Singapore Standard, 10 May 1958

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  • 25 1 ft it M 3. SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Coble "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 311 15 cts. 14 Poges [FINAL EDITION]
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  • 52 1 to Tokyo yesterday. Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy and Mrs. Jumabhoy, Assemblyman Mr. Soh Ghee Soon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Professor A. Oppenheim, and other guest passengers from Singapore boarding "The City of Nara" at Paya Lebar Airport on its inaugural
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  • 393 1 CURRENT TALKS ARE MUCH MORE DRAMATIC From ANDREW ROTH LONDON, Fri—Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock's love of a mystery and Mr. Lee Kuan Yew's suspicious nature have made the current set of constitutional talks seem much more dramatic than they are likely to be. The talks will consist
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  • 71 1 COLOMBO, May 9 (Reuter) The Ceylon Senate (Upper House) last night passed a bill to suspend the death penalty for a period of three years as an experiment, prior to abolishing capital punishment. The Senate's approval was given after an earlier rejection, which had been followed
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  • 20 1 MR. JOSEPH EDWARD DAVIES former United States Ambassador to Russia, died m Wastinsrton today. He was 81. Reuter
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  • 162 1 RIO DE JANEIRO, May 9 (UP) Officials today blamed an engineer's error for a head-on collision between two passenger trains that killed and injured more than 300 persons. A count of bodies at the Rio city morgue and at hospitals reached 114 this morning.
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  • 529 1 Council Ready To Negotiate On Compensation THE Singapore City Council has agreed to negotiate with its expatriate officers on the question of compensation to be paid for loss of career. Ihe Council's eight-man Finance and General Purposes Committee, which was summoned specially to consider ihe Mayor's Malayanization proposals, yesterday decided
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  • 349 1 PERAK PLAN BEING STUDIED BY SPORE IPOH, Fri— The Perak Turf Club is to institute a new measure to beat illegal character lottery organizers at their own game, The Standard learnt tonight. It will introduce a two-digit lottery, similar to the
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  • 41 1 THE Governor of Singapore. Sir William Goode, arrived m London by air yesterday for Anglo-Singapore constitutional talks shortly after midday. He was originally due m London on Thursday but his aircraft was twice delayed on the way. Reuter
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  • 26 1 A SIX-PAGE supplement to mark the opening of Pan American Airways' new premises m Robinson Road, Singapore, is issued free with today's Singapore Standard.
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  • 152 1 AMERICAN NEWSMAN DETAINED JAKARTA, May 9 (Reuter) Indonesian military police today detained Mr. Bernard Kalb. correspondent of the New York Times on undisclosed charges. Following his release, Kalb told other newsmen that military police were unable to tell him the reason for his arrest. He said he was fingerprinted both
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  • 54 1 HONGKONG. May 9. (Reuter). The Dutch-owned Royal Interocean Lines which has temporarily suspended passenger service to Indonesia announced today it would Degin a weekly passenger service between Hongkong and Singapore m mid-May. However. the Company would continue to send cargo vessels to call at Central and West Indonesia,
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  • 236 1 LONDON, May 9 (ReuteD— Doctors saved the life of a boy twin who did not breathe for 40 minutes after he was born, The Lancet, a British medical journal, disclosed today. Dr John Bullogh, a consultant anaesthetist, reported the case m The Lancet and
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  • 142 1 ABDUCTION SURPRISES MOTHER WHILE she was sleeping beside her mother, a five-year-old girl wax abducted early yesterday morning. Later rescuers returned her to her mother, who was not even aware that the child had been missing. The girl. Tan Ong Nga, was found by three men returning to their homes
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  • 74 1 We Want A Merger Lim BOMBAY. May 9 (Reuter) —Mr. Lim Yew Hock. Singapore's Chief Minister, told reporters at Santa Cruz Airport here today that Singapore was getting closer and closer to the Federation of Malaya. We want' Singapore to be merged with the Federation of Malaya and become part
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  • 24 1 A COMMUNIST leader. Captain Khosrow Roozbeh, has been sentenced to death by an army court, it was learned m Teheran yesterday. Reuter
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  • 148 1 LAHORE, May 9 (Reuter) The Pakistan Republican Party Chief, Doctor Khan Sahib, was fatally stabbed m his home here this morning. He was rushed to hospital but died soon after admission. Police said the assailant was a revenue clerk from Bahawalpur. Dr. Khan who was 76. served
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  • 192 1 Ship Flying R.l. Flag Is Bombed A LARGE unidentified ship flying the Indonesian flag has been strafed and bombed m the Ambon Area of East Indonesia by the Revolutionary Air Force, late reports reaching Singapore from Menado said yesterday. A PBY transport plane m Ambon airfield was also bombed and
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  • 24 1 THE ALGERIAN insurgent* announced m Tunisia yesterday that three French soldiers had been "executed" after sentence by an lnsur- gent court.— Reuter
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  • 110 2 City Analyst Requested To Stay On THE POST of City Analyst will not be Malayanized immediately as proposed m the scheme drawn by the Mayor, Ong Eng Guan. The Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Singapore City Council was told yesterday that there was no "fully experienced" local officer
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  • 347 2 Flower Girls Pin Malayan Orchids On Japanese YI Ps JAPAN Air Lines yesterday inaugurated its first Tokyu- Singapore service with a day of surprises. SURPRISE Number One: The giant four-engined airliner arrived m the Colony, the final stop of its 4,000 mile flight, 20 minutes
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  • 142 2 THE newly-formed Nanyang University sub-committee of the Singapore Labour Front wili study problems facing the varsity, including the question of Government recognition of its degrees. According to Dr. Lim Siew Ming, assistant secretary-gen-eral of the Labour Front, this sub-committee, which was appointed earlier this week,
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  • 36 2 MR. Yap Bor Choon was admitted to the Singapore Bar by the Chief Justice, Sir John Whyatt, m the High Court yesterday. The petition was supported by Mr. C. F. J. Ess.
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  • 56 2 THE Mentri Besar. Selangor, Inrhe Abdul Jamil bin Abdul Rais. began a three-day tour of Liv Selangor district on Thursday. Above, he watches a nine-year old aborigine boy, Bata, of Standard 3 hard at work during a visit to the school for aborigine children at the
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  • 144 2 Master Attendant To Have A New Pier A NEW Master Attendant"? pier is to be built by the Colony Government 200 feet southwards of the existing one at Fullerton Road. An official spokesman for the Master Attendant's Office told The Standard that tenders have been cabled for the construction of
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  • 120 2 YOUTH WHO ROBBED IS REMANDED A YOUTH, Goh Joon Hiang, was yesterday found guilty m the Singapore Assize Court of robbing a woman. Tan Geok Ying, of $640 while armed with knives m a house m Ah Hood Road m November, last year. Mr. Justice Chua postponed sentence till May
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  • 25 2 TWELVE motorists were fined $10 each by the City Court Magistrate yesterday when they pleaded guilty to parking their vehicles at taxi stands.
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  • 286 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. While the Mai Plan: ing Industries Employers" Association hai fused to be intimidated by pressure tactics, the v. spie-id strike by more than 72.000 workers d< by .he National Union of Plantation Workerg "voluntary stoppage of work"' continues. The preliminary meeting here
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  • 34 2 SINGAPORE P anxious to contact Mr Kong Yee formerly < ncr Road to return a which he reported December, 1955. Mr. Wong is to contact the sen; at Central I Station.
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  • EDITORIAL • SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 340 3 COMMERCIAL and shipping circles m the Colony must have been amused by the Indonesian Shipping Minister's claim that his Government is preparing to open a free port m that country to rival Singapore. If Shipping Minister Mohammad Naxir has only paused to reflect on the many, many long
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    • 347 3 THE demand mode by the Singapore Business Houses Employees' Union that expatriate staff should be the first victims when employers carry out retrenchment measures, seems to be either the outcome o* muddle-headed thinking or just one of pure malice. The claim, if we are to take the word
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    • 54 3 MEAD OFFICE li. Lim leek *wr> Koao ypore J-. PO 8o» No 1563 Cables lICEWNEWS Tel ***** (5 lines) All departments KUALA LUMf-uR: O>n« insurance B!eg 174 Batu *<3 Teieorxxie B^tsx 'fOH. 93 Cowan St Tel: .t» t* PtNANC: 8 Leith St W- n n MALACCA:
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  • 746 3 Of WASHINGTON PHILIP DEANE ANALYSES JN an attempt to provide some factual answers to the questions raised m the United States and the world as a whole by the debate on whether to stop nuclear tests and suspend production of nuclear weapons, the following facts have
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  • 47 3 Though rockets had been known at least since 1232 A.D., the first serious scientific work with them did not begin until 1909 when US. physicist Robert H. Goddard commenced experiments to explore extreme altitudes. Goddard is regarded as the "father of the modern rocket.**
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  • 485 3  - British Decision On Cyprus RAWLE KNOX BY NICOSIA rPHE meaning behind the coming visit of the Governor of Cyprus to London it can now definitely be stated, is that the British Government has at last decided to state a firm policy on the future government of the island. The Governor,
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  • 976 3  - FRANCE IN DANGER OF BANKRUPTCY W. Millinship By PARIS pRANCE has already disposed of onefifth of the $655 million loan which M. Felix Gaillard obtained m January from the United States, the European Payments Union and the International Monetary Fund, and the nest egg is likely to be completely exhausted
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  • 363 3 The NEWS As is strike me (M\hCt*»MWfaL AIR mind, according to R. K. Marti, is like a garden which can either be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild. How true, especially when we hear or read the weighty pronouncements of some who have been adopted as leaders. Many times
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  • 288 4 Bill To Provide For More Safety, Health Measures THOI T SANDS of factory workers m Singapore will soon be able to enjoy better working conditions similar to those provided for their counterparts m other democratic countries of the world. Legislation to provide them with better
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  • 524 4 Sacked Busman To Stand Trial For Murder THE Singapore General Hospital was a "court" for two hours when Magistrate Mr. R. 8.1. Pates, D.P:P: Mr. J.B. Jeyeretnam, and defence counsel Mr. Pat de Sou/a, went there to record the evidence of two witnesses who were alleged to have been attacked
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  • 178 4 Medical Examination Passes ELEVEN candidates have passed Part Two of the *inai Professional Examination at the Faculty of Medicine m the University of Malaya for the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery m Conservative Dentistry, Oral Surgery Oral Pathology, Prosthetic Dentistry, Preventive and Periodontia Dentistry. They are Miss Koh Geok
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  • 92 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A prison industry and handicraft shop was opened Kere today by the chairman of the Discharged Prisoners Aid Society, Mrs. J. W. Cessford. The Superintendent of Prisons, Mr. R. J. Glazier, said that revenue paid into the Federal Treasury by penal establishments m
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  • 98 4 More than $5,000,000 had been subscribed to the $30,000 000. loan floated by the S: pore City Council last month, the City Treasurer. Mr J R told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Hill said he was satisfied with the progress of the loan. H e
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  • 121 4 SINGAPORE Government will not pay any compensation for loss of currency notes at the recent Kampong Koo Chai fire. The acting Director of Social Welfare, Mr. Woon Wan Siong, told The Standard yesterday that it would not be possible for the Government to
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  • 262 4 WE CAN WEATHER SLUMP -TUNKU MALACCA, Fri.— Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman is optimistic that Malaya will pull through the slump as long as there is a stable rubber industry and closer economic ties with the surrounding Asian countries. The Tunku revealed his optimism at a Press conference following a
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  • 77 4 BUTTERWORTH, Fri.— The Rural District Council, North Province We'llesley, contributed $112,080 towards the State Education Board for primary and rural trade school education, Chairman of the Council, Tuan Haji Abdul Kader bin Haji Hassan, told The Standard today. The Town Council, at its last meeting, had
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  • 62 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Famous South Indian dancer, Kumari Kamala and her troupe were entertained to tea this evening by the IndoCeylonese Cultural Association. Among guests at the party were the Health Minister. Mr. V. T. Sambanthan and Mrs. Sambanthan, the Indian High Commissioner Mr. V.
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  • 145 4 2 New Posts To Speed Up Scheme THE Singapore City Council will soon appoint two new Assistant Water Engineers to expedite its water extension schemes. The Standard was told yesterday that the Public Services Commission had informed the Council that Mr. Fung Lok Hung and Mr. Sic Chu Hwa had
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  • 146 4 CUSTOMS BILL FOR ASSEMBLY A BILL which seeks to give extra-territorial effect m the Colony, to the Federation Customs Ordinance, 1952. will be tabled at the next Legislative Assembly meeting on June 11. The bill will replace and extend the provisions of the Federation of Malaya Export Duties Collection Ordinance.
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  • 102 4 She'll Auction Goods At The Charity Ball MISS DAISY Szelo, who will auction goods donated by local firms to swell the Kampong Koo Chai Fire Relief Fund at a charity ball to be held on May 17 at the Raffles Hotel, Singapore. The ball, which is under the patronage of
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  • 49 4 SINGAPORE Customs made another successful seizure of contraband tobacco and detained two smugglers m a speedboat off the Southeastern approaches of the Colony on Thursday night. A patrol of three vessels captured the speedboat after a chase. In it Customs found 440 pounds of cigarettes.
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  • 146 4 THE Singapore City Council Town Cleansing Labour Union yesterday complained to the Council that its members working on the garbage lorries had to run about 80 miles every day. In a letter to the City Council's Chief Administrative Officer, Mr. R. Middleton Smith, the
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  • 107 4 THE Vietnamese Consul m Singapore, Mr. Tan; Van Chi. who made a last minute dash to his countrx on Tuesday m order to bring back something original has returned with a number of fascinating handicrafts for today's International Bazaar at the Victoria Memo
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  • 268 4 SEVERAL amendments to the Colony's existing Merchant Shipping Ordinance have been enacted by the Singapore Government. They will bring the new Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Ordinance 1958 into line with the Federation of Malaya's Merchant Shipping Ordinance. Under the amendments, certificated personnel only be required on
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  • 128 4 JAILED FOR HIDING OPIUM IN A BAG OF VEGETABLES KUALA LIPIS, Fri. A padi planter, Awang bin Mat \li, 49. of Kam; To Enggoh, Gunong Bachok. Kelantan. wafound guilty of p< of 30 small slabs of opium valued at $600 The President of the B sions Court, Inche Harr. bin
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  • 127 4 Ban Liquor At Parties -UMNO PENANG, Fri. The exera. tiv e committee of the Prr.ang State UMNO will urge the State Government to s'.op serv. in c liquor at all state functions. A resolution to this effect will be moved by the tee at the Penang State U: Assembly m
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  • 78 4 8 MONTHS' JAIL FOR THEFT OF BICYCLE PENANG, Fri— A P. Maniam. was jailed tor < months by Tuan Sy« Barakbah mi n the Court here today for a bicycle belonging to SAhmad at the Pena:._Commission on Man-h Inspector Syed Ja the Court that S: left his bicycle P-P.C. that
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  • 237 5 3,700 Seamen Want Special Pay For Rl Trip THE Malayasian Ship Officers Union and the Malayasian Mariners Union of Singapore representing about 3,700 seafarers are agitating for a 50 per cent "danger allowance." Captain Mohamed Said bin Alias, spokesman for both unions, told The Standard yesterday
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  • 184 5 Queries On Chinese School At Council Fri. The for Butterwor Wee Tiong Ghee, v he Member for JeluDr. N. K. Menon, at Settlement Council :ng on May 14, her it would be possible to start a Chinese school stream m the Malayan Teachers' College at Glugor next year. Wee said
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  • 54 5 IPOH, Fri.— Mrs. Kamala ::an, an exponent of Indian classical danres, will a recitxl at the Rex Cinema, on Monday night. The show is being organized by Shaw Brothers and the Kinta Indian A on will entertain Mrs. Laxman at a reception at Station Hotel
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  • 283 5 IPOH, Fri. The "confused thinking and frustration" among the ranks of the terrorist organization m the Operation "Bin tang" area was disclosed m a captured diaiy kept by a stubborn terrorist, Yuen Kee. Yuen Kee, a bodyguard to State Committee member Chong Man. was killed
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  • 54 5 A SUNDRY goods shopkeeper, Ong Nan Heng, was fined $500 or six months' jail by Penang Sessions Judge, Mr. Au Ah Wah, yesterday after pleading guilty to a charge of cheating Loo Lean Tooi by dishonestly inducing him to deliver $296 worth of goods at Maxwell Road between
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  • 56 5 THE Minister for Works, Posts and Telecommunications, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir, visited the Telecoms Training Centre at the 4th Mile, Ipoh Road, on Wednesday, to inspect the food arrangements and see the general welfare of the trainees. Photo shows the Minister talking to some of
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  • 46 5 THIRTEEN women and four men arrested by Police m a raid on illegal gamblers along Bukit B i n t a n g yesterday were acquitted and discharged by Magistrate Inche Abdul Rani on a charge of playing "Pek Bin" (a form of gambling).
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  • 317 5 FENANG, Fri. The State Government has established a committee to consider and report on the practicability and desirability of combining the Queen's Hall Fund, the Merdeka Memorial Fund and the Gurney Memorial Fund, or any two of them to build a civics centre
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  • 93 5 SIX WILL REPRESENT RAIL MEN PORT SWETTENHAM, Fri. At the emergency general meeting of the Port and Marine Section of the National Union of Railwaymen held here last night, it was decided to send six men to represent the six different grades to negotiate with the railway authorities over wages.
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  • 69 5 KUALA LIPIS. Fri. A rubber dealer Tan Lim 33, of Benta m the district of Kuala Lipis was today fined $100 or one month's jail for failing to keep his rubber purchase book up-to-date. Inspector Atar Singh, prosecuting, said he inspected Tan's rubber purchase book
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  • 222 5 Staff Say Bon Voyage To Their D.O. BUTTERWORTH, Fri. The staff of the District Office and Town Council here wished their District Officer. Mr. V. G. Bennett, his wife and their infant son bon voyage at a teaparty at the Police Volunteer Reserve Canteen yesterday afternoon. Mr. Bennett Is retiring
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  • 239 5 'Fluorine For Water: Public Must Be Told' PENANG, Fri. Before any definite step is taken for the fluoridation of the water supplies, the public should be informed and tested for its reaction by means of Press releases. This has been recommended by the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the
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  • 112 5 Thugs A Menace To Labourers TANJONG MALIM, Fri. During the past few weeks thugs have seen daily demanding free drinks from estate labourers at the government toddy shop here. In one instance a labourer was beaten up for refusing to buy a free drink for a thug. On Sunday some
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  • 147 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Elections Commissioner and the former Keeper of the Rulers' Seal, Tuan Haji Mustapha Albakri, met his future daughter-in-law, Miss Valrie H. Dearing. 22, who arrived here by BOAC from Britain today. Miss Dearing, the young- est daughter of an engineer of the
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  • 31 6 THE Minister for Health. Mr. V.T. Sambantham. as President of the Malayan Indian Congress, will preside at the annual general meeting of the M.I.C. state branch m Penang tomorrow.
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  • 423 6 Big Centre Set Up In Pahang To Aid Rural Folks PENANG, Fri. The Malayan Association for the Blind has now expanded its work on training blind persons from the rural areas by setting up an agricultural farm at Temerloh, Pahang, which when completed would be
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  • 52 6 MR. S. C. Maclntyre, Malayan High Commissioner to India, spoke on his impressions of the Indian Republic to members of the Selangor Indian Association m Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday night. He is seen flanked by Mr. A. Dyal Chand (left) and Mr. K. L. Devasar, association
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  • 177 6 Steel Peg Struck RAF Corporal On Back BUTTERWORTH, Fri. A corporal of the Royal Air Force, Anthony Walters, was struck on the back with a steel peg hurled at him while on duty at the airstrip. Tuan Syed Hussein Jamalulil was told m the Magistrate's Court today. A civilian employee,
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  • 120 6 Malaya Joins Berlin Film Festival KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Malaya will take part m ihe Bth International Film Festival m Berlin by presenting "Sarongs and Silver," a documentary produced by the Malayan Film Unit, dealing with the arts and crafts ot Kelantan. This Film Festival is. since 1951, annually held m
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  • 21 6 A MAN was stopped on Thursday night at Kapar Road, Klang, by four others who robbed him of $20.
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  • 83 6 AFTER combining for five years an exacting course of study with his own "meet the people" campaign. Arts graduate, Inche Zainal Abidin bin Abdul Wahid, of Teluk Anson, Perak, returns home early next month. Inche Zainal Abidin was the first Malayan to graduate m Arts with history
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  • 464 6 A-Tests Have Robbed Us Of A Day— Scientist THE continuance of atomic tests at tne present rate will cause irreparable harm to the whole human race for decades to come, a British nuclear physicist said m Singapore yesterday. Professor C. A. Coulson, at a Chinese YMCA luncheon yesterday, said that
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  • 27 6 PENANG Chief Minister, Mr. Wong Pow Nee, will address Home Guard trainees at their first annual training camp at Jubilee Camp m Penang today.
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  • 188 6 Infant' Jockey Freed In Tax Case PENANG. Fri.—Apprentice jockey Chris Dragon was acquitted m the Magistrate's Court today on a summons charge of failing to furnish a certified statement of his income from Jan. 1 to Oct. 6. 1957. within a period of 21 days. Mr. Cheah Che, appeared for
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  • 55 6 PENANG, Fri. nurses m Federation are doing a good job i said Minister for Ed, Inche Mohamed Khir when he visited the Training School here day. The nurses were a en the dental ser\ he appreciated the fact trolling the progress of diseases on a natic
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  • 207 6 Sultan To Honour Daughter-In-Law KLANG, Fri. The Timbalan Yang di Pertuan Agong, the Sultan of Selangor,. will officially confer the title of "Raja Puan Muda" on his daughter-in-law, Tunku Rahimah, when he celebrates his birthday on Tuesday. I This title became vacant when the Raja Muda of Selangor divorced his
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  • 134 6 PEXANG, Fri. The new>. formed Butterworth bran the Labour Party of Ma intends to consolidate its tion by opening two n branches m the Central South wards of Buttery. The secretary of the Mr. Gerald Abraham, I said that its membership had doubled since it
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  • 743 7 PAWNBROKERS DEATH VERDICT Sailor Tells Of Fight In Street SINGAPORE Coroner Mr. Giam Chons Hin yesterday returned an open verdict at the end of an inquest into the death of 38 year-old pawnbroker Chong Khin 800. Chong was found dead m his Lloyd Gardens home on the> morning of March
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  • 136 7 TASK FORCE. South China Sea. Fri. The U.S. submarine Rasher slid through the destroyer screen of one of the Task Groups late on Wednesday and manoeuvred into position for "attack" when the general alarm went off. One of the destroyers had detected the intruder on
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  • 124 7 A SINGAPORE lawyer, Mr. Ong Tiang Wee who was on Thursday fined $25 by the City Magistrate for an unauthorised building on his land m Flandeir Square, was only guilty of a technical offence. The Court was told that Mr. Ong was not aware
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  • 51 7 A FULL bench of Singapore judges and members of the Bar will sit m the Chief Justice's Court at 2.30 p.m. on Monday, to bid farewell to Mr. Justice Knight, a senior puisne judge. Mr. Justice Knight leaves the Colony on retirement on Wednesday by the
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  • 26 7 THE Youth division of the Singapore Labour Front will hold its inaugural meeting this afternoon at their party headquarters at 3, De Souza Street.
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  • 298 7 A DENTIST and his wife who were described m British Uganda m 1952 as "the American couple who went round the bend", shortly afterwards won fame and fortune when they made a film about the primitive African Karamojo tribe. zr
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  • 139 7 STOLE MOTOR CYCLE, SAILOR IS JAILED A SEAMAN, Waters Clive, 19, was yesterday sentenced to a total of six months' jail by the Singapore Second District Court, when he pleaded guilty to three offences. Clive was sentenced to three months' jail for stealing a motor-cycle, belonging to Lim Cheak Seng,
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  • 164 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) m Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot 73i 73* R.S.S. No. 1 (May) 731 73* RS.S No. 1 (June) 72* 72? R.S.S. No. 2 69| 70£ R.S.S. No. 3 641 64 2 Tone: Barely steady. The price of tin m Singapore
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  • 95 7 SINGAPORE'S Registrar of Citizens, Mr. T. P. Cromwell, told The Standard "there is no question whatever of compulsion" for new citizens of Singapore to register their children. Mr. Cromwell was commenting on a report m The Standard of May 8 stating that "new citizens of
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  • 315 9 Fall In Export Value In Area LONDON, May 9, (Reuter) The Board of Trade journal yesterday pointed le a steady fall m the value of exports m the sterling area as growing evidence of a recession m world trade. The journal said that 1957 sterling exports, after expanding at the
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  • 146 9 Industrials And Tins Are Steady GOOD selective support for industrials and tins was reported m the Malayan share market yesterday. These counters were fully steady at the close. Rubbers were quiet. Another feature of the market was the turnover which showed an improvement. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers
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  • 73 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m its rates to merchants yesterday. New York: buying. T.T. 32-7/8. O.D 33. 90 days airmail 33-1/8 credit bills. 33-3/16 trade bills. Canada: buying, T.T. 31-7/8. OD 32. 90 days airmail 32-5/16 credit bills. 32-7/16 trade bills. Selling, T.T.
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  • 154 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done: Fed. Disp. $2.16; F. N. ords. $2 50. $247J (overnight); Gammon $2. $1.99 xr: Gammon Rights 50c, 45c: Hammer $1.54. $1.50. H Waugh $1.15: M. Box 51.60: OCBC $21.15; Raffles Hotel $2 65 cd overnight: Sime Darby $1.43: Steamship 66c.
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  • 68 9 THREE top Pan Am officials from San Francisco send their best wishes to the people of Malaya and Singapore on the occasion of the opening of the airline's new premises m Singa- pore today. They are Messrs. Robert Murray, senior executive vicepresident; Gordon F. Maxwell, division
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  • 215 9 THE choice of Singapore as the venue for next year's meeting of the Pacific Area Travel Association is a testimony to its growing importance as a tourist centre m the view of Pan American Airways' sales manager (Pacific- Alaska Division), Mr. J.D. Fessio. Mr.
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  • 40 9 STRONG buying support locally put up the price of tin m Singapore by $4 to $371 per picul yesterday. A market source said it appeared only a limited amount of tin was available at the smelters.
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  • 75 9 A GAIN of I cent was recorded m the Singapore rubber market yesterday when International first grade May shipment closed at 731 cents per lb. The closing tone was bare.y StCSLCI V After opening higher m sympathy with overseas, the market eased on profittaking and upcountry
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  • 44 9 SINGAPORE Chamber ol Commerce Rubber Association noon prices m cents Der lb yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot f.o.b. (Nominal) 731 731 International May No. 1 RSS f.o.b. 73| 731 June 721 73 May 2 69J 70J May 3 64J 65 Tone: Hesitant
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  • 28 9 DUTCH exports of dry whole milk reached 68,700.000 pounds m 1957, a record export figure for the Netherlands, and a four per cent increase from 1956.
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  • 246 9 CO OPERATIVE societies m Kenya are prospering, according to a recent survey. Their influence and reputation for fair dealing is spreading and their impact is being particularly felt m African agriculture and marketing. The societies, which cater for all races, have increased from 278 m 1953
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  • 246 9 Colony Rejects Films Barter SINGAPORE Government has rejected a pioposal by an Indian film distribution organization m the Colony to introduce a barter system of trade m Indian films. The organization intends to bring Indian films into Colony m exchange for "raw," or unexposed films and other cinematographic material. The
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  • 97 9 Copra Imports Improve MALAYAN imports of ropra m March totalled 23.438 tons, against 12.474 tons m the same month last year, reflecting the improved supply position from Indonesia. Imports m the first quarter this year totalled 58,271 tons, compared with 35.233 tons for the same quarter last year. Exports m
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  • 90 9 SINGAPORE Chinese fru duce Exchange noon closing prices Dei picul vesterrtav were: copra May/J:me UK Continent $31 J buyers $32 sellers coconut oil m bulk $47J sellers; m drums $50) sellers: Muntok white pepper $126 sellers; Sarawak white $124 sellers; Special Sarawak black $73. Singapore Coconut Oil Millers Association
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  • 247 9 WORSENING Indonesian shipping situation and the 'hreat of labour trouble on Malayan estates were the main bull factors m the Singapore rubber market this week says the market report of Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co. Ltd. On the other hand, the report adds, imports
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  • 415 9 FOREIGN FIRMS FREE TO COMPETE KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Federation Ministry of Commerce and Industry said today there is at present nothing to prevent foreign rubber goods manufacturing concerns from coming into the Federation to compete against local manufacturers. It was replying to two letters submitted to the Ministry lecently
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  • 74 9 Malayan Exhibit Wins Award KL'ALA LUMPI'R. Fri. A Trengganu sarong songket won the design award at the Seattle trade fair. Washington, last month. The silver threaded sarong songket was made from the looms of Malaya's east coaIt was the first time Malaya entered an international fair m the United States
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  • 38 9 JAPAN'S mining and manufacturing production during the one-year period, ending March 1958, increased by 11.3 per cent over the preceding year, according to statistics compiled by the Economic Planning Agency published m Tokyo this week. AFP
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  • 58 9 ONE of the largest glassfibre craft to be built m Britain was recently loaded aboard the s.s. "Manipur" m London for shipment to Aden. The craft, seen m this picture being swung aboard, is the 56-foot launch "AI Samana." which has been constructed specially for use
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    145 9 OUTER ROADS Francoise. Kaigata Maru, X Zukraini. Wing On. Flying G Taiseunhong. Shona, Asphalion. Haruna Maru, Kalach, Warszawa. Tjiwangi, Prosper. Troon Breeze, Van Lin Srchoten. Fe.ipes. Douglas, Procyon. Anshun. Tenpaizen Maru, Borneo. Statius Jansen. Julia. Susanne, Java, Tong Peng. Maiju, Tjimenteng, Gunn, Ocean Fortune, tJordian, Bela, Jutlandia.
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  • 596 10 STANDARD PICTURE ROUND-UP (Picture by (Picture by meeting of the Klang Civil Defence Club was held at the Divisional Headquarters at Harpers Street, recently. The following were elected officebearers. President— Goh Tiang Chin, Vice-president Koh Liang Sih, Hon. Secretary Wong Foo Thai, Hon. treasurer O. Ramanathan and Committee members Goh
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  • 679 11 Today's Amateur Races At Kuala Lumpur IHE race card for the Selangor Turf Club's amateur meeting this afternoon is as follows: RACE 1: 2. /sp.m.— The Hurl ing ham Scurry MARA. CLASS 5 2 FURLONGS 1 Connie Dr. M. A. X. Cocheme 2. First Venture King's Dragoon Guards j. Venturesome
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  • 148 11 Hunt And Henning Share Lead WENTWORTH. Surrey, May 9 (Reuter) Harold Henning the slim, 23-year-old South African golfer, shared the lead on the 207 mark with British Ryder Cup player Bernard Hunt after 54 holes of the £2,690 sterling Dunlop 90-holes tournament here yesterday. Their nearest rivals, threestrokes behind, were
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  • 163 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Twenty-one teams have entered for the inter-school soccer for the Thomson Cup competiThe draw and dates of matches are:May 10: Batu Road School 4 A vs Sabak Bernam School; May 12: MBS Sentul vs Mahatma Ghandi School; St. Johns Inst. vs La Salle School,
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  • 66 11 PENANG. Fri. Playing better football. Muslim Recreation Club beat Penang Garrison by six goals to four m the first division match at the City Stadium yesterday Muslims took a 3-2 lead at the interval through Razali 2 and Salleh. Dickson netted twice for Garrison. Razali put m two
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  • 31 11 TELOK ANSON, FrL The Rangers, champions for the last two seasons, made an impressive start by beating the Chinese Club 5-3 m a Division One soccer league here yesteiday.
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  • 43 11 ORAN, Algeria, May 9 (Reuter) Real Madrid, Spanish football League champions and European Cup finalists, beat Rheims, the French champions, by five goals to two here yesterday. Rheims. who have reached the French Cup final, were 3-1 down at halftime.
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  • 260 11 Penalty Goal Gives Manchester United A 2-1 Victory MANCHESTER, May 9 (Reuter)— A hotly-disputed penalty gave Manchester United a 2 l victory here last night m the first leg of the European Soccer Cup semi-final against Milan, the 1957 Italian champions. United now go into the
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  • 131 11 LEADING ENGLISH SIRE SOLD LONDON, May 9 (Reuter)— Court Martial, leading sire m Britain m 1956 and 1957, has been sold to the United States. The 16-year-old stallion will stand at Mr. A. B. Hancock junior's Claibome farm m Kentucky, where he will join other imported sires, including Nasrullah, Tulyar
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  • 141 11 In Out Of The Highlands KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. During April, 15 horses, including Straits Code, the St. Leger and New Year Cup winner, have returned to their stations aftet completing a brief spell at the Veterinary Sanatorium, at Cameron High-, lands. Horses that left the sanatorium included:- Count Paid, Punter's
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  • 81 11 IPOH, Fri. Scoring 37} nett, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Whimster won the mixed foursomes event at the P.T.C. Sports Club golf section yesterday. Mrs. Inez Ferdinands and Mr. J. A. Hopton, nett 38j, were runners-up. Mrs. H. W. Sanders, wife of the donor of the "Sander Cup"
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  • 228 11 LONDON, May 9 (Reuter) The sequence of successes by fast bowlers this season was continued yesterday by 22-year-old Cambridge University paceman Steve Wheatley. He took eight for 22 against Kent at Cambridge. Wheatley, a 1957 Cambridge Blue, has played a few matches for Warwickshire. Another fast bowler to
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  • 149 11 South Korea To Send A 156-Man Team SEOUL, May 9 (Reuter) The South Korean Olympic committee yesterday said a 156-man South Korean team, the biggest Korean team ever to participate m an international sporting event, will leave for Tokyo next week by air m two groups to compete m the
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  • 48 11 JOHANNESBURG, May 9 (AFP) Willie Toweel will defend his British Empire lightweight boxing title at Capetown m September against Britain's Ron Hlnson, it was announced here yesterday. Toweel recently underwent a fairly serious nose operation for sinus trouble and will rest for three months.
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    38 11 CYPRESS GARDENS, Fla: Carrying on m spectacular style, water skiiers Jerry Imber and Susan Ott skid over the surface at Cypress Gardens, Fla. Their fancy antics indicate that skiing i s delivering. United Press Photo.
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  • 66 11 A TEAM OF WORLD CHAMPIONS NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuter). A Soviet weight-lifting team arrived here by plane yesterday for matches against American teams m New York, Chicago and Detroit. The team is Alexei Medvedev. Arkady Vorobwev (middle-heavyweight), Trofin Lomakin light-heavyweight Fyodor Bog Anovsky (middleweight), Victor Bashuev (lightweight), Evgni Minaev
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  • 74 11 BELEEN. Holland. May 9 (Reuter)— Bollon Wanderers, the English Cup winners. were beaten 2-0 here last night by the Dutch first division club "Fortuna 54." At halftime, Fortuna 54 led 1-t. Centre-forward An*enent scored both goals. Boiton did not go all out m the first half,
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  • 53 11 LONDON, May 9 (Reuter) Douglas Melvin, the 1955 champion, regained the British single sculls rowing yesterday over the four miles, 374 yards University boat race course from Putney to Mortlake on the River Thames. He clocked 22 mini;- seconds, winning by two lengths from W. G.
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  • 70 12 RESULTS of the inter-school table-tennis tournament held at the Singapore Youth Sports Centre yesterday are as follows: Siglap Secondary School beat Alexandra Grammar School 5-2. Tanjong Katong Secondary Technical School beat Victoria School 5-0. St. Joseph's Institution beat Presbyterian Boys School 5-0. Raffles Institution beat St. Andrew's School
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  • 337 12 SERVICES TIPPED TO WIN Their Forwards Will Play Decisive Role KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Federation Combined Services are favourites for tomorrow's Football Association of Malaya Cup final against Malacca at the Meirieka Stadium, starting at 8 p.m. This ;s because the Services came through with a better record than Malacca.
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  • 177 12 LIM Jit Imm, the Colony sprinter who failed m five attempts to qualify for the Asian Games, will be given another chance by the Singapore AAA. The Singapore Amateur Athletic Association, concerned at reports that Jit Imm was going to retire from athletics, asked
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  • 43 12 LONDON, May 9 (Reuter) Results m today's cricket matches were: At Cambridge. Kent beat Cambridge University by nine wickets. Cambridge University 180 and 96 (J. Page five for 24. Kent 162 and 115 for one). (Wilson 63 not out).
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  • 165 12 Last Exhibition By Thomas Cuppers THE Malayan Thomas Cup training squad will feature m a two-day exhibition at the Singapore Badminton Association hall on May 16 and 17. This will be the last exhibition before the defence of the Thomas Cup on June 14 and 15. Centre of attraction m
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    25 12 THE Malayan Water Ski Association will hold a dinner tonight to welcome Mr. George Benyon, President of *he New South Wales Water Ski Association
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  • 150 12 Federation Hockey Officials Disappointed KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Malayan Hockey Federation officials are disappointed to hear that the Singapore hockey team will not be going to the third Asian Games at Tokyo this month. The Singapore hockey team is unable to travel because of lack of funds. They are short by
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  • 342 12 BOTH FIELDING BEST SIDES By Our Cricket Reporter THE key match m tomorrow's Singapore Cricket Association tournament will be the clash between the two rival padang clubs the SCC and the SRC. Both teams are taking no chances. They are fielding their best sides. There will
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  • 80 12 THE Singapore water-polo team for the Asian Games will meet the Rest of Singapore m an exhibition match at the Singapore Swimming Club at 11.00 a.m. tomorrow. The Singapore team is: Tan Eng Liang. Gan Eng Teck, Thio Gem Hock Barry Mitchell (Capt). Tan Eng Bock. Eric Yeo,
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  • 98 12 Back from the United Kingdom, the badminton brothers Oon Chong Teik and Oon Chong Jin are photographed here at the Kuala Lumpur airport together with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Oon Khye Beng, and officials of the Badminton Association of Malaya. Chong Teik is back here
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  • 211 12 7 Fighters Failed To Go The Full Distance ROYAL Army Ordnance Corps captured the highest number of titles at the Far East Land Forces individual boxing championships held at the Tanglin Gymnasium last night. They won four out of a total of ten events. The remaining six titles were shared
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  • 22 12 SELANGOR Indian Association beat Dynamite Dynamos fi-1 m a FAS Div. 2 league at Taylor Road Ground, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday.
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  • 112 12 DESPITE poor visibility caused by rain the Far East Air Force Individual and Inter-Station teams shoots carried on during the Meek at Nee Soon No. 1 Range. Corporal Kelman of Butterworth won the Individual Rifle championship with 139 points and runner-up was Sgt. Jewett of Kuala Lumpur
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  • 906 12  - NEWCOMERS WILL MAKE THEIR DEBUT NEXT SAT. WINDSOR LAD By KLALA LUMPUR, Fri. Five more newcomers will be making their debut at the forthcoming Sin**, port- Turf Club's Governor's Cup meeting. They include the classy sprinters Silver Mistress, General Pil (late Cheapside) and Anna Kumara, ail naving very good form
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 52 12 SOCCER: SAFA t es: Div. 2B: Minto C Badan Kesenian, MF p.m.; 3A: Mount Emily Rajaji S.C., Geylang p.m.; 3 A: Pondok Pel's T.8.A.. STC, 5.75 CRICKET: SRC B RAF Tengah, SRC, 2.15 SWIMMING: S Swimming Club O ship Gala, SSC 4 p.m. WEIGHTLIFTING greens Annual Champxonr ships. New World
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  • 614 13 FOR THE FORCES Want to be a 'HAM' like Frank? HERE'S HOW! "J'RIENDS all over the world have conversations with me every day/ said Flight Sergeant Frank Johnstone, an amateur radio enthusiast, stationed at RAF Changi. Operating his transmitter receiver from his home at 52/6 Uphaven Road, he goes on
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  • 533 13 Seeing Malaya In A Nutshell people like to spend a few hours browsing m a museum, whether m London, Paris or Singapore. It is one of *he few places c all the history and life of a city or try be found grouped together under one roof. c Raffles can
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  • 337 13 Changi Chatter WEEKLY r PHE other week the 19th Air Formation Signals Wives' Club had the pleasure of visiting the Cathay Organization film studios and took part m a film which was being directed by Mr. Krishnan. Among them were Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Bolam, Mrs. Harvey, Mrs. Allen. Mrs. Godfrey
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    • 639 13 -yODAVS QUOTATION: Ml fIfIMVHRW^i "There Is m super- I jU^^M HuP stitution a senseless fe->r "f I God: re lipion consists m I |M^M ivA^ X^B the pinus worship of Him." l^fc M Cirero. SATURDAY FOR EVERT- I P9^jfl ONE: Evening is the best I portion of the day. Seek
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  • 2 14 WORLD NEWS
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  • 231 14 Russians Boycott Nuclear Tests MOSCOW, May 9 The Soviet Union last night announced its refusal to send observers and journalists to witness nuclear weapons tests m the United States. An official announcement of the refusal, distributed by the official Soviet; news agency, Tass, said that "to embark on such a
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  • 59 14 §KIEN. Norway. May 9 (Reuter) Police arrested a 50--year-old shopkeeper m a village near here after they found more than 6.000 flasks of "cocktail" made of hair lotion and liquor essence m his cellar. They said that at least 50 people had bought the drink which,
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  • 52 14 OFF TO WORK ON FOOT BRIDGING a gap the missing London Transport buses by means of walking and lift m private vehicles, a host of London workers stride across London Bridge as they wend their way to work on the first day of the London bus strike, caused by a
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  • 90 14 HIS water scooter churning up a lively wake, bowlerhatted businessman Mr Michael Castle Kelly, 38. (right), of Chelsea, navigates away from Charing Cross Pier on his way up Thames to home after a day at the office. Mr. Kelly is a marketing research consultant with offices
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  • 16 14 SENOR Mario Echandi was yesterday sworn m as Presi- dent of Costa Rica.— Reuter
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  • 195 14 NEW YORK, May 9 (UP)— Catherine Gavin, the U.S. correspondent for the Glasgow Bulletin, said m a Mike Wallace interview today that the U.S. Government "plays power politics all week long and then prays to the U.N on Sunday." Wallace asked her
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  • 308 14 Vice-President Spat At And Stoned By Varsity Mob In Lima WASHINGTON, May 9 (UP) Peru yesterday apologised for the stoning of United States VicePresident, Richard Nixon by anti-American students m Lima. The State Department said the apology was extended by the Peruvian Embassy here. "Officials
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  • 231 14 Peruvians Bitter Toward Washington LIMA, May 9 (UP) A lot of Peruvians feel increasingly bitter toward Washington. They feel Washington has shown a grinning, greedy indifference toward an approaching economic crisis m this lead and zinc producing nation. Yesterday, an all but determined group of Communists seized upon this bitterness
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  • 82 14 VALLETTA, May 9 (Reuter) Valletta will again be "m bounds" for servicemen from next Saturday provided there are no more disturbances, the Governor of Malta, Sir Robert Laycock, announced last night. The chamber of commerce and retailers had protested to the Governor about the loss
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  • 67 14 NEW YORK, May 9, (Reuter) A Federal grand jury yesterday indicted Mr. Adam Clayton Powell, Negro clergy and democratic Congressman, on charges of attempting to evade income taxes. Mr. Powell, who represents the harlem district of New York and is pastor of its biggest church, was accused of
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  • 18 14 TEN thousand guitars are being imDorted from Russia to Britain next month under a barter agreement.
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  • 212 14 WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuter) Mr. Neil McElroy, American Defence Secretary, said yesterday that the Thor guided missile the type which the United States planned to supply Britain had developed faults, and needed further testing. He told a Press conference that this was also true
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  • 140 14 NORMAN Bel Geddes. designer, author and theatrical producer, died of a heart attack yesterday at the age of 65. He was the father of actress Bar- bara Bel Geddes. Reuter TOKYO, May 9 (Reuter)— The Sino-Japanese Fishery Council said today it had sent a cable of apology
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  • 241 14 Council's Apology For 'Poaching' STOP SHOVING. HE TELLS 1,000 SURGING STUDENTS The Duke Loses His Temper WANSTEAD. Essex, May 9 (Reuter) The Dukr of Edinburgh was mobbed by 1.000 cheering school children here today and had to abandon a tour of new playing fields. The Duke stopped smiling as children
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  • 229 14 LONDON, May 9 (Reuter) Signs are mounting here of a conflict between Britain's "strong man" Defence Minister, Mr. Duncan Sandys, and some of his top military advisers over the future shape of tie nations defence structure based on the nuclear deterrent I The clash came
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  • 64 14 SUVA, May 9 (Reuter) General Sir Francis Festing is visiting Fiji on his way back to Britain to take up his appointment as Chief of the Imperial General Staff. He is spending the week- end here to meet th< men who served with Infantry Regimei rorists
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  • 117 14 Detecting Fingerprints On Cloth LONDON, May 9 (Reuter) A Japanese method detecting fingerprints on paper or cloth has aroused interest m Police departments m Britain, accorr to an article m the Br. Medical Journal today. The material is exposed to a vapour 01 forma'.dehycir containing radio-active car bon. The formaldehyde
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    • 6 1 Saturday, Moy 10. 1958 STANDARD Supplement
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    • 650 1 Marks Its Eighteenth Year Of Service To Singapore OPENING of Pan American Airways' new District Sales Office today marks the eighteenth year of Pan Am service to Singapore. Singapore's Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, will today declare open the new District
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      • 102 1 > BORNEO./ v,„ KsompanuGktmited P. O. Box 898 CROSBY HOUSE 75 ROBINSON ROAD SINGAPORE -1 Head Office LONDON Branches: MALAYA, THAILAND, SARAWAK, BRUNEI, NORTH BORNEO. /^SHIPPINGN And AIRWAYSy I^AGENTS^/^ Agents for; Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Western Canada Steamship Co., Ltd., Trader Navigation Co., Ltd., Eagle Aviation Limited, Boohing Agents for: 8.0.A.C.
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      • 174 1 BIGGEST TRAVEL BARGAIN EVER! Pan Am's SEE MORE WAY to Europe... U.S.A. Round the World See up to 28 extra erf lea at no extra farm I Now, with Pan Am's wonderful new See-More Way you can f visit the capitals of Europe or the major dries of the U.S.A.
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    • 77 2 VIPs To Attend Cocktail Reception A TOTAL of 250 guests, including many YIPs, have been invited to the cocktail reception to mark the official opening of Pan American Airways' new premises on the groud floor of the Peter Chong Building *n Robinson Road, Singapore. The reception will r>e held from
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    • 32 2 LOVELY NISEI: This group of lovely young ladies are Pan American's first Nisei (U.S. citizens of Japanese descent) stewardesses. They ore seen with their diplomas after their training course.
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    • 41 2 INTERIOR view of Pan American Airways' new premises m Robinson Road, Singapore. Picture shows members of the PAA staff posing as "passengers" and attending to them behind the attractively furnished counter ore two booking clerks.
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      • 54 2 ÜB|ij FOR UGHT PHILIPS ELECTRICAL COMPANY OF MALAYA LTD. N.T.S. Building. D'Almeida 'Street, Singapore. BANK OF AMERICA (International) A wholly -owned subsidiary of IBank of XmtxxtVL NATIONAL J^Hfi^^S ASSOCIATION Hjx tends congratulations and best wishes to PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS on the occasion of the opening of their new offices
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    • 182 3 Bargain Scheme Offered A BARGAIN scheme is now being offered world travellers by Pan American under their "SeeMore Way" plan. Under the plan the traveller pays the regular round trip to a single destination the most distant city on the trip and includes extra cities along
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    • 826 3 Pri va te 'Point-four' Helps Airlines In Many Countries PAN American World Airways born 30 years ago on the 90-mile route from Key West to Havana has become a significant factor m the economic, social and cultural lives of 82 countries and lands throughout the world. From the beginning Pan
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      • 117 3 Qte Cdckpit 6 7 Oxley Rise Singapore-9. Tel: ***** ***** EXTEND THEIR BEST WISHES CONGRA TULA TIONS TO PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS ON THE OPENING OF THEIR NEW PREMISES TONG NAM CONTRACTORS LTD. EXTENDS THEIR HEARTY CONGRA TULA TIONS TO PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS ON THE OPENING OF THEIR NEW PREMISES. SPECIALISTS
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      • 320 3 We are proud to be the General contractors for the construction of the new office for PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS INC. and extend our congratulations and best wishes to them on this occasion. with the compliments of GENERAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 44 Winchester House. Collyer Quay Singapore 1. Tel. ***** VERY
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      • 169 4 ANOTHER NEW(^^^^ ILI OTIS I A Til) HI mmm M» M\ I 111 I 11 I 1 11 Iv I AT THE NEW I PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS OFFICES ROBINSON RD., SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL AIR-CONDITIONING CO. LTD. ~~~M 24 LEIMG KEE ROAD (Incorporated m Singapore) TEL:- *****-5 Fully trained specialists, we're
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    • 1320 5 PAN AM RECORDS THIRTY YEARS OF PROGRESS THE 30th anniversary of United States flag overseas air service was observed on October 28, 1957, by Pan American World Airways the first to span the oceans to circle South America with regular air schedules, and the first to fly around the world.
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      • 36 5 RAFFLES M HOTEL SINGAPORE PA\ AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS il^jHS^i' most cordial congratulations rlmSrlr*^ for the opening of its Singapore <S4M fTfep M,n age F. SCHUTZMAN jk L? Postal Address: RAFFLES HOTEL P.O. BOX 48. Telephone 2804
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      • 115 5 v TO PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS FROM STANDARD-VACUUM OIL COMPANY, (Incorporated m U.S.A. wttb L«mw<i LiafeU«>; AVIATIOH PRODUCTS MB On the occasion of the opening of their new office to accommodate a progressive enterprise.. lliiail lll[|pljfflisf OCEAN BUILD INS MANSFIELDS CONGRATULATE PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS INC. ON THE OCCASION OF THE
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      • 12 5 PICTURES ctr them mom SINGAPORE STANDARD 23. Lint T«e* Kirn ReW. SINGAPORI-2.
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    • 501 6 IN ITS 30 years of experience m international commercial aviation Pan American World Airways has established a reputation for leadership m fields ranging from the development of airways and airport traffic control to food service and low cost tourist fares. Hero is a selection
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      • 26 6 To keep these A powerful engines running smoothly 7"Bn BRT I all the way to I WJ9j3I|EA I San Francisco PAA. rely on "H« t f
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      • 72 6 Congratulations "PA NAM" for the wonderful achievement m Aviation. The evolution m Aviation is the revolution of modern travel of today that flies the Stars and Stripes the World over, its "PAN AM" GOOD LUCK. On opening your Office. AMERICAN LLOYD AGENCY LTD. (World wide Travel Service) 64 Robinson Road
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