND IN NIAH CAVES
    438 5 Bones discovered in diggings belonged to long extinct ant-eater SINGAPORE, Sunday. EXCITING news from Holland has given a lj big fillip to next month's excavation work it Niah Caves, more than 200 miles from Kuching, according to a Sarawak Government report. It concerns an expert
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    REPORT TELLS ABOUT MORE RUBBER
    90 5 REPORT TELLS ABOUT MORE RUBBER PENANG, Sun.—Malaya imported as well as produced more rubber last year than she did in 1958. The Penang Rubber Trade Association In Its annual report records that Malaya produced 698,248 tons of rubber in 1959 an Increase of 34.624 tons. Her Imports also rose from
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    PPP conference in Ipoh
    44 5 IPOH. Sun. The People's Progressive Party will hold Its first national conference here on March 6 at the Juol lee Dance Hall. About 200 delegates ana observers from the partvs 32 branches all over the countnr are expected to attend
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    YUSOF WILL LAUNCH S.H.B. TUG
    81 5 YUSOF WILL LAUNCH S.H.B. TUG SINGAPORE. Sun. The Yang di-Pertuan Negara. i Inche Yasof bin Ishak. will j launch the new Singapore Harbour Board tv« Tegoh at the west yard. Bukit Chermin. at 9.30 a.m. next Saturday The 160-ton tug. costing $750,000. replaces the Pitho. which sank after a collision
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    KOREANS ON GOODWILL TOUR ARRIVE
    73 5 KOREANS ON GOODWILL TOUR ARRIVE KUALA LUMPUR. Sun— A three-man Republic of Korea goodwill mission arrived here today. They are Mr. Dong Jo Kirn. a former Vice-Mlnister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Kjun Hee Tcha, of the Ministry of Reconstruction, and Mr. Kwann Soo Choi, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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    $1,350 theft
    20 5 SINGAPORE. Sun. cosmetics and perfumes worth $1,350 were stolen from a pharmacy in Battery Road here last night.
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    THIEVES GET $3,500 IN TWO RAIDS
    106 5 SINGAPORE. Sun j Two raids Drought j thieves $3,500 in cash! and Jewellery in Singa- pore yesterday. In Berlma Road a house- j wife. Chan Chin, was prepar- i ins tiffin In the kitchen while her room was ransacked She missed $1,000 in cash
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    SHE IS A 'MOTHER' TO CHILDREN OF HOME
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    RELIGION IS A 'MUST' FOR YOUNG GIRLS
    277 5 SINGAPORE, Sunday. TWO former teachers now at the new Jalan Eunos x Muslim women's welfare home said today that religion was important in bringing up young girls. The two Malay women are the assistan* superintendent! of the hrine, Che Hindun Khaloff. >nd the
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    Chief Minister at funeral
    67 5 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Sun.— The Penang Chief Minister. Dato Wong Pow Nee. was among a large gathering who attended the funeral of Mr. Ooh Bwee Keat. 77-year-old father of Mr. Ooh Chool Cheng, chairman of the Buklt Mertajam Town Council, here today. Mr. Ooh. a retired businessman,
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    Taxi catches fire
    42 5 SINGAPORE. Sun. —A taxi caught fire in Geylang Road near the Geylang police station early today. The driver dashed Into the station where a call was made to the nearby Geylang fire brigade, which quickly put the flames out.
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    Illiteracy will be wiped out, says Petir
    171 5 Illiteracy will be wiped out, says Petir CINGAPORE. Sun. The People's Action Party in its magazine Petir said: "The political situation of the state will make a big stride forward when the h°lf million illiterate people are able to read and write and take an active part in politics." At
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    Rain washes out fourth concert
    52 5 SINGAPORE. Sun— The fourth "Aneka Ragam Ra'ayat" for i960 at the Botanic Gardens had to be cancelled when heavy rain fell at about 4 30 p.m. Thousands of people who turned up for the show scheduled to last two hours, had to dash home disappointed
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    Girls' school fun fair
    38 5 PEN A NO. Sun. The Methodist Girls' School will hold a food and fun fair on ■March 11 and 12 to raise funds for Its Logan Road expansion project. The school needs $36,000 more.
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    The big walkers...
    83 6 in Malaya Here are veteran section winner, H. Johnson, 43. of the RAF (left), women's champion, Maimunah Haji Mohamed Nor, 19-year-old Kuala Lumpur schoolgirl (centre) and the junior champion, Pte. John Hunt of the RAMC from Taiping. Straits Times pictures. THE three top winners of the Malay
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    93 7 A MANDORE of the Merdeka Stadium. S. Rengasamy (above) took second place in the veterans' section in the Malay Mail Big Walk in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. He is pictured at the finishing point. Straits Times picture. AMONG the veterans who entered the Big Walk yesterday were a journalist. Alex Josey
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    27 8 U Wmrt, IU (Minimum) MR. AND MRS. CHUA KIM YEW thank their friends and relatives for their presenu and good wishes on their wedding on M.2.W.
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    IN MEMORIAM
    24 8 2* Words $10 (Minimum) IN LOVING MEMORY ot our deai mother Mrs. Rosle cheah Loon Once, died 22.2.59. Gone but not forgotten.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    269 8 M ITarvla lit (Mlmimmm) THE COCKPIT— MerIe Harris nightly except Sunday RECORDS: from Beethoven to Bebop Choose from our peak selections Robinson's Record Rendezvous. MAGICIAN WILL MAKE rabbits disappear. Air-wick makes unpleasant odours vanish. Alr-wlck from good stores everywhere. SALE AT Town Country begins today. Complete stock has ta
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    The Straits Times Monday, February 22, 1960. The Crucial Sixties
    638 8 The Straits Times Monday, February 22, 1960. The Crucial Sixties Half the world's population, 1,250 million people, are desperately and dangerously poor. Economic development in the past decade has been far too slow. Mr. Paul Hoffman, former Marshall Plan administrator and now the head of the United Nations' Special Fund,
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    In Death Row
    354 8 Nine of America's fifty States have abolished the death penalty. California is unlikely to be the tenth, although the State legislature will have on its conscience when it debates the Governor's bill the man who is back in Death Row at San Quentin. The case of Caryl
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    The Big Walk
    252 8 The 3,000 stalwarts who tramped from Kuala Lumpur to Petaling Jaya and back, and the 3,500 in Singapore whose Big Walk is yet to come enjoy a very respectable historical lineage. For just as the nineteenth century was, so to speak, finding its legs England was overcome
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    The rouble offensive...
    936 8  -  CYRIL DUNN: WHY DID Mr. KHRUSHCHEV GO TO INDIA? His purpose: to ceremonially open the new era of 'peaceful competitive co-existence'... and line up the underdeveloped nations of Asia and Africa NOW we know why Mr. Khrushchev came to India. His purpose was ceremonially to open the
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    Oil puts a new price on a 'worthless piece of desert'
    761 8  -  STEPHEN HEARST BY TRIPOLI, Sunday. YOU need never leave the hall of the Grand Hotel, Tripoli, to find out what goes on here. Sweat snirted oilmen straight from the latest gusher on the left, sandalled and sandy village elders
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      Malay... and the problem of keeping abreast
      186 8 Malay... and the problem of keeping abreast T QUITE agree with the views put forward by Dr. Urn 81an Lok (B.T. Feb. 16) on the difficulty of translating technical terms Into Malay. If his advice is followed It will help future scholars to know where the words come from. We
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      The policy of sacrifice
      161 8 The policy of sacrifice npo my mind, parts of the X memorandum submitted to the Singapore Teachers 1 Union are open to criticism. Alter describing tUe attitude and action of the Government a s "heavy-handed dogmatism" the memorandum went on to say that no other section of the population "has
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    Local councillor fined $250
    342 9 HE FORGED A LETTER AND HAD BUSINESS RIVALS PHONE CUT OFF. COURT TOLD TANJONG MALIM, Sunday. A MALAY rubber dealer told the magistrate's court here that a rival did not like him to have a telephone because he did not want him to receive rubber price
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    Whisky (aged 4) saves youth stabbed in an alley from death
    44 9 Whisky (aged 4) saves youth stabbed in an alley from death SINGAPORE, Sunday. II7HISKY, a four-year-old dog. saved a clerk, Song Sia Cheow, 17, from bleeding to death after a midnight gang attack In Hindoo Road early today. WHISKY..... a man's life was saved.
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    GO-AHEAD FOR INDUSTRY CENTRE
    191 9 GO-AHEAD FOR INDUSTRY CENTRE KUALA LUMPUR, Sun The Government has given its approval to a productivity centre in Malaya. When it is set up It will mean big savings and greater productivity in industry. The head of the industrial development division of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Mr. I.
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    The $56mil. surprise
    56 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Customs and Excise Revenue during the last three months of 1959 totalled $156.4 million —$56.i million more than was estimated. The quarterly report of the Minister of Finance, said this was mainly due to the continued higher rubber price. Increased tin exports and a
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    FLOODS HALT TRAFFIC IN 3 STATES HI MALAYA
    137 9 FLOODS HALT TRAFFIC IN 3 STATES HI MALAYA KUALA LUMPUR, Sun A Government flood report issued here this evening said the Dungun Ferry in Trengganu has been closed to traffic because of swift currents. The report added that the Tebah bridge in Kt-maman was under 2}ft. of water and the
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    Clean record
    22 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— The Government has announced that no public servants were prosecuted for corruption in the country last month
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    WOman in
    22 9 WO man in SINGAPORE. Sun—Brigadier H. W. Kitson, deputy Engineer in Chief at the War Office, arrived here today on a visit
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    TWO WOMEN IN KORAN FINALS
    82 9 TWO WOMEN IN KORAN FINALS IPOH, Sun. Che Zalnun binte Tongkak. c' Bagan Datoh, said Che Hlndun binte Mat Plan, of Talplng, last night qualified to represent Perak In the national Koran reading competition In Kuala Lumpur in April. They were the winner and runner-up respectively In the final of
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    Women's talks
    26 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The newly-formed National Union of Women Teachers will hold a conference at the Methodist Boys' School Hall here on March 12
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    The big draw
    31 9 SEREMBAN, Sun.— Bales of Sodai Welfare lottery tickets are up by at least 10,000 this month In Gemas. where the next draw will take place on Feb. 29.
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    Conference
    27 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— The Selangor branch of the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society plans to hold a pan -Malayan Muslim leaders conference here after Han Raya Pusa.
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    QUEENSTOWN PICKS NEW LEADER TO MEET BYRNE
    468 9 QUEENSTOWN PICKS NEW LEADER TO MEET BYRNE OINGAPORE, Sun. The Queenstown Community Association today elected Mr. Kelly Chan as its new president, after the former president, Dr. Chee Phui Hung, declined to stand for reelection. Dr Chee told the 100 members present at today's annual meeting at the Queenstown Bee
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    PYTHON NEAR TO FLATS
    92 9 SINGAPORE. Son. Workmen clearing lallang near a block of flats near Delta Road, saw a 10-ft python crawling out of a drain today. A passer-by. Mr. Tan Chee Hlng who hat worked on a rubber estate, used a loop of rope attached to a bamboo pole
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    Student designs pavilion
    55 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— A design by Mr. Kam Pak Cheong, a second-year architectural student, has been chosen for a $50,000 sports pavilion for the Technical College here. It will have a badminton hall, an Alumni Association lounge, a students' council room and a canteen. The students' union
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    Chamber music
    25 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Bun. The Berlin Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hans von Benda gave a concert today to schoolchildren at the Chinwoo auditorium here.
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    Devan Nair: A P.A.P. statement
    198 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. The central executive committee of the People's Action Party met yesterday over the resignation of Mr. Devan Nair from his office of political {secretary to the Minister for Education. The secretary-general of the P.A.P., Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. in a statement today, said
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    Temples? Show 'em a bit of life...
    470 9 Temples? Show 'em a bit of life... 20 YEARS ON...AND A TOURIST'S TIP— QINGAPORE. Sun. Twenty years is a large slice out of anyone's life and that was Just what preoccupied 52-year-old Mrs. Flora Cox today as she gazed out of her hotel room window at the skyline of Singapore.
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    INDUSTRIAL PEACE AND THE EMPLOYERS
    213 9 INDUSTRIAL PEACE AND THE EMPLOYERS KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The general secretary of the National Union of Plantation Workers. Mr. P. P. Narayanan, yesterday spoke of the type of employers who contribute to industrial peace in Malaya. Mr. Narayanan, speaking at the conclusion of the one-week residential trainIng seminar for trade
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    10,0001b. of pines rotting away
    199 9 10,0001b. of pines rotting away MUAR. Sun. Thou--1 sands of pounds of pineapples are rotting here because there is no market for the fruit. The pineapples— lo.ooo lb. of them from Ayer Hitam Plantation have been reject. Ed by the Johore canneries because they are considered to be of inferior
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    Club leaders
    31 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Mr. Lee Tiam Onn has been elpcted president of the Mun Yuen Club. The vice president is Mr. Leong Hoe Yeng and secretary Mr. W.T. Lee.
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    Rotary Week
    16 9 TELUK ANSON. Sun— The Rotary Club's 55th anniversary week will be opened here tomorrow.
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    THE INDIAN REDS
    1029 10  -  ROLAND CHALLIS 'THE Indian National Congress, embodying in itself 75 years of India's political history, has squeezed other political groups out of public notice. Which goes some way to explaining the image of the Communist £arty of India as a phenomenon of only recent importance, noticed because
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    Short stories
    192 10 THE BSACH HOUSE. By Strafem Lon,»tr M .t (Hammond. lSa.l. ANOTHER lid off Hollywood to show a murky cauldron underneath, with everyone leading an ambitious or abandoned life and apparently hating every second of It. The central characters are well drawn and the atmosphere sharply, only too sharply,
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    The year of the Catamaran
    297 10 THE YACHTING WORLD ANNUAL (Illffe and Son*. Us.) By HUGH MABBETT AMONG people who A mess about In boats, 1960 is going to be remembered as the Year of the Catamaran. These twin-hulled craft are about to emerge from experimentation and vague disapproval to take
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    BROKER, TRAMP, LACKEROO
    158 10 BOY IN BUNKOM, By KM. Thiaapean. (Bale. iga.). AFTER three years as a broker at Lloyd's In the London of the early *****, Reginald Thompson came to feel he was a misfit in conventional English society 80. still only twenty-one, he signed on as a member of
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      296 10 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS 7. Making gay raider help to 1. Magellan went down venter- nna a means of sending mesday ilai sages (5-10). 8. Caught like some poor fish 9. Musing of a man in the about fifty and vexed (7). dark? (3, 2. 3). 10 County of bad
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      DOLLAR RUBBERS STRONG
      692 12 BULK OF BUSINESS IN INDUSTRIALS By Our Market Correspondent lIEAVY deliveries of scrip from London continued last week and the Malayan Stock Exchange saw profit-taking in tins, some of which once again was necessary to pay for previously bought sterling rubber counters. As a result of this
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      OFFICIAL PRICES
      628 12 tin rubber (per piful) (per Ib.) Feb. 15 5392.12', $1.14 16 V 392.8 51.14H 17 $393.(2 SI 14 H 18 J394.3V 51.14^ 19 $393.87', $1.15' k 20 $393.50 Por the whole of the year endIng June 30 1959 26 per cent was paid. Talam Mines also Improved their
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      STOCK INDICES
      384 12 Malayan Stock Exchance: Feb. 20 Feb. 19 Industrials: 128.12 128.55 Tins: 152.79 153.45 S Rubbers: 235.92 235.82 Jan. l 1938=100. t'td. MVa $4.00 +M cts. Sixty-one sterling rubber counters were dealt in or seven more than In the previous week and in the listed section seven of the
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      EXCHANGE RATES
      148 12 ALL Malayan Exchange Banka* Aaaoclation rates were unchanged on Saturday. Peb. 30, a* follows (all rates to $100): New York: buying airmail T.T. $2 7/8. O.D. 33. 90 d/st 33 3/8 credit bills. 33 1/2 trade bills Canada: buying airmail T.T. 31 5/16. O.D. 31 7/16. 90 d/st
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      83 12 talavan Omrnl Vilkiruon Prooew iu»tr«l Amal. mtral MjU«t <nl Tin :»nUu Tin tJaiti Mines iyer HiUm Plant. tew Serendah 'nited Malacca Interim urrrnt payment 124% 15" c 20% s<rv 20%* iy; 74 lS'-e* Date of payment March 22 March 21 March 25 April 8 March 18 March 16
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      Rubber: Business on offer basis
      670 12 A LTHOUGH it did not apparently become obvious to the Singapore Rubber Market as a whole until late in the week, China was reported to have bought small quantities throughoat the six days' trading [rOMMOPITY] hi;vii:w J Spread out in over 20 orders these purchases
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      SATURDAY BUSINESS
      265 12 SA TURDAY BUSINESS f\H the Malayan Stock Exchange on Saturday (Feb. 20 1, industrials were quiet, tins were easier while rubbers were steady. The turnover was small. Members of the Exchange reported the following ouslness at 12 noon: Industrials: Praaer and Neave ords $1.78: Gammon $2.46 and $2.45: Henry Waugh
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      MALAYAN SHARE LIST
      1237 12 THI. following list of revised 1 quotations was Itaaed by members of the Malayan Stock exchange after their last meeting on Saturday (Feb. It). H and L stand for highest and lowest for business done in 1959 and in the current year to date. ■IT ft H&MIHCS
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      1212 13 NOTICE Announcement by Nestles Products (M) Ltd, Erratum. Straits Times Directory of Singapore and Malaya 1960. ■i"Fot Mr. Tan Kirn Teck— Chief Clerk, please read "Mr. Tan Kirn > Teck Office Assistant." DISTRICT COURT SALE Writ of Seisure A Sale. No. 43 of I*6o. IN THE CAUSE OF Abdul Kareem
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      131 13 TENDER SALES TENDER NO. DIS/ENGRS/87 By Order of the Chief Bagineer, GHQ FARELF 1 Tenders are Invited for the purchsse of ferrous and nonferrous scrap, tank plates, pumpIng sets, concrete mixers, transformers, water filters and sterilisers, road roller, refrigerator, heaters, electric cables, pierced steel plates, packing timber, plywood, bridging components,
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      852 13 NOTICE AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE SINGAPORE PROPERTIES Te be heM at ew sstsrssem Noa. 14 1* Robl—ie R*\, Spore Ob THURSDAY ZStk FEBRUARY, IMm) at KM P.M. No. 28 BERWICK DRIVE. Serangoon Oarden Estate. 999 Yrs' lease. Area 5,847 sq. ft. Monthly Rent $350/- Fully Furnished. (Inspection by arrangement) (Messrs
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      745 13 (Continued Iran Fan SITUATIONS VACANT t$ Wor4t U (Ml*.)— Box t0 fU. *xtr* ■OX ST. ASM7— Ptximon for Junior Storekeeper Blled, applicant* thanked. IXnkIINCIO IKOUIHIHAK- ING Driving Inntructors inilrwUMl r«juir«l by A»l» Drt»in« tebooL Intrrn«w to-<Ux from 10 Lft to P-m. •7. orchard ltd.. Spore. ■UROPIAN SNIPFINO. COMPANY reqalre XMRIINOI
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      926 13 SITUATIONS VACANT f W»r4t %t (Mi*.)— Box M els. axtra IPAM TIMt JOBi for needy school ;hlldr»n $1.30 per 4 hours apply In own C tandwrlttng P.O. Box 665. Singapore* i TWO tALBSLADISS required for at!!- i ing popular macazlnrs. Oood Salary and Commission. Apply Wei Fen Secretarial < Service.
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      961 13 ACCOMMODATION VACANT U W,t4m U (Him.)— Bex M eU. aatra MS TILOK KURAU Unfurnlahad Sbedroom 2-storty semi-detached bouM. Prnoed garden car porch wlndow-grllla R/C longbath fan* cooker Velge (Spore) 2SII. PON HINT Unfurnished four bedroorai at Loroas 27. Blast* dmr QlrU or Couple, no ehUarea seeded apply. MootMr net HO
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    LTAM—MALAYA AND SINGAPORE SPLIT
    388 14  - LTAM— MALAYA AND SINGAPORE SPLIT VIC NAYAGAM rPHE Lawn Tennis Associa- tion of Malaya was dissolved by a unanimous vote today to enable Singapore and the Federation to form, separate national associations. The proposal for a "break" was made by the Selangor delegate, Mr. 'V. Rajaratnam, and seconded by the
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    Maimunah takes the top award
    487 14 Maimunah takes the top award SERVICEMEN DOMINATE BIG WALK BUT... By SAUL JOSHUA: Kuala Lumpur, Sunday riIGHTEEN- YEAR-OLD schoolgirl Maimunah Haji Mohamed Nor today won the top award in the most spectacular sporting event of the year in the Federation— the Malay Mail Big Walk Malmunah. a Form 111 student
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    NEGRI IN FORM, TROUNCE JOHORE
    122 14 NEGRI IN FORM, TROUNCE JOHORE SINGAPORE, Sun.— Negrl Sembilan, beaten 2-1 by Singapore yesterday, struck their best form today to swamp Johore 5-1 in the M.H.F. southern hockey triangular tournament here. The championship remains undecided as only two of the three scheduled matches were played. Yesterday's match between Singapore and
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    Donation of gold trophy
    58 14 Donation of gold trophy IPOH. Sun— Perak Chinese Football Federation president Mr. Leong Kee Nyean. will donate a gold trophy or gold medals for the winners of a competition to be organised by the PCFF. Mr. Leong told members at the PCFF*s annual meeting, that his donation was Intended to
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    Lock icon 2 'golds' for Germany
    66 14 SQUAW VALLEY. Bun.— Germany's combined East-West team won two gold medals, and Russia one on the second day of the Winter Olympic Games here. Germany's Helga took the women's 500 metre s speed skating title end Heidi Biebel won the women's downhill skiing championship. Marl j
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    Title to Selangor
    63 14 r>H, Sun. Selangor became champions in the women's Inter-state triangular hockey tournament when they beat Perak 2-0 in th« deciding match on the town padang today. The teams were evenly matched but Selangor were the more aggressive side, scoring their goals through Inside-left Stella Thomas and centre-forward
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    Lock icon Meuleman quits
    30 14 MELBOURNE, Sun. Former Test cricketer and Western Australian captain Ken Meuleman yesterday announced his retirement from first-class cricket after 14 years as one of Australia's leading batsmen.— Reuter.
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    Kamsari first
    27 14 SINGAPORE, Sun.—Kamsari bin Salam won the 591 kilometre massed-start cycling event held at the Gap thl« morning with a time of lhr. 31 mln. 30sec.
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    Coaches for all schools —Heah
    266 14 Coaches for all schools Heah KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. —The president of the Badminton Associal tion of Malaya. Mr. Heah Joo Seang, today appealed to the Federation Ministry of Education to explore the possibility of appointing full time badminton coaches to all schools m. the Federation. Speaking at the BAM standing
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    SINGAPORE RETAIN GUILLEMARD CUP
    287 14 ITUALA LUMPUR, Sun Singapore retained the Guillemard Cup when they trounced Malaya by ten matches to one in the annual tennis international which ended at the Selangor Club courts today. Malaya, however, kept the McCabe Reay Cup for women with a 7-0 sweep over Singapore. Malaya's
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    Lock icon Billy beats Bobby
    54 14 LONDON. Bun. Bil£ Knight beat Bobby Wilson, the holder, 6-3. 6-4. 8-6 ln the all-British final of the British covered court lawn tennis championships here yesterday. Angela Mortimer retained the women's title. In thte final, her opponent. Anifl Haydon retired with a back Inlury after losing the
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    19 14 BIRMINGHAM. Sun— Carr4 bridge beat Oxford 4-1 in th« inter-unlverslty hockey match at Edgbaston here yesterday. —Reuter.
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    34 15 A TRICKY bend catches motorcyclist V. S. Yee unawares during a trial run over the Grand Prix course on Saturday. These sequence pictures show Yee's tumble and his escape from injury.
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    650 15 CAR SALESMAN WINS $4,000 FIRST PRIZE AND SULTAN'S TROPHY Sill v r\i \J x vXj cell jdR onidii xjiii >?viii\-> icio i year's Macao Grand Prix runner-up, today won the "Blue Riband" of Malayan motor racing the Johore Coronation Grand Prix first prize of $4,000 and the
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    , Improved Services score 2-1 victory
    157 15 Improved Services score 2-1 victory IQINGAPORE. Sun—Singa1^ pore Joint Services did Inot look a Malaya CupI winning side when beating I Singapore Government SerIvlces F.A. 2-1 at Jalan Besar ■Jtadlum today but they [showed they have the matlerial for a successful season. Their attack has certainly I Improved a lot
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    165 15 Premier backs 'Blacks' tour \\'r I I .INC. 1 ON. Sun. Mr. Halter Nash, New Zealand Prime Minister, said yesterday the "All Blacks". Rugby side should go on a tour of South Africa this winter because their tour could help to solve one of the world's major problems South Africa,
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    232 15 KINGSTON. Sunday. "pNGLAND are virtually back on level terms in the Mv Third Test after West Indies' sudden collapse Sngland (277 and 65 for oaf wicket) are 11 runs behind West Indies (353) with all second innings wickets ln hand. With only two days left tor play,
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    73 15 knock up 229 WELLINGTON. Sun. New Zealand made easily their best showing of recent yean fji matches against Australia kw totalling 229 l n their first innings in the unofficial Test here. Australia were made to scramble for much of their Innings yesterday and by the close had lost four
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    108 15 I M. LAND Ist. Inns. !77 WEST INDIES Ist. Inns. Hunt* r Illinrworth b SUtham 7 McMorrls b Barrington 73 t Kanhai run out IS Sobers lbw b Trueman 147 Nuiv r Smith b 1 Him worth 7* Solomon r Swrtman b Allen 8 Scarlett c Statham b lllinfworth
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    48 15 NEW YORK, Sun. Australian Davis Cud players Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson were beaten in the men's singles quarter-finals of the American Indoor lawn tennis championships here yesterday. Fraser was defeated 5-7. 11-9. 6-4 by Earl Buchholz. Emerson lost 2-8. 3-6 to Barry Mackav. Reuter.
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    579 15 MCNTERREY (Mexlcoi. Bun.- Alfredo Urblna. Mexican, lightweight champion, scored a sixth -round technical knockout over Lauro Salas. former world U?htwelght title holder from Mexico, last night in their scheduled 10-round bout The referee stopped th*» fight because Sala* had blood flowing from cuts over both eyes JOH.
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    96 15 YEW YORK. Bun. —I John Thomas. 18-year-old American high Jumper, beat his own world indoor best performance by I half an Inch here last night when he cleared 7ft 21n. This is an inch higher than the world outdoor record held by Yuri Btepanov of
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    105 15 KIN TAT WINS ESSEX TITLE LEYTON, Sun. Lee Kin Tat, 20-year-old former Malayan Junior champion, won the men's singles title in the Essex badminton championships here last night. In the final, he beat Trevor Coates, of Derby 18-10. 1«-17. 15-11. The young Malayan, who Is studying at London University, won
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    Lock icon Victoria run up a big total
    49 15 MELBOURNE. Sun—Centuries by lan Huntlngton (163) and Bill La wry (127) helped Victoria total 431 in their first Innings against Western Australia on the second day of the Sheffield Shield match jesterday. Scores: Western Australia 141 and 36-1: Victoria 431 (Hoare 5-95).— Reuter.
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    40 15 CAPETOWN. Bun.— Bobby Locke. 42. four times British Open golf champion, was ln "fair" condition ln hospital near here today after his car was In collision with a train on a level crossing near Capetown on Friday night.
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    Two Sultans watch Grand Prix end
    450 16 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. The twoday Grand Prix which encU'd here this evening provided a thrilling action-packed finale to the Coronation celebrations in this capital. Among the thousands who watched this great Malayan motoring event were the Sultan, Sir Ismail, members of his' family and
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    131 16 BOEING FLIES NON-STOP FROM U.K. TO BOMBAY LONDON. Sun. A Boeing 707 Jet airliner left here j last night on the first nonstop commercial flight from London to Bombay. The Air India aircraft carried 33 passengers and a letter of greetings from the citizens of London to the people of
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    35 16 ALGIERS. Sun. Unconfirmed reports reaching here sad about 30 peoplp were killed and about 100 injured In an earthquake today near Melouza. south of Setlf In Eastern Algeria. Reuter. M H'ori/j SIH Minimum,
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    44 16 ROYAL OVER SKAS LEAGUE Owlßf *0 »ome confu-io: which ho* armrn ovrr aimllarity in namtK. thr League MkM it to hi Kno^. r L<r*Kue. which m Incorporated Charter, has no connect ion wha' never with an oriranmatlon known aa the Overaea* Vinlor.i Club.
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    Women's section winner of Big Walk is student, 19
    53 16 I l«l Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, and tbe champion woman walker Maimunah Haji Mohamed Nor, 19, pictured with the trophies she won in the Malay Mail Big Walk in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Maimunah is a schoolgirl living in Sungei Way.
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    The leaf was not a tidbit
    75 16 BANDOENG, Sun-Russian Premier Nlklta Khrushchev drew a chuckle from Indonesian diplomats and a helping hand from President Soekarno yesterday rli the problem of eating Indonesian delicacies. Mr. Khrushchev, sampling his first banana-leaf wrapped goodies unknowingly tried to bite through the tough leaves much to
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    65 16 LONDON. Sun. A soviet engineer has worked out a plan for changing the earth's climate, according to Moscow radio. He proposes forming a belt of flneV-dlvlded opaque matter around the earth similar to Saturn's r.ngs. Such a belt would reflect the sun's rays on the
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    30 16 JAKARTA. Sun. Antara news agency said today authorities at Tarakan. East Borneo, had recently burnt 43 smuggling vessels, ranging In size from ten to 80 tons.— Reuter.
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      Lock icon Blackburn end Spurs' bid for a double
      736 16 I ONDON. Sun.—Totlj tenham Hotspur's aspirations of winning the English Cup and League double a feat last achieved by Aston Villa in 1897— ended in the mud of their own North London ground yesterday when they were beaten 3-1 by Blackburn Rovers. Tottenham,
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      350 16 Ed in LONDON. Sun. The Roya! Navy beat the Champions, the Royal Air Force, by one goal and a try to nothing al Twickenham m the Inter-Service* Rugby Union tournament yesterday. The Navy were outplayed in the first half but. managed to keep
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