The Straits Budget, 25 July 1962

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  • 31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA S NATIONAL NfWSPAPCR I Series *‘*l Kuala Lumpur, July 25, 1962. Price 40 cents (Malaya or 1 Shilling) KDN 020.
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    • 134 2  - There’ s something in the air LEE KIM KEE Ipob I WONDER if the detention of five opium smuggling kings in Singapore will have any effect on the activities of offenders in Ipoh The evil-smelling fumes drifting out of a row of old shops in a certain part of the
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    • 116 2  -  TEACHER Kuala Lumpur DESPITE Mr. Ogle’s lament nothing seems to have been done to improve the teacher’s lot. The dignity of the profession has been stained ty such labels as “non-government servants,” hence depriving them of basic facilities such as housing and medical
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    • 66 2  -  P.C. Taiplnc AN airmail letter addressed to Australia went by sea instead. Unknown to me, the letter did not carry sufficient postage. Cannot the post office notify the sender In cases like this so that he can call at the post office and have the matter attended
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    • 77 2  -  ALI bin IDRIS Kuala Kangsar MY daughter, who attends the post primary school in Kuala Kangsar, says that she won’t be sitting for the Lower Certificate of Education examination in three years’ time. That means she has no chance of sitting for the Senior School Certificate examination. I
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    • 24 2  -  U. A. AZIZ Petaling Jaya QHABASH to Inche Aziz Ishak for defending cooperative principles against “balderdash.” (Straits Times July 13 and July 7).
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    • 65 2  -  PARENT Sineaoorn LIKE “Impatient” my two daughters who passed the final T.T.C. examination in December 1960 have not. received their arrears of pav for the period January 1961 to March 1962 By previous practice, they should have received their money In December 1961. It is now 18 months
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    • 142 2  - Proposed law-‘ a harvest for lawyers’ TAN AH WEE iugapore IAM told that legislation Is proposed to alter the law as to the disposal of the assets of persons who die without leaving a will. I nope the proposed new law will not be passed. It is Intended that when
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    • 229 2  -  ABDUL MAJID bin OTHMAN for Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education Kuala Lumpur MAY 1 refer to the letter by TSP of Alor Star IS.T July 12) alleging that the Ministry of Education was “unfair” In asking the pupil referred to in that letter to leave
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    • 173 2  -  RESIDENT Singapore ONE of the filthiest roads in Singapore is situated at the junction of Lim Tua Tow Road and Teck Chye Terrace. More than 100 stalls illegally constructed obstruct road users; and stallholders and their families not only live in them but also discharge their
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    • 80 2  -  S.L. Singapore IAM sure many people will be interested If our annual Mr. and Miss Singapore contest can be held together at the same place and date. Many countries in Europe ai.d America do this and I wonder why the sponsors here could not do the same. After
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    • 131 2  -  HELEN DE LA PERRELLE Acting Secretary. St. Nicholas School for the Blind Penang QNE of the many generous helpers of our work who was giving a swimming lesson to some of our children at Mount Pleasure recently, was approached by two Chinese who handed him $5O in cash
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    • 135 2  -  T. O. THOMAS Kuching INOTE that Professor Green (S.T. Julv 5). comments on the North Borneo claim and refers to my letter on the subject. Permit me to point out that if you had printed the full text of paragraph two of my letter, the necessity for certain
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    • 228 2  -  APPALLED Singapore cnvestob Singapore the Straits Times of July 17 there is a re. port of a fine imposed by Mr. Justice Ambrose of $5OO to be paid by a shop assistant for accidentally killing a girl aged twenty. Most ot us can
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    • 76 2  -  1ST Singapore n'REQUENTI' r0a a d „j r dividers «a. repair bills rs so exuberant ta 1 dividers why not raise > !oca ted at road June. saV e around schoo;-- stan ce young lives? ed m why isn’t one 3 g a ?ah front of the inRoad gutes
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    • 545 3 —Straits Times, July 16 TakinK flunK qU t f r 1 v T.-ngku’s Malayto London wears •eady a,r f succeS& the talks are conned with the terms on which ro an d North Borneo Jj* join Tl.e basis has been reed, and largely the framerk must he that
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    • 377 3 —Straits Times, July 16 Any confidence the tin industry may have in the International Tin Council’s new move in respect of the U.S. stockpile is pinned to the voice of the consumer. At the Council’s special meeting in May consumers and producers parted company again, and producers
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    • 582 3 —8traits Times, July 17 If the Prime Minister’s decision to transfer the Minister of Agriculture to the Health Ministry was a surprise to those not privy to Cabinet secrets, so too is Inche Aziz Ishak’s refusal to accept the change until he has seen the Tengku and
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    • 215 3 —Straits Times, July 17 A motorist accused in a Singapore traffic court some years ago of speeding, defended himself successfully on the ground that although the stretch of road over which he was timed had been measured, the length of the chain used for the measuring had not
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    • 582 3 —Straits Times, July 18 If the United Nations’ Committee on Colonialism takes up the petition of the 19 members of Opposition parties in the Singapore Assembly it will be setting a pretty precedent. The possibility that it will do so cannot be ruled out altogether. Committees of
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    • 330 3 —Straits Times, July 18 The Prime Minister has been quick and sharp in his reaction to the statement by his Minister of Agriculture on the Cabinet changes. Inche Aziz Ishak stays with the Government —which means accepting his transfer to the Health Ministry—or he leaves. Yes or
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    • 319 4 —Straits Times, July 18 The Workers’ Party (and its chief worker, Mr. Marshall) probably do not expect to be taken seriously when they speak of a “golden opportunity” to force the resignation of the P.A.P. Government being lost in the Singapore Assembly on Friday. It was certainly
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    • 345 4 —Straits Times, July 19 The schoolchildren who were taken to the monthly meeting of the Malacca Municipal Council yesterday could not have gone home mightily impressed by what they had seen and heard of local government in action. Their lesson in civics was extremely brief (a minor mercy
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    • 709 4 —Straits Times. July 20 Brunei’s acceptance in principle of the Malaysian proposals will gratify and encourage the Tengku’s Malaysian team in London. Not that the Sultan’s decision was unexpected. The Sultan has been a warm advocate of Malaysia from the beginning, in contrast to the distinctly chilly
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    • 254 4 f i IIJ i ,n A —Straits t >■. k v 20 In rejecting the referendum petition of the Singapore Council of Joint Action, the U.N. Committee on Colonialism took the only possible action open to it Once the Committee begins entertaining the petitions and protests of Opposition
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    • 219 4 Staying P ut —Straits Times. July 20 Any likelihood th*o. have been of ;i r “Wl between the p rim “d Inche Ac: Z sarily on terms l aid H nec has now disappeared Fo”"' Zl7ff£r k andh isco^n^r public issue of Cabinet L ter. the Tengku 4^ way of
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    • 232 4 ich at leasr .s e* —Straits Tim* This is no time for the Presd to be harassing the police id their war with the kidnappers® Presumably thev know whad they are doinc. but if this com® forting assumption is wron® the facts will be public in dud course,
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  • 1259 5  -  oy JACKIE SAM and mushahid ALI SINGAPORE. J u, y 15 A BEAMING FedA eration Prime Minister Tengkii Abdal Rahman flew to London tonight— and with him went the destiny of the 10 million people of Malaysia. f With him also went the best
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  • 761 5  -  AZIZ goes to Health, SARDON tabes over Agriculture and an MCA man Is appointed Transport Minister by- FELIX ABISHEGANADEN Kuala Lumpur, July 15 SURPRISE re-shuffle in the Federation Cabinet, including the appointment of a new Minister, was announced by the Govern- ment tonight. These
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  • 173 5 SINGAPORE, July 15. THE chairman of the Singapore Peoples Alliance, Tun Lim Yew Hock, today warned that the Communists may mount a more “vigorous campaign" against the Malaysia plan though they had failed *n their initial intrigue against the project. Tun Llm, speaking at
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  • 20 5 PORT DICKSON, July 15 The Port Dickson Club will hold its annu> ’ing on 1 J illy 18.
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  • 132 6 VTR. Yeoh Lai Seng and ItI Miss Josephine S. White after their wedding; at the Methodist Wesley Church, Klang, on July 14. The bride, eldest daughter of Dr. John E. White, a research physicist with General Electric Co., Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. John White, is
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  • 274 6 JOHORE BAHRU. July 15. —An invitation to the Government to set up a committee and send it to Baknr Sampah. in Iluana district to see conditions there was made today hy Mr. Lee Ah Leng (Socialist Front—Gunong Lambak) in the Johore Legislative sembly. The Assembly
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  • 246 6 After 7 years —the law catches up with would-be extortioner SINGAPORE. July 16. A man. who took pert in a $lOO,OOO extortion bid by letter in 1955, was today jailed for two years by the Second Criminal District Judge. Mr. Goh Heng Leong. Goh Hu ay Keng, 34. arrested seven
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  • 59 6 SINGAPORE, July 15.—The offices of the Royal Norwegian Consulate-General in Singapore will be on the 6th floor of the Hongkong Bank Chambers, Collyer Quay, from tomorrow. They will be open dally, Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m to 12.30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4.30
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  • 217 6 I/UALA LUMPUR. July **15. The co-opera-tive movement has a vital role to play in Malaya's all-round national development, said the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, in a message in the souvenir programme of the 40th International Co-operative Day celebration. He added that the movement would
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  • 34 6 10 butterworh J i: d JJ15 Burglars stole S- f,mv. 1 worth of lewf’li' t „ver shop in pinans < the weekend. A Tu n The shopkeepf Tlan. reported police yesterday
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  • 106 7 tengku smiles through the garlahds at airport send-off TEM.KI ABDUL RAHMAN branK through a stack of garlands just before more wHI-wishers piled more “farewell" garlands on him completely hiding his face. Beside him is the Singapore Premier. Mr. Lee Kuan Yet*. who seems to
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  • 155 7 K p AL A LUMPUR. ain i —“Malaysia U1 bring about a fun-tr-tal chan S e in 2 f o)e of the Royal Canr^v 1 T Nav y>” said veS! ,T Dover s here ior H ay before he left anri hon u after
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  • 30 7 KLUANG, July 16—The Telecoms Department here will hold a social and dance at Chung Hwa High School hall on July 21. A Miss Telecoms 1962 will be elected
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  • 199 7 SINGAPORE, July 15. A PAN-MALAYSIA song competition open to residents in the Malaysian territories is being sponsored by the Ministry of Culture here. There are four top prizes of $l,OOO each for the best Malay. Chinese. Tamil and Engglish song and an extra
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  • 55 7 MALACCA, July 15. The Chief Police Officer of Malacca, Assistant Commissioner, TaJuddin bin Haji Ahmad, and his wife will leave Kuala Lumpur by air on July 18 for the United States and Europe on a three months’ holiday The Deputy Chief Police Officer, Haji Yunus bln
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  • 38 7 TANJONG MALIM, July 15— The deputy Mentrl Besar of Perak. Inche Suleiman bin Bulon, yesterday opened the welfare clinic at Slim River, the old folk home in Kotayong Road, and the Hotel Tan long here.
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  • 117 7 BENTONG, July 15. Mr. Toh Wai Teng, the Independent chairman of the Bcntong Town Council, said today that he was not a United Democratic Party councillor although he is a member of its pro-tern committee. He was commenting on the action of Seremban
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  • 180 8 A special call —only for royal ears HOW INTERESTING, SAYS THE QUEEN- KUALA LUMPUR, July 16. X HE Ea J a Permaisuri Agong listended in on a specially arranged trunk line conversation in the microwave monitoring control room at Telecommunications Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur this morning. After listening for about
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  • 221 8 S& Jul W- nese School Union has resufc the replacement of entire old exernH* committee led Lmi seek Kian by a n fh?D P of U th fr :h '"ader smp of the principal n f Ai Tong School. Mr Koh Chong Ku.
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  • 39 8 IPOH, July 15. Mr. M Seng Khoon. vice-president oi the MCA Perak Braiu’fi, was entertained today to tea by the Ipoh MCA division toce.tbrate the bestowal of a* AMN on him by the Vang m* Pertuan Agong.
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  • 114 8 SINGAPORE, Sunday. rpHE Singapore Customs Department netted over $2 A million more in revenue during the first six months of this year than for the same period last year. Tlie actual sum of $59,747.000 collected between January and June this year was nearly $3 million more
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  • 33 8 KULIM, July 15—A 12-man Indian drama troupe sponsored by the Federation Department of Information is touring estates in South Kedah staging plays on loyalty. the national language and rural development.
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  • 35 8 KUALA LUMPUR, July 15— Soh Khan San, 25, a motor scooterist was knocked down by a taxi in Campbell Road this afternoon and was admitted to hospital with head and leg Injuries.
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  • 68 8 SINGAPORE. July 16 —Three more donations have been received bv the Straits Times tor Mohamed Jedi bin Ya’acob. an Alor Gajah (Malacca) boy who lost his hands in a grenade accident last year. They are $lO from Kim Chuang. $5 from Mohamed Nawaz and $3O from
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  • 104 8 Kuala lumpur, July 16— The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, who left Singapore yesterday for the Malaysia talks in London, took with him pewter gifts for British VIPs. They are three pewter framed pictures of himself with the Federation crest on the frames.
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  • 30 8 SINGAPORE July tectlve Chased and h ad youth alter a gold c shu’P been snatched fron. ‘this assistant in a cine ap afternoon. A yontlpear in court tomoir
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  • 73 8 SINGAPORE, July 15—Police today warne dshopkeepers not to accept 38 stolen travellers’ cheques. The serial numbers of the cheques are HA 39-410 to 39-429 and K *****—521 to K *****—540. The cheques, valued at 84,000, were picked from the pocket of an American tourist,
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  • 154 9 \IALACCA, July 16—A J* former music lecat the Malayan Teachers Training College at Brinsford Lodge, Mr J P B Dobbs, has arrived here with his wife for a two-month visit Vlr Dobbs. now a lecturer a 1 the London University 1 ,'titute oi
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  • 59 9 July l6_,The ‘ianninc a b,lan Family i'll h a O* cia tion is to Annina r l al,! wlde family Fo r ,l ll PaiB[n soon. ill i J0 y. .l‘‘ n flinic sessions it at the Governalar l e l Ient Clinic In V
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  • 356 9 »JVO FREEDOM OF DISCUSSION NO encouragement of research* KUALA LUMPUR, July 16. r f HE Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Dato Sir Alexander Oppenheim, today announced that the university council had appointed four men to assist him in going through allegations
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  • 51 9 PENANG, July 16—A butcher, Ang Leong Cheok, 58, was today accused of murdering a housewife. Lim Kim Khuan, 27, at Perak Road on the afternoon of July lj. “I did not commit murder,” Ang told the first magistrate, Mr. Ng Mann Sau, who remanded him in
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  • 240 9  -  From LUCIEN PETER: MORIB, Monday pOLICE investigating a robbery at Morib Inn arrested five men in jungle near Labu on the Negri Sembilan-Selangor border yesterday after a two-hour chase among the trees. A Malay woman in a lonely village near the jungle
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  • 57 9 JOHORE BAHRU. July 15 The Mentri Besar ot Johore, Dato Hajl Hassan bin Hajl Yunos, is visiting Gunong Pulai on the morning of July 18 investigate a proposal made by the local government committee in the Legislative Assembly. The proposal is to convert Public Works Department
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  • 266 9 TANAH RATA, July 16 T'HE shortage of electricity in Malaya because of the tremendous increase in demand will be overcome in a few months. This was announced by the general manager of the joint venture working on the Cameron Highlands hydro-electric scheme, Mr. Klaus Simons,
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  • 68 9 July 15.—Private students intending to study in Britain are now required to send evidence of their admission to schools, colleges or other academic Institutions there to the Director of Education. This should be done before .submitting travel documents to the Immigration Department tor endorsement. Students who cannot
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  • 686 10  - AZIZ SAYS ‘NO’ I will see Tengku when he returns to ask his reasons’ By YAP CHIN KWEE Kuala Lumpur, July 16 THE Minister of Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak, today announced that he would not accept his transfer to the Ministry of Health until he had seen the
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  • 551 10  -  By RUDY BELTRAN: Kuala Lumpur, Ju, y U millionaire, Mr. Tai Chet Seng, has been kidnapped by an armed gang of five who ambushed him behind the Lucky Hotel in Batu Lane. This happened at 7 a.m. on July 16 as
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  • 47 10 KUALA LUMI’Ui.' v ;..J Of 246 Govcrni m(ij J who sat for the $1 One Malay ex: 1 December only 01 I was officially st I Seventy-six pa-" yr.el the 232 who In tiiel Standard Two exa.- 7() Standard Thr and 20 passed
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  • 38 10 17 -The| tanah p; 1 Sultan of PahatJ'j*' ljr n week’s tour of tn< ned .1 Highlands, toda* 1(I j '20.000 town b( inc !*i at oh Vi Rat 1 at Tanah K aI, chang.
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  • 515 11 I HAVE PLACED THE BALL AT HIS FEET’ I OSDOX, July 17.— L The prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahnun, toW me todav with great emotion: “If Inche Abdul Aziz wants to resign he may do so. His action in calling a Press conference and making the statements he did is
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  • 496 11 AZIZ CAN GO SAYS THE TENGKU Our talks were very cordial, he says TENGKU MEETS MACMILLAN LONDON, July 17. The Cobbold report was discussed at great length when talks on Malaysia between the Malayan British governments began here today. Several parts of the report make it a far from satisfactory
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  • 97 11 SINGAPORE, July 17.—Forewarned. these two Hong Kong Cantonese film actresses, the Situ Sisters, were prepared for a mobbing by their fans when they flew into Singapore yesterday. Situ Yok (left) and Situ Tsan. said today: ‘‘Our hands were almost sore from
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  • 77 11 KUALA LUMPUR. July 17 -Non-Malay Government servants and people lrom business organisations and other bodies can sit for Stage One and Stage Two Malay examinations on Oct. 22 and 23. According to a Govern- ment statement today, completed entry forms must reach the Chief Education Officers
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  • 184 11 IPOH, Mon.—The Peo--1 pie’s Progress! ve Party leader, Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam, today challenged two top Alliance leaders in Perak to resign their State Legislative Assembly seats for by-elections in their constituencies Ii either of them accepted the challenge, Mr. Seenivaxagam would also
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  • 104 11 PENANG. July 15. Tin* Bishop of p. .uum, Msjjr. Francis Chan yesterday urt-ed Catholic teachers to try to imp! the teaching or children -both spiritually and materially.” “We should pull t' aether and. from our resources, try to improve the teaching Of children,” he .said
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  • 454 12 PENANG, July 17 WORK on the proposed $5O million project to construct six new deep -water wharves and ancillary port facilities at Bagan Luar, Butterworth. will start next year if loan arrangements can be finalised within the
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  • 178 12 SINGAPORE, July 16. The permanent board of the Malay Language and Cultural Congress will ask the congress to review a resolution it had passed at its last session two years ago calling for the setting up of a Malay art gallery. The congress meets
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  • 255 12  -  By 808 PERIS Singapore, July 17 pIVE wealthy opium A smuggling kingpins in Singapore are being held in Changi prison awaiting banishment to China. Dossiers on their activities were built up by the Customs over many years. The International Narcotics Bureau with ’eadauarters in Paris is
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  • 77 12 SINGAPORE, July 17.—Two men accused ot attempting twice to assassinate President Soekarno were sentenced to death today by an Indonesian military court, according to a Radio Indonesia broadcast monitored here. The sentence, pronounced in open court after a closed hearing of evidence, convicted Sanusi Ikrap (30)
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  • 594 13  -  Sultan: Malaysia beneficial to us -From RALPH SHAW Kuala Belait. J uly 18 ■jILTAN Omar Ali Saifuddin today Announced Brunei’s Bcceptance of the Malaysia plan in Brinciplc in a speech WL the Legislative Bouncil. The Sultan said ■hat Malaysia Federation “would be Bighly beneficial
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  • 658 13  -  A KIND LANDLADY AND A TEMPORARY SET OF LIMBS From DOUG LACKERSTEEN I: London, July 18 jyjISS Lai Yoke Heong, the Kuala Lumpur schoolgirl who lost both arms after an accident and is now in England for treatment, is learning how to
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  • 188 13 lOHORE BAHRU, Wed. —The Johore Government is studying details of plans to make Gunong Pulai. 2.147 ft. high, a holiday resort. Government officials believe that Gunong Pulai can compete with the Cameron Highlands and Fraser’s Hill because of Its cool temperature. abundance of natural vegetation
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  • 311 14 KUALA LUMPUR, July 18. A MOTION to strike out an appeal by a Bentong Town Councillor, Chia Kia Pob, who had been ordered by a High Court judge to sit for a language proficiency examination, was granted today by the Federation Court of Appeal.
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  • 51 14 SUNGEI PATANI, July 17. Supt. J. J. Raj, until recently officer-in-charge of criminal Investigation, Kedah, is now acting Chief Police Officer. Pahang. He has taken the place of Asst. Commissioner Merican bin Sutan, who has left with his wife on a three-month tour round the
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  • 34 14 IPOH. July 17.—The general secretary of Cuepacs, Mr. G. N. Rayan, will address government clerks in Perak at the National Union of Bank Employees’ premises in station Road here on July 20.
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  • 160 14 Clifford retires —to step right into a new job Kuala lumpur. July 18—Mr. J.P.M. Clifford. District Officer. Cameron Highlands, since August 1959. has retired from Government service and returned to his birthplace. Kuala Lumpur. He has joined the Federal Land Development Authority as its Deputy Chairman He has also been
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  • 274 14 THE tea time chat in the Nanyang r Jul > r >8 1 teen irked Miss Tan Woon Toi l- ersity cangraduate. a phy s^ There sat the boys, talking in smug, patient and illogical tones that girls just would not make
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  • 570 14 Income tax offences of husband, wife IPOH, Wednesday A HUSBAND and wife were today fined a total of $7,600 in separate cases for income tax offences by the president of the Sessions Court here, Syed Hassan Al-Jeffri. Pressing for a deterrent sentence, Mr. R.
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  • 59 14 Overfed python caug ht BATU *GAJAH, July 18.—A 23ft. python, which ate a full grown wild pig on an estate three miles from here, ended up in a taxidermist’s shop yesterday because it was too full keep awake. t he Three tapper*- ,iUti the python asieei' ;l nd estate ha
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  • 510 15  -  By YAP CHIN KWEE: Kuala Lumpur, July is |HE Minister of Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz bin I i>h. k. said tonight he was “staying put” when Ijcnvn news agency report from London in which t Prime Minister Tengku Abdul
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  • 189 15 Kuala lumpur, July 20. —The Raja Permaisuri Agong will open Malaya’s first Women’s Day celebration at Merdeka Stadium here on Aug. 25. The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, his wife, Puan Sharifah Rodziah, the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak and his wife.
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  • 287 15 MALACCA, July 18. School children, who packed the gallery of the municipal council chamber today to watch a monthly meeting of the council, saw a row and the meeting adjourned after only a few minutes. The councillors dispersed soon after they assembled
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  • 439 15 SINGAPORE, July 18. 'J'HE Council oi Joint Action today urged Britain not to sanction the proposed const iI utional changes for Singapore. At noon, leaders of the fiveparty council delivered a protest note to the ac British Commissioner in Singapore, Mr. Phillip Moore. They
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  • 245 15 I ONDON, July 19. The breezy informality of Tengku Abdul Rahman has delighted Londoners. He prefers to eat In humble cafes and he often shuns the formal motorcade to walk through the streets. The Prime Minister's daily wllk at first nonplussed British officials and
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  • 30 15 SINGAPORE. July 18 A Mrs. ThuMKammal Elivarhamby. today sent $107.12 to the Straits Times a.s a e mtributlon towards the Umar Pulavar Tamil Hi«h S *hool hind.
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  • 498 16 LESLIE HOFFMAN cables LONDON, July 19. MALAYAN and British delegations meeting here have now completed their general review of the Cobbold Commission report. The L.’.l conference today formed itself into working group., to sort out the mass of detail on specific subjects which must
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  • 130 16 SINGAPORE. July 19—The Ministry of Education today announced that the following candidates were successful in the Trinity Bar Examination, Part I, held in Singapore in May: Roman Law (Third Class): J. C. Chen, Gurdev Singh. Sarban Singh, Surjit Singh. Constitutional Law and Legal History (Third Class):
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  • 57 16 KUALA LUMPUR. July 18.— The new Chief of the Australian General Stalf. Maj.* Gen J G N Wilton, passed through Kuala Lumpur 10 day on his way to take up his appointment in Australia This morning he called cn Lt.-Gen Dato Sir Rodney Moore, the
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  • 235 16 OENANG, July, 19. A senior lecturer of the Malayan Teachers’ College here, Mr. Benjamin Simmons, was stabbed to death by an armed robber in his house in the college campus tonight. Mr. Simmons, who was due to return to Britain in December, was believed to have
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  • 30 16 SINGAPORE. July 18—The Straits Times today received two contributions of $l5 and $5 from anonymous readers for Mustapha Hussein, the 10-year-old deaf mute son of a fisherman.
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  • 352 16 SINGAPORE. July 20 rpHE call by the SingaA pore National Union of Journalists for a general meeting on July 29 has sprung from a signature campaign being conducted by certain members against the recent action of the union’s central council on the National
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  • 344 16 THE total student population of 357' J^ y 19 women at the Malayan Teacher*’ n„S n Glugor today started a week’s mournme fnr !*l e 11 Simmons. popular senior lecturer m J apa was murdered by a gang of hooded rohiW. f'°
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  • 76 16 KUALA LUMPUR. July 20 A The Yang di-Pertuan Agonj has sent “warmest greeted and sincere best wishes ioj the continued happiness and prosperity ot the Kingdom o| Belgium” to the King o| Belgium on the occasion o| Belgium's National Day to j morrow I The acting Minister
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  • 75 16 SINGAPORE’. Jul >’ legates of the P a J 1 ala J i Pensioners’ Associatio 1 meet the Federation J ernment next we ek nlll 0 penl cuss restoration oi Mil PM sions to pensioners *no SU 1 vive after 10 years. I Inche Saayed
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  • 56 16 i a About 4 PENANG. July p t flC e J Justices of the o Penang are ex. t m orro*j tend a pu> Mm 1 convened by n 1 ter, Inche Xss0 fi»| form a Penang t RJ peace® tion of Justicj ;es 1 and a
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  • 335 17 DEATH BEAUTY QUEEN BLAMED Coroner told: 7 couldn't avoid old woman 9 KOTA BHARU, July 19. pRETTY Miss Kelantan 1961, Noraini binte Ariffin, today testified in the Coroner's Court here lhat she knocked down an old woman because her car could not avoid her. Noraini, 21. a bank clerk, was
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  • 145 17 I July 20. fORTY officers and soldiers from overseas terri- tones, mostly from South Vietnam, are underloins training; at the British Army’s jungle warfare School near Kota Tinggi Johore. IConfimung this today, a British Army spokesman said: ■The courses last a lew weeks •eh anu have
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  • 36 17 B'or i —A 45 m.p.h at lunch •> venting many ■fork going back to :tl 1 40 p.m. and f ,il, V ut 20 minutes. ■ioi ndo r ranches were J da mage was
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  • 36 17 TAIPING, July 20.—Miss Bernadette Suppiah, daughter of Mr. R. Suppiah of the Income Tax Department, has left for India to study medicine at Madras University. She is a former pupil of the Convent here.
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  • 114 17 Malaya at Eisteddfod is Miss Low’ s aim Kuala lumpuh. July 19 Miss Low Eng Cheng, a nurse from Taiping, will return home from training in Britain next year determined to interest a company of Malayan dancers in the International Eisteddfod held annually at Llangollen, north Wales. She recently spent
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  • 203 17 KUALA LUMPUR, July 20 A CROWD of 100 relatives. friends and officer colleagues gathered at the Royal Malayan Air Force station here today t° await the arrival of the plane bearing the coffin n an air crash victim, 2nd/Lt. Mohamed Yusoff bin Abdul Jadit, 22.
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  • 113 17 A MALAYAN topped the f i n u I associateship examination in civil engineering at the Royal College of Science and Technology in Glasgow. Scotland, recently. He is Cheok Yeow Kwang (above), who resigned from the Public Works Department in Johore to enter the
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  • 212 17 July 19. rrHE long wait ended tonight for three bereaved 1 families when the remains of three victims of the Alitalia DC-8 crash near Bombay on July 6 arrived here in an Alitalia jetliner. The remains were: The ashes of Mrs. Yoshika Tabata. wife of
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  • 48 17 PORT SWFTTENHAM July 18.—Teachers have no right to comment in schools on the education policy a.' they are only employees, the Assistant Minister of K lunation, Captain Abdul Hamid Khan, said today. He was speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Parents-Teachers Association here.
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  • 184 18 Kuala lumpur, Wed. The ViceChancellor of the University of Malaya, Dato Sir Alexander Oppenheim, today said that, no committee had been set up to examine allegations made by 13 graduates against the University’s Department of Malay Studies. All that had happened, he told the Straits
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  • 54 18 SINGAPORE. July 17.—The Indonesian Foreign Minister Dr. S Subandrio, passed through Singapore this morning on his way to Washington lor talks on the West Irian issue with Dutch Government irpresentatives. He was accompanied by the Deputy Defence Minister, Lieutenant-General Hida.jat, Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. Ganis
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  • 61 18 A LOR STAR, July 17. —A delegation from the War Department Civilian Staff Association will meet the British Army Command Secretary at the Army Headquarters in Singapore on Friday to discuss the workers’ wage claims. The talks broke down last month and then the association
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  • 979 18 UN COMMITTEE TO IGNORE REFERENDUM PETITIONS SINGAPORE, July 19 THE Council of Joint Action —representing five Singapore political parties—was silent today over what political observers regard as a personal triumph for the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, on the merger referendum issue. Leaders of the council met
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  • 240 18 K LUMPUR, Wei —Cyclists and pe. destrians have turned Kuala Lumpur’s new express road—the recently completed Pantai Valley dual carriageway into a deathtrap for themselves. It Is not altogether their fault. The danger element lies in the steep earthem bund running down the centre of
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  • 49 18 BUKIT MEHTA JAM. July J —The feast of St. Anne wj be celebrated n the 0 church here on July 28 11 29. On the hr t there be sermons I until English at 8 :> ni. o a candle P^eessi St. Anne In ;:rh pound.
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  • 31 18 PARIT BUN n V officer The Krlan /’V YeoS Inche Moh tran Abdul Raol eganu. ferred to Kua He has been m by Inch* 1 -nan Zalnuddln from S.
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  • 711 19 Brunei’s shot in the arm’ ALL IN FAVOUR SAY IT’S GREAT FOR MALAYSIA, AN OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN TALKS OF ‘SELL OUT’ STRAITS TIMES -REPORTERS—- UA LUMPUR, .19 —The Suln Brunei’s acepta: 1 of the Ma-,, lysia n wlU f, ct up -i shot m the m uji the delegaion kabv the
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  • 834 19  -  By LPSOM JEEP; Penang, July 22 CHANGE in riding Actios by appren- K Leong on Jffy Zeton paid off ndsomely at, Penang lay. Race One CLASS 2 itiv R Stable 2 7F M 42R V1K,XND 86 I Your h h Dra 0 1
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 38 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL—$90,560. 1ST—No. *****9 ($40,282). 2ND—No. *****2 ($16,112) SKD—No *****5 ($8,056). STARTERS ($3,222 each): Nos *****4, *****7. *****2. 2 ***** *****5. CONSOLATION ($1,000 each i. Nos. *****1. *****2. *****1, *****4. *****2, *****7. *****1, *****8. *****1. *****7.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1350 20 From Our Market Correspondent “MESSY”, “confused” and even “gloomy” were all epithets that could be applied to the Malayan Stock Exchange last week and in all probability will be just as applicable in the current week. Not for a long time has the market been so quiet
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    • 33 20 (Managin' Prlaaa) rirat Malayan 1.44 1.52x4 •wood Malayan 1.09 1.17xd Third Malayan 79 .86* rint Hong Kong 98 1.04* ••cond Hong Kong 70 .75* Starling Commodity 4/3 4/9 (*Hong Kong currancy).
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    • 54 20 Current Date of Total Total for payment payment for year previous year Kent Tin 4*% Sept 7 4V?% Kinta Kellas Rubber 12V, Oct. 1 18|* 25% Taiping Rubber 4% Aug. 31 British Tin 6 2 3'*+ Aug. 31 26% Windsor Rubber 16 2/3% Aug. 31 25% 29 1/6%
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    • 515 20 RATHER quieter conditions have prevailed on the Singapore Rubber Market this week, and a slightly easier tone developed, and fluctuations have been yery small, say Lewis Peat in their weekly review. After holding aiound 77 cents at the beginning of the week prices eased
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    • 34 20 RUBBER TIN (per tb.) (per ptcel) July 16 76% eta *440.17 4 17 75% eta. *431.59 18 75% eta. f 437.17 4 19 71 eta. $437,124 20 754 eta. 1436.00 21 1436.00
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    • 967 20 THE state of Am m tke 1 Malayan Stock Exekanfo 4mw last business to Jaly 14 (A) and last iNMtneao stnee tke date (B) with H and L standing for Hfckeot and Lowest bustnees this year to date were: INBUSTBIALS H L A > Altx tricks 2.20
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