The Straits Times, 5 May 1960

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    18 1 j AVERAGE DAILY Cl^tyj^lED SALE EXCEEDS 80,000 The Straits Times Estd. 1845. THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1960 15 CENTS
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    TENGKU GETS HIS WAY
    815 1  -  DOUG LACKERSTEEN APARTHEID TO BE DISCUSSED PRIVATELY Interested Premiers meeting Mr. Louw at No. 10 From Two clashes during talks LONDON, Wed. Commonwealth Prime Ministers will hold discussions on South Africa's race laws this afternoon at 10 Downing Street. This was disclosed to me this morning
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    FALL OUT! 4 SOLDIERS FAINT ON PARADE
    111 1 OF ALL the nameless dreads that mak a soldier's life so terribly hard, none is regarded with greater horror than fainting on parade. This is just what happened yesterday to four of the six members of a guard of honour from the 4th
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    Thug throws acid in face of lawyer
    309 1  - Thug throws acid in face of lawyer JEFFREY FRANCIS By KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A LAWYER flred two revolver shots in the air today after a teen-age thug had thrown acid in his face in crowded Cross Street. Mr. Kam Woon Wah. who runs a firm of solicitors, then rushed to
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    Lock icon Grain for India
    48 1 WASHINGTON. Wed.— The United States today signed an agerement to furnish India with 17.000.000 tons of food grains over the next four years.. An average of one shipload of wheat a day will leave from the U.S. for India for the next four years. U.P.I.
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    Lock icon Margaret's cake
    60 1 LONDON, Wed. Pmcess Margaret's wedding clke a three-tiered. 150 lb. nfcsterpiece spiked with rut and brandy, was put on <lsplay today by the bakers. The hexagonal tires re decorated with white sugar panels. In the centre < each panel Is a rose-shaped"win-dow" containing heraldc designs In red, yello*
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    Lock icon Thai idea ior a free port
    41 1 BANGKOK. Wed The Thai Prime Minlste Mr Sarlt Tanarat. told a i binet meeting that the po; billty of developing the lslid of Puket ln Southern Tliiland Into a free port shcild be considered. Reuter'
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    MADRAS EXPOSES JEWEL RACKET
    172 1 MADRAS EXPOSES JEWEL RACKET SINGAPORE, Wed. Madras Customs authorities believe they have unearthed a Jewel smuggling ring operating between Singapore and India, according to news received here today. The existence of this ring was discovered recently when Madras Customs offl|clals examining the luggage of passengers from Slngajppre broke open the
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    Tony is told: Drop threats to sue
    295 1 LONDON W.dne.day ]i|R. Antony ArmiT* strong-Jones has been advised by Buckingham Palace to abandon all thought of suing the newspapers and magazines which have subjected him to savage criticism in the last days before his marriage to Princess Margaret. This was disclosed today
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    Brothels (Services' wives available) raided and operators told: Quit capital
    329 1 Brothels (Services' wives available) raided and operators told: Quit capital T KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. WO brothels here which employed wives of British Servicemen have been raided and shutdown by the police. The four operators two nian-and-wile leaOM have had their identity-cards chopped with the big "X". branding them j M
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    SOEKARNO'S WIFE ON WAY HOME
    107 1 SINGAPORE, Wednesday. MRS. FATEMAWATY SOEKARNO, fl-st wife Of President Soekarno of Indonesia, passed through Singapore this afternoon on her way horn» after visiting her father in Manila. After spending nine days (with her father, who Is In Manila to have an eye operation, she spent
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    STOP PRESS
    18 1 BOMB PRCTti' UeMJAHOBO Bnicb f-<und iv I MM i tttrc to ke. la nr IBM (ArmUOQ
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    JOB FEAR FOR 3,000 IN CAPITAL
    151 2 JOB FEAR FOR 3,000 IN CAPITAL KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. —Nearly 3,000 municipal employees here fear they may lose their jobs when the Federal capital comes under the administration of the Federation Government. The Municipal Secretary. Inche Mohamed Din bin Ali said: "The Government won't tell us whether the workers will
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    Lock icon Engineer Paul gets his Sydney degree posthumously
    115 2 Engineer Paul gets his Sydney degree posthumously SYDNEY, Wednesday. A SINGAPORE student was posthumously awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree at a graduation ceremony at the University of New South Wales this after- noon. The student. Paul Goh Teck Seong. 25. died In a Sydney hospital the day he was
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    REPLANTING RECORD FOR PERAK
    63 2 REPLANTING RECORD FOR PERAK IPOH. Wed. Rubber smallholders in Perak have applied to replant a record 15.200 acres with highyiclding seedlings in place of the old trees. This is the first time since the start of the replanting scheme in 1952 that smallholders in Perak have sought to replant such
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    Jobs worry for Nanyang men
    43 2 SINGAPORE. Wtd. The newly-established Guild of N'anyang University Graduatts Is to send a delegation to see the Government on the employment problem* of Nanyang graduates. The executive committee of the guild made this decision at 1U first meeting.
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    CRATE (it hides a helicopter) CRASH!
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    MONSTER TUMBLES OFF ONTO GEYLANG ROAD IN RUSH HOUR AND ALMOST FLATTENS CYCLIST JAFFAR
    198 2 MONSTER TUMBLES OFF ONTO GEYLANG ROAD IN RUSH HOUR AND ALMOST FLATTENS CYCLIST JAFFAR SINGAPORE. Wednesday. SEVERAL tons of packaged helicopter tumbled onto busy Geylang Road here today and almost flattened a cyclist. The whirl y b 1 r d was lying inert in a giant crate which was being
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    62 animals dead in kampong epidemic
    181 2 IPOH. Wednesday. AN epidemic fatal to cattle is now raging in six kampongs in the Larut and Matang district of Perak. r. has so far claimed 62 animals, mainly young water buffaloes, but the State Veterinary Officer. Mr E. L. Spykerman, said today: "The
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    SIR IBRAHIM: JOHORE REMEMBERS
    67 2 SIR IBRAHIM: JOHORE REMEMBERS JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. A ceremony to make the first anniversary of th»? death of Sultan Sir Ibrahim will be observed at Bukit Serene Istana on Bunday. Attendance is by invitation May 25 will be a public j holiday in commemoration of this anniversary of the late
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    Abused PC: $15
    35 2 JOHCRE BAHRU. Wed i Yap Ah Koon. 01 Stulang j Laut. was fined $15 In the magistrate's court today for < abusing a police constable. Yap said he was drunk at the time.
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    THREE TERRORISTS KILLED IN APRIL
    132 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. FIVE terrorists were eliminated In the Federation last month, according to official statistics issued here today. Three of the Reds were killed and two surrendered. Only one of these eliminations has already been announced—that of the No. 1 terrorist in central Malaya,
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    Pistol charge
    41 2 ALOR STAR. Wed The Alor Star magistrate, Dato Nik Hussein bin Nik Zainul. today committed an unemployed man. Ishak bin Yeop. 25. to stand trial at the next Assizes on a charge of illegally possessing a pistol and ammunition
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    Lock icon 3 Big Powers virtually agree to ban H-tests
    255 3 MAJOR SOVIET CONCESSION TO IKE-MAC TREATY CONCEPT GENEVA, Wednesday TTHE United States, Britain and the Soviet x Union have now reached virtually complete agreement on the form of a comprehensive treaty banning nuclear weapon tests. This new development followed a statement by
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    Lock icon Nationwide Australian strike call
    130 3 MELBOURNE. Wed.— 4.ooo striking dockers here today called on the Australian Council of Trade Unions to organise a national 24-houi stoppage of all industry. They met at a mass meetIng after 300 dockers had marched through city streetsto the Commonwealth Steamship Owners Association to discuss their
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    Formosa visitor
    28 3 TAIPEH. Wed.— President Carlos P. Garcia of the Philippines flew to Southern Formosa today for a two-day Inspection of Nationalist China's military and industrial installations— U.P.l.
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    Lock icon Corsica protest
    36 3 AJACCIO (Corsica). Wed. —Between 7,000 and 8,000 people marched through the streets here yesterday In a silent protest against the French Government's plan to build an underground nuclear test site on the Island. Reuter.
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    Lock icon DUCHESS MUST PAY £7,000 TO EX-SECRETARY
    313 3 LONDON. Wed A TOTAL of £7,000 slander and libel da- mages, with costs, were awarded in the High Court yesterday to Mrs. Yvonne MacPherson against the Duchess of Argyll, for whom she formerly worked as confidential secretary. j Mrs MacHherson, widow of a brigadier-general
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    Lock icon Chessman cremated: Only one mourner
    114 3 Chessman cremated: Only one mourner CAN RAFAEL (California). w Wed. The body of Caryl Chessman was cremated yesterday, as he ordered without any ceremony. Two red roses were on the coffin as it went to the crematorium. Only one mourner joined attendants and journalists at the Tampalals Crematorium he was
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    Lock icon 'Dutch seek excuse for a new war'
    176 3 HAVANA, Wednesday T^fHE Indontsian Ambassador to Washington and x Cuba, Mr. Moekarto Notowidigdo, said yetterday that Holland was seeking a pretext to atack Indonesia. He said that in case of a war, Hotand would face 80 million determined and undefeatible Indonesians. Mr. Notowidigdo.
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    Lock icon SNUB FOR THE REDS STARTS UPROAR AND WALK-OUT AT AFRO-ASIAN TALKS
    352 3 SNUB FOR THE REDS STARTS UPROAR AND WALK-OUT AT AFRO-ASIAN TALKS CAIRO, Wednesday. ytifc Afro-Asian economic conference here today agreed to a membership list which left out all the eifcht Asian Soviet republics attending the conference Russia was thus excluded from the AfroAsian tconomic organisation. Then Communist protest started an
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    Experts ask Britain to adopt dollars and cents
    115 3 Experts ask Britain to adopt dollars and cents LONDON, Wed. Britons may have dollars and cents In their pockets instead of shillings and pence. If the Government follows the recommendations of a report published today. The report is by two committees which spent two years studying the advisability of a
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    Lock icon De Gaulle back
    29 3 PARIS. Wed. President De Gaulle returned here today by air after a 17-day tour of Canada, the United States and French possessions In the Caribbean.— Reuter.
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      348 3 I lTour radio today..: Porum Of The Air; 10.00 Rayuan RADIO SINGAPORE STffooM^i^ v >: RADIO MALAYA from 9.0»— 10.00 Bin. NATIONAL SHORTWAVE A.M. 6.30 Good Momma 632 SERVICE 41.7 metres Morning Prelude; 7.00 The News' MEDIUM WAVE SERVICES 705 A Date With Music; 8.00 The Kualm Lumpur 341 metre*
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    Extra fire fighting charges queried
    809 4 $1,000,000 SHIP BLAZE SUIT SINGAPORE, Wednesday THE QUESTION oi what is Ihe normal equipment of tire fighting service in the harbour \yas raised today during the resumed hearing of the $1,000,000 suit before Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tab. A claim is being made by the
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    Bazaar helpers tour school
    183 4 Bazaar helpers tour school MEMBERS of the Singapore stall of the Inter- national Bazaar for the Blind to be held at Victoria Memorial Hall on May 21. yesterday made a thre«hour tour of the School for the Blind. The member*, women leaders of Singapore, represent the different communities in the
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    STUDENTS SAW STORE TRIUMPH IN MANILA
    122 4 SINGAPORE. Wednesday. TWO young Singapore students returned home today after a "wonderful trip abroad which taught us a lot They are Wilson Yui of the Chinese High School and Miss Cneang Siew Luan of the Paya Lebar Metnodist Girls' School, botn winners of the
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    Rent allowance
    25 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. The City Council has decided to pay a rent allowance to certain categories of its dailyrated staff as from Oct. 1953.
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    Beginning today in All about Tony
    37 4 Beginning today in All about Tony A fascinating story of an ambitious man crippled early in life by polio, who fought his way to the top to win the heart and hand of a most unconventional prin-
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    Special liaison committee to advise Nanyang Varsity on State aid
    344 4 SINGAPORE. Thursday A SPECIAL liaison committee is to be set up to advise on how the Nanyang University can accept the Singapore Government's financial aid offer. The committee will comprise four representat.ves from the Government and a number of representatives
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      404 4 )\IR ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES TVIE following is today's Saigon (831) 8.40 p.m. Japan Airline*: To Bangkok, schedule Of civil air- ,-J?* 1 Alrw «y»: From Bangkok Hong Kong. Tokyo (JL 714> craft movements at Paya *>x* *oi> 7.05 p.m. s a.m. Übar Airport. Singapore: l^puV^mlTt?/ "SS ARRIVALS p^^TToVr/ao^m* SS*"a W7
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    SAVINGS GONE...BUT WE WILL STILL WED: COUPLE
    282 5 SAVINGS GONE... BUT WE WILL STILL WED: COUPLE Waited five years...a week to go, then robbed KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A young photographer and his fiancee, who had saved up 51. 129 during the past five years for their wedding next week, have been robbed of every dollar. But that will
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    A two-girl team hitch their way to Britain
    119 5 IPOH. Wed.— Two young girls who began hitchhiking to Britain front Australia four months ago are now in Malaya. The girls are Beryl Henthorn. 22. and Fay Vergoe, 24. Beryl comes from Lancashi.e, England, but four years ago went to Canada and
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    More than twice as many students for new varsity year
    266 5 More than twice as many students for new varsity year KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday HTIHE student body of the Kuala Lumpur Division of the University of Malaya will increase by more than a 100 per cent when the new University year begins on May 23. The Registrar. Mr. Foo Yeow Yoke,
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    OPPENHEIM TO SEEK $1,700,000 U.K. GRANT TO EXPAND MEDICAL FACILITIES
    417 5 SINGAPORE, Wednesday T^HE University of Malaya in Singapore is hoping to get a total of about $1,700,000. subject to certain conditions, for development purposes from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund. The Vlce-Chancellor of the University, Professor A. Oppetiheim, who
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    3 seats for Alliance
    64 5 BENTONG. Wed.— The Alliance won three seats in the local council election In Karak near here yesterday. The Socialist Front won the other two. The successful candidates were: Town ward. Mr. Leong Ah Nam and Mr. Leong Sun (Alliance): New Village ward. Mr. Low Yoon Hlng
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    52 6 Wtrti lit (MMmum) MB. AND MRS. JOSEPH EDWIN VAtS. thank relatl es, friends for their valuable gifts and attendance at their kCdms on 30-4-60. MR. A MRS. CEOROE P. OE SOUZA thank all friends and relatives for their attendance, assistance and valuable gifts on the occasion of their marriage
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    191 6 >• Were;* 111 (Mimimuimt DRESSES A GOWN* Bale at Wu|. (hands. 82-1. Bras Basah Road also 3rd Floor. Utaa Suisb's Bid*.. Raffles Place, aTpore. GREAT RIAOINO at little OOSt. Complete range of Pan and Fontana books available at B'pore Cold Storags Arcade, Orchard Road. CRYSTALWARE to spark off that
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    The Straits Times Thursday, May 5, 1960. The Task In London
    679 6 The Straits Times Thursday, May 5, 1960. The Task In London It 's characteristic of the entanglement of the South African controversy that arrangements for the informal discussion at the meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers of that government's policy of apartheid should be given such a mixed reception. The proceedings
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    Wasted Logic
    320 6 It may be that Tuan Syed Ja'afar Albar is not altogether to be blamed for being unable to resist tweaking the PMIP nose in Kelantan and Trengganu. If the PMIP leaders in those States want the Federal Government to grant them financial aid for community development projects, he
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    The New Term
    243 6 To the most casual onlooker who merely drives through the Pantai Valley the Kuala Lumpur division of the University of Malaya has made startling progress toward the time when, inevitably, it will be all but independent. With the comDletion of the ornamental lakes the valley is among
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    Illingworth
    29 6 "THE meeting reaffirmed the traditional practice that Common wealth conferences do not dis cuss the Internal affairs of member countries." Communlquf issued after the opening session in London.
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    THE SICKNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA
    1440 6  - THE SICKNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA REBECCA WEST by CAPETOWN. Wednesday THE traveller returned from South Africa is asked one question before any other. "What is to happen in the future? Where are the elements in the Union which could combine to form a Government which could be trusted to uphold
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    Malaya's increased quota welcomed by tin miners
    334 7 NEW FIGURE 96.64 p.c. OF PRE-RESTRICTION PRODUCTION LONDON MARKET FREED FROM CONTROL OF BUFFER MANAGER? KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Miners today generally welcomed Malaya's Increased percentage of the world tin export quotas in the next quarter decided on yesterday by the International Tin Council.
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    PORT UNION FIALS TO DECIDE ON BOYCOTT
    95 7 PORT UNION FIALS TO DECIDE ON BOYCOTT PORT SWETTENHAM. Wed. The executive committee of the Port Swettenham Harbour Trade Union met behind closed doors for two hours today but could not decide whether to refuse to handle South African goods at this port. The president of the union. Mr. S.T.
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    Philippines looks to closer ties with Malaya
    399 7 Philippines looks to closer ties with Malaya ENVOY ON NEED IN CULTURAL FIELD SINGAPORE, Wednesday, f LOSER ties between the Philippines and Malaya are envisaged by Mr. Mariano Ezpeleta, 53, Philippines ambassador to Australia. He told the Straits Times after a visit to Times House today: "With the same background
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    A TOP PLANNER SAYS: FOLLOW OUR EXAMPLE
    305 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday A TOP Indonesian Government official today suggested that Asian countries should seek financial and technical aid from both Communist and Western powers for their development projects on condition that "no strings are attached." He is Mr. M. Hutasoit. secretary-general of
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    NOW A WOMAN TAKES ON BIG JOB IN SINGAPORE
    206 7 First Malayan to be head of Raffles Library KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Mrs. Hedwlg Anuar has been appointed head of the Raffles National Library in Singapore. She ls the first Malayan and the first woman to head the library. She was seconded
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    KELANTAN REMEMBERS LATE AGONG
    67 7 KOTA BHARU Wed— The Kelantan State Legislative Assembly today offered prayers to the late Yan K diPertuan Agong and observed a two-minute silence. A resolution recording the Assembly's deep regret and extending sympathy to the Tengku Puan Besar, Tengku Khurslah, was unanimously adopted. The Assembly also
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    Car vanishes from road
    43 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A clerk. Phoon Chun Hon*. 30, who left his Hlllman car behind the Central Police Station here last night, missed lt this morning. Phoon. who lives at PetaHng Street, has made a report to the oolice.
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    VISA MIX-UP GIVES 7 A GOOD RUN
    169 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. CEVEN Japanese businessmen on a tour of SouthEast Asia caused a stir at the airport here this morning when they sprinted across the tarmac to board a KLM plane which was warming up preparatory to take off. Seconds earlier they
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    To stand trial
    44 7 SINGAPORE. Wed.— A 14--year-old food-stall assistant Uew Chin Yong. was committed today to stand trial at the next Assizes for the murder of a fellow worker. Goh Heng Lip. 20. In a coffee shop at Upper Serangoon Road on March 11.
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    'First class soldier9 lands in court
    188 7 'First class soldier 9 lands in court KUALA LUMPUR, Wed A soldier, who has been selected to go to Borneo tomorrow for further training, was brought to court here today on a charge of using criminal force on a police corporal. L Cpl Raghbir Singh. 21, of No. 27 Company.
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    UNION CHIEF CALLS FOR AN EXCHANGE OF TEACHERS
    188 7 UNION CHIEF CALLS FOR AN EXCHANGE OF TEACHERS KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The vice-president of the World Confederation of the Teaching Profession. Mr. S. Natarajan, said today that an exchange of teachers between various countries would help bring about a better understanding of cultures and customs. Mr. Natarajan said this before
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    POLICE WERE SO NICE, SAY THE BRIGADE 'GRADS'
    181 7 POLICE WERE SO NICE, SAY THE BRIGADE 'GRADS' SINGAPORE, Wednesday. AFTER completing a six-week leadership course, 15 girls of the Singapore Work Brigade today left the Police Training School here full of praise for the police. They said: "Now we know the police are our friends. We will tell our
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    PMIP plans to control religion in Kelantan
    73 7 PMIP plans to control religion in Kelantan KOTA BHABU, Wed.— The PM IP-controlled Kelantan Government is considering taking over the Council of Religious Affairs %nd Malay Customs, no* c ntrolled by an independent body. This was stated in a written reply to a question by Incite Mohamed All bin Abdullah
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    PRIEST (52 YEARS IN MALAYA)' DIES AFTER A STROKE
    216 7 PRIEST (52 YEARS IN MALAYA)' DIES AFTER A STROKE DENANG, Wed. A French priest who came to Malaya more than half a century a^o died here today 18 months after celebrating his golden jubilee In holy office. Inmates of the Home for tht- Aged run by the Little Sisters of
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      872 8 Great demand for Asian models MONICA Goorney, Singapore model, who returned from Sydney last week, was given redcarpet treatment in Australia. She was photog rap h c d by newspapers, filmed by television and interviewed over the air. With her had gone some Singapore fashions made in
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      303 8 Straits Times Crossword IBW~~iBB~~iHgi~BBBr^I ACROSS 6. Ox used to going out <♦». 1. Webhman In circumstances 7. Designer hla activities may strong enough to provide make sparks fly (6, Si. something for nothing (4, ff). 9. Twisting eastern roads to 8. Constellation deprived of un- Rome— they hay* tbetr known
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    CLOSING PRICES
    35 10 SINGAPORE. MAY 4 Kl'KBr.K: |LM| per lb. (up one and a quarter cenU). 5 p.m. close: MM. (quiet). I IN: 538(>."5 per picul (up $1.50). Estimated unofficial offering 375 tons (up 25 tons).
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    RUBBER PRICES
    218 10 \f %V first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed In Singapore yesterday at 124' i per lb., up one and a quarter cenu on Tuesday^ clone. The closing tone was quiet and slightly easier. S.C.C.R.A. closing prices in cents per lb., yesterday were: Int. l RSS. Spot f.o.b. buyers
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    73 10 rpHE Malayan Exchange Banks' 1 Association made the following changes In its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100): Canada: buying airmail T.T. 31 15/16. O.D. 32 1/16. 90 d/st 32 1/3 credit bills. 32 9/16 trade bills. On the free exchange market in Hong Kong, the
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    SQUEEZE ON MAY RUBBER: PREMIUM UP TO THREE CENTS
    579 10 SQUEEZE ON MAY RUBBER: PREMIUM UP TO THREE CENTS By Our Market Correspondent pUBBER was taken over the 125 cents level yesterday in Singapore as a squeeze developed on the May first gr&de position. Dealers were hanging on to May rubber and selling June and those oversold short-coverers requiring rubber
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    STOCK INDICES
    23 10 Malayan Stock Exchange: May 4 May 3 Industrial*: 142.39 141.91 Tins: ***** 172.46 S Rubbrn: 289.84 277.94 Jan. 1 1958 IM.
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    72 10 MELBOURNE. Wed. Con. Zinc 98/- buyer Mount Lyell (5/-) 7/9 seller North Broken Hill 159/3 Peko 9/2., Oil Search 4/8 Timor Oil unquoteo Hill 50 7/4 Mount Morgan 19/10-.. Wf.si.em Mining 12/3 Bank of N.S.W £40. G J. Coles 18/10 'j Woolwouh 16/11. Swan Breweries 13/1 'a Bradford
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    GAZETTED PRICES
    91 10 THE Krderaiion Minister of Finance has Axed the follow im prices for calculating C ustoms duties for the week beginning on May 4. Rubber $1.21 a lb. Copra $582 a ton. Coconut oil $936 a ton. Palm oil $631.5* a ton. Palm kernels $5*6.75 a ton. The rate*
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    117 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: quiet: UK/Continent May June shipments $36>'- buyers I $37.. «el'«rs (nronui oil: quiet bulk $55 sellers, drum $58. I sellers. Pepper: quiet no bwtlMM I vas reported done. Muntok wlme $290. Sarawak $285 (both down Ss>, special
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    S'PORE SHIPPING
    116 10 SHIPS lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wtaarvea or expected today are: Selsho Mam 1/2. Btnrang 4/S Golden Zeta 6 A Radja 6/7, Boleslaw Beirut 8/9. Btnlom >nn 10/11, Benmhor 13/14 Radnorshire 15/16. Belra 18. Straat Clarence 19. Rawang N. Wall 1 Slrusa N. Wall 3. Perils N
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    809 10 f\N the Malayan Stock Exw change yesterday. Industrial* and dollar rubbers were firm, tins were selectively better while sterling rubbers were Meady Members of the Exchaace reported tne following business at the adenioon call and individual chare markings are given brackets unless only one contract was written. Industrials:
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      464 10 EVERETT ORIENT LINE Far KMfkut japan Spore P S'"am Penang 9mUUir7^..7T. "May 22 Ma} 21 Ma, "LENEVERETT 1 iv-.ii:" 1 lm m Calls Pusan ftr RaagMt. Ckittagaag. Calcutta;"IENI¥ERETT" .7Tr 6<a »A I Ma} RUTNEVERETT 1 I Jill 12 Jtae Bulk oii'iatei tank space available. JOHNSON LINE »n Hangtang, Japaa S
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      125 10 SHIPPING NOTICES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES COMPANY "KOUANG SI" Arrived 2M.M A Genera! Survey of <•!] damaged cargo dlschargfd ex the above vessel arrived Singapore oii 26.4.60 will be held In the S.H.R Godown No 18 on Friday. 6th May 1960 from 0 a.m. until 430 p.nv No further survey will be
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      1049 10 NOTICES NOTICE SUNGEI BAGAN RUBBER COMPANY (MALAYA) LIMITED I Incorporated in the Federation of Malaya i NOTICE IS* HEREBY GIVEN thai an Interim Dividend of lew 40'r Income tax, has been declared by the Directors In aspect oi the Financial Yea:' ending 30th June. 1960. payable on 25th May. 1960.
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      1228 11 NOTICES 1 FORD, RHODES, THORNTON COMPANY (KVLON COMPANIES ORDINANCE No. 51 OF 193«. THE LANGAT RIVER (SKLANGOR) RL'BBKR COMPANY. LIMITED (In Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE ls hereby given that the creditors of the abovenamed company are required, on or before 28th May. 1960. to send then names and addresses and the
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      691 11 NOTICES IN THE SIPREME COURT OF THE FEDERATION OK MALAYA. IN THE HIGH COI'RT AT JOHORE BAHRU. In Bankruptcy Johore Bahru No. 7 of !9«9. Re YAP KAM oT No. 13, Jalai Da to Teoh Stew Koh, Kluang. Businessman. Receiving Order made. 13th February. 1960. Date of Order for Summary
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      834 11 (Continued from Pace SITUATIONS VACANT 20 Wordt Si (Mln.)-Box it ett. ntrm WANTED three electrical cbargemen mcd pressure Including power stations. Apply P.O. Bob 39, Tanah Rata. WANTED person capable of writing text (or tourist publication, casual work only. Submit sample of work to P.O Box 66 Spore. EXPERIENCED SHORTHANO
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      1014 11 ACCOMMODATION VACANT in Word, Si (Min.)-Box St ett. astrs PULLV PURNISHBO PLAT on seafront District 15 For particulars Pbone ***** Singapore. TO LET one bed room furnished flat with amah six to eight weeks Tanglln area. Phone B'porr *****. MODERN UNFURNISHED three bedloom house two airconditiooed. two longbaths available mid
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      836 11 TUITION it Word, Si (Min.)-Box St ett. txtru AT YOUR HOME: Private Tuition for All Standards in All School Subjects from $20 monthly Partlcularj P.O. Box 24M. Singapore. LIAHN ONIVING In 3 weeks, will Set you through test. Complete course 170'- (cuaranteed) For Details kindly Ring P'pore 252*2 TUITION BY
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      1142 11 WANTED 2» Wordt Si (Mlm.)— Box SI ctt. txtrm WANTED VESSEL similar "A'ricm Quern* suitable cruising Panang Klver. Efficient Knulnr Essential. Reply Boi A.M4B S.T. K.L. WANTED riiM-mnrtd accounts clerk for rubber rstatr In Jonore Bahru. Must be able to work Indeprndrntly and answer official correspondence. Speak Chlneac. Apply stating
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      Lock icon BOOKIES TO PAY LEVY
      242 12 -i LONDON. Wed. ORITISH bookmakers are to pay a special annual It vy on their profits to help put horse racing in Britain on a sound financial footing, the Govern- ment decided yesterday. The levy may amount to I between MM.500.000 and M 510.625.000. It will
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      Lock icon Pone-Fighter of the Month'
      128 12 Pone -Fighter of the Month' NEW YORK Wed Pone Kingpetch of Thailand, who recently won the world flyweight championship from Pascual Perez of Argentina, was named 'Tighter of the Month" yesterday by Ring Magazine. The magazine Ignored Flash Elorde .of the Philippines, who won the .NBA junior lightweight championship from
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      Easy victory? No, it's a photofinish MARTIAL THE WINNER
      114 12 Easy victory? No, it's a photofinish MARTIAL THE WINNER MR. R. N. Webster's Martial (right), with Australian jockey Ron Hutchinson up, appears to have beaten his rivals easily in the 2.000 Guineas at Newmarket. But this picture was taken at a deceptive angle. Actually, Martial (1 8- 1 just managed
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      Best is Trigger
      667 12 Best is Trigger FOLLOW McGROWDIE AGAIN AND... VENI Vici Stable's Trigger II should be the best of Noel McGrowdie's mounts at Penang today. Trigger II was a hot favourite when third to Winlaton over 7f last Sunday. He was beaten for early speed but moved up smartly in the straight.
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      PENANG CARD
      802 12 Race 1 —3.15: (Class 5. Div. 2) 7 Furs. 1 ***** (iotiath iGood Luck St. I Donnelly. 5 9.0 (SF) Ward 1 2 ***** Lrslian (S.T. Tay> Lee. 5 8.13 (F) Jahnaon 2 3 ***** Clever Bug iWT Si. Mdm. I*l > Rodgers, 9 8.1 Wilson 4 4
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      370 12 EPSOM JEEP's best bets are Coliath (Race 1). Burma Clory (Race 2) and Trigger II (Race 4) Call Boy's double is More Tin (Race 3) and Mori (Race s>. The going will be yielding. SELECTIONS EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER Race j GOLIATH LKSLIAN GOLIATH Leslian Wans brought Wansbrough LITTLE
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    BAM TO RENEW FIGHT AGAINST 'WOOD' RULE
    470 13  -  VIC NAYAGAM Greater support expected for Malaya's proposal— Teh By KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. When t h c International Badminton Federation hold its 22nd annual general meeting in London on June 29, Malaya will continue tho fight for the abolition of the woodshot rule.
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    Pakistanis are coining
    225 13 Philippines ask: Why are we left out? FIVE ACCEPT INVITATIONS By KEN FERNANDEZ Kuala Lumpur. Wednesday. PAKISTAN, one of the eight Asian countries lnvit- ed by the F.A. of Malaya for this year's Merdeka soccer tournament, have accepted. This Is the first time that Pakistan have been
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    30 13 JOHANNESBURG. Wed South Africa will send 59 competitors and 10 officials to the Rome Olympic Games, the South African Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association decided here lastnight. Reuter.
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    Title bout on June 22
    36 13 SALT LAKE CITY (UTAH). Wed. Gene Fullmer, holder of the National Boxing Association's version of the world middleweight championship, will defend it against former champion Carmen Basilio here on June m.
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    Courses for teachers
    109 13 SINGAPORE, Wed. The O Singapore Ministry of Education has arranged courses for teachers and training classes for outstanding school swimmers to be conducted by the visiting American coach. Bill Campbell. The dates are: Elementary course for teachers: May 9, 13, 13, 16. 19 and 30 at Mount
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    SPORTS SUMMARY
    104 13 SOCCER 17 Gurkha Div. Cup (final): 1/3 E. Anglians 10 (D Allen 8. J. Cassey 2) 2 Field Regt RA 0, at Seremban. Penang Div. MTC 3 <Tan Jin Han 2. Boon Sen) Police 3 CR.i7.ili Zaln. Harum. Marines 3 (Hassan Ibrahim 2. Ismail Abdul* lain Slmlt 2
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    CABLES...
    226 13 WEIGHTLIFTING European bantamweight final: 1 Ladmlr Stogov (Russia) 727-lb: 2 Imre Foeldi (Hungary) 683-lb; 3 Marian Jankowskl (Poland) ii77'.-lb. at Milan TENNIS Rome International: E. Maggl (It) bt R. Emerson (Aust) 6-3. A-2, 6-4: B Mackay OJS> bl n Soriano (Arg) 7-9, 0-3. 6-2. 6-0; N. PielrangeU lit) bt
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    194 HORSES ARE ENTERED FOR MAY MEETING AT BUKIT TIMAH
    908 13 CUNGAPORE, Wed.— A total E of 194 horses— Bo in Class 1 and 104 in Class 4— has been, entered for the Singapore Turf Club's May meeting (May 14, 18 and 2*!). There will be eignt races on each day.
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    MALAYA CUP: NEW DATES
    428 13 IPOH, Wed. Eight states requested revision t"JXTURES for the Malaya Cup soccer competition 1 this year in the north and south zones have been revised. The east zone fixtures and the semifinals dates have not been changed. Mr. Teoh Chye Hln, chair- man of the F.A.M.'s
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    India field best XI today
    177 13 India field best XI today SINGAPORE. Wed. The All-India football team will field their full Olympic side, which beat Indonesia twice in the Games qualifying round, against Singapore at Jalan Besar tomorrow (kick-off 7 p.m.). "Our* reserves did well last night. Tomorrow our full side will be out to better
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    TODAY'S SPORT
    132 13 SOCCER FriendUea: Singapore v AllIndia (Jn Besar, Spore. 7 p.m.); H. m. Dockyard v s pore Youths (5.30 p.m.). Rahman Cup: Negri Combined Schools v Kelantan Combined Schools (City Stadium. Penang). Spore Div. !A: Kota Raja 1 Jollllads (Farrer Park); Div. I'D: Badan Kesenlan v Minto (Balestier Hd).
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    Malaya is 'richest in world'
    283 14 VISITING WORLD BANK EXPERT, REFERRING TO UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES, SAYS ECONOMIC MISSION'S LEADER TELLS OF ITS THREE-FOLD JOB IN FEDERATION KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. jy|ALAYA was called the richest underdeveloped country in the world by Mr. EL Erich Bachem, leader of the World Bank Economic Mission to
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    THUGS: ONE IN SIX GET BACK INTO TROUBLE
    186 14 THUGS: ONE IN SIX GET BACK INTO TROUBLE SINGAPORE, Wednesday. f)NE out of even r six gangsters freed on parole has run into trouble with the Law, but most of them have been pulled up for infringements concerning their supervision orders. Figures disclosed by police today also showed that one
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    Lock icon Sierra Leone independent next year
    79 14 Sierra Leone independent next year LONDON, Wed. Sierra Leone has been granted independence from April 27 next year, it was announced here today at the end of a conference on the future of the best African territory. The announcement was made by Mr. lain MacLeod British Colonial Secretary, at the
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    Deeds Registry
    29 14 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Registry of Deeds and the Land Titles Registry here have moved to the ground floor of the City Hall next to the Land Office.
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    DEATHS
    61 14 WILLIAM DONALD LOTT of Kuala Lumpur Tin and Mil and Annociated Companies on Wednesday May 4th after a prolonged Illness. WONG CMOONC FOONC, No. 1 Jalan Turku St-tapak K.L. at 12.00 noon 4th May 1960 leaving vidow Won. Kit Kont; ion Wong Stew Cheong and daughter WonK Yum Loo
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    94 14 MRS. P. V. THOMAS, I Smith Road. Scmbauant;, thanks Relative* and Friends for mesftaiEtii of t-ondolenct. wreaths and attendance at her huiband's funeral. MR. K. NAOARAJAM, hn brother*, muter, mother and family thank all relatives and friends for their messuiKes of i-ondolenre. loan of cam, valuable assistance rendered and
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    ANNOUNCEMENT
    21 14 ALL FORMER PUPILS Mrthodist Qirln School. Xl, invitrd to old Girl*' A>MClat!oo Rrunlon at SR. ■obool. 6-.V60 6:00 p m
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    Girl (3) crushed to death
    46 14 SINGAPORE. Wed. Falling planks crushed to death a three-year-old girl at the Singapore Harbour Board quarters in Nelson Road tonight. Tl girl, Saleha binte Jamaluddin, daughter of a waterfront worker, was one of several children playing together when the tragedy occurred.
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    Tally clerks join union
    35 14 SINGAPORE. Wed. About 260 agents' tally clerks working under contractors have joined the Singapore Stevedores Union. A union statement today said that the meeting unanimously affirmed is confidence in the Government.
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    INTERNATIONAL NIGHT GETS BIG OVATION FROM HOUSE
    287 14 A PACKED audience at the Victoria Theatre last night gave a big ovation to the first performance of National Theatre Fund show "An International Nlfht." The audience, including the Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, and his wife, applauded thunderously at the end
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    Lock icon McLean's 145 for Springboks
    106 14 LONDON. Wed. Tea scores In today's cricket matches were: At Worcester: South Africans 254-3 (R. McLean 145 ret. hurt. A. Plthey 69 n.0.) v Worcestershire. At Cambridge: Middlesex 330-6, W. Russell 182. E Clark 48 P Parfltt 521 v Cambridge University At Oxford: Oxford yniverslty 162
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    LONDON STOCKS
    330 14 LONDON, Wed. Unsettled conditions persisted in London stock markets today. An attempt to put prices better at the opening following the overnlgut rally on Wall Street met with very little success, being offset by <ht mixed reception given to the United Kingdom gold and currency reserve figures for
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      313 14 Badminton: Tough fight for favourite SINGAPORE, Wed. Favourite Ta y Choon Huat was made to fight hard before beating Bob Lee 15-12, 15-11 in the first round of the Singapore Badminton Associations junior singles championships held at the SBA hall tonight. Other results were: Men singles (first round> Samuel Liew
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