The Singapore Free Press, 18 April 1958

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper ,n,jhgjghjghl siimapore. FrM»J. April 18. 1958. Price 15 Via.
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    COUNCIL FLOATS $30 MIL. LOAN
    314 1 COUNCIL FLOATS $30 MIL. LOAN 1!v G A f'O H E City 5 Council, a i a 15- mi nu i c emergency meeting this morning decided to float a $30 million loan to finance public utility projects. i; carries interest of five per cent pel annum and a discount
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    RUBBER PRICE
    30 1 May first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 77% cents a lb., down three-eighths of a cent on yesterday's close. The tone was quiet.
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    Lock icon CHOLERA KILLS 124 IN A DAY
    96 1 CHOLERA KILLS 124 IN A DAY A RAGING cholera epidemic has claimed at least 124 lives in 24 hours and Is still spreading, officials said in Calcutta yesterday. Fifty-four of the dead were reported from one hospital alone. Another 300 cases were reported yesterday as the disease spread to almost
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    Lock icon NAVY SEEKS RED COMMODORE
    153 1 A ROYAL NAVY coastal minesweeper searched for the commodore of a Russian fishing fleet 250 miles North-east of Scotland yesterday to teach him "British fishing manners" The minesweeper Belton, after a dash at top speed from Scotland, arrived at the scene of a dispute betwron Russian
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    Lock icon Bombings, fire start new Cyprus terror
    175 1 Bombings, fire start new Cyprus terror NEW tension gripped Cyprus yesterday after a wave of bombings, shooting and a fire. In Famagusta military police opened fire when a lorry refused to halt. Noone was hurt. A fire, believed to have been caused by saboteurs, raged through a government electrical supply
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    A BIG BOOST FOR TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA
    353 1 A BIG BOOST FOR TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA Hopes high after mission sees Jumabhoy I JRADE between Australia and Singapore is expect- ed to be substantially boost- ed following talks yester- day between the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, and a 22-man Australian mission. Mr. Jumabhoy said
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    Lock icon OUR RURAL AREAS PRAISED
    65 1 OUR RURAL AREAS PRAISED SINGAPORE'S rural areas were awarded the Kettering Shield for their •'excellent work" in maternal and child welfare when the National Baby Welfare Council awarded trophies to colonial territories in London yesterday. Singapore's rural areas were particularly praised for the excellent facilities available for both ante-natal and
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    Singapore detective reported missing since Wednesday
    64 1 SINGAPORE police disclosed this morning that Detective Police Constable Teo Seng Choong. at the Orchard Road division, is missing. His wife reported to the police that he wa.s last in his home in Prince Charles Crescent at 530 p.m. on Wednesday. The police are
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    Lock icon Nuclear tests can be concealed: No conflict says Mac
    402 2 THE British Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, yesterday rejected a 1 suggestion that there was a conflict of evidence between Britain and the United States over whether a nuclear test explosion could be eon- cealed. A Labour Member, Mr. Frank Allaun,
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    Regiment merger
    27 2 The amalgamation of the Devonshire Regiment and Dorset Regiment under the British Army's streamlining plans will take place at Minclen. West Germany, on May 17
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    Audience enjoys singing with cast at play
    131 2 Most light-hearted feature of the Teachers Training College presentation of "Let's Make An Opera" at the Cultural Centre, Singapore, last night was vocal participation by the audience. In the second act the cast taught the audience four songs, Best performances of the evening
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    Lock icon IKE: THIS IS WAY TO EASE ARMS BURDEN
    100 2 PRESIDENT EISENHOWER said yesterday that the "wearisome and dangerous armaments burden'- would eventually be lilted from the shoulders of humanity if the nonCommuniat world held fa.st in the .struggle for la.sting peace. Me wn.s addressing American and Overseas newspaper editors on the
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    Lock icon A-BAN IS QUERY FOR SUMMIT
    141 2 A-BAN IS QUERY FOR SUMMIT Prime minister v Harold Macinuian an peaked to Soviet r u again yesterday to aSi suspension of nuclear t? explosions at an East! West summit meeting"™ at a conference 01 all thl countries concerned Answering a new flurry i House of Common, n U( tions
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    Lock icon OFF TO THE FESTIVAL
    81 3 Film magnate Run Run Shaw was in a confident mood when, accompanied by glamorous film starSaloma. he left for next week's Manila Film Festival. Said Mr. Shaw: "I am sure we shall win many awards." Then patting his sultry star's arm, he added: "I'm also sure
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    Lock icon GURKHAS: PACT WITH NEPAL RENEWED
    133 3 GURKHAS PACT WITH NEPAL RENEWED The Anglo Nepalese agreement allowing Britain to maintain a Gurkha recruiting depot in Nepal has been renewed for a further 10 years, it was authoritatively learned in Katmandu yesterday. The agreement under winch Britain has built 0 ill million depot at Dharan Bazar In South-east
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    Lock icon Bus strike is nearer after 'no' by Minister
    308 3 Bus strike is nearer after 'no' by Minister T»HE chances of a London bus strike on May f> A increased yesterday when Mr. Harold Watkinson, the Transport Minister, rejected bus leaders' protest over a proposed cut in services. The busmen, who have announced a strike on May 5 to support
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    Lock icon AMAHS IN TEARS: PIGTAILS CUT OFF IN CINEMA
    81 3 AMAHS IN TEARS: PIGTAILS CUT OFF IN CINEMA SEVERAL Hong Kong amahs burst into tears when they found that their long pigtails had been cut off in a cinema in Kowloon city. The "crime" had apparently been committed while the crowd was leaving the cinema at the end of a
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    Lock icon UK, Italy forces in NATO games
    34 3 British and Italian forces j will take part in an important four-day NATO exercise in the Punta i Niedda and Capo Tculada areas of Sardinia next week. Reuter
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      314 3 There is no closer equivalent to the milk of healthy. well-nourished V^HS^* I m* «>^ mo th er s I >^\ SIMILAC is an infant Innill \v\ formula especially de- \S\N** j I sffned to meet the nutrt- 1 Puxuiio^ Jt tional needs of babies. V rfffLS It is completely
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    The Singapore Free Press Friday, Apr. 18, 1958. Opinion Menace to youth
    242 4 The Singapore Free Press Friday, Apr. 18, 1958. Opinion Menace to youth INTIMIDATION by gangsters has become a serious menace to the youth of Singapore. In the last six months four boys have been murdered and there is ample evidence to prove that boys still at school are terrified to
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    The chemistry went wrong when Lana wed Artie
    1340 4 The chemistry went wrong when Lana wed Artie Continuing Thy Torntvntvtt Life of Luna Turner btj Lvonant Mostey i an TURNER i »lled over on her pillow and j looked with fond affection at the brand-new husband lying beside her. si;i noted, with a mixture of amusement and surprj ;e
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    Husbands No.1,2,3
    27 4 Husband No 1 was Artie Shaw (left) and Husband No a and 3 (they were divorced and married nqani) was Stephen Cmne, father of Cheryl
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    Lottery ticket racket smashed after swoop by police
    245 5 Lottery ticket racket smashed after swoop by police SINGAPORE polite, working on a tip-oil, recently swooped on two big consignments o! about 150,000 Federation Social Welfare lottery tickets which arrived in the Colony by air. a police spokesman said: We believe we have smashed the back-bone of the bi^ racket
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    PLEA FOR BLOOD DONORS TO FIRMS
    189 5 PLEA FOR BLOOD DONORS TO FIRMS ,l*iu Blood rransfusion E c commercial firms Siniai 'to h ihi E mobile unit visit them to get l>i'»" 11 lll)l (>m ployees. \n tin unit requires s is [yio i ooms, one preferabl3 with running ivatei j z: i M one room they
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    Price of toddy up 10 cents a gallon
    40 5 The price of toddy in Singapore has gone up by ten cents a gallon. A Government spokesman explained the increase was due to additional expenses for wages, rent and upkeep of trees.
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    21 5 British tourists m Russia vill be given a 50 per cent '("•auction on all fares rithin the country Reuter
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    'STOP KILLING STRAY DOGS'
    252 5 Drive by animal lovers ANIMAL lovers In Singa--v are canvassing opinion against the stray dogs. warn the itrays to cared I »i instead ol belt "d. I afool to per- i/siVA. mo Ani- League and the Welfare Association the Rural Board and y ouncil to convert
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      419 6 BORN today, you have been 1 ed by the stars, i'or no tna what the handicaps, it i s like:-. you will rise above them and bee a tremendous success. There are times when you to have almost prophetic vision. are able to see far ahead Into thi future and
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      U.K. closing prices
      179 7 LONDON, April 17. Previous Today ■IBBES s *Jg 23's buyers 23 Vi buyers i -I- i"" 1^ 23 1 4 sellers 23' 4 sellers m.v 23 buyers 23 buyers m 23 sellers 23 A sellers v i kss Sixit 23 Ti buyers 23% buyers 11BBCI N I
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      New York prices
      106 7 NEW YORK. April 17 Previous Today riN straits Spot 92.87 nom. 92.75 nom. JtMit^Conlract Ma 3 92.50 buyers 92.37 buyers 93. 00 sellers 93.00 sellers July 92.00 buyers 92 00 buyers 92.75 sellers 92.87 sellers pom Quiet SALES: Nil ritrb'eß- Futures May 27.10 buyers 26.80 buyers 27.15
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      34 7 Nl:\Y YORK. April 17 Previous Today 30 Industries 444.35 445.09 20 Railroads 105 98 109.55 40 Domestic Bonds H8.82 89.08 15 Utilities 75.76 75.01 65 Stocks Composite Averages.. 152.97 154 21
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      U.S. PEPPER
      53 7 ir spot and awaiting elease 27. afloats 26% to 26%, hipment unquoted. Lamspot and awaiting release afloats 26 to 26%, April Above prices quoted shipment. 26%. Sarawak nnj quoted. Munlok white spot and awaiting release 41, afloats 1 40, and April shipment 39 1 sellers ex-dock. in U.S.
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      99 7 < OI'RA I'liilippines tif U.K./ North European ports delivered weight per long ton Apr .May < OPEA, Straits (if. I. X North European ports delivered weight per long ton Apr/. May M.»y/June CO 9?NUT OIL crude Straits < '■>• European ports in bulk per long; ton
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    Lock icon US Navy jet sets new height record
    58 7 A Grumman Super Tigei jet fighter has beaten ttu British world altitude re cord for conventional aircraft by climbing to 76,82* feet, the U.S. Navy announced in El Centro, California, yesterday. The old record— 7o 30f feet was established lasi August by test
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    Lock icon Mac gives dinner for Adenauer
    32 7 Dr. Konrad Adenauer, 82--year-old West German Chancellor, was guest of honour at a dinner given in London last night by Mr. Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister. Reuter
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    60 EMPLOYEES COMBINE TO 'ADOPT' SATA PATIENT
    131 7 60 EMPLOYEES COMBINE TO 'ADOPT' SATA PATIENT OATA is hoping that more people would follow the example shown by 60 employees of a Colony hotel in combining to adopt a tuberculosis patient. These hotel employees were the first on the list to respond to SATA's new Adoption Scheme. They have
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    Lock icon 'WAKE UP, CLYDE'
    32 7 Mr. Edmund Watts, a British shipowner, said in Glasgow yesterday it was time the Clyde shipyards "woke up to the fact they are facing very strong foreign competition." Reuter
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      156 7 I SINGAPORE HIGH TIDES TODAY: 10.41 a.m. and f 10.43 p.m. TOMORROW: 11.15 a.m. and 11.08 p.m. SUNDAY: 11.49 a.m. and 11.34 p.m. MONDAY: 12.24 pm. TUESDAY: 0.02 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 0.33 a.m. and 1.37 p.m. I THURSDAY: 1.06 a.m. and 2.20 p.m. Today's radio programme 115 p.m.
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    WAR IN INDONESIA
    340 8 WAR IN INDONESIA Exclusive pictures of 'rebel' front EARLY IN THE MORNING WARSHIPS FROM JAKARTA SHELLED "REBEL -HELD MENADO AND SCORED HITS ON THE OIL STORAGE TANKS. TWO OF THE TANKS CAUGHT FIRE. THE THIRD WAS EMPTY, AND ONLY ITS TOP WAS DENTED. THE OIL HAD BEEN PUMPED OUT THE
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    On guard at HQ
    47 8 On the right is seen the "rebel" military headquarters in Menado. It was evacuated and left under light guard when the troops took up positions in the hills. Damage to B.P.M. offices in the town after a "loyalist" shelling raid is seen below.
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    Soldiers evacuate
    64 9 Soldiers evacuate Major Tumbelaka (above left), vice chief-of-staff to the "rebel" North Salewest Command, seen visiting a milltary installation in Menado. He was one of those who framed the Permesta Declaration. The picture below shows a convoy of 'rebel' troops using Land Rovers in a withdrawal to posi- I tions
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    ROAD TO THE HILLS
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    Lock icon WHAT PRICE WOMEN?
    486 10 WHAT PRICE WOMEN? asks ANNE EDWARDS 'JMIK English gentleman who lowered his valuation of his wife from £5,000 to £5 (in an alienation of affection case) was using v type of insult that has been in favour with husbands since Shakespeare left his wife his second-best bed. This particular husband
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    A Joan Collins gets a new, lower and vital statistic
    943 10 GEORGE WHITING FROM HOLLYWOOD SAYS: A BANTAM THIS is l<; iiilonii ;i waiting world thai Miss Joan Collins Ikis worked a ii<lv !>•( of J weight off one of hei vital statistics the one 1 1 1 1 1 comes
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    A ROW OF FIGURES TELLS HOW FEUD WAS STOPPED
    241 10 II IS just a modest lino in Table 1 62 of a prosaic, 288-page volume published by the Commonwealth Economic; Committee recently. But the romantics on the committee regard it as the cue-line for a story The Harvesi of Abyan. The
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    Friday Photography Page
    267 11 ■•---■■■••■■••••■••••••••••■■■lHt»lI»!lllllllill||||l||||||||» Prints from the schools SPECIAL AWARDS THE prints on this page arc all prize winners and were all taken by schoolchildren. They are from the National U.S.A. High School Photographic Awards, and we reproduce them here for the benefit of Singapore enthusiasts. BACKYARD CATS Taken by
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    Lock icon SOVIET WANT PEACE ON THEIR TERMS SAYS GUNTHER
    350 12 SOVIET WANT PEACE ON THEIR TERMS SAYS GUNTHER f rin; soviet Comjnuuisjn might conquer the world but only through Western "stupidities, mistakes, inertia, ovei -confidence, lack of imagination and lack of will and faith," author John Gunther said in a new book, "Inside Russia Today," just published in New York.
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    Korea-U.S. A-power accord
    60 12 Korea- U.S. A-power accord In Washington, South Korean Ambassador You s Chun Yang shakes hands with U.S. Assistant State E Secretary Walter Robertson after the signing of an atomic power agreement between South Korea and the United States. i Scroll in the background, an original by Korean E President Syngman
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    Lock icon 'JAPAN TO BECOME ASIA'S ORPHAN'
    110 12 T<HE Peking Peoples Daily, the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece, charged Japan's Kishi Government with "trying two-faced tricks to satisfy its imperialist ambitions." "By following this course i Japan will become an orphan in Asia," the newspaper .said in an article j condemning the Japanese Government's
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    Lock icon DEATH FOR A TOP RED AGENT
    104 12 DEATH FOR A TOP RED AGENT PAX CHUNG HO believed to have been the mastermind of all communist espionage activities in South Korea, was sentenced to death by the Seoul district court. The court also handed out sentences ranging from four to 15 years to five of Pak's associates. Pak.
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    Lock icon Japan backs U.K. sea proposal
    47 12 Japan today has announced support for Bri- tain's compromise proposal for extension of territorial water.s from three to six miles, but only if the 87-state international conference in Geneva codifying the law of the sea could thereby reach a successful! conclusion Reuter
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    Lock icon Going to Peking
    28 12 Indian Ambassador to Indonesia G. Parthasarathy, who has boon appoint, cd ambassador to Communist China and Mongolia, will tako his new DOSi in June U.P
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      REDS NOW USING TRADE AS A WEAPON
      40 12 REDS NOW USING TRADE AS A WEAPON RATIONALIST Chinese Premier O. K. Yui opened the eighth annual Asian conference of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Taipeh with a keynote address warning against the dangers of trading with the Communists.
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      49 12 Yui told nearly 300 delegates from more than a score of nations that "trade had always been a most formidable weapon in the hands of totalitarian countries." The Chinese Premier said, "Nowadays under the mask of trade, the communist aggressors often carry out their sinister designs of infiltration." U.P
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      22 12 Indian Prime Minister Jav/aharlal Nehru has accepted the Peking Government's invitation to visit Tibet. it was officially announced in New Delhi. Reuter
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      26 12 President Carlos P. Garcia has ordered a thorough inquiry into reports that government rice was being smuggled out of the country, possibly to strifetorn Indonesia. U.P
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      20 12 Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek said in Taipeh that the Chinese Communists were now trying to capture Formosa through political infiltration. U.P
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      26 12 China's champion milk cow produces 144 pounds of milk daily, the Peking Evening News reported. This is five or six times higher than the average. Reuter
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      29 12 1 A Two new Roman Catholic bishops have been con. secrated in Wuhan, Central China, in defiance of the Vatican, th r Pekina New China News Agency reported.- Reuter
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      46 12 A large bicycle has been despatched from Nottingham, England, to Tokyo for John D. Rockefeller, aged 21, of the American millionaire family. He is six foot six inches tall and found he could not buy one large enough in Japan, where he is study- ing.— Reuter
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      25 12 -A Communist Chinese movieproducers in Peking arc making movie versions of two famous Chinese novels "The Red Bedchamber" and "Annals of the Three Kingdoms." U.P
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      33 12 Three Japanese experts have left Tokyo for London to inspect the development of television in Britain at the invitation of the British Government. They will stay in Britain for about one month. Reuter
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      16 12 India is negotiating with Egypt and other countries for a reduction in press cable rates.— Reuter
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      23 12 Mr. Wu Kuang-sheng, head of a 26-man Communist Chinese trade mission, has signed an order for 100 French dump trucks in Paris. U.P
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      46 12 Philippine Defence Secretary Jesus Vargas said the development of nuclear weapons by the world powers had not rendered the Philippine armed forces ■•obsolete." He pointed out it was erroneous to assume that the next crisis the country might be in would he nf nuclear proportions. U.P
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      22 12 A four-man Japanese mountaineering expedition has arrived in Katmandu They will attempt to climb the Jugal peaks in Central Nepal U. P
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      35 12 Two jet aircraft collided over Ambala, 100 miles from New Delhi, while rehearsing for an Indian Air Force silver jubilee show. The pilots baled out successfully alter diverting their planes from thickly populated areas.- U.P
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      15 12 Japan ha.s raised Its legation in the Vatican City to tl rank of embassy U.P
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      30 12 Indian Prime M;m.>e Nehru .said in New Dew that he thought 11 "desirable" that uncommittea nations should take P»» in any summit conference, as their presence ir be helpful. Reuter
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      28 12 The Japanese Ministry I Finance is studying I plan to restrict 1!11^[ > of American motion pit- tures to stop the heavj flow of dollar ttOt&m Japan's reserves Reuter
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      26 12 Communist Chinaforces arc tempora moling divisional mandem to caviav full colonels to P "for the sake of to relationship amo various ranks of and privates' U.P
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      18 12 Afghan Finance I Abdullah MalikJ throe other high j are on a I'nrt ni I to Japan U.P
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    102 12 TAIPEH CLIMBS DOWN ON PRESS LAW RATIONALIST Chim 11 Prime Minister X Yui said in Taipeh "tft government would wiiil its powers to canci i paper publishing i without a eoun hearing The Taipeh v paver Association hud protested against a proposed new Bill empowering th ernment to canc< I
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    'How absolutely delightful to Meet you'
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    TODAY SHOWING IS BEST IN A WEAK MILE FIELD
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    Black Charm can take the main sprint
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    World meet in Calcutta
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      219 15 Here we are again another weekend v^ t^^< of interesting reading with the GG Ic G n o G UNBELIEVEABLE BUT TRUE! Read jf^ <*rtJr^" "tI about woman who predicted that big SingaJ&r P° re re The temple on the fire-torn Beautiful Mamie l^r Van Doren, blonde and brown-eyed is
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    305 16 Adenauer calls on free world to maintain its unity fTIIF WEST UEKMAA ciiantruor, ur. rvuma.i A Adenauer, warned yesterday that East-West relations were In "a particularly critical period" and called on the West to settle its own disagreements and to preserve its "basic common beliefs." The Chancellor
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    154 16 Nylon curtains foam mattresses in new UK sub. PORPOISE, Britain's latest submarine was commissioned at Barrowin.Furuess yesterday. She is the first operational submarine designed since World War Two to be accepted into service by the Royal Navy. Two more of the same class are being built. She is capable of
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    180 16 a BLIGHT Increase ot "h ost i 1 c activity" against the Yugoslav Communi.st regime In 1957 wa.s rtported if) a Government .survey published in Belgrade yesterday. The .survey .said hostile elements "corrupt" expolitician.s, "remnants ol former Quisling organisations, a .section of the clergy and other
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    178 16 nTHE British Government 1 took the first Parliamentary step yesterday to placing Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean under i the authority of Australia by introducing the necessary Bill in the House of Lords. It was given a first reading without discussion.
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