Singapore Standard, 21 January 1957

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  • 28 1 Singapore Standard asdf #r m i. STANDARD POLICE ***** (5 lintsT 2400 FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 2811 2414 rvfi. ><•• *> SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1957 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 336 1 let gain Trilby Hat IKI \LA LI MPLR Sun.-Chan Tai Chee, the Ma•nmunist Party's "runaway general" m South emerged today from a four-hour bombing hv Lincoln.? with his reputation still intact All suffered was the loss of his trilby hat. was with nine otier comrades m
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  • 172 1 \1 Ll MPLR, Sun.— ■A Hiabled Ti^er Moth Ho: thr Malayan Auxiliary H,lir Fpitc, crashed m a Inibbrt estate m Scrdang I here to-day, killing JH nh occupant Cadet ■Gilbert Manuel. H >lhs. n< ith the MA I -pur wins, the air- on a routine
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  • 350 1 'PULL OUT OF SUEZ HOT SPOTS' Dag Gets Five Days To Work Out Details UNITED NATIONS, New York, Jan. 20 (AP) The U.N. Assembly yesterday prodded Israel to pull out of Egypt anc gave Secretary General Dag Hammarsk jold five days to work out arrangements for the
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  • 515 1  -  MICHAEL TAN by Wedding Bliss Before Chinese New Year UNLUCKY to marry before the Chinese New Year? Thirty-two young lovers didn't think so and Singapore had its biggest mass wedding at the Hokkirn Hoay Kuan since 20 couples tied the marital knot at the Now World
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  • 151 1 LONDON, Jan. 20 (Reuter) Parliament reopens next Tuesday alier the Christmas holiday with Mr Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, and his new Conservative Government lacing the certainty ol a stormy session. The House of Commons rose m December alter three months ot uproar climaxed by the Anglo-French
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  • 66 1 BERLIN, Jan. 20 (AP) East Germany's Communist regime defied likely Western protests today and marched 12.000 armed men through the streets of East Berlin. The march was staged despite the contention of the West that all of Berlin East and West is occupiod territory, and
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  • 23 1 MR ABDUL RAHMAN Abu Talcb. Yemeni Minister m Cairo, yesterday denied that Yemen plans to abrogate her treaties with Britain. Reuter.
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  • 25 1 PRESIDENT Eisenhower was sworn m for his second term yesterday, taking the oath at a private ceremony m the White House. Renter.
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  • 45 1 MALACCA, Sunday. The parishioners of Christchurch appeared m court today. No summons or police action brought them there. They were there because Christchurch. the oldest Protestant church m South-east Asia, was undergoing extensive repairs. The courthouse served as a temporary church.
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  • 172 1 French Brace For Big Strike ALGIERS, .lan. 20 (AD— A community of more than half a million persons, was under virtual martial law yesterday as French military commanders braced for an insurrectional general strike called by "National Liberation" leaders. tong detachments of s. some of them
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  • 123 1 NICOSIA, Jan. 20 (AP) British troops have ambushed and killed the man generally believed to be second m Command to EOKA leader Col. Grivas. There was a £5.000 price on the head of Markos Erakos. who shot it out last night with British
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  • 46 1 GENERAL Sir Francis Festing, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, yesterday left Singapore by air on a three weeks' tour of Australia and New Zealand, at the invitation of the respective governments He is expected to return to the Colony on Feb. 10.
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  • 181 1 LONDON, Jan. 20 (Reuter) Three doctors attending a woman about to give birth m Sidmouth. Devon, heard a "clear remote cry like a baby crying m the next room, but close below our heads." One of the doctors reporting this m the Lancet
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  • 19 1 THE Suez Canal blockage Ls today blamed for the current shortage of 50-cent stamps m Hongkong. UP.
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  • 157 1 TITLE FOR ADVISER DATO SOMERVILLE JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— The Sultan of Johoje has conferred the title of Dato on Mr. D. A. Somerville. retiring British Adviser. This was announced la^t night at a reception m his honour at the Istana Besar when the Regent, the Tungku Mahkota. invested him with
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  • 113 1 NEW YORK, Jan. 20, (Keuter)— The Carnegie-Cor-poration m its annual report published today indicates that future allocations for its British Commonwealth programme will be cut by half. During the financial year ended Sept. 30. 1956. the report said. U.S. $1,224,965 was made availrble under the
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  • 130 1 Warders Cut Open Cell Doors BRISBANE. Jan 20 (Reuter) Warders broke down two ceil doors with a Tenton hydraulic jack today to end Brisbane ,i ail's two-day-oia prisoner^' stay-in strike. The stride began when a. rrran a ten--yesr manslaughter sentence barricaded his cell door Irom the inside. Warders
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  • 26 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Federation Government today confirmed the appotntment of Tunku Mohamed bin runku Be^ar Burhanuddln as Malaya's first Commissioner In Pakistan.
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  • 27 1 DAMAGE imated at £210 000 was rausevi by a fire which destroyed a -horolate factory In suburban Romford early yesterday, states a London report. Router.
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  • 290 2 'MUSICA VIVA PLAYERS IMPRESS Standard Music Critic THE 'Musica Viva" Players of Radio Malaya made their off-tho air debut with a splendid chamber music concert m the St. Andrew's Memorial Hall last night. A string quartet Susheela Dcvi and Slava T.iirofT (violins), Julai Tan (viola) and Louis Moyser (cello) ga.j
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  • 44 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun A Communist terrorist was killed m the Kulai area of .Tohore by a patrol of the 1/2 Gurkha Rifles yesterday A pistol, 2 packs and ammunition were recovered. Nearby a resting place for two Communist terrorists was found
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  • 154 2 EXODUS OF COLONY'S JEWISH FAMILIESTHERE IS NO FUTURE FOR US HERE' MORE and more members of Singapore's small Jewish community are leaving for Australia to settle down to a new life there. And this year, there will bf an increase m the number leaving. Many of them feel that there
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  • 384 2 New Bus Service Starts Runs Into A Strike THE Singapore Traction Company's new service along Merdeka Bridge and Nicoll Highway ran into a hitch yesterday but it didn't stop the buses from running. About 40 drivers and conductors, refusing to work 'on their re>t day* (Sunday), failed to report for
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  • 71 2 ACTING Sergeant Stanley Phillips, of the R.A.S.C. School (Far East), was sentenced on Saturday to a year's detention, when he was found guilty on three charges of making fraudulent statements, and another charge of forging a receipt, after a three-day trial before a Singapore District Court Martial.
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  • 62 2 AT the annual general meeting of the University of Malaya Students' Union, last night, the following were electd:\ office-bearers for the ensuing year: President. Mr. Frederick Samuel; vice-president, Mr. AR. Lazarus; general secretary. Mr. D. Wyaat; asst gen. sec. Mr. M.S Kumarapathy; Financial secretary, Mr M S.
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  • 25 2 THE Ritz Restaurant and Bar m Bernam Street. Singapore, yesterday celebrated its official opening with a cocktail party attended by well-wishers and friends.
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    70 2 WANT to be the "Most Beautiful Woman m the World?" Well, here's one way .you can TKY. Drop by the Capital and see the latest film of (lino Lollobrigida and. m the foyer, a Max Factor booth is installed specially to he!p you look your best. Any patron
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  • 218 2 Singapore Faces 4 Power Shortage In Next Two Years PLANS FOR $51 MIL. STATION HIT Sid THE Singopore City Council's plan for a new $51,000,000 station has hit a financial snag it will take two years to get Q from the World Bank. After the money has been obtained it
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  • 98 2 A PLAY based and k by the Fcrir ter and UMNO ku Abdul Rahman stagey at a va: be given by a won of the Singapore L month. The concert. wh elude Malay dance, a fashion parade ganized b y the we of°UMXO c
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  • 95 2 JOIIORE BAHRU, Sun. A train passenger from Singapore had three diamond brooches, a watch and two platinum rings hidden m his shirt sleeves, the Sessions Court was told today. Lim Ec Hin, the passenger. was fined $1,600 for evading duty. The court was V>M that
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  • 56 2 THE Singapore naroour Board Employees* Union yesterday refuted the press reports that the Union had submitted 10 demands to the Harbour Board for better pay and conditions. "It's not true." said an official statement from the Union which claimed that its 1,200 members have amalgamated
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  • 254 2 They Call Oft A Meeting On Govt. Salary Cuts LOCAL officers of the Singapore Government have postponed, till Feb. 10, negotiations with Government on the reduction of salaries of permanent secretaries. This is because the extraordinary general meeting, summoned by the Local Senior Officers* Association to discuss the matter, could
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  • 55 2 THE Singapore Civil Defence Association will hold a Chinese New Year's Eve Dance at its clubhouse m Kolam Ayer Lane on Jan 30. Admission will be $1 per head for Association members. $2 per head for non-members. Tickets are obtainable from any social sub-committee member or
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  • 149 2 THE nrst Malay Import and export firm, by the name of Temasek Trading Company, will make Us debut m the Colony soon to further local Malay business enterprises. At a meeting of the Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce on Friday, a proposal by Tuan
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    • 389 2 Far CHINESE NEW YEAR Make Him Happy tt Hit a MANHATTAN The gift hell enjoy .rreiving and wearing day after day. Iltra-smart MANHATTAN attractive soft-toned coloured shirts and MANHATTAN Sports for casual wear. And the holiday Big News: MANHATTAN hearth toned shirts. An exciting gift that'll be sure to brighten
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 529 2 c4lmawac INFORMATION AT A GLANCE S8 pm Wor'.i Affairs (S^ 815 nHftP riiflW The M^ s >c of Irving Berlin (P); FvrC AJl&ry 83d Angel Pavement (Si: 9r> m. The Memory Lingers On (XL»: Chinese V.MI Board of Directors 930 T:me Signal and NEWS (S); meeting 513 p.m 945 Britain
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  • 3001 3 COLONY T.T.C. NORMAL EXAM RESULTS THE following candij 3tr of the Teachers' Training Collrse. Sin^ai, r p. luve passed the First v>ar Normal Fxamination j, P !d m Singapore m Detf nibrr lO.lfi:--bin A Razak. h.d. Albert oon Albert, Louis ArokiaJmm. Aw Tei< -indran. B Joni ten. Bong Kr? B
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  • 97 3 GEOFFREY A. Tesscno started the one-man iation section under re Chief Secretary DOW become the ■-irport Manager of International A rohn took over 'i Jan. 18 from rd, who has gene c months' home leave. service* m the aviation was crrupted during the n
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  • 125 3 £\\V\\\\\\\\\\\\* LADY Alexandra Met- calfe, daughter of the former Governor-Gen- cral of India, Lord Cur- zon, left Singapore >es- terday for a holiday m Indonesia She came to Malaya to witness the take-over of the Kuala Lumpur 1 Serendah Boys' Home 2 from the Government by the
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  • 113 3 ANGRY MOB ASSAULTS MOTORIST A SINGAPORE motorist, Ng Tong, 36. was beaten up by an angry mob after he was involved m a collision with a cyclist. Tan Ah Bah. 21. m Alexandra Road, yesterday. Ng who suffered serious head injuries was admitted to the General Hospital. The cyclist was
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  • 65 3 KUCHING. Sun. Misj Halimah Abang. a British Council bursary holder, is one of nine specialists from eight countries now doing a British social services course m London The course, arranged by the British Council, includes lectures by representatives of the London Council of Social Services, the
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  • 29 3 MR. PATRICK Keith, news rriitor of Radio Malaya, Jcft Kuala Lumpur yesterday for Britain for a 6-months course at the BBC on a Federal Government scholarship
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  • 21 3 A mother of two. Wee Siam Kee, 23, was found hanging m a house m Ponggol Road, yesterday. tndim
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  • 205 4 Keep Birds? Then This Society Is For You IF you like birds— join the Singapore Cage-bird Society, the president, Mr. J. P. English, urged yesterday. Mr. English is striving to enlarge the activit:es of the Society, and to make it better knowi m the Colony. The Society, one of the
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  • 56 4 MORE parkin? space will be provi-ied for Singapore's motorists m the congested Finlayson Green aiea Ben nd the Cable an<i Wire less bjildine at Shenton Way. a car park to take nearly .WOO cars Ii about to be completed. The lanri belongs to the Government, and
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  • 332 4 Mix-up' Brings New Hope For Ratepayers Of laiping They MishandlecL Two Big Issues r IPOH, Sun. Perak Alliance councillors, ar all levels, today received a stern rebuke from three of their top national executives for their handling of the Taiping Town Council assessment scheme and the proposed
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  • 236 4 MOLLY, 17, CRASHES THAT MAGIC BARRIER... IPOH. Sun. After years of trying, a former pupil of the Kuala Lumpur Bukit Bintang Girls* School has at last crashed that magic barrier which lies between ambition and success. She has* been signed up for two years by the Kong Ngee Motion Picture
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  • 139 4 WESTERN CLOTHES MAKE HIM SO SAD KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A Tamil scholar from Madras, Vidwan Thirunavukarasu told 2.000 Tamils here today that their language and culture was m danger of extinction due to the onslaught or Western Influence. The gathering had assembled to celebrate the annual "Tamils festival". Vldwan Thirunavukarasu
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  • 86 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. A Naib Penghulu, who collected temporary licence fees from squatters and failed to hand the money over to Government, was today sentenced to nine months' jail In the Sessions Court. The charges against the Penghulu, Abdul Hamid bin Taha. were that on Sept.
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  • 126 4 IPOH, Sun. Three thugs held up a foodstaU proprietor at dagger-point and re lieved him of $580 m cash at the junction ol Leech r»nd Market Streets at about 9.30 p.m. yesterdrjv The proprietor. Chow Luen. 56. told the Standard he Wtt* on hi?
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  • 32 4 MUAR. Sat Mr George Puthucherv of Mersing and Miss Teresa Kurian of Muar were married yesterday at St Andrew's Catholic Church, here. Both bride anr? groom are teachers m Johore.
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  • 77 4 A SIXHAPORE Fire Brigade officer. Mr. VV. G Read, has been assisted for one year to the Burma Fire Services Directorate to organize and introduce a training scheme for the Burmese Government. Mr Read, who has served three years with the Essex County Fire Brigade and
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  • 165 4 COLONY MIDWIVES THREATEN TO GO ON STRIKE MIDWIVES m the Singapore Civil Service night threatened to strike m protest against gJ!? ment's delay m settling their claims for salary revw and improved working conditions, submitted m >^ last year. I only received su* At an extraordinary meeting of the Singapore
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  • 103 4 5 Malayans Tour City Of Bath FIVE Malayans, on a oneyear commercial education course m London, visited Bath last week where they toured the Pitman Press one of the largest commercial printing organizations m Britain. Miss T C Beh, Miss S H Lim and Miss P. C N<j of Penang,
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    48 4 BANK MAN WEDS Newly-weds. Miss Ooi Jo, Ai and Mr. Lcong Sin Kwonsr. both of Ipoh. an photographed here cutting their weddins cake at the Celestial Cabaret last San. day. The bride is attached to Jackson Co, Ipoh Branch, while the bridegroom is from the Chartered Bank. Standardpic.
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  • 35 4 LIEUT. Othman bir hamed Dom of the I tion Armoured Car E will fly to Britain on T from Kuala Lumpur f ther military training He n be away for six months.
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    1353 5 HtFIF VERY name of th»« II rrnae where the 62nd Con- held recently I- ;>.ii Nagar, near In- Mould recall to In- m Malaya of the wo* |Hr regiment set up by (ths I Nrt.iji Saunas chand* i I ii occupied Singapore m I illed tlie Rani of
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  • 1756 5  -  JIM HENRY by ~Fete, Fair and Exhibition to collect funds for ex POW families QN February 15th— the anniversary of the fall of Singapore each year the Ex-Prisoners of War Association of Australia conducts a Street Appeal, selling paper badges m aid of Association Welfare funds.
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    • 550 6 'THE Malayan Indian Congress is to be congratulated on the courage of its conviction that its loyalty is to Malaya and not to India and so it has decided not to celebrate Indian Republic Day. As a partner of the Alliance, which is the current ruing party of
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    • 339 6 SOCIALISTS and trade unionists do not like anyone to say that the workers are well treated and well paid. Thcv arc attuned to moaning and demanding To them the world owes the workers a living. They never evinced a spark of interest m the closing down of a
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  • 1153 6 for South Africans George Clay reports from Cape Town CAPE TOWN COUTH Africa enters the New Year preoccupied, almost to the exclusion of all else, with the problem of race tensions. The mass "treason" trial, which began last month and which will be resumed this month, is the
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  • 426 6  - Vending Machines Net US$1,900,00,000 Patrick O'Donovan by WASHINGTON \LL over America. In station waiting rooms, m factory locker rooms, m roadside "rest rooms" and on streets, there stand massive, gleaming; machines that look like a cross between a jukebox and an electric computer. These are the "vending machines" which all
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  • 1444 6  - Now Rumanic Lifts the Lid DANIEL MORGAN r PHE new line laid down by Moscow for faithful 2 satellites, of economic con- cessions but no loosening 2 of political grip, is clearly Z reflected m the "discus--2 sions" and decisions of the plenum of the Rumanian 2 Workers' (Communist] 2
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  • 305 7 Laughter In The Box ss !>()i: laughed P m court laughed. 1 p thr eyes of the fr*W ink!-'' hi- hind his princel"J spectacles. hanprnrd m London when [/^.five-year-old Diana <t< m c recently irinc thr "'X* 1 Court about a midnight pp brought against hv
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  • 50 7 British Colum- Reuton— Seven r to set sail on a boatload of n ■ruments and les. s empty iust a.s valuable ■rumrnts to ths .phcrs aboard equipped r)y the Navy aphic work. n irom the Pa■iphic grou -> nawa, Mr. A\ "bpttle toss- uable m tracing
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  • 60 7 riONS, New \p> a U.S. international :r) n of nuclear tests ■n m a thr ition circula' i delegates yestcrn aims to get n a registration rt p d amon la, France, the and the Unit' 1 ng up the U.N. ib-committcc. thr system as of
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  • 37 7 20 (AP).— a World Airinif ok a DC* inpany hangar cashed immedikilling himg the plane. "irport police. l P "s^the •0 leetNni ground about off the teii'hc crash di i operations at
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  • 19 7 Linda Darnel, In Hollywill marry S Th£ lrd tlme next fee room will be Knf? ot Bobbie Robert-
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  • 26 7 A US$2O,OOO jewelled pin was stolen from the milliondollar Rovensky collection at the Parke-Bernet galleries, m New York on Saturday, Police osed, A P.
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  • 209 7 WARSAW,* Jan. 20 (Reuter)— Wladyslaw Gomulka, Poland's communist leader and champion of sovereignty who once spent years m disgrace and detention is expected to get a big vote m today's elections for a new Sejm (Parliament), i 1 n people who are opposed
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  • 165 7 MANHUNT ON FOR CRIMINAL LUNATICS LONDON, Jan. 20 (AP) Police, led by teams of tracker dogs, combed the moanlit stretches of rural Nottinghamshire last night m a tense manhunt for two escaped criminal lunatics. Constables called at lonely farmhouses and warned that all doors and windows should be bolted. The
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  • 26 7 MR. CHOU EN-LAI. Prime Minister of Red China, arrived m Kabul by air yesterday from Tashkent on his official visit to Afghanistan.- Reuter
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  • 88 7 Close Ties With U.S. Essential LONDON. Jan. 20 (Reuter) The Sunday Times today argued that close liaison with the United States was essential to the entire structure of Western European and Commonwealth co-operation. "The more closely we look at the actual needs and policies cither of the European democracies or
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  • 121 7 ABOVK: This is how Harry Thierens, 2G, was trapped for 14 hours m an 11 -inch wide crevice at the end of a 100-ft. cave. He was finally freed by Patrick Hamlet. 21, who dragged him clear after shipping away at
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  • 80 7 HOUSTON, Texas. Jan 20 (AP)— Beth Chu, 11-year-ohl Chinese girl flown here two months ago from Formosa by the U.S Air Force for a delirate heart' operation, is going homeBeth had suffered a heart defeefsince birth. A surgeon from Baylor University College of Medicine offered to
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  • 49 7 WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (AP). New tc^-ts of tactiralsize atomic bombs arc being considered for the next series of experiments at the U.S. Government's Nevada proving ground. These tests, if they develop, may include the first drop ol a nuclear weapon from a faster-than-sound jet fisnterbomber.
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  • 30 7 THE first United States nuclear power system designed solely for experiments m generat i g electric power will go into operation southwest of Chicago on Feb. 9.— Reuter.
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  • 28 7 SCREEN actress Jane Mansfield will inherit Pennsylvania home and a sizeable estate according to hei grandfather's will, which was admitted to probate on Friday. AP
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  • 147 7 Premier Plays Cupid To An Anxious Couple ADELAIDE. Jan. 20— South Australian Prrmier Sir Thomas Playford yesterday played cupid to a young Adelaide couple, and added an acting Chief Secretary to his list of portfolios to do it. Sir Thomas learned that 20-year-old orphan Glenys Hefferan could not marry 25-year-old
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  • 406 7 Six-Day Budapest Trial Ends In Execution VIENNA, Jan. 20 (UP) Tho two top leaders of Hungary's OctoberNovember uprising were executed yesterday, Budapest Radio announced. The men were Jezsef Dudan, former Chairman of the All-Hungary Revolutionary Council and Janos Sabo, his righthand man during the uprising. Budapest,
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  • 354 7 FULL ACCORD ON MID-EAST SAFETY LIKELY ANKARA, Jan. 20 (Reuter) Leaders of four of the world's most powerful Moslem states will reach "full agreement" here this weekend on "the necessity for eliminating communist infiltration m the Middle East," Prime Minister Nuri Al Said of Iraq
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  • 225 7 CAIRO, Jan. 20 (Reuter) An Egyptian official source said last night "any attempt to transform the United Nations Emergency Force (now supervising the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Sinai) into an occupation force affecting Egyptian policy would be rejected.'* i Referring to suggestions during
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  • 115 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 20 <AP> A gun-wielding young drug addict held 15 persons m an hour-long siege of terror at a fashionable doctor's office yesterday as he roamed about searching for narcotics. At one point the wild-eyed gunman. about 22, fired point-blank, at the doctor. The
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  • 177 7 WASHINGTON. Jan. 20, (APk— Yire-PreMdent Richard Nixon said yesterday a Rus-sian-Red China offer to 'protect" .Middle East nations "dramatically illustrates why the free world must not leave a military or economic vacuum" m the area. Mr. Nixon said the joint declaration of the two Communist nations
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    • 623 8 [AST ASIATIC Lii OUTWARDS Soilings for Bongkok ond/or F O| Penoiyg SW "MALAA" In Port 22/25 J On -KOREA- "JUTLANDIA" 28/28 Jon 29/29 j n 3 °/Jh HOMEWARDS Soilings fot Genoa Antwerp Rom, Hamburg Copenhagen, Gothenburg Oil* S'por. S k(m "KAMBODIA"«4/,5F«b CALLS GDYNIA— OMITS GENOA. MALAYA 20/21 Feb 22/22Fcb 21
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    • 268 9 More Japanese Firms Invading' Colony TRADE between a |oya and Japan has increased. Latest ifatistics show a favourable balance for this country. c first 11 months $237,715,000 N v. 1955— i 0) worth of imported into from Japan. In period, exports country totalled '00 ($266,701,- 'for the tn to Ot.
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    30 9 MR. R. KENDALL, general manager of Stanvac Vacuum Sales Company m Jakarta, who left Singapore over (ho weekend to attend a one-year course m administration at Harvard University.
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  • 62 9 RUBBER stocks m Singapore at the end of December last year. totalled 41.931 tons, against 50,052 tons at the end of the previous month. These consisted of 36.098 tons dealers* storks (end November. 41.699 tons) 5.810 port stocks (8.330 tons) and 23 tons estate stocks (23 tons).
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  • 42 9 NEW YORK. Jan. 18— DowJones closing averages: STOCKS: 30 Industrials 477 46 20, Rails 151.13 1 > Utilities 69.22 85 Stocks 169.34 BONDS: 40 Bonds 89 90 The Dow-Jones commodity futures index (192<-26 average equals 100) closed at 161.29.— UP.
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  • 602 9 Signs Of Prosperity In U.S. Varied asdfasdfasdfasdf ff\>IIINGTON v Jan. 20 .flip signs of prosperity j the Inited States are fulv many and varied: inmmins factories, crowdi stores, busy people aljost everywhere. Econoiic well-being: is the most viou> characteristic of fe American economy as J57 gets under way. Eisenhower too*
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  • 511 9 BORNEO shippers appear to be experiencing difficulty m disposing of their copra due to limitations of available freight space to Europe, say Lewis Peat (Singapore), Ltd., m their weekly produce report. iThe shiping companies, according to the report, are irally not keen
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  • 107 9 HONGKONG enjoyed a prosperous year m trade with foreign countries during 1956, government figures showed. The HK. Department of Commerce and Industry said the estimated total trade value for the past year is over HK57. 000.000,000 (about US$l,--300,000.000). It represents an increase of more than one and
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  • 189 9 Set Up FAO Coconut Study Group' I \O working party m tut, which has k its 11-day session A )lombo, has recorrB ::ng up of ai >conut study group I for regular ir- nal consultations 0:1 coconut economy. I I party agreed oblema facing the industry could through Slid) I
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  • 151 9 THE British manufacturers of a material that is rapidly taking the place of lead m many ot its traditional tasks in building and at about a fifth of the price are prepariny to double their output m !U57. Known as Nuralite. the material both looks and
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  • 33 9 THE diversion of freight traffic from road to rail is gaining momentum and the British Transport Commission states that the movement is more apparent than it was some titne ago.
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  • 123 9 A PARTY of officials from the Russian trade delegation m London have begun te.'ks m Liverpool m an effort to end a ban on the shipment of raw rubber eu. Soviet Union Shipping circle* dlsclosing this could give n<9 details of the talks.
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  • 463 9 Good Trading On Shares Mart In Past Week THE change m the British Cabinet has had no adverse effect on the Malayan share market m the past On the contrary, there has boon a general marking-up of a number o f Loans a nd Industrials since the New YearIn spite
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  • 403 9 BUSINESS DONE IN THE WEEK BUSINESS done m shares frrrn Jan. 12 to 18 were IMXSTRIAI-. Fra.-cr Nenve ords. $2.25 to $2.30. Federal Dispensary $2.20, Gammons $2.03. Hammer Co $1.70 to $1.67J to $1 70, Hongkong Bank (London) £95 £94',cd. Hongkong Bank (Col) $890 00cd Hume Industries F.E. Ltd. A6
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    • 258 9 JUGOSLAV LINE From Bombay to the Adriatic Penang P. Sham Molacco S'por« J U CKA" 23 Jon 24 26 Jan 27 28 Jan 29 Jon/2 Feb M "CRNA G °RA" 20/21 Feb 22/23 Fcb 24/25 Feb From Hongkong it Whampoo w Spore Molocco P.S'hom Penong V *UBIT" 28 29 Jan
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    • 185 9 NOTICES The Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 11) In the High Court of the Colony of Singapore Island of Singapore TN BANKRUPTCY. No 388 L of 1955. Re: LEE THIENG KENG,« of 5, Ceylon Road, Singapore, 15. (Wireless Operator). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a First and Final dividend is intended to
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    • 534 9 NOTICES The Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER lh In the High Court of the Colony of Singapore Island of Singapore TN BANKRUPTCY No. 253 of X 1956. RE NG THOON SENG of No 14, Angus Street. Singapore. 1 Receiving Order made 14th September. 19f>ts Date of Adiudication 14th September. 195H Date and
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    • 526 9 CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE. TENDERS. TREASURER'S DEPARTA MENT: Supply of General Stationery for 1957. Tender Deposit $50/-. Close 12 NOON —4 2.57. 2 ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT: Dredging and Removal Of Alj Silt, Sand and Debris from (A) Paya Lebar Canal; (B) Main Drain along Playfair Road; and (C) Three Outlet Drains
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  • 1022 10  - Selangor Cashed In On 2 Chances To Win Rugby Classic ALEX SOARS By KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Selangor put the "bite" on Singapore Services m the last 20 minutes of play, to emerge worthy winners by 16-12 m the 29th HMS rugby football competition final, which ended on the padang here
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  • 130 10 A PENALTY R oal during extra time by centreforw.jrd Jafcat Singh enabled the defending champions the Young Men's Sikh Association, to beat the Singapore Medical Services Union by 2-1 m the SHA junior knockout tournament at the iirls Sports Club ground yesterday Lincam playing at right
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  • 153 10 3 Olympians In Fed. Police XI KUALA LUMPUR. Sun— The Federation Police will field a formidable side m their annual hockey test against Singapore Police on February 27 at the Federal Police Depot ground here. The Federation Police line up will include three Olympic players m Gian Singh, right half,
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  • 267 10 EDINBURGH. Jan. 20 (Reuter) Eddie Choonß, of Penang, won the two titles m the Scottish Badminton Championships here yesterday. In the all-Malayan final of the singles, he beat C T Oon 15-5, 15-8, and with Oon defeated W F. Peard and J. J. Fitzgibbon (Dublin) 15-0, 15-12,
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  • 39 10 NEWTON. Massachusetts, Jan. 20 (Reuter) Miss TenIcy Albright, 20, Olympic figure skating champion, announced yesterday that she had withdrawn from all figure skating competitions and has been accepted by the Harvard Medical School for entrance next autumn.
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  • 272 10 All Malays Tennis Tourney KUALa LUMPUR. Sun. A total of 98 entries have been received for the All-Malayan Malays 7th post-war Tennis tournament which takes place here during the Chinese New Yerir holidays: Following is the draw: Open singles championships: (too section first round) Musa Hi Abdullah vs Shariff Talib,
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  • 295 11 ALLISON'S PENALTY I I GOAL DECIDES FOR ENGLAND CARDIFF. Jan. 20 (Reuter) England won their H t intn national rugby match of the season against lU m i single penaLty goal here yesterday. decided the minutes i ill of overM the iring m his He was
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  • 54 11 XNOS AIRES. Jan. lit. Memo Diez, Mexi)xing chair Is due to fight i Argentina) for title m February. v that he inteno m home without ac interview 1 cat her has badly and I 1 unAt to fight" recovering from a k of influenza ised the
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  • 90 11 NORTHAMPTON. J 20 1 Reuter)— A Midlands XV beat the Combined South African Universities by four tries (12 points) to a cr>al (five points) hard-fought entertaining rugby unmn match here day. The South Africans did not reach their best form and only m the closing stages did
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  • 779 11 LONDON, Jan. 20 (Keuter)— Manchester United, bidding for the great soccer treble of English league championship, Football Association Cup and Euronean Cup showed signs yesterday that the strain may not be far away True they looked good m mtdfield afainst Sheffield Wednesday
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  • 22 11 CARDIFF. Wales. Jan 20 <Reuter>— England beat Wales 9-1 m an international table tennis match here last night. h= i
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  • 1454 11 U.K. SOCCER RESULTS AND POSITIONS LONDON. Lan lf». (Renter) I iijrlKh anil xoflMi i«,oil> ill league MaMing* after uxiay'h natcfcti are us follows:— LEAGUE DIV. I Birmingham City Chebea 1Blackpool 1 Suudcrland 2 Cardiff ("if 2 Bolto n VV. 0 Everton 2 Luton Town 1. Lrcds U. 0. Whamplon W.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 312 11 lil Abner By At Lapp f PlfrJfT'H :M OF^ THF: "T^l VOO DON'T GET A MINUTE. V I AND THAT BEATS T Oill 1.1 y STREETS V KEEPS N EM k;i OLDER IN A DEEP FREEZE, COMMUNISM \P UUL PLAN IS. TO Y-i FROM WASTING MONEY AND YOU CAN'T SPEND
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    • 263 11 rMf| Ik I l^^Bj 111 |b*» 11 OI)A V S QUOTATION: "Those who nexer retract their opinions love th-m--selws more than they low truth." MM HI.XI MONDAY FOR EVERYONE: You ca:> conciliate differences. compleie tasks or solve prob'ems to advi ntage today. However, recheck judgment, be guarded against complications. involvements
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  • 249 12 W0*LD SHOT\ \putt champ) IN TOWfa yesterday was the World and Olympic champion shot putter, none other than 24-year-old Parry O'Brien. Better known as Parry among his colleagues, this six-foot-three handsome American is certainly no mean guy. On -;his his first tour of the Far
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  • 320 12 thias and Tom Bell had a wonderful stay m Singapore and m the Federation. There is no doubt that Parry will also find his stay m Malaya a wonderful one. Maybe our enthusiasm cannot match the Aussies' before and during the Olympic Games. I've sworn that half
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  • 113 12 J PARRY named two J 2 Americans who should < 1 provide him toughest op- 2 position m the 1%0 Rome 2 J Olympiad. They are Bill J Nieder and Ken Rantum 2 who have tossed the iron 2 2 over the KO-foot mark.
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  • 51 12 SINGAPORE Harbour Board T^ c "B" beat Singapore Chinese Recreation Club- "B" by one-nil m the junior division knockout hockey match played at the Keppel Harbour ground yesterday. In the 21?t minute of the second half Fox of the Harbour Police scored off a pass from right winger
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  • 23 12 HERE'S how they finished on Saturday, at Ipoh, the third and concluding day ot the Perak Turf Club's January Meeting.
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  • 54 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. i Klang District Hockey Assn. defending champions of the f Selangor Hockey Association c division two who are still unbeaten have dropped a point when they were surprisingly held to a scoreless draw by Police Reserve Unit m their fixture on the Gurney Road t
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  • 44 12 TIGER Swimming Club "A" day. beat Singapore Swimminj? Club m another same the Ti<*er A by seven goalls to three Swimming Club "B" team m a friendly water-polo match edged the Singapore Swimplayed at Tanjong Rhu yester- ming Club "B" by 6-4
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  • 303 12  -  S. RAGAVAN Parry Will Also Give Lessons On Athletics By PARRY O'Brien of the United States, twice winner of the Olympic shot-putt event, flew into Singapore yesWday after a three-day holiday m Hongkong. O'Brien left for Kuala Lumpur yesterday by train to keep his Federation diary. i He
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  • 182 12 MALACCA, Sun. A star-studded South Malaya Malays XI combined effectively to beat the Hunters Football Club two-nil m their return match at the Kubu Stadium yesterday. It was a keen and fast game. Fullback Ayub was sound. With Aman Kastawi doing a fine job m
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  • 92 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun A Selangr-r Ladies Rest side will meet Sclangor Club women who have maintained a good record this season m a hockey match on the padang here on Wednesday The following have been selected Miss Yap Oi Kuan (SCRC) Mrs Nora Soars (PWDSC) Miss Lee Yoke
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  • 94 12 QUEEN'S COURT WINS CUP CALCUTTA Jan 20 (Rcuter) English-bred horses filled the first three places m the Queen Elizabeth II Cup. run over one mile six furlong here vc.-lord.iv Queen's Court, a son of the Xcwmarkct 2 000 guineas winner Court Martial, won by a neck from Morn, with Scorched
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  • 29 12 STOCKHOLM. Jan 19 (Reuter>—Swedish winter sport associations decided tonight to compete with Ihe Soviet Union only m the world championships, the European championships or other similar events.
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  • 64 12 SYDNEY. Jan 20, (UP) Professional tennis king Paneho Gonzales beat Australia's new pro Ken Roscwall, m straight sets at White City here today. 9-7. 7-5. 9-7. Gonzales now has a 3-1 lead m the series with Rosewall The Australian's erratic barkhand was brilliant again, but his overall
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  • 34 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. —Hockey. volley ball and tennis will be the new competitive events included m the -ominq Asian Games to be held m Japan m 1058. the Standard learnt here today
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  • 114 12 Hungary's Honved Crushed RIO DE JANIERO. Jan. 20. (AP) Flamengo crushed Hungary's exiled world championship soccer team, Honved, ti-4, on Saturday night m a game which saw goals fly m all directions The game was played m defiance of the powerful International Soccer de Federation and the Grazilian Sports Federation
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  • 539 12 Says WINDSOR LAD KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— No horse this season has started off mi n m mising fashion than Great Saxon who completed a splendid double when his opposition to win the 11 miles trophy race for class two at Ipoh on concluding: day
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  • 220 12 Parker To Lead South XV Against North MAX PARKER has been picked by South splpm to lead the South XV against North m the annual™! classic at Jalan Besar Stadium on February V But the highlight of yes- J terday's selection of both teams was the nomination of Maurice Pestana
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    • 145 12 SOCCER BODAC "Governor's Clip** 2 Sub-Depot BODCA "A" vs HQ.. BODCA Branch at Keat Hong Road. HOCKEY Senior Division K/O Competition: S.H.B. Pollice vs Wanderers at Keppel Harbour; S.R.C. "Reds" vs J BOD at S.R.C Singapore Base District Major Unit Competition Semi-Final: 221 Base Vehicle Bn. vs 19 Air Formation
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