Singapore Standard, 2 August 1957

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    20 1 Si n gapore Standard #6 ft m i. Mil. No. 31 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1957 12 PAGES J."> CENT:
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    Lock icon The Gloucesters Will Visit Penang, Malacca
    317 1 KCAI.A LUMPI R Thurs. The r>uke of Gloucester v!1 visit Penang and Malacca during his forthcoming trip to the Federation as Ui> personal representative of Queen l Usabeth at the Merdeka celebrations. I he Duke will also meet .pie of the Malay Rulers n
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    Lock icon RI Gunboat Seizes Local Vessel In Colony Waters
    290 1 TAIKONG: I WAS KICKED PUNCHED A SD9GAF )R1 fishing a±* .eh stopped to give *to an Indonesian sailing r priced on r; Indonesian gunboat and > the island of Tan- legation wa> m by Tan Man he.:- 2 1, yesterday on h
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    Lock icon THUGS DUMP BABY-SITTER IN BATHROOM
    134 1 THUGS DUMP BABY-SITTER IN BATHROOM A 17-YEAR-OLD babysit :>t was tied up and dumped Into a bathroom by a gang of armed robbers m Lim Liak Street, Singapore, yesterday The girl. Goh Son Hua. was looking after three children While their mother was marketing, when a thug using a duplicate
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    Lock icon Macmillan May Visit Singapore
    103 1 LONDON. Aug. 1 <AP) Prime Minister Harold Macmillan may stop over briefly m Singapore and Malaya during a visit of four British Commonweal'h countr.es next winter, British officials reported today. Mr. Macmillan's tour will him to Australia. New Zealand. India and Pakistan. The programme has not
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    Lock icon SIR ROBERT FOR HONGKONG POST: SORRY TO LOSE HIM, SAYS LIM
    265 1 SIR ROBERT FOR HONGKONG POST: SORRY TO LOSE HIM, SAYS LIM THE Governor o£ Singapore. Sir Robert Black, is to succeed the Governor of Hongkong. Sir Alexander Grantham, when the latter retires at the end of this year. Sir Robert's new appointment was announced m London yesterday. Sir Robert's successor
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    Lock icon Return Fares To Hongkong
    60 1 LONDON, Aiig. 1 (Reuter) The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company announced here today that for the first time since IM§ return tares to Japan, Hongkong, Pcnang, Singapore, Bombay. Colombo and Aden will be introduced from Sept. 1. The concession represented a 10 percent cut m
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    Lock icon A NEW TUNIS
    15 1 THE newly-declared Tunisian Republic was officially recognized on Wednesday by France. A.P.
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    Lock icon SHELL SUPPLEMENT
    17 1 Issued free with this paper is an 8-page Supplement on the Shell Malayan Economy Run.
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    Lock icon Two Ships Collide In Squall
    87 1 Two Ships Collide In Squall TWO vessels, the Braeside and the Flevariotisa. collided m the Singapore Outer Roads yesterday during a BQOmIL Both vessels suffered superficial damage. A spokesman for Boust"ad Co.. Ltd.. agents lor the ships said the vessels dragged anchors and drifted into each other m the heavy
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    Lock icon GOVT. FREES TWO POLITICAL DETAINEES
    205 1 SINGAPORE Government yesterday released the first two political detainees held under the Public Security Ordinance during last October's riots. The DM n are Inche Wan Daud bin Embong. a former assistant secretary (Malay Affairs Section) of the defunct Singapore Factory and Shop Workers' Union and
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    Lock icon Sentenced To Die But Now He Lives
    336 1  - Sentenced To Die But Now He Lives KEN JALLEH A Sportsman Wins Battle For Survival by the Sports Editor. SINGAPORE school principal, Mr. Edwin Doraisamy, a Colony hockey Olympian (Melbourne 1956) has scored the greatest victory of his life to lire to fight again another day. Sentenced to die within
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    Lock icon Commons Gesture
    82 1 LONDON Aug. 1 <Ff The House of Commcr to offer 1 Mala; i the gift la chair lor I e'deration fl .aya to mark its attainment of independence on Aug 31. T announcement m the House of Commons today by Mi R A Butler, leader the urn greeted
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    Lock icon Armed Police Guard Indian Parliament
    136 1 Armed Pol ice Guard Indian Parliament Strikers Chased Out Of Grounds NEW DELHI, Aug. 1 (Reuter) Strong Police reinforcements guarded Parliament here today as 5,000 striking street sweepers demonstrated outside m protest against yesterday's incident m which one striker was killed and three were wounded m the Police shooting, Police
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    Lock icon RAF Attack Rebel Imam Headquarters
    191 1 MANAMAH. Bahrfin. Aug. 1 (Reuter) About five Ro\al Air Force Venom jet fighters made a "small attack" today on the great round fort at Nizwa. headquarters of the rebelling Imam of Oman, an official communique said. "Hit! v:d on the tower and tilt barrack buildings.
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    Lock icon 'ROCK' HARMFUL?
    32 1 PERSIA has banned Rock 'n' Roll as "harmful to health." Police warned that all public dance-hails would be closed and their proprietors prosecuted If 1 ban was not observed. Reuter
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    Lock icon Damaged Phones Ring Again
    103 1 Damaged Phones Ring Again NORMAL t.irphom <<>- 11 v 'i it- I'Morccj m oin '-■> \> v .ii tor an all n i l i r«-pan oh t>\ arm> i< 'hn .m* and l< lephone m rv „11 thf 3.000 hnc> v., m c tl ednesPolu. ry. Mr. Peter ihf.
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    Lock icon New Bill Will End 'Girard Cases'
    163 2 New Bill Will End 'Girard Cases' WASHINGTON. Aug. 1 (Renter)— A Congressional committee today overwheln ngly approved a bill which would bar the United States from handing over to foreign courts way American serviceman rver whom the United States decided it had the light of primary jurisdiction, except m "unusual
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    107 2 YWCA Contest A MAT. A Y A- W ID?: co:r. ictiI for the best poster on the I9OM cf the Y. WC. A." is being organized for members between the ages of 15 and Each pntry must bt mitted on paper, size 12" x 15", m black and white or
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    Lock icon The British Woman — 'Cuddly, Curvey & Comfy'
    358 2 The British Woman 'Cuddly, Curvey Comfy' HOTTEST NEWS IN RAG' BUSINESS LONDON. Aug. 1 (ReuteT) Mrs. Bessie Bradj dock, British Member of 'Parliament, whose 210 pounds are encased m a 50-40-50 figure, hailed Government disclosures today that the average British woman is a slightly plumper version of the Venus do
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    Lock icon Road Toll For Month: 25 Dead
    48 2 ROAD accidents In Singapore :ook a toll of 25 lives m July, the wont month so far this year. Seriously injured w?re 312. while 630 were Blight!! injured. There w- :v cl il nf 2.439 accidents In the Colony during the month.
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    Lock icon CASE OF THE MISSING BOY
    109 2 DALLAS. Texas. Aug. 1 (Reuter)— Mr. r.nd Mrs. R. T. Hammond realized with horror while they WCTC at a drive-in-cinema that only three of Ihcir four children were m the back seat. Their 18-month-old boy was missing. They telephoned the police, who arrived m squa
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    Lock icon Stassen Has New Inspection Plan
    268 2 DISARMAMENT TALKS LONDON, Aug. 1 (IP) VS. delegate Harold Stassen will present the West's new aerial inspection plan to the Soviet Union at a meeting of the Inked Nations Disarmament Sub-committee either tomorrow or next week, it was learned today. Western d i a r
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    Lock icon 700 JOIN JUNIOR JET CLUB
    111 2 700 JOIN JUNIOR JET CLUB THE Junior Jet Cub. inaugurated by 8.0.A.C. m Singapore four months ago. has nearly 700 members. Mr. D. Er.-kinc-Crum. BOAC Bales' Manager foe Bootheast Asia, said yesterday thifl rapid gR Wth m membership had "'far exceeded our expectations." There are 79 members resident m Singapore.
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    Lock icon Doctors Support Govt.'s Hospital Work Move
    183 2 DOCTORS m private practice yesterday jjave unstinted support to a Singapore Government proposal that they would be engaged ♦o work m the various hospitals and clinics on a sessional basis. Dr. A W. S. TIM lllilMM. a Colony doctor, told the Standard yevterday that
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    Lock icon 2,600 HOMELESS
    30 2 more than 2.600 Chinese were left homeless alter a fire ra^ed through a timber yard m Hongkong yesterday and burnt down the.r squattet huts, CN vfrnment announced. Reuter.
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    Lock icon STRIKE AT BEACH ROAD MARKET
    211 2 SINGAPORE'S largest market the Beach Road market lost half its customers sinre early this week when 75 stalls had nothing 10 sell, and all because of 14 men. These men, who belonged to the Vegetable Porters Union, went on strike after demanding higher charges for
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    127 2 LONDON. Au S 1 <Kru'. HunMinistry of thr Interior >..,d U;i.ix that "an m counter-re\<ilution:!i\ < 1 <-:.i nti uncovered, the Hungarian new .mn MTI itjk»h "The centre of this group ■U the central seminar m Budapest. it added. A communique issued th( Mil Lstfy
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    112 2 COMMODITY PRICES < 1 OSINCJ rut her prim p<i r i i v > v\ r < l; ur> >i kr> Spot lilt V: R.S.S V 1 R.S.S lli, „riii- V tin per pirul Down i i I()MK)\ Rl BBLR House I< rms Tlmr^d.i > ■> o;i» t first session
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    Lock icon Died Two Days After Mishap
    67 2 A 73-YEAR-OLD van. died from h ies two days after a matt* accident, a Singapore C oro:.--er's Court was told yesterday. s crossing the road m Geylang on July 14. when a taxi, driven by Cheanc An Mee. knocked him do Cheang said he applied
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    Lock icon PRETTY GIRLS In Singapore Offices
    49 3 PRETTY GIRLS In Singapore Offices FEI.EN YONG. IS, is a receptionist at the chequc-re-1L ceivin;: counter of Chung Khiaw Bank. Helen is studying book-keepin? m th? hope of becoming an ac•unta,nt. She is one of the- newest members of the bank «.taff. having joined it only two months ago.
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    Lock icon Another Warning To Govt. Workers
    231 3 Declare Debts Or Face Sack SINGAPORE Government servants were told again on Tuesday to declare their debts incurred before July 3. They were handed this notice with their pay packets, which also reminded them they would have to sisjn a declaration on Oct. 1 that
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    Lock icon Six Scalded At Foundry
    87 3 SIX workmen were scalded by molten metal at an iron foundry m I n I Road off i ':i r, Singapore, yes- >y. Two re :n a '•Ondition and were admitted to hospital. The two badly scalded P. Ramasamv and S. Nadarajah. The others. CheV n
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    36 3 rrupi Comrr. p. sat for the first time behind dosed doors to hear oral evidence from two members of the public on allegations of corruption among City Councillors, Assemblymen and members of public bodies.
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    26 3 MRS. X. WILAIRAT, wife nf Thai Consul-General m Singapor will demonstrate Thai king at the Y.W.C A m CoUjn Q'-iay, to:v,orro\v at ID ÜB.
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    Lock icon STAFF PLIED WITH DRINKS AND GIFTS
    878 3 Central Mental Hospital Inquiry Clerk Tells Of $8,000 Offer IPOH, Thurs. An hospital contractor was alleged to have "lured" senior members of the staff with drinks and presents m order to gain favours over contracts lor the supply of rations to the hospital. This
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    57 3 pit. "Look, how you have put on weight." says Inche Syed bin Madar as he greets Imhe Wan Daud (riyht) with U| handshake and a broad smile. Inche Daud wa.s calling at his cousin's house m X a mponi,' Ibi Kayu. soon after his release
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    Lock icon Abducted: & He Thought His Brother Had Been Detained
    458 3 Abducted: He Thought His Brother Had Been Detained A BUSINESSMAN. informed by one of his employees that his younger brother was detained by the "Police,'' later discovered that his brother was, m fact, abducted, the Singapore Assizes was told yesterday. In the dock was Tan Eng Whatt, charged with abducting
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    55 3 PRINCIPAL of Sembawang School 11. Singapore. Mr. Abdul Rahman, with his bride, the former Miss Sardar Begum, after their marriage m the Colony recently. Mr. Rahman is the son of Mrs. Abdul Rahim and the late Mr Rahim, while the bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
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    Lock icon 'Missing On Wedding Day'
    340 4 WIFE NO. 2 REFUSED HIM MARITAL RIGHTS, SAYS MAN SUED FOR MAINTENANCE PENANG, Thurs. His second wife ran away from home on her wedding day, Lim Luan Heng, managing director of the Patani Motors and Kedah Coastal Transport Limited, told the Magistrate's Court today. Lim. who
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    77 4 'HELLO' GIRL TAKES TO THE AIR A FORMER Singapore telephone operator will, this morning. become an air hostess when she takes off m a, Malayan Airways Dakota aircraft for the Federation. She is pretty Miss Christine Rodrigues. 19. Accompanying her on her first flight will be chief air hostess. Miss
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    29 4 THE Minister I r Works and omunications, Mr. Francis vnaSi will open a new post office at Alexandra Road on Sat :rday. Ay.a. -4. at 5 pm.
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    Lock icon COURT GIVES STOREMAN BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
    202 4 BREACH OF TRUST CHARGE CHONG All BAH, former storekeeper of J. H. Vavaotur Co (Malaya) Ltd., was yesterday acquitted m the Singapore FirVt District Court on a charge of criminal breach of trust of $12,270 worth of cosmetics from the company's store m
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    Lock icon Koreans Make SE-Asian Trade Survey
    98 4 Koreans Make SE-Asian Trade Survey SEOUL. Aus. 1 i UP)— Five republic ol Korea Government officials Will leave for South-east Asian countries early this month to explore m irki I for Korean foods, t; Commerce *nd Industry Mini announced. T:: atlOß kl to COttdact two-month inspection tour ol Booth-east Asia
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    Lock icon Pretty Colleen From County Clare
    106 4 AN IRISH nurse arrived m Singapore last night m a Qant.is airliner from her hometown Quin m County Clare Ireland, for the wedding m the Colony Miss Pauline O'Loughlin. 2.i, will marry Mr. Ralph Evelyn Coates, of Sh^ll Company, at St. Andrew's Cathedral next Thursday.
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    Lock icon 12-Day Camp For Army Boys
    140 4 1 2-Day Camp For Army Boys two bandn d stodenti ol ttM Ar:r.y Buys Trade School ai NY. B< D wiil spend 12 days B an Outward Bound Camp n Pulau Tekong, beginning next V.\ c!ne>day. The students 151 Malays. 57 Chinese and 12 Indians and Eurasian.-. will be ac-
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    125 4 Mr I. Ci S. thl, mana^ins lir< tor ol Ma lame Watioo, Malaya, has been elected cbair« man Ol the Singapore AntiTubercukwui Asaociation Council, m cccdim Mr. J« A^ M. f. te, who tai beld kbc post for the 1 ail '.\v< 3 1 an Mr
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    43 4 TAIPEI, A.4 i fßeuter) The 69 members I Singa- [i lustrial and tmeroial delegation to Forinspe ted land reform wroje is south oi Taipei after a night's rest at the scenic "Sun Moon Lake" m the centre of the island.
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    Lock icon BOGUS DOCTOR STRIPS WOMEN JOB SEEKERS
    103 4 SINGAPORE PoliCt are investigating a report that a bogus doctor stripped a woman and "•medically examined" her. The woman, an applicant for an advertised job m a doctor's surgery, is believed to have been tri:kc:i into stripping Other FDOBif WOUMU applicant- were a.?o "med:ca\v
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    Lock icon WOMEN'S RIGHT
    42 4 MRS. MARY LobO of the Singapore Council of Women will represent the Colony at a United Nations Seminar, which opens m Bangkok on August 5 to discu.-s the civic rights of Asian women and their increased participation m public affair?.
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    35 4 REV. ANTONIO Ormeo. noted Filipino evangelist and pastor of the First Baptist Church m Manila, will arrive m Singapore today by PanAmrriean Airways to conduct scries of gospel meetings and a Youth Bible Camp.
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    Lock icon BODY IN THE WELL VERDICT -MURDER
    340 5 UP TO yesterday "body-::-.--the-well" had still not been solve: Singapore C p, 111 Giam Chong Hing, was I Id Mr. <..-. was tv :.r.^ an Inquiry int. I itb I a man whose dect. body was recovered from a j well at the 7th
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    49 5 PENANG, 7 -A 1 ourt X Suppiah, accused of assaulting a Bin. Mary Thomp>n. iay i lere I f the Magistrate to be sent for menA -ion for a month. V s alleged that Suppiah Intended to outrage the modesty of the woman, at Tan- Bui
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    517 5 Councillor attacks filth and squalor m K.Ls market, and says PERSON RESPONSIBLE SHOULD BE REPLACED' 4 An absolute disgrace to Kuala Lumpur' KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Housewives who normally do their marketing m the Federal capital's central market may soon have to equip themselves with
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    111 5 2 ROW IN COURT OVER FISH POND IPOB, ThUTS. Two persons a man Bfl I a claimed owner'- -> of a fish iwnd before Magistrate inche at at Hashhn today. Petite Liew Kirn BaOW, I vegetable gardener. told the court th her husband died seven months ago, o became mistress
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    128 5 Graduates Will Help Varsity GRADUATES of the University Ol Malaya emp yrd m rommorcial concent and the Government m the Feck;... capital will assist the academic of the University's Kuala Lumpur branch. This was disclosed by Mr. Foo Yeow Yoke, the branch*l trativc officer frtcr there w; 1 bf M
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    Lock icon Two Jailed 18 Mths. Each
    72 5 IPOH. Thurs. Two men p Ba humalai 20 and s. PonnU 19, were each sentenced to 13 months' imprisonm< nl In the Sessions Coori day when they plead- (m i v to a charee of housebreaking and theft BathomalaJ and Ponnu admitted to breaking into
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    Lock icon HAWKER KNIFED
    37 5 SINGAPORE hawker. Sim Ho Si Qg was stabbed m the back while walking a.ong Wish art Road on Wednesday night. He COUld give no reason to the police M to why he was at acked.
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    26 5 EGYPT has ordered two British Vlckers Viscount airIners for Its civil airline Misrair, the Vickers Armstrong Aircraft Company announced, in London on Wednesday. A.P.
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    Lock icon Lib Socs get set for council polls
    217 5 CANDIDATES CHOSEN FOR 28 SEATS THE Liberal-Socialist Party of Singapore is making preparations for the City Council elections m December. i As a fir.-t step, II has finalised plans foe contesting M OUi Of the S3 seats to the Council. The party So
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    Lock icon Mentri Calls On Sultan
    51 5 IPOH. Thtm. The Sultan of Perak received m audience [niche Mohamed Ghazalli bin Jawi, BOOH after the new Ifentli Besar a.-sumed duties today. The lower Perak branch of the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party, sent a congratulatory message to the new Mentri and pledged its loyalty to t
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    Lock icon CAPTAIN APPOINTED
    94 5 AIRWAYS' NO. 2 ASIAN MR. Douglas Chen, the second Asian to be appointed an airline Capta n m Malayan Airways, will command his first aircraft on Sunday for Kuala Lumpur. Captain Chen, a former wartime MnstfiAg fi A liter p lot with the American At Force m Nationalist
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    60 5 OVER Sin. ooo worth of food and prizes have been donated by 'old i.oys'. parents and friends for the bier food and fan lair of the Ipoh AngloChinese Boys' School which is to be opened on Saturday a1 11 a.m. by the Federation's Assistant Minister for Education.
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    Lock icon SON STABBED – FATHER CHARGED
    210 5 SON STABBED FATHER CHARGED TELOK ANSON, Thuis. A Javanese housewife told a preliminary inquiry here today that she saw her husband bloodstained knife m hand standing beside the bedy of their son. The housewife, Si;ih binti Kamsah, 40, was living evidence before Tuan Sved Othman bin Ali. the telok Alison
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    243 5 Americans study the mysterious East THF average American is showing a keener interest m the countries of South-east Asia including Singapore and Malaya, Miss Dixie Dean Harris, (left) a student of the Western College for Women, m Oxford, Ohio, now on a Par East Seminar,
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    Lock icon Mine Talks Fail, Strike Goes On
    133 5 Mine Talks Fail, Strike Goes On KUANTAN, T: m. Negotiations between the Pahang Consolidated Company and the Sungei Lembtag Malayan Mining Employi Union broke down today when 500 underground mine workers re- i i to return to v The talks began yesterday after the 20,000 workers, have ;(:i non strike
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    Lock icon Shoe Strike Is Ended
    89 5 THE two-month-old strike by 29 employed of five shot firms m Singapore ended yesterday. The Assistant Labour Commissioner. Mr. Goh Koh Pui who mediated m the dispute, said both parties had agreed to refer a claim for wu-v.-; and better working condition] to a committe consisting
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    92 5 THERE Will be no d' i;vf r\ of mall on Monday. Aug. d. a public holiday, the Director of Posts. Singapore, announced ycsterda;. The General Post Office will bo open from 9 a.m. to noon while other post offices and postal agencies will be opened from
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      462 6 gRITAIN'S elder statesman. S.r Winston Churchill, ;-..i> levelled serious criticism at the United If allow In calling for complete changes m its Structure he has charged that the organization has n a "i ved justice ani that the Assembly is taking iecisions "on grounds of tam&tj, opportunism I
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      377 6 17, c..i~ me to 00 telephone lines m Singapore b\ saboteurs shows the extent to which plans to disrupt the normal life of Ihia Color-. tod thoSS wiiq are respon- f or the linn 1: is a criminal act which must be investigat I I the highest
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    486 6  - US Views On The OMAN CRISIS Philip Deane WASHINGTON fXFFtCUkLLY, hri on'y otflCtelly, \Va>'h Jrigton il do ng ■•s ,''';O.st to be correct obn\' ".ghting m Central Oi n "Ti i| t«d States 4 botn mlbml I; 7 <; >r vOM l 8 -"rd-'.Ur OKd '>. tl f!i'f**a, ediatiug." I'nited
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    717 6  -  Colin Legum .4 lead from Britain far the By LONDON THERE are two staggering facts about the blind population of the world. The first is their numbers a conservative estimate puts them at about 10 millions, of whom four millions are to be found m China and India,
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    407 6  -  ASTER GUNASEKERA By IN THE Legislative Assembly, on Tuesday, LiberalSocialist John Ede said a mouthful when he stressed that "bias and prejudice could make a mockery of democratic institutions m Singapore." He was winding up the opposition debate on the Local Government Bill and
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      265 6 Bfp Your correspondent, "Observer," sc to be Uiboariwa under i misapi I rio*. > workers engaged in the medical aspect of l«b r lory icork are cc' I laboratory technicians. Prerrar and as late as 1951 they were still knoicn as laboratory s'ants. In the 195J issue oi
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      132 6 S:r "JfCTChMf bl Ml letter published "i ynur i.s'.suc of Ju^j 20 i ride an unreasonable itmmd on Foti office imrkers vfco, presumably were very icell paid by him. He could be thinking of his pa^.ng $15 a year or f]Jt a mouth f or lus P. O.
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      250 6 S:r I wish to restatement by the S i Governor, Sir thai c better HI E and Sarawak, and. I c. North Borneo, to wo:k out their own salvation, rather than follow blindly the road that others have taken." What we natives are anxfcOUl to have I*
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    325 6 f)SE of the thine, thai v convinces Washingtnnians they are living m a great international capital and not a tree-bowered rathedral nt\ temporarily occupied hv civil servants, is Massachusetts Avenue. They call it Embassy Row It is lined by a series of Edwardian mansions th.it display over
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      7 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD SUPPLEMENT Friday, August 2nd, 1957
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        26 1 y :.■,:•■■:•>:■■:;■■■ ?v;-;iVW !;'.y.y '£J i'!| ...I, !J .<>.< k.M,;; 1 NiiiMHiiiiiiuiimiiuMMiiiMiiiiii^iiimiMi i,, i; .'ii: W )?ss?}. B I B IB ifl ■il If .^^fl Nmalayan motor 'rally^
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      535 2 Night Driving Will Test Skill, Stamina AFTER being unavoidably postponed twice last year, the Shell Malayan Motor Rally will now be held on August, 3, 4 and 5, with a record-breaking number of one hundred and fifteen motorists from the I
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      536 2  -  Robert Lee fey 1 SOMETIMES it is hard to believe how an idea and an overdraft can develop to be the sleekest and slinkiest thing m the motor industry* It is also history how a single-minded man of action with a singular enterprise can make a fiery sweep
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        192 2 SUNBEAM RAPIER does it again! IST /300-/600 CC Till IP RAI I Standard Production Saloons, for 2nd year I WLII ImF^Hi I running Driven by Jimmy Ray and lan He!! HIGHEST PLACED BRITISH CAR. 2ND 7300-7600 CC AAI 1 E nAllil I A Cctegoria Tourismo Specicle. Driven by ffIILLL If
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      1617 3 THE FOLLOWING is a complete list of the competitors. Forty-one crews will carry a co-driver, the th« 74 a navigator. Of the seventeen women m the rally, four are co-drivers. Thirty-seven different makes of cars are participating m this three-day event which covers nearly wßm through
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        309 3 ever notice this about a good driver Did you ever notice how good driving depends on ability to anticipate? Actions of other road -users are judged m advance, and you must know the exact TUT. INMDE STORY response your car will make m all circumstance v x doty n Can
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      47 4 SAW KIM Til lAT is we'l known a.s a racing motorist both m the Colony and the Federation. He was a competitor m the recent Malayan Motor Sports Club Selangor Rally. He will be driving a Studebaker Champion with Hui Soo Chai as his navigator.
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      38 4 KEVIN MURPHY, a motor engineer, is a new-comer to motnrsport who won his class m this year's I.ornie Kilo and is looking forward to his first major rally. He drives an M.G.A. with RE. Jackson as navigator.
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      1053 4  -  W. Jupe By THERE are still quite a number of the public who are under the impression that motor rallies are, m fact, some form of motor racing. This is far from correct. Motor sport has played its part m the development of the motor-car
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      337 4 INTERVIEWS BRITAIN'S ACE RACER < perionce to do that, perhaps. MISS LOURDES: I suppose a lot depends on getting tn« m good shape. Have you c to g. < on that point? MOSS: Well, thai i mgnr big .nt because some of companies over nere mai oo rallies expert to
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      220 4 A YOUNG man from Kuala Lumpur who had won the Welfare Lottery decided to blow some of his winnings on a car that would be the envy of all. lie came to Singapore and took a leisurely stro'.l down Orchard Road peering close'.y at every car
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      117 4 One of the outstanding achievements m the modern history of British motor car production is the rise of Jaguar cars during the last 35 years to their position as one of the leading manufacturers of what is known as the specialist car class. The origin
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      614 5 m MotoT Sd^nSSVSSiiSS iKmSL h^^l^iiSf Con ?P etltlon introduced into the msurance market by Maf th feature<; intrnHnnLi It d a tonic effect on the ma J on ty of motor car owners m Sineapore and Mapanies X now t the private car policy of
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      300 5 TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD V J Morton, (inset). a competing m motorvents m Malaya since 1 Vjj driving cars from Vin\ustin Sevens to Riley Sis. During this time he has a'so served on the committees of the Malayan Vintage Motor Club and Malayan Motor Sports Club. In this >
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      60 5 ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND IN MALA YA ONE of the two vir cars enteren n th, <'Wiif\i dun nri\(f i TV! n\er IS nunih ASM.It m thf i <m:i A m^mhf r of i> M.i Loan intace ,r K« vt, r ini> i> in*' ij.vi ni.'j »\»iii Ineham h..v
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      395 5 RECENT references to successes of Michelin t>res m rallies and races appear to have raised a question: Is Michclin going to take an interest m motor racing?" To begin with, let us correct the misunderstanding whirh seems to have slipped into this question. Racing is
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        69 5 w w M J^k^m /'W II \W Ml* wLa *m. TL—^ M&s^Mf A I A \f A Jk^'-jF Rally. The choice »u:nv /7/J^_, j$ "l^T, 1 O DODWO /■W^' V> > J famous drivers m International */-£:>"' f'-J SlwglHH Pen"? Kuala Lvw P up Motoring n p w^/iom/ //»r Z^fOS^^^y^
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      41 6 1955 Rally. Mrs. Jan Branford receives the trophy for the best result by a lady driver. THE winning driver and navigator of the 1955 Rally, Messrs. Brazier Stewart, congratulate each other as they receive their awards.
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      592 6 EVERY sphere of life, throughout the course of history, has had its Christopher Columbus— exceptional beings who have looked at the world irom a new angle. who have flaunted every opposition and risked all they had for a personal conviction. They are the pioneers who
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      17 7 For two days starting tomorrow, 115 cars will travel Q| nnir *v
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      898 8 T.A.C. INTRODUCES YOU TO EVERY sport attracts its different characters who can usually be classified into types. Motoring is no exception It is no use looking fur ihese people during an ordinary working daythey either hibernate or dme around m disguise But. as soon
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      37 8 The organizing committee of the Shell Malayan Motor Rally. Left to right: Messrs. L. E. Fencott, P. R. W. Jupe. A. Gilbert, K. Price, K. J. Saunders. Absent: Mr. J. N. Lockerbie.
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      348 8 ACE MOTORISTS IN THE RALLY THE cream of Malaya's motoring sportsmen get off at dawn tomorrow from three ■centres for the second Shell Motor Rally which will take them to the Federal Capital for the final run to Singapore. They will not be tearing along the trunk road from the
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      33 8 i! CAPT. HARRY Bauchan (riuht «ith hi^ n.i\:: I] T G. Buchan, were the outricht «innrr> ol lh« i Ma'ayan Motor Club Selangor K.iilv 11-v will lead 1 a team of Jaguar 4s
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      426 9 I Treated Nazi Threats Of Harm With Contempt THE DUKE Germans Vain Bid To Keep Him In Europe Revealed LONDON, Aug 1, (Reuter)— The Duke of Windsor, uncle of Queen Elizabeth, said today that m Lisbon during the Second World War, Nazi sympathisers threatened himself and the Duchess with "personal
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      73 9 PC. r PHE only vita! itatll- tics we can give you about June Little (above) are that f-he is 19, lives at Sidcup. Kent, has won a bSMIf competition, seldom goes out with boys, works m a florists, and is mad about cacli. But
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      278 9 She Forced Her Husband At Gun- point To Sign Divorce Agreement EL paso. Ttzas, Ak i, (AP)— The Briti>h-born Wife of a r.S. Air Force major grimly refused to disclose any or her Briti.,h luck;;round yesterday m connection with <:-...r;r, cf bigamy hrouiiht against her. Mrs. Eileen Stuart, will I
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      133 9 Lived together but didn't speak PROVIDENCE. Rhru.e Island, A 1 (AP) A connle who not i p 'ken m it jean though ::n<;er the same ro.)t' until last year, and who communicated through the sur- Din of their 17 < dno, are m a divorce court here.
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      96 9 sax diego. California, A. 1, (AP). —In a divorce suit against! Atoii Fencrcr yi\ rerriay. Mrs. Rosina Fcderer ■aid he made tbeii eigbtryearo^d ciau^htcr mOVt ttOßk her bed so that a chimpanzee cou'.d ipy It Mrs. Foc:e:vr. who wai given an
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      124 9 1— TV West Orminv \u-. 1. .Reutcr— man who prn.n t,. h,- Ilitlfr Im a mi'.ulivl square and made a i- >■• jl ctiuit ht're ot cauMiiij .i Han- o:t.. I.r-.u,r. a waitm uho looks very much like i ura nt v hen- li"/
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      168 9 NEW YORK. AM, 1 <AP) A ma.-j roundup of member^ of a street gang was Lannelied yestentaj after a •een-agcd boy wu stabbed to death on Tuesday n.ght. Rival guns members aided police. FAzht youthful members of the "Egyptian Kings'' pans; were m custody m
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      108 9 NEW YORK. Aue 1. (AP>— A textile worker talked her h, a down off his perch on the 22nd floor railing of an air shaft yesterday after police had diverted the executive from an apparen; suicide attempt "Hello George, what are you
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      117 9 PRETORIA, Transvaal. Aug. 1 (Rcutcr) Rk bro:-cc out and police intervened when about 150 Pretoria University students clashed with ducktail»—the equivalent to British teddy boys here last night. A number of youths were injured and recei/ed treatment. Tne students armed with scissors to cut the hair
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      326 9 UN Problems Are Getting Out Of Hand CHURCHILL WARNS: LONDON, Aug. 1 (IP) Sir Winston Churchill warned the American Bar Association last night that unless the fate of the United Nations was changed "the structure may be brought to nothing." Proposing a :oast to the legal profession at a gala
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      45 9 CANBERRA A;;. 1. (Boottrl Almosi 1.000 Huneirians who fled to Australia loiiowinc revolt m Hungary ia^t October a:e still out of work. Immigration department officials said Hungarian refueers Who -.vrre still loc-. tig homes had been billetted m three migrant centres.
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      138 11 Malayans More 'Hi-Fi' Conscious THE Cycle Carriage Co. (1926> Ltd has just opened its .^-conditioned High Fidelity deonstration rooms m Orchard Road. Singapore and Ampang Road, i Lumpur. The public and Hi-Fi enthusiasts are invj th« demons' tdotis whi h are ooen durii to Hsten to "lifelike" rei duction of
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      118 11 SINGAPORE i r prices yafterday rose i cent to 913 cents per lb. International first grade rubber for August shipment on a stagnant marks! The market opened quiet at higher prices but remained featureless throughout the day. At noon the market was I at 91| cer/ Small demand
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      108 11 L\ -\r.a r.jen c.'iir.^ os per picul yesterday were: copra, August (25) buyers, $26 se" ?41 sellers, m s Mil sellers. nto* "Txrhite pepper $111 sellers; Sara ~.ite $110 tellers special Sarawak black COPRA HOLID.W CUTLER BATH CO ITLJ ALULSI 11 a.m. unquoted Koon V. i. R r\
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      166 11 Talks On S'pore Rice Situation CHAMBER TEAM TO SEE MINISTER SINGAPORE'S Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. j.m. Jumabhoy, will meet Chinese Chamber of Commerce representatives today to discuss the present rice situation m the Colony. A spokesman for the Chamber said the present export regulations on rice and the
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      264 11 A TRAVEL organization with a complete set-up m all phases of travel service m the Orient the Everett Travel Service, is opening an office m Singapore tomorrow. It is a department of the Everett Steamship Corporation S A. Manila, i "Our to sell Singapore and we
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      79 11 THE former Frenchowned cargo-liner, Cellina. the third of four vessels bought by Lloyd Tricstino for its Far East cargo expansion service, will arrive m Singapore on Aug. 6. Built m 1951, the 7.729--ton vessel. h;is a speed of 16 knots, a bale capacity of 442.524 cubic feet and
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      240 11 FIGURES just released for January to June of this year spotlight the way m I which Britain's motor industry is again gaining ground m its world sales. Production bn been rising and, by the end of June, more than half a million cars and
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      201 11 Mission To Formosa Impressed MEMBERS of a Malayan trado delegation now visiting Formosa have found industrial developments on the island beyond their expectations, it was reported. A member of the delegation which arrived last week for a two-week survey UM trade talk] to:d reporters that he an i his colleagues
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      194 11 TYRE prices m the United States will rise I to 5 per CCnt, Industry sources reported m New York yesterday. While exad figures have not yet been Officially announced by the *vre makers, reliable sources reported that prices of passenger automobile tyres will be
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      245 11 .MALAYAN' >• i: ebrckers yesterday reported the follow. rig business done: C.TS. ord M/l xd; F. H nrd^ $2,921 overnight; Gam"- 12.63 to |2.65; Hammers $2 35 to $2J7 S H. Waufh Si. 9o overnigl I and yesterday; Hume profs A23/3, 23/. (overnight': Cements 5 1 7
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      285 11 INDUSTRIALS were mostly easier, while tins were irregular, according: to the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday. Rubber-; wrre firm Buyers Sel'ers Fraser Neave: 2 90 2 M nnn I 0 2.66 W Hammer 2-2 2.37 Hiim 0 Industries: Pref M > Jackson A Ooc LW I "2 M. Cement
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      356 13 WALCOTT, SOBERS STOP ROT LONDON. Aus:. 1 AP)— county cricket nn>, Surrey, scored ;u:is against the West s yesterday and then ;red three ot their ients' wickets lor 56 runs. At one time, it looked as fhous S :rey would run through the tourists'
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      160 13 rHCA Wales, Aug. 1 (RcUtei F: Jones, of Sc i d the vacant British and E flyweight boxing title here night when ne kno I Len Recce, of Wales, m the eleventh round. Jones, 24-year-old miner, was behind on points gained a dramatic knockout. The crowd of
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      14 13 HOW they finished m Standardpics at Penang on Wednesday.
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      106 13 SCARBOROUGH, England. Aug. 1 CAP) Defending champion Peer Cawthorn of Australia, rooted Nasrullah Khan, of Par: tan. m 29 minutes yesterday to so into QIC quarter-finals of the Prore—ional Lawn tennis tournament, here. Cawthorn defeated Khan G-l. 6-0, 6-0 m the ".hird round of the
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      595 14  - Solid Gold Trial By Cup Hope: Rao Rajah WINDSOR LAD By PENAXG. Thurs. —Candidates for the Penang Gold Cjd run over 1| miles on Saturday were given their v inding up gallops at Bat a Gantong training tracks t: .s morning, and none went better than Rao Ratah from Eddie
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      276 14  -  KEN TOFT Star Of Two World Cup Tourneys... New Zealand Not Happy About Thomas Cup Tie By NEW ZEALAND is not happy about its chances against Indonesia m the first round of the Asiatic Zone of the Thomas Cup. Thil was the feeling expressed by JefT
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      55 14 A Rocker For The 'Hurricane' WORLD heavyweight eham pion Floyd Patterson, right dishes it out to chaJlenger Tommy 'Hurricane' Jackson left, m their title fight at the Polo ground, New York on July 29. Patterson, who entered the ring a five-one favourite won on a technical knockout m the 10th
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      253 14  - A 'Return All Want But SAFA AL JOHNSON By ON Saturday, Singapore will meet the Kowloon Bus soccer tourists and though there are many who are willing to bet on a Kowloon victory, no one would even try to predict another clash between the Singapore Malays and the Busmen... not
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      117 14 CANANDAIGUA. New York, AUf. 1 <AP> Donald Campbell' today failed In his first attempt to break hi- water speed record on Canandaigua Lftkfe. The BtAUh Weed king piloted his hydroplane, Bluebird 11. to 158.6 and 137.5 m ph. m two runs, but a slight, almost invisible swell on
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      47 14 TENNIS .\Yv Zealand Davis Cup stars VS Singapore on the SCC courts 5 p.m. ATHLETICS Primary Schools sports at Jaian Be<ar stadium; Canossa Convent sports. SOCCER CotmOi SC r.s Bed ok SC Junior Cuptie at Geylang. SWIMMING i Raffle* Institution Carnival at CSC 2 p.m.
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      95 14 SIXGAPORE soccer teams Bgainal KowlOOa Bus and So ;th China touring teams wi'.l be: Tomnrrnx, against Kowloon at Ja tin Besar Stadium, R. 15 p.m.: y«w Chang; Kok Chen::. All Samijan; na'amon, Kok Seng, Osman Johan; Kassim, R idin Aii. Tahir Abu. Ismail Yusof. Ibrahim Mansor.
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      130 14 First Round.. To This Page THIS page, which had been clamouring for the Singapore AAA to open its meetings to the press and thus fall in line with other Colony associations won the first round last night. Reporter Peter Wong became the first from the Standard to .sit at an
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      257 14  - Rauna And Thevan Better M- Marks RAY JALLEH Johore AAA Meet Opens With Records By BAIT PAHAT. Thurs. Two Malayan and thr'f State records were shattered at the Johore Amati Athletic Association's ninth annual amateur athletic today. The two Malayan records smashed were m the hammer and six miles run.
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