The Straits Times, 8 January 1957

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    23 1 AVEHACE 111 111 *****11 I I I Mil MIMIII I IJ The Straits Times. Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1957 15 CENTS
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    MINIMUM WAGE PERIL
    671 1 CAINE REPORT OUTLINES SOCIAL INSURANCE SCHEME Provident fund inadequate'— wider benefits urged lt may mean large scale sacking Ifiovernment has been advised trodoeing i general minimum it because it might lead to mass ninfl is given by the Committee ii Standards of Livelihood headed i line, former
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    12 HELD IN RAID ON RED LAIRS
    54 1 r«nw p... P i.. mainly l -ludrnu u,-r.- arreNted !llil! "il polio- and forces wi imped on '"nimunist lnd.--i.uK in »nd Batu Johore rarrdaj 'Plr ".-re asleep »ritj force, Mirni '<l md raided the ••"vernment H n| J'i v»id Ihf people i Communist
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    crash: 15 injured
    19 1 Fifteen »"hen an shed into train at City. Heittilted nd the s was al train was
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    Off on stretcher to seek cure, housewife says: I hope to walk again
    94 1 Off on stretcher to seek cure, housewife says: I hope to walk again A SINGAPORE housewife. Mrs. J. Tassis (above), was taken to Singapore Airport in an ami jlance yesterday to fly to Australia for treatment. Mrs. Tassis. who is suffering from paralysis of a leg, has been bed-ridden for
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    Lock icon JAKARTA GIVES IN TO REBELS
    258 1 Big cash request is granted JAKARTA. Monday. THE Indonesian Government today granted a re quest for 20 million rupiahs by the rebellious pro vince of Central Sumatra where last month a mili tary council took over. i At the same time the Jakarta administration showed
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    Lock icon The Grace Kelly baby: Jan. 20?
    71 1 The Grace Kelly baby: Jan. 20? MONTE CARLO, Mon Doctors attending Princess Grace of Monaco today once again moved forward the date for the birth of her baby. This time the prediction L<= Jan. 20. The doctors had first predicted some time early in February and only last week put
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    Lock icon Air crash
    25 1 TULSA. Oklahoma, Mon. An American Airlines plane crash-landed on a hillside farm early yesterday, killing one of the 10 people on board. A.P.
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    Lock icon Chou in Moscow
    22 1 LONDON. Mon. Chinas Premier, Mr. Chou En-lai, arrived in Moscow by air today for talks with Soviet leaders. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Oil strike after death brawl
    172 1 SERIA Mon DETWEEN 300 and 400 Chinese artisans from Hong Kong employed by the British Malayan Petroleum Co. and private contractors have gone on strike following ih* death of one of their workmate in a disturbance in the Seria Bazaar on Jan. 2. Tne men
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    Lock icon Britannia off
    31 1 LONDON. Mon. A 8.0.A.C. Britannia turbo-prop airliner left today on a prov-. Ing flight to Johannesburg in preparation for a regular London-South Africa service starting on Feb. 1.-Reuter. I
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    Thugs strike again in city of fear
    496 1 DENANG. Mon.— The death toll since the start of the George Town riots rose to four this morning with the finding of the body of a man in Timah Road. Chua Ah Siak. a 35--year-old labourer, had been stabbed and the body was
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    LATEST
    51 1 Two curfew incidents PENANG. Tuesday morning There were two incidents in George Town during the curfew hours last night. An assault case and a malicious damage case were reported to police at about 8 p.m. Police have arrested one person for breaking the curfew and two for carrying offensive
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    Worried Tengku cancels his trip to Turkey
    198 1 LONDON. Mon. Tengkii Abdul Rahman today cancelled his visit to Turkey and Siam and announced that he would leave direct for home on Friday because of the disturbances in Penan?. Thp Minister for Education Da to Abdul Razak has also cancelled his programme
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    Woman finds mother slain
    170 1 Woman finds mother slain i A MOTHER of three iV children, Wong Keng Swee, 52, was found dead with a neck wound yesterday after neighbours heard a scuffle in her room at Queen Street. Singapore. Wongs body wa s found by her daughter, Chan Chool Fong, 21, when she returned
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    STOP PRESS
    40 1 IKK NAMES MAN Milt MIDIM.r US I WAMUNGTfMI. Mon. Prrsidrrit Flwlwmi appointed Mr Jmei Rirh:ird> former Chairman of the lurriKii Ufairs ummitlee. to hr.ie! special American mis sion to the Middle Bast to explain the "Kisenhowrr Doctrine." I'.P
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    Lock icon Auchinleck bar
    31 1 KHARTOUM, Mon. The Sudanese Government today i refused permission for Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck and Lord Hore-Belisha to visit the Sudan during their tour of East Africa. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Act now to save the Middle Eastplea by Dulles
    399 2 CONGRESS WARNED: GREAT CALAMITY IF THESE OIL -RICH NATIONS FALL TO THE REDS yy.VSH ING TON, Mon. .Mr. Foster Dulles, (he American Secretary of State, s;iul today thai it would l>e a political disaster for the world if the Middle Kast
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    Lock icon KEFAU.VER TELLS TV AUDIENCE: IT'S DYNAMITE
    113 2 KEFAU.VER TELLS TV AUDIENCE: IT'S DYNAMITE «EW YORK, Mon y^ENATOR E^es KefauO ver, the 1956 Democratic vice presidential candidate, appearing in a television programme last night, said he thought President Eisenhower's Middle East proposals were 1 "loaded with dynamite". "The more I study It. the more opposed I am to
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    Giants may come up for clash now
    98 2 ...AND THE WORLD SAYS: The MADRID Catholic morning paper Ya. commenting yesterday on the new President Eisenhower plan fo r tin- Middle East, said it could bring Russia and the I Hited States face to face "for the clash." Ya said: "The important
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    This is declaration of a cold war
    80 2 Official quarters in DAMASCUS said yesterday the U.S. President's statement amounted to an "official declaration of ti-M war by the United States in the Middle East." His speech contained an invitation for Middle East countries "to side with a certain camp and abandon
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    Great satisfaction
    67 2 The Prime Minister of TURKEY. Mr. Adnan Men--i< rrv greeted President Eisenhower's doctrine with the "greatest satisfaction" yesterday but warned that the situation in the Middle East was still dangerous. In an Istanbul interview with an Italian newspaper he said thp doctrine was "a logical and natural consequence
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    Lock icon Three quins die
    29 2 PONDICHERRY, India Mon.—Three of the girl quintuplets born to a labourer's wife here on Dec. 29 have died. Doctors hope to save the other two.—Reuter. A.P.
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    Lock icon WEEKEND VIOLENCE IN TENSE ALGERIA
    134 2 ALGIERS, Mon. Violence continued during the weekend as Europeans and Algerians alike anxiously awaited the French Government's new "declaration of intentions" towards the territory. The declaration is expected this week as a prelude to the United Nations debate on the Algerian issue later in the
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    Gina tells a Press conference: 'a baby for me in July'
    76 2 Gina tells a Press conference: 'a baby for me in July' ITALIAN film star Gina Lollobrigida gave a Press conference at her home in Rome on Jan. 3 to announce: "I am expecting a baby in July." Previously both she and her husband had denied rumours that she was expecting
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    Lock icon 'My bruising ordeal'—by Marie The Body
    383 2 'My bruising ordeal' by Marie The Body (TALL?) TALE OF RANSOM. DOPE AND SECRET CALLS E N C I N O, California. Mon. Film actress Marie McDonald, her face swollen and a black eye showing under her make-up, told reporters yesterday that the men she said kidnapped her hoped to
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    Razak on merdeka foreign policy
    146 2 Razak on merdeka foreign policy I ONDOX, M RJ Federal r J j ya's fiducat, Dato Abdul R here last olghl th'a' rould not future tren an foreign policy^J -We arc not our own exten 1 1 cannot a ivy sonal opinion. > told a meeting students that was the
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    Bus boycott Africans
    48 2 JOHANNESBURG. Mcr. About 2.000 Africans de at mass meeting Alexandra To\vn.-.hip yesterday to boycott the service to the c city rather than pay a increase of one i comes into operation day. Many thousands of cans will walk or cycle nine miles to work.— Re:-
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    Lock icon Grenade attac
    23 2 PARIS. Mun.- ades, hurled door of a (fo in Paris last nig four North Africans ana i Frenchman. The escaped.- Reuter
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    Lock icon {HUNGARY'S FREEDOM HOPE CRUSHED
    278 3 Kadar rejects workers* demands, clamps down Soviet-style policy Afaflr# fo woo; accused of 'treason 9 BUDAPEST, Monday. ITTATOB .1\- N() > KADAR crushed the "last ,1 Hungarian patriots for political yesterday with a Soviet-stamped policy ition that accused the ousted Premier, of treason and spread fear
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    Lock icon MASS WEDDING FOR REFUGEES, SAFE AT LAST AFTER FLEEING RED TERROR
    50 3 FATHER P. Bonati. parish priest of St. Margaret's Churrh. Gorbridge. near Edinburgh, congratulates 10 Hungarian couples after their wedding at the church. All the newly-weds are refugees who fled the Red terror and found sanctuary in Scotland.— A.P. picture.
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    Lock icon I.R.A. ACCUSED OF WARMONGERING
    145 3 DUBLIN, Monday. T^HE Prime Minister, Mr. John Costello, last night 1 accused nationalist terrorists— the I.R.A.— of trying to embroil the whole of Ireland in civil war. The leader of the Irish Republic denounced the underground campaign aimed at driving the British out of Northern Ireland
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    Lock icon Exit—the major
    33 3 Exit the major CAIRO, Mon.— Major Saiih Salem, known as the "dancing major," resigned yesterday as chief editor of the Egyptian morning newspaper Al Shaab. No reason was given for his resignation. A.P
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    Lock icon Duke welcomed
    31 3 STANLEY, Falkland Is.inds. Mon. Visitors flocked by air, sea and landre ver and o n horseback from outlying farms to welcome the Duke of Edinburgh to Stanley today. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Goose chase after 220th bomb scare
    200 3 MW YOU '\«n.— The >< are in BOlli c "II :i mid turn through Pt!in>>lvania Mation today. Othfr police (ombed 1 "r--thim I niverMty and Hotel St. <>n false bomb ;'id a dud bomb 1 in a street corWn on Staten I-Und Wad "f
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    Lock icon Nasser deports the Jews
    264 3 7ViL.ES OF TERROR BY REFUGEES BOUT 1,000 refugee women and children senger ship Misr from A] ped of possessions and tel NAPLES, Monday. Jews from Egypt men, arrived here in the paslexandria yesterday, striplling tales of terror. They said they had been deported and that they
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    IT ALL STARTED WITH A QUIET SMOKE...
    88 3 IT ALL STARTED WITH A QUIET SMOKE... SAN FRANCISCO. Mon. A man lit a cigarette yesterday ia a kitchen where there was leaking gas. Then this happened: A three-storey apartment house and an adjoining onestorey building were worked. Seven people went to hospitals, one with critical injuries. Debris was hurled
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    Lock icon Winged' ship
    35 3 LONDON, Mon. Moscow Radio claimed yesterday that Russia is building a winged ship to fly about a foot abov» the water. It said the first would be ched in T U ly Reuter.
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    No-hope bachelors want tax cut
    47 3 TEL AVIV. Mon More than 35.000 Israeli bachelors have no hope of getting: married because of Israel's shortage of women, and should therefore he exempted from the high taxes levied on single men Mr. L. Levi, a union official, said today. IP
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    LONDON STOCKS
    316 3 LONDON. Mon. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not including stamp duty were: TIN LONDON. Mon. Cash buyers £780. sellers £781. Forward buyer* £767, sellers £767 >i. Settlement £780. Turnover a.m. 125 tons p.m. 75 ton*. RUBBER LONDON. Mon— Spot 30 id Feb. 30\d, Mar. 30 -.d, Apr
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      Glamour goes to Kadar land
      224 3 Glamour goes to Kadar land OUDAPEST, Mon.— Pictures of American film stars in glamorous poses were published for the first time today in Nepszabadsag. the official Hungarian Communist newspaper. This latest sign of the changed climate in their country was shown to startled Hungarians under the heading: "The women we
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    CRISIS IN UMNO AS KEY OFFICIAL QUITS
    241 4 CRISIS IN UMNO AS KEY OFFICIAL QUITS THE UMNO crisis in x Singapore deepened with the announcement yesterday by the party secretary, Tuan Syed Ahmad Jamalulil, that he was determined to give up his post. \lt Is learned that at least one other member of the party's central executive will
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    'Transferred' but she is still doing the job that isn't there
    359 4 fHE position of Singapore's "Alice in Wonderland" grows "curiouser and curiouser." "Alice" is Mrs. Ronald Wild (formerly Miss Lav Nyuk Oi) and the wonderland is Radio Malaya. Mrs. Wild's job as a research librarian at Radio Malaya officially ended
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    EXPELLED: 69 CHUNG LIME BUCK LIST STUDENTS
    159 4 PENANG, Mon. THE fate of 69 black-listed Chung Ling High School students has been sealed. An official source told the Straits Times today that expulsion notice? have been sent to theh parents. The boys were expelled under the new School Order and Discipline
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    COFFEE SHOP KILLING
    519 4 Inquest decides it was murder AN inquest was held yesterday by the Singapore A First Coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander, on a 12-year-old coffee shop assistant who was found trussed up and drowned in an oil drum on Nov. 12. Recording a verdict of murder against a
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    1,200-pupil limit for all Colony schools
    189 4 IMPORTANCE OF DISCIPLINE THE Singapore Government is to limit the number x of pupils in any school in the Colony to a maxi- mum of 1,200. I The new Education Ordinance which will be tabled at the Legislative Assembly meeting tomorrow will give the
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    Man, 57, accused of murder
    54 4 A labourer, Ng Tang. 57, was charged in a Singapore court yesterday with the murder of a fellow labourer. Low Fook Nup, 61, at a house in Sago Lane on Jan. 3. No plea was recorded and Ng was ordered to be remanded at the
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    driver fined $50
    44 4 driver fined $50 Im.p.h. g Cheng Chua. of 42. re Road, was fined $50 Singapore first traffic yesterday for driving or-car at a speed of 60 miles an hour along Timah Road on July st at 11.35 p.m. He id guilty to the charge
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    U.S. BALLET TROUPE TO DANCE IN MALAYA
    110 4 A 27-MEMBER San Fran- cisco ballet company which has left for its first Asian tour, with 15,0001 b of costumes and equipment, will give three performances in Singapore next month. Mr. Donald Moore, who is making arrangements for the show In Malaya, told
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      135 4 radio malaya Regional •Programmes thn« marked can ba SIHCAPORE received by listeners In Malacca Hnrt Short wave 49 it 41m. Medium m«iiJl VtT mm 476». SJlnv 3««m. and AM M^» "g^ And r... Opening Announcement 7.16 PM. *1.15 Makln Angln: *1.30 Morning Serenade 7.30 Newa- 735 News; »\Ab— 2.00 Rhythm
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    RESISTANCE to POLICE RAID UNJUSTIFIED: 55 GUILTY
    471 5 >«,,rf rules on swoop on SinaaonrP u n j on premises: 'Lawful search' T Fourth DWng tnam, rul^ a da} that the w offered *f pie during a the Factory Sh op Worker* imon branch pren Bukit li_- don oa OcL2l no t
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    Four men who had knives, mar jailed
    248 5 Four men who had knives, mar jailed PENANG, Monday. Chinese and a Malay— were to- for six months for carrying the city area yesterday. SentB deferred, while three curfew >20 each. A youth. Phuah Ah Hock, of Irving Road, was charged in the General Hospital this morning with being a
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    Man on shooting charge
    54 5 Pang Hock Lim. 37, was tentatively charged in a Singapore court yesterday with firing three shots with a revolver with the intention of killing Inspector Simon Cornelius on the night of Jan. 5 at the Victoria confectionary. No plea was recorded. Pang was allowed bail of
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    Welfere chief retires
    66 5 Welfere chief retires MOHAMEO H M.IJI SuleiDtpitj < hief W( "t!u cr in critil n. is tO K tire- ir* r•*ith the Govern- h «i> a l wee 13b, ftrst man 1 "1. P J: i Ins paraM li-n they "i <-nk m M 44. U •>econdSocial Welfare :!lf nt
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    Dinner for Lime
    27 5 "Pore chief Min- Hock and the guests 1 Chinese New to be civen by ranch of the t at the Ca- on Jan. 24
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    Choose your partner (any sex) for rock 'n roll contest
    77 5 ation's. Preliminary heats will be competition held from eight o'clock tonight in the Hollywood p ntrant s can Ro °m of Odeon Theatre. ben of thp The best fiv e couples will UIC then give an exhibition ot rock-'n-roll on
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    IGNORANCE IN AUSTRALIA, by RULER
    86 5 IGNORANCE IN AUSTRALIA, by RULER I 111 RAJA OF PERLIS flew into Singapore yesterday by KIM after visiting Australia and said: "The Australians are very ignorant about Malaya and I told them so." He added: "They know us as exporters of 'rubber and tin. but thats all. They don't know
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    SCHOOLS EXPANDING -HOTEL MUST GO
    178 5 THE Singapore Education Ministry took strong objections to the presence of a hotel in the immediate vicinity of two adjoining schools in Telok Kurau, Mr. Robert Chee, the City Magistrate, was told yesterday. Mr. T. Chelliah, of the Land Office, said that the Education Ministry
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    D-day on air strike
    46 5 (Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Hock, will today meet anagement of Malayan ys for a final decision c claim by 600 striking yees for a bonus. Lim yesterday met reitatives of the worker*, he asked the management to meet him at 12.30 today.
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    Miss Lim moves
    31 5 MLss Mary Lim, assistant Official Assignee. Singapore, has been transferred to the Attorney General's Office. She has been succeeded by Mr. Francis T. Scow. of the Attorney-Oeneral'a Office.
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    CAR PLUNGES INTO RAVINE: THREE HURT
    60 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A car driven by a police officer's wife plunged into a ravine at the 9th mile, Cheras Road, last night. Mrs. J. R. Lawrence, her son David, 7, and their amah, Piah blnte Gali. 38, escaped with slight injuries. They were
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    Bandits flee
    36 5 KULAI, Mon.— Special con- stables on duty at the assisti ant manager's bungalow on Fraser Estate nnc r here last night fired at two figures seen 1 outside the perimeter fence. The figures fled.
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    Bus sheds
    20 5 TAIPING. Mon. For the 'convenience of bus travellers, two waiting sheds have been erected in Station Road here.
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    OUR ROAD SAFETY DRIVE NEEDS GREATER FERVOUR
    153 5 OUR ROAD SAFETY DRIVE NEEDS GREATER FERVOUR Minister tells A.A.M. dinner: PENANG, Monday. T<HE Minister for Transport, Mr Ong Yoke Lin, has x told the Automobile Association of Malaya that a more spirited campaign for road safety must be launched in this country. I "I am planning to see that
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    Union plea: Don't sack these men
    101 5 PORT DICKSON, Mon. rpHE Negn Sembilan J. branch of the Government Temporary Officers' Union has decided to ask the Federation's Executive Council to stop a reported Government move to retrench about 100 temporary employees of the Federation Army. The union's chairman, Inche K. Ahmad,
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    Not such a 'black Monday' after all
    187 5 Not such a 'black Monday' after all KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. 1V Thousands of Federation secondary school students returned to their classrooms todaj*. after the holidays and found their "black Monday" not so black after all. They were the first students to sit the recently-in-troduced Lower Certificate of Education examination. According
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    New nursery school
    50 5 The $200.000-school built by the Christian Stewardship Foundation an international organisation will be under the charge of Madam Lorna Tsu, an expert on childeducation. Singapore's largest and most modern nursery school —the Zion Kindergarten School will open at Tavlstock Avenue. Serangoon I Garden Estate, on Jan. 14.
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      214 5 M\l WA: Know Your Malaya No. 6"- ASSOCIATION (Indus Square) >.imuzza- Coll>er Quay 115 pm. Physical training for children 5 the AIIMNI 5 ASSOCIATION Cli- p m U> 6 V.m, «mS2?-k»m anc^ nl co-Pathologicai meeting-chair- course 7 p.m. to 8 P*- National man. Dr. Gwee Ah Leng. at Patho- English
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    DEATHS
    56 6 20 Wordi $10 (minimum). CURRAN J. Sanitary Engineer Municipality Singapore at 'Bukit Timah' Upperton Road, Eastbourne, on 23rd December, 1956. ARBUCKLE: Suddenly on 8.1-57 «t the BMH Singapore, Peggy, the beloved wife of R. S. M. Sidney Arbuckle of GHQ FARELF Me- < mortal Service St. Georges Garrison Church,
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    75 6 20 Hordi $10 (minimum}. MR. AND MRS. LIM SOON LAI and family thank all Friends nri Relative for Wreaths, Attendance and Assistance at the Funeral of their Mother. MRS GRANVILLE DE SOUZA Wishes to thank Doctor, Sister nnri Nurses Ward 23 General Hospital and especially Private Nurse for their
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    REQUIEM
    33 6 2* Hvrdt tit (minimum). REQUIEM HIGH MASS will be held at 6.15 a.m. on 11.1.57 at Cathedral of the Good Shepherd for the R»pose of the Soul of Dr. Granville Dc Souza.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    250 6 20 Word* tit (minimum). COCKTAIL HOUR— Dry Fly Sherry by Findlater's Prelude to a Good Dinner! Sole Agents Rcnlnson's. ELSIE MARY LTD., 2nd Floor, 13 Battery Rd. Annual Clearance Sale Commencing Wednesday 9th January. Drastic Reductions. SAVE $70 a year by Joining the World Book Club. Write today to
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Jan. 8, 1957. Lessons Of A Tragedy
    1142 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Jan. 8, 1957. Lessons Of A Tragedy Up to late last night it appeared that the situation in Penang had improved. There had been fresh incidents, it is true, and in the morning one man was found dead. A messenger boy was injured by several
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    FEWER STOPS WHEN SAILING ROUND THE CAPE
    730 6 FEWER STOPS WHEN SAILING ROUND THE CAPE |By W.J. Moore JHE closing of the Suez Canal has forced all shipping between the Far East and Europe to return to the route which was in general use prior to 1869, the year of the canal's opening. At that period the steamship
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    Malenkov the winner in Kremlin's big tug of war?
    772 6 Malenkov the winner in Kremlin's big tug of war? asks COLIN LAWSON in a despatch he, could not send from Moscow BRUSSELS. T»HERE is, trouble again in the Kremlin—a deep split in the presidium of <the Communist Party, highest policy-making body in Russia. NOW. on my way back to Britain,
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    Underpaid Govt. clerks
    252 6 I READ with interest the comments by "Taxpayer" (S.T. January 4) on the need to revise the salary structure of expatriate posts about to be Malayanised. "Taxpayer"' should be congratulated for his efforts to curb unnecessary expenditure arising from overpayment of Division I Officers. But he has
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    Letter box far this road
    40 6 11OTH Middle Road and for the convenience of I> Orchard Road have letter tho.se who live or work in boxes but Bras Basah Road Bras Basah Road ha* none. NATARAJAN. Cannot one be provided Singapore.
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    'party rule unsuitable for Colony'
    415 7 MEMORANDUM TO BRITAIN CALLS FOR CREATION OF RESERVED SEATS IN THE ASSEMBLY P0ITIOS: WE NEED LEGISLATORS WITH SO POLITICAL TIES vR > that a full-fledged party system of imcnt may be unsuitable for Singapore „c iro voiced in a memorandum which ;,nt to the British
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    Promotion for five
    50 7 Five Asian employees of the Shell Company, two in i Singapore and three in the Federation, have been promoted to senior staff. They are: Messrs. Lim Ewe Hoe (Kuala Lumpur), Sim Keng Hoe (Ipoh), Wong Fook Choon (Penang), Sim Keng Song (Singapore) and Chan Poh Keng (Singapore).
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    THREE POSERS FOR AIRPORT OFFICIALS AS BOY |N RAGGED YELLOW SHIRT FLIES IN
    19 7 ATAN how did he do it?
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    GOVT. MEN CALL OFF STRIKE
    180 7 Final ultimatum by union THE strike by 3.000 Singapore Government employees scheduled to start tomorrow has been called off at least temporarily. The Singapore Government Workers' Union, which represents the men. yesterday gave the Government another seven days to settle the workers' wage claims. The
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    Fatal fall
    30 7 A woman, Tay Bee Hoon, 1 56 fell off a Singapore Traction Company bus in Geylang Road, near Lorong 31, yesterday and died later at the General Hospital.
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    $34 million goes up in smoke
    68 7 $34 million goes up in smoke PIPE and cigarette smok- ers were the biggest Indirect tax-payers to the Singapore Government last year. Customs figures released yesterday reveal that the Government received $34.--292.000 from tobacco. Liquor swelled the publir revenue by $26,752,000 and petrol by $21,264,000. Total Customs revenue for the
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    Atan fooled them all -he stowed away in a PLANE
    297 7 Atan fooled them all -he stowed away in a PLANE V"OUR passport, please," said the Singapore immigration officer checking passengers off a Garuda Indonesian Airline, plane yesterday afternoon. There was no reply. The officer looked up. Before him stood a dishevelled boy in a ragged yellow shirt, white shorts and
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    Lock icon AUSTRALIAN LECTURERS IN THIS WEEK
    84 7 AUSTRALIAN LECTURERS IN THIS WEEK Three Australian lecturers will arrive in Singapore from Sydney this week to coach Singapore and Federation doctors for the primary examination for fellowship of the Royal Australlasian College of Surgeons. The lecturers, who are coming under the Colombo Plan, are: Dr. H. H. Eddey, surgeon
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    Preacher on a two-day visit
    48 7 The Rev. Wilbur Ogilvie, an American who will arrive in Singapore by air today will conduct healing services and preach at the Apostolic Pentecostal Church at E-2, Rayman Avenue, off Balestier Road, today and tomorrow. Mr. Ogilvie is on his way to India.
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    BEST TICS' OF THE YEAR
    253 7 T«HE eighth annual Inter- national Salon of Photography, sponsored by the Photographic Society of Singapore, held last Sunday attracted 1,756 entries from 40 countries. The gold medal presented by Mr. Loke Wan Tho went to Bernardino Cadete, of Portugal. The silver medal was won by
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    'JUSTICE-OR NO LABOUR PEACE IN COUNCIL'
    306 7 'JUSTICE -OR NO LABOUR PEACE IN COUNCIL' Warning as inquiry court opens A SINGAPORE lawyer warned yesterday that there would be no industrial peace between the City Council and its 10,000-strong labour force until "injustices" brought about through a reshuffle of working grades were rectified. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew was
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    Segamat surrender: First in months
    144 7 LAV WONG BRINGS IN SHOTGUN SEGAMAT, Monday. |X)R the first time in 18 months, a terrorist has surrendered in the Segamat area. He is 41-year-old Lav Wong Lav Ong. a courier with the north Segamat branch of the terrorist organisation. Lav gave himself up to
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    BM A stamps warning
    66 7 If you have unused Straits Settlements stamps overprinted with "B.M.A. Malaya," you had better change them now. From Friday, all British M l l it ar y Administration stamps will be invalidated. But the postal authorities have given a three-month period for holders to exchange the
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    Secretary: Singapore Safety First body wound up
    288 7 Secretary: Singapore Safety First body wound up SINGAPORE'S Safety 3 First Council has been wound up, its secretary, Captain E. P. C. Richardson, said yesterday. Capt. Richardson, who has been given a months notice, attributed the collapse the eight-year old organisation to dissension over future policy and financial difficulties which,
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    OLDER MEN PREFERRED
    1223 8 OECENT reports from London point to the fact that men in their forties are beginning to oust the younger men as bridegrooms for glamour girls, especially in theatrical and film circles, where there is quite a rush among the twenty-year-olds to marry middle-aged romeos. If this tendency
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      254 8 Straits times Crossword 8 II I? «S ill "14~ •5 16 ■8 19 20 |H 22 H 25 ACROSS 7. The lut vehicle for a ridi 8. Senior economist (6). (6). 9. Tom's mare provides a mon- 13. A fielder's stupid aim? (That key puzzle (8). puts him In his
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    Lock icon Teenage actress drove great author into a frenzy
    1161 9 Teenage actress drove great author into a frenzy SECRET LOVE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS love affairs of great men, none is shrouded in mystery than the passion unoili novelist Charles Dickens for his itnr.mMr^.KllenTernan. IUILTY ADORATION OF THE BEAU-IIR-HAIRED YOUNG ACTRESS, DICK- WIFE, SHOCKED HIS FRIENDS E HIMSELF IS TO
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      136 9 3 young Malayans MILK rO O v M Ch«*rlcv Pcrera. {SPECIALLY ■Pr X a Lumpur FO ,\tD N l f N A G NT t*L "^ii^^ the time came for weaning, their parents unhesitatingly chose Khor Ah Cck, LACTOGEN the 'nearest to l|^^^^^^ mother's milk' food and the LACTOGEN is
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      112 9 Hex Morgan, MM. Stop the cab Dick Tracy Going to land 1 r WAY3E NOU CAN OESCEND I r^ASnCLrrTLE T *Ng^|l I HEY. FLATTO^nBHi v LOW ENOUCW SO WE CAN 1 fA« CURREhTTS IN J 2?"*^ I 7H&/REOOINC J /^THE TERRAIN OROPS >. see vvHtft THE BGVS J iTHeSE QttMSSKOTj™
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    RUBBER PRICES
    156 10 January first Rrade rubber buyi ers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at $I.oB\ per lb.. down I 2' K cenls on Friday's closing price. The closing tone m uncertain. Closing price* In cents for lb. yesterday were: OFFICIAL: No. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 108-V sellers 109\ (Norn.);
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    RUBBER CROPS
    73 10 The following December rubber crops are announced: Batu Lintang 177,662 lb; Parit Perak 48.983 lb.: Alor Ponitsu 121.514 lb.; Bedong 55,168 lb.; Temerloh 46.400 lb.; Tronic 33.900 lb.: Kempas 359.000 In Radella 18,600 lb Bruseh 65.000 lb.; Kuala Reman 125,000 lb.; Allenby 39.500 lb.; BenU 72,000 lb.; Jeram
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    TIN OUTPUTS
    29 10 December tin outputs Included: —Pahang Consolidated 218 tons; Ipoh Tin (No. 3 dredge Puchong) 694 piculs; Selayang 62.156 tons; Sungei Bidor 514 piculs: Takuapa Valley 515 piculs.
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    TIN SHIPMENTS IN 1956 WERE HIGHEST FOR SIX YEARS
    985 10 TIN SHIPMENTS IN 1956 WERE HIGHEST FOR SIX YEARS By Our Market Correspondent MALAYAN exports of tin last year were the highest since 1950, official statistics released over the weekend showed. The actual exports totalled 73,276 tons or 2.96 per cent more than in 1955. Exports in 1950 totalled I
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    Niyor Estate sold for £116,667
    312 10 T<HE secretaries of F. M. A S. Rubber Planter's Estates Ltd. announce that a contract has been signed for the sale of Niyor Estate for a sum of £116,667 and that the potential purchasers have paid to stockholders the usual deposit. The purchase consideration is
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      331 10 ANN PENG TRADERS LTD. New Telephone Nos. ***** ***** NOTICE At it ha* been reported in Hit Pre»i that Hie firm of Messrs. Sec Hoy Chan Ltd. arc Rice Agents for the Government of the Federation of Malaya, the Government of fhe Federation of Malaya wishes it to be known
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      480 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are invited from Federal Citizens for the post of a female Accounting Machine Operator. Government Medical Stores, Kuala Lumpur, in the salary scale of «100/-130x7.50--145/160x7.50-190/205x7.50-250 per mensem plus C.O.L.A. at current rates. Candidates must have attained their 17th but not their 23rd birthday and must have passed
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      363 10 NOTICES KLANG RIVER TIN DREDGING COMPANY, LIMITED (Incorporated in ihe Federation of Malaya) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Directors have declamd an Interim Dividend of 60 cents per share less 30% Malayan Income Tax in respect of the year ending 31st March, 1957. Such dividend will be paid to
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      802 10 NOTICES STRAITS TERMITE CO. This U to notify that Charles Phenplmon resigned on 31st December. 1956 and he has no authority to transact any business or collect any monies on our behalf. GENERAL RUBBER TRADING HOUSE LTD. (Incorporated in Singapore) The above Company, the capital of which has been increased
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      313 10 NOTICE FEDERATION OF MALAYA— $68,000,006 4*4% REGISTERED STOCK, 1964/1974 NoMce Is hereby given that the Register of the above-mentioned Loan will be closed from 18th to 31st January, 1957, both days inclusive, for preparation of Interest Warrants. J. H. NEWBIGOmO, Registrar, Public Debt Office. Federation of Malaya. SHIPPING NOTICES M.V.
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    Colony Government ready to I aid industry!
    316 12 Colony Government ready to I aid industry yyiTH the arrival in the Colony today of an expert to advise the Singapore Government on the setting up of an Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, a further step has been taken in the ecouragement of more local industries. The expert is
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    Australia has new trade envoy
    173 12 Australia has new trade envoy rpHE new Australian Trade A Commissioner to Malaya Mr. P. R. Searcy, arrives in Singapore today to assume his duties. Mr. Searcy has for the past 12 months been Trade Commissioner In Calcutta. He succeeds Mr. H. M. Le Marchand who has been transferred to
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    GERMAN TYPEWRITER SHOWROOM OPENED
    157 12 GERMAN TYPEWRITER SHOWROOM OPENED BEHN Meye r and Co. Ltd., have opened a showroom at Clemenceau Avenue, Singapore to boost sales of Olympia office machines for which they act as local agents. The showroom is of -the latest design and in line with similar showrooms set up in Europe. Mr.
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    CLOTHES' MART SURVEY MADE
    302 12 By U.S. executives TWO of America's best known textile manufactur- ers may turn out ready-to-wear clothes in Singapore, if local demand is sufficiently big. The two likely investors are Mr. Paul Honig, vicepresident of Anglo Fabrics Co., Inc., and Mr. David Zelinka. president of Zelinka and
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    Floating Japan fair due here next month
    189 12 Big display on board THE 8,814-ton Nissho Maru carrying all th c latest types of machinery manufactured in Japan is due in Singapore on Feb. 13 and. 14 for her official Tisit. In a bid to capture the South-east Asian market, the Nissho
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    'TRADE OUTLOOK NOT BRIGHT'
    363 12 'TRADE OUTLOOK NOT BRIGHT' A LESS satisfactory A outlook for business in Malaya in 1957 v/a.s j forecast yesterday by a j director of a leading i Singapore sauce factory, Ifr. Yeo Thian Seng. Mr. Yeo. director of Yeo Hlap Seng Canning and Sauce Factory Ltd.. Bukit i Timah, said:
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    Lock icon That gap left by Rosewall will be filled
    355 13 That gap left by Rosewall will be filled By AUBREY HIGGS l w,o™ LON »ON, Mon. AUSTRALIA seem likely to continue to dominate the international lawn tennis scene in 1957 despite the loss of Ken Rosewall. Rosewall's decision to Join Jack Kramer's all-star professional tennis circus. th e highest paid
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    HASHIM OUTPLAYS COUSIN TO RETAIN SQUASH TITLE
    304 13 NEW YORK, Mon. JJASHIM KHAN, jf Pakistan, defending champion, yesterday won the 1957 U.S. Open singles squash championship, defeating his cousin, Roshan Khan, also of Pakistan, 12-15, 15-5, 15-3, 15-9. Hampered by a calf muscle injury after the first game, Roshan, the youngest
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      454 13 FOR SALE M Word. U (Mim.)-Jox M et: UMtrm. BULL TERRIER PUPPIES M.X.A. Class 1, 9 weeks old. Apply Goodhew, Kuala Muda Estate, Tel: Sungel r>atani 90. 1956 ROOM ATRCONDmONbxtb at special Cash Prices. Only I small quantity available. Write to Box A 6600 S.T. for particulars. ESTABLISHED DISPENSARY. Complete
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      181 13 Whenever Typing and Adding is concerned OLYMPIA Office Machines will offer you the right model. In order to olfer the best possible service and attention to our customers, our t OL7MPIA SHOWROOM has been opened. We shall he pleased to have your visit n in" 11 "im I j^H^^Wl^^^^^^^™^jllt*!il OLYMPIA
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    HARVEY WINS MEDAL GOLF
    80 14 N. A. Harvey won the "A" monthly medal competition at the Royal Singapore Golf Club Harvey also won the ball sweep on the first nine while D. L Bosanquet was the second nine winner. H. B. Noon was the winner of the "B medal. He and
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    'Seng Quee plan' talks today
    729 14 J. A. BAIN TURNS AGAIN TO THAT SUNDAY FOOTBALL QUESTION SPORTSFRONT LESS SOCCER YES BUT LET IT BE MID- WEEK STOP the Singapore Amateur F.A. League and Cup committee meets tonight it will be asked to make a major decision to ban competitive football in
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    Robinson goes down and Fullmer follows
    112 14 I OOKINC like two rock \\m n roll dancers here are Sugar rtav Robinson (left) and Gene Fullmer ~S as the\ both go down in SS the sixth rouno ot their world middleweight cham~S pionship fißnt in New York last week 55 Nearine the
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    Indian iron men for K.L. meet
    247 14 PAN-ASIAN WEIGHTLIFTING TOURNEY IN AUGUST A TEAM of Indian weightlif ters will compete in the A Pan-Asian weightlifting championships to be held at Kuala Lumpur in August. The hon. secretary of the Indian Weightlifting Federation, Mr. H. N. Kabasi. said this yesterday on his
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    VETERAN KUAN Ist IN CHANNEL SWIM
    65 14 VETERAN KUAN Ist IN CHANNEL SWIM r enang. Mon. VETERAN swimmer Kuan Huah Oong yesterday won the Georgetown Centenary Festival crossciiannel swim, beating 15? other competitors. Kuan covered the distance from Georgetown to Butterworth in 47 minutes, 7 seconds. Second was Fong Scow San in 47 mm. 9 sec. and
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    Recs take 6 off SCRC
    114 14 CINGAPORE Recreation Club beat Singapore Chinese Recreation Club 6-0 in a iilendly hockey match on the padang yesterday. Percy Pennefather. the Slneaoore Olympic captain, gave S.R.C. an early lead when he scored through a bunch of defenders In the 3rd minute. Chinese had their chances
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    116 14 MELBOURNE. Mon. DV SEVEN votes to five, an emergency mtetlng of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia today decided to rent Kooyong Court* headquarters of amateur tennis ln Australia to Jack Kramer. Former Davis Cup star Ken Rosewall, who recently joined Kramer's professional troupe, will make his
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    POLICE 'GAMES' ON JANUARY 26-27 COLONY TO SEND FOUR TEAMS
    112 14 POLICE 'GAMES' ON JANUARY 26-27 COLONY TO SEND FOUR TEAMS SINGAPORE Police will send four teams boxing, hockey, badminton and rugger to Kuala Lumpur for their annual meet against Federation Police on Jan. 26 and 27. The contingent will comprise of nine boxers, nine badminton players. 14 hockey players and
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    61 14 HOCKEY Friendly: R.A.F. Chanel S(T. ('hand-. SCC v CSC, padanf. Kt(,(,IR Al| Blues trial. Thomson Road HAARLEM, Mon— Eddie Choong beat Oon Chong Ttlk 15-8. 15-2 to win the singles final ln the Dutch international champion ships here last night. Eddie had earlier won the
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    138 14 Snap hits Lindrum visit BILLIARDS ASSN. TOO POOR THE SINGAPORE Amateur Billiards Association decided last night that it was too poor to sponsor a visit here by the lormer world champion, Walter Lindrum. The president, Mr. Soh Ghee Soon, will see local firms today to find out if any is
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    159 14 CSC TO DO TALENT SPOTTING 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f 1 1 1 1 f 1 1 1 1 /CHINESE Swimming Club officials plan to hold monthly 'talent spottine" competitions to
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    206 14 WITH brigh of win.year's All B Rugby final them, a full expected at ti pore Asian to bo hrir Road today. The aelectoi an abund-n. their hands. tion today v the form of thn students Rona halfi, Leslie Eu and Foiik Yei —who recently Australia.
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    33 14 LONDON MOO executive ol Uu TennU Associatioii to reconimen*: other freak batned in Britain The resolution their annual genei on Apr. 27 when propose a rackets." Reuter
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    31 TEAMS IN SHA KNOCK"
    80 14 rraiRTY-ONE teams have en- tered lor the Singapore i Hockey Association's Senior and Junior knockout competitions which wilj st» r t next week They are: S.R.C. (three teams i. R.A.F. Seletar i2>. S.H.B. Police (21. S.C.C. (2i. CSC. (I), University i2i Wanderers (3), I SCRC
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      91 14 WANTED: FILMS ON BADMINTON Kaufman hopes to take them back to U.S. RAYMOND KAUFMAN, basketball and athletics coach at the Singapore Youth Sport' Centre, is collecting films on badminton to take back to the United Btates next year. Mr. Kaufman, who is the Associate Professor of Health and Physical Education
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      101 14 means the boys and girls learn more about a particular sport." I "We have films of the world's best sporting personalities or teams in action. We study their methods ol training and this pay? good dividends". Mr. Kaufman then explained that badminton Is being taught at his College and that
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      79 14 Malayan Film Unit which has made a documentary picture on badminton featuring Woug Peng Soon. Mr. Kaufman added that most badminton players l n America know of Pvn« Soon\ fame as the world's best stroke player. "In fact", said Mr. Kaufman. "I think It became really known to the Americans
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