The Straits Times, 11 February 1961

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  • 17 1 AVERACE DAILY fEBTIFIEB SALE EXCEEDS 90,000 The Straits Times No*""* Estd. 1845. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1961. 15 CENTS
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  • 375 1 ■<M:i[«ai^H:»M^>»vi^iaii^ni^mw«[k'i]r*:B:^y:^yTl Ex-Premier takes rifles in farm break Aircraft hunt him and aides ELISABETH VI LLE, Friday PATRICE Lumumba and two of his aides have escaped from custody in Katanga after overpowering their two guards and stealing weapons. AirvialJ if* being used in the hunt for the fugitives and
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  • 615 1 LONDON, Friday T>RYAN SCOTT. a 19-year-old translator and a former British Navy radio operator, pleaded guilty here today to two charges under the Official Secrets Act. The magistrate agreed to a prosecution request that the ca.se should be dealt with summarily. Scott was
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  • 351 1 Withdraw? It would be cowardly act: Tengku NO CONGO PULL-OUT... MALAYA OFFERS TO SEND ANOTHER 800 SOLDIERS KUALA LUMPUR, Friday THE PRIME Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, pledged today that Malaya would not commit a "cowardly act" by withdrawing troops from the Congo just because other nations had done so. And
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  • 104 1 BLACKPOOL. Fri. An atomic chemist, who disappeared from his home here a week ago, has been reported missing, police disclosed yesterday Mr. Donald Ford Phillips. 53, left his home to go to work at the Salwick atomic factory, near Preston, on Thursday afternoon. But
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  • 141 1 PNANG. Fri. For the third time this week, the departure of the Malayan reinforcements for the Congo has been postponed. The 133 officers and men of 'D' Company, 4 Royal Malay Regiment, due to leave -today, will now go tomorrow. The two United States
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  • 51 1 BERNE. Fri.— Four children were killed and eight are missing in a huge avalanche which carried away 16 Swiss children near Lenzcrhelde today. Four children were dug out alive. The children, on a winter sports holiday, were skiing when the avalanche suddenly crashed on them.
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  • 17 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri The Singapore Security council will meet at the Cameron Highlands this weekend.
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  • 246 1 5 killed in Johore crashes lOHORE BAHRU, FrL Four people, mii eluding two Scouts I leaders, were killed this morning in two separate road accidents i In South Johore. These deaths make a total of five killed in three major accidents on Johore roads during the past 24 hours, Yesterday,
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  • 44 1 LUMUMBA SHOT? LLOPOLUVILLE. Fn One member thr IN conciliation NMrintM, loramcntin? on r*poi t« il Lunmmb.i escape. s»;ii«i. I' This is cover- up >u>\>. Ut' pl'l>lMl>|V llCVtl !»ll«)l. .1 be hern killed (hcr< will be no pcaie in Congo [m iW yw »."-Bciilcr
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  • 122 2 NEW DELHI, Fri. Mr. Nehru, India's Prime Minister, today defended India's decision to build atomic power station*. Inaugurating a governmentsponsored "Atoms for Health" exhibition here. Mr. Nehru said that for a country like India, with limited power supplies, atomic power stations
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  • 479 2 'PIRATICAL ATTACK' ON RED AIRCRAFT Russia President aboard protests to France MOSCOW, Friday. TDUSSIA yesterday protested to France about a French fighter plane's "piratical attack" on an airliner carrying the Soviet President, Mr. Leonid Brezhnev. It said the fighter opened fire iwice on the Ilyushin-18 airliner yesterday and then "crisscrossed
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  • 61 2 -ITS WONDERFUL! I can't believe its tru'?.** Mrs. Elda Zarb (seen here with her son Gerald) tells reporters after she got the news that her husband, James, had been released from an Egyptian prison. Mr Zarb had served 4J years of a ten-year sentence imposed
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  • 375 2 CAPE TOWN. Fri DR. HENDRIK VERWOERD, South African Prime Minister, said yesterday that if South Africa was refused continued membership of >the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference (in London in March) and told to apply again, she would refuse. Winding up a
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    • 479 2 RADIO SINGAPORE RADIO MALAYA Medium Wave 476 metres Short Wave: 62 metrei *17 Metres) from 8.U0— 9.00 p.m. AM 6.00 Time Signal. NegaraA.M. 6.30 Good Mornlnß; 6.32 Ku. News Headlines: 6.05 Morning Morning Prelude; 7.00 The News; Melodies; 7.00 Newport Jazz Festl--7.05 Melodies At Sunrise; 8.00 The val; 7.30 Time
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  • 386 3 LONDON, Friday. rPHE British Cabinet is expected to reach a decision today on the plans of the Colonial Secretary, Mr. lain Macleod, for a new constitution for Northern Rhodesia giving Africans much more power in the government of the protectorate. The
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  • 20 3 CAIRO. Fri.— A bus carrying 43 passengers went Into a canal yesterday and killed 23. —U.P.I.
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  • 125 3 A-tests in Sahara MAY end PARIS, Fri.— France is understood to be considering cessation of nuclear tests in the Sahara, but the government strongly denied last night that any such decision had yet been taken. An Information Ministry official said France had given no undertaking to anyone not to continue
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  • 52 3 LOS ANGELES. Fri— lrene von Brleberg. 43. divorced her husband, Fritz von Drieberg. 63, a scene painter, yesterday because she said she was tired of being called a peasant. "He called me a peasant because I am American and he is European." she said in
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  • 228 3 U.S: WE REMAIN COMMITTED TO CHIANG REGIME WASHINGTON, Friday. A STATE Department spokesman today reaffirmed the United States's firm commitment to Nationalist China and expressed doubt that many people in the U.S. or overseas would want to see Communist China in the United Nations on its own 1 terms. lie
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  • 42 3 LONDON. Fri— A call for Britain to switch to decimal coinage "as soon as possible" —and for the Government to specify a date for its Intro-duction-was made yesterday by the 33.000-member Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.— Reuter.
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  • 387 3 CABINET DISCUSSES FOUR 'END FIGHTING' IDEAS VIENTIANE. Friday THE U.N. SecretaryGeneral, Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld, has proposed that a coalition government be formed in Laos as a means of solving the crisis here, it was reported yesterday. The Laotian Information Minister. Mr. Bouavan Noraslng. told a
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  • 190 3 MAC: I'VE REASON FOR HOPE T ONDON, Fri— The Prime lj Minister Mr. Harold Macmillan told Parliament yesterday he had "reason to ftope" that Russia would shortly reply to the Allied -backed plan that the three-mem-ber International Commission investigate the Laos situation. Replying to questions. he also said the Government
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  • 283 3 GEC now faces a $2,250 m. people's action NEW YORK. Fri. Two lawyers in Peoria, Illinois, yesterday filed a "blanket" suit for an estimated $2,250 million damages against the General Electric Company, alleging financial injury to some 50 million peo-, pie as a result of the firm's illegal pricefixing. The
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  • 50 3 WEGOIS. (Switzerland), Prl. —The Rigl-Kaltbad Grand Hotel, famed as one of Switzerland's tourist attractions for almost 100 years, burned to the ground yesterday while packed with tourists. Police said four bodies had been identified and three persons sent to hospital. Another 10 were still missing. U.P.I.
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  • 312 3 RUSSIAN TRIP INVITATION FOR KENNEDY EXPECTED LONDON, Friday. MR. KHRUSHCHEV, Russian Prime/Minister, is likely to invite President John Kennedy to visit Russia if his preliminary contacts with the U.S. President go well, a Communist source said here yesterday. The two may meet when, as Is generally expected. Mr Khrushchev goes
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  • 119 3 Mac to see Kennedy in Washington in April WASHINGTON. Fri. Mr. Harold Macmillan. the British Prime Minister, will arrive in Washington on AprU 4 for talks with President Kennedy, the White House announced today. The informal discussions between Mr. Macmillan and the President, it was stated, will take place on
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  • 47 3 RIO de JANEIRO. Fri. Capt. Henrique Galvao. Portuguese revolutionary leader who seized the liner Santa Maria, arrived here by military plane yesterday Capt. Galvao and his followers were taken in a military bus to the oollce barracks where they were held Incommunicado.— U.P.l.
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  • 26 3 WASHINGTON. Fri. President Kennedy last night named Mr. Douglas MacArthur, at present Ambassador to Japan, to be the new U.S. Ambassador to Belgium.
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  • 27 3 CAPE CANAVERAL. Fri.— The air force early today successfully launched an advanced model of its Titan in-ter-continental range missile on a 5.000-mile test flight. Reuter.
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  • 127 4 CONSTABLES INJURED BY HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER SINGAPORE, Fri. Police •re looking for a hit-and-run motorist who knocked down two policemen riding on a scooter in Orchard Road early today. Constable Hashim bin Osman. who was driving the scooter, is in a critical condition in the General hospital. The other policeman was
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  • 69 4 SINGAPORE, Fri.— A 13--year-old Malay boy, who tried to jump off the balcony of the first floor Juvenile Court last month after admitting that he stole $21 from his grandmother's three piggy banks, today pleaded guilty again to stealing $10 from the grandmother. The Magistrate, Miss Jenny
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  • 48 4 SINGAPORE, Frt. The Independent Missionary Movement held a Chinese New Year party today for Inmates of the Girls Homecraft Centre, York Hill. It will hold another party for inmates of the Red Cross Home for Crippled Children, Tanah Merah and the Cheshire Home tomorrow.
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  • 189 4 YOU shuffle a pack of cards. Your friend chooses one. You have not looked bat you tell him which card it is, correctly. Yon knew because you made him select the card of your choice. Magician's stuff, you may say not for me, the ordinary
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  • 592 4 An island-wide publicity drive and field teams from PAP branches to help in Hong Lim by-election SINGAPORE, Friday. fHE People's Action Party will make a concerted effort to smash former Minister for National Development, Mr. On; Eng Guan, at the coming Hong Lim bjrelection. A meeting
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  • 283 4 Register now for evening classes SINGAPORE, Fri r[E chairman of the Adult Education Board (Lembaga Gerakan Pc la jar an Dewasa), Mr. C. V. Devan Nair, today announced details of new secondary evenin classes. These will enable working adults and over-aged pupils to complete their studie-, leading to the Benlor
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  • 370 4 SINGAPORE, Friday. rnROOPER Denis Smith of the Ist Royal Dragoons testified today how he took a revolver and some ammunition out of his unit armoury while on provost duty at Nee Soon Camp and later took it along to a "brothel." He told
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    • 260 4 AIR ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES n>HE following Is today's 12.30 ajn.; from Kuala Lumpur, Calcutta, Karachi. Beirut, Rome, T^hftdute of civil air- Malacca (ML 121) 9.45 a.m.; London (BA 715) 11.35 pjn. aaSsSMff Bfffflsl sS?SSMS ARRIVALS nel, Sibu. Kuchlng (ML 409) a m BOAC: Prom Melbourne. Syd- 5 15 pJ^. from
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  • 147 5 DOTH the Federation and Singapore are represented at the U.N. seminar on human rights which opened this week at Wellington, New Zealand. The seminar is being attended by delegates from the Colombo Plan countries and will continue untU Feb. 20. Pictured above
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  • 120 5 'Graduates should keep in touch' KUALA LUMPUR, Frl.— The need for a closer relationship between the University of Malaya and Its graduates was stressed by the vicepresident of the University Graduates' Society, Selangor, Inche Mohamed Din bin All. here last night. Inche Mohamed Din said that this would not only
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  • 50 5 PENANG, Fri.— The United States Information Service produced a desk diary for 1961 depicting highlights of the visit of the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman. to the United States last year. The front cover, in colour, shows the Tengku shaking hands with former President Eisenhower. I
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  • 24 5 IPOH, Fri. Mr. Chan Nyarn Hoi was admitted today to the Federation Bar by Mr. Justice Neal in the High Court here.
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  • 38 5 TEMERLOH. Frl. Dr. •Vong Slew Thim. Medical Officer at the Government Hospital in Mentakab, has been transferred to General Hospital In Kuala Lumpur Dr. V. M. B. Rao. from Kota Bharu. has taken his place
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  • 171 5 SINGAPORE, Friday. FKDURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Ng Geok Lim, from Kuala Lumpur, has disappeared from a Social Welfare home, where police took him on Wednesday after he was found wandering in the streets. The boy had said he was separated from his mother. Yap Slew Neo. last month
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  • 278 5 Malayan mission to PI to boost trade idea KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. rpHE Philippines Secretary of Commerce and In- dustry, Mr. Manuel Lim, has suggested that Malaya send a mission to the Philippines to help boost the present small volume of trade between the two countries. He also proposed that a
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  • 77 5 HEAD PRIEST JUMPED TO HIS DEATH SINGAPORE, Frl. Chuan Kai, 76, head priest of the Poh Chay See Temple In Mirl Road, Kampong Bahru, jumped to his death from a second-storey ward in the General Hospital, the State Coroner, Mr. S. Kandiah. was told today. His successor. Slak Beow Teng.
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  • 45 5 PMIP out of this fight TELUK ANSON. Frl.— The Pan-Malayan Islamic Party will not field any candidates to contest In the comlrw Teluk Anson Town Council elections. This was stated here by Inche Osman bin Saldi. chairman of the Batak Rablt division of the party.
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  • 54 5 SINGAPORE. Frl. Abu Bakar bin All. 19. pleaded guilty In a magistrate's court here today to steal Ing $1,500 from his employers, the Oriental Cane Trad ing Co.. at Buklt Timah Road The money was kept In a locked drawer In an office desk, the court was
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  • 43 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Frl.— Malaya's newest hotel, the $1 million Straits View Hotel In Jalan Scudai. will be opened by the Speaker of the State Legislative Assembly. Tuan Hajl Rahmat bin Hajl Daud, before 2.000 guests, at 5 p.m. on Sunday.
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  • 119 5 DECINNINC tomorrow, the SUNDAY MAIL will serialise the story of the People's Action Party by a member of the central committee of the party The story reveals, for the first time, many inner secrets of the party No one who wants to understand the PAP
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  • 119 5 Council first to back 'aid varsity' appeal KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The vllnlster of Education. Inche Abdul Rahman bin Haji Tallb. today congratulated the National Education (Indian Schools) Development Council for being the first organisation to have responded to the Prime Minister's appeal to the public to support the University of
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  • 81 6 CHE ZAHBAH STUDIES RADIO PRODUCTION IN N. ZEALAND rHE ZAHRAH ZA'BA. Radio Singapore's Malay programme supervisor, shares a joke with Mrs. Elsie Lloyd, women's programme organiser for the commercial division of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service, and Mr. J.L. Hartstonge, head of the department's spoken programmes. Che Zahrah is in
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  • 110 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE law relating to possession of such weapons as flick knives, chainwhips and knuckledusters I is to be tightened. A Bill introduced In Parliament this week Imposes new penalties for possession of this class of weapon at any time. Under the present
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  • 54 6 IPOH. Fri. The titular feast of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes will be celebrated on Sunday, preceded by a three-day Novena. which began today. Th. feast of the Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes will be observed tomorrow with special services and a procession
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  • 168 6 70 farmers build road by night TELIK WSO.V Frl.—Srventy farmers in the rice bowl sub-district of Sungei IV!anik near here are spending an hour and half a night, five nights a week, laying a 3}-mile-long bridle path to connect Kuala Sungel Manik to Sungei Tukang Sedin. The work is being
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  • 858 6  -  HENRY PAUL IPOH. Friday 'GIVE TOP PRIORITY TO A MEDICAL FACULTY' CALL -By HPHE Malayan Me- dical Association estimates that Malaya will still be short of doctors by 1970 and has urged the Federation Government to take immediate action to meet the
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  • 347 6 IPOH, Friday TH E urgency of launching an intensive countrywide campaign to control tuberculosis cannot be over-emphasised, said Dr. A. W. Moreira, president of the Perak Anti-T.B. Association, here today. He was commenting on the warning given In the House of Representatives yesterday by the Minister of
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  • 436 7 KUALA LUMPUR. rriday They are packing YOUR gift parcels for first leg of journey to men in Congo SEVEN men and four women were today given a special job to do at a corner of Shed Seven of the Armed
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  • 64 7 PILGRIMS OFF TO MECCA PENANG. Fri.— A total of 1.179 pilgrims for Mecca sailed In the Anshun from Penang today. The Anshun. which is making only one trip this year, arrived this morning with 530 transit passengers. They were joined by «49 others. The new luxury pilgrim ship. Kuala Lumpur
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  • 176 7 POLICE SWOOP ON A REMOTE HUT, HOLD SIX YOUTHS IPOH. Friday. pOLICE made a swoop today on a remote attap hut outside Pasir Pinji new village, bordering Ipoh aerodrome, and detained six youths. The 1 raid followed close observation made by members of the Ipoh district antisecret society branch of
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  • 35 7 SUNGEI PATANI, Fri.— Ma j. -Gen. W. C. Walker has taken over command or 17 Gurkha Division. Overseas Commonwealth Land Forces, Malaya, from Maj.-Gen. J. A. Robertson who has returned to England.
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  • 65 7 SINGAPORE. Fri. A Jap-anese-make Toyopet Tiara car driven by Mr. C. F. Pope, president of the Singapore Motor Club, and co-driver Mr C. Greene, will do a "ont?-car" Mobilgas economy run over the week-end. This year's Malayan Mobilgas economy run, scheduled for the Easter weekend, has
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  • 59 7 SINGAPORE. Fri.— A 40--year-old expectant mother. Tan Yoke Thin, was jailed for four months today when she could not pay a fine of $3,000 imposed by the Ninth Magistrate's court here. She had pleaded guilty to assisting In carrying on a public lottery at an
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  • 99 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri Customs men smashed an attempt to smuggle a lor-ry-load of rubber seeds out of the country at the 24th milestone, Johore BahruPontian Road, on Wednesday night. Export duty on the .seeds, weighing 1.980 lb.. would have amounted to $19,800. Five
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  • 5824 8 PARL IAMENI KUALA LUMPUR, Friday THE TENGKU SAYS: WE CANNOT BREAK FAITH WITH THE UNITED NATIONS rp H E Government today rejected an Opposition move relating to the withdrawal of Malayan troo p s from the Congo. Mr. S. P. SeenivasaKam (PPP-Menglem-bu) who moved the
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  • 182 10 :o HorWs 5/0 Win. mum, MRS. HO FOOK THIN and family of the late Woon Keng Lim thank relatives and friends for their kind attendance* wreaths and donation (or the Mass. MR. KUEK SEAK ENO and family tender their beart-felt thanks to relaU*aa, friends and members of Bus Owner*'
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  • 28 10 M Hortfs tit (Minimum) IN LOVINC MEMORY Of V. Devildaa* wno passed away on 11.2.M) ■Cone but not forgotten Inserted by Ins beloved wire and children.
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  • The Straits Times Saturday, February 11,1961.
    • 537 10 Friendly relations between the Philippines and Malaya have been strengthened by the resounding success of President Garcia's visit which ends today. As much, unfortunately, cannot be claimed for the wider cause of South East Asian regional co-operation which the Philippines Presid--1 ent and Malaya's Prime Minister have been
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    • 407 10 I The voice which protested that the Press had been mesmerised by the second five year plan was silent when i the House of Representatives 'gave its unanimous approval lat the end of a three day debate. Except for Ministerial explanation of additional de- tails of the separate
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    • 288 10 Dato Onn excepted, the Federal Opposition seems not to understand the elements of the Congo situation and the U.N.s place in it To Mr. S. iP. Seenivasagam the U.N. is a monolithic outlaw instead of merely the sum of its 99 fractious members, and he sees Malaya not
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    114 10 From the Straits Times of Feb 10, 1911 THE two mills along th« Kelantan River owned by Towkay Geok Yew have I been producing large quantities of sago flour for the last few weeks. The mills also deal with rice and copra, a monopoly for the I manufacture of
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  • 1022 10  - CONGO FORCE: A GESTURE OF FAITH IN THE ONLY HOPE THERE 15 VERNON BARTLETT BY WH V should more Malayan troops have been sent to the Congo, just when other Afro-Asian governments are withdrawing their own contingents from that country? Because the Federation Government understands, better than do some others,
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  • 324 11 A barrage of blows, kicks, court told: Scene about boy's thumb SINGAPORE, Fri.— A doctor was punched and kicked by a man after the doctor had explained why he had not given an injection to the man's son being treated for a sore thumb, a district
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  • 60 11 THE FEDERATION Minister of Commerce and Industry, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, who visited New Zealand recently to sign the Malayan-New Zealand trade agreement, makes friends with first-day pupils of the Sydenham State School, Christchurch. From New Zealand, Inche Mohamed Khir went to
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  • 319 11 SINGAPORE. Friday A TRADE union leader. Mr. C. V. Devan Nair. tonight called on Singapore trade unions to repudiate emphatically "any attempt to lake bonus payments out of the sphere of collective bargaining." Mr. Nair. who is general affairs adviser of the
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  • 201 11 SINGAPORE, Friday. HPHE Juvenile Court Magistrate, Miss Jenny Lav, A today told a 14-year-old secret society member she was sending him to a reform school for three years "for your own safety." She said to the boy: "It is better for you to go
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  • 55 11 SINGAPORE, Fri. A carpenter who hacked his dentist son-in-law with an axe while he was in bed. Inflicting serious Injuries, was Jailed for five years by Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah In the Assize Court here today Tay Cheng Ouan, 4a. was found guilty of attempted murder of
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  • 171 11 EXPERT HERE TO SURVEY TECHNICAL TRAINING FACILITIES KUALA LUMPUR, Frl. A Colombo Plan expert arrived here today to carry out a survey of technical training facilities in Malaya. He is Mr. H. R. Mills who said \t the airport that the survey had been made possible by a grant from
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  • 29 11 LONDON, Fri.— The death has occurred in England of Mr. O. E. Henning, OBE.. former general manager for Malay Rubber Planters Ltd. in Malaya. He was 72.
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  • 92 11 RAWANG. Fri.— A technical assistant. Mr. John Murugesu. 32, was killed and two of his friends seriously injured when the car in which they were travelling crashed into a stationary lorry at the 17th. mile. Kuala Lumpur Ipoh road, last night. The injured are Lee
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  • 42 11 KUALA SELANGOR, Fri The Mentri Besar of Selangor, Dato Abu Bakar bin Baginda, this morning opened a new $21,000 Arabic secondary school in Kampong Kuantan, five miles from here. The new school can accommodate 200 boys and girls.
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  • 43 11 SINGAPORE, Fri.— A verdict of death by misadventure was recorded today on Ja'far bin Ramjudi. six, of Ha Yang Estate. Masai, Johore. who died after he was knocked down by a car In Sembawang Road on Oct. 21 last year.
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  • 148 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Thailand's Foreign Minister, Mr. Thanat Khoman. will "only sit and listen" at the tripartite talks on the proposed Association of South-East Asian States (Asas) to be held here this weekend. He Is expected to arrive here tomorrow afternoon for the talks.
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  • 324 11 CRIME RISE: POLICE PATROLS ARE INCREASED SINGAPORE, Friday. T>OLICE patrols in housing estates and thickly populated areas have been increased and a round-the-clock vigil is being kept following a spate of pre-Chinese New Year crime. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight burglaries, and two robberies in which
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  • 136 11 gINGAPOKE. Fri. The Government has placed restrictions on crackerflring near mosques during the Muslim fasting month, since it coincides with part of Chinese New Year. A Government statement today announced that it had acceded to a request from the Muslim Advisory Board to
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  • 41 11 PENANO, Fri.— The Penang Importers' and Exporters' Association has nominated its secretary, Mr. Koay Kirn Hai, and another member, Mr. Teh Oan Kin, to represent it on the Malayan goodwill and trade mission to visit Burma this month.
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  • 167 11 EXPOSED! The hidden power of HYPNOSIS HOW do you feel about hypnotism? Can it cure? Should it be allowed to take the place of anaesthesia of psycho-analy-sis? How much of it is a music hall spectacle AND HOW MUCH IS THE EXERCISE OF A STRANGE. FRIGHTENING POWER? For hundreds of
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  • 63 11 Overdose of pills, inquest told SINGAPORE. Fri.— A man who had been unemployed tor more than six month-s, and had sleepless nights, took an overdose of sleeping pills in Geylang on Nov. 17, the state coroner. Mr. S. Kandlah. was told today. Lee Scow Kwong. 38. died In the General
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    1172 13  -  W.J. WEATHERBY by of the Guardian America s last home of lost illusions IF you want to see how long six weeks can be, you should go to Reno. In "The Biggest Little City in the World" as a welcoming banner across a main street calls it solitary husbands
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    • 292 13 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS 6 Pressing need for some of 1 Appeared embarrassed but our gentry nowadays (8). started the game (7). 7 Pood supplier in favour of 5 Hundreds upset by spreading foresight (9). doubt (7). 8 Olowing. and apparently 10 Mark causes endless alarm malleable (7). (4). 9
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  • 1066 14 THE BATTLE OF TABOH Malaya's first Emergency situation IT was a little alter 6 o'clock on the morning of May 3, 1832 and the small British force in Bell's Stockade w;is in a frenzy of activity. The camp bugler had just sounded the "arm in haste," and already there was
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  • 493 16 No sign of a new feature in rubber pOINTS from this week's Singapore rubber reviews, issued yesterday, are: Holiday, Cutler. Bath and Co. Ltd.: There was no sign of a new feature to relieve the tedium of the week's trading. Overseas advices have changed fractionally on oalance. which induced little
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  • 851 16 BUSINESS In the trading room on the Singapore section of the Malayan Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares in brackets, was: Induitriali: K. and N. orda (1,000) 12.12, (1.000) 12.13: Oammon (8.000) $2.18: Hume pref (1,000) ASa. Ltd.: Cement (1.000) $2.03: llcAlliter (1.000) »1.29: M
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  • 850 16 SHARE MARKET QUIET: TIN AND RUBBER PRICES BETTER By Our Market Correspondent fHE FACE of the Malayan share market is slowing down with the approach of the holidays at Chinese New Year. Yesterday the market was quietly steady with some irregularity over small price ranges. Both the tin and rubber
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  • 39 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 10. RUBBER: 79>4 cents per lb. (up half a cent). 5 p.m. unofficial close: 79 4 cents (steady quiet). TIN: $392.62! j per picul (up 50 cents). Estimated unofficial offering 240 tons (down 20 tons).
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  • 229 16 FEBRUARY Nrst grade rubber buyera f.o.b closed In Singapore yesterday at 79s cents per lb.. up half a cent on Thuraday'a close. The tone waa slightly easier afttr steady. S.C.C.R.A. CLOIINO PRICES in cents per lb. yesterday ware: Int 1 R 8.8. Bpot f.O.b. buyers 79». sell*™ 791
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  • 121 16 MELBOURNE. Pri. INVESTMENT shares closed the week along easier lines here today. Containers eased Is. 3d. to 38s. od. and Factors Bd. to 4s. ftd. Base metals and the oils were steady. Interstate Oil eased Is. to 13s and Aust. Oil and Oas eased 9J to 10s. 6.
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  • 134 16 rl Chines* Praduet ■ishange, »m--tapers, noon prlce° per plcul yaeterday were: Caara: Steady; UK /Continent Feb./ March shipments (28 buyers, f3B« sellers. Caeenut all: Steady; bulk (43 sellers, drum (46 seller. Pepaert Quiet: no business wa reported done. Ifuntok white sai2|. Sarawak (207 i, special Sarawak black (142k.
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  • 120 16 SHIM lying alanglld* the Stngaper* Beard srhanrss or expected t*day arc Coromandel 4/8, Manjursan Maru 6A, Benmhor 6/7. Nlkkyo Mara 8/9. Pyrrhua 10/11, Woooaobo 13/14. BtnnacM* 15/16, LAertea 18. Nleblel Maru 19, Seradom N. Wall 1, aadao N Wall 2. Kenlngau 23/34. Kesarya 2S/26. Rutneverett 27/28, Melbury Beacon
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  • 104 16 re Malayan lithimi Banks' Atssclstion mad* theee cbans** in 1U ra.tr* to merchant* vestenUy (all rataa to S100): Naw Yam: buying airmail T.T, 321, O.D. S3. 90 1/st 33i credit bill*. 331 trad* bill*. Canada: buying airmail T.T. S2|, O.D. 321. -0 d/at 33 3/1* credit bill*. 33i
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  • 24 16 Malayan Stock Exchange: Feb- 10 Feb. 9 Industrials: 144.1* 143.M Tins: 807.24 2*741 f Rubbers: 234.71 23S 64 Jan. t 1958 10«.
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    • 478 16 TENDERS TENDER Tenders will be received from registered Contractors in Class "E" under Head VII and above In Tender Box No. 3 at the office of the Chief Supplies Officer, Kandang Kerbau, Singapore op to noon of 21st February, 1941 for the following works:— Manufacture and delivery of Wooden Furniture
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    • 611 16 NOTICES NOTICE Members of the public using the Estate Road leading to Craigieiea Estate are Informed that this road will be closed to all '.raffle ou 15th February, 1961. R. RENTON ft COMPANY LIMITED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that MR. MICHAEL WILLIAM HAINES. wh> recently Joined the sen-ice of the
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    • 295 16 NOTICES SINGAPORE Mt NICIPAL *>»% DEBENTURE STOCK 1930/70-M. SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL s<# DEBENTURE STOCK 1»52/«-72-NOTICE is hereby given that the Transfer Books of the abo\e Stocks win be ciosed from 16th February to Ist March, 1961, both days Inclusive, for the preparation of Interest Warrant*. S. S SCALES City Treasurer
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    • 1410 17 I^^^ TENDERS P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders will be received from Contractors not below Class "EX" at the Office of the Executive Engineer, South Kedah, Kulim up to 12.00 noon of 2 1st February 1961 for the Construction of One Block of 4 Units and One Block of 2 Units Labour
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    • 953 17 SITUATIONS VACANT M Ward* U (Mlm.) Bom St eta. **tra STOREKEEPER experienced Box A 9813 B.T. K.U Position filled. Applicants tnanked. TWO JUNIOR CLERKS with Senior Cambridge required by large European firm Apply with particular* to Box A49M S.T. B'pore WANTED JUNIOR STENOGRAPHER. Experience unnecessary but an advantage. Apply enclosing
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    • 1011 17 ACCOMMODATION VACANT It Ward* U (Ml*.)— Box it et: txtra ROOM partly furnished la ptaaaaot modern flat (Half Road). Single person prfd. Rent. S6S/-. Phone Mr. T Ouan. Tel. Spore 2497S PURMIBNBD/UNPURNISHED ROOM avallabl* now, suit bachelor, working Klrl, couple. Apply 37 Yarrow Oarden* Frankel Estate, off Slglap Road. Spore
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    • 1062 17 TUITION X* Word* IS (Him.)— Box St et: oxtro ASIA DRIVING SCHOOL modem dual-controlled car* complete course $75/- refresher course $25/- hourly $5/--67 Orchard Road, B'por*. Phone ***** TUITION at your home. All subjects up to Primary Six. English to Form Five level. Moderate charges Apply 56, Prince Charles Crescent,
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    • 1112 17 VEHICLES FOR SALE It Word* IS (Ml*.)— Box St et: oxtro PIAT 500 ISM. Also Siamese cats, aquarium, furniture, record-changer In cabinet. On view 20A Sennett Road. Slglap, S'por*. 16. MORRIS 1000 19«0 10.000 miles, guaranteed to May, one owner, well kept Approximately $4,600. Captain Murison. Reet House, Seremban 199.
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    • 821 17 VEHICLES FOR SALE It Word* IS (Mlm.)— Box St et: extra 1959 0/KAPITAN 1958 O/Rekord M/Oxford Austin A 55 1957 F/1100 Austin ASS 1956 F/Zephyr H/Mlnx B 'Rapier Austin A5O 1955 F/Zephyr 1953 Austin A3O 1952 Austin Sommarset 1951 Austin A4O Bin Thai Bin Trading Co. 54 Short Street, Singapore
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    • 537 17 FOR SALE K Ward* U (Ml*.)— Box St et*. omtrm ALTERNATING SETS RECONDITIONED DIESEL ALTERNATING SETS 400/440 volts 3-phase 50 cyd* from 25 to IUOO X.V.A. are available ex U.K. for Immediate shipment. Far further detail* Pleat* writ* to: METAL AGENCIES (MALAYA) LTD., "SS-A AUxandra Road, Slngaper*. Tal. *****. RADIOGRAMS,
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    • 333 18 IT IS THE NUMBER OF SUBJECTS PASSED THAT COUNTS IT pleases me to note that my comments on the standard of the GCE examination have whetted the curiosity of at least one of your readers. Accordingly. I give below an extract from a pamphlet on the university entrance requirements
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    • 362 18 Hazards on the way to school in Segamat THE only road leading to 1 the Hwa Chlao Middle School and the Buklt Hampar School needs some mention. Since the weather heTe has been dry for the past four weeks or so, the laterite road has become very dry and dusty.
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    • 230 18 VERY BUSY PICKPOCKETS AT STORE BUS STOPS pHINESE New Year Is fast approaching and Singapore pickpockets are very busy. Thk Is especially the case in Tanjong Pagar. North Bridge Road and Paya Lebar. They work In gangs of three or four and concentrate on the buses. They join
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    • 231 18 IPOH: SIX NIGHT CLUBS TOO MANY... THE Ipoh town cound has been too liberal in the granting of licences for night clubs. In this fairsized town we already have six night clubs open to the general public, one cabaret and at least one private night club catering for members only.
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    • 587 18 \VHEN will the Government take action to abolish the Widows' and Orphans' Fund? Numerous protests have been made against this fund but they are conveniently ignored. Every month hundreds of officers are forced to contribute four per cent of their salaries towards
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    • 227 18 YOUR article on the MCA quotes Dato Cheah as saying that the eyes of all political parties are on the MCA. He should have added the eyes of the public are on the MCA, too. If the MCA feels Itself stronger than
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    • 196 18 fPHE Malacca municipal 1 council, which will have a new set of 12 councillors in a few months' time, is in sore need of an elected representative who is unattached to any political party. Party politics have plagued the council to such an extent
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    • 119 18 THERE Is suggestion that the retiring age of government servants should be raised from 55 years to sixty. This will no doubt benefit the few who are high up the ladder of service. However, there is one point I'd like to bring to the attention of the staff
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  • 65 19  -  EPSOM JEEP Maddock is leaving for England JOCKEY Russell Maddock will leave for England immediateJ ly after the Gold Cup meeting at Kuala Lumpur. He has accepted an offer to ride for trainer P. Rohan who has a good string of about 50 horses. A top jockey in Queensland,
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  • 313 19  -  DOUG LACKERSTEEN: By London, Friday YfIALAYAN High Commission officials here are iTI hoping their golfing Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will be able to take part in a Commonwealth golf tournament when he comes to London for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers conference in
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  • 499 19 Impressive sprint by Whiz Pah KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. ARNET BOUGOURE has been engaged to *J ride Chens' Stable's Automation in the Selangor Gold Cup trial over 9f here on Sunday and they will be a formidable partnership. Automation, a seven-year-old by Pink Flower, likes a firm
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  • 1137 19 Race 1—2.30: Clan 5, Div. 2 5}F. 1 ***** Ja-N'can-La Say Die (Mrs. J. Dennehy) Mawl. 4 90 SaMan 10 2 ***** Picador II (Venl Vicl St.) Allan. 5 8.13 Billrtt 2 3 ***** New BUU (L <fc T St.) R. Breuk.. S 8.11 (F) McGrowdie 11 4
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  • 31 19 TOKYO. Fri. Japan will compete in all 16 events of the Fourth Asian Games to be held in Jakarta in August, 1962 the Japan Olympic Committee announced. Reuter.
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  • 60 19 Padgett (79) is too scorer I>ALMERSTON. (North New 1 Zealand) Fri. M.C.C. scored 286 for nine declared and captured seven Mana-watu-Wairapara wickets for 140 on the first day of their two-day match here today. Doug Padgett was top scorer for M.C.C. with 79. Roger Prideaux made 58 and Jim Parks
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  • 182 19 Commonwealth Games better in non-white country Porritt AUCKLAND. Fri. £IR ARTHUR PORRITT. k< chairman of the British Empire and Commonwealth Games Association, said yesterday he would like to see the Games staged in a non-white country. Speaking at a sportsmen's luncheon. Sir Arthur said that after the second world war
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  • 81 19 jIfOSCOW. Fri. Russian athletics authorities are to take radical measures to eliminate some weaknesses in track and field events, says Tass. the Russian news agency. Track events specifically mentioned are those up to 1,500 metres for men, in which the Russians failed to reach the finals in
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  • 390 20 SINGAPORE, Friday SINGAPORE were prevented by the superb goalkeeping of Austin de Cruz, a Muar schoolteacher, from scoring a landslide win in today's opening match of the triangular hockey tournament against Johore at Thomson Road and all they had to show for their superiority
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  • 155 20 COLLEGE XI RETAIN LAXAMANA CUP ITUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Malay College scored a deserving 2-1 victory over Victoria Institution at soccer to retain the Laxamana Cup at Shaw Road today The Sultan of Selangor. the donor, gave away the cup. Left-winger Alias Omar put Malay College In the lead In the
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  • 84 20 SABF to invite seven nations SINGAPORE, Fri. The Singapore Amateur Basketball Federation will invite seven countries to take part in the proposed SouthEast Asia tournament. SABF president Goh Chye Hin told the Straits Times today that Invitations will be sent to Philippines, Borneo, Sarawak. Malaya. Bangkok, Hong Kong and Indonesia.
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  • 131 20 Cyclists in Johore form assn CEOAMAT, Fri.— Thirty-flve riders from four districts took part in the Johore cycling championships held here today. Winner of tne Class 1 25--mile road race was 22-year-old Hashim bin Ellas of Segamat. He clocked 1 hr. 1 mm 41 sec. The women's events were cancelled
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  • 105 20 SINGAPORE. Fri.— The Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee. in a foreword to a souvenir programme of the Singapore Table Tennis Association, hopes wellwishers of the game will come forward with their financial and moral support to enable Singapore to send a strong team to
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  • 158 20 TOO BUSY, SO THREE SWIMMERS GIVE UP By MOK SIN PIN SINGAPORE, Fri. Three promising young Singapore swimmers who are studying in Australia have given up the sport. This news was brought home by Koh Scow Chuan. former Singapore 100 metre* backstroke champion, who has returned for a short holiday.
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  • 42 20 KUALA LIPIS. Fri. Pahang trounced Kelantan 5-0 in the final of the Malayan Hockey Federation's East zone competition here today. Trengganu withdrew at the last moment. Scorers were Reginald and Ahmad Shah (two goals each) j and Kooi Loon.
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  • 43 20 PENANG. Fri. Penang Chinese will meet Perak. Chinese in the opening round of the MCFA Cup at the City stadium here at 5.15 p.m. on Sunday. In another cuptle on tht same day. Singapore will be at home to Negrl Sembilan.
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  • 584 20 FINNEY MAKES COMEBACK —BY REQUEST OF FA. ooaeh) WRITES FROM ENGLAND.. BURNLEY, Fri.— Tom Finney, the former England and Preston star, makes a comeback at Blackpool tomorrow at the special request of the Football Association. He will play at cen-tre-forward for England Colts against a Lancashire amateur selected team, and
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  • SPORTS SUMMARY
    • 117 20 HAY CUP Kluang) Ulu Remls ESI t i&uu)' »-i.->...1>.i r-«liH;I Est 0. Ml AR KO: Ladaron Est 3 .All. Muthu. Jaffan Sungel Muda 0. INTER-SCHOOL At Singapore: Jurong English 3 (Bahart Udin 2. Tar Trng Hoo) Raffler, Inst. 0. At Merslnga Sri Merslng M ,-p v, Segamat English 2
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    • 48 20 MHF EABT ZONE FINAL (K. Lipls>: Pahang 5 (Reginald 3, Ahmad Shah 2. Kooi Loon) Kelantan 0. PENANG KO: MTC 7 (Yogeswaran 2. Panthanathan 2. Harban Singh. Sahar Singh, Lool Chong) Sepoy Line 'B 1 (Robert Tan). FRIENDLY (Penangi: YWCA 1 (Davinda Kauri DTC 1 (Eng Sim).
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    • 132 20 JOHORE CHAMPIONSHIPS (Segamat) Claw 1 !»m track race: 1 Hashim b Alias 2 H. Kamaruzaman 3 H.M.B. Hanam lm 28s: mile: IH. Kamaruzaman 2 Hashim b El'is 3 Mansor b Yahaya 3m ss; 3 mile.: 1 Mansor b Yahaya 2 Hashim b Ellas 3 H. Kamaruzaman 10m 13s; 25-mile
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    • 63 20 US NATIONAL INDOOR 'SHIPS Ist rd <N. York): C. Henry (US) bt O. Slrola (It) 6-3, 7-5; D. Savltt (US) bt B. Brown (US) 6-0. 6-0: R. Holmberg (US) bt E. Schneider (HoUand) 6-0. 6-2; C. Crawford (US) bt 8 Schwartz (US) 6-3. 6-3: B. Knight (Br) bt M.
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    • 20 20 SHEFFIELD SHELD (Brisbane) Queensland 312-5 (S. Trimble 126. T. Velvers 44. R. Reynold! 37, R. -Gaunt 3-56) v Victoria.
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    • 11 20 INTER- SCHOOL (Merslng): Segamat English 19 Sri Merslng English 15.
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    • 83 20 HOCKEY TRIANGULAR: Singapore Joint Services v Johore iFarrer Pit. 4 p.m.). PENANG LGE: Sepoy Lines v YMSA 'D. Kramat). FRIENDLY Imperial Services v Fed. Armed Forces < Rifle Range, XL). SOCCER CHENG WAH CUP FINAL: Ipoh Dist v Lower Perak Dlst (ACS ground, T. Anaon). STORE MFA JNB LGE: Set
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  • 672 21  -  JACK FINGLETON: By Melbourne, Friday Slowest of series HE WINS THE TOSS TO SEND WEST INDIANS IN TO BAT IMC HIE Benaud won the toss here today in the final and decisive Test against the West Indies and plunged in off the deep end. He sent
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  • 91 21 WEST INDIES first innings HUNTE c Simpson b Davidson 31 SMITH c O'Neill b Misson 11 KANHAI c Harvey b Benaud 38 SOBERS c Grout b Simpson 64 WORRELL c Grout b Martin 10 LASHLEY c Misson b Benaud 41 ALEXANDER c McDonald b Misson ll SOLOMON not out
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  • 30 21 NICE, Frl. Former world cycling champion Oscar Egg of Switzerland died here yesterday, aged 70. He was considered one of the greatest cyclists of all time— Reuter.
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  • 217 21 SINGAPORE, Fri. Singapore footballer Rahlm Omar, who Is now on tour with the Singapore Government Services F.A. team in Indonesia, may be asked to appear before a commission of inquiry if after his return he continues to play in local competitions. This is
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  • 36 21 LEICESTER goalkeeper Banks drops the ball when challenged by Tottenham Hotspur centre-forward Smith in the First Division match at White Hart Lane, London, last week. Leicester won 3 2. Reuter picture.
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  • 157 21 WORRELL TROPHY FOR TEST SERIES MELBOURNE, Fri. —On the eve of the Final cricket Test between Australia and the West Indies here, the Australian Board of Control for cricket decided to award a special trophy for Test series between the two countries. And as a gesture towards a great West
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  • 64 21 CHICAGO. Fri. Mr. George Barnes, president of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, has named a nine-member committee to study proposals for including amateurs and professionals in open tournaments. The committee will report back within 90 days. Its findings, after approval by the association, will
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  • 29 21 BANGKOK. Frl. Spain's Jose Luis Martinez will arrive here on Monday for a scheduled 10-round non-title bout with world flyweight champion Pone Klngpetch on March 2— U.P.I.
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  • 311 21  - RUNNING DEVICE CAN PRODUCE A HARY OR BERRUTI NORMAN SIEBEL MALAYA'S top sprinters Sharuddin bin All and Ernest Frida and others following in their wake will' have to considerably quicken thsir paces and literally lengthen their strides if they are to keep within sight of international times of the near
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  • 270 21 Possibilities as well as risks during training and points out that his device is no different. With his apparatus, Mr. Hensley claims that an athlete's legs are strengthened, the muscles made more supple and the stride significantly longer. Top-class Athletes must of course be in top-class condition to use the
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  • 56 21 NEW YORK, Fri. Archie Moore's proposed world lightheavyweight title defence against Erich Schoeppner (West Germany) here on May 27 is off, the promoters announced. Moore is generally regarded champion. But he is not recognised by the United States National Boxing Association, which claims Harold
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  • 229 22 Garcia hopes the new organisation will be formed soon KUALA LUMPUR. Fri PRESIDENT GARCIA said today that the prospects of forming the Association of South-East Asian States were "very goo d". He hoped it would be formed soon. On the eve of his departure for
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  • 80 22 MRS. NANCY LIE pa*«ed away on iO-:-6t. Cortege leaving today from 67 Rliclap Rd., for St. Hilda' n Church .it 4.00 p.m. fAWCITT, Robert 8.. beloved hu»hand of Sheila. In a tragic road accident, 9th of February. 1961. Funeral, flu Pandan Military Otmtery. it. IS a.m. today MRS. K.
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  • 30 22 MR. IN VEERASAMV thanks all fi'irndx and relative* for wreaths, iiirv*ai(n< of condolence*, attendance and aMi.itance .-it the funeral of nil mother Madam Janalklammal. on 7th. F»l>ruary 1061 (Ipohi.
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  • 30 22 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Singapore Art Society is holding a permanent art exhibition at the British Council Hall, Penang Road. Mondays to Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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  • 75 22 INVITATION TO KING, QUEEN TO VISIT THE PHILIPPINES KUALA LUMPUR. Fri— The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong will be formally invited to visit the Philippines. President Garcia said this in answer to a question at a Press conference in the Istana Tetarau on the eve of his
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  • 32 22 HAVRE DE GRACE. Maryland. Fri.— Former U.S. Sen. Millard Tydings. who coauthored the law giving Independence to the Philippines, died of pneumonia last night at the age of 70. U.PI.
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  • 29 22 SINGAPORE. Fri. The South Indian Jamlathul Ulama in Singapore will celebrate its third anniversary at Umar Pulavar Tajnil High School in Maxwell Road at 3 p.m. on Sunday.
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  • 56 22 BOOMING SOUND FREEZES THE BLOOD AND CONVINCES WARDEN THAT SOMEWHERE THERE IS A MYSTERIOUS HAIRY GIANT INCHE Hamzah bin Hossan, 26, (extreme left) talks to a curious crowd about one of the fenced-in giant footprints. Hundreds of visitors are pouring into the plantation daily to see the stronge footprints. Straits
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  • 382 22 j KUALA LUMPUR. Fri F|ATO Onn bin Ja'afar, the Party Negara leader, and his wife today gave $50 to the Straits Times and Berita Harian Cheer Fund for Malayan soldiers in the Congo. The donation' came soon after Dato Onn had referred to the
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  • 37 22 MOSCOW, Fri.— Prof. Leonid Sedov, a top Soviet space scientist, today denied that there was a man or any animal life aboard the new 6 j-ton Soviet sputnik launched si* days ago. Reuter.
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  • 347 22 Tarzan call gets a reply in jungle evening KLUANG. Friday "A AAHYAHYAA HAAAA." The Tarzan call echoed through the Jungle evening and then came a sound to freeze the blood a reply from someone or something. The reply was a long, gut* tural, booming sound— but what made It? That
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  • 355 22 LONDON. Pn Loudon «iack I ma.kei.s enaeti tue week on a -subdued nine Sentiment was affecteu by the disclosure m the Federation of Bruisu IndubUies' inquiry nuo industrial trends thai orueib were falling off. Closing mioule prices of selected stocks not including t>iump duty were
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