The Straits Budget, 1 May 1963

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    • 699 3 --Straits Times. April 22 T U eii'iiary measures k bv the rawak Govern- ,<t Communist in- t unexpectreo at disclosures )f C V acUvity. Proby v k has been fort- at i: U I’iunei insurrection o! I ,t half-cock, before h c ,v w.> i i
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    • 149 3 Straits Times. April 22 The Malayan who lias nevei stirred out of Singapore, Kuala Lumpur. Penang or whatever other town he happened to b<born in promises to become an increasingly rare creature. Not only have communications been vastly improved, bin there exist encouragements and facilities for travel undreamed
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    • 429 3 —Straits Times. April 23 The Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association continue:* to build upon its reputation for exemplary public service. The annual report for 1962 sums up n most impressive volume o* work in case-finding, treatment and rehabilitation. Highlight." of the year were the openin', of the Uttamram regional clinic,
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    • 189 3 —Straits Times. April 23 The Malayan Stock Exchange has been able to loo’r. back on a year of further progress. Establishment of direct line telephone and teleprinter connection between the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms has made it possible to fix a single Malayan price for every
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    • 604 3 —Straits Times. April 24 It is too early to talk of a pattern of border violence in Sarawak, but the second gang incident reported from the Tebedu area suggests there may be more to follow. This time the gang was engaged by a patrol bivouacked outside the
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    • 336 3 —Straits Times. April 24 The team of Federation journalists at the Afro-Asian Journalists’ Conference which opens in Jakarta this morning probably is unique among the visiting delegations. It has gone there, says its leader, with an open mind. It will find on the agenda seven resolutions which it
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    • 329 4 —Straits Times. April 24 The responsibilities of the new health committee set up by Inche Rahman Talib will n. part overlap those of the Ministerial committee on higher education. Staff shortages are the chief obstacle to expansion of medical services and the only lasting solution is to provide
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    • 463 4 —Straits Times, April 25 That Kuala Lumpur needs to be extensively redeveloped is beyond question. It is undeniable also that development is being hamstrung by tenants who abuse the protection ol tiie Rent Control Ordinance and refuse to budge unless paid an extortionate sum in compensation. The
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    • 698 4 —Straits Times April 27 The national conference of heads of secondary schools is establishing itself as one of the major events of the educational calendar. Here the winds of professionalism blow strongly, and practical matters whose handling makes for success oi failure in educational policy are closely
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    • 383 4 —Straits Times April 27 The Federation Government has frequently stressed that Malaysia will mean additional financial burdens. Apparently some attempt has also been made to work out the amount. Tun Abdul Razak has said in the United States that Malaysia will have to find external aid to
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    • 274 4 —Straits Times. Aprd More than tho flats, shops and an s ters built bv the dU Improvement Tru.>t .j. ap re war have been fr,. t d 1 control. Although t s' T pore Government, nouncing exempt give a reason. I guess is that it s <!, v
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  • 195 6 KUALA LUMPUR, April 21. WORK has begun on anti-flood schemes along the Klang River here and the Langat River in the Sepang sub-district. In Kuala Lumpur, the scheme will involve the straightening of the river at the third mile Klang Road. The other will
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  • 121 6 OINGAPORE, April 21. Snerpa Tensing Norkay, cb-eonqueror of Mount Everest, roared with laughter when asked on his arrival here tonight whether he believed in the existence of the Abominable Snowman. I have lived all the time in the Himalayan mountains and I have never seen such
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  • 36 6 KUALA LUMPUR. April 21. —The newly-formed Nationa Union of Government Clerical Workers will hold a mass meeting tomorrow to pledge full support for Malaysia. Mr. G.N. Rajan, pro-tem secretary of the union said today.
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  • 166 6 KLANG, April 21. VIALAYSIA will be formed on August 31 "just as sure as the sun rises tomorrow,” Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, said today. Inche Khir, addressing Klang Umno annual delegates conference, blamed Indonesia and Communist China
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  • 52 6 SINGAPORE, April 21—Australia's Qantas airways has announced through its Singapore oUice the addition of two more Booing 707 V-jets to its present fleet of 11. The planes, to cost the Australian Government about £5 million are needed to cope with traffic increase and greater frequency
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  • 32 6 KUALA LUMPUR. April 21 Bank Negarn has received $1,482 for the "Save Democracy Fund" from the staflf and labourers of .Jeram Padang Estate. Bahau, bringing the total to $917,071.95.
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  • 173 6 Kuala lumpur, April 21.—Mrs. P. Navaratnam (above), the Federation’s Chief Commissioner for Guides, will leave for the United States on April 24 on a 30-day State Department grant to see women’s work and community development in America. Mrs. Navaratnam will spend another three weeks
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  • 98 6 KUALA LUMPUR April 21 The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong are being welcomed by the Singapore Minister of Culture. Mr. S. Rajaratnam (second from right), and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Singapore Ministry of Education. Mr. Lee Khoon Choy, when they attended
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  • 323 6 SINGAPORE, Apr,l 21 Minister of Labour and Social Welfare. Inche Bahaman bin Samsudin. wants youth hostels to be an integral part of the education system as in European countries. “This would enable groups of students to undertake practical studies and work in
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  • 413 7  -  by AUSTEN ZECHA •PUBLIC MUST BE FED uP jF MISS MALAYSIA EVENING IS typical charity show KUALA LUMPUR, April 22. FILM s*.ar William Holden, one of the seven r yj SS Malaysia judges at the Stadium on the "night of April 20, today critiMced the way the contest
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  • 89 7 SINGAPORE, April 22. Water rationing will be imposed in Singapore from tomorrow. The Government, announcing this today, reported little or no improvement in the dry spell in the Tcbrau River region—the State’s main source of water supply. Singapore island has been divided into seven zones for purposes
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  • 196 7 ■t}S; A ?r il n For the first iCV I l,crak Antl Tulhahihf ,S r Association’s re I Batu V 0I at I doorc aa 1 i wil °Pen its I bercuin r,:irtly cu red tu. lannu Patients, the I ciied H Mling here dc|tive*
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  • 166 7 Kuala lumpur, April 22.—The United Nations Under-Secretary and Chief of Cabinet. Mr. C. V. Narasimhan. will receive a memorandum on Malaysia from opposition political parties when he arrives on April 22. Mr. Narasimhan, who is on a fact-finding mission to Malaysia, is due
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  • 42 7 KUALA LUMPUR, April 25. Mr. G. E. M. Jones, chairman of 1.C.1. (Malaya) Ltd., presented on behalf of his company five volumes of A History of Technology to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Da to Sir Alexander
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  • 202 7 THE RIGHT TO DECIDE OWN DESTINY. KUALA LUMPUR, April 22. T'HE Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Mr. Clem Jones, said A today that if the formation of Malaysia was welcomed by the people of the territories concerned, then other countries should have no fears about it. He said: "Each country should
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  • 72 7 SINGAPORE. April 22 —Some 30 employees ol the Cathay Adver using Ltd. are to get salary increases ranging Irom sl2.t>o to *5O retrospective from Jan. 1 under an agreement signed recently be tween the tirm and the Singapore Business Houses Employees’ Union Similar increases will be
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  • 29 7 KUALA LUMPUR. April 21—Mr. Murugu Subramaniam has been elected chairman o! the Malayan Tamil Writers' Association. Mr Dorairaj was elected secretary and Mr. S. Kanapathy as treasurer.
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  • 78 7 IPOH. April 24.—The Sultan of Perak will open Malaya’s first elevated car park In Station Road here on Friday by driving up the first floor ramp and snapping a paper ribbon across Its path. The $lOO,OOO municipal car park, completed In six months, has accommodation
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  • 59 7 IPOH, April. 21 A businessman who left his scooter on the roadside to see a midnight show herp last night found its tront wheel missing about two hours later Thang Ah Kow, 29. said that he had left his scooter in front of the Capitol here about
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  • 197 7 SINGAPORE, April 21 The president of the Malayan Indian Congress, Singapore, Mr. John Jacob, has asked the Minister for Home Affairs. Mr. Ong Pang Boon, to grant Singapore citizenship to all eligible applicants before the formation of Malaysia. Mr. Jacob, who was speaking at the annual
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  • 212 8 Kuala lumpur, April 21. The establishment of Malaysia will demonstrate to the world the practice to co-existence, Inche Abdul Rahman bin Haji Talib, the Minister of Health, said tonight. Speaking at a royal performance of the Aneka Ragam Slngapura (Singapore cultural show) at
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  • 30 8 KUALA LUMPUR. April 23.—The House of Representatives will meet from May 23 to May 31. The Senate will be in session on the third and fourth of June.
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  • 168 8 Kuala lumpur, April 21.—The Indian Scholarship Fund has offered a scholarship of $1,200 a year tenable at the Technical College here to a Malayan student of Indian origin. This scholarship, set up by a local education trust, is for the duration of the course
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  • 50 8 PENANG, Apri. 21.—Ten Brunei Alliance members will visit Penang this week Tomorrow they will tour the fisheries research centre at Glugor and the Malayan Teachers College. On April 23 they will visit rural development projects In Province Wellesley. They leave for Alor Star on April 24.
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  • 268 8 Kuala lumpur, April 22. —Nineteen-year-old Brunei student Catherine Loh, who last night became Miss Malaysia 1963 at the jam -packed Stadium Negara here, stayed up to three this morn i n g thinking about her next beauty competition—the Miss World contest in London in
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  • 179 8 PENANG, April 21 IT was important that the Socialist Front win control of the State Government Mr. Lim Kean Siew. chairman of the Penang division of the Labour Party, said last night. Mr. Lim said the Alliance had proved “inept and irresponsible” in State affairs.
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  • 73 8 SINGAPORE, April 21—The Singapore Arya Samaj will provide free Hindi education for children and adults who wish to learn Hindi in Singapore. Classes will start tomorrow from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. n st3‘ It is also propo>ow T o t( a special class speak Hindi wl.
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  • 659 9 A hard look at needs of the future KUALA LUMPUR, April 22. The Minister oi Henlth, Inche Abdul Rahman bin Haji Talib, said today tnat a committee has been set up to report on Malaya’s long-term health and medical needs. Incite Abdul Rahman, who made
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  • 149 9 MUAR, April 22. JHE Jt'hore State Government has asked all town councils in the State not to let health inwctaturs remain too long in the same place. ituiaiu tuu lUUj J V„ aIc in a circular that of three to four Si I s
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  • 93 9 JOHORE BAHRU, April 22 The end of the first phase of National Language Month here Is being observed with competitions for the young and old. Tonight a debate was held at the Diamond Jubilee Hall. On April 25. the finals of the pantun competition will be
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  • 61 9 SINGAPORE, April 22 An X-ray engineer from the World Health Organisation, Mr. D.R.E Ernborfl, arrived here today from Manila to assist In the establishment of a training school of radiography at the General Hospital. Mr Ernborg will stav in Singapore tor two years, during which he will
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  • 138 9 Kuala lumpur, April 22.—A North Borneo chief, Orang Kaya Kaya Sigoh (above), of Pensiangan, which is deep in he interior, said today that his people unanimously accepted Malaysia. Pensiangan, 114 miles from Jesselton, is about three miles from the North Borneo-lndonesian border. Mr.
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  • 34 9 KUALA KANGSAR, April 25 —A women's orchestra. Pancharagan Wanita Ria. from Klang will perform at the Malay College here In aid of the Bukit Chandan Malay prayer hall tomorrow night at 9.30.
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  • 134 9 IfUALA LUMPUR, April 21. Two new courses of study will be started at the University of Malaya in the new academic session beginning next month. They are linguistics and Chinese studies—both in the Faculty of Arts. This brings the total number of courses offered
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  • 138 9 IT UA L A LUMPUR, April 22. Plans for trading rooms of the Malayan Stock Exchange in Ipoh and Penang are being considered, Mr. Lee Ka i io, newly-elected chairman of the exchange, said today. “We are now examining the technical aspects of setting up
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  • 117 9 versities and colleges.—Reuter. OAN FRANCISCO, April P 22.—Indonesian “incursions" will oblige the new Federation of Malaysia to raise substantial defence forces when it is established in August, Dr. Toh Chin Chye. Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister, said here today. Indonesia’s anti-Malaysia attitude had two
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  • 188 10 KUALA LUMPUR, April 23. 'PHE Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services and the Civil Service Clerical Federation will hold a unity rally tomorrow at the Federal House canteen. Inche Mas Junld bln Mas Amin, president of the federation,
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  • 88 10 Kuala lumpur, April 22—A group of highranking military and civil officers from the National Defence College in Thailand will arrive here on April 27 on a four-day visit to Malaya. The group of 38 is led by Lieut. General Boriboon Chulacharitta. From Kuala Lumpur,
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  • 204 10 KUCHING, April 23 fpHE people of Sarawak have their own way of life that is as utterly different from the Communists as heaven is from earth, said the chairman of Party Negara Sarawak, Datu Abang Haji Mustapha, last night in a political broadcast.
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  • 30 10 SINGAPORE, April 24.—Admiral Sir Varyl Begg, who arrived ir Singapore on Monday, took up his new appointment as Commander-ln-Chief, Far East, at Phoenix Park this morning.
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  • 189 10 SINGAPORE, April 21—A Singapore student now studying in the I’nited States, Mr. Jonathan Po (above), has been named Regents Scholar in the University of California —one of the highest lion, ours which can be con ferred on a student in the university.
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  • 65 10 ALOR STAR, April 23—A 14-year-old girl, Lakchemam reported missing since Aprh 15, was located yesterday. Her father. R. Kunchi, a tapper, found her in a house about two miles away from her home in United Patan; Estate. He reported to Sungei Patanl po ice i Police
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  • 79 10 SINGAPORE. April 21—Trai-i nee technicians of National Cash Register in the Malaysian region have arrived here for training In the company’s South-East Asia training school. An NCR overseas technical Instructor. Mr. Kenichi Kashara. will teach them the mechanics of the world’s first battery-operat-ed adding machine.
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  • 180 10 KANGAR, April 23 A BOUT 10,000 people in nine kampongs on the Thai-Malayan border were vaccinated today after a smallpox outbreak in the Thai province of Patani, about 70 miles from the Malayan border. Staff of the Hea'th Department in Kangar worked round the clock to
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  • 351 10 KUALA LUMPUR, April 25 THE Federation Government is tak.ng action with the Indonesian Government tnrough diplomatic channels, about an artic.e in an Indonesian journal which accused Tengkt Abdul Rahman of ".taking away" Che .Saloma singer wife of film actor-director P. Ramlee. The Journal
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  • 42 10 it <■ tr>!yp PENANO, April t ous officials have bee <‘ j vgn watch for the new tage points in Pern *i' ■■'j tS Tebal tomorrow jVB H» moon is sighted. |t #1 will be on May 4 ol**be on May 5.
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  • 1299 11  -  SOLICITOR-GENERAL SAYS POLICE DRAGNET OUT FOR ‘ABSCONDING’ CITY HALL RIOTERS by JACKIE SAM: SINGAPORE, April 23 SEVEN charges were today filed against eight Barisan Sosialis leaders, seven of them Legislative Assembly members, for alleged participation in yesterday’s
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  • 339 12 Saloma and U*by shocked Tengku PENANG, April 23. r JpHE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, said today the story published in an Indonesian journal that he had “taken away” Che Saloma, singer-wife of film star P. Ramlee, came as a shock to him.
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  • 55 12 KUALA LUMPUR, April 22. Inche Sulaiman bin Abdullah, the assistant secretary of the Economic Planning Unit of the Prime Minister's Department, Is attending a 10-week World Bank training course In Washington. He is among 21 people from 18 countries participating in the course designed to teach various
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  • 57 12 PENANG, April 22. A former racehorse owner and committee member of the Penang Turf Club, Dr. Victor Chan Pook Tet, who died In his Pangkor Road home yesterday, was buried at the Western Road cemetery tills afternoon. Dr. Chan, who was 06, retired from his medical practice about
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  • 56 12 PENANG, April 22. Prince rullepelehake, Deputy Prime Minister of Tonga and Minister .or Health and Lands, and his *ife were guests of the Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee. and Datin Wong at tea in his official residence yesterday. The prince, son of Queen Salote >1
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  • 39 12 PENANG. April 22.—Two bank lere have each given $5,000 to tht enang State Scholarship Fund The Penang branch of the Overas Union Bank made its first ontrlbutlon, while United Malayan Banking Ltd. gave its third donaton.
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  • 65 12 ASSISTANT Supt. of Police Charles Tan and Miss Gwendoline Ang. an inspector, both of the Contingent Headquarters. Penang, after their wedding at the Holy Rosary Church in Kuala Lumpur. The groom is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Sung Eng of Kuala Lumpur
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  • 131 12 DATO Abdult.ni bin Abdul Rahman t above president of the Kuala Trengganu Ses>j uns Klica from the judicial scr\iie next month to enter politics He announced this in Kuala Lumpur on \nn| 23. He said he had been interested in polities since his younger
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  • 153 12 KUALA LUMPUR, April 21. Malayan Importers are placing large orders for television sets in many parts of the world In the expectation of sellng at least 150,000 sets this arid next year. Leading Importers said today that, to judge from the response In
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  • 245 13 KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 the National Union of Teachers said today why 1 it has lost its faith in the Ministry of Education It charged that the Ministry had done noun:.u iur me weii-oeing of teacners. “Tr» covoral r>acoc If hort “In several cases it
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  • 218 13 rUALA LUMPUR, a April 23.—The Minister of Commerce and Industry Dr. Lim Swee Aun will tomorrow inaugurate the National Productivity Centre advisory council, which has been set up to advise him on productivity projects. The chairman of the coun*ill he Raja
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  • 219 13 KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 D Ki NETS final 15 -ves” to Malaysia is being dealt with through correspondence. authoring e sources here said today. \i r uiv important letter. haw been exchanged brtwetii the Malayan and Brunr f.overnments on th Howe\er. if
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  • 111 13 SINGAPORE. April 23. Dr. F.A.C Oehlers 42, a Senior Lecturer in Dentistry, has been appointed Professor of Oral Surgery at the University of Singapore. He is the first incumbent of this newly-created chair. Dr. Oehlers, who is a younger brother of the Speaker of the Singapore
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  • 130 13 KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 Mrs. C. Crowley (above), the Federation Headquarters Commissioner of the Senior Guide Branch, who left for Britain this morning with her husband. Mrs. Crowley, who came to Malaya In 1953, has been actively encouraging the Guide movement in
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  • 60 13 KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 Malaya is represented at a 10-day Ecafe conference in Bangkok dealing with the development of human resources through education, health services and social welfare and their contribution towards the economic development of Asia. The meeting is Jointly sponsored by Ecafe and
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  • 41 13 SINGAPORE, April 23 The Workers’ Party today announced that Mr. C. C. Cheng has been elected its assistant secretary-ge-neral. The party also said it would hold a political forum every Sunday at its headquarters at 345, Serangoon Road.
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  • 122 13 PENANG, April 23. The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, said in Penang today he was not in the least worried about President Soekarno’s latest threat to continue to frustrate the formation of Malaysia. “He has al 1 along said that but it, no
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  • 73 13 MALACCA, April 23—A mass Xray campaign tor people aged 15 and above will he neld here on April 25 and 26 between 8.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. A mobile X-rav unit will be at the Municipal depot off Penekalan Rama Road on April 25 and at
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  • 271 13 I{UALA LUMPUR, April 23.—The Opposition is to hold its first joint rally to protest against the Alliance Government’s Malaysia concept and the detention of left-wing politicians at the Suleiman Court padang here on the night of April 25. Speakers at the rally
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  • 62 13 SUNGEI PATANI, April 23 Inche Omar bin Hassan (Socialist Front), a rubber tapper, and Mr Tan Poh Huat (Alliance), a transport worker, have been nominated for a vacant seat on the Gurun local council. The vacancy was caused by the ineligibility of Inche Ahmad bln Yahaya (Srciallst
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  • 47 13 SINGAPORE. April 23 Some 150 delegates from 13 countries will take part In the third Aslan Y’s men’s conference opening In Singapore on April 26. The three-day conference will be opened at 9.30 a.m. by the Minister for Culture, Mr. S. Rajaratnam.
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  • 61 14 SINGAPORE, April 24.—The body of a 13-year-old schoolgirl was recovered from a swamp off the 7th mile, Tamplnes Road, to-day-more than 18 vhours after she had disappeared. Toh Ah Noi, the schoolgirl, was picking sea shells with a friend, Koh Siew Lan, 12. along Sungei
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  • 217 14 SINGAPORE, April 22. THE acting Minister for Labour, Mr. Ong Pang Boon, said todaiy that a gift of $2,500 from the Singapore Bank Employees’ Union to the Bukit Ban Kee lire relief fund was “evidence of its maturity, stature and identification with the
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  • 92 14 MALACCA, April 23. ATI Elections to the rural district councils in Malacca and the Malacca Municipal Council will be held on June 22 and 29 respectively. Nomination day for the rural district elections will be May 27, and June 6 for the municipal council. Fifty-three
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  • 27 14 SINGAPORE, April 24. Miss Malaysiu—Catherine Loh of Brunei—flew in here today from Kuala Lumpur for a one-day sight-seeing and shopping spree before returning home.
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  • 159 14 Kuala lumpur, April 23. —Mr. Conrad Benitez, chairman of the Asia Area Committee of the YMCA, said today that there was a need for trained leaders for YMCA work. He said at the sixth Aslan if MCA leaders’ conference that the association
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  • 67 14 PENANG. April 23.—Thieves broke into the house of a City Council medical officer, Dr. Latlfah Ghows at Ariffin Crescent, Green Lane, during the weekend and took an electric fan, iron and pen worth $226. Dr. Ghows reported to the police she found the lront door of ier
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  • 186 14 SINGAPORE, April 23. 23—Mr. S. Rajaratnam, the Singapore Minister of Culture, on his return here todap, said the 120-strong Aneka Ragam Singapura cultural mission which he led to Kuala Lumpur, was a “great success” there. The troupe gave a royal performance at the Dewan
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  • 51 14 JOHORE BAHRU, April 23. Sultan Ismail of Johore attended today the fourth anniversary rites c< the death of his father, Sultan Ibrahim, at the royal mausoleum in Jalan Mahmoodia. The religious service was conducted by the acting Mufti of Johore. Dato (Dr.) Abdul Jalil bin Haji
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  • 252 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Abril 24 SINGAPORE is to have an infantry brig a d of the defence build-up for Malaysia. parl It is expected that the Brigade, to be called the 4th. Brigade, will Incorporate the Singapore Infantry Regiment. An official announcement will soon be
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  • 31 14 KAJANG, April 24.—The State Development Board has approved $60,000 lor improving padi areas In Beranang, 13 miles south of here Irrigation canals covering 175 acres will be dug. i
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  • 131 14 K April branch ot the" Commonwealth Soaetv is holding an essav competition to celebrate Commonwealth Week beginning on May 23 It is open to re>iuents'in .vlalaya who are uncicr 19 Subject for the essay ‘What the Commonweal means to me.” It should be written
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  • 58 14 KUALA LUMPUR. April 23-A farewell dinner w ill be giver. the Selangor Club on April 30 so Mr. R. Ramanl, a Kuala LusjS lawyer who has been appcirad Malaya's permanent represent* to the United Nations i:i St* York. Those wishing to attend s. u contact Senator
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  • 266 14 KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 CALES totalling $l4 million were made at the eight-day Australian Industries Malayan Exhibition at Stadium Negara, which ended tonight. Mr. D. E. Taplin, the organiser of the exhibition and governing director of hibltion during its eightday run and about
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  • 233 14 SINGAPORE, April 23 r JTIE University of Singapore today announced that the following candidates have passed the intermediate LIB examination held in March this year: Abdul Kadlr bln Hajl Mohamed Kasslm. Miss Ruth Sarojlnl Ablsheganaden, Miss Juliet Ang. Valllpuram Balendran, Chan Chee Pew, Chan Keen Tuck.
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  • 428 15 SINGAPORE, April 24. VETERAN Malay film actor and director P. r Kamlee today angrily accused the Indonesian journal Mimbar Teruna of printing •black lies” linking the Federation Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, with his Cinder wife Saloma. who flew home
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  • 289 15  -  TAILOR SOO HOW SAYS: I HAVE ANSWER TO POWER PROBLEM -by- JUDITH YONG (SINGAPORE, April 24. —A tailor turned inventor today showed me how to beat the heat the cut-price way. He has designed a fan powered by a spring. No
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  • 207 15 IPOH. April 25 BN' inspector in the |Lrv l:f,< Volunteer K.. er -iid a univertam J' duate have I-tif 'r‘:'" n and proin' L in Ipoh. It it Mr. Btct Hock, the ini’ M r. Michael Bene,. Political fever of the ■Their
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  • 316 15 IPOH, April 24. rpHE Alliance and the People’s Progressive Party are squared off for straight fights in the elections for 20 seats in the local councils of Bidor and Temoh mining towns. i In a by-election for a vacant seat in Karai, near Kuala
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  • 84 15 PENANG, April 24. The State National Language Month Committee will hold a variety concert at St. Xavier’s Hall at 8 p.m. on May 2 to mark the close of the first phase of L-Month. Results of the finals of the conversation and short sketch
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  • 847 16  -  -by- R. CHANDRAN SINGAPORE, April 27 '['HE United Nations under-secretary, Mr. C. V. Narasimhan, met the Barisan Sosialis chairman, Dr. Lee Siew Choh, for 10 minutes in the Singapore airport terminal building this evening—with
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  • 360 16 TRIPARTITE TALKS ON MAY 10 KUALA LUMPUR. April 26 'J'HE Foreign Ministers of Malaya, Indonesia and the Philippines are scheduled to meet in Manila on May 10 to discuss “matters of common interest,’* Mr. C. V. Narasimhan, the United Nations Under-Secretary, announced on arrival here
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  • 69 16 MALACCA April 25. The Malacca airport will be open again to traffic on May 1 after having been closed for six months for construction work to strengthen the 4,500 ft. runway and provide an all-weather surface. The Improvement, which cost about $1 million, makes the runway
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  • 83 16 SINGAPORE. Apr -4 orders not cashed wit!'.'.: a y from their date of iss'.ie vi:i into the consolidated f'.u-.d. a- 1 ing to the provisions > i a amending the Post Otnce nance to be presenter ’< gislative assembly for app’-o- h '1 The
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  • 47 16 T !o*l ALOR STAR. Apr y, councillor, Mr Ooi f ysi re-elected president I)ra ncl Star MCA's Kampom last night. Another town cot" Tan Hai Loon, and < Mr. Llm Teik Ny vice-presidents. Ml i Hong was elected ure r Mr. Lo Joo Huai
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  • 136 17 ■ft’ALA LUMPUR. I* April 25. a 10-point ■uii :i. been drawn up increase sales of ■-..van pineapples in Laitod States, ■--cl.i and West Ger- pr petals are the I more agents ■L”'*- 1 research pro- “educating” po- Jp*' r on the quality 1 in
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  • 579 17 V()\f WARNED TO SPEND MORE ON EDUCATION U PACE JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DANGER KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. J'HE Federation Government was warned today that unless more money was spent on education, it would have a juvenile delinquent problem of such dimensions that even
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  • 56 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 25.—Mr. K. 11. Rogers (above) has arrived here to replace Air. R. A. Woolcot as First Secretary in the Australi in High Commission. lie was First Secretary in the Australian Embassy in Rome for the last two years. Mr. Woolcott is
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  • 116 17 Ready —a May Day ‘honours list’ SINGAPORE, April 25.—Tire Natiunai Trades Union Congress will present special medals to a number of non-trade unionists for meritorious service to the trade union movement on May Day. Announcing this today, the N.T.U.C. secretary-general, Mr. C- V. Devan Nair, said that an “honour list"
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  • 44 17 SUNGEI PATANI, April 25. Asst. Supt. Ahmad bln Abdul Karim from Alor Star, will next month take over as OCPD, Sungel Patani, In place of Mr. B. Abraham who will go to Kuala Lumpur as Assistant Superintendent of the Riot Reserve Unit.
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  • 299 17 KUALA LUMPUR, April 25. 4 GIANT rally attended by about 10,000 people was held here tonight by Opposition political parties to oppose the formation of Malaysia. Six opposition politica’ leaders on a variety of matters, including the arrests of some of their party members and
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  • 119 17 Kuala lumpur, April 25. —The Federation Armed Forces has received a shipment of four new guns made in Italy which can easily be dismantled and carried by boat or plane. The 105 mm. howitzer-type cannon can fire five rounds In one minute and
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  • 46 17 KAJANO, April 25—Proceeds from the screening of The Blaclc Knight at Sun Cinema In Reko Road here tomorrow will go to the Kajang Police Sports Club fund. There will be three shows, at 3 pm., 6.30 p.m. and 8.30 pm.
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  • 601 18  -  MAY 10? BUT THAT’S THE DAY TUN RAZAK IS Dun TO ARRIVE IN LONDON TO DISCUSS DEFENCE By- YAP CHIN KWEE: Kuala Lumpur, April 26 TUN Abdul Razak cannot possibly attend the Foreign Minister’s meetingof Malaya, Indonesia and the Philippines scheduled to take place on May 10
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  • 493 18 500 ATTEND ‘UNITY’ RALLY KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 THE 15,000 government clerks in the Feden tion will enjoy salary increases before the end of this year, a rally was told tonight. This prediction came from the protein p: e sident of the Amalgamated
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  • 179 18 IPOH, April 24. Fifty amateur actors and actresses will take part in a play based on the Hang dynasty in China to be presented at the Jubilee amusement park here on Saturday in aid of the National Patriotic Fund. The play, four
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  • 780 19 I KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 ■ICTI :OER II, with S. G. Donaldson up, beat the favourite Magi< Ni,: a head in the The Patron’s Cup over 7 furlongs at the akl ting here today. t a (Hayes) won the hurdles race from
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  • 17 19 Hi4 R tlN April ,j t > •t* 1451.75 U $452.25 f&SXt 27 g $451.75 $451.17*
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  • 622 19  -  -By GEOFFREY BOLAND Singapore, April 2t r /17HE limelight of sue- cess is now focussed on the :Maiayan Stock Exchange, which must take a new look at its responsibilities to the Investing public, the retiring chairman, Mr. Jacob Balias,
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 41 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: frgf $216,045 I* *****2 ($53,471) tad *****2 (S26.735) 3rd *****3 ($13,367). Starters ($1,670 each) Nos. *****1. *****7, *****3, *****1. *****1, *****7. $***** *****8. < Consolation ($1,188 each) Noa. *****8, *****6. *****2, *****8. *****4. *****4. *****7. *****3. *****9, *****5
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1464 20 From Our Market Correspondent WHILE the turnover Tf on the Malayan Stock Exchange was not so heavy as in the previous week quite a useful amount of business was written. While the majority of business was written in the industrial section there was by no
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    • 33 20 (Manager*’ Prises) First Malayan 1.67 1.70 Second Malayan 1.26 1.34 Third Malayan .90 .97xd First Hong Kong .96 I.o2xd* Second Honf Kong .72 .77* Starting Commodity 4/5 4/llxd (•Hong Kong currency).
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    • 68 20 Current Date of Total Total for payment payment for previous 10%+ June 10 r JoT Jeram Kuan tan 20% Mav IS 30<£ 30% May 16 15% 20% JJJ Un 1 28% 25% chSfftC 1#| i“ e l i "W *!L* Inch Kenneth 30% go% 60% K.L. Kcponff 6%
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    • 944 20 »T»HE table of shares mi th« 1 Malayan Slack Exchange shows last business ta April 19. (A) and last business since that date with H and L standing far Highest and Lowest business far last yanr and this year ta data. IBBBSTtIALS l Aten Bricks 3-50 Atlas
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    • 510 20 Rubber market Health ier conditions Uractorfoi, srsL£ 3 the major i w sumers and ti tjrA overseas mark ed a markec! ta^; to follow our i ;,l£ state H.C.B. A A in their week u Malay.' uhhMarket. Prices aooree h *5L th-, radJL the Improvement n^l sf&rew, ;3 adda the
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