The Singapore Free Press, 7 December 1957

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1 4 The Singapore Free Press
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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press j Malaya's Own Family Paper °H Nl *****. Singapore, Saturday, December 7, 1957. Price 15 Cts.
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      Lock icon AID ASIA PLEA
      172 1 AID ASIA PLEA OfM I X* SEIfK -nd Nixon, the ■JH*'^ I States vicejWpreMiie:;: iv! in New York ■yesterday that the strong- H^-i military establishment Hir. the world would not freedom if the United Hp' L;l!t uivti to meet the ■Bovir: I.; >n'> non-military Making a strong plea for for
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      Lock icon SOVIET IS READY TO MOVE OUT-MR. K.
      141 1 MXII.V KHKUSIICHEV said in Moscow hist nighf ■;i r 1 1 lU{ Soviet Union was ready to withdraw its woopj rrom last Germany if NATO troops were with- "•■< -i. iron, West Germany •Peaking to correspondents at a Finnish Embassy re--1 ception, he
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      Lock icon DUTCH CALL CRISIS MEETING
      342 1 DUTCH CALL CRISIS MEETING NATO to discuss Indonesia at an emergency session Holland seeking moral support of her allies Dispute may go back to Security Council THE permanent council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation will meet in emergency session in Paris today at Holland's re- quest to discuss the
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      Lock icon 37 Dutch arrested
      135 1 37 Dutch arrested EHHHIRTY SEVEN E E Dutchmen are un- E E der arrest in Indonesia, E E two of them for try. E ing to haul down an E Indonesian flag on E their premises, it was E disclosed in Jakarta last night. Security troops are E reported to
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      Lock icon 'Carrier not down in U.S.'
      107 1 A SPOKESMAN for the U.S. Vanguard satellite project said in Washington last night there was 1 no evidence at all" that the Sputnik I carrier rocket had fallen in the United States. The State Department appeared puzzled by Mr. Nikita Khrushchev's allegation In Moscow that
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      Lock icon Cuts in tin effective
      76 1 The Financial Times of London says there is little doubt the sharp tin cuts decided by the International Tin Council will be highly effective in removing the relatively small surplus of production over consumption. Unless there is a further decline in world industrial activity, it should
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      Lock icon WARNING TO MACMILLAN
      43 1 M FELIX GAILLARD, the French Prime Minister, said he did not hide from Mr. Harold Macmillan during their Paris talks last week that a repetition of such acts as the Tunisia arms deliveries "could severely harm the Atlantic Alliance Reuter
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      Lock icon DAY OF GLOOM IN U.S.
      170 1 I A CLOUD of gloom and dismay hovered o,ver America yesterday as President Eisen- 1 hower asked the Defence Department for a full report on the launching failure of the 1 U.S. Vanguard test satellite. No attempt was made in official circles to gloss over
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      Lock icon Bill is lighten divorce
      32 1 The British Government yesterday welcomed in the House of Commons a bill that would mdkeje'ertification no' longer the criterion for divorce on' t fie grounds of insanity. Reuter
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      80 1 wSI'Y 1 1 1 I I liflllllFl I /I luscious golden melon a fr 4 1 tf^if/i a coral flavour for mkMl^m lips i fingertips #f/t<r/ I toe-tips, too to Hatter you outrageously! So potent (a I ft? it could turn tonight into forever I I it's Ilic niont delicious
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    SOCIAL PROTECTION OF THE AGED INADEOUATE
    439 2 SOCIAL PROTECTION OF THE AGED INADEOUATE PROTECTION nu V existing In Singapore for aged people especially widows and orphans, is considered inadequate from a social security point of view. This is the conclusion of an International Labour Organisation expert, Mr. G. J. Brocklehur.st, who undertook a social security survey in
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    Lock icon BANK MAN FACED A DILEMMA
    228 2 A BANK of England director yesterday described his dilemma as a man caught between two duties unable to ct tray .state financial seer ts yet obliged to protect his business interests. The director, Mr. William Johnston Keswick, was testifying before an rial tribunal set up
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      110 2 AMAZING COFFEE DISCOVERY r B^HJW^^P^P^P^WfiMfc. <•" ij&r B^bW_ BKt Its ShH^^bl f^^^^V4oHH h This isn't just 'another quick coffee" This is rea/ coffee 1007< pur«» coffee. feAJ J *7 I Nothing added' /Ind it's made instantly in the cup! M WIM W^^uf^ffHS^^^^S I For Instant Maxwell House is simply "flavour
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    Japan willing to expand buying still further
    468 3  - Japan willing to expand buying still further J.C. BEHAGUE idSHI: IF SINGAPORE REClPRnr*™*! By JAPAN'S giowing imports J from Singapore and the federation of Malaya are expected to swell still further in view of the increasing Japanese demand Tor other commodities, Mr. Nolnisuke Kishi, prime Minister of Japan, told 111*
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    Lock icon POLICE SWOOP
    25 3 A total of 142 would -be Algerian terrorists were arrosted in a day-long raid of North Africa n districts throughout France,- A. P.
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      84 3 r i ......j Exceptionally Beautiful EMERALDS, SAPPHIRES j set with Diamonds j U.S. de SUVA j Jewellers 106, ORCHARD ROAD. Tel: ***** j For Comfort ami Quiet, stay at: STRAND HOTEL 21/25, Bencoolen Street, Singapore-7. Central, all rooms with Telephone, bath and Toilet attached Hot and cold running water (many
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      143 3 Be lavish with it. Be unstiriting,'' self- BJIII K»>>». ||||i»""gl l|l'|l Hill lit i I I 111 indulgent; generpCfs., YoU can, with ■llf if I |> Tweed Bouquet l#k^ J VI '....iliV IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT. MACEMEYER TRADING COMPANY IM I LTD.. SI NCAPORf KUALA LUMPUR PtNANC iPOH -6ORN£O B B'
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    Opinion Trees are needed
    215 4 Opinion Trees are needed TN recent months many 1 big trees which had stood for so long at the side of our roads have been felled. No doubt their destruction and uprooting was necessary, either because they had become diseased and were therefore a danger or because the ever increasing
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    4 minutes—and RAF bombers are in air
    495 4  - 4 minutes— and RAF bombers are in air GAVIN LYALL Report from a V-homber 1 base in Britain J HAVE just touched down after flying with the RAF's ever-ready H-bomb force. I am the first reporter to have flown a sortie with these great four-jet bombers, part of the NATO
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    BY THE WAY
    97 4 y/fff more intellectual and artistic of the film stars are being blamed for the increase in the number of fake masterpieces which are turning up everywhere. The film publicity men think it is a good thing for a star to have half a dozen Rmoirs or ManeU.
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      26 4 For REST TAILORING Ladfes' and Gents' E Quick Service I BAJAJ Textiles, Limited. I 71, High Street, I S'porc-fi. TH. ***** *****. SATURDAY, Dec. 7, 1957.
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      117 4 BRILLIANT NEW HILLMAN ViuHtee jplffl^ IVfODEL Or ADVANCED //UISIG\ The new modem design gfves a clear unobstructed view all round note the sloping bonnet. Hie wide curved screen, Hie narrow pillars, the four wide flush winding fide windows and the swept-round rear-window for wideangle visibility. There is a choice of
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    COLONY OFFICERS TO VISIT RI FOR PROBE
    176 5 Stranded islanders will now get a decision IT! AM of Immigration officers from Singapore is to be sent to Indonesia shortly to investigate the case of about 160 islanders liming to be Singapore citizens who are now reported to be stranded there. The
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    3 chairmen named
    45 5 The three chairmen-de-signate of the new District Councils have been appointed to take charge of their respective divisions. Che Hussein bin Kamari !is to be posted to Serangoon. Mr. R. Ramalingam to Bukit Panjang Jurong. and Mr. Lim Chuan Kirn to Katong.
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    440 new cars registered
    77 5 440 new cars registered nr*HE number of motor cars on Singapore roads increased by 440 over the last month bringing the total to 47,941 as compared to last year's figure of 45,269. There was an increase in the number of motor cycles by 146 over the same period, bringing the
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    NAVAL BASE
    17 5 Ships in the Singapore Naval Base today are: Crane, Andrew, Alert, Newfoundland, Royalist and Cavalier.
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    BEAUTY WILL AID CHARITY
    103 5 BEAUTY WILL AID CHARITY |>EAUTY and health from exercise— that Ls what 21 pupils of the Joan Booty Mannequin Training and Charm School will .show Singapore on Thursday night at the Singaporo Cricket Club. The girls, athletic and charmingly feminine In white gym suits, are to 1 present a floodlit
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      100 5 Mr. BRANDYMAN SAYS OF MARTELL COGNAC "LONG OR SHORT" IT'S WAY AHEAD... FIRST n? /m) POST flJh TIJUfTf MARTELL COGNAC Sole Agents ROTTERDAM TRADING CO., (M) LTD. A DELPHI i k GRILL i Dancing Nightly 5 I Floor Shows and Special Attractions for Christmas z g New Year Festivities. Book
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      280 6 JEFF lIAWKE by Sydney Jordan JEFF HAWKE SNATCHED FCOM EARTH BY [WHEN THE TIME VUB^m' jID THE Je^JF Ilft/AVES FAGEUVELL TH£.hJ THB CGEATUBES OF THE SP&CE SHIP cOMFi WE Small K^ffc^"!l ill tuC\/S TOWARDS A DISTANT CITY CHOOSES TO EXO(.OGE THE PLAMETtJ eE tljßm you mavE v%|^V||H! I 'll lll|
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      503 6 BORN today, you can eounl fcfci i as one of those day s JSf it is best to sit back and wai L x > tomorrow! As it to compen ate r the untoward aspects O i i birth date. the star, r given you rather exceptional v' t i'
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    A warning to Colony shop men
    113 7 5,000 shopkeepers in Singapore, who have not yet notified the Ministry of Labour about their weekly holidays, are being given another chance. Following the enforcement of the new Shop Assistants Employment Ordinance, on August 1 this year, all the 17,000 shopkeepers in the colony
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    Varsity offer to help
    246 7 Varsity offer to help THE University of Malaya Students' Union ha^s launched a new "get friendly" campaign to promote better relations and under standing with the public in Singapore. A union spokesman said the Nanyang University and the Teachers' Training College had promised to join forces with them. He said
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    BRUSH UP FOR 30 TEACHERS
    59 7 About 30 teachers from English and Chinese schools in Malaya and Singapore have been selected to attend a teachers' refresher course sponsored by the Malayan Mathematical Society of the University of Malaya. To be conducted at the premises of the university, the course will last
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      519 7 [I U.K. closing prices I LONDON, Dec. 6. 1 Previous Today I Ar.i',l X No 1 R S S ell I Brur»|H'.in ports Dec. 23% buyers 24'k buyers I B tu 23's sellers 24% sellers I Jan- 23 buyers 24 buyers 1 23 i sellers 24 .sellers 1 li ■Kiti
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      185 7 foe ifcu Value year belonging A? Don't risk having your household effects damaged in transit through faulty packing-* ?<v Jajfe packing, cchJuit the expert* SINGAPORE PACKING iiijj in association with|£ A i| M Singapore «2LV±a.W I *****. *****. If mm BagBage L^L^irt^. Transport l^wjfej^^ -fflß^ Agency Ltd Kgß^a: 4hS^ i^j&Liflvans
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      52 7 i singapore i Shich tides! m TODAY: 11 4.1 p.m TOMORROW: 10.51 a.m. H MONDAY: 0.23 sum. and m 11.30 pin R TUESDAY: 1.03 am B and 12.10 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 1.43 am. B and 12.52 p in. m THURSDAY: 224 a.m. and 1.38 p-m FRIDAY: 3.08 a.m. and B 2.49
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      103 7 Today's Radio Programme 1.15 p.m. Saturday Date Part I; 1.30 Time Signal and News; 1.45 Saturday Date Part II; 2.15 Weekend Sport; 2.45 The Latin American Way; 3.00 Saturday Prom; 4.00 Lazy Afternoon; 4.30 Tea Dance; 5.00 Saturday Medley; 5.30 Bandstand; 5.50 Sports Hour; 6.45 Lights On; 7.00 Time Signal
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    Three men in a tub
    621 8  -  KATHLEEN HICKLEY AN ODD STORY WHICH STARTED A NURSERY RHYME By I EXPECT you have all heard of the nursery rhyme: 'Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub," and perhaps you have wondered who the three men were and why they chose to
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    LAST WEEK'S WINNERS
    413 8 rw\HE winners of last wee***? colour-In contest (earn of whom will receive a $5 prize in due course) are a* Miss Sect Chwee Lian (12), 104 Towner Road Singapore. Miss Ursula Rodrigues (10>, 6 St. Barnabas Road Singapore. Master Ivan Fitzgerald U3 >, 72-B Petain Road, Singapore.
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      28 8 WARNING! This Kid Is Dynamite.. WitttaGag! IT'S JERRY LEWIS as "THE DELICATE DELINQUENT" A Paramount Picture M. FUNTER S. GRINBERG Diamonds Jewellery 67, Stamford Rd., (nuCourtßldg.,)S'pore6. Telephone *****.
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      188 8 CLUES ACROSS. —5. the hornet. 2, Second Place of combat in a letter of the Greek alphaRoman amphitheatre. 6. bet. 3. Character in ShakeRiver which joins the speare's comedy "The Tarn 31 miles south of Ely. Ing of the Shrew." 4, 7, Pace of a horse between French word for
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      353 8 A colour-in contest With prizes for you! I pOCKET-MONEY prizes Free Press, Cecil Street I ami <*tt+Tt>A fnr nolnnr Singapore 1. to reach tier I are offered for colour no| |j||ef than Th(jrsdaj I nti this scene with paints next Age limit is 15. I rayons or chalks. I There
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    Lock icon LOURDES EXPECTS 10 MILLION VISITORS
    265 9 LOURDES EXPECTS 10 MILLION VISITORS IQOlh anniversary pilgrim season starts next year III! French town of Lourdes, with a population it>,ooo in the Pyrenees foothills is expect--2 IQ million visitors next year. The occasion is the 100 th aniversary of the •it itions that transformed Lourdes from an al--o <{
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      1165 9 I'lillli! i.llMU'lllliMi" Sunday church j announcements ?> «t ffwri AND Redemptorlst Monastery (144 Prinsep Street): 415 pm. CHUECB OF J"JJ*' 1 7am (Thomson Road): Mass, sermon Sunday School; 5.30 p.m. Sergt Andrews ta l p ar i s h 6.30, 7.30 and 8.30 a.m. vice. Bishop D. A. Thompson: |lv
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    WEEKEND QUIZ PAGE
    694 10 i phone calls! And all my fault J because I omitted to mention the name of the winner of the Special Quiz. I i I am sorry about i that —it was of < course Mrs. Susif J Chin of 7-A, Jalan 1 S Haji Salam. There
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    Lock icon Champagne as British borses fetch £1-m. at Newmarket sales
    225 11 Champagne as British borses fetch £1-m. at Newmarket sales ■uRNOVER at Tat- tersall's five day ■oodstock sales, which in Newmarket fKctfrday, topped a Eiin'M pounds sterling for only the secX] i time in the his■orv of the sales. IK/itors were given free ICmpagne to celebrate the lE'vement. Captain KenIt Watt,
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    Lock icon Play to the whistle
    170 11 npHE Kugby I'nion [Mag* land) seeks the cooperation of plajers and referees in strict adherence to certain laws of the gam* In a notice, which is to b« posted up In club houses this weekend. The notice declares that close observance of the** laws will make
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    Lock icon AUSSIES MOVE TO HELP GAMES FUND DEFEATED
    149 11 rUR members of the Australian Liberal Party voted against the Government in a move to help raise money to send the Australian Olympic team to the 1960 Games in Fome. The four rebels were led by Sir Wilfred Kent Hughes, a former Liberal
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    Lock icon PHIPPS OUT FOR THREE MONTHS
    70 11 Jim Phipp.v the Wallaby centre three quarter ls unlikely to be able "to play for three months following his injury In Wednesday's match against Glasgow and Edinburgh, it was announced in Glasgow yesterday. Phipps broke the fibula of his right leg just above the ankle.
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    Lock icon CLOSE FIGHT
    34 11 Onnie Espinosa, of the Philippines, last night lost a close 10-round main event decision to L. C. Morgan, of Youngstown, Ohio, before a crowd of 2,100 fan.s, mostly Filipinos, in Honolulu. U.P.
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    Lock icon RECORD PROFIT
    24 11 The Ryder Cup golf matches in England last October made a record profit of US$3O,BOO the British Professional Golfers Association announced.— A.P.
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      42 11 S7*## #1 c-isii ##f.v#f fV off// JPHP^^S Million -Dollar J W^kM I DAMES... A Million Buck SHOCKER... sjf&Sf' j MANHUNT! C,^ "j 1 1 VICTOR SAVILLE \jk 1/ S^F in I UUrl jkJP^ 15 OUICK if H ROBERT BRAYas "Mike Hammer" I
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    RAY RIPS IN TO MAKE HIT WITH FANS
    220 12 RAY RIPS IN TO MAKE HIT WITH FANS FREE PRESS BOXING REPORTER A LIGHTNING left hook was the main weapon of Chinese featherweight Ray Ming Chan last night when he punched his way to popularity with Singapore boxing fans. Ming Chan, making his Colony debut after a spell in Manila,
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    Chess champ for Manila
    94 12 JC. HICKEY. Malayan chess champion, will represent Malaya at the Asian zone chess championship to be held in Manila during Christmas. Hickey won the Malayan qualifying round by scoring 4^ points out of six in a double round tournament in which Mr. Tay Kheng Hong. Dr.
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    JUDO EXPERT
    25 12 A Judo exponent. Haruyoshi Ichijima. holder of a sixth-dan black belt, will arrive in Singapore today after a two-month stay in Kuala Lumpur.
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    FOUR ASIAN GAMES MEM SURE ALREADY
    430 12 TO THESE LIFTERS THE TRIALS ARE ONLY A FORMALITY By Our Weightiiftiltg Reporter PFIK acceptance by the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council ot 1 the qualifying standards for six weightlifting divisions means hat at least four of the Singapore team to the Asian (James
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    Talbert decides not to change players
    161 12 CAPTAINS of the Philii*pincs and United States Davis Cup teams yesterday decided to stick with their original pairings for the two remaining singles in their I inter-zone matches at Adelaide today. TtLC matches start with Herb Flam playing Felicissimo Ampon and Vie Seixas facing
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    PROVINCE 149 VERSUS AUSSIES
    137 12 IN a .slow day's cricket at Port Elizabeth yesterday, the Australian touring team dismissed Eastern Province for 149 and scored 12 without loss in reply. The w*xy the pitch plays in this three-day match will decido whether or not the last Test between South Africa and
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    Lock icon KELSEY LEAPS HIGH
    42 12 picture. ARSENAL goalkeeper Kelsey leaps behind the backs! of Newcastle United attackers to make Uiis save in I the First Division match at Highbury. London, onl Nov. 30. In foreground are Mitchell (left) and WlvteJ Newcastle won 3-2. Reuter
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      566 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. ACKNOWLEDGMENT* 20 Hard* $t> i minimum). LIM SAI PHENQ vishes t<> thank specialists and staff oi Want 11 General Hospital for their Ijind alien! ion during his recent operation. ACCOMMODATION VACANT 2<> H ords $2 Mm.) Oox 50 eta. extra. FURNISHED AI'AKI MEN TS for ncos. fully furnished
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      52 12 (Ufa) DON'T IST I HAPPEN 1 to you! Furniture removing is a job for experts... your heavy, furniture, porcelain, cry* l l ''"fL 0 needs our expert care. We pack, crate, tt store even/thing for you. PlinilF ***** Estim.iic; free n TRANSPORT STORAGE LIMITED 173 CECIL STREET SIMGAPOR n r
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    RACE DAY
    391 1 FREE PRESS Saturday, December 7, 1957. THE FREE PRESS THE STRA)TS TIMES SINGAPORE STANDARD «S!J*iJu ALLAN LEWIS TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER WINDSOR LAD SCRUTINEER KWEE LOH PERHAPS SO PERHAPS SO PERHAPS SO DRAGON SEED TIMBERLANE PERHAPS SO VITAL CHANCE (GOLDEN DOLLAR Bftte i Timberlane Vital Chance
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    Today's Best Bets, Going
    36 1 A"*N I.HWIS'S Best gj Beti for today are gnjtw (Race 5). Irish Wr (Rare 7) and Sun •i"' Jr 2? a (Ra <* B >. o w s Outsiders are JJJrtok. Wonder Kid and
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    On Stage is still the choice
    863 1 By ALLAN LEWIS AN STAGE and Straits Code, winner and runner-up in last week's St. Letjer trial, should provide the finish to Malaya's last feature rice of the season, the Singapore St. Leger, at Bukit Timah today. During the early hours of this morntag
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      51 1 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT to cor -owners THE EAST ASIATIC CO LTD (MOTOR DIVISION) can offer the best auto service in town in their new workshops at ROBERTSON QUAY FOR CONVENIENCE, HAND YOUR CAR OVER AT FIAT SHOWROOMS IN ORCHARD RD. FOR FIAT OWNERS THERE IS SPECIALISED SERVICE WITH GENUINE FIAT SPARE
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      162 2 fiT^ \V hat adijj even cc -^yMACKESOH'S^ J^T >/ Ji 77// STRONG n>CT V^V. U7 77/ r//£ Af/LD TASTE i^^ make s 0 Mticktsiin's. 5 V tmuoth, xtronq 5 > ~~¥C*n) J?^%£^\. It builds you iifQ V im.J mokes t tvorld S mm W«A#.r. I C^ S L y\ m^S^
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      1698 2 1 PROBABLE STARTERS AND RIDERS po|*|l| I RACE 1-2.15: CLASS 2, DIV. 2-7 FURS. 1 1 ***** ENJOYMENT II 7yr. breg (Shaw St.) Spencer 9.00 Mercer ONE 2. ***** TIMBERLANE 3yr. cheg iW.J. Wearne) Bagby 8.13 Dragon enjoyment I 3. ***** JOLLY DAY syr. grirg (Kwlk St.) Bagby 8.12 Smith
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      192 3 f"" •"■■"•"•"••••IMIIIIIIIIMliHHi y*iV*mmM> PROMINENT Simple to operate, reasonably priced, the PROMINENT camera with its Synchro-Compur shutter fully synchronized up to 1/500 sec. has placed within easy reach of the amateur a camera equipped to overcome all photographic situations which have baffled experts. IS y&itM&iUtti* became the lens is so good!
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      123 3 TODAY'S DOUBLE: RANGOON 11 (Race 5); SIN OF BURMA (Race 8). Follow the lucky Punters 9 Choice....? Jtf wll^ IMPERIAL #kl/ more '<//!/ V V N >" Sole Agents: ROBERT CHEOK Trading Co. 10-L, Asia Building, Singapore- Phone: ***** Jill! I \§B- tt K?M *1 0 X w I •■■^^^^^f.
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      849 3 far todays acceptors 1 iiAPV SCARLET: 30-11-57— 3P in 40 4/5 with Starala 10 4->v o« ffiS^L -^iS£--€HT Covered 3P in 39 4*5 with RaiT SfiV*? 1 Ver 3P ln 4l 1/S goon II with Ran- with Perhaps So; 30-11-57— Thlr. UNDOI'BTABLF- 28-11-57 OJ^F R STIf 26-11-57— Went I Covered
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    1. King Pap; 2. Straits Code and 3. On Stage
    576 4 TRESPASSER, SUMMING UP TODAY'S ST. LEGER, SAYS -ITS: ON STAC;K (lute Zabaglione) and Straits Code had the finish of last weeks trial to themselves. On Stage goes up 5-lb to 9.03 and Straits Code 4-lb to 902. These are not
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    RANGOON TO WIN FIRST TIME OUT
    517 4 DISTINE (10.05). Amusement Park (9.08) and High Socks (9.05) can be ruled out in todays main sprint for Class One. Div. One horses (Race Five). Hopeful Blue. Monitor, Red Sunrise and Couag are the obvious horses to follow on Wednesday's running, but I am
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    IRISH PEARL TO COMPLETE A DOUBLE
    231 4 IRISH PEARL TO COMPLETE A DOUBLE NBWLY-PRQ, MOTED Irish Pearl is my choice for v double In Race Seven. On tirre test he looks fche logical winner. His winning time was 3/5 sec. faster than that returned by On Stage and he could "have flona better. Irish Pearl carries one
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  • THE FREE PRESS Saturday MAGAZINE
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      Masthead
      9 1 THE FREE PRESS Saturday MAGAZINE Singapore, December 7, 1957.
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      Lock icon SURE CURE FOR THE ASIAN FLU
      380 1 SURE CURE FOR THE ASIAN FLU rpilE younger generation may shake their heads but the old "Romans of Rome*' are sure they have an infallible remedy against I the Asian Flu or anything else from I stomach ache to the plague. i The remedy, in which the old Romans believe
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      Spanish dance music led me to safety
      1132 1 Spanish dance music led me to safety XAIfO «0, LAND ho; SHOUTED EDWARD ALLCARD, the lone round-the-world yachtsman, cables this account of the first part of his voyage— from Tangier to the Canary Islands. IiVCYCC A Li LAS PALM AS. \tfi EYES widened and my mouth hung open with amazement.
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      ALONE IN THE SQUARE WITH A BULL!
      1106 2  - ALONE IN THE SQUARE WITH A BULL! WILFRED FIENBURGH imt ""^^^^r'^Br"" "~™~™^^F"^kw^HH!il»~"~~" ■P~ ~~wßH^^^d^^^^i» I»p^w^H»~~*1 »p^w^H»~~* ~^WR^r~i^B~~ m "~"*"^^B^^"»pTwTiii^Hr~ www iK^mL. t!^^^ """^^■''^■"^■•^i^^^ J^i^w*^ There I was.. By JN THE past year I have orated at 22 public meetings, spoken in 14 debates, opened seven baxaars and a baby show.
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      AMERICA'S $600 MIL. QUESTION
      183 2 RUSSIA'S space triumphs have shocked many Americans into the belief that their world spying octopus, the Central Intelligence Agency, has lost Us grip. Not since the CIA. failed to warn the nation about Ctiina's ponderous intervention in the Korean war has the agency's stock been so
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      Why tired be get
      484 2 Why tired be get EVERYONE is famiu liar with the tired businessman who returns home exhausted at the end of the day. "You're working too hard." his friends tell him. "It's killing you." But it isn't the work he does at the office that makes the tired businessman so tired.
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      hat makes a woman!iat makes a woman ok twice at a man?
      458 3 ■Ml!.' <lay passes but a woman iiE^t, bit more advice 0n. ..H0w to LltMiahlt to men. in. up this advice for one HL],. ntson... setting a trap for a Hj s olJ favourite sport. Rut why does nobody
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      Lock icon Businessmen O TIRED
      95 3 iing face in lr rror for signs "I Old a: i inning to bus ninutes Iting in line bus r, minutes. punninc from st op to office -8 mm retaining E? explaining to X haa to show feo late wry c v iif n o-cloc E." and
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      Lock icon THE NATION THAT LOVES DRUGS
      194 3 \MERICA is a drug- loving nation. Each year drug stores fill 195 million prescriptions, and hospitals fill millions more. IN THE last 15 years the number of prescription has gone up 60 per vent, THE U.S. drug store is going in two directions. One type
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      THE MONKEY DESPOT
      986 3 THE MONKEY DESPOT Petham Groom writes on Chinese customs felT was not long before he was acknowledged king of all monkeys. Then, as has often happened to other kings, he set his heart on becoming immortal.^ A VERY important xx animal in Chinese mythology i s the monkey. One particular
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    • FILM PREVIEWS
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        Interlude'—it's so banal— has only one saving grace
        388 4 Interlude'— it's so banal— has only one saving grace IT IS 25 years since I first entered a film studio, but even now I am still capable of being amazed at things I see in the film world. That amazement reached a high peak thus week when I .saw the
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        IT'S SUCH A SLOW TRAIN TO YUMA
        455 4 IT'S SUCH A SLOW TRAIN TO YUMA IT has been a disappointing week, with no films sufficiently outstanding to make one want to write about them at length. However, working on the assumption that everyone likes a Western I'll start with Columbia's "3:10 To Yuma." This film is little more
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        Tony good in gambling role
        283 4 A LL those of you who like Tony Curtis should make a point of seeing his latest film "Mister Cory" presented by Universal International. Well-knit It is by no means a great film but it is a well-knit ~tory which starts off at a canter
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