Singapore Standard, 2 May 1959

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  • 19 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Coble TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1959. Vol. IX. No. 303. 15 cts. 14 Pages (FINAL EDITION)
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  • 526 1 UK BLAMED FOR ARTIFICIAL DIVISION 'It is dangerous and injurious* Govt. urged to take measures to implement full employment policy for all THE SINGAPORE Trades Union Congress celebrated May Day yesterday with a call to all workers in the Colony to demand a merger with
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  • 54 1 PENANG. Fri. Security forces at dawn today launched operation "Inter-Nod." which is aimed at wiping out or forcing the surrender of the four or five remaining communist terrorists in the Paya Terubong area. The terrorists include Malayan Communist Party branch committee members Lau Pik Yuk
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  • 53 1 MANILA. Fri. (Reuter) Prison guards lobbed tear gas bombs into cells at the Philippine state penitentiary at Muntinlupa, some 30 miles south-east of Manila, to quell a riot staged by 127 convicts, it was reported here. The convicts rioted to protest the solitary confinement of one
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  • 192 1 THE CHEW SWEE INQUIRY RESUMES TODAY THE Commission of Inauiry into $500,000 bank account of the former Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, will hold a public session today. On April 13 the Commissioner. Mr. Justice Buttrose. postponed the inquiry until the 55-year-old Comptroller of Income Tax. Mr. G.
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  • 67 1 MANILA. Fri. (Reuter) Eight armed men burned alive a wealthy Chinese storeowner in Malaybalay, on Mindanao island in the southern Philippines and robbed him of P4.000 (about M56.000». it was reported. A Philippine news service report said the men poured kerosene over the Chinese, identified
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  • 54 1 TAIPEI. Fri. (Reuter) A Chinese couple was today married 4,000 feet up in the air, aboard Civil Air Transport's aircraft. The bride was Miss Hsieh Ah Chiao and the groom was Chen Tsu Chun, an official of the provincial forestry administration. Captain Bengee Lin. the aircraft's captain,
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  • 14 1 NO cases of smallpox were reported in the Federation and Singapore yesterday.
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  • 105 1 Gunman's girl is sought by Police SINGAPORE Police are lookins for a younsr Chinese woman who was in the company of a gunman when a taxi driver was held up and robbed of S3 in Tosca Street yesterday, afternoon. The woman, the uunnian and his friend boarded the taxi at
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  • 269 1 TORIES FLAY MOSLEY FOR WHITE BRITAIN' POLICY LONDON, Fri. Fears of a recurrence of last August's Notting Hill race disturbances were expressed by delegates at a conference of the Conservative Commonwealth Council in London yesterday. "It is absolutely certain," 'Sir Patrick Spens, M.P., declared, "that
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  • 476 1 CITY COUNCIL PROBE: 60 WITNESS TO TESTIFY And one has a story of Mr. Ong ABOUT 60 witnesses are expected to give evidence before the Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate the working of the Singapore City Council. Among them are Mr. L. A. Marcus, former Superintendent of the
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  • 242 2 America rushes 7,000,000 Jabs' To Britain No more shortage of salk vaccine A Ministry of Health spokesman said that with the aid of the imported vaccine, there would be no repetition next month of this month's shortages. The shortages were due to an "unexpectedly heavy" demand in April from people
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  • 37 2 Radio Picture. PAT WILLIAMS, an 18-year-old Negro beauty, receives the crown as Miss Sacramento 1959, from the 1958 winner Miss Sandra Soliday. Pat becomes the first coloured girl to win the crown. U.P.I.
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  • 35 2 A THIEF stripped a woman. Adaikkp.mma, of a ring and gold chain worth $410 at her home in Paya Lebar Road yesterday. The man was said to have threatened her with a dagger.
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  • 170 2 Varsity first year law exam results THE following first year full-time students have passed the LL.B. Intermediate examination held at the University of Malaya: Abdul Malek bin Abdul Aziz, Abdul Rahim bin Ismail, Ang Soon Ho. John, Chan Yew How, Cheang. Molly (Mis?),' Devadason. Ernest V., F^ng Seng Yee. Goh
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 770 2 IT J^ ml JA B■% ACKNOWLEDGMENT MR. MRS r. MADHAYA MENON re-- thank all relatives r i nds who attended their wedding, :ee°p f ior.. tent gifts and g >vd wishes j They regret their inability to < thank ..'.I Individually. ANNOUNCEMENT KEEP YOI R I) All. FREE I Tonite
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    • 811 2 SITUATION Singapore" THE BodTfi of Governor., < invite application* for the following appointments for 15th September 1959:— Department of General Education <1 -3> THREE ASSISTANT I LECTURERS GRADE 11. to teach English, "istory and Geography. The College. at present, conducts classes up to I :he General Certificate 'A Level Candidate^
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    • 751 2 S VACANT POLYTECHNIC i-isipn of Concrete Structures j Teaching experience would be an added qualification (15>. ONE ASSISTANT LECTT'RER. GRADE II IX CARPENTRY JOINERY and general building subjects is required to assist in teaching :o a full-time Teachers Handi "rafts Course and with the part-time courses in Carpentry ir Joinery
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    • 507 2 LONDON, Fri. Because of the sudden rise in the demand for antipolio "jabs," the Ministry of Health has arranged for 1,000,000 doses of Salk vaccine to be flown from America, it was revealed yesterday. A Britannia landed U tons of Salk vaccine at London Airport yesterday. A further 2\ tons
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  • 889 3 May 2. 1959 ■The Disunited Front IF IN THE past the people of Singapore have If hewed lukewarm interest, or none whatever, in local politics, there has been abundant evidence in the last few days that they have been galvanised into thought by the prospect of
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  • 49 3 0 0 ">CI; n Lim teck Kim RoaO. -pore PO So* No 1563 Cable*. TIGERNfcwS W: ***** (5 unes) All departments -*LA -urvfPUR; Owi insurance Bids 174. Batu Ro ipr*«-i tcepnone ***** penai-.* 9 Cowan St Tel: 3829 MACACCA 3- e h St Tel: 4055
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  • 847 3  - RI Housewives Hit By Inflation BRUCE RUSSELL -by JAKARTA. JNDONESIAN housewives are complaining of a spiralling inflation which is causing the prices of essential household items to rise almost from day to day. One mother of three children, interviewed at a Jakarta market, gave the following figures for her daily
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  • 243 3 KING PIN "THE American game of tenpins is an example of the American genius for evading the letter of the law. The game of ninepins wa s brought from Europe by the Dutchmen who settled in what afterwards became New York State, and one of the
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  • 471 3 KARACHI PAKISTAN strikes the visitor as a lonely country intellectually. Events have shut it off from India, which is the homeland of so many of its citizens. The ties of the intelligentsia were mostly with Britain, and since independence these have been allowed to wear very thin— much
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  • 289 3  -  GUY WINT -by Britain the Americans have been moving eageriv. They have been energetic, even if net particularly effective. Their book export scheme enables them to pour in books. TIME LIFE and the READERS' DIGEST are everywhere, and they have become the main source from
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  • THE Voice of MALAYA
    • 261 3 Sir I hope that those clerks, peons, salesmen, and other office workers who listen to the PAP lords threatening the capitalists and business firms realise that their livelihood and future depends on the existence of these firms and businesses. If these firms cease business or transfer their
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    • 211 3 Sir,— The PAP boasts that it is the only honest and non-corrupt party. determined to serve the people very, very faithfully. Will the very honest leaders of the P.A.P. please let the public know what has happened to the $120,000 of the fund money (this is public
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    • 340 3 Sir— At the last election, the PAP ignored the Eng-lish-educated voters because they openly declared that the English-speaking class was of no consequence. They went all out to woo the Chi-nese-educated class because they formed the majority of the voters. The brains of the English-educated class were regarded as
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  • 430 3 the NEWA as it strike me 'THIS mornii.g we intend to x be light-hearted We are going to forget local politics except to point out that hitherto the conduct of business in the Singapore Legislative Assembly has been decorous in spite of the fact that some members have, on occasions,
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  • 278 4 PARADISE AND THREATS— ALL IN ONE VOICE Don't tall for this 'cheap PAP stratagem/ says Lib-Soc chief THE secretory-general of the Liberal Socialist Party, Mr. E. K. Ton, soid last night that with one voice, the Peoples Action Party, promise the electorate paradise and with another throw out dire threats
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  • 135 4 MIC make election pledge to minorities THE Singapore branch of the Ma'.avan Indian C°ngre?s wiU S?ht for the rights minority communitiea and <eek to establish a Minority Council to protect their interests. This was one of the main planks of 'he MIC election platform anno inced yesterday. The MIC w..l
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  • 142 4 PAP men are such liars— says Jumabhoy THE MINISTER for Com- merce and Industry. Mr. J. tM. Jumabhoy last night hit j at the Peoples Action Party for "trying to dupe the people by telling lies." At an election rally in Bencoolen Street. Mr. Jumabhoy, who is contesting the general
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  • 191 4 A 71-YEAR-OLD villager yesterday walked nearly ten miles from his home in Thomson Road to the Singapore Legislative Assembly House with a purpose. The villager, Tan Choon Khor's purpose was to obtain posters publicising the coming general election from the Department of Information Services. Tan
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  • 179 4 MFU films second to none —says movie chief r <UA* A LUMPUK, Fri. The Malayan Film Unit is muling out documentaries that are up to any acceptable international standards. Mr. Nagata. President of the Federation of Motion Pictures Producers Association said on arrival here today. Mr. Nagata who is attending
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  • 78 4 UMNO TO OBSERVE 13th BIRTHDAY KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The United Malays National Organisation will celebrate its 13th anniversary on May 11. The Standard was told today. The UMNO Headquarters had issued a circular to all UMNO divisions to celebrate the occasion at all levels. The UMNO Secretariat will hold a
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  • 339 4 Well help good bosses but won' tolerate slave drivers PAP THE Peoples' Action Party will encourage f>mpi 0 to form "a unified organization of their own' v 0 they could formulate a consistent and enlist* policy towards workers. But the PAP secretary-general, Mr. Lcf k <; warned employers that his
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  • 168 4 Not choset he says: Back this candidate INCHE Ham ;d R«k who wa? once tipped to r»-UMNO-MCA candidate Kampong Kembenggat! sion. yesterday tppt I edfej electorate in this an v their full-hearted s ppofl the party's fina' che Mohamed Ali bin A wi Inche Ham id. \> vice-president of the
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  • 447 5 FOO CHILDREN CUSTODY SUIT: A RETRIAL Judge acted outside his jurisdiction Says Chief Justice KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Court of Appeal today ordered o retrial of the case in which a local medical practitioner and his estranged wife are contesting the custody of their two sons. The Court comprising the
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  • 109 5 Police probe licence fraud *i\< a .\PORE Police are i,^ <t siting into certain I 1 1 piftn in nonnecI n u;th the issuance of n nre th*»n 100 driving rates it Traffic Police, it well Road. jfct Standard underhand* that the driving „n r receipts were y pn from
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  • 178 5 kUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Esu tan of Selangor was I lispleased with the ■w- ted incident which I at the Interna- Airport during the send-off given Sultan of Brunei t Tuesday. ADC to the Sultan Bsku Zainon Rashid Shah he Standard that the >rl i
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  • 108 5 Minister from N.Z. for I.LO. confab ■HI New Zealand Minister I 1 a M;res and ImmiII F. Hackett. ard >•.-:; t pore yesterday 'a ihOTi Sit. H kett :> on his way rttend the 40th anniversary Ujl '"•ernational Labour Kanization in Geneva next Ifc -1 visil Britain first to K«
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  • 28 5 p >Wic Enquiry and P j Bureau will visit following e.ection wards 3 beginning on May 5: r s *amford, Tanglin, oattcq, De.ta and Have-
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  • 71 5 DENIES HOUSE BREAKING CHARGE Lee Lay Hock pleaded not guilty in a Singapore Court yesterday to a charge of break ing into a house belonging to Pal Kwong Cheng at Caldecott Hill Estate on April 30. He also pleaded not guilty to an alternative chargp of dis honestlv retaining stolen
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  • 88 5 Burglars ransack news agency: $410 lost THE Pan Asia News Agency and an adjoining office occupied by a branch secretary of the Singapore People's Alliance in Robinson Road, were ransacked on Thursday night, Documents were scattered and all cabinets and drawers were found open and thoroughly searched. The Chief Minister,
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  • 242 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Labour Department today gave some reasons why employers prefer children and young persons to work for them and why such workers seek employment. Employers: Children and young persons provide che?p labour, they are docile, they can be
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  • 145 5 Sheridan appointed Attorney General KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has approved the appointment of Mr. C. M. Sheridan as Attorney-General, Federation of Malaya, in succession to Dato T. V. A. Brodie, who leaves the country on retirement on Sunday. Mr. Sheridan is at present serving as Solicitor-General. He
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  • 558 5 Marshall queries right to hold his client IN the Singapore High Court yesterday Mr. David Marshall said that if Court upheld that the detention of Choo Jee Jing, 28, had no legal basis, then all the detainees being held under the Preservation of
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  • 93 5 THE Governor of Singapore. Sir William Goode, yesterday paid a visit to Customs House in Maxwell Road and was taken on a tour around the various departments. Sir William was met on his arrival by Mr. R. S. Tufnell, Controller of Customs, and the Financial Secretary, Mr
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  • 373 5 YOU have sinned...Mayor told PENANG, Fri. The so-called piecemeal revaluation of houses introduced in the City Council last September and in force this year was a sin against the citizens and the sin rested squarely on the heads of the Mayor and the
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  • 314 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Three Ministers will head the State Alliance ten-man action committee to boost the party's publicity campaign in the first postMerdeka election to the Selangor Legislative Assembly. The Standard was told today. The Selangor Alliance executive committee, at its meeting here last night
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  • 117 5 Student's body found in stream TELUK ANSON, Fri.— Police yesterday recovered the highlydecomposed body of 21-year-old Hong Soon Eng, who was drowned at the wharf here on Wednesday. Hong, a post-senior student of the Anglo-Chinese School in Ipoh was spending his school holidays with his parents here. On Wednesday, he
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  • 214 5 Parties ignore Front's call for a 'gentleman's agreement' IPOH, Fri. Inche Ibrahim Karim, Chairman of the Socialist Front today challenged leaders of all political parties contesting the Perak Assembly elections to show their "sincerity" as politicans by accepting his invitation to a round-table conference. Inche Karim, who is contesting the
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  • 134 5 Welfare Dept gave $2.6 m aid —report DURING the first three months of this year, 3.112 people in Singapore sought aid under the Public Assistance Scheme at the Department of Social Welfare. This was revealed in the progress summary of the Department for the period from January to March 1959.
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  • 60 5 ONE of the leading financiers of India will arrive in Singapore tomorrow for a twoday visit. He is Mr. M. S. M. M. Meyyappa Chettiar, who. besides being a financier, is the chairman of the Karaiqqudi Banking Corporation Ltd.. proprietor of the Arthur Glass Factory and
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  • 494 6 NEW TRADE UNION LAW: NOTHING TO FEAR Govt. will protect the workers from exploitation Ong KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Trade unions in the Federation have nothing to fear from the new Trade Union Ordinance. Minister for Labour and Social Welfare, Mr. Ong Yoke Lin, declared today. Speaking at a May Day
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  • 253 6 IPOH. Fri.— The multilingualism motion introduced in the January meeting of the Ipoh Town Council and carried by a 6-4 Progressive?" majority has been turned down by His Highness the Ruler-In-Council. This was revealed at last night's mee'ing of the Ipoh Town Council when
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  • 60 6 A SINGAPORE Judge. Mr. SK. Lee. yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of Lee Lay Toon. 17. for failing to attend court to answer a charge of attempted extortion from Leow Kim Yeow at Sypd Aiwl Road on March 14. Another youth. Neo Bock Kwee
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  • 212 6 He is to discuss abuse of authority THE New Zealand Minister for Justice. Mr. H.G.R. Mason, loft Singapore yesterday after a two-day visit. Mr Mason, who Is also the Now Zealand Attorney-Gen-eral and Minister for Health. will be attending judicial conferences in Colombo on Monday. He will be attending the
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  • 229 6 Anything HE can do SHE can do better KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. What a man can do. a woman can do better. This is the opinion of a large number of employers in the Federation. The monthfy report of the Ministry of Labour and Welfare issued here today states: "A European
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  • 192 6 A 10- MINUTE FILM, fn blark and white, is soon to be made on the subject of food hygiene for the Singapore Health Education Council, it was announced yesterday by the managing director of Cathay Film Services, Mr. Tom Hodge. Technical information and guidance
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  • 118 6 FRENCH ART SHOW AT KL GALLERY KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— An exhibition of modern French Art, entitled "Reproductions of Contemporary French Paintaings," will open at the National Art Gallery, Tunku Abdul Rahman Hall, on May 13. The French Ambassador in Malaya. Mr. H. E. M. Francols Briere. will officially open the
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  • 74 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Seven Indonesian film actresses, who are here for the film festival, will model ancient and modern dresses of the republic at a special rashion parade at the Indonesian Embassy here tomorrow at 10.30 a.m. The organizer is Mrs. Mohamad Razif, the Ambassador's wife, who
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  • 256 6 Surprises in store for Penang electorate PENANG, Fri. Nomination day f Of state elections is tomorrow and although tj, hare been some surprises by prospective CQ| dates recently, more and bigger ones Qfe store for the electorate. The latest surprise is the break by the p c Radical Party from
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  • 245 6 Nationalization warning by the Labour Party KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Municipal Council was told at its monthly meeting yesterday that if the Labour Party came into power it would nationalize all I foreign-owned companies. The warning came from Mr. V. David of the Socialist Front. who added that foreign companies
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  • 183 6 A ROWDY WELCOMI FOR HK ACTRESS PENANG. Fri-A rican car. PAfiWt, reto the former tot H- Goh. carrying tin I kong film stars to the |fc Capito! theatres damaged by an v•• who had gatherer; n.• c cinema hails to c?.-- glimpse of their fc actresses. The main roads :r.
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  • 118 6 Civics tour for 3 5 from a kampong THIRTY-FIVE farmers and shop-keepers from a remote kampong in Semhawang yesterday spent a day touring the city, attending a civic course. The group were first brought to the Department of Information where they saw a film show and talks on civics. They
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  • 213 6 Set hous on fire: Man get 12 month KUALA LUMPUR, Fr. W Sessions Court ?:*yM ft Tuan Sheikh Abdul Fai^ fjt today sentenced Abdu: KL*tj W bin Talib. 20, lorry artT'-^j fr to 12 months' Jail fcr < f 'i W fire to a house owned ft aged Chinese on
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  • 66 6 THE 354-page an'. port for Singapore out for sale yesterrisv I a copy. Profusely Illustrated. contains a general r<= 1957 described as a r calm and eonsolidat the failure of the tlonal talks of 1956. sequent "blatant Torfront activity." Detailed report- J Singapore Oovernn* government departnw
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  • 78 6 LOVELY Hongkong star, Li Mei, obliges a fan with her autograph at a luncheon given in her honour by the Cathay Organisation during her visit to Ipoh. She is in Ipoh to make personal appearances in connection with the screening of her latest film "Wild
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  • 195 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Alliance-dominated Municipal Council last night rejected a suggestion by Socialist Front Councillor, Mr. V. David, to extend the Municipal boundary to the fifth mile. Klang Road. Councillor David said that residents of the growing residential area at the 4*
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  • 32 6 FIVE armed robbers, one with a revolver and the others with daggers, held up and robbed a family of cash and jewellery worth $600 in Palau Übin, on Thursday night.
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  • 92 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Who is the oldest person in the Federal capital? The Municipal Council wants to contact this patriarchal man or woman in connection with the capital's forthcoming centenary celebrations. All that is needed to establish the unique honour of being the
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  • 354 6 New Fed. Army chief is man of many interests KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Major-General Enaith Habibullah, whose appointment as Deputy General Officer Commanding, Federation Army, has been announced, was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy. Sandhurst, in 1930. Gen. Habibullah had his early education in England at Rottingdean Preparatory School and
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  • 111 7 TAIPLNG, Fri. Neon Hup, 24. who was caught selling cinema tickets at blackmarket rates, was fined a total of $85 and one day's imprisonment on three charges by the Magistrate, Inche L?mi bin Ismail. Neoh, who was arrested on Feb. 16 in front of the Carlton
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  • 197 7 US study tour tor school principal THE principal of the Chinese High School in Singapore, Mr. Cheng An Lun. will leave the Colony by air tomorrow for a two-month visit to the United States on a grant under the Educational Exchange Programme of the United States Department of State. While
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  • 599 7 CAUSEWAY MOVEMENT: NO CHANGE Permits will not be necessary A UNIFORM LAW IS THE AIM OF NEW ENTRY ORDINANCE PENANG, Fri. Movements across the Johore Causeway will not be affected by the new immigrat i o n regulations which come into force today. This was disclosed by a spokesman of
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  • 96 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot 100 1001 R.S.S. No. 1 May 1001 100g R.S.S. No. 1 June 100* 1001 R.S.S. No. 2 99i 99| R.S.S. No. 3 981 98$ Tone: Quiet. Tin price in Singapore was 5397i per picul
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  • 59 7 THE following were elected officials at the annual conference of the Embarkation HQ Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society recently: Ex-Officio President; Lt.-Col. G. R. G. Bickley, R.A.. Chairman: Mr. Wee Cheng Sin, Secretary: Mr. Ho Thian Chor, Treasurer: Mr. E. Doray. Committee: Messrs. R. Sangaran, Abdul Rahman.
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  • 24 7 THE Labour Front will hold a rally at the junction of Braddell Road and Serangoon Road today between 7.00 and 9.00 p.m.
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  • 281 7 DRUM MAJOR APPOINTED A COMMANDER KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— A Malayan officer, a one-time Drum Major in the Royal Malay Regiment, has been appointed by the Yang dlPertuan Agong to be Second-in-Command of the Ist Battalion, the Federation Regiment multi-racial unit of the Federation Army He is Major Osman bin Haji
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 61 9 ;;V,\FOKLS Chief Minister. Tun Lim Yew Hock, was conducted round the president il sWp lapu Lapu. shortly after he opened the floating exposition on board on fbnrsdaji rhoto shows Tun Lim (left) being shown by a member of the mission a pome f»u*t of the
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    • 194 9 I TON, North Bor- pri (Renter] The r\ rneo government i today thai pcr- n had been given to sc businessmen to Colony later this pt] to surrey drvelopp\ abilities in the local conditions. i On Feb. 13, the Government announce^ that a letter from
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    • 92 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were Copra April-May $44 buyers; $45 sellers; coconut oil in bulk $67 sellers; in drums $70 sellers; Muntok white pepper 5148 sellers Sarawak white $147 sellers; special Sarawak black $82. Singapore Copra Association closing prices fair merchantable mixed copra
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    • 233 9 Interest In Tins On Share Mart THERE was >eiective support in Industrials and Tins at improved prices on the Malayan share market yesterday. Rubbers, however, were steady. Turnover was fair. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers* Association were Betong 83/- 88/- cd cci Uniten Temians 4/6 4/9 INDUSTRIALS Buyers
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    • 510 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business donp yesterday: Bj3. Petrol 56/9 arrival including stamp: Fed. Disp. $1.12. 51.12J; F. N. ords. $1.54 to $1.53. Gammon $186 to $1.8-8: Hammer $1.44; H. Waugh $1.23. $1.22: Hume prefs. A4'B; M. Breweries $283: M. Cement $1.60 to $1.82: M. Co'ls. 82c.
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    • 435 9 PRICES OF NATURAL RUBBER TOO HIGH' Brazil To Use More Synthetic BRAZIL was going to resort to more uses of synthetic rubber for "self protection" against high prices of natural rubber, the Brazilian ambassador to Belgium, Mr. Hugo Gouthier, said in Singapore yesterday. But, he added, that did not mean
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    • 421 9 Market Report THE week has been one of considerable activity on the Singapore rubber market, says Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co. Ltd.'s report. I Prices advanced with only minor reactions until Thursday, when after the 102 mark had been touched a sharp reaction set in during
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    • 144 9 Firm Helps Pakistan Development In seven years of operations in Pakistan, American Life Insurance Company, an affiliate of the American International Assurance Group, has invested 56.000.000 (Malayan) in the country. Mr. M. Wisaluddin, the company's manager for Pakistan, said in Singapore this week. He said the latest report from his
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    • 268 9 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter).— A new tyre factory being built in Russia is to be equipped with £14-million worth of equipment supplied by British firms, the Dunlop Rubber Group announced here today. The factory at Dnepropetrovsk near the Dnieper River will be the largest tyre plant
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    • 39 9 THE Malayan Exchange Bank c Association made the following change in its rates to merchants yesterday: Canada: buying T.T. 31-7/8 O.D. 32/- 90 d/st. air ma-l 32-3/8 credit bills 32-7/16 trad* bills. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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    • 78 9 TOKYO, Fri (Reuter) Japanese diplomatic envoys in the Near and Middle East will discuss Japan's trade and economic co-operation with nations in the area and communist political and economic inroads into the area in a three-day meeting in Beirut, beginning on May 26. the Japanese Foreign
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    • 65 9 TAIPEI. Fri (Reuter) Nationalist China exported U5569.959.088 worth of goods to Japan and imported U5568,209,810 Japanese goods in 1958-59, according to statistics released today. Total exports by Formosa to Japan in the trade year came up to 82 per cent of the trade target, which was set at
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    • 68 9 A NEW British built twin-screw diesel tug. the Elele Creek, is now on its way to Port Harcourt. Nigeria, towing: a 400-ton barge. Both craft are to aid the search of oil in Nigerian creeks and delta areas. The Elele Creek, seen in this picture,
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    • 172 9 IMPERIAL Chemical Industries is to extend its polyolefine activities with the inroduction of a new polypropylene plastic under the trade name 'Propathene.' An agreement has been signed whereby 1.C.1, acquires a licence under the Montecatini and Montecatini/Ziegler U.K. patents covering the production and use of
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    • 74 9 THIS 2,000 ft. insulated aluminium pipeline, 10' diameter, conveys liquid methane from the ship to the storage tanks on the North Thames Gas Board site at Canvey Island* chosen for a methane importation trial scheme. The pipeline together with the storage tanks was built by
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 140 9 Ships In Port OUTER ROADS Waikelo. San Richardo. Lucky Fortune. Steel Scientist, Emp. Kittiwake Thorstrand, Kahanget. Lapaz Taype. Iwate Maru, Taihej IVfaru, Yarra Breeze, Sagafjord. Glenearn Anking. Sanan Kajang. Hallanger Titania, Tohoro. Armenia, Pandokrator, Pacific Trader. Aalsdijk Aedi I Stv. Lirik. Felipes, Kalabahi, Hai Ch-i. Atreus Stv. Malakka Alasaka Maru.
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  • STANDARD PICTURE ROUND-UP
    • 405 10 R.A.F. Squadron Celebrate TOO SHY LITTLE Tengku Fawz: seemed too shy to mee his grand-uncle, the Suits of Brunei at the Istan Pantai. the residence of th Sultan of Selangor. Tengk Fawzy, son of Tengku Pet garan of Selangor, is see with his mother, Tengk Noor Ehsani. The Sultan o
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    • Article, Illustration
      97 10 (ABOVE): Mr. Lim Thiam Leong, (second from left) the contractor for the new Istana Alam Shah at Rlang. shows the Sultan of Brunei and the Sultan of Selangor, the layout of the new palace when the Royal visitors toured Klang and Morib districts last week. Picture by
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    • 103 10 I (RIGHT): Mr. C. R. Wardlt Chief Manager of the Mer cantile Bank Ltd., in Lor don, is seen greeting th Federation Minister fo Commerce and Industry. Mi Tan Siew Sin, and Mr Tan, at the reception hel in Kuala Lumpur last wee on the transfer of the
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  • 148 11 EELJ -kw tt, tn. i neuiei I r Dowling, hainnan Australian Cricket I Control, said yester l the pr< I •nn t' h row ;no greater today than J I oer. 1 H haa i r masntoi aO proportion," he I vllng v\ aa nriment- Um
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  • 89 11 Penang s occerTeam Vs Perak ftS x. Fn.— The Football j oi Penang have I Kter drivers to rep re- w State at soccer against r l^">n on Sunday. p*J »re: \>ip Chens En?, i I."- r -r, Ben^. Chuah Poh i i- An Wah, Saw Choo K H <
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  • 106 11 WEDNESDAY BEATEN IN UST MATCH XV N. Fn. (Renter) n i division pro- the English FootU e, e enieri last night: ie'ea* of Sheffield; jnesday, who hai already' ertain o| heading the Ines ;ny lust 2-1 Igainsi Bristol Rovers With 62 points, two Fulham, who will ►ted with the Wednesjj
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  • Article, Illustration
    36 11 picture. ST. LOUIS: Referee Harry Kessler hangs on to the ropes as Virgil Akins tumbles on top of welterweight champion Don Jordon daring the 14th round here recently. Jordon retained his ti+l» hv a ripricirtn UPI
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  • 98 11 LONDON, Fri. -(Reuter) Enx |sh Football League eni committee yesftned Watford $850 for >f > ensure their flood--1 in order. mnmittee also ordered 'i tc replay in dayligh; 1 ell their Fourth Divi- n with Shrewsbury. J v! to he abandoned '•sday, 18 minutes from j when
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  • 88 11 NAPLES, Fri. (Reuter) Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson. Australia's top two men in their Davis Cup squad, both lost in quarter-finals matches in the Naples International lawn tennis tournament yesterday. Emerson was beaten 6-4, 0-6, 7-3 by Sergio Tacchini, who is ranked only 14th in Italy.
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  • 1061 11 I'LL GIVE Him ALL I'VE GOT INDIANAPOLIS, USA., Fri.— Floyd Pot»rson stands between me and a coveted prize lot's been a life-long ambition and bah gum shall give him all I've got. ft Is the promise Brian London made to me only matter of hours
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  • 392 11 ROME, Fri. (Reuter) A new pattern of the Olympic torch, designed by one of Italy's greatest classical experts, will follow the route of a mythical hunter pursuing a reluctant nymph when it is carried to Rome to inaugurate the Olympic Games in 1960.
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  • 328 11 WORCESTER, Fri. (Reuter) India's bowlers suffered heavy punishment here yesterday as George Dews, 37 year-old Worcestershire batsman, thrashed his way to the first century of the season in English first class matches. i~ Dews was always the Gay Cavalier, driving and pulling
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  • 647 11 THEY ALL GO FOR FLOYD Peter Wilson In America INDIANAPOLIS, Fri. Today there were many topics of conversation in the little tight-knit world-within-a-world of international boxing. Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson's knockdown of his sparring partner. Ik© Thomas. 0 The progress of the gate in Friday's Patterson versus Brian London world
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  • 60 11 IPOH, Fri Ipoh Malays and Bawean Putra drew 1-1 in a Division I soccer match played en the Ipoh padang this evening. Bawean Putra took the !ead ten minutes before halftime when centre-forward Rosei slammed home from 30 yards out. The Malays eaualised with an equally
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  • 88 11 INDIANAPOLIS. Indiana, Fn. (Reuter) One of America's foremost boxing experts said today that Brian London. British challenger for the world heavyweight title, should not be taken lightly m his fight here tomorrow night against Floyd Patterson, the champion Nat Fleischer, international-ly-recognised boxing authority, said he believed Patterson
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    • 78 11 Tokyo International Trade Fair j^» May 5-22, 1959 ~*^^^F Come and see Superior Quality of 8 f Japanese Goods) n6 "jri jA Did you know B Swfy^t? T ou coul< l *> e shareI owners of Japanese t f&s§££3SiS!k corporations manu'xf n T*W WSfT&£s'J facturing these X We will be
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  • 1126 12  - 'NOT SO BAD' SHOW BY COLONY YOUTHS KEN JALLEH Asia's Best Find The Going Tough... ~by~ KOREANS STOPPED AT 4 THE CHAMP'S OUT FOR! A QUICK KILL' TONIGHT Alama May fVin It He*s Still Standing! Korea 4 Singapore o NEARLY 3,000 Singapore soccer fans went to Jalai Besar Stadium yesterday
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  • 188 12 Indonesians Recover To Share Honours KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Sultan Suleiman Sports Club and Indonesia Bfuda shared honours with a 3-9 draw in today's FAS senior division league match on the Princes Road stadium ground. Newlv promoted Indonesia Btuda, last year' s second division champions did well to recover from a
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  • 38 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Se'.ar.gor Chinese Recreation Cub "C registered an ea?v 5-1 victory ovei Pemuda Jalan Raia Bo? in theil Football A e >n. of Selar.gor Div 3. League fixture on the Pudu Road ground today.
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  • 324 12 LONDON, Fri. The four angry men of Luton, who shocked the club with a week-end round-robin transfer request, were named yesterday in the squad of sixteen players from whom t-h« run final tpam fnr to. morrow will be chosen. All four Gordon Turner.
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  • 143 12 PENANG. Fri. Lim Say Hup, who together with Teh Kew Sa n is the world's badminton doubles champion, has a younger brother with a bright future in Malaya's national game. Thirteen-year-old Lim Say Lay won the singles and doubles titles in the novices badminton
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  • 39 12 GOH LOO CLUB, whose nembers included some of the Colony's leading sports officials. headed by its president Mr. Goh Chye Hin, celebrates its 52nd anniversary at its premises in (Club Street on Sunday.
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  • 63 12 TAIPING, Fri.— P.W.D. Sports Club beat Police *B' by seven goals to four in a second division league soccer tie on Jalan Padang yesterday. They got their goals from c e n t r e-forward Palaniveloo and outside-right Mohamed, two each, inside-right Madavan and inside-left Karrupiah.
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  • 335 12 MATTHEW CHAN of St. Joseph's Institution and Chan Kheng Guan of the Victoria School, favourites for the Schoolboys' singles title, entered the quarter-finals of the Singapore Badminton Association's schoolboys and girls championships at the Badminton Stadium yesterday. Chan Kheng Guan beat Loh Soo Lim 15-5,
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  • 202 12 Mont Blot II Promoted To Class One MONT BLOT II who won the Kedah Cup at Penang last week, ha s been promoted to Class One. according to the latest Straits Racing Association amendment list. Eight newcomers have been classified two in Class 1. five in Class 3 and one
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  • 40 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Federal Provost Coy. and the VOC Sports Club fought out to, a two-all draw in their footto a two-all draw in their Football Association of Selangor div. 3 league match on the Sentul ground today.
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  • 55 12 KUALA LUMP UP Pi Seiangor Police will Pahang Police la a match on the Federal I Depot on Sunday The following w. s ent Selangor Police Caldwell (CaptJ. V«. 1 Sutan, Alagandra M 1 Singh Hanifl Khan <rishnan, Kulasingh&d J aalingam Sukhd^v S j| Doraisamy. and
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  • 743 12 Academy Awarfi The Best Bet THE first Amateur race meeting of the 1959 season at Timah this afternoon should offer punters plenty of \C and interesting racing. There are eight events tu s which are over the stick, and oie confined to riders. My best bet on
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  • 223 12 Two Girls Challenge The Boys In Y's Tournament TWO schoolgirls Misses Margaret Teo and J.A. Francis will pit their tennis prowess against the boys in the Y.M.C.A. junior championships which start at the Bra s Basah Road today. It is the first time in the history of the Y.M.C.A. championships
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    • 60 12 SINGAPORE ATHLETICS: S. A. A. A. 'Triangular' at Thompson Road. SOCCER: SAFA Div. 2A. RAF Tengah vs. Minto C.U. at M.F.A.: C.A. "A" vs. Blue Rovers S.C. at Geylang; Police vs. RAF Seletar at Seletar;, Div. 28. Sukaramai vs. Gymkhana at PWD. Div. 3A. Customs vs. Setia Java at C.U.
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  • 37 13 Staff Band Trained In Record Time SINGAPORE MILITARY FORCES THE simplest instrument to play the bug!?. It has only five notes. Holding it is Ban ism an S. Asondram of the Corps of Drums, Singapore Infantry Regiment.
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  • 882 13 by a Special Correspondent I RECENTLY heard the Staff Band of the Singapore Military Forces at rehearsal. As I listened I thought it was not so very long ago that c newspapers were advertising for musically inclined Singapore citiWas this the same band?
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  • 34 13 REPRODUCED FROM PERWIRA MAGAZINE m the en O FCC I ORIGINALLY only five recruits played an instrument. Here they are with Mr. Roy. The rest of the band had to be taught from scratch.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 223 13 L RITA DEL MAR rOl Q| OTATION: I i'f >r,tep to the •>: i>df>m i* a 1 >t ->ur own C Spurjjpon v* T t K D A 1 FOR [VEETONE: A er" ess, iii ordeT an even extravagance r undue P the social i ;jbic if not v R
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    • 187 13 LI'L ABNER By Al Ctpp I W6|f CLE WAKI MOSE PREDICTED, II PC c v D W V f* <~^fL&)/< <=>U^ COME rTT PP WF CAM hOVJM ADO p. SO^lSi 5 P c OCK T V^RKV, 1 y B AUM WAV -NO GAL COJLoJ Y jj^ I MOSE -^~&?Q^ ALLEY
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  • 260 14 Panama invaders hold peace talks: Quick solution likely BALBOA. Canal Zone, Fri. (Reuter) The commander of the Cuban invaders of Panama, Cesar Vega, and three of his officers conferred last night with investigators of the Organization of American States at Albrook US. Air Force base here. The four invasion leaders
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  • 50 14 Picture. THE CONTROVERSIAL Fie'd Marshal Viscount Montgomery. 71. pictured about to board a plane to Moscow where he had talks with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. After a 4S-hour stay in Moscow where he met several war-time colleagues of his. Lord Montgomery returned to London last nifrhf UPI
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  • 20 14 DAME M ARGOT DAME Market Fonteyn. the ballerina, flew to Brussels yesterday from London airport* for a 24-hour visit.- Reuter
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  • 87 14 HUSSEIN SET FOR TAKE-OFF PUTTING on a flying helmet, King Hussein of Jordan prepares to fly a Royal Air Force plane back to its base in Odiham, England. He had gone up in the plane, last week, to watch paratroopers of the 16th Parachute Brigade jump during an exercise, and
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  • 94 14 JAKARTA. Fri. (Reuter) The Indian Air Force Chief of Staff. Marshal S. Mukarjee, arrived here today by an Indian airline for a nine days' visit. Marshal Mukarjee. was accompanied by Indian Air Force officers. Group Captain K. Chand. Group Captain Bhaskaran, and Wing Commander
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  • 34 14 OX Thursday nine workers were killed and twelve injured in an explosion which wrecked a cola storage refrigerator at the Cairo fruit market. UPI Premier Nehru, King Mahendra hold important talks
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  • 322 14 INDIA, NEPAL TIGHTEN DEFENCES Growing fears of Red menace near the border INDO-NEPALESE BORDER, Fri. (Reuter, UPI) A tightening up of the Indian-Nepalese defence system oil along the Himalayas is expected to follow important talks held yesterday between Prime Minister Nehru of India and King Mahendra of Nepal. Official sources
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  • 176 14  -  envoy Walkout by BELGRADE. Fri. (Reuter)— Yugoslavia's Charge cT Affaires in Albania walked out of an official ceremony in Tirana, the Albanian capital, yesterday because of a "crude attack" on Yugoslavia. The diplomat, Mr. Radovan Urosev, left the opening of a Czech exhibition as a mark of protest after
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  • 173 14 NO C 'WEALTH MEET BEFORE SUMMIT-mac LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Mr. Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, said yesterday, "it would not be practicable" to arrange a meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers prior to a summit meeting. A Conservative member, Mr. Anthony Fell, who made the suggestion in the House of Commons,
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  • 99 14 LONDON, Fri. AMAZING details of a "Devil's weekend" party were revealed yesterday. The party was stopped by police who made an early morning raid But before that the teenagers had: "TAKEN OVER" an empty cottage in the Buckinghamshire village of Latimer. MOVED IN a piano and a camp bed
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  • 83 14 MINISTER HIT WITH TUMBLER COLOMBO, May 1 (UPI) Ceylon's Finance Minister, Mr. Stanley de Zoysa, was injured yesterday when a Class. tumbler was thrown in his face by an unidentified attacker. Mr. de Zoysa fell unconscious and was rushed to hospital. The attack occurred as he was about to leave
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  • 232 14 CANBEERA. Fri (Reuter) The South-east Asia Treaty Organisation would have to broaden its membership and function, the leader of the Federal Opposition (Labour) Dr Herbert Evatt told the House of Representatives today. Non-members of SEATO claimed it was an arrangement of European powers with only
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  • 54 14 LONDON. Fri. (UP I) Publisher Peter Owen today estimated Soviet author Boris Pasternak's earnings in the West at more than two million dollars (Malaya). Pasternak, who wen the Nobel Prize for "Dr. Zhivago" and whose book "The Last Summer" has been published recently, has said he
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  • 42 14 BANGKOK, Fri. (Reuter) Police raided a house in a suburb of Bangkok and arrested a coucle on charges of forging and selling revenue stamps. Police seizes more than 6.000 completed and uncompleted forged stamps and forgery equipment.
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  • 185 14 teenagers danced rock 'n' roll by candlelight to a sixpiece band formed by the "guests." Police were informed after four of the "guests" had stopped their car in Latimer to ask the way to the "derelict house." Ran For It Three squad cars went to the cottage
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  • 323 14  - Dene Dares... and he didn't get single boo JACK BENTLEY by LONDON, Fri. A FRIGHTENED ajid apprehensive Terry Dene made a surprise appearance at a night club last week to find out if his fans still liked h,m after his discharge from the Army. When the audience clapped. Terry decided
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  • 132 14 Chinese refugees in Thailand Bangkok. Pri (Reuteri A total of 1.070 Chinese refugees have been allowed to reside m Thailand while the government tackles the problem of what to do with i them, according to Luang Charttrakan KqsoL Undersecretary for the Interior. The refugees had fled from the China mainland
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