Singapore Standard, 1 January 1957

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  • 338 2 55 Union Men To Answer Unlawful Assembly Rap THE orders issued by the Police "o the persons assembled m the Singapore Factory and Shop Workers' Union prerrises, m Bukit Timah Road, shortly after midnight of Oct. 26 last year, "were not orders to disperse." The Fourth Criminal District Juc.ge. Mr.
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  • 257 2 KUALA LUMPI'R, Mon. Fifty reigning 'Queens' of three .joget modern stages m Selangor are facing a stormy future today, because the Religious Affairs Department wants to ban Muslim girls from cabarets and night clubs after Merdeka. Already 17 girls employed by the
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  • 202 2 COLONY'S TAX CHIEF QUITS FOR A NEW JOB SINGAPORE'S Comptroller of Income Tax, Mr. D. H. Tudor, has resigned from Government to become Secretary Accountant of the Colony's Telephone Board, the Standard was told yesterday. A Government spokesman declared that Mr. Tudor's resignation has been accepted. The spokesman added that
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  • 107 2 BUKIT MEKTAJAM. Mon. •—The New Year ushers m fresh hope for padi planters m the northern district of Provincp Wellesley, where the ::.8 00,000 Muda River Irrig?.tion Scheme will come into operation m early July. There are .17.620 acres of padi fields m the Sungei
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  • 299 2 PUT COUNTRY BEFORE SELF, says LIM SELFLESSNESS, unity and hope for Merdeka m 1957 are the chief characteristics of the New Year greetings to the people from the Ministers of Singapore. The Chief Minister., Mr. Llm Yew Hock, after sounding a warning that there will be significant changes In the
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  • New Year Messages
    • 78 2 PENANG. Mon. —Fourteen cases of brandy, and ten cases of Chinese liquor, valued at $2,829, were stolen from a shop m Beach Street yesterday. A report was lodged to the Police by the owner Mr. Ng Moy Kirn. The lock of the front door was
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    • 516 2 Mac G: No Time For Wrangling On Reid KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, warned Malayans m a jNew Year message tonignt that -if the target date for independence is to be achieved, there will be no time for "obstinate wrangling" over constitutional issues arising from the
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    • 110 2 SEREMBAN, Mon. Vigilance of two policemen last night resulted m the arrest of three terrorist suspects, belirved to be members ot the Luku, area gang which staged a gun battle on Dec 22 at Lukut Village, 15 miles from here. The policemen's attention was drawn to
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    • 128 2 Trade Fair Contest Nears End PENANG. Mon.—Excitement is running high at the New World Park here as the battle for votes for a Trade Fair Queen draws to a climax. After leading for the last three days, curvaceous Miss Chan Yee Wah was nosed out by petite schoolgirl Miss Esther
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    • 121 2 Merdeka A New Vital Task THE Mentri Besar of Pahang, Tunku Mohamed. said: "The New Year of 1957 would bring with it the most significant political event m the history of our country the achievement of complete self-government and independence. "The attainment of Merdeka is the beginning of a new
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    • 165 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Over 800 firemen m the Federation, who are m Division IV, said today they were "still unhappy over the decision to give them one year's back-pay m February." "The negotiations for an increase m salary scales of Division IV officers re m
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    • 170 2 Spend 1957 In 'Op. Service'Leong Yew Koh KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Federation's Minister] for Health and Social Welfare, Mr. Leons Yew KohJ told Government officers m a New Year message today! to direct their activities t4 in the spirit of Operation Service." F "As we go forward to independence m 1957,
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    • 94 2 M.I.C. Shock For its President KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Malayan Indian Congresi President, Mr. V. T. Samoanthan had a New Year's Eve shock this morning when soma of his mo.>t "faithful" supporters, the Kuala Lumpur M.I.C. branch members, voted to limit his po\vers m the Congress. They also said Mr.
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    • 56 2 Witness' Story A Remarkable Coincidence Magistrate MALACCA, Mon. —It was a "remarkable coincidence" that a taxi bearing two Malays, now charged with murder, and the victim's car should have allegedly met at Klebang Road here— after starting off at different parts of town and without any prearrangement, commented Mag i
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    • 54 2 PENANG, Mon.— Mr. Johnson Lam. a member of the Chinese Advisory Board, today handed a cheque for $1,000 to the Penang Chinese Girls' High School Building Fund to celebrate the wedding of his son, Hamburg, to Miss Choong Chai Chooi. third daughter of Mr. and
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    • 264 2 TWO APPEAR ON MURDER CHARGE The victim was Assistant Agricultural Officer. lnche Mohamed Yunus bin Mohamed Din, who was murdered at Pulau Gadong Road on Nov. 7. Two men, Mat Din Mastikan and Shaikh Yusof Abdul Ramin, were m the dock jointly charged with the murder. The Magistrate made the
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    • 85 2 PENANG, Mon The mobile cinema units of the Department of Information here will entertain the public with shows at the Esplanade and Dato Ramat Gardens during the six-day Municipal Centenary celebrations. Films to be shown will Include Malayan Film Unit productions and two features. Among
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    • 250 2 IPOH. Mon.— The chief clerk of a local legal firm, Chan Fool Kuan. 43. was today sentenced by the President of the Sessions Court, Mr. E. V. A. Peers, to three years' imprisonment on each ol the two charges of cheatin- the sentences
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    • 52 2 A. A.M. SILVER JUBILEE DINNER PENANG. Mon —Lord Teynham, chairman of the Automobile Association of Great Britain, together with Lady Tcnyham and Mr. E. C. Ormonde will be guests of the Automobile Association of Malaya at the Silver Jubilee dinner to he held at the E. and O. Hotel on
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  • Page 2 Advertisements

  • 315 3 Varsity Row: Council Endorses Censure On Sir Sydney THE censure by the powerful Guild of Graduates of the Convocation Address of the former Vice-Chancellor, Sir Sydney Came, which tarred the 48-day University of Malaya row yesterday received an official endorsement from the University Council In a special circular to members
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  • 75 3 Re-Scrutiny Oemand By Seremban Candidate Mon. Inrhr n All Khan, randida:Ward In retan Town Council day filed a p his counsel, Mr. Jr. with the Chiel Justice for scrutiny of baland other docung to the election o Dec. 1. winner. Mr. n Chong dejea*(d Suleiman by eight hoong polled 5!!9
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  • 52 3 LUMPUR. Mon. n and a girl who took pers from the Rubarch Instl -rite i Bul< h to feed their "c today fined $!2o i irate, Inche Ibrahim Salleh. were Thong Ch \v Chor nd L4old cirl. Choo Kwai. \*ho iod guilty to .^tcal ng the Estate
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  • 83 3 Prepare For Nationhood, Says Senu THE secretary senoral of the United Malays National "ization. Inche Srnui Rahman, urg*d fellowns to "prepare our- to the task of naood m the new year. 'L( iow to the world that as an independent naiion, we can build our country and about peace and
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  • 63 3 SINGAPORE Police found a taxi-driver. Ang Lian Tens, lying unconscious m his cab m a backlane off Upper Scran<zoon Road. jiLst alter midnight on Sunday. Ang told Police that a soldier had boarded his taxi m Upper Serangoon Road and directed him into a dark lane/ Suddenly, the
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  • 85 3 Thugs Stab Singapore Labourer SECRET Society attacked a labourer, Quck Cheng, 18 at Lorong 1, GeySingapore yesterday. While three gangsters held Quck. the fourth stabbed him. Quck was on hi.; way home when the gangsters poun< Quck managed to free himand run away. He was treated for wounds at the
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  • 343 3 Windfall For Hospitals In Pain-Killing Drugs SINGAPORE Customs 5nml 1,125 1b. of raw and prepared opium dur:n; r JOjh which, on the illegal market at a rough estimate 100 per lb., could have been sold at SI, 650,000, an official told the Standard j
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  • 92 3 DR. N\ C. Sen-Gupta, Se- r Chest Physician of the Singapore Antl-Turerci.losis Mation, has been invited ■fak m a symposium at Mth International Tubf rculoais Contcrence to be hold m Delhi from Jan. 6 to Jan. 12. will talk on the "Role of voluntary Tuberculosis Associations
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  • 151 3 SINGAPORE Assemblyman for Kampong Kapor, Mr. Scan Peng Chuan, will ask the Minister for Labour and Welfare, Mr. Lim Yew Hock at a session of the Assembly on Jan. 9 to make a statement on the existing unemployment situation m the Colony. Mr. Seah also
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  • 203 3 Contingent Will Show National Dresses THE last official meeting to discuss final arrangements for the sending of 20 Singapore Girl Guides and Guiders to the World Centenary Camp m Manila this month, will be held at the Girl Guide Hut, Buyong Road, on
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  • 42 3 THE acting Mentri Besar of Selan^or, Tunku Mohamed, presents a medal for valour to Home Guard Mohamed bin Andak at Kaung on Dec. 28. Home Guard Mohatned was decorated for killing a Communist terrorist recently.— D. of I. pic.
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  • 209 3 RELIGIOUS services to mark the end of the old year, and to pray lor peace and prosperity during: 1957, were held m churches all over Singapore last night St. Andrew's Cathedral held its traditional Watchast night. There will be a 7 o'clock
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  • 30 3 QANTAS'BOAC will fly 350 Singapore Rift parcels to Hunin refugees next week. The parcels were donated by the public at the St. Andrew** Cathedral, beside the Christmas tree.
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  • 109 3 VENERABLE Induruwe Pannalissa. Director of the Buddhist Academy of Ceylon offers finance and teachers if Singapore Buddhists would set up a higher education institution for their children. Yen Pannalissa, who is on a round-the-world trip on r. UNESCO and British Council grant, said m
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  • 22 3 THE Gold Seeker's still m port, but the yacht's stowaways, Ralph Bates and his wife, Frances sailed for Australia yesterday.
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  • 54 3 SINGAPORE Police are seeking eye-witnesses to an accident which occurred at about 9.30 p.m. on Sunday night, near An.son Circus. when a 17-ycar-oid Indian boy w«s knocked down by a hit-and-run car. Witnesses r.re masked to get m touch with Inspector Eugene Won~ of the Sepoy Lines
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  • 233 3 They Plan An 'Ideal' Centre For Queenstown THE Community Centre for Singapore's newest residential area, Queenstown Settlement, it is hoped, will get under way some time after Chinese New Year (Jan. 31), Dr. Chee Phui Hung, chairman of the Centre's ad interim committee, told the Standard yesterday. At a recent
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  • 60 3 AIR India International has resumed flights to Beirut and Damascus on its Bombay/United Kingdom services Singapore Air India Manager. Mr. K. K. Menon. told the Standard yesterday. Services to Cairo, Beirut and Damascus were stopped by Air India when the Suez crisis blew up. Cairo is
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 440 3 NEW YEAR RESOLUTION: 1957. s|P* THE YEAR TO WEAR jjl^\/ DON SHIRTS #^1@ of shirts available at all leading '*)&jOPOr) stores. all flies 101— 121 13—171 Hawaiian knitted Single cuffs, double cuffs, short sleeves checked and a large variety of fancy Hawaiian. Sole Agents:— Globe Silk Store SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR
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  • 251 4 Fed. Names Its Public Commissions Tunku Yaacob To Head Two Bodies KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Tunku Yaacob, brother of the Sultan of Kedah and member of the Federation's first "cabinet/ was today named chairman of the Independent Public Service and Police Commissions appointed under the terms of the Merdeka Agreement. Tunku
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  • 172 4 LAST week saw a spate of weddings as couples hurried to tie the marital knot before 1956 runs out. ABOVE: In Klang. Mr, Ang Thiarn Kirn and Miss Ong Ah Hun were married at the Registry of Marriages. The bride is the third daughter of timber magnate Mr.
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  • 255 4 MULTI-STORY FLATS FOR CAPITAL KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Piling for the Federation's first-ever multistorey flats on Singapore's Upper Pickering Street pattern will start in January, the Housing Trust announced today. The fiats, to be built under a special Federal vote for lowcost housing, will perhaps be the first to be built
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  • 52 4 ADDICT HAD 4 LBS. DOPE KUALA LUMPUR. Mon An opium addict who had tour pounds of liquid opium was today fined $1,500 or six months' Imprisonment by Sessions Court President. Mr. P C Byrne. Yip Nam. 52. pleaded guilty to possession of the opium at his Pasar Road house on
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  • 90 4 SUNGEI PATAXI. Mon. Tang Lin On, 34-year-old chief clerk of the Badenock Estate, Kuala Ketil was yesterday goalcd for a year for fraud involving $1,700. The Sessions Judgr, Wan Sulaiman bin Pawan Teh found him guilty on three counts of falsification of the Estate's
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  • 67 4 BANTING, Mon.— For the first time, an MIC. leader was elected president of a District Alliance Committee Mr. V. T. Sambanthan. president of the Malayan Indian Congress and Minister for Labour, congratulating Mr. Daniel Jayaratnam, elected president of the committee, said: "It augurs well for
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  • 59 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— ;.n attempt to bribe a policeman cost unemployed Fong Sum a $100 fine m the Sessions Court today. Fong Sum, 55. pleaded guilty before Sessions Court President. Mr. P. C. Byrne, to a charge of offering $3 to policeman, Omar bin Daud,
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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    • 358 4 6 J^b&ift Wishing All Our i7)j£ty PATRONS FRIENDS P A HAPPY NEW YEAR A L from CATHAY ORGANISATION THEATRES J FILMALAYA- Ja lssu 9 e 57 -ON SALE TODAY iICATHAYI TODAY! P| ease Note Times Jll M, 1.30.4- Mi m 930 am 8 k 2nd MOST JOYOUS WEEK! MG M
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 146 4 Standard eJ&lvnanac Information at a Glance TIME TIDE TODAY: Singapore 10.29 a.m. (9 4 ft) Port Dckson 6.46 a m (8.7 ft) 700 p.m. (8.1 ft). Penang 028 a.m. (7 8 ft) 106 p.m (6.4 ft. TOMMOKROW: Singapore 0.11 am. (8.3 ft) 1106 pm (9 6 ft). Port Dickson 720
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    • 217 4 SAPPHIRE: Sunrise 2.30 645 and 930 p.m PLAZA: Soldier of Fortune 2 30. 5 and 930 p.m. Golden Hawk 11 a m. KF Keadilan Ilahi 2.30. 6.45 and 930 p.m. KUALA LUMPUR CAPITOL- Duel on the Mountain 1. 3 15. 630 and 9.15 p.m Count 3 and Pray 930 and
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    • 220 4 TAMPING LIDO: Alexander the Great 10 30 a.m. 12.45. 3 15. 6.30 and y 15 p m. CARL TON: Tradition 1030 am. China Variety Show 12 30. 3. 6.45 and 9.15 p.m. MAJESTIC: Cry Vengeance 10.30 am The Magnificent Matador 12 45. 3. 630 and 9.15 pm. PENANG RI A:
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  • 1051 5 81 MEN WOMEN RECEIVE AWARDS I I i i FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE THEY COME. HERE is the full list of Malay°ns from Singapore (22) and the: federation (69) who wCre honoured by the Queen m her New Year's list. FEDERATION \W. (Hon).
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  • 134 5 BACK IN THE SADDLE WITH A C.P.M... WITHIN minutes of j his return lo the saddle i yesterday as Singa pore's < Homicide Chief, the award of the Colonial < PolU'r Medal for Meri- torious Service for acting A.S.P. Rafna Singham was announced. A.S.P. Katna Sinßham was on transfer for
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  • 457 5 From Page 1 I Br Laureate (RoSir Robert Sinmokinf chaJ man of Br. ite'a Imperi il .npany which of the ciL d by Briton.s. a ard the OEE ";cer of the British Em- ?oes m the current to Dr. Richard) D who shockf d m
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  • 201 5 FARELF C-in-C Made A G.C.B. LONDON. Dec. 31 (Renter) —General Sir Charles Falkland Loewen, Commanrier-in-Chief Far East Land Forces, has been made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (G.C.8.) m Queen Elizabeth's New Year Honours List published here today. Lieutenant-General WiHiam Stratton. Commander, British Forces Hongkong
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  • 88 5 TOP award m the New Year Honours list for Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo goes to Chief Justice Ernest H. Williams, who is created a Knight Bachelor. The Post Master General Mr. H. E. Cornish, is given an 0.8. E. and the
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 295 5 Tonws quotation ?RT?wf ffi ill 1 1 W%Vk{ X "I W i»li ><»ii all IIM y I th it .miii ran Wiftß MB I x -s\ -Wl Iwk WW Shakespeare Mercbaat of II ir I:! Bfl \eni< .y >: m.M)\Y iiir i:\iiiv- (JVVVHBRfIKj "M I :.ri a harmonious ap- t^&KRi
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  • 960 6 Singapore Standard The New Year 'TO THE advocates of merdeka 1957 will be a year of great hopes. But merdeka poses a host of problems that have not yet come up to the surface. The Chief Minister of Singapore alternated between diffident optimism and veiled pessimism when he made statements
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  • 1079 6 HUNGARY How and Why By J. E. M. Arden who is now a university lecturer m European History. Journalistic and teaching assignments have taken him to several East European countries and enabled him to study at first hand the trends of political thought among the workers and intelligentsia. TVEARLY fifty
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  • 611 6  - The NEWS as it strikes me Aster Gunasekera By JERE we are again m good time to wish you a happy, prosperous and scintillating new year. The column and I were on annual leave. If wo believe m tradition the first day m the new year is one for making
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  • We. the PEOPLE
    • 204 6 Sir; In your Dec. 28th issue readers are advised that minority communities will seek from Her Majesty the Queen assurances guaranteeing their future political and economic interests. The seekers include Straitsborn Chinese, Eurasians and British Europeans. But are these communities m the minority? In my opinion they are
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    • 293 6 Breeze in Ceylon's Parliament Sir: A detailed report of a recent Tnccting of Ceylon's House of Representatives is evidence of how debates ought not to be conducted and, what is most significant, how far that once peaceful and happy island has been set back since it obtained independence. Here is
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  • 168 6 Shorts from the talks POEM must communi- cate experience true experience, whether it is ct love or Monday, birth or buttons. A poem must re yours truly. It must nr be what you think you ought to think or what you feel you ought to feel." Patrie Dickinson, a rt>pt
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 29 6 Wishing our 600 retailers and over 50,000 readers of the Readers Digest m Singapore, Malaya and Borneo A Happy A Prosperous \env Year* C. R. DASARATHA RAJ LTD SINGAPORE
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    • 83 6 We wish v! all our friends a <bj S^ v; Happy and Prosperous i a i Afea? Fear m I m ii !!j; A year of good living hi i can be assured by m 1 1 shopping personally 1 111 < 1 1 I at i |||i CQLZ) STORAGE
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  • 235 7 I WORK GOES ON AT TOP SPEED CAIRO. Dec. 31 (Reuter) Lieutenant General nd Wheeler, m charge of United Nations Suez irancc operations, announced yesterday that the Canal would be cleared for ships up to 10,000 tons iv "March. M,r it was estimated
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  • 55 7 He Threw A Stone At Mona Lisa On Impulse Dec. 32. (RcuPolicr rdny d a Ihe Art Gallery here he had thrown c JCrioconda, da I ■t of Mono. >an. SccfOf Arts id the I glass of I chopped of I left •v 1 eastd the will place m a
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  • 47 7 "Detective" rockets carrying scientific instruments to probe 100 miles up m the h's atmosphere arc to be I from the Australian Woomera rocket range next .summer: Sir Owen Wans-brough-Jonrs. chief scientist to the Ministry of Supple <=am :n London last -night.- Reuter
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  • 172 7 JOHANNESBURG. Dec. 31 (AP)— The news editor annesburq native Weekly newspaper Golden Post Henry Nxumalo, 37, South Africa's best pean journalist, was stabbed to death Western native township of Johannesburg on rdav night. His body was found early yesterday 1 1 by
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  • 59 7 31 (AP) r that claims it circulation in will start using advertising next try to sell more paimprd a bit." said lan for the News ol "from 8* million to n." on Jan 5. the Wi rid will launch "the biggest
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  • 181 7 Jp Xls < I)( 31 (Reuter) I r" c are marching for hfin. k of P«etry m the }hat it will help me murder of a < u nuple m a Paris hid kdler fired four bullets into the they sat
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  • 530 7 THE WORLD LOOKS TO 1957 WITH HOPE, CONFIDENCE But somewhere heads will be bowed m prayer to remember the tragedies of 7956.... LONDON, Dec. 31 (Reuter) From Paris to Moscow, the *orld is looking back en 1956 and prepar- q to welcome m t j, e New Year, with drinking
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  • 322 7 IN BUDAPEST: The Call Goes Out For A'Black' New Year BUDAPEST, Dec. 31 (UP) Unsigned leaflets called on all Hungary to mark a black New Year's Eve m mourning for the dead of the Hungarian revolt and m defiance of the government. By typewritten messages and word of mouth, the
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  • 214 7 KHRUSHCHEV WARNS THE WEST: ANY BID TO START A WAR WILL BE REBUFFED PRAGUE, Dec. 31 (Reuter)— The Soviet Communist Tarty chief. Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, said m an interview published here today the "forces of peace" were now powerful enough to bridle "those adventurers" who would involve the world m
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  • 416 7 Moorhouse Was Buried By Candlelight Under A Staircase- KIDNAPPER'S STORY CAIRO, Dec. 31 (Reuter) The mass-circulation newspaper AI Ahram, quoting "Moorhouse's Kidnapper," said the 21 -year-old British officer died m a green iron box and was buried by candlelight under a staircase m Port Said's Arab town at dead of
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  • 142 7 TROOPS GUARD ALGIERS ALGIERS. Dec. 31 (Reutrr) French troops mountrd guard at every key point m the city of Algiers today alter yesterday's rioting m which .>ix Moslems died and about 100 were injured. The fighting flared up when Europeans clashed with Moslems at ihe funeral of Mamerie r Froger.
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  • 86 7 THAT TICKLE ...first it's her nose... 'THE bride and bridegroom were bright and gay. But this Qttle bridesmaid is bothered by a tickle! It happened at the wedding: m Knightsbridge of Capt. Owen Varney, Scots Guards, and Lady Mary Lindesay-Bethune. daughtei of the Earl and Countess of Lindesay. Frrst it
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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    • 639 8 EAST ASIATIC LINES OUTWARDS Sailings for Bangkok and/or Fat East Penang P S'teir j. "KINA- j "MALAYA- 15/17 Jan 18/21 Jon 22/23" T" KOREA 12/24Z -JUTLANDIA" 23/24 Jon 25/25 Jon 26/28 >< HOMEWARDS Sailings tor Genoa. Antwerp, Rotterdom Hamburg, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Oslo. S'por. P. S'hom p eneno "BOGOTA" 8/10 Jan
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  • 359 9 But Chamber Chief Warns Of Problems KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Mr.C. Thornfor1/ president of p.M-S. Chamber of Commerce, said todoy that 1956 had been a good trading yeor. a nee of the ber price had mate:ed the eco nomy of Malaya during the year
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  • 94 9 L'5 Rubber Co. anN€W York ■erda'j it has begun of the first air to be used on an automobile. j Yc I* Cadillac's 1957 Eldo 1 "?do Brougham, spring i s a rubber der in which to cushion G. Raymond 'c rice presi- Rubber, said
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  • 46 9 ryes of Broken Hill Ltd., Australia's big id producer, totalled tons at June 30, the m, Mr. G. Lindesay Id shareholders reThis figure was 50.000 I than the previous >ut reflected a satisra*e of ore developn view of the 348.000 ined.
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  • 136 9 RUBBER DOWN 1/8 CENT NOON PRICES THE Singapore rubber market closed the year on a quiet note with prices about oneeighth of a cent below Frlc-^/, first grade rubber for January shipment 'being quoted $1,111 per lb. Prices opened slightly higher and business passed at above the $1.12 level m
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  • 79 9 WASHINGTON. Mon.—American exports of merchandize totalled US$ 1 ,505.000 in November, the Commerce Department reported. This preliminary estimate, the department said, is nine per cent under the October total of merchandise exports but about \i per cent higher than that of November. 1955. Military exports, which
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  • 38 9 A NEW Invention for auto•roce.ss control, known JJ 'Vatson Modulator. Is begs marketed by Combustion ■nent Ltd.. Britain. j/J will control pressure. rature, flow, level and :tion liquids wherever can be indcated on a "Pc Indicator.
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  • 606 9 Firm Economy For Many Areas Is Forecast LONDON: By S\DNEY GAMPELL I AVOI R:\BLE economic auguries for 1957 include the jjreat strength of business m the I'nited States, Germany, Canada and Japan— the important measures recently taken to strengthen sterling and the British economy and some quite promising: busiprospects m
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  • 40 9 A BRITISH concrete hardener is to be manufactured m America and a small factory, the first m a chain of plants covering the United States, Canada and Mexico is now being made ready. The manufacturers are Watco Ltd.
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  • 45 9 WITH the growing demand for cheap individual transport, this all-British Dayton "Albatross" scooter i s proving popular m all parts of the world. Its powerful -~5 c.c. engine and fourspeed gearbox gives it a performance comparable to the same si:ed motor cycle.
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  • 80 9 CHAIRMAN of the National Coal Board. Mr. James Bowman, forecast yesterday that Britain would have the most progressive coal mining industries m the world when the great reconstruction schemes were completed. In a foreword to a brochure published to mark the first 10 years of nationalization of
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  • 58 9 EXPERIMENTS with "rubber roads" m the U.S. are continuing, according to the American Public Works Association. A stretch of highway 19£ miles long near Ames, lowa, is the latest to be surfaced with a combination of asphalt and a rubberized compound. Researchers hope this surface will prove to
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  • 39 9 A NEW liquid level switch of advanced design has been developed by Teddington Industrial Equipment Ltd. for the control and indication of liquid level m tanks, boilers, sterilizers, and all types of industrial vessels. I
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  • 15 9 THE International Sugar Council will meet m London on Jan. 29, 1957.
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  • 276 9 CEYLON, faces a mounting crisis In its vital tea industry but planters m Colombo said competition with Japan Is the least of their worries. Planters and government officials, gloomy over falling prices, surpluses, strikes and shipping problems, said with confidence that Ceylon tea will be
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  • 138 9 Tokyo Bank To Open Jan. 79 THE first Japanese bank to come back to postwar Malaya, the Bank of Tokyo, will open its Singapore branch on Jan. VJ. It will be declared open at a rocktail reception to be held m the bank premises at 9/10 Phillip Street, on that
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  • 180 9 Body To Promote Sale Of Books TO promote the sale of books m Singapore, and to maintain the status of the trade, booksellers have formed an association of their own. Mr. Robert Foster, secretary of the newly formed Singapore Booksellers' Association, said the body would serve as a clearing house
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  • 125 9 THE Malayan share market was rather steady m all sections despite restricted trading at the close of Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday reported the following price changes: Buyers Sellers W, Hammer 1.35 1.50 M. Breweries.. 287 292 M. Colls 1.03 108 McAlistcr 283 2.88 Metal Box
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  • 58 9 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: Copra. Dec. $27$ buyers, $284 sellers; coconut oil m bulk $42J sellers, m drums $46£ sellers; Muntok white pepper $126 sellers; Sarawak white $125 sellers. Special Sarawak black $86 sellers Singapore Copra Association closing prices yesterday: Straits
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  • 24 9 THE first British semiautomatic machine to seal cylindrical containers with self-adhesive tape and tear strips has been designed by Adhesives Tapes Ltd.
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  • 136 9 I inunvi* And i mn tnvn SINGAPORE egg importers have contracted for $5 million worth of eggs from China, a spokesman of the Singapore Egg Merchants' Association said yesterday, r The agreement was made m November and the first shipment has already arrived
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  • 88 9 'COPTER CLEARS TIMBER A HELICOPTER moved about three tons of timber from a forest site inaccessible to vehicles during a recent Forestry Commission experiment at "Appin, in Scotland, to test the possibilities of helicopters in forestry work. 7'he helicopter picked up 500 lb. of timber at a time, flew it
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  • 50 9 AN Australian syndicate which has been granted all the oil rights m Portuguese Timor has returned to Australia with oil samples believed to be commercially valuable. The syndicate will extend its exploration of the territory to determine whether the oil traps are sufficient for production drilling.
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    • 60 9 nal) COPRA HOLIDAY. CUTLER. BATH CO., LTD. Nominal JANUARY 11 a m $29 Noon $29 4 pm $29 5 p m. $29 FEBRUARY 11 am $29 Noon $29,; 4 pm $29 5 pm. $29; H.C.B. Ltd. closing price for coconut oil; bulk $42J sellers. drums $461 sellers. Singapore Coconut Oil
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    • 774 9 NOTICES P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE 'TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Superintending Engineer, Klang Gates Water Supply Scheme, Parry Road. Kuala Lumpur, up to 12 noon on 14th January. 1957 from P.W.D. Registered Contractors Class "E" and above for laying 15" dia. Water Main from Klang Road to
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  • 398 10  -  M. A. Glasgow LONDON \TOST of us are only too J well aware that the modern world is a very noisy place. While it is certainly true that rome machines, inducting the motor car. are considerably quieter than they were twenty or thirty years ago, there are
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  • 620 10  - SKYSCRAPER SCHOOL FRANK ENTWISLE by Tower of glass and concrete is shape of schools to come JN a slender, glittering tower that soars y* 1 00 feet above the grey rooftops of sooty V South London, 81 teachers and 2,000 boys are taking a new path to education. fr* 00
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  • 1636 10  - Greatest Male Ballet Dancer DUNCAN MARSH By SPECIAL FEATURE True Life Istory No. 2jl (A Potential Genius As A Boy (Year Of Triumph\ And Tragedy Romola Nursed Her Husband TT was a brilliant day m x 1905. A 13-year-old boy sat m a carriage, trundling through the streets of St.
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    • 144 10 SAKIM VERY GLAD HHM TO SEE 1 mlMSs!fiJfflß& LOVELY LADIES AND Bf9l KLND GENTLEMEN "\W^^^%Jl I LAUGH AND BE HAPPY I |«/4W SO SAKINI AND THE I Jill REST ALL STAY FIRS -M IMk M WEEK! FAMED PLAY HILARIOUS ON THE SCREEN MARLON BRANDO TOE J^ 0^ S2"""L fiP*l6USrMoofl HHiCHWO
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    • 239 10 Standard's CRDSSWDRC PUZZLE 31. At no time show 26 CLUES across? (5) ACROSS 32 One s la?t song (4) 1. Cold greeting? (4) DOWJV 3 Father makes use of a 1- Lady composed mainly oi */(-v 3 UlUg (I) slop iD) 2. One legislator and the 6. Having travelled so
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  • 318 11  - SHOCKS WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT TONY HORSTEAD By LONDON. Mon.— What happens when the lights go Vsk Coventry! IB for a Die post and it won't be jj nai rnrds. mery fans were told WRITE ior their b! after m power c rd Covent f" leainst Crystal r had
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  • 20 11 Indian Tour Of Australia A npic G N Sydney, lia next ffi ials, tis m Sydi D Aiastrian Hungarkcen to
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    73 11 J Back home from Aus- 5 J tralia is 17 year old 5 j Olympir gold medallist 5 Judy Grinham. Judy, a 2 London schoolgirl, earn- 2 ed the distinction of winning Britain's first 5 gold medal Tor swimming 2 J for 32 years. And here, J
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  • 137 11 NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 31 (AP) Dave Sime, Duke's flying redhead, returned to track, competition yesterday after a four-month absence and equalled the world mark m the 100-metre dash with a time of 10.2 seconds. Sime the big attraction m the Sugar Bowl track meet, broke easily
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  • 35 11 HAMBURG. Dec. 30 (Reuter) Ron Delancy. Irish winner of the Olympic 1,500 metres gold medal m Melbourne, was named as Sportsman of the Year by the mass circulation newspaper, Bild Am Soontag today.
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  • 56 11 DORTMUND. Germany, Dec. 30.— (UP) Heavyweight Nino Valdes of Cuba floored Hansp Friedrich of Germany seven times tonight and scored a knockout m the sixth ro«nd before 10.000 m Westfalen Hall Valdes. weighing 209 pound* to Friedrirhs 198-2/3. dropped the promising 24-year-old German three times m the fifth
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  • 108 11 BUDAPEST, Dec. 31. (Rcutcr>.—The Hungarian Football Association have refused permission for the crack club team. Honved, now touring Western Europe, to visit America m the New Year. The team has been ordered to return to Hungary for 'rest and training." But soccer fans here doubt
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  • 321 11 McGLEW S PROMISE: I'LL PLAY IN THE NEXT TEST JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 30 (Reuter) After England had beaten South Africa m the first of the current series of test cricket matches today, Jackie McGlcw, South Africa's captain, said "you can take it from me I am definitely playing m the second
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  • 1102 11 THEY TURN THE CLOCK BACK TO CHOOSE THEIR SPORTSMAN OF 1956 LONDON, Dec. 31 (AP)— European sportsmen turned back the clock to winter Olympics m search of their sportsman of the year and came up with nomination of Austrian Toni Sailer, triple gold medal winner The 2q-y ear-old plumber from
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    • 617 11 CLASSIFIED ADS THE BRITISH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION. T^HE Chairman and Council x wish all members a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Aided by your continued cooperation we look forward with assurance to the Association's steady progress m 1957. THE BRITISH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION. r PHE Chairman and Council wish all eligible prospective
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    • 228 11 Li 1 flbner B y Al Capp (AM H-HAIN'T? 7 -BUT AH SHOKE IS SI I OH, NO TMASS A T NOTCH- IHo BOV V (~^H GOT A AH IS IS MARRIED.*/- 7( MOKAV- J I BATH.T-MAINI'T I ERL.V > G'GGLf" A SENSAVS>htUNAL MO AN' MRS. X MERELY V >^-,
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  • 332 12 Jesse Owens' Award Hits A Snag MALAYAN COLONY A.A.A. WANT DETAILS i The Amateur Athletic Association of Malaya is unable to award the "JESSE OWENS" trophy until it receives more explicit instructions from the donor, Mr. E. M. McDonald, president of the AAAM told the Standard yesterday. Owens, American track
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  • 293 12  - Poor Response To PHA League BILL PATERSON By PENANG, Mon.— The Penang Hockey Association has been thwarted m its efforts to cet a worthwhile league running this season by a numbet of clubs not entering. This was indicated by the hon. secretaiy. Mr. Amra Singh today when he said that
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  • 84 12 Hunters' Medan Tour Off THE Hunters Football Club of Mysore, now touring Malaya, have cancelled their trip to Medan and Sumatra. Hunters received a cable from Medan yesterday informing them that due to the disturbance m Indonesia all arrangements have been cancelled. The Hunters will, now Dlay six extra games
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  • 30 12 IPOH. Mon— Perak All Blues Will meet Kedsh All Blues at Ipoh on Friday to decide the Northern Zone finalist m the All Blues rugger competition.
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  • 117 12 PIA 3rd Annual Badminton PEXAXG. Monday Seven challenge cups will he awarded for competition during the third Indo-Ceyionese badminton championships, sponsored by the Penans Indian Association, to be held here during January. The competition is open to all Indians. Cevloncse and Pakistanis of Penans. Pro-vinr-c Wellesley and Kedah. Entry fee
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  • 116 12 KUALA LI'MPUR, Mon.: ramuan Physical Cultural Association retained the Thava.vosalingam Shield for rockey when they had a scoreless draw with Negri Ccylonesc at the Victoria Institution ground here yesterday. Earlier m the day Negri Ceylonesc beat TPCA m Badminton by four games to three Results Negri mentioned
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  • 73 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. X Gurucharan Singh qualified for the singlet final of the All Malayan-Sikhs badminton chamnionships when he beat D. Avtnr Singh m straight Beta by 15-4, 15 10 at t the Srlan^or Badminton iation Hm'l here today. Then m partnership with D. Aviar Singh.
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  • 247 12 whPn fhiv^ ai ATA SL If M n l Hunte rs Football Club of Mysore failed to impress thb evening a lot trouble to hold Kedah to a 2-2 draw here Kedah led hv 2-1 m the first nalr Their goalkeeper. Peng Cheang was 'he hero of
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  • 180 12 SDFGDSFGFD A NEW SCHOOL for athletic starters will be open soon m the Colony, Mr. A. T. Rajah, Singapore's Chef de Mission to the World Olympiad and president of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association announced yesterday. interview with SPORTSCOPE the SAAA chief said that
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  • 71 12 marks. This will generally taKo trom about eight to thirteen seconds. "If the interval taken for all -"etitors to become motionless after the command set exceeds about 21 seconds or where individual athletes, sre unsteady for too long it is usually better to say "stand up" and begin
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  • 212 12 ONE of the Colony sports which is rapidly becoming popular among the youngsters is gymnastics. And this is due to the encouragement given by the Singapore Youth Sports Centre which has offered the youth of Singapore its facilities. Recently on their visit here, the Hungarian and
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  • 287 12  -  ALEX SOARS By KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Selangor Sikhs completed the formalities of qualifying for the final of the Gurdwara Cup when they beat Kedah counterparts 1-0 m the All Malayan Sikhs Hockey competition on tm? Lever Brothers ground here this morning. The State thus completed the
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  • 66 12 SAMAD Knnaxri 15 (centre), a student of the High Street School, Kuala Lumpur, who won the Malayan Rough Rider Bicycle Race (School Boys: section 10 Miles) held at the Lake Garden, Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. The two runners-np are Latib 11. Wahab 18 (left) and Jaffar bin
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  • 196 12 BETTY'S BIG HOPES SYDNEY. Dec 31 Although 18-year-old Sydney sprinter Betty Cuthbcrt won three gold medals at the Melbourne Olympic Games, her coach claims that she is capable of improving her time Mrs. June Ferguson, who won a silver medal m the London Olympic Games of 1048 said m Sydney
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  • 119 12 Johore Youngsters Gallant KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Negri Sembilan Sikhs had to go all the way before they could down Johore Sikhs 2-0 m a group "A" match of the All Malayan Sikhs hockey tournament which continued on the Taylor Road ground here today. For 60 minutes the Johore juveniles mosi
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  • 37 12 SYDNEY. Dec. 31 (Reuter)— The 1!)57 motor rally round Australia will start from Melbourne instead of Sydney, and tour tiv? continent m a clockwhse instead of an anti-clock-wi.-o direction, this was announced m Sydney today.
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  • 50 12 LYONS. Dec. 31 (Reujer)— M Albert Meyer, 37-year-old trainer of the Gap Football Club, wu killed and four players seriously injured yesterday when a car m which they were driving to a match at Saint Etienne was m collision with a lorry ■at Rive Dc Gier, south of here
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  • 88 12 Giants Upset Bears NEW YORK. Dec. :]0 (UP)— The New York Giants repaid a 10-year-old debt with interest today by hammering out a 47-7 upset triumph over the Chicago Bears for their first national football league championship m 18 yea. Capitalizing on every conceivable type of break on the frozen
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  • 58 12 MANILA, Dec HO (UP> Tennis arcs' from the United States, Denmark and Australia will be invited to participate m the Philippine national open championships schduled to begin hero next February 7. it w'h renounced today. T)ic PhiMopinc Amateur -Athle i Tennis Committee Invitation followIn- a meeting to map
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  • 197 12 AUSSIE SWIM STARS SYDNEY. Dec 31. Ten leading Australian Olympic swimmers and their four Olympic professional coaches expect formal invitations for overseas tours within the next three months. The coaches— Frank Guthrie, Forbes Carlilc. Sam Herford and Harry Gallagher received verbal invitations at the Olympic Games m Melbourne m November
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  • 410 12  -  JASBIR SINGH By KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Perak Sikhs created the biggest upset m All Malayan Sikhs interstate hockey tournament when they beat the favourites, the Singapore Sikhs by three goals to nil at Bungsar Road today. Singapore, who won their first t.\o games
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  • 711 12 HOLLINGWORTH IS PERAK'S CRICKET GAIN By Our Cricket Reporter IPOH, Mon. King Willow will make a wrlcome return throughout the length and breadth of Malaya m a month's time. Perak can look back at the 1956 season with satisfaction. In five inter-state matches, Perak two, drew two and lost to
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  • 72 12 EDINBURGH. Dec. 30 (Reutcr) Scotland include two new capi m their team to meet Prance m the first rugby union international of the season m Paris on January 12. TEAM: A. R. Smith, E Keating. A.N. Other. JS s M. L. Grant. A. F. Dorward. H. F. McLeori
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