Singapore Standard, 2 January 1958

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  • 23 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD IK JK. m [FINAL EDITION] Telephone *****—5 Coble: "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1958 Vol. VIII No. 183. 13cts. 12 Pages
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  • 478 1 ROCKET EXPLOSION ROCKS A PARTY One Man Blown To Bits, Another benously /n/ared By Standard Staff Reporter TRAGEDY STILLED A GAY NEW YEARS EVE PARTY IX SINGAPORE EARLY YESTERDAY WHEN A ROCKET WHICH WAS INTENDED TO BLAZE IN THE ARRIVAL OF 1958 EXPLODED INSTEAD, BLOWING ONE MAN
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  • 187 1 N.Z. PUTS LICENCE CURB ON IMPORTS WELLINGTON, New Zealand. Jan. 1 (Reutcr) Mr. Walter Nash, Prime Minister of New Zealand, announced here today that all future imports into the country will be subject to In a nation-wide broadcast. Mr. Na.sh said that trading banks would not allocate any exchange tc
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  • 233 1 WE CAN LEAD THE WORLD TO PEACE BRITONS TOLD LONDON. Jan. 1, (Reuter) Mr. Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister, called today for self-discipline and unity if Britain was to help lead the world along the road to peace. "If we do not undermine our economic strength we can play a
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  • 588 1 'WE HOPE FRIENDLY TIES WILL DEVELOP FRUITFULLY' LONDON, Jan. 1 (Reuter Mr. Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, has received a New Year message from the leaders )f the Soviet Union. The :hree-page telegram, is signed by Marshal Klementi Voroshilov. President
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  • 52 1 PEKING. Jan. 1 (Reutcr) Sha Wen Han. Governor of China's East Coast province of Chekiang, has been dismissed, the Peking Peoples Daily reported today. Five days ago, the Communist Par.y newspaper revealed that Sha and three of his senior aides had been branded "rightists" and ex-pel'.c-d from
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  • 108 1 TOKYO. Jan. 1 (Renter) The Japanese nation today begun IU three-day annual holiday before going back to wcrk harder than ever to improve this country's precarious international payment's position. In Tokyo, warm sunny weather enabled more tiian 2.000.000 residents to visit the Meiji Shrine where the
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  • 81 1 JERUSALEM. Israeli Sector. Jan. 1 (AFP)— The cabinet crisis m Israel caused by the resignation of Premier David Ben Gurion was not expected to be settled for several days at least, authoritative circles here considered. President Isaac Ben z v i opened consultations yesterday afternoon with
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  • 155 1 11 Die In Flying Boat Crash BUENOS AIRES. Jan. 1 (Reuter). Eleven people were feared drowned yesterday when an Argentine flying boat came down m the harbour here with engine trouble. The plane, a Short Sandringham of Aerolinea.s Argentinas. had taken off for Asuncion, Paraguay, but turned back after a
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  • 45 1 WELLINGTON. Jan. 1 (Reuter) Sir Edmund Hillary today struggled to within 100 miles of the South Pole, through snow conditions so bad his men had to dig the tractors out with shove's, and were forced to offload much of their supplies.
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  • 21 1 HEAVY snow fell m Scotland and Northern England yesterday. Many roads were blocked. Traffic m industrial areas was upset.- Reuter
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  • 124 1 NEW DELHI, Jan. 1, (Reuter) Thirty people were reported killed and orcr 100 injured when two trains were m collision near Ambala early this morning, it was announced here. Thick fog was said to be hampering rescue work. The Ambala-Delhi passenger train
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  • 135 1 ROME, .lan. 1 (Reuter) Oina Lollobrigida. the Italian film star, has filed a £115.000 suit for alleged breach of contract against the Italian Rizzoli Film Company, it was revealed at Romas Palace of Justice today. The suit will be heard on Feb. 5. Miss Lollobrigida
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  • 78 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Three Communist terrorists on New Year's Eve calmly stole into the fenced village of Yons Peng and raided a sundry good* shop for food. After collecting what they wanted a huge pile of food they forced the sundry shop owner to
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  • 163 1 LONDON. Jan. 1 (Rcutcr) Scotland Yard announced today that all types of crime increased m the London area during the past year. More crimes of violence took nlace than the year before, the jYard reported. The 38 mur|ders reported were slightly above the 1H56
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  • 88 1 ADEN. Jan. 1 <Rcuter> An official statement here today said that Yemeni authorities at Qataba. 60 miles north west of Aden, are making new attempts to up.sot peace and security In border districts of the Aden Protectorate by Instigating acts of violence. A small armed gang,
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  • 37 1 PRESIDENT Eisenhower by executive order gave the Japanese Government yesterday a greater voice m determining the reduction of sentences and granting of parole to Japanese war criminals who are subject to United States jurisdiction.— U.P.
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    • 85 1 GOOD THOUGHTS for the New Year i hjmmH /y I v^^jJ^l A FAVOURITE HERE SINCE 1956 NOW IN ITS THIRD YEAR IN MALAYA See the 4 f I Versatile New I S THAMES TRADER At UNIVERSAL! CARS LTD. J SittgapOfS and Pcnang RNI BROS. I II) K. Lumpur Seremban Hunf
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  • 237 2 Foot In London For Talks LONDON. Jan. 1 (Router)— Sir Hugh Foot. Governor of the Mediterranean Island Colony of Cyprus, arrived here by air yesterday for high-level government talks likely to open a new phase m approaches towards settling the destiny Of the troubled territory. Ho win report on his
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  • 110 2 Lawyer Is 111th Swiss President BKRNE. Jan. 1 (KP) Dr. Thomas Holenstein, 61 a a suc(r ful corporation lawyer turned politician, today became Switzerland's 111 th president. Head of the Federal Department for Public Economy since hit election to the seven-mem-ber Federal Council (cabinet) m 1954, Dr. Ilolenstein was elected
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  • 54 2 TAIPEH, Jan. 1 (Renter) An air raid alarm on Matsu Island interrupted the New Year celebrations today when the Nationalist Armed Forces radar picked up five flights of Communist plar.es. A communique said they spotted them llyin? near the Nationalist-held offshore island and one flight
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  • 590 2 R.I. WILL CONTINUE CAMPAIGN FOR WEST IRIAN IN NEW YEAR JAKARTA, Jan. 1, (Reuter) Indonesia entered the New Yccr today with a government declaration it would continue the canpQ c n for Dutch West New Guinea. Mr. Sudibjo, M.nister of Information and Cabinet spokesman, declared Indonesia
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  • 129 2 CALCI TTA, Jan. 1 (AFP)— Dr. Gelinovsky, ViceChairman of the Soviet Planning Commission, has refused to allow any other Russian to visit him at the Indian mental home where he w under examination, except a Russian interpreter and the Soviet ViceConsul m Calcutta, it was
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  • 87 2 NEW YORK. Jan. 1. (Renter'—Newsweek magazine said yesterday there was a possibility President Eisenhower would next year return Queen Elizabeth's visit to the United States. The magazine said: "Intimates who have talked to Ike since his return lrom Paris are convinced he'll make one
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  • 158 2 CHRISTIANS. MUSLIMS CO-OPERATE DELEGATES to the recent Institute of MuslimChristian Co-operation at Washington. D.C for the World Fellowship of .Muslims and Christians. Group photo of members of the panel: left to right, back row. Dr. Marko Zuzir. Director of International Relations, Blur Army of Our lady of ratima: Dr. Robert
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  • 98 2 PROFESSOR C. P. r. Nobel Prize winner and I dent of the -w. rid Fedei Of Scientific Workers." seni \cw Year's mess »cientistj thro ighout the In tho message, Prot Powell asked men of sciei take a "resolute and position to ensure thai researches are used for h
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  • 111 2 PRESIDENT Chi n i I told his X lowers and Ihe laipch Mid il must keen constant •on the evcr-ci. situation. The President v. during celebrati the 47th Chinese R p iblic. He said: "If we rour preparations we shall not on opportunity of j bjecth es
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  • 140 2 'Hope And Gain For Free World' LONDON. Jan. 1 (UP Eld'Y statesman Sir Win i Churchill said yesterd ly i I 1958 "can be a period i I and icaiii for the lr< v In nis annual New V message :i- Grand M the Primrose Leagu< year-old wartime Brii premier
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  • 21 2 PREMIER Viliam Sirnky of Czechoslovakia will visit in- i Will I Rajendra Pi j i ,i Nehru. UP
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    • 937 2 STANDARD >VftjyXflftd ANNOUNCEMENT TUITION CITIZENSHIP REGISTRATION Y.W.C.A. \.^*nc F n W rr Arr fl n Rr TODAY'S Singapore Citizenship I" 7 cnt < l<l^'» c^mmcrr ~g Fnd.iv l-io k- sf ration flt <i 11 a rr\ 13, Fnrt i Ah 10 am Fee $20 for 6 lessons mn,n R iv
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    • 750 2 TENDER NOTICES CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDER CITY ENGINEERS DEPARTMENT. Supply of High Tensile Steel Reinforcing Rods. Tender Deposit $200, Close 12 Noon— l 3/1/58.. Tender Documents are availab. from the City Engineer^ Department 'Room 218 on production of the City Treasurer*! Receipt. which w be made m the name
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    • 420 2 THE TOWN BOARDS ENACTMENT rr (F.M.S. CAP. 137) JJz Ipoh Town Council NOTICE. lys ir- NOTICE is hereby given ">m that it is proposed under 58. See ion 144 of the Town or Boards Enactment to amend ?r- the Ipoh Approved Town Plan No. B. 3 (Gazette Notind j ncation
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  • EDITORIAL • SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 354 3 NEW YEAR messages from the four top Icrs of the Governments of Singapore and the ,-Qhon stressed one vital need unity m Id.ng up secure and strong foundations on c!i the peaceful and prosperous progress of the > r:rriforics can be assured. In the Federation, Yang di Pertuan
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    • 409 3 learnt that the new City Council has cskcrJ the department concerned lite the additional revenue that it could if the assessment rate on properties was per cent. That such an order has ide indicates that the Council is consting increasing assessment m the very near We anticipated
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  • 54 3 1 -i. i im Icck Kirn f!o.id, S'porr 2. PO Bo* No 15C3 Cabl-s: T ICEKNEWS" r«l: ***** (5 l.nrsi, All dppartmonts K UALA LUMPUR: I „nj Insurance lldg 174. Bj»u Nd 1 r^iono ***** 1 1 r v 11, Cowan St. Trl: 3829 NA^C: g
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  • 1982 3 By Norris McWhirter, Compiler of "The Guinness Book of Records, under special arrangement with THE OBSERVER, 'J^HE year 1957 has surpassed all others m the history of record breaking. Yet there is every reason to feel certain that even its dangerously exciting tally Will be eclipsed m
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  • 56 3 The Free World's plan for global disarmament would prevent war m these ways: (1 Stop making atomic bombs. (2) Stop testing atomic bombs. (3) Prevent surprise attack by air and ground inspection. (4) Reduce conventional armed forces. (5) Stop th? race toward outer space missiles. The USSR
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 140 3 Sir The inaugural meeting of the City Council, to say the least, was most revolting, and no man with an ounce of decency left m him would have allowed that state of affairs that Tuesday afternoon. The Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, had the
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    • 156 3 Sir Standing on the deck of the ship that, very recently, brought us all back from Hongkong, it was so nice to see a launch speeding its way from that ship to land, taking the wife of the Minister of Health back to Singapore. We others, however, waited
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    • 165 3 Sir I have been following the trend of events that now leads towards the ea.siest way of obtaining Federal Citizenship papers m Penang. At the same time I have been going round the streets m the City of George Town, and am not surprised at the few Chinese
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    • 357 3 Sir— The remarks by Zninuddin bin Haji Ahmad at the last Budget Meeting of Pahang State Council that Government clerks are lazy and he had seen them sipping coffee when they should be working should not go unchallenged. It would have been better if the Headfl of
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    • 170 3 Sir The last City Council elections have shown us the complacency of responsible and decent citizens who did not care to vote In their own interests. They cannot blame? anyone, if the rates are increased by the new City Council, but themselves, and by then it will
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  • 223 4 $2M. GOVT. LOAN FOR 225 HOUSES IS PLANNED SINGAPORE Govern. mcnt plans to loan $2,000,--to the Government Officers' Co-operative Housing Society to build about 225 houses for sale to its members on an instalment basis. \W h >r Secretary, Mr. T. M. Hart, will ask the Legislative Assembly on Jan
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  • 101 4 ALOR STAR. Tues— ln a New Year message to the people of Perli?. the Mentri Besar Dato Laksmana Haji Mohamad Razaii, said: "We are now looking after ourselves and this means that we must work harder and sacrifice more for the country and the
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  • 265 4 THE NEW YEAR IS GAILY USHERED IN And In Penang, Revellers Help Pick Trade Queen THOrSANDS of Singaporeans went gay m the festive spirit, wining, dining and merry-making to usher m the New Year. Revellers began celebrating since early on New Year's Eve, when thousands packed the Colony's dance halls,
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  • 162 4 8-lb GIRL IS SPORE'S FIRST NEW YEAR BABY THIRTY-FIVE newborn babies, including a set of twins, greeted the New Year at the Kanrfang Kerbau Maternity Hospital. Singapore. An eight-pound boy was the first of ten babies born at the Maternity Hospital m PENANG between midnight and noon yesterday. The first
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  • 59 4 WASHINGTON. Jan. 1 (AFP) The Department of Commerce announced yesterday that the United States population increased by nearly 3.000,000 persons during 1957 and will reach the total c! 172,800.000 as of today. There were 1.500,000 more women than men m the US. and I total
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  • 129 4 A SINGAPORE Government spokesman yesterday said the biggest problem faring the island this year was how to launch the new constitution. "In order to ensure that the fully-elected Government gets ofT to a good start, it is essential that the percentage of polling for
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  • 130 4 1,400 Want 20 Jobs As Peons TWO HUNDRED Singapore students of Standards six, seven and eight and one Senior Cambridge student have applied to become Government Office peons. The Standard was told yesterday that the minimum qualification required for the posts was Standard five. In all 1.400 applications were received
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  • 94 4 Relaxation Of Curfew Is Welcomed KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The relaxation of road curfews m the Segamat area of Johore has brought better business to •^hops and places of entertainment m the district, a spokesman of the Department of Labour said today. As a result of the relaxation, labourers now have
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  • 202 4 Floods: All Roads In Negri Are Now Clear KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Following is the latest position of floods m five Federation States: Se'.angor: Sungei Besi distrie*: All dear Kajang Ka.iang Dengkil Road 29th mile, 28 ins; 28th mile 38 ins; passable to heavy traffic only. Bans! -Dengkil road 182— 21
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  • 59 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed— The high co-t of production m the Bentong district has thrown many logging operators out of business, the Department of Labour said today. It is reported that the estimated cost for the production of a ton of timber from the district amounts to
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  • 52 4 MEMBERS of the Corporals' Club of the Royal Air Forte* stationed at Port Sucttenham entertained friends, officers, and men to a Christmas dinner paity and dance, last Saturday Members of the 4< 414 skiffle group." the camp band, are seen entertaining guests. Picture by Ch'ng
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  • 69 4 FOUR hundred people m Ulu Rernam, near Tanjong Malim, were recently sworn m as Federal citizens by Che Mat Noor, assistant Registrar of Citizens, Kuala Kubu Bahru. Among them were about 100 estate labourers. A group of labourers are teen above, repeating the oatn at the
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  • 162 4 BBC Gives Fair Deal To Workers KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The British Broadcasting Corporation station at Tcbrau m Johore is one of the best employers of daily paid workers m the country, the latest monthly reDort of the Department of Labour discloses. The forty daily-rated and eight monthly paid labourers have
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  • 81 4 PHILADELPHIA. Pennsylvania. Jan. 1 (AFP) Director of the International Monetary Fund, Mr. Jacobson. today confirmed that France would he embarking on negotiations this month with the Fund and the European Payments Union to obtain credits to helD her budget deficit until measures taken by the
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  • 120 4 MR I. D MARLER, I na!;o:;n! Labour Or.:: I expert and former Training Within Ii I I the Singapore GrOvei I pass through the Coh month on hi I way to 1 1 kong. Mr. Marler, who is 11 sent m Yugoslavia, has i
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  • 387 4 Group Labour Is Popular With Workers KIALA Ll'MPl'R, Wed.— The increasing number of Chinese workers adopting the collective labour contract system— popularly known as the "pok choy" (try luck) system— was perhaps the most Important change m employment conditions during 1956, the annual report of the Department of Labour published
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    • 56 4 ODEON'S 195» BIG J J MIDNIGHT ATTRACTION! J i THE CARY GRANT COMEDY THAT "f* SPARKLES LIKE CHAMPAGNE! <^( )f* Starring CARY GRANT (of "An Affair To Remember") JAYNE MANSFIELD (of "The (iirl Cant Help If) SUZY PARKER < Holly wood's newest sensational) 5^ A 20th Century-Fox Picture m Cinemascope
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  • 1372 5 'Unique, Bold, A Style And Class All Its Own FRO M ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT XI \I \LIMPIR,Wed. readers m the I, drral Capital found the "N«-w Look very m" terestin*. ni iH<;, wfllbalanced and different. found it "strange*' that
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  • 183 5 'Dressed Up' Dutch Vessels Lie Idle In S'pore Harbour l IFTEEN Dutch ships are "all dressed up m Sinjtanore with nowhere to go." They include the coasters Lembe, Lawi, Toboaii. Lawu, Rokan. Larantuka, Legundi. Lnman t ;an, Kampar, Batavia. Larat, Atjeh. General Van G9CII, and the De Errens. This enforced
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  • 49 5 T SERAI, Wed.— t Rah nan, 38. 30 and were yes- I each by Cir- ruan Haji lin Haji Abdul for arrested •'1 a party of dice at the Gedong Sunday lair on 3 1. 20, ordered a $50 for the informer.
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  • 22 5 ration Minister Resources, Inche to bn Samsuddin has n apDointed treasurer of Malays National replaces k ■r.,.;;; 11 Hahi bin
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  • 68 5 Good Wishes For The Bridegroom POLICE Inspector hche Hamid bin Lai(ii" of Tampin and Che ZafaMu AMvlgaal were married at the bride's Silence m Petaling 'i>a on Sunday. federation Director I Information Services Va'acob bin Abd«l Utlll, is seen conr »tMutin s the brideat the conclusion t e Bersanding Mow
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  • 170 5 'NO GOVT. MEASURES TO FIGHT FLOODS' KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. "Government is not contemplating measures to minimize the Hoods which ravage the East Coast an-] nually," the Director of Drainage and Irrigation, Mr. R.L. Aker told The Standard today. Mr. Aker pointed out that the main reason for not embarking on
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  • 29 5 Two interesting new enterprises have come into existence m Selangor one is the manufacture of tiles from tin tailings and the other plastic bags from polyethlene film.
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  • 182 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Federal capital will have a Shakespeare Fortnight when the local British Council presents the exhibition "Shakespeare m the Theatre" on Monday Jan. 6. The exhibition will depict m concise pictorial form how Shakespeare's plays have been performed m Britain from his
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  • 64 5 KUALA LUMPUR. WedThere are now 2,369 consumers of electricity m Kuala Trengganu, compared with three m m 1943, reports "Power," official organ of the Central Electricity Board. And to cope with the increasing demand, the kilo-volt system has been installed and more sub-stations have been commissioned.
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  • 208 5 Ban Strip Shows, Rock And Roll Malay Congress MALACCA, Wed.— Strip-tease shows, rock and roll and objectionable films, books and records considered detrimental to Malayan culture may be banned m Malaya if proposals by the National Cultural Council formed by the Malay Cultural Congress today are implemented. After two days
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  • 67 5 FEDERATION Minister for Heal.h, Mr. V. T. Sambanthan, is seen examining curry prepared m the kitchen, during his visit to the Central Mental Hospital, Tanj o n g Rr-mbutan, Perak, on Monday. He is accompanied by members of the hospital ■UUfc After his tour,
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  • 36 5 The latest monthly report of the Department of Labour discloses that considerable difficulty still exists m the enforcement of the Employees Provident Fund Ordinance with regard to some local councils and certain Chinese schools.
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  • 135 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Independent Malaya's own Honours List is expected to be ready before the end of the year, sources close to the Federal Cabinet said today. The Standard learns that the committee appointed by the Government is now actively engaged m drawing up the Federation's
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  • 289 5 Fares Up: Bus-Users Feel The Pinch PENANG, Wed— Residents of Ayer Itam, Jelutong and Bagan Jermal, who came to town to celebrate their New Year today by using City Council trolley and motor buses, were the first to feel the pinch as a result of 100 and 50 per cent
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  • 305 6 Surprise Packet For 'Mr. Perfect' Of English Soccer LONDON, Wed. Here is the happiest Soccer story of th» year, with seasonal goodwill busting out all over. It happened at a Liverpool boardroom party yesterday when club chairman Tom Williams presented Billy Liddell. 35. and still the emperor of Merseyside Soccer,
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  • 66 6 LAKELAND. Florida. Jnn. 1. <Reuter> Professional golfer Peter Cooper had a 13 under par 59 on the Cleveland Heights course her P yesterday— his 43rd birthday. Playing with friendi he had 29 on the first nine and 30 on the second. Par for the 6.450 yard course is
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  • 228 6 IT was a wet New Year Day, but the weather didn't dampen the spirits of thousands of Singaporeans crowded along: the City's sea front to watch the 119 th annual sea sports m the harbour. Spirits were high, too. among the hundreds
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  • 148 6 K Y A^nci^ UR -u Weci s v eral prominent Federation S?£i?is? a^° r .i Cl V zens^ are m a ILs^ 500 bookmakers S?ngap?re Clubs m thfc Federation and T1 e r lis Snl as i C K mP ii led by the
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  • 332 6 Brazil Gets Set For World Cup Soccer RIO DE JANEIRO. (IP» Selection of Brazilian World Cup players will soon begin and selectors hop? to produce a top-flight team of 22 by April. The line-up is anybody's guess. But Brazilian soccer writers th:nk the "basic" learn of 11 will be a
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  • 93 6 MANILA. Jan. 1, (AFP) Filipino international master Rodolfo Cardoso yesterday defeated Malayan champion John Hickey m 41 moves to maintain his lead m the first Asian zone chess tournament currently being played m Baguio City. Philippine national chamnion M\?liton Borja moved up to third place m the
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    29 6 GREY Elegance (Moses Lee) being led m by oirner Mr. A. P. Lim of Singapore on Wednesday at Penang. Grey Elegance scored a double at the meeting just concluded*
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  • 51 6 THE Blocks Rugby Union Football Club of Singapore have cancelled four-flxturvs for the remainder of th c season. These are against RAF Tengah on Saturday; against RAOC Keat Hong on Jan. 8; against RNZAF Tengah on Jan. 22 and acainst rAF Seletar B o n Jan.
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  • 24 6 PENANG, Wed. A Penang Invitation eleven meets the Malayan Malays m a football match at the City Stadium tomorrow at 5.15 pm.
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  • 67 6 MANILA, Jan. 1 (AFP) The Philippines may send a badminton team to participate m the Asian Games m Tokyo next May. the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation announced yesterday. Susano Ne?ado, chairman of the P.A.A.F. badminton committee, said that based on the excellent performance of local
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    52 6 GREEK wrestler Andres Lambrakis has world contender Jim Londos m trouble m this picture of their fight last month m London. The bearded Greek beat Londos who declared after the fight that 'if anyone can bring down world chaynpion Lou Thesz. it is Lambrakis.' The Greek is Singaporebound for Colony
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  • 165 6 Unity Is Paying Off For RASC The new policy to unite and not divide its strength is paying off for the Royal Army Service Corps rugger team m the current lARELF rugby competition (Singapore zone). They are now m the semi- final of the Singapore zone Their position there may
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  • 488 6 BERRY'S OUT OF JUNGLE AND IN JOHORE TEAM A newcomer but he's the best m trial JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Second Lieutenant Allen Berry, of the X; -i Own Scottish Borderers, will have the rare honour of playing his first cup final m his first representative match here when he turns
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  • 556 6 State XV Began Well May End The Same Way Looking Back. .In Selangor KLALA LUMPUR, Wed. Seiangor Sports achievements for the past year was like the curate's egg good and bad m parts. Selangcr heralded m the year with a brilliant win over Singapore Combined Services to become the HMS
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  • 115 6 SINGAPORE Busi nrs, Houses Football Association n*ve awarded the "Snnrtsmrn's Trophy" to Ilrnrv Waujrh Sports Club for il« sporting snirit despite continuous defeats mi n the pr.<t year. Th s was revealed m the As.«onntion's annual report which went o n to say
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  • 34 6 SYDNEY. Jan. 1 (Reuter)— New South Wales, the Sheffield Shield holders, slumped from 298 for three to Sll for seven on the opening day of the f shield match here against Queensland.
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  • 26 6 IN:>IAN YOIWJSTFRS i> at Sabaji Sports Club 2-0 m their Tamil Festival soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers were: Sundram and K. Rahman.
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    • 32 6 TODAYS I SPORT HOCKEY: Fnrelf inter-unit hockey (Singapore Zone) 19 Air Formation Signal Regiment V» Singapore Engineer Regiment at Tanglin. SWIMMING: Tamil Festival. Heats at Haw Par Swimminp Pool at 2.30 p.m.
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  • 231 7 Highlight of the evenU yesterday was the Handicap face f« Men-of-War Whalers, Cutters and Dinghies. Small bo\s dressed as Red Indians and Dayaks paddled small caaoei shouting war cries while raring. Tnr two most important events were the races for ships' lifeboats. RASC Pulau
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  • 209 7 LONDON. Wed. Walsall Cinderella club of tho Third Division South yesterday made a bid to k j n John*; Dixon, CAPTAIN of Aston Villa's Cup- winning side. transfer move c forty-eight ill had apl Cup-winning TRAIN! R :c as their i And although
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  • 147 7 Rose May Bite If Bait Is Juicy Enough Jan. 1. rncuH landing ver, Mervyn 1 I'm very mateur i financially 1 X imer's offer >nal will worth my while 1 I, he said. v diseuM -•fTer with to Sydney "Chew It ek before givinf 1 "I don't ?oo how p
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  • 45 7 Jan. 1 (Renter) t Ti"< i shared with Spartak SoPrague, m an ireh here last night, a t period rally to first matrh of their Ik tour wroreg, Brighton first, V* first goal was acscored by Morrison, ne I iqors.
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  • 52 7 Red Star In The Final J OS, Switzerland, Jan. 1 "'■n "Red Star," of the C/.'hoslovak ice champions, and the team rea-hed the the international tour- [or tn e Spengler Cup *<*€ yesterday. Red Star" beat Milan-Inter jy rour goals to two (period es J; 2 0-0, 3-0). and Davos
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  • 175 7 Cooper Is Top Tennis Player PARIS. Jin 1 (TP) The sports daily Le Quipp ranked iho best 10 world tennis payers frr the yonr onri May and pave the top po.ition to Ashley Cooper of Australia. The paper said the decision to pive Cocper fir>t place over Sven Davidson of
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  • 222 7 Award For Fastest Man Morrow NEW YORK. .Tan. 1 (UP)— Bobby Joe Morrow, blond sprinier from Abilene Christian College and the Texas cotton country, yesterday was named winner of the Jamei E. Sul.ivan Memorial Trophy for 1957. The National Anqpteur Athletic Union presems the award annually to "the amateur athlete
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  • 372 7 McDonald 6- Burke Put On 190 For First Wkt. CAPETOWN, Jan. 1 (Reuter) A cautious Australian start, which develop, ed into a first wicket stand of 190 between Colin McDonald and Jim Burke, dominated the opening day's play of the Second Test against South Africa
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  • 311 7 NZ W YORK, Jan. 1 (I fights m 10S7, the secend sr 11 years. Rins Magazine tai P) Eight boxers died m Atliisst number of deaths m d feday. It attr buted fie record to greater ere In prefight exarrinat'onn anH weeding out iriri^ir:ibles. There
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  • 82 7 CALCUTTA. Jan. 1 (Reuter). Ramanathan Krishnan and Naresh Kumar of India, today won the men's doubles final m the All-India, Lawn Tennis championships here. They beat Billy Knight and Tony Pickard of Britain, 6-4, 6-4. 6-2. Knight and Mrs. J. B. Singh reached the mixed doubles final
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  • 147 7 Two Aussie Winners For Breasley MELBOURNE, Jan. 1 (Reuter) Arthur 'Scobik' Breasley. champion jorkey m England last season, rode two winners and a second at Flemington here today when he made his first riding appearance m his native Australia for five years. He received a tremendous reception from the big
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  • 78 7 PENANG, Wed.— F ormer Penang hockey player, Mr. Tagar Singh, a senior geography master of the Penang Free School, will be going to Kota Bharu as headmaster of Sultan Ismail College there. Mr. Chang Mln Kee, the present headmaster of Sultan Ismail College, will be promoted
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  • 42 7 TPOH. Wed.— The first Ij e m the Northern Section of the F.A.R.E.L.F. boxing team championships will take place at Taiping when the 3 Coy Royal Army Service Corps from I po h meet the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, th* holders.
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  • 55 7 Australia Ist innings McDonald c Waitc b Fuller 99 Burke not out m Harvey c Goddard b Adcock 15 Craig: b Goddard n MacKay not out 3 Extras 3 Total (for 3 wkts.) 234 Fall of wickets: 1-190, 2-215, 3-220. Bowling Adcock 16-4-44-1: Goddard 23-9-43-1; Fuller 18-3--57-1; Tayfield 24-9-46-0;
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  • 94 7 Judy To Give 13 Exhibitions In S. Africa JOHANNESBURG. Jan. 1 (Router). Judy Orinham. 18--year-o'd British Olympic Swimming Gold Medallist, will take part In 13 galas during her four-week tour of South Africa and Rhodesia. She will fly from England and arrive m Salisbury on January 26. The following day
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  • 39 7 MOMBASA, Jan. 1 (Renter) The M.C.C. touring team m East Africa scored 138 for the loss of six wickets after dismissing a coast team here today for 120, first day of a two days match.
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  • 64 7 SYDNEY, Jan. 1 (Reuter) Athletes here have been warned that they will be sent off the ground if their shorts are too short or transparent. An athletic official, Mr. George Marshall, told competitors over the public address system at Sydney's Moore Park sports ground that m
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  • 99 9 WASHINGTON, DC: Part cipants m the signing of the contract for thp first ltom ic-pojrerH merchant ship, the NS Savannah, are (from tett£w. Kenneth 11 f U r L* V? lQ J'** r *y Comrn:*sion; Clarence G. Morse, U.S. IVllri?hr,e Administrator, and EX. leale. president of
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  • 412 9 WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 The past year has been a significant one for the Vnitod States' economy. For 1957 saw the maturing of one of the longest and r. upsurges on record a three-year period of rising prosperity without precedent since t of 1954. ic
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 196 9 Industry Ready To Meet Rivalry THE President of the British Board of Trade, Sir David Eccles, declared m Vancouver this week that U.K. industry is ready and willing to meet competition from any country on equal terms. Sir David said that both during ard after the war Britain went through
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    • 78 9 AUTOMATION has invaded the old craft of potterymaking, and firms m Australia like many others m overseas countries, are finding it necessary to mechanise .plants m order to retain their markets. A company m New South Wales, Star Machinery Pty. Ltd.. of Alexandria, has designed special pottery-throw-ing
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    • 251 9 HONGKONG, Jan. I, (UP)— Western trade with mainland China since the relaxation of control six months ago has amounted to a mere pittance. Prospects for improvement m the near future are dim. Economic experts point out that mainland China hai neither the goods nor
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    • 73 9 LONDON. Jan. 1. (Reuter) One of Britain's cheapest fast cars, the Triumph T.R. 3. has a new look for 1958, the makers announced today. The 100 miles an hour plus sports car has been given a more modern frontal appearance and other detail improvements. Mechanical specification
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    • 106 9 A NEW model of the Azograph electrical duplicator, now being produced m England employs a new kind of duplicating process. Major advantage of this new process, known as the Diazo method is absolute cleanliness, it js claimed. Although it uses master paper and transfer sheet, like a
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    • 35 9 AUSTRALIAN-produced alumina may find a ready market m Norih America by early l«J60, according to a survey by Dr. J. A. Dunn, economist of the Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources.
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    • 36 9 GHANA is importing new cars m greater quantity than ever before, but Britain, long the main supplier, is losing her position to Germany, reports the local head office at Accra of Barclays Bank D.C.O.
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    • 227 9 Shipping Orders Decrease LONDON. Jan. 1, <R ev tcr)~ British shipbuilding firms m 1957 booked over 1,650,000 gross tons of new merchant ship ord ers, about 23 per cent of which were for foreign owners, Mr. J.A. Milne, president lof the British Shipbuilding Conference, stated today. The total was over
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    • 76 9 NEW car sales In the United States are currently at a rafe of some 5.5 million units anrually, and sales m 1058 will be somewhat lower than the estimated 5.8 million cars for 1957. This was the year-end prediction of Mr. Harlow H. Curtice,
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    • 20 9 HIGH costs and unfavourable export exchange rates have caused poor results m Brazil's cotton textile trade m 1957.
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    • 30 9 NEGOTIATIONS for an Anglo-Swiss trade agreement covering the exchange of nonliberalized goods during 1958 will start m London m the second half of this month, according to Financial "imes.
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    • 43 9 THE South and South East Africa shipping conference has announced that owing to a continued rise m costs as a whole, a 2\ per cent supplement on freight charges imposed last February, is to be consolidated into the new freight tariff.
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    • 198 9 NEW GUINEA COCOA EXPORTS RISING COCOA now being planted m Papua and New Guinea will eventually supply all Australia's requirements, according to a statement issued by the Australian Commission m Singapore. This wi 1 not only benefit the economy of New Guinea but will mean a big saving to Australia
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    • 983 9 Special Committee Reports m «llik!ii- LA LL P H R Wed.— The fragmentation of big estates into smallholdings could, m the long run, be beneficial to the country rather w««i, e^ r? j* ntror y expressed m some quarters, when the scheme
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    • 198 9 Millers Hail P.I. Barter Scheme SINGAPORE oil millers yesterday welcomed a report from the Philippines that the country was planning to barter copra fur rice. The Philippines plans to meet a serious rico shortage this year with the barter scheme. A leading miller said the industry wa s still short
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    • 114 9 Markets For Organotin Compounds POSSIBILITIES for the industrial and agricultural uses of organotin compounds were described by Dr. E.S. Hedges. Director of the International Tin Research Council when he opened a tin conference at Frankfurt, Germany, recently. Dr. Hodges described how organotin research, sponsored by the Tin Research Institute m
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    • 38 9 AUSTRALIA is producing today 80,000 tons of newsprint from her forests. In addition to this, she is manufacturing container mnterials such as bag!, wrapping paper and boards at the rate of 250,000 tons a year.
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    • 116 9 THE approach to New York City, gateway to the United States, is one of the most dramatic m the world. Ships approaching New York do so under the vigilance of the gigantic Statue of Liberty and a forest of skyscrapers on Manhattan Island. This view, from
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  • 47 10 QLAD m native dress, Burmese President U Win Haung (left) and Burmese Ambassador U Win (right) are shown visiting Presi- dent Eisenhower at the White House. The Burmese leader brought the Chief Executive a handsome silver bowl engraved with Buddhist stories. UP Photo.
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  • 580 10 William Miilinship reports from Paris T«D French citizens, already bewailing the customary seasonal drain on their purses, the 68 Government decrees authorising a wide range of price increases have come as a sharp blow. And other increases will be introduced m the New Year. It is
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  • 1255 10 Good Progress Over The Year \^te^ctrctfl^^YlewAetter4 AS THE year comes to a m do»c. administrators as well as publicists all over the country are turning to see what India has gained (or lost) m the past twelve months. Our balance-sheet shows a striking: turnover on tne profit side fewer deaths,
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    750 10 r VHE cocktail has all but disappeared from the cocktail party. No longer do guests sip sticky drinks from decorated glasses. Barmen no longer acquire massive reputations for their ability to mix liquors and liqueur* and fruit juice into sweettasting knock-out potions. Those curious drinks with sugar encrusted
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 274 10 THE stars' AND" T»l>AVs QUOTATION: I 'livnius. is the power of lighting one's own ttre lohn loiter. r»J.' IIRSDAV lOR KVKRVONK Attend to regular duties and activities. Allow extra time concerning appointments to offset any need for haste. Exert tact to s-.desten opposition. Be conscientious to avoid displeasure. YOIR HUM
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  • 267 11 Strikers, Company Welcome Inquiry PENANG, Wed.—Government's announcement that it had decided to set up a court of inquiry to examine the dispute" at the Eastern Smelting Company, was welcomed both by the company and its workers today. A company spokesman aescrioed the announcement as "good news." and said: 'Wp are
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  • 57 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed— Two officials of the National Union of Plantation Workers Inche Ismail All bin Hashim and Mr. R.S. Thangavelu left today by air lor the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions college at Calcutta. They will undergo courses m trade unionism and industrial relations.
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  • 210 11 MALAYS IN BUSINESS: A FAILURE? Chamber Q{ Commerce Has A New Three-Point Plan KUALA LUMPUR Wed.— The Associated Malay Chamber of Commerce announced today that it planned to urge the Government to adopt a "realistic" policy towards encouraging Malays to enter commerce and industry. Inche Mohamed Tom Ma.las, secretary cf
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  • 42 11 9 MISS Susan Chia '20, who was chrsrn "N Yrar Queen 1938" at 1 social and dance orcan rd by the Borsumy Spo Club, SingMpore, on Sat day. Tho party was h at the Chinese SwimmJ Club.
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  • 82 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Another cinema was declared open today m the Federal capital It is the $350,000 "Golden City" m Ipon Road i..-.. t~* 1 inn p.mpin Tile opening ceremony was performed by the Timbalan Van? di-Pertuan Agong who is also the Ruler of Belangor. The
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  • 37 11 TEOH SENG TONG, a shop owner m Bagan Serai, was yesterday fined $100 by Magistrate Tuan Haji Badaruddin hi n Haji Abdul Rais for koon- ing his firni open for business I on a holiday.
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  • 218 11 That Suspension Astonishes M.I.C. NEXT: A SHOWDOWN KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Officials of the Malayan Indian Congress here wore or the suspension of the Bukit Mcrtajam Branch of the party by the Alliance. Th i suspension was ordered y sterday by the Prov.nce Weliesley South Alliance council on the grounds that
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 297 12 RUSSIANS CLAIM TO HAVE TAMED H-BOMB Soviet Physicists Have Pained A P Temperature Of Ove One Million Degrees, Says Radio claim tfit Ru£'ia J ha"s »^i**^" Moscow Radio last nigh%roadcast an official powTr of thf H Xmb madC firSt major breakthrough the race to tame the A leading Soviet physicist
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    • 277 12 LET US MARCH INTO BATTLE Rhee Says It Again SEOUL, Jan. 1 (UP) ROK President Syngman Knee, m his New Year's message to the people m Communist North Korea, apologized for his nations 'negligence" m failing to achieve unification. At the same time. Rhee once again called on the United
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    • 116 12 New Links For Peace In World VATICAN CITY. Jan. 1 (1 T P) —Pope Pius XII said yesterday that the progress of modern aviation is forging new links that will help world peaceBut he warned that "material progress is not sufficient" and that peace must "strike its roots deep down
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    • 69 12 TOKYO, Jan. 1 (UP)— The Republic of Korea will continue to arrest and imprison the crews of Japanese or other fishing boats violating the *'Rhce Line," the ROK Minister to Japan said last night. Minister Yiu Tai Ha told reporters here that the signing of the
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    • 57 12 IT LANDS RIGHT ON TARGET UP. THE Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile is shown here shortly after blasting off from the launching pad at the Air Force Missile Test Centre at Cape Canaveral, Fla, In describing the missile's successful test the Defence Department said the Thor "flew its prescribed course
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    • 159 12 SJAHRIR 'Anti-Dutch Campaign Mishandled' CALCUTTA. Jan. 1 (UP) A Communist bid for power during Indonesian President Soekarno's absence IIUI11 lllb CUUiiU^ rtuuM icsull in wvil wau, IwUvuvmau Socialist leader Sultan Sjahrir told the British-owned newspaper, the "Statesman", yesterday. In an interview m Jakarta.
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    • 37 12 ELEVEN people hav e died m ioods during the past two days over a wide area between Algiers and the Port of Bougie. 120 mile s to the east. About 1.000 people are homeless. Reuter
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    • 124 12 LONDON. Jan. 1 (Reuter) Habitual smokers wnoiook at the mounting figures of lung cancer deaths should not say "X's too late to stop now," fcir John Charles, chief medicaJ officer of the Ministry of Health, said yesterday. "It is never too
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    • 145 12 She Predicts Marriage For Princess PARIS, Jan. 1 (Reuter) French woman fortune teller. Mmc- Blanche Orion, reading into her 1958 crystal ball, predicted love and marriage for Princess Margaret. She told the newspaper Le Figaro that there would be no world war, but that the Middle East would remain a
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    • 226 12 Warships Steam To Ceylon With Supplies And Doctors LONDON, Jan. 1 (UP) The 30,000-ton U.S. aircraft carrier Princeton s'.ea.med at full speed toward flood -stricken Ceylon last night at the vanguard of an American naval relief task force. U.S. Navy headquarters here said that the
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    • 73 12 COLOMBO, Jan. 1 (UP) Russia has offered to buy all of Ceylon's rubber and onetenth of its tea. A Soviet trade delegation is discussing technical and economic aid to Ceylon with Prime Minister S. W. D. Bandaranaike and other government officials. P. A. Molotin, head
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    • 179 12 MAC CALLS AMEET ON DEFENCE QUESTIONS LO!>ON. Jan. 1 (Reuter) MHarold Macmillan. British lire Minister, called a meet* of senior Ministers and prices' Chiefs of Staff for ajcneral discussion of defer* questions. Theneeting is believed also to hat considered the situation Malta, whose Parliamentfist night by acclamation inanimousiy passed a
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    • 26 12 BURMESE Premier U Nu ha.? announced that he will visit Egypt next March 11 at the invitation of the Egyptian government. AFP
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    • 205 12 WASHINGTON. Jan. 1 (Reuter) The State Department confirmed yesterday that agreement had been reached m principle on various types of exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union But Mr. Joseph Reap the departments official spokesman, declined at a Press conference to specify
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    • 122 12 LONDON, Jan. 1. (Reuten— The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme for boys is to be extended to girls, it was announced here today. The scheme is experimental and details will be worked out m the next few months. The boys scheme is mi n four
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    • 16 12 YUGOSLAV President Marshal Tito's doctors announced yesterday that his health is 'quite satisfactory." UP
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    • 50 12 SIR HUGH FOOT, governor of Cyprus, strides towards Bella paix House, where he had lunch during his horseback tour of remote villages m Cyprus. The house is the property of Lawrence Durrell, a former Cyprus civil servant and author of the best-seller "Bitter Lemons. UP Photo.
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    • 133 12 'Massacre Threats To Turks ANKARA. Jan. 1 (Reuter).— Dr. Fazil Kutchuk. leader of the Cypriot Turks, claimed here yesterday that Greek Cypriote m loudspeaker cars were making night swoops on Turkish villages warning the inhabitants that they will be "massacred" unless they vjuit the island. "We cannot live with Greeks
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    • 28 12 INDIA and the Philippines have decided to raise to embassy status their diplomatic reDresentations m each other's capitals, it was announced m New Delhi yesterday.- UP
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    • 292 12 Fafal London Train Crash: LONDON, Jan. 1 (Reuter) A coroner yesterday rejected a jury's verdict that 90 rail crash victims dirk m a fog "due to gross negligence." The corner. Mr. R.I. Milne, said: That verdict must of cour.se be accidental death. I appreciate the feelings
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    • 102 12 Midnight Bath to Greet The New Year LONDON. Jan. 1 (RriU.riAttempts at midniuht bathing m the fountains of Trafalgar Square were feature of London's New Year revels Police hid to struim!r to stop muny people adopting this chi'i> fashion. Tens of thousands xatherrd m the Square innj Qslo'i gift Christmas
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    • 46 12 VIENNA, .Van. 1 (UP) Romanian .lustice Mil let Gheorghe Diaconescu I demoted to dep I minister. Radio B rest an* nounced yesterday. It said Avr.nn B ill, I former ser rotary Romanian Grand \.v Assembly (parliament), I been named new justi ter.
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    • 21 12 AIR Chief Marshal Dermot Bovlp, Chief Air Staff, has been pr to Marsh nl of the R Force. Reuter
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