Singapore Standard, 14 February 1959

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  • 26 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD ft lit 3fl S. Telephone ***** 5 Coble "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1959. Vol. IX No. 226. 15 cts. 14 Pages (FINAL EDITION)
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  • 669 1 Jobs passes only if aliens prove they earn $1,200 a month says bill KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Aliens entering the Federation or Singapore will only be issued with employment passes if they can furnish proof of being employed at a monthly salary of not less than $1,200. This is one of
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  • 447 1  - SOLDIER MAULED BY MAN-EATER ESCAPES NERAL MOREIRA By IPOH, Fri. A young soldier of thc First Battalion, the New Zealand Regiment, is now recovering from his injuries in the British Military Hospital, Taiping. after being attacked and dragged 40 yards' by a man-eating tiger in dense jungle at the south-west
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  • 1504 1 UKOOO lt»ttt<>h>ssz M 9 2QO houses quitted; One <U>tttl: Six missing They cried and prayed THREE face* that register ai>onx. They are the tragic faces of but a few of the womenfolk uho went through the ordeal of seeing their home* go in smoke. $1
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  • 166 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Alliance dominated Kuala Lumpur Municipality today cold-shouldered an invitation from the Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, to the Municipal President and two councillors to visit the Singapore Constitution Exposition. The Municipal General Purposes Committee which met today declared
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  • 95 1 MELBOURNE. Feb. 13 (Reuter) The Indonesian Foreign Minister. Dr. Subandrio. announced on a Melbourne television interview tonight that Australia and Indonesia will sign a "treaty of friendship" in the near future. Dr. Subandrio, who Is visiting Australia on a fiveday tour, said the treaty was being drawn
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  • 179 1 K.L. Is Venue Of Leaders' Confab KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Federal CapitaJ may he th e venue of the projected conference of Prime Ministers or Foreign Ministers of Asian countries aimed at launching the "Asian Club" sponsored by Federation Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman and President
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  • 35 1 A COW sforrhed hy flame* ran amok at the tcenm of the fire and had to he rounded up and *hot hy the Police. The animal ua* *uffering from *everm burn*.
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    45 1 TOP: Smoke balloon* into ih- *k\ an fir** engulf* hut after hut. Centre: Soon the bla%e ipreadn and turns another building into a raging inferno. Above: And then all that remain are charred bit* of wood and household good*. The fire ha* done it* damage
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  • 44 1 WASHINGTON 7 Feb. It, (Reuter). Mr. John Foster Dulles, American Secretary of State, successfully underwent a hernia operation at the Wal- ter Reed Army hospital here today. A hospital statement after the operation said his immediate condition was "quite _au*» factory."
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  • 273 2 'BUILD CHEAP HOMES FOR WORKERS' PLEA Hiah'priced housing plans are waste of money^TUC SINGAPORE Trades Union Congress yesterday asked Government to build lowcost housing units for the lower-income group of workers immediately. In a memorandum to the Minister for Local Government Lands and Housing, Dato Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat,
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  • 83 2 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING KOTA BHARU. Fri.— Clyde Wright, the second tenor in the Golden Gate Quartet now touring Malaya, looked a very much worried man last night after the performance et the Suara Muda here. He found his purse containing $600 and passport, missing from his coat, hung at
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  • 116 2 THREE YEARS' REFORM FOR FORGERY ALOR STAR, Fn. A former student of the Sultan Abdul Hamid College here. Ismail bin Che Mat (18). was ordered to be sent to the Henry Gurncy 6chool for three years by judge, Tuan Syed Agil Barakhah. Ismail had ear. ier pleaded guilty to two
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  • 30 2 CASH and articles amounting to more than $100 were stolen when a room occupied by five schoolboys in Kong Lam. Road. Kuala Lumpur, was burgled on Thursday night.
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • 36 2 A evening kr ligk it a b closed t The j wound an-, ma left uppe rincrr.a Mai in F unknot ienge<i he the no: lie. a fi ne TV a five-man ber of i
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1545 2 TENDER NOTICES »mi P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE Construction of one Block i of Six units and One Block of Two units (8 units in all) Labourer's Quarters at Bona Vista Road. Malacca. THE closing date of tenders for the above project originally scheduled to close on 18th February, 1959 has been
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    • 660 2 TENDERS are Invited from bona flde contractors for the Construction and Completion of Sixteen Proposed Bungalows for the Ipoh Malays Co-eperative Housing Society Ltd., Ipoh. Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned during office hours. Tenders will close at noon of Saturday, 28th February. 1959. LIEW WHY HONE Architect,
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    • 410 2 DEALERS in Firewood and Charcoal desiring to tender for the supply of Firewood and Charcoal to the War Department Units stationed in SINGAPORE BALKW'G MATI and SOUTH JOHORE are requested to forward application for registration to: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SUPPLIES TRANSPORT. HQ Singapore Base District, c/o GPO., Singapore NATURALISATION NOTICE
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    • 159 2 NOTICES CHENG MENG FURNITURE COMPANY Extend their best compliments to Messrs. Dunlop Rubber Co. (M) Ltd. for the celebration of their 30th Anniversary of the discovery of the Original Dunloplllo Foam Rubber Cushioning. WILLIAM JACKS _k COMPANY (MALAYA) LTD. (Incorporated In Singapore) NOTICE is hereby given that the 30th ordinary
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    • 428 3 n j4 tfc provisions in the Federation Governments ew Emigration Bill to prohibit entry into its If a nurnber of categories ot persons are _uc» Aider than was at tirst anticipated. The rill coles up tor its first reading in the Legislative ctf next week. The object is mainly
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    • 448 3 IT would be more correct to describe Tunku V4u\ Rahmans broadcast to the nation on Thursday night as an 'au revoir" and not a farewell AV lie hi_ message to Federation citizens may be His Uft before he gives up the reins of his high office, it
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    • 58 3 **iMJ9 Mi dA J"' m Teck Kim Ro *<*. l ri? B ?c_c, N J 563 Cabl MCERNEWS fhn.. 2 4B (5 nes) A departments. m run. Q hn Insurance Bldg.. 174 Batu Rd •'OH: telephone wHa/._. SMAHC: Cowan bt Tel B ?|f| 8 «-e,th St
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  • 1289 3 Wrangle Over Air Fares Trans Atlantic Jet tn Flight- BRITAIN'S new Comet IV jet airliner which is now being operated by BOAC on the trans-Atlantic service between London and New York. by ALAN DAY LONDON BOAC and Pan American have been operating daily transatlantic jet aircraft services for nearly three
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  • 1045 3  - Cairo-Baghdad Rift Widens H. A. R. PHILBY by BEIRUT 'THE bitter quarrel between Cairo and Baghdad, it is now clear, has not been healed by the July revolution in Iraq. That uprising, which swept away the proWestern Hashemite dynasty, was hailed at the time by Arab nationalists everywhere. But subsequent
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  • 31 3 A well-thrown baseball travels at 98 miles \>er hour, a well-hit tennis ball at 112 miJes per hour, and a well-struck golf ball at 170 miles per hour
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  • 216 3 Shorto from the Talks The Christian View "TO say that something is temporary does not necessarily mean that it is unimportant; to say that something is destined to lead at last into something else does not mean that for all practical purposes we can ignore it. We know that children
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  • 433 3 the NEWS as it strikes me UAVING .hum. up the Middle East into a condition where the claim of Arab fraternity has reached the point of fratricide. Moscow has now in all seriousness, te.rned >u sight* on Iran. So ions as there na s a spark of hi r in
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    • 60 3 BE SURE! FOR TROUBLE-FREE SANITARY INSTALLATIONS ALWAYS SPECIFY RtGISTtRIO TRAOI MARK i* jFw stoneware glazed Ij f M PIPES AND FITTINGS %M -LAVATORY SQUATS.AND ISH) RY <^ I NmWjf KUALA LUMPUR \SFsAm* AND PENANG COUNCILS 4^*7 SPFPIAI DISCOUNT ALLOWED FOR BULK PURCHASES Please Enquire from GOH BAN HUAT POTTERY WORKS
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  • 310 4 I don't like to take off my coat and tie Penang leader PENANG, Fri. Independent City Councillor, Mr. A Raja Gopal, said at a Council meeting today that he tlid not like to go to Singapore to attend the Constitutional Exposition because he would be
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  • 184 4 Protection against burglaries THE Princess Elizabeth Estate Community Centre has formed a Special Security Committee to deal with the spate of burglaries in the estate. In a newsletter, the Committee pointed out that the houses which were burgled were the ones specially selected and carefully watched by someone following the
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  • 42 4 SIGNAL Oflficer-in-Chief at the War Office, Major General R. J. Moberly. will visit Singapore and the Federation on Feb. 19. In comprehensive tour, he nill visit units of the Royal Signals and installations throughout the Far East.
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  • 249 4 Duke Wiil Press Button To Open Polytechnic WHEN the Duke of Edinburgh officially opens the Singapore Polytechnic just after noon on Feb. 24, he will do so by electricity, the chairman of the Board of Governors, Mr. Lionel Cresson, revealed yesterday Instead of pulling a drawstring to lower the satin
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  • 23 4 The travelling dispensary and lecture van., of the Veterinary Department. Penang. visited 71 Tillages, 40 kampones and four estates last month.
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  • 140 4 ROCK N' ROLL ON RADIO SHOULD END SAYS UNION THE National Union of Industrial and General Workers has sent a petition, to the Chief Secretary appealing tha; the "present Westernised programmes over Radio Singapore be changed and made more suitable for the local population." The union felt that the present
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  • 134 4 SINGAPORE Education Ministry is now seriously considering the possibility of introducing an Independent Inspectorate. in accordance with thc recent suggestion made by the Singapore Teachers Union. The Union had suggested that establishment of such an j inspectorate would remove all j misunderstandings and bickerIngi between teachers
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  • 117 4 THIS magnificent and artistically-designed platinum tiara mounted with diamonds, will be worn by the Sultanah of Kedah. at the Coronation of the Sultan of Kedah on Feb 20. The tiara, whirh will be considered state property, was designed and made by H. Sena Ltd. It
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  • 105 4 Court Told Of Dramatic Car Chase IX a long and dramatic car chase, a getaway car somersau'ted. The driver who dashed out of the wreckage to es ape. was arrested by Customs officers. lie was carrying dutiable cigarettes in the car, the Singapore Third District court was told yesterday. The
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  • 337 4 KUALA Ll'MPlR, Fri i »,e >,. r J for External Affairs, Dr. Ismail bin h.,i„\. declared tonight that American nonorn/ private enterprise and that tr.idr nd 'M in the hands of the citizens, with b**h terference from the government Speaking over Radio Ma Minister said that private very modern
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  • 22 4 I van tv month. ed I I in* i l w lost the Tho struct ii i bV Mr P [vers
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  • 385 5 JUST' MALAY EXAM: PARENTS PROTEST Ebjection to Govt. but time is too rt says body LUMPUR, Fri. The Selangor Parents' Is preparing a memorandum for submission try of F.ducation, requesting Government to mentation of the policy to make Malay in the Lower Certificate of Education s next year. ie fßO'u.
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  • 178 5 IV NT young pianist, Fou r> made a drato the West two months I in Singapore to do is to he pursue my < told report- i ence at where he arid* I nough in 'd my nd was ordered China, where at tuala were manual work. I about
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  • 170 5 LIBERAL Socialist City Councillor Lee Bah Chee yesterday laid the blame for the disastrous Kampong Tiong Bahru fire on the door of the People's Action Party. Mr. Lee, who was at the scene shortly after the fire started, was shocked by the lack of water in
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  • 159 5 A YOUNG man gives his grandmother a piggy-back rids from their burning home. The old lady, in her eighties, is a cripple. FIREFIGHTER Tun Lim Yew Hock, who left his Chief Minister's duties at Empress Place to be on the spot it se-en in his
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  • 115 5 A cabman runs many risks— lawyer A COLONY lawyer, Mr. C. H. Koh. yesterday drew the attention of a District Judge, Mr. K. T. Alexander, to the many risks a taxi-driver runs in the course of earning a living. Mr. Koh was making his submission at the trial of taxidriver,
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  • 570 6 Died after given anaesthetic-says letter to parents PENANG, Fri. Penang-born, Lai Boon Leong, the ''blue baby," with an enlarged heart who went to America for treatment last year, did not undergo an operation, but died during an anaesthetic given him at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester. This was disclosed
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  • 31 6 pic. FLASHBACK: This picture of little Boon Leong teas taken at Singapore Airport the day (Feb. 26, 1958) he left for the L'nited States. Standard
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  • 61 6 THE first meeting of the organizers of the 1959 Singapore International Bazaar for the Blind will take place at the Cricket Club on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 10 a.m., the organizers, Mrs W.W. Yung, announced yesterday An annual event for the past six years, the
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  • 553 6 THE "big debate" on the hawkers a, 7m turned into a fiasco last Right >m<; About 3,000 people who bad I Victoria Memorial Hall o^c, much-publicised debate mm a the opponents of the Pcoph stopped when Mayor Ong I them. rrgrM Before the debate could get started, the opposing
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  • 36 6 HONGKONG, Feb. 13. Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $15.91 to £1 Sterling $5.74 to US$l; $1.84 to Malayan $1; $0.06 to one Indonesian Ruoiah; Gold $252.37 to a tael.
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  • 36 6 THE Chinese Y.M.C.A. Singapore, is holding a Flag Day today in aid of its New Building Fund. The association also appeals to the public to give generously to the work of youth in Singapore.
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  • 289 6 COLONY COURTS YIELD REVENUE OF $2,920,765 Crime swells Govt, coffers SINGAPORE courts yielded a revenue of $2,920,765 99 in fees during 1957, according to Government judicial reports published yesterday. The highest fees came from the criminal courts, $1,119,112.42 being collected, while the Sheriff had to levy execution in respect of
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  • 184 6 Tunku's 'no' to strippers with eyes on Malays ALOR STAR. Fri,— The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, who was specially invited to witness the official opening of a mosque at Kampong Benau this morning, said that while he was in Hongkong recently, two strip-teasers applied for permission to come to
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  • 159 6 TWO shots were fired by a detective in Spring Street in the China town area of Singapore on Thursday night at a group of gangsters advancing upon him. The detective, Chee Kong Seek, and his colleague, Chan Hoong Yong, had earlier asked the
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  • 336 6 Bonus Anomaly: Hearing Adjourned AN anomaly which arose on the question of bonus rates in the third days hearing of the arbitration between the Singapore City Council and its Labour Unions Federation yesterday led to another adjournment. The adviser for the Federation, Mr. N. S. N. Nair, contended that the
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  • 104 6 Prosetj wife case i jury sjj YES to A I van fir B q j A r let mui wh. The i ear the CO; cusc I Los year, i of the Choo. a company, asi i death. He api i l quitted, w before the day, Mr an acq
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  • 35 6 THI 60th S I on r I of th< Auxi the n On rp._v a P the i the I V M and J Group v i ton. A mounted p ?fc > RAT. Reg***
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  • 395 7 SUSPEND 'HEAL RIFT' TALKS MCA TOLD We must concentrate on polls first say Ong and Tan KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Thc special sub-committee of the Malayan Chinese Association, which meets in Penang tomorrow in the latest move to heal the "rift" over the controversial new MCA constitution, will be asked to
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  • 84 7 SINGAPORE Ramakrishna Mission will hold a Food and Fun Fair at the Indian Association grounds on March 1. It il in aid of the Mission's Boys Home at Bartley Road. The programme includes hu!a-hoop, international fancy dress show, Indian dances and other sports. Entrance to the
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  • 517 7 Singapore Must Strive For New Accomplishments U.S. Admiral 'Economic Progress Necessary' THE IMPORTANCE of Singapore island having: free access to world trade was stressed by Admiral Herbert G. Hopwood, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, at the American Club here yesterday. Addressing the American Association of Malaya here, the visiting
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  • Article, Illustration
    68 7 THE wife of a young Singapore doctor wds the first to congratulate her husband on his graduation at Sydney University recently. The graduate, Dr. Eng Chieuh Chung, was one of 19 Asians who graduated in medicine a record number for one year at the University. The others came
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  • 335 7 BROTHER SLAPS BROTHER, COURT TOLD A BROTHER told a magistrate yesterday that he slapped his younger brother when he returned home with a bundle that contained some jewellery. Chelliah Adikan was testifying at a preliminary inquiry in the Singapore Ninth Magistrate's Court where his younger brother. Arumugam Adikan was tentatively
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  • 151 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot Is| 851 R.S.S. No. 1 Feb. 85. «51 R.S.S. No. 1 March 86 86i R.S.S. No. 2 84* 844 R.S.S. No. 3 83i 84* Tone: Quiet after easier. The tin price in Singaport was
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  • 47 7 WONG HOI KWA was tentatively charged in a Singapore Court yesterday with robbing To Teow Kheng of cash and jewellery valued at $7,000 while armed with a revolver and a dagger at Jcrvois Road at 5 a.m. on Feb. B. He was remanded ior a week.
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    • 204 7 News 940 Singapore Sports Resiilt.s. 945 Continental Cocktail. 10.00 Musica Viva. 10.30 The Vera Lynn Show Jl.OO Good Night. REHIFFLSION (Silver Network) 6.30 a.m. Sunrise Serenade. 700 News. 7.05 Rise And Shin**. 7.30 Musical Clock. 8.00 News, 8.03 Musical Clock. 830 Bandstand, 9 00 Children of other Lands 915 Latin
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    • 1161 8 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lin.s) (Incorporated in Singapore) (12 lines) m t T* THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE T SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL, CLASCOW, LONDON tr CONTINENTAL PORTS (via Suez with liberty to proceed via Panama or Capo ot Cood Hopo) Carriers option to proceed via other ports
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  • 159 9 Pepper Body For Sarwak Urged HE Bar.iu._k f»overnlt I* _a__pl° r »n£ the poslitr Of establishing a rketing organization for per, an mportant ext comnv *^^^Htatr>m< nt rom-' itlng on the report of MaiSting Advisory .mittea^ the Sarawak 'ernment .id it agreed 1 /{the possibility of set"jfup such an organisai
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  • 21 9 ■im Ho. '.and, i Ji ce nf bread are I ftaneousl: 'oasted on both' hy tw0 .400- watt element
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  • 133 9 5/8 Cent Drop In Rubber SINGAPORE dropped 5/8 cent yesterday to close at 85 J cents per lh. for International first grade Feoruary shipment. Quiet conditions prevailed throughout the morning with little interest being shown by overseas centres Towards the end of the session, the market eased on some >untry
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  • 200 9 HE two c: on which the ber marke* open after) Chinese Year ho iS were y quieter j tiO the holidays them>e.ves, Li t tbe weekly produce re- ,-;t ot Holiday Cutler, Bath 1 1 though there was a con si- able tc<- .v on of
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  • 367 9 Move Makes It Possible NON-STERLING Asian countries will now be able tn choose their imports from the best and cheapest markets as a result of the recently announced convertibility of sterling and other European currencies. This view was expressed by Asian speakers at a meeting
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  • 94 9 Malayan Imports Decline MALAYA'S imports in 1958 fell hv $3 13.164.000 to $4,408.--703,000, and exports bv $444,--359.000 to $4,170,698,000. as compared with 1957There was a decrease both in imports from and exports to CK. ann CS., while there was <m increase in exports to Indonesia. Imports from U.K totalled $700,740,000
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  • 50 9 Handloom Week Ends THE Sixth All India Handloom Week which began last Sunday ends today. India has been celebrating this Week regularly every year to emphasise the important roll the handloom industry is playing in the rural economy of the country. Picture show s an Indian weaver operating a handloom.
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  • 360 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported th e following business done yesterday: Alex. Bricks prefs. $1 72J. Fed. Disp. $1.13; Fraser ann Neave ords. 51. 55; Gammon ?1.T4. SI .75 delaved; W. Hammer $1.57. $1 58; 11. and S. Bank (HK Regd.) $431.00: M. Cement $1.71; M. Colls. 57c to
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  • 154 9 OUTER ROADS Shan Hin. Woodencraft. Sea Fox. Flying Culbreath. Mukali, Camphuys Matsusi Maru. Melva, Karaton. Resol. Van Zatt. Northia. Libertad, Montana Maru. Fred. Clover South Wind, Kian Aun. Saidja. Kallanda. Santa Lucia. Mui Ann, Polycreast. Jagisan Maru, Henryu Maru, Sansei Maru. Benmhor, Bombay Maru Statius Jenson, San
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  • 74 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association mad e th e following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday; .■>? a Q._ da uvin T.T. 32J: O.D. i z d l/at. air mail 32-13/16 credit bills 32-15/16 trade bills. Selhne T.T./O.D. ready: Canada 32; Swiss Francs 1411 drench Franc s
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  • 34 9 OUTPUT from estates and mines in the Guthrie Group in January were: Rubber 8,431,000 lbs.: tea (black) 156,000 lbs.; palm oil 1.669 tons; palm kernels 403 tons and tin ore 760 piculs.
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  • 196 9 TO cope with the expansion of the medical services in Singapore and the Federation, considerable expansion of the pharmaceutical services, especially in the Federation, will be required in the next ten years, says the editorial in the Malayan Pharmaceutical Journal, issued yesterday. The journal hoped
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  • 64 9 LONDON, Feb 13. (Reuter) Britain's trade gap excess of imports over exports —totalled £49.400.(100 in January, the Board of Trade announced. This was £28 million less than in December but £4 million more than the monthly average for the fourth quarter of 1958. The provisional figure
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  • 194 9 Tins And Rubber Counters Are Reported Steady TINS and rubbers were steady at quotations, while industrials were quiet on the Malayan share market yesterday. Turnover was small. The Malayan Sharebrokers' Association announced the following price changes INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Fraser and Neave: Ords. 1.54 1.56 Gammon 173 175 W. Hammer
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 316 9 SINGAPORE MUST MEET CHALLENGE IN TRADE Lim Outlines New Entrepot Role WITH changes of great' economic importance to the world taking place ot present, Singapore must make changes if she intends to maintain her position in South-east Asian commerce. Singapore's Chief Minister Tun Lim Yew Hock said this yesterday when
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    • 102 9 SINGAPORE Ch.r.e.e Pro <___c* Exchange noon clo c iPff pnees Der cieul veiterday were- Copra Dec. -Jan. $42$ buyers; $43$ sellers; coconut oil in bulk $64 sellers in drums $67 seller*; Muntok white pepper $144 seller; Sarawak white $143 sellers; special Sarawak black $"8. Singapore Copra Association closing prices
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    • 50 9 In 1958 there was a conrid* rable increase in traffic on Rotterdam airrv rt. The total number of passenerrs tm- *>• '.ing via this airport amounted to 39.300. compared to "J6.4^^ iln 1957; goods transport m- rrea«Ad from 1.300 tons in IfSI to 3.^00 tons in
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  • 241 10 STANDARD PICTURE ROUND-UP Standardpic by Standard.| (LEFT) Mr. Charles Gorman Jr. Executive Engineer. PWD.. Kuala Lipis, and his bride, the former Miss Olive Theresa Nicholas who were married at St. Michael's Church, Ipoh recently. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. E. Nicholas and the late Mr. S. Nicholas of
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  • 73 10 Standardpic by pic. DATO Nik Ahmed Kamil (left) bids farewell to retiring Prime Minister 90 Tunku Abdul Rahman at the Kuala Lumpur Airport just before he took off by a BOAC "Whispering Giant" on Thursdav for his new assignment as Envoy Extraordinary to the im United States
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    60 10 Above > So-. reveller* loons wh, during fh_> Year Dan Kline M.• I la*t M highlight* nt I was .in r\_\.»t.<B dannnc &r P^cn Pirfnrr h* h n.l I A h.ipp> pe I who < rlrhr._tfd ■I thf Pit H throuth thf ro.t the I unk u Mil P.uk
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    • 99 11 SCRUTINEER FRANCIS Race 1 VERNI Ten Per Carat Tiny Jade TINY JADE Bright Sun Honey Bee Race 2 S. MINSTREL Roman Galley II Never Better S MINSTREL Bird Note Silver Mistress Race 3 GUNONG MAS Krakatoa Dinkum SAGE BLUE Dinkum j<rokotoo Race 4 MAYBE Rock** Honey Bird MAYBE Rocket
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      1469 11 TODAY'S CARD MY REST bets for thp day are Maybe in Race 4 and Erik in Race 8 FRANCIS. REDIFFUSION will broadcast commentaries to listeners outside Kuala Lumpur. __yyfH_Bffi fc 2 3 p m c/ 4 o/v 2* 9 furs i 1. 79*227 Excelsior bag 4y 813 Ransome Yong Trio
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    • 452 11 Given a reasonably good track Verni will beat this lot in the 2.30 p.m. the 9f race for horses Class Four. Division Two. Verni came trom a long way back at the hail mile to finish a good fourth to Corporal Nim over 7f
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    • 495 11 STANDARD NAP VERNI MAYBE MAYBE was an expensive failure last week when he went down narrowly to Oleander II over 7f. But with two furlongs more to travel here he has a ereat chance to make amends. Today's trip over 9F is more like his right distance and I expert
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    • 400 11  - COUAG TO WIN GOLD CUP SCRUTINEER By COUAG is fitter and in better shape than I have ever seen him before, and with Arthur Ward riding him he should win the 14th running of the 11 miles Selangor Gold Cup (Race 5) at Kuala Lumpur this afternoon, final day of
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    • 173 11 HIGH SOCKS FOR THE BIG SPRINT HIGH SOCKS missed his engagement on Tuesday and apparently has been saved for the Henggeler Memorial Trophy, main 6f race for class one, Division one sprinters. The five-year-old by High Peak scored ln stylish fashion at., the last Singapore meeting when he defeated a
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  • 662 12 ENGLAND 1ST INNINGS P. Richardson c and b Benaud 68 T. Bailey c Davidson b Lindwall 0 P. IMay c Benaud b Meckiff 11 M. C. Cowdrey c Lindwall b Davidson 22 T. Graveney c McDonald b Benaud 19 E. Dexter c Lindwall b Meckiff 0
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  • 298 12 DEFENDING champions, the Singapore Recreation Club, trounced Prisons Sports Club by six goals to nil in the first round tie of the Singapore Hockey Association Senior knockout competition on the SRC padang yesterday. And the man who paved the way for the Recs' big victory
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  • 145 12 West Indies 32 For One At Tea AMRITSAR. Feb. 13 (Reuter)—Bowlers had a field day today when 21 wickets fell for 167 runs in 200 minutes on the first day of the West Indies last match of their Indian tour against North Zone here. West Indies put into bat on
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  • 31 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Today's division two league hockey fixture between University of Malaya and Simit Sports Club scheduled to be played off on the Sentul Ground was not played.
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  • 240 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The annual cricket friendly between Singapore and Selangor, which was not played last year, will be revived this season. The Selangor Cricket Association, at its first meeting here last night, decided to accept the Singapore Cricket Association for a friendly match
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  • 37 12 PENANG, Fri. Two teams of amateur boxers from the Penang Youth Centre and the Amabox Club will stage a boxing contest in aid of the Sin Hwa School Building Fund at Parit Buntar on Sunday.
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  • 222 12 THAIS WILL BE WELL REPRESENTED AT ROME THAILAND can be expected to send a rood -sized team to the Olympics In Rome next year. This was disclosed bv Mr. Charles H. Dailey a leading American coaeh. who is the adviser lo the Thai Olympics committee, under a Fulbright programme. Mr.
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  • 104 12 Junior Cup Soccer Training Programme THE Schools' and Youth committee of the Singapore Amateur Football Association, will start an intensive training in preparation for the Asians Junior Cud soccer competition to b e held on April 18 in Kuala Lumpur. The training will start on March 16 and Will be
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  • 462 12 116 HORSES FOR PENANG' S 2-DAY MEETING PENANG. Fri— A Total of 118 Class Three and Class Five horses has entered for the Penang Turf Club Spring meeting, which nill only be a twoday affair on Feb. 21 and Feb. 28. The following are the entries: auDiect to passing veterinary
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  • 209 12 TELEPHONEMEN FORCE TTSH TO A DRAW SINGAPORE Telephone Board forced the current leaders. Tan Tn.k Sen? Hospital. and |._m runners-up lo a one-all draw at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. The winners. lUtpriMd T'ISH with a shock coal early in the game, when Tommv Mi beat Ang Soon with a hard
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  • 82 12 THE following is the schedule of racing: FIRST DAY: Clas s 3 Divs. 1 and 2: 5. furs, and 7 furs. Class 5. Divs. 1 and 2: 5_ furs and 7 furs SECOND DAY: Clas s 3. Divs. 1 and 2: 6 furs and 8i furs Class
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  • 572 12 S.C.A. TO EXPAND COACHING SCHEME KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Selangor Cricket Association will intensify and expand its coaching scheme for schoolboys and make an all out drive to put itself on a sound financial footing. This was decided at the first executive meeting of the Selangor Cricket, Association which was
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  • 193 12 THK Old Collegians from \_Mr_ Singapore on April 28 and 29 al (he Sm v j* P Club padang. This is one of the u r matches of the Singapore Cricket v vsA for the vear. The visitors will meet the Pr.^-.i.. l Q r\ Ten teams will Mtticipott
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  • 44 12 IPOH. Fri. —The New Zealand Regiment team to meet Royal Signals (Malaya) in the Malaya Rugby Army Cup final here tomorrow will be: Apiata, B. Sheridan. Tataurangi McKinnon. Nepia, Tomlins. McPhee. Cookson, Maconnachie, Dawes, Christie. Donaldson. Katene, Craik. Solomon
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  • 54 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The annual general meeting of the YMCA sports section will be held on Sunday, Feb. 15. at 10 a.m at the YMCA hall. All members interested in sports are invite 1 to attend After the meeting an at home and a cricket match starting at
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  • 26 12 MH^»IKN[ (Rent'i hx t*>* surrd of \jd from thrir J» i Mr. I I J "> manager ol hjrf taking J' sterling I" £17,600 *tcrU»* i
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  • 1074 13 Soldiers Spend Holidays In The Sun Bii .*hi___l_l.i-___i 111 *_BfWr* 9SaS Mt mt St tW msM *seS Mmmm k__Bß IB* ™^fS St ml mS tg tBB& Btm tm* EBY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT mote but beautiful beach in northern Malaya near the trend of Penang, soldiers from 3 Company, Royal Army
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  • 501 13 A MILESTONE IN HER LIFE By KEN LUND Joan Johnison, the wife of Fl^eht Sergeant Johnson stationed at RAF Cha.ig:! is a dancing teadher who this month rjeaches a milestone ln her life, for this mon_th is the silver anniversary of her career whi.h started when she qualified at the
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  • 366 13 'One thing I liked about the camp was the complete solitude." declared 20-year-old Private Michael Ellis, of 90 Villiers Road, Willesden, London N.W. 2. "There were no artificial entertainments. One simply had to amuse oneself a lost art in these modern times." A cook in
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    • 220 13 I ___________________^^___^___L________r I M____fl ESQ iy RITA DEL MAR rODAY'S i)l <>T _TIO\: *A cheerful temper, obits with Innocence, will .'\kf be.Titv attractive. IdelUrhtful and tured." Addi\Y FOR EVERY- r lv To cope with !e who are unrky. or uncoT tact. d.svening favours items; u^c dipinme or with redomestic, family
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 174 14 RANGOON. Feb. 13 (Reuter) General Ne Win today resigned as Prime Minister of Burma. Ne Win, who was formerly the Army Chief of Staff, was sworn in on Oct. 29 following the resignation of U Nu the former Prime Minister. It was predicted that a powfrful faction
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    • 122 14 DR. CHENG TO STUDY OUTER SPACE LAW LONDON. Feb. 13 (Reuter). Dr. Bin Cheng. 38-year-old China-born expert on international law. has been given £2.400 ($20,400 Malayan) by the Rockefeller Foundation for research into the law of outer soace, it was disclosed yesterday. Dr. Cheng, a lecturer st University College, London,
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    • 68 14 PALM SPRINGS. Feb 13 (Reuter) Zsa Z_.a Gabor wants to go to Russia, among other countries. for her honeymoon. She told reporters today she and millionaire builder Hal Hayes had set their wedding date for April 17. Their month's honeymoon would be spent in Honolulu. Hongkong, Siam
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    • 27 14 MR. B. K. NEHRU. India's Commissioner-General for Economic Affairs, left Delhi last night for Moscow and London on his way to Washington Reuter.
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    • 157 14 LONDON, Feb. 13 (Reuter) The under-developed territories of the Commonwealth would benefit by more withdrawals from the sterling balances held by the colonies, the Overseas Review of Barclays Bank D.C.O. jsaid yesterday. lAt the end of 1945, these nces totalled more than 30() million,
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    • 75 14 $63m. in cheques fished out NEW YORK. Feb. 13, (UPI) Fifty thousand cheques worth about 563 million (Malayan) have been fished out of the water into which an American Airlines plane crashed last week and more than $12 million worth still are missing. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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    • 71 14 photo. A NEW LOOK inspired by an ancient tradition is achieved in thi s "Purple Orrhid" hair-do adorning London model Claressa Roberts. Dumas of Mayfair presented the butterfly-shaped coiflfur* at hi s hair style show at London's Mayfair Hotel. Reflecting the current "Geisha Look." the hiir-do
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    • 219 14 LONDON, Feb. 13 (CPI) Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd shuttled between the British Cabinet and the Greek and Turkish Foreign Ministers today in a race against time to set up a three-nation threaty conference to make Cyprus an independent nation. Governor Sir Hugh
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    • 300 14 To prevent Jap repatriation of nationals at all costs KOREA, Feb. 13, (UPl)— The Republic of Koreo Defence Ministry said todav the R.O.K. Navy and Air Force was ready to go into action "anytime to prevent Japanese repatriation of Korean residents to communist North
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    • NEWSBRIEFS
      • 194 14 SYDNEY, Feb. 13. (Reuter) The University of Sydney will hold Australia's first seminar on tuberculosis in May, next year. The World Health Organisation, and the Commonwealth Health Department will back the 14-day seminar. More than 30 delegates from most Pacific countries are expected to take part
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    • 55 14 CHINESE children and their friends excitedly watch the traditional dance of the unicorns in a Chinese restaurant in London's West End last week, as they celebrate the Chinese New Year tor tht year 2501. This traditional dance is performed only on New Year celebrations. The
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    • 92 14 LONDON, Feb. 13.— 1f the consumption df tin continues at the present rate without any change being made in production quotas, the sa.e of the entire buffer stock together with the special fund stock would be insufficient to prevent a tin defici* by the end of
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    • 202 14 Nepal's first elections next week KATMANDU Nepal, Feb 13 (Reuter) King Mahendra of Nepal yesterday promulgated his country's first democratic* constitution, providing for a constitutional monarchy on the British model with two Houses of Parliament and a Cabinet responsible to the Lower House. The constitution, drafted with the help of
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    • 133 14 S'pore-Bound Ship Delayed By Strike TILBURY. Feb 13. (Reuter) Departure of the P. and O. Liner Himalaya (27.955 tons) for Jaoan and the Far East was delayed when about 250 Goanese crew went on strike yesterday. Trouble arose earlier with the collapse ann sudden death of a Goanese steward. Discussions
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    • 451 14 World War III Can Be Avoided Churchill LONDON. Feb. 13 (Reuter) Confidence that a third world war can be avoided is expressed by Sir Winston Churchill. Britain's wartime Prime Minister, ln an epilogue to the new. abridged edition of his war memoirs published here today under the title "The Second
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