The Straits Times, 25 January 1961

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    20 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 90,000 Nat*** 1 He**** The Straits Times Estd. 1845. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1961. 15 CENTS.
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    Lock icon PIRATED LINER HUNT
    679 1 WARSHIPS. PLANES SEARCH CARIBBEAN Part of plot to oust Portuguese Govt. 600 passenger vessel under scuttle threat TWO American destroyers and a British frigate were today searching for a Portuguese luxury liner, the Santa Maria, seized in Caribbean waters by 70 rebels armed with machineguns. LONDON. Tuesday
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    Hull new British army chief: It's official!
    162 1 Hull new British army chief: It's official! SINGAPORE, Tues. General Sir Richard Hull, the Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Land Forces, has been appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff the British army's top post. He succeeds Field Marshal Sir Francis Festing. onetime C-in-C FARELF. Gen. Hull, who has been
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    Lock icon Moscow visit
    33 1 COLOMBO. Tues. Colombo's woman Premier, Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike, will visit the Soviet Union and the United Arab Republic on her way to the Commonwealth Premiers' conference in London in March. U.P.I.
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    Lock icon Prince Philip bags a tiger
    179 1 Prince Philip bags a tiger lAIPUR, Tues. The J Duke of Edinburgh shot and killed a tiger I during today's hunt, officials said by telephone from Sawai Madhopur. Local officials said the tiger was huge but they lacked further details. It was the royal party's third attempt to "bag" a
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    Lock icon Attack on Malaya in S. Africa
    98 1 Attack on Malaya in S. Africa /CAPETOWN. Tues. Stately menus made by Malaya and Ghana in connection with South Africa's becoming a republic were the first statements of blackmailers. Dr. Eden Donges, the South African Finance Minister, said yesterday. "We are not prepared to allow ourselves to be bound hand
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    Lock icon 14 die in crash
    30 1 BANGKOK. Tues. Fourteen passengers were killed and 20 others seriously Injured when a bus ran off the highway about 100 miles north of here today. Reuter.
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    A-bomb plane crashes
    76 1 NEW YORK, Tues. An eight-jet bomber, carrying two unarmed nucleir weapons. crashed and burned on a country road in North Carolina early today, killing three of the crew. Five others parachuted to safety. Officials said there was no danger from the two nuclear weapons, although a non-nuclear
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    I didn't allege nepotism, Ong tells inquiry
    353 1 HE AGREES WITH COMMISSIONER: I'VE BEEN GIVEN EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO SAY WHAT I LIKE SINGAPORE, Tuesday FORMER Minister for National Development, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, agreed at today's session of the Chua commission of inquiry that he had been given every opportunity to
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    Lock icon Nehru: I'm not retiring
    46 1 NEW DELHI. Tues. Mr. Nehru. Indian Prime Minister, said today he was not thinking of retiring from public life, either at present or ''in the foreseeable future." Mr. Nehru's statement followed reports In a London newspaper that he was contemplating retirement. Reuter.
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    Jet planes for Ghana
    37 1 LONDON. Tues. Ghana Airways has ordered three Vlckers VC-10 jet airliners casting £7 million, the British Aircraft Corporation, the makers, announced today. The three aircraft will be delivered to Ghana Airways in 1964.
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    LATEST
    27 1 SEARCH SNAGb LONDON, Tuo I M\ returned to IMaiifc U» refuel Amenta v I rovers say start li Saafel Maria baniptr bad weather* (Sfee tin pagei
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    £120 m. cheque buys over British Ford
    203 2 £1 20 m. cheque buys over British Ford I ONDON. Tues. A lj draft on the Bank of England for £119,--500,000 ($1,016 million) believed to be the biggest to be made out in Britain changed hands here here yesterday. The draft was tin- amount paid by Ford of Detroit, for
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    Lock icon Congo recruiting probe
    402 2 BRUSSELS Tuesday BELGIAN GOVERNMENT ORDERS A JUDICIAL INQUIRY INTO THE DRIVE BEING MADE BY 'VARIOUS AGENTS' "PORMKR Nazi collaborators and S.S. men are reported to be among Belgian recruits for the army of Mr. Antoine Gizenga in the Congo's Orientale province, a Belgian Government spokesman said yesterday.
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    Lock icon STRELKA AND HER SIX PUPS ARE WELL
    60 2 STRELKA AND HER SIX PUPS ARE WELL STRELKA (Unfa Arrow), the dog which last August flew with another into space and returned safely to earth, has given birth to six pups. Strelka and her litter are reported to be "doing well." According to Soviet scientists, it is likely that one
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    Lock icon Kennedy to rely on envoys—not Summit
    188 2 Kennedy to rely on envoys not Summit WASHINGTON, Tues. President Kennedy yesterday made a deliberate move towards reviving dipi lomatic channels as the main method of international negotiation and at the same time practically ruled out any early "Summit" meeting. Officials placed this interpretation on a statement Issued by Mr.
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    Lock icon U.N. TROOPS GO TO AID OF WHITES
    382 2 LEOPOLDVILLE, Tuesday A UNITED NATIONS Nigerian troop patrol helped a group of American missionaries escape Kivu province and the wrath of supporters of Mr. Patrice Lumumba, the deposed premier, who have been rounding up and arresting whites, it was reported yesterday. Other UJN.
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    Lock icon Dooley buried
    27 2 ST. LOUIS i Missouri Tues. Dr. Thomas Dooley. 34. the "Jungle Doctor" of Laos who died of cancer last Wednesday, was burled here yesterday. U.P.I.
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    Lock icon PROTEST WOMEN CLASH WITH CASTRO YOUTHS
    222 3 HAVANA, Tues yyOMEN demonstrating against the recent executions clashed yesterday with a howling, stick^waving mob of Castro supporters in front of the Presidential Palace. Ten Cubans have been shot this month before firing squads while six Americans, arrested for 'Snvading" Cuba from Florida, face
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    Sophia seeks an annulment to save husband from jail
    121 3 Sophia seeks an annulment to save husband from jail T ONDON, Tues. Sophia Loren and film producer Carlo Ponti have agreed to seek an annulment to &aye him from a possible jail term for bigamy, a spokesman for the actress said yesterday. He said Ponti and Miss Loren agreed upon
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    Lock icon 33 more rebels surrender
    33 3 PADANG. Tues. Thirtythree more rebels, under a second lieutenant, have surrendered at Painan near here. Fifty others, under a major, came In at the same place last week. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Mrs. MANVILLE THE 11TH SAYS IT'S ALL OVER
    99 3 Mrs. MANVILLE THE 11TH SAYS IT'S ALL OVER JJEW YORK, Tues.—Tommy Manville, the perennial husband, i s going to lose his 11th wife, he said last night. He said that Christina, his wife since Jan. 11, 1960. had telephoned him on Monday from a hospital. "She told me we were
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    Lock icon 3,900 stay on
    35 3 JAKARTA, Tues. Jakarta newspapers reported today that 3.904 Chinese in the province of Central Java had elected to adopt Indonesian nationality. Others, totalling 4.334. had been repatriated to China or Formosa. Reuter.
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    A-bang N0.4?
    31 3 PARIS. Tues. France was reported yesterday to be preparing' a fourth atomic blast at her Reggan test site in the heart of the Sahara in about four months time.
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    The day they learnt Tahurun 's secret...
    234 3 NOTTINGHAM, (England), Tuesday. FVERYBODY was satisfied with little Tahuran Meah's record at the Bentinck Secondary School here until they learned she is married to a 35-year-old-man. I The result was a storm ot protest from the mothers of other little girls who sit
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    $240 for lost skeleton
    52 3 LONDON. Tues. Beckenham Council has voted to pay Mrs. R. Colby, a widow. $240 for the loss of her husband's skeleton. She loaned it for use in civil defence first aid courses during the war and somehow. In all the confusion of the postwar years, it
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    Lock icon Five years off
    29 3 NAIROBI, Tues. The Kenya Supreme Court yesterday reduced to two years a seven-year jail sentence imposed last September on former Mau Mau "colonel" Gathungsu Earnest. Reuter
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    Lock icon ATTEMPT TO DERAIL GARCIA's TRAIN?
    95 3 ATTEMPT TO DERAIL GARCIA's TRAIN? jyjAMLA. Tues. President Carlos Garcia's train escaped possible derailment today. 25 miles north of Manila in the province of Bulacan. with a timely warning from a police officer. President Garica was going to Vigan, Ilocos Sur. northern Luzon. this morning when a polic* patrol, assigned
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    Lock icon Missile just two miles off target
    37 3 CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida), Tues An Atlas "D" missile was successfully fired on a 30-mlnute, 5,000-mile flight from here to Ascension Island yesterday. It landed within two miles of the target. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Arms seizure
    30 3 PARIS, Tues. Orly airport police yesterday seized five crates containing nearly seven hundredweight of arms being flown from Rome to Casablanca. Police are checking on their destination. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Adlai starts job at UN
    79 3 XTEW YORK, Tues.— Mr. Adlal Stevenson, twicedefeated Democratic candidate for President of the United States, began a new job yesterday as his country's resident representative at the United Nations. Mr. Stevenson presented his letters of credence to the Secretary-General, Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld, at a private
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      Seven die in US carrier blaze
      78 3 Seven die in US carrier blaze T ONDON. Tues. A fire below decks in the 60,000-ton American aircraft carrier Saratoga caused the deaths of seven men, the U.S. Navy announced here last night. The fire, which lasted two hours in one of her engineering spaces, broke out while the giant
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      17 3 WASHINGTON: A record number of 3.300.--000 jobless Americans claimed unemployment benefits in the first week of 1961.
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      33 3 BONN: West Germany will receive 604 Starflghters.each costing £450,000 under a long-term air defence development programme JAKARTA: About Mil Indonesian journalists are out of work following recent government action against newspapers and magazines.
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      11 3 LONDON: Britain will pay a fixed price, for South African uranium.
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      17 3 CAIRO: President Nasser has asked the National Assembly to draw up a permanent Constitution for th« U.A.R.
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    Lock icon REBEL APPEALS TO BRITAIN, RUSSIA
    208 3 HONG KONG, Tuesday. pRINCE Souphanouvong, leader of tne pro-Cor-n munist Pachet Lao, has asked Britain and Russia to call an international conference immediately to seek a settlement of the Laotian problem, Hanoi Radio said last night, quoting the "Voice of Pathet Lao Radio Hi made
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    Lock icon Ike greeted
    36 3 ALBANY (Georgia). Tues. A crowd of about 100 people greeted former President Elsenhower when he arrived here yesterday to spend a week quail shooting as the guest of New York oilman, Walton Jones. Reuter
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    Temple used for gaining
    505 4 BURMESE PRIEST LIVING ON ALMS FACES JAIL TERM IF HE CANT PAY HIS FINE OF $3,000 SINGAPORE, Tuesday. A BURMESE priest, said to be dependent on alms from devotees, was today fined $3,000 or three months' jail for permitting his temple premises to be used as
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    Lutheran leader in S'pore
    91 4 Lutheran leader in S'pore SINGAPORE. Tues. Dr. Reuben Youngdahl, pastor of the largest church in America, is now In Singapore on his fifth world tour. Dr. Youngdahl is minister of the Lutheran church in Minnesota, which has a congregation of 10.000 He has been the church minister since it began
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    COME BACK: FATHER'S PLEA TO SON
    169 4 COME BACK: FATHER'S PLEA TO SON SINGAPORE, Tues. A distraught father today made a plea to his missing 18-year-old son to return home, adding the promise there would be "no trouble at home for him." He is Mr. Augustine Moh of Beng Swee Place, whose son Anthony has been missing
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    YOUNG GIRL SAW GANG MURDER
    161 4 i 1 SINGAPORE. Tuw. TOONG CHAN SENG, r 23, a labourer, was killed after he admitted he was an "08 fiine" member when «iSf.™!i SI Ti™ challenged by three thugs in the People's Park, a coroner's court was told today court was torn toaay. An
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    PAP call for big rally in honour of Ferhat Abbas
    376 4 PAP call for big rally in honour of Ferhat Abbas SINGAPORE, Tuesday. WHE Secretary General of the Peoples Action A Party, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, tonight called on the people of Singapore to flock to a giant rally at the City Hall padang on Thursday in honour of Dr. Ferhat
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    Kidnap: 2 charged
    96 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. Two more men were charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday in connection with the kidnapping of a rubber estate owner. Ong Leong Seng, in Yio Chu Kang Road on Christmas eve. They were remanded till Feb. 1. They were Neo Kirn Yong and Lim
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    Water cuts in 3 areas
    71 4 SINGAPORE, Tues.— Water will be cut off In the following areas tomorrow: Along Bartley Rise Estate, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in Kampong Koo Chye off Lorong 3, Geylang between Kampong Khoo Chye and Lorong Tiga Estate, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and
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    MEN STILL OUTNUMBER WOMEN IN THE STATE
    117 4 MEN STILL OUTNUMBER WOMEN IN THE STATE SINGAPORE. Tues.— Males still continue to dominate the population in Singapore among all races except the Eurasians. A census taken in mid--1959 showed there were 829.000 males and 750.600 females giving a sex ratio of 1,104 males to 1.000 females. The annual report
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    Stolen cheque cashed
    71 4 SINGAPORE. Tues.— A cheque for $780 stolen yesterday morning from a bank, was cashed at another bank in the afternoon. The discovery was made as police were probing the loss of five cheques from the counter of the Bar.k of Tokyo. All cheques had been left there
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      373 4 ITHE following Is today's ton. Brunei. Kuchlng (ML477) 1 schedule of civil air- P-»- taom Pw>*ng (MLisi) craft movements at Paya 5S pjn Lebar airport, Singapore: depabtubes ABBIVALS BO AC: To Kuala Lumpur, BO AC: Prom Hong Kong Colombo, Bombay, Teheran, CBA96D 125 p.m.; Irom Lou- btanbul, Zurich, London (BAdon,
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    THE CHUA COMMISSION OF INQUIRY-Third day's evidence The man who was so afraid that he 'threw away' $50,000...
    8856 5 THE CHUA COMMISSION OF INQUIRY -Third day's evidence The man who was so afraid that he 'threw away' $50,000... LEE: MARCUS STOOD IN SUCH TERROR OF ONG THAT HE PAID TO LEAVE QUICKLY "It wasn't vital enough to raise Marcus issue in the Cabinet' SINGAPORE, Tues. rpHE Prime Minis- ter,
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    Counsel at the inquiry
    61 5 Counsel at the inquiry FOR MR ONC ENC CUAN. whose allegations of nepotism against the Prime Minister and the Minister for Labour and Law in the Legislative Assembly, form the subject of the inquiry: Mr. L. M. Ong and Mr. Philip Lav. ASSISTING THE COM MISSION: Inche Ahmad Ibrahim, the
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    Lead a new party? Oh, no—Dr. Lim
    138 7 Lead a new party? Oh, no— Dr. Lim PENANG, Tuesday. "CKDRMER president of the Malayan Chinese Association, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, today denied he was "connected in any way" with the proposed formation of a new political party. "I know nothing about the establishment of any such party," he said.
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    EMPLOYEES OF SEVEN FIRMS GIVE UNION AN ACTION MANDATE
    198 7 SINGAPORE, Tuesday. MEMBERS of the Singapore Business Houses Employees Union engaged in seven firms, at a meeting last night, authorised their headquarters officials "to implement any form of industrial action for the branches as and when they think fit." The meeting
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    Volunteer jailed
    69 7 MALACCA. Tues. A member of the Malacca Police Volunteer Reserve, D. Hendrlcks, 23, was sentenced to one day's jail and fined $100, >.r three months' jail here today for stealing. He was found guilty of stealing $30 cash, an identity card, an English pound note and lottery tickets
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    Stone laying
    25 7 SUNGET PATANI. Tues. The Sultan of Kedah will lay the foundation stone of the Merdeka Stadium at Bakar Bata. Alor Star, next Tuesday.
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    Single union for Singapore newsmen
    131 7 CINGAPORE, Tues. A single union for all working journalists in Singapore is to be formed to protect their interests and to safeguard freedom of the Press. At present there are three journalist organisations in the state the Singapore Union of Journalists, the Singapore Chinese Journalists'
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    NO EARLY SHOWS ON FRIDAYS IN JOHORE
    74 7 NO EARLY SHOWS ON FRIDAYS IN JOHORE JOHORE BAHRL. Tues. The Sultan of Johore has ordered that no theatre or place of public amusement shall remain open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Fridays. A government spokesman said this was to ensure that people observed Friday as a holy
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      Armed gang hold up cinema: Take $40, smokes
      205 7 Armed gang hold up cinema: Take $40, smokes V U A L A LUMPUR, Tues. A five-man armed gang broke Into the Capitol cinema here at 2 n.m today, tied up two employees and made ofl with $40 in cash and S2OO worth of cigarettes. According to the watchman. Ratten
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    Girl, 18, and youth die in flat falls
    132 7 Girl, 18, and youth die in flat falls SINGAPORE, Tues A GIRL was killed and an unemployed youth fatally injured in two separate falls from skyscraper fiats in the Tiong Bahru area today. The girl was 18-year-old ,cc Ah Hong who slipped and ell while pulling up a pail of
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    CAR SMASHES HOLE IN BANK WALL
    153 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A CAR crashed into the Mercantile Bank in Mountbatten Road here just after midnight last night leaving a gaping hole in the ground floor. This morning hundreds of office-bound workers stopped to take a better look at the hole thinking it
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    Sardon will visit port
    58 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Minister of Transport, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir. will visit Port Swettenham on Feb. 2 to inspect installations and meet port officials. He will also meet members of the Port Swettenham joint council and representatives ot the National Union of Railwaymen at
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    Festival trains
    37 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Malayan Railway Administration announced here today that special passenger trains will run between Kuala Lumpur and Batu Oaves for the three-day Thaipusam Festival starting Jan. 30. with reduced third class fares.
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    Mechanic dies of burns
    44 7 MUAR. Tues A mechanic, Mohamed Bijan, 23, died In the district hospital here last night from severe burns he received in a fire which broke out in a motor shop yesterday. The workshop was razed. Damage was estimated at $1,000.
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    Open verdict
    36 7 SINGAPORE, Tues. The state coroner. Mr. N. A. d'Rozario. today recorded an open verdict on a cyclist. Goh Choo Seng, who died after an accident with a car In Serangoon Road on June 29.
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      98 7 Bugs Bunny By Baiph Heimdahi LM Abner By Ai Capp f-*6*S 'f!-/T SOUNDED AS THOUGH {-'OH WELL,f>AR*OTS CAN 1 /T^^Z^N I ONE OF THOSE AN/MALS SA/D tr -S I I TALK— GO AHEAD/T SAY I GOODB-VE, > H/ANTED7OSA/ GOODBYE TO yUJ V GOODBYE TOXXJR S^ > ,r 7" -v JiXUMrtFLnrvrrrj:)
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    67 8 24 wmrit j/c (Mimmmm) MRS. SARANGAPANY KARTMIGESU h. beloved mother of Mr. K. Thambaptllai and Mrs. K. Chelllah ot Singapore and Mr. K. Somasundram of lpoa. died at Urmnplray, Ceylon. LOH PNJP MIN age S3 passed away peacefully 23/1/81 leaving behind his beloved wtfe, eon, daughter, dmughter-in-law. and one
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    281 8 I' Ward, lit (Himimnm) ONLY SMO For a Norfe Refrigerator. Latest model 12 en. ft. else, tee yoor Nome dealer today. 8 pore, Peaaag only. MATERNITY MCISTBRS Required, available from tb* Cazton Press <1«S7) Ltd. 170-174 Suagel Besl Road, Knit Lumpur: Tel: *****, Coat S4. FREE— FOR— ALL! Warner's
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    The Straits Times Wednesday, January 25. 1961. Attack On Malaria
    620 8 The Straits Times Wednesday, January 25. 1961. Attack On Malaria Next month Malaya will join actively in the worldwide campaign to wipe out malaria. For a year an eradication team, assisted by W.H.O. experts, has been making pre'iminary surveys and collecting data in the pilot project area around Rawang. More
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    South Africa
    455 8 Mr. Hammarskjoeld's mild 1 aspect and gentle mien should never be allowed to obscure the fact that he is as hard and strong a statesman as any now prominent in world affairs, and his customary refusal to say much cannot be taken as evidence that his visit to
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    Mission of Hope
    174 8 The dozen men of Singapore's trade delegation have takon great expectations with them to Jakarta where, at the invitation of the Indonesian Government, they hope to prepare the ground for a trade treaty from which may grow a new era of prosperous commerce. It is not, on
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    ASIA'S RIVAL GIANTS
    1265 8  -  MALCOLM MacDONALD by British High Commissioner in India (1955-60) One is going forward in freedom, the other in fear: it is a momentous world event and much will depend on its outcome LONDON, THE last 15 years have been crowded, convulsive, historic times all over Asia. Under
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      A DECREPIT FRANGIPANI TO GREET TOURISTS
      217 8 I REPEATEDLY read of .efforts being made to attract and encourage tourists to Singapore. On a recent visit to Singapore I was unable to locate a tourist bureau, nor cculd I find one in the telephone directory. Several well dressed citizens in Collyer Quay
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      Cause for complaint
      114 8 I AOREE with Mr. Lim Yeow Koon who said at the last municipal meeting that the washing of cars in the compound of the municipal office was a minor matter, but I would ask Mr. Lim. the president of the municipal commissioners, to spend .a few minutes
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      Good for a laugh
      146 8 AS another listener to the programme "Double Your Money" on Tuesday evenings, may I write In reply to "Listener" who feels that some of these participants are being made a laughing stock? I for one see nothing wrong in a little leg-pull-ing, nor I am sure
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      A bait for sharks
      98 8 WAS very surprised to hear the director of the Van Kleer Aquarium claim in a radio talk that one could swim for years and still be unable to see a shark in Singapore waters. J suggest that the director one of these fine sunny days go
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      The older generation
      69 8 T SHOULD like to protest to "Respect" <S. T. Jan. 14) that his sentiments are fatuous and should never have been expressed. If the older generation desires respect lt must act in such a way as to engender respect. If "Respect" feels that he is not getting
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    306 10 Here are more overseas pen pals for you Sukhrndra Singh. s/o Sardar Juglndra Singh; S.H.O. P. S- Raj Ourh, Uiht. Chum, ißajastiiaiu, India. Sikh buys Oiily. Paulinr Rice, aged 15; "Alerupaul", Temple Grove, Oalylwood, Nr. Chelmsforci. Esjcx, England; sport*, recoup, piclures, correspondence. Howard KasUn, aged 15* c/o St. Michael's School,
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    The geography competition is disastrous for Mat!
    1687 10  - The geography competition is disastrous for Mat! KATHLEEN HICK LEY by 1 MAT Mousedeer has opened a jungle school and is having a lot of trouble icith his pupils, especially Bakar Bear. He tries one plan after another to make them learn, then one morning when Ali and Rukiah reach
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    594 10 M. Ghaiali. aged 14: 38. Dunbar Walk. Frankel Estate. Singapore 13; stamps, reading, radio-listening, songs, correspondence. R. Rajendran. aged 15; 375. Semplalt Village. Raub. Pa hang; stamps, reading, music. M. Jinn Zali. aged 15. 38. Dunbar Walk. Singapore 15; reading stamps, songs. Dicky Fong,
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    STOCK INDICES
    22 12 Malayan Stock Exchange: Jan. 24 Jan. 23 Industrials: 137-30 13*10 Tins: 198.24 198.52 Rubbers: ***** iS2.W Jan. 1 19J8 100
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    122 12 MELBOURNE, Tues. INVESTMENT shares traded x quietly along steady lines here j i today. Henry Jones gained Is. 3d. to 68s. 6d. Base metals eased slightly. Oil shares were firm. Aust Oil and Gas gained 7d. to 10s. Commonwealth Bonds held a I firm trend. Con. Zinc S3
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    SPORE SHIPPING
    144 12 SHIPS lying Jlonmidi tha S.njjporl H»rb»ur Beard whsrvss M sxpsct- td today art: Vestrl 1/2. Tungua 4/S. nine Matrsk 6A, Stavropol 6/7, Benrroch 8/9. Btnmtcdhui 10/11, Straat I Clarrnce 13/ U. Traviata 15/16. Rajula I*l. Belandia 19. Sletter N. Wall 1. Matang N. Wall 2/3. Song Be N.
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    MALAYAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    629 12 DUSINESS on the Singapore section of tne Malayan S.ock i Exchange yesterday, with ihe number of shares in brnckets. was: Industrials: Rountead 51. 19. $1.20: .F. and N. ord.i JLVO4. 52.05, 52.0«: i Gammon (3.000) J2.16: M. Cement I (5,000) SI.KS: M. Colls (1.000) 52.7.V M. Box
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    MARKET STEADY: 1960 TIN STOCKS ARE HEAVILY CUT
    1038 12 MARKET STEADY: 1960 TIN STOCKS ARE HEAVILY CUT By Our Market Correspondent MALAYAN share market yesterday wasj generally steady, with tins gaining some stimulus from an improvement in London. Both the tin and rubber prices were better, tin. rising an eighth to $389.75 and rubber closing fractionally above 80 cents.
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    155 12 npHE Chinese Produce Exchange. Singapore, noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: Quiet: UK /Continent Jan. Feb. shipments S27>j buyers. $28 sellers. Coconut oil: Quiet; bulk; $42 sellers, drum $45 'v sellers. Pepper: Quiet: no business was reported done. Muntolc white $227 u and Sarawak $222.. (both down
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    109 12 THE Malayan Eithimt Banks' Ass*. cisticn mad* the following chances In Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to 1100): N«w V*rk: buying airmail T.T. 32 Ift 16. O.D. 33 1/16 »O d *i 33 5/16 credit bills, 33 7/16 trade bills. Csnada: buying airmail T.T. 32!, O.D.
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    RUBBER PRICES
    226 12 PEBRIARY first trade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed In Singapore yesterday at 80 cents per lb., up I', cea'.z on Mondays close. The tone was quiet. S-C.C.R.A. closing prices In cents per lb., yesterday were: Int. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 79-,, sellers 80 (N); Int. 1 R.S.S. Feb.
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    CLOSING PRICES
    38 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 24. RUBBER: 80', cents per lb. (up IK cents). 5 p.m. unofficial close: 80' i cents (quiet after steady). TIN: 5389.75 per picul (up UK cents). Estimated unofficial offering: 250 tons (up 20 tons).
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      1429 13 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS FEDERATION OF MALAYA CERTIFICATE. CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL CERTIFICATE AND HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATIONS, 1961. 1. Higher School Certificate Oral Examinations. (A) Principal Level (1) Oral Malay (II) Oral Chinese (Optional) (B) Date of Examination 12--13 th April, 1961 (C) Entry fee $100 for each subject. (D) Forms of entry
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      798 13 TENDERS MALAYAN RAILWAY TENDER NOTICE TENDERS are Invited from registered Contractors Class "A" for the Design and Provision of W.C.s.. sinks, wash hand basins, precast concrete bath-houses and stand pipes, and necessary connections of discharges there-from to Municipal Sewers, to Railway Quarters at Brickfields Road. Kandang Kerbau Road, Watkins Street,
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      870 13 VEHICLES FOR SALE it Wordt $S Win Box St ttt. txtrm NO DOWN PAVMINT to b» paM la 12 r<jual Instalments for 1936 Op«l Kapltan. Folly taxsd and Insured. Box A 4715 B.T. B'porc. STUDCBAKER LARK 1039 Byes drives on* owner exc«ll«at condition mileage ***** hlcboM offer Inipectloa by appointment.
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    How to play better golf... the KEL NAGLE way
    732 14 How to play better golf. the KEL NAGLE way Today the Straits Times begins a series of five articles by British and Australian open golf champion KEL NACLE, who will soon be seen in action in the Singapore open championships on Feb. 3. 4 and 5. Nagle's advice will be
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    Lock icon Unofficial 'Test' is drawn
    37 14 DUNEDIft, Tues.— The four day ttrst unofficial "Test" between the M.C.C. and New Zealand ended In a draw here today. Scores: New Zealand 313-7 dec. and 169. M.C.C. 277-5 dec. and 167-7. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Worrell in Governor's eleven
    116 14 Worrell in Governor's eleven WELLINGTON. Tues. Frank Worrell and Gerry Gomez, .captain and vicecaptain of the West Indies side at present touting Australia, are in the GovernorGeneral's invitation fide to play the M.C.C. at Auckland later this month. The team, to be captained by the Governor-General, Lord Cpbham, also Includes
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      21 14 TOl'R MATCH (Hyderabad): Match drawn. Pakistan tourist* 258 and 194-5 dec. c Butt 105 1 S. Zone 184 and 91-4.
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      TENNIS
      89 14 At S I RAIJAN CHAMPIONSHIPS (Melbourne): Men's singles 2nd rd Brian Tobln (Aust) bt Sergio Tacchino (It) 6-3, 6-2. 7-6: Men's doubles q-finals Christian Kuhnke (Ocr) and Waynt Reid (Aust) bt Bob Hewitt and Bob Howe (Aust) 5-7. 10-8. 6-4. 12--10; Rod Layer and Bob Mark (Aust) bt D.
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      11 14 ENGLISH LEAGUE: Dlv. 3 Newport 1 Queen's Park Rangers 3.
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    Lock icon INDONESIA INTENDS TO RETAIN THOMAS CUP
    77 14 INDONESIA INTENDS TO RETAIN THOMAS CUP JAKARTA. Tues. Indonesia intends to make an all-out effort to retain the Thomas Cup— symbol of world badminton supremacy. Indonesia, who won the cup from Malaya in Singapore three years ago, will defend it in Jakarta in June. The chairman of the Indonesia Badminton
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    Lock icon NOT LEAVING EARLIER, says BRADMAN
    89 14 NOT LEAVING EARLIER, says BRADMAN ADELAIDE, Tues. Australia's Test cricket side to visit Britain this year would not leave any earlier than scheduled to gain extra practice In England, chairman of the Australian Board of Control, Sir Donald Bradman. said today. The team will have less than a week in
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      298 14 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS number (5). 1. Whence comes fire train the 7. Words of encouragement set campus, gentlemen? (3. 12). the raven tree (5. 4). 8. Say what you'll have to fol- 10- Walk the plank? (2, 2, S. 5). low apple pie? (5). 14. Cattle god come* In
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    STRICT SECURITY FOR BUKIT TIMAH STABLES
    234 15 SINGAPORE, Tuesday rpilE Singapore Turf Club is taking stern action to prevent doping of horses. Strict security measures are being enforced in the Bukit Timah stables. In a circular to owners and trainers, the club states: In order to ensure that no undesirable elements
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    528 15 SINGAPORE, Tuesday. piKE CHOICE, with Merv Posner astride, did a dashing gallop on a good track at Bukit Timah this morning. Keeping wide out all the way, he ran 4f in 50 1 5, (3f in 37 4/5 and 2f in 25 1/5)
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    Signals in last four
    101 15 l/UALA LUMPUR. Tues. Following their surprise victory over 2 Recce Regiment in the second round. Armed Forces Signal Squadron entered the semi-finals of the Armed Forces major units knockout hockey competition for the Brooke Cup when they beat 4 Royal Malay Regiment 6-5 at Rifle Range
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    Lock icon S. Aust gain Ist inns points
    61 15 BRISBANE, Tues. South Australia took first innings points in their high-scoring Sheffield Shield match which ended in a draw here today. Scores: Queensland 469 (W. Grout 119, J. McLaughlin 85, J. Mackay 66, N. Hawk* 3-11) and 205-3 (Vlevers 103 not out) South Australia
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    Sundram to 'make way for youth'
    126 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. TiR. K. Sundram. president of the F.A. of Selangor, will not seek re-election when the association holds its annual meeting on Saturday. Dr. Sundram told the Straits Times today: "I have been president for the past eight years and it is
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    Seletar are runners-up
    51 15 SINGAPORE, Tues. Royal Air Force, Seletar, took runners-up position in the Singapore Amateur F.A. Div. 1 league, when they trounced Fathul Karib 6-0 In their playoff at Jalan Besar Stadium today. Sperring was the star of the Seletar attack, scoring four goals. Roberts and Harding got the
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    Sobers takes five for 24
    94 15 gERRI, (S. Australia), Tues. A sixth wicket stand of 144 by Peter Lashley (75 not out) and Jackie Hendricks (72) and fine spin bowling by Qarfield Sobers earned <5-24), the West Indian cricketers victory by an innings and 235 runs in their two-day match against
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    Harvey fails
    48 15 SYDNEY. Tues— Neil Harvey, the lefthanded batsman, today failed a fitness test and has withdrawn from the Australian team to meet the West Indies in the Fourth Test, beginning at Adelaide on Friday. Harvey pulled a hamstrlnk muscle while batting in the Third Test at Sydney.
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    Lindrum Memorial Fund
    157 15 I(UALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Australian newspapers The Herald and the Weekly Times Ltd., The Sun and the Sporting Globe in Melbourne have opened a fund to perpetuate the name of the greatest billiards player the world has even known Walter Lindrum. Lindrum died, aged 61, on July 30
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    114 15 Santee calls for probe of AAU PHOENIX, Tues.— Wes Santee, one time America's fastest mller who was barred from amateur competition for taking extra expense money, said last night the U.S. Government should invest' gate the "corrupt system" of amateur athletics in the United States. Santee. who set a national
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    THE 'MODERN SCHOOL' IS SPARTAK'S SECRET
    724 15  - THE 'MODERN SCHOOL' IS SPARTAK'S SECRET TEOH ENG TATT (By Singapore, Tues. AFTER 40 years of "English school" football. fhs Czechs found that they were still nowhere in the international scene. So they started a soccer "revolution.'* And last weekend more than 10,000 Singapore fans were introduced to their "modern
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    The living hell that's South Africa—by Malay migrants
    276 16 The living hell that's South Africa— by Malay migrants KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Three South African Malay families arrived here today to start life anew and to forget their homeland. They had been granted permission by the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, to settle down in the Federation. The 19 South
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    381 16 NORTH KEDAH UMNO WOMEN SEND $100 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE North Kedah UMNO Kaum Ibu (women's section) today donated $100 to the Straits Times and Berita Harian Cheer Fund for Malayan soldiers in the Congo. The contribution was sent through their leader. Tengku Zahara binte Tengku Abdullah. The Perak Iron
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    148 'cheer' boxes off to men in Congo
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