The Singapore Free Press, 11 January 1960

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  • 13 1 THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1960. No. *****. 15 CENTS.
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  • 6 1 OPINION 'Escape valve' for slums 1
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  • 48 1 Who are the world's happiest people? For the answer, read a special article appearing in tomorrow's Free Press. However, you may not agree with the author. You may have other opinions. And the Free Press is offe- ng cash prizes for your views. Read about the offer tomorrow.
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  • 40 1 MOSCOW. Mon.— Mr. Vasily Emeiyanov, Soviet nuclear i scientist yesterday appealed tor co-operation between Soviet and American scientthe peaceful uses of atomic energy. Mr. Emeiyanov is head of Atomic Energy Directorate under the USSR Council il Ministers.
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  • 365 1 Indonesian import -export control policy causes concern to Singapore business Gains of recent months may be lost pRADERS in Singapore are concerned over President Sukarno's week-end announcement that Indonesian exports and imports will be brought under state control. Singapore businessmen who carry out multimillion dollar transactions with
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  • 305 1 AIR fares between Singapore and London will be reduced as soon as clearance from governments and other authorities is received. Mr. G. Davidson, South east Asia sales manager of BOAC. revealed that the Minister of Aviation. Mr Duncan Sandys, had now authorised BOAC
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  • 174 1 Hustle-bustle Schools open for new term IT was hustle-bustle day 1 in scores of Singapore primary schools this morning when they reopened for the new term. Busy scenes wore the sequel to the mass transfers of pupils, teachers and principals which was carried out during the Christmas holiday> Free Pros
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  • 149 1 Sandosham's term is extended T>ROFESSOR A. A. SandoJt sham has been appointed Principal of the Singapore Division of the University of Malaya for another term of five years. The professor was first appointed to the post in the middle of January last year when the University was split into two
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  • 270 1 TWO U.K. FINANCIERS ARRESTED ON FRAUD CHARGES ONDON, Mon. Mr. Harry Jasper, head of the Jasper group of compan- ies, and Mr. Herbert Murray, managing director of the State Building Society, were arrested here last night and charged with fraud offences. Both were arrested by the City of London Company
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 8 1 I lli:i: PHESS WALK: tiiln form in page
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    • 33 1 Hubher 2Vi eeiit* down January first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 1121 cents per lb., two and a quarter cents down on FiSday's close. The tone was uncertain.
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  • 222 2 END OF STEEL STRIKE BRINGS TIN 'SQUEEZE' LONDON, Monday. POMMENTING on the activity of tin on the London market, the Times City Editor says since the United States steel strike was settled a few days ago there has been kean demand for tin. Although sufficient stocks were neld in the
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  • 27 2 MOSCOW. Mon—A Chilean md industrial delegated by Senor Domingo :ica. president of the Union of Commerce and Industry, has arrived in ow— Reuter
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  • 40 2 LONDON, Mon.-^Japanese diplomats in Africa have begun in London their study conference on Japan's relations with African territories. Topics to be discussed include the possibility of giving some of the territories technical and economic aid.
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  • 42 2 LONDON, Mon. —Russia is planning to build a chain of fast reactor atomic plants, similar in design to Britain's only experimental fast reactor at bounreay, Scotland. Soviet scientist, Dr. Oleg Kazachkovskii. member of Moscow's Institute of Physics, revealed yesterday.— Reuter
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  • 34 2 NICOSIA. Mon.—Mr. And- reas Ziartide.>. general secretary of the Cypriot left-wing Trade Union Federation, said yesterday his organisation will not take part in any boycott of South African good> in Cyprus. Reuter
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  • 123 2 Nestle's steps up bid for C&B firm LONDON, Mon.—The giant Swiss food products tirm of Nestle have stepped up their bid in a takeover tussle for the 250-year-old British tinned goods firm of Crosse and Blackwell, it was announced here last night. The directors of Crosse and Blackwell stated that
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  • 23 2 WASHINGTON. M o n. Soviet-American talks resume here today on Russia's war-time lend-lease debt to the United States.— Reuter.
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  • 8 2 Manager's selling price, todav $I.lBxd.
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  • 144 2 P O ABSORBS ITS OWN SUBSIDIARY LONDON. Mon. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P and O) has announced the terms of its offer for the minority ordinary shareholding in its subsidiary. Orient Steam Navigation Company. A joint report from their respective financial advisers recommends "as a fair and
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  • 272 2 3 BIG TRADE CONFERENCES THIS WEEK LONDON, Monday. MR. DERICK HEATHCOAT AMORY, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Reginald Maudlin?. President of the Board of Trade, fly to Paris today to attend three important international economic meetings. They are: 1. On Tuesday morning a ministerial meeting of the "Outer
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  • 48 2 LONDON. Mon.—The British Government is reported to be considering keeping the country on summer time one hour ahead of Greenwich 1 Mean Time throughout the year. The Home Office has susked farmers, the tourist trade 1 and other organisations con- cerned for their views.— Reuter.
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  • 46 2 BONN, Mon. Professor Ludwig Erhard, the West i German Economics Minister. I will fly to Cairo on Jan. 24 for talks which will probably include the question of West German help for the second stage of the Aswan dam project. Reuter.
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  • 82 2 SHIPS IN PORT Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Hessenstein 2/3. Charon 6A. Aizu Maru 6 7. Tanagara 8 9. Ceylon 10 '11. Burnside 13 14. Heian Maru 18, Troon Breeze 19. Seremban N. Wall 3. Islander 21 '22. Pacific Maru 23. Nichirei Maru
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  • 39 2 MANILA. Mon.— The Coun- cil of Leaders yesterday s pledged support for Presii dent Garcia's legislative programme, aimed at making 1960 a "big industrial year" for the Philippines, it was 1 officially reported here.
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  • 891 2 NOTE: All orices below are middle orices. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY. INDUSTRIALS :erday Today A«• B;i Pret. 1.75 1.75 C'Qi. 220 2.20 11.00 Buyers I B. Petrel 57*6 58 B.M. Trustees 5.25 5.25 t Satttl P'ef. 19 19- Oris 50/- 50 kl Oisptttary 1.23 120 :-:Cks 1.18*4 !.20 Fraser
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  • 237 2 Cheap air fares: C.U.T. to charter planes ONDON, Mon. An independent British airline, Eagle Aviation, said it was considering an agreement to charter its planes to the Commonwealth Union of Trade in its plans for drastic cuts in Commonwealth air fares "for members only." By chartering planes the C.U.T. could
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  • 683 3 JOHORE HIGHLIGHTS by Mark Foenander >,ju lohoro ler wit I. r> in J<> R< s boon d tht boon I i force I hday. All members ot the Force .ere Malays, officered by Jritish and Malays. In addition to the infanunit. Sultan Ibrahim med
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  • 25 3 MASS WEDDING: IT'S HER TURN TO SIGN the 13 vrv the first the liokkieH m TYluk Sil ss picture I 1 le signing il<K U-
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  • 29 3 Mowing are new officials be Hotels Association of apore: President. Mr. C. fang: vice-president. Mr. Lim Jit Chin: treasurer. Mr. S Menon: secretaries. Rennie Lowick and Co.
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  • 56 3 CHURCH RPOW: POLICE CALLED IN E Baptist ried to di!Trited a t a time. the aul- pit and proceeded with hU service. The church is divided over a dispute which came into last August. At a chapel meeting last night it was decided to try tor peace by arranging a
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  • 300 3 4 STATE-WIDE agri- cultural census first of its kind in the country will start in Johore early in April this year. The c Is .sponsored by the Federation's Ministry of Agriculture, with the advice and assistance of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation.
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  • 42 3 ANCHORAGE (Alaska), Mon. Another largo chunk of ice has broken loose from "Ice Floe Charlie,' bringing the floe still home for 20 scientists only a quarter of its original size. Withdrawal operations are con- i tinuing.- Reuter
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  • 36 3 VATICAN CITY. Mon. Pope John said he expected Catholic church's lay organisation to be "an effective aid, a shiny mirror of brotherly unity, and a banner of salvation lor society."- Reuter
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  • 210 3 Work on J.B. park goes on APPEAL FOR DONATIONS MORE donors have come forward to help the project, for the 32--acre Merdeka Park in Johore Bahru. The Free Press was told yesterday that the Malayan Miners have donated $10,000. Messrs. Tan Wan Seng and Kuok Bros.. Ltd.. has promised donations
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  • 106 3 Scooter riders in Singapore have now a club of their own the Vespa Club. About 60 owners of Vespa scooters enrolled as members at the clubs first meeting over the week-end. The club aims at developing skilful and safe driving among members and keeping them acquainted
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  • 190 3 A dawn start for big race SINGAPOREANS travelling to Johore to watch the Coronation Grand Prix there on Feb. 20 and 21 will have to start the trip at 5.30 a.m. The Johore Coronation Grand Prix committee, which held its meeting in Johore Bahru. anticipates such heavy traffic on the
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  • 114 3 EASTBY (Yorkshire), Mon.— Luty, a talking gander, emerged here as a possible rival to Corky, YorKshire's talking Corgi dog. The gander s owner, 58-year-old part-time postman Joe Smith, claimed that Luty had a fairly extensive vocabulary, and that some of the words were "not fit for
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  • 90 3 PEKING. Mon. Visiting East German Deputy Premier Heinrich Rail, in a speech here, said "In face of latest developments in Japan we deem it urgent to realise proposals for the establishment of a zone free from atomic weapons in the Pacific region to safeguard peace in
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 581 4  - THE Singapore Scene IAN MOK-AI En I THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN BEGIN THEIR QUEST FOR THE WISDOM OF THE AGES Learning is in the air CC.'IIOOLS open Iheir doors again today like sleepy, yawning giants to swallow up thousands of children and seal them up in sessions of studious discipline. The
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  • 526 4 PRETORIA The South African treason trial has now lusted over three years. Over 4.500,000 words have been spoken but according to the presiding judge, Mr. Justice Frans RumpfY, "the end is not yet in sight." On December 5, 1956. 156 men and women of many races—
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 448 4 Drink fruit Juice I ORANGE- ADE Straits Times Free Press For th« convenience of odvtrI risers our representatives at Ist Floor, COLD STORAGE ARCADE, Orchard Road, Singapore. will receive small advertisements j I and box number replies. Small advertisements placed in i Singapore may also be handed to: COLD STORAGE
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    • 224 4 Mil t mm t\ l^m Tai»« or, %»€t> tro1 fott Easy Payment can be ortanq o iss HOCK CHEONG COMPM Head Office: 95 97, Tros Street. S Branch: 3 The Arcade Blda, S pof i||| c <a i*+ At CHINESE NEW YEAR I I^M^ (CHILDREN'S WEAR) §Js|te PRICES OF ALL
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 279 4 CLUES ACROSS 10. Cant be worthy of remark! 7. Overlook without the power IS: to look, it seems (4. 1. 5, I). 1L l ree snould *»> built t0 8. 'Mend cistern' (Anagram) o i?f. ri nn e 7 12. Drift penniless, because of a split? (4>. 12. Part of
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  • 48 5  -  CHAN SWAN BEE INQUIRIES lliOM OLYMPIC FANS POIR iN CHANGE rili»! SAND I I -portsI officials I OlymRomc in t peeled Singapore ration after the ig. 25 I I. I 1 be i the ter the I I I the be the 67
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  • 60 5 Refinery experts to make report SINGAPORE. Mon. The survey of likely sites for the proposed $40 million petroleum refinery for Singapore has been completed and a report would be made to the Shell Company office in London soon, a Shell spokesman said ye*terday. The spokesman said four refinery experts had
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  • 21 5 Candy in her stall in Mr. Howard M. Berry s miniature zoo in Upper Serantjoon Road.
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  • 128 5 'PR AGED Y struck twice in rapid succession at a x Malay family in Jalan Nanas, in Singapore's Malay Farm. La Wednesday police constable Kassim bin Jabar. 28. was found dead in the fir>t-cla senger>' lavatory at the railway Nation He had
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  • 167 5 pANDY. a baby elephant weighing over 300 lb., flew into Singapore from Bangkok at the weekend and had a long wait at the airport cargo department. /or it was only six hours later that she was collected and taken to Mr. Howard M Berry's miniature
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  • 63 5 Following have been selected to represent Singapore in the inter-State dance contest against Seiangor at the Great World Cabartt. Singapore, on Feb. 5 and Feb. 6. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chow. Mr. and Mrs. Tan Soon Bee, Mr. Victor Low and Miss Wai I Cheng. Mr.
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  • 281 5 5,000 WHO WILL NOT CELEBRA TE Remaining inconspicuous during Chinese New Year PENANG, Monday. COME 5,000 Chinese living in Medan and the surrounding areas will not celebrate the forthcoming Chinese New Year, which starts on Jan. 28. A trader who arrived here from the Sumatran city said the Chinese community
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  • 65 5 Teacher for 50 years retires Mr. P. F. Pereira of Malacca, who has retired from the Singapore education service after having been a teacher for half a century. Before joining the staff of the Serangoon English School here in January 1955. Mr. Pereira. had been teaching in Malacca for 45
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  • 456 5 AN R.A.F. man in Singapore dashed back to England by air last week after getting news that his six-month-old baby girl had been kidnapped, but when he landed the baby had been found and restored to her mother. Mrs. Patricia Morrice. 19.
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  • 56 5 Mrs. H. B. Amstutz, vicepresident of the Singapore Family Planning Association, and Dr. Duphne Chun, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Hong Kong and president of the Family Planning Association, of Hong Kong have been co-opted to the governing body of the International Planned Parenthood
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  • 74 5 Absent the kidnap boy ABSENT when Balestier Boy's School reopened today was pupil Tan Eng Swee, 11. Tan was kidnapped on Dec. 4 last year, the last school day before the holidays, and is still held for a $20,000 ransom. Tan has been promoted to Primary IVB in his absence.
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    • 236 5 fROM ANY ANCLE PRAKTICA Is your best buy in 35mm focal-plane single-lens reflex cameras OWN A SINGLE-LENS K MIRROR-REFLEX |Bv CAMERA I PPT NEW FX-4 eitre-brioht pentaprism a* standard equipment optional level or kneb-wind other P»« ith Jcno-TESSAR 2.8 ♦wyires similar to PRAKTICA |ens $330/- POPULAR FX-3 internafly coupled -outomotic
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 38 5 I Shopping 1 1 Guide r. /Cotton $9.90. >2.00. I op. ct mtil 9.30 i >mi ink? it tins-soft as dress > -t (ierman II ul.ible in ft designs. e the vjstt tO 'CB. Orchard Bali Bald? I ANA
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    • 38 5 TODAY: 10 36 p.m. TOMORROW: 9.30 am. and 11.10 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 10.07 a.m. and 11.40 pm. THURSDAY: 10.42 a.m. FRIDAY: 0.10 a.m. and 11.17 am. SATURDAY: 0.40 a.m. and 11.52 a.m. SUNDAY: 1.08 a.m. and 12 27 p.m.
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  • 357 6  - Work all day, then home to cook MARGARET WEE HERE ARE THE TOUGHEST WOMEN IN SINGAPORE By SINGAPORE'S most industrious labourers are a set of women the "samsui por" (the women labourers with red headgear). They have become as important to the construction work now going: on all over the
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  • 105 6 Kitchen colours are out rE 1960 colour for kitchen appliances is white. I have it on the best authority from the Modern Cooking Promotional Committee, whose members are some of the leading manufacturers of domestic electric cookers, refrigerators, and the like, writes a correspondent from London. They all did their
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  • 32 6 Another male illusion is shattered. Research investigators in Washington report that the average congressman talked twice as long as the average congresswoman in the House of Representatives this year.
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  • 111 6 By ESMF; I',\i» TInT -THE C 1 'due Si] of mak tractive nowacii: nonth. Girl^ to lai tent to si •and wait to conn- j and do s Depart as nevwhims type Gir. dre other a Thr never 1 like at a afford managr new
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 490 6 imimmimiimii F/MM{^ /c/uM/^^^^k W 1 iimiiiiiiiiiiiiiini BORN today you have a steadfast and loyal personality, so that you will always stand by those whom you consider your friends. You may not make friends too easily, but, once made, they are made for life! Since you are a natural leader and
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    • 192 6 Y.W.C.A. (Raffles Quay) English conversation intermediate 9.15 a.m., advanced 10.15 a.m., beginners 1^.15 a.m.; Chinese cooking samba I goreng (curried prawns) 10.30 a.m.; Beauty culture 2.30 p.m.; Katong Club— visit to sauce (actor j p.m.: Malay civil s»ervice s\A. one 5 p.m. EXHIBITION OF HUNTINGS by Mr. T. C. Tan
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    • 104 7 They call her Malaya's ophia Loren \f ur Rahmah ibove) is *i popularly Malaya's i Ihing ted of Mir has rod ex- And a speaks •i IT irrfuilv her mo- ne of knuu n w ho J^ hrr daughter made r n\f to time Rah- i-. I hou she rules.
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  • 315 7  - S'PORE IS FINE, SAYS MERLE THE SONGBIRD Roy Lazaroo by Australian songbird has "invaded" Singapore. She is 22-\ ear-old Merle Harris, a popular stage, T.V., and radio artiste. Merle, who has already made a name for herself in Australia i s determined to make an even bigger impression here When
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  • 255 7 Fans trap 20 top stars in theatre for two hours fft'il*! I it mmw. r~\\VZ J J > 1 I If La im h Z^M h\ai Iwi Hi miM V S^^^^^^^^^^f *^i TWENTY Motion Picx ture and General Investment Co. film stars were trapped in Hong Kong's Metropole Theatre by
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  • 362 7  -  Maegaret Wee «w SINGAPORE prima danseur de ballet, Vernon Martinus. is due to leave for London on Thursday on a bursary to study ballet production and train ing methods. Awarded by the British Council for the first time in the history n Singapore
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  • 264 7 THIS week's film quiz U based on questions submitted by reader Mr. Sunny Gwee who up to now has been a regular competitor in this ontest. Here they are: 1. What is the name of James Mason's wife? 2 Name Judy
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  • 49 7 ONLY a few more tickets are available for the Peter Cooper recital at the Cultural Centre Theatre at 8.45 p.m. today. They may be obtained at the theatre. The New Zealand-born pianist arrived in Singapore on Saturday after giving a recital in Hong Kong.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 267 8 Lets hear from YOU A |>osl< ar<! will do -or Tel. 2800 Ext 18/20/21 Join the gang every Monday CRICKET: THE 'OLD BRIGADE' cricketer Reggie da Silva will skipper the Police team this year. Police will field the old brigade this year so we will be seeing S.
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  • 136 8 A GROUP of supporters including Dr and Mrs. C. Marcus (left) turned up it the Youth Centre on Friday night to watch the junior women's doubles final in the Singapore Table Tennis championships. Misses Chow Wai thooi and Lee Swan Bee won the title from Ang Gar Cheng
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  • 90 8 OIX more experts for the Singapore Judo Club —members who recently passed the first dan tde) black belt tests. Mr. A. Ohta. Consul for Japan in Singapore, presented the diplomas on behalf of Tokyo Kodokan. headquarters of the World Judo League. The clubs experts, now: Instructors:
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  • 172 8 New polo season begins Jan. 23. The 85 members ol the Singapore Polo Club. Thomson Road, axe looking forward to it. Colonel Rugge-Price. secretary designate, said that polo is held every Thursday. Saturday and Tuesday starting at 500 p.m. OLDEST member of the Polo Club is "evergreen Major F.
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  • 155 8 johnny Murailie was the golfer with the lowest handicap at the Royal Island Club last season handicap two. THE 18 holes mixed Greensome (Bogey) competition which had not been played for the past year was revived yesterday at the RSGC with 19 competitors. Winners were Mr. and Mrs. L.
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  • 23 8 WANTED, by the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association—members to volunteer as judges, timekeepers, and technical experts to assist in the Free Press Walk.
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  • 72 8 WEIGHT-LIFTING: BIG NAMES DROP OUT OF ANNUAL MEET SINGAPORE'S perennial champions Tan Howe Liang (Empire Asian and South-East Asian gold medallist), Tan Ser Cher, another Empire gold medal winner, Chua Phung Kim (SEAP champion) and Ow Fook Seng (bronze) have decided not to enter this year's SAWLF championships. They are
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  • Article, Illustration
    85 8 Dollah Zainol MALAYA Cup left wing Dollah Zainol is Selia Jay as coach. They hope to win the Malays Football league. CENTRE forward Zainol Hussein. 16. hopes to emulate the feats of elder brother Sah-ar Hussein, Fathul Karib's sharp shooter. EX-MALAYA Cup soccer star Omar Haxith is Maxwell Sports
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  • 175 8 WATER-SKIING: Runaway boat MAURICE Johnson was thrown overboard when his boat started in gear. It roared off a full throttle into the Straits of Johore. The empty runaway, followed by two speedboats, was picked up 30 minutes later. ASSISTANT Superintendent of Police T. E. Rlcketts balances his muscular bulk adroitly.
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  • 114 8 SWEE Lim Swang is 42. but a sprightly hockey star lor Singapore Chinese Recreation Club. "I'll keep on for another few years", he says. "I'm young."' BIRDETT Coutts is not playing this season. Rea- 1 son? An injury to his ear; some months back Burdett will make a comeback
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  • Article, Illustration
    43 8 RETIRE? -'NOT ME' SINGAPORE'S light-wel-terweight champion Austin Dunsford, unable to fill the eighth berth at the SEAP Games in Bangkok due to an injured arm returned to serious training last week. He denies rumours that he intends to quit boxing. Austin Dunsford
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  • 43 8 AMERICAN Club bowling season begins this month. New chairman, succeeding Mr. Jim Elliott, is Mr. William Mercer. Last year's champions Men (open) Clarence Wilson. Handicap: Henry Lim Special Events: Anthony Caccabale. Women (open): Anita Bordwell. Handicap: K. Moore. Special Events: Mindi Elliott
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  • 34 8 The league begins in April, announces Singapore Softball League secretary Bill Tan of National Carbon. Last year the title went to Stanvac Gassers. Fourteen teams took part. This year more teams are expected.
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  • Article, Illustration
    33 8 OFFICIALS meet at the Goh Loo Club this evening to discuss the visit of the Filipino St. Thomas team to the State for five matches. B. S Soin R. da Silva Vellupillai
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  • 106 8 SIEW SUN SHINES ALL YEAR BILLIAP^" BILLIARDS star of the Chinese Swimming Club for 1959 is Teo Siew Sun. Teo not only won the EngMsn three-ball, but went on to win the highest breakaward with a score of 88. In the four-ball, he finished runner-up to Choo Kim Chwee. Results
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  • 26 8 NEW members of the Singapore Motor Club: Inche Hassan bin Alui. and Messrs Kok Ah Chong, A. Wikner. Ng Yan Guan and Lo Kee Hock.
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  • 37 8 CHINESE Swimming Club's membership campaign is extended to Feb. 29. During the membership drive, applicants are exempted from paying entrance fees. THE club plans to hold a Chinese New Year dinner and dance on Feb. 6.
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  • 34 8 THE Far East Air Force (>cle Association has lost seasoned riders Dick Blatth. Dave Booth and Bob Bur goyne. all of Seletar. They have loft for Britain. The new season begins in March.
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  • Article, Illustration
    62 8 Miss Long Soon Chin. Singapore worn* n champion, and Mr. Lim Hone Tianß. all yesterday. Free Pr<ss pit t i\MSH I li H I rlanri I on rri I I tkgl&mi prolr^sjon i tfn •n. But Krird nun rtot him a p: iftM Kops :^J trcmltl* I H IV
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  • 199 8 YAN*B N. S. Shahul Ha- «f meed, chairman of the r sports committee of the Tamil Festival Sports for E 1%0, declares that more than 2,000 sportsmen took part in thi s year's festival a record. 5 SPORTS enthusiast Mrs. B. J. Wharton, mo-
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  • 137 8 Shooting: Gift range for marksmen yEARS without a standard sized shooting range, the Singapore Rifle Association has at last acquired one. The benefactor: Mr. Koh Bock Thye. Secretary Mr. Kok Kum Woh says that the SRA has been borrowing a 25 metre range at Beach Road belonging to the Singapore
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  • 51 8 4LK M XI Illltrh r son class M Singapore played in tit and was nament crick* r Two other Grimberc breith I tain on l« ■COMB r *J Hartn,-:| b >t from lra\i thf lOC ma j on Feb. In till Feb. 1 have been in\ r, part. M
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  • 54 8 ELLIOTT IS LEAVING II s M Jim Ell; director < jLm the I j m States I form: I tion Sen I in Si: pore a l,s chairman 1 the Am< I %U can Ci b o w 1 i UOTT j section, leavi i ton in four Jim. ai
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  • 44 8 SINGAPORE Gun I will shortly embi on a membership cam pa announce.-, Mr. Ben Santos, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer. Currently the memberattend weekly practice shoots every Thursday at the Club Range, off 7th mile, Bukit Timah Road. Ben Santos
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  • 26 8 ONLY woman to gain a place in the FARELF and Royal Engineer yachting regatta held on SaturdayMiss Southwood. second in the 14 RNSA dinghy cla
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  • 184 9  -  ALLAN LEWIS [By LIGHT rain early, which developed into a useful downpour later, held up track work at Ipoh this morning. But trainers welcomed the breaking of the drought, after many casualties yesterday. The fastest this morning was by a Rinus van Breu-kelen-trained
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  • 95 9 KIN TAT BEATEN IN THE FINAL BY Lil&aß P Malaya s Lee Kin Tat of the Swedish Open last night. B| BANGALORE. Australian et-keeper Wally Grout 101 in 108 minutes rist Combined Indian Universities. Austral:. 536-9 oecl ■Burge 157. Grout 101. Pavell UrnverM:ie^ 156-5 MfcLBOCRNK. M i 1e r Herb
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  • 28 9 JHGHGFH Saturday wag won R Archibald and C vith a scon ef 1 > ball winwas J Sanderson and A. H. Broun, with a score of
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  • 141 9 Downpour greets regatta entrants A SHOWER greeted 96 competitors at the annual regatta of the Royal Singapore Yacht Club yesterday morning. Eleven events were scheduled to take place. Because of bad weather four of them were cancelled. But by 9 a.m. all yachts taking part were out at sea. Neither
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    62 9 b the K the 1 Hr at Ipoh K I Si tirsl r Hi m. K- ■ft i r far 1^ o.ooded .n to I picture Shy lock Home, the horse that paid a thumping dividend 174 lor a win ticket returns to scale at Ipoh yesterday.
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    125 9 i e the effect of Wests overtall on a pair of poor bidder* One Heart by South ana Diamonds by West, they got ell and truly tied up in the fol-cqueni-e: Two Spades Three Clubs; Four Clubs P° ur Spades. South was scared by the weakness of his
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  • 834 9  -  ALLAN LEWIS ■>7 Procession I^FRR BROOK led all the way to win the first race. Jt was almost a procession ana Twenty Per C had their chances ruintd when slowly out o: the sta.. b a good start N'ellyne might have Gun Runner fourth. Heads •yRITARA
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  • 173 9 B. E. STURGESS had his handicap of 18 reduced j by one after winning the 'B" division medal bogey competition played on Saturday at the Royal Singapore Golf Club. He came out with a score uf two up. Runners-up were R. K. i Prantice. one
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  • 54 9 Mr. A J. Trienen was the winner of the Springbok Trophy competition played at Keppel Club on Saturday. Winner of the monthly I medal "A" medal competition was Mr. W. Ward. Runner-up was Mr. A. J. Trienen Mr. G. R. Iveson won the monthly "B M division competition with
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  • 180 9 117 HAT a wearying day it turned out to be at the Police Depot yesterday, venue of the Singapore Hockey Association trial. The training squad arrived at 2.00 p.m. to be coached by Major Dennis Egan. But where was Dennis? They waited. and waited. Then announced
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  • 107 9 ROME. Mon. A call to Catholics to keep away from "dangerous sports" will be discussed at the Synod of Roman diocese. Its agenda will include an appeal to the faithful not to follow, and especially not to practise, sports "which rashly expose life, -and the sanity
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  • 300 9 AFTER BRAVING THOSE CROCODILES A MOTOR RACE A YOUNG planter who swam the crocodile infested Pahang River on Saturday, yesterday competed in Singapore's Dover Kilo motor trial and showed he had I lost none of his nerve. lan Barn well, who accepted a $50 dare at the I Temerloh Club
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  • 308 9 i Touring: Cars (1.001 to 1.600 ec): 1. Toh Choo Poh (Borgward) 1,500 cc 41.98 sec: 2. J.A. Fielder (Magnette) 1,489 cc 42.84 sec. Improved Touring. Special and I Grand Touring Cars (1,501 to 2,000 cc): 1. Low Thiam Bok (Citroen) 1,911 cc 40.26 sec. Up to 1,000 cc:
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  • 47 10 Gifts for Queens third baby LONDON. Mon K: itted baby Elizabeth Is expecting nonth are pouring Buckingham Palace from well-wish< ail over the world. Tl accepting d will use as many he needs, a palace official said. The re>t would be Da>>ed On to hahv rhnritip* Reuter
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  • 460 10 Scientists 9 split makes political problem worse QENEVA, Mon.— The EastWest conference on the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests resumes here tomorrow after a 24--day break in the tensest atmosphere since the talks began about 1 1 months ago. u reason has been
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  • 77 10 JAPAN WILL SIGN TWO NEW PACTS WITH U.S. »TX)KYO. Mon. The United States' "strong rights" remained unchanged in the newly rewritten administrative agreement governing activities of American troops in Japan a Tokyo newspaper reported today. The administrative vement will be approved in Washington on Jan. 19 at the same time
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  • 71 10 Britain to send tanks to Aden LONDON. Mon.- A War Office spokesman last night confirmed that a squadron oi British Centurion tanks, minus crews, will be! shipped to Aden early this 1 spri: A-ked to comment on a newspaper report that they were being sent there as a precaution "against
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  • 94 10 POLICE RAID PARTY IN A TEMPLE KLANG. Mon. Police here last night raided a Chinese temple in Goh Hock Huat Road and detained six j people alleged to have been watching a blue film. A nrojector and three rolls of Clm were seized. The police party of five officers in
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  • 53 10 Id tl Japan* se Govnent would not adopt a i neutrality but would co-opexai with the United States t< and prosperity Mr. Ki;.hi was addressing a i Shizuoka City. •ral Japan, on the .signing -United Security reported by National who Quoted him g co-operation. pn»pe: rmed h the
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  • 149 10 IT'S ONLY MY HOME FALLING DOWN HINTON, St. George (Somerset). Mon. When uuests dine at the 500-year-old ancestral home of Karl Poulett here, they are asked not to mind the sound of water dripping into buckets and the occasional clatter of a slate from the roof. They are advised to
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    50 10 -Photograph by S.A.C Eric Douse with his bride, formerly Miss Barbara Ann Parkes. after their wedding at St. George's Church, R.A.F. Changi, Singapore, on Saturday. S.A.C. Douse (22) is an engine mechanic in No. 48 Squadron. His bride was a nursing attendant at Changi hospital there.- Michael Anchant
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  • 69 10 picture. MAI Zetterlintf. Suedish film and -i.i-< star, plays the part of Myriel, an ansel who takes a fortnight off from Heaven and conies down to earth in Claude Andre Puget's fluffy fantasy "An \n |d of No Important be broadcast b\ the BBC today.
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  • 105 10 Lemberg massacre inquiry regrets Eastern apathy THE HAGUE, Mon. A special commission I investigating allegations about the wartime past of Professor Theodor Oberlaendar, West German Refugee Minister, said yesterday reports that the professor's guilt had already been proved were completely inaccurate The commission has been set up at Professor Oberlaenders
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  • 388 10 KAISERSLAUTERX, Monday. rpHE extreme Right-wing German Reich Party celebrated a legal victory x over the Rhineland Palatinate state government with a beer cellar singsong and mugs of foaming ale on Saturday night. The celebration came after a legal tug-of-war before two courts
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  • 20 10 OTTAWA. Mon. Princess Alexandra of Kent has been appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen's Own Rifles of i Canada.— U.P.I.
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  • 196 10 Elephant kills tiger in stamp of death I^EW DELHI, Mon. Three Elephants killed a man eating tiger before a single hunter could fire his gun, according to reports from Nainital. The hunters were astride the elephants when confronted by the tiger. As the tiger clawed the trunks of two elephants
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  • 170 10 proposed Soviet tests in the Pacific because it can more easily be freed of traffic. LONDON Mr. Aneurin Bevan, deputy leader of the Labour Party, spent "a slightly better day." TAIPEH The American Army Secretary, Mr. Wilbar Brucker, said the U.S. would "deal" with any Communist "aggression"
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  • 27 10 PEKING. Mon. The! -ninese Government has nvited Viscount Montgomery to visit China, and he vill probably arrive here in Way. said Peking Rariin Reuter
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  • 97 10 Armed junks attack a Korean ship gEOUL. Moil— The South O Korean Office oi Marine Affairs announced last night that the South Korean coast guard vessel No. 701 had been attacked by more than 10 Communist Chinese armed junks of! Inchon, on the we>t coast oi Korea, early yesterday. The
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  • 19 10 NEW YORK. Mon -Mr Dae HammarskjoWd. the tary-general. has i: Laos to maintain its "Independent neutralif.
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