The Straits Times, 6 January 1961

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    18 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 90,000 Ha**** The Straits Times Estd. 1845. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1961. 15 CENTS.
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    LOCAL POLLS AGAIN
    299 1 Rolls will be opened for claims, objections Cheer fund for Congo men stands L at $1 ,500 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. "J»HE Straits Times and Berita Harian Cheer Fund for Malayan soldiers in the Congo today reached $1,530. Another cheque for $50( was received this time Iron Mr.
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    Lock icon MAHENDRA BANS ALL POLITICAL PARTIES
    134 1 MAHENDRA BANS ALL POLITICAL PARTIES KATMANDU. Thurs. King Mahendra. of Nepal, who recently took over administration of this Himalayan kingdom, today banned all political parties and declared them illegal. In a royal proclamation, the King said the attempt to develop democracy from the top had failed and he would now
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    Lock icon New stamps
    26 1 LONDON, Thurs. Three special issue stamps commemorating the new Constitution will be released by the British Solomon islands protectorate Government on Jan. 19. Reuter.
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    Voting in April to June
    203 1 Voting in April to June KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday THE Election Commission today announced that all suspended local government elections are to be held betwe«n April and June this year. Before the polls, the electoral rolls will be open for two separate periods so that claims or objections may be lodged.
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    Lock icon Airport men end strike
    55 1 LONDON. Thurs. About 3,000 BOAC and BEA engineers and maintenance men, who walked out at London Airport yesterday as a protest against alleged delays In pay talks, decided to return to work this afternoon. Their unofficial walkout brought the services of 10 major airlines out of
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    Lock icon It's a boy for God-king
    54 1 SEATTLE. Thurs. The first child born to a Tibetan holy family outside Asia was born here last night at University Hospital The parents of the 7-lb. 15--oz boy are Jlgdal and Jamyang Sakyapa. The father Is regarded as a God-king by about one- fourth of
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    SWISS NEW YEAR FOR SIRIKIT
    60 1 SWISS NEW YEAR FOR SIRIKIT BALLOONS float from the ceiling to usher in the New Year at the Winter Palace in the fashionable Swiss resort of Gstaad. And there to join the fun is Queen Sirikit of Thailand. She and King Bhumipol were guests of honour at the New Year
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    Lock icon Indian Congress blasts China
    400 1 NEW DELHI, Thursday. JNDIA'S ruling Congress Party today accusec China of breaking pledges ~on peaceful co existence by occupying Indian territory. The party meeting at Bhavnagar in annual session said China's action In 1959 in taking over 12,000 square miles of Indian border territory was "inimical
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    Menderes guilty
    58 1 YASSIADA ISLAND. Turkey, Thurs. Former President Celal Bayer of Turkey was acquitted today of charges of fomenting anti-Greek riots five years ago. But the court, trying members of the deposed Government for alleged treason, found ex-Premier Adnan Menderes, former Foreign Minister Fatln Zorlu and Hadlmli guilty of encouraging
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    Lock icon Mac for Paris
    39 1 PARIS, Thurs.— Mr. Harold Macmillan will spend the weekend of Jan. 28-29 as the guest of President De Gaulle at the President's country residence at Ramboulllet, southwest of Paris, the French Foreign Ministry announced today.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon DOG DIES TO SAVE 4 BOYS
    57 1 MELBOURNE, Thurs.— A nine-year-old golden labbrador was fatally bitten while protecting four boys from a tiger snake near a dam In Doncaster, a Mel- bourne suburb, yesterday. The dog. which collapsed after killing the snake, died In the arms of his young masters as
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    Confusion over key Laos town
    695 1 VIENTIANE, Thursday BOTH Laos Government and left-wing forces claimed today that they held the vital town of Xieng Khouang, 12 miles east of the strategic Plain of Jars, in north-central Laos. The Government said in Vientiane that it had recaptured the town on Monday. But
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    LATEST
    23 1 CONFIDENCE IN BELGIAN COVT BRUSSELS, Tint igliin <torernnient L-tinlidciiic in li.miii Deputies; tort ay If lulcs to K Tritb i^ ten^ionb. Keutrr
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    Now he's a refugee
    61 1 KEY WEST (Florida). Thurs. A Cuban plloj who was wounded when his plane was hijacked on Oct. 29 and insisted on returning to Cuba, flew here yesterday and sought political refuge. Capt. Candelario Delgado, a pilot for Aerovias Airlines, which is controlled by the Cuban Government,
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    Lock icon 28 rescued from ship
    41 1 MANILA, Thurs.— A rescue ship today picked up 28 persons from the 7,251 -ton vessel Portland Trader, reported aground in the Sulu Sea, near the Southern Philippines, it was learned here today. No further details are available.—Reuter.
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    Lock icon Blast grenades hurled at strikers
    504 2 Blast grenades hurled at strikers BUSES, TRAMS WRECKED: MOB OF 1,000 SURGES ON PARLIAMENT BRUSSELS. Thursday AN angry crowd of 1,9%% strikers and university students today wrecked three buses and two trams and surged towards the parliament building where Deputies were debating the strike situation. Heavily reinforced white-helmeted police used
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    Lock icon GHANA WARNING TO FOREIGN BANKS
    150 2 ACCRA, Thursday. AMR. K. AMOAKO-ATTA. deputy Governor of the iTI Bank of Ghana, suggested in a speech yesterday that all foreign-owned banks and insurance companies in Ghana would ultimately be forced out of existence. After addressing a symposium on socialism at the University College of
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    Lock icon UP IN THE AIR ACT SETS PARIS ALIGHT
    88 2 UP IN THE AIR ACT SETS PARIS ALIGHT PERSIA'S Janbaz equilib> X lists caused an immediate sensation in Paris with their remarkable balancing act. Reiai, weighing 120 Ib. boldIng a cigarette-holder between his teeth, balances aloft his partner Bahadori, (1001 b.) who also holds a cigarette-holder between his teeth. The
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    Lock icon 'Waxworks figures' were real but dead
    98 2 'Waxworks figures' were real but dead ONDON, Thun.— A Xarmhand who became suspicious when he saw four people and a dog sitting "like waxworks" in their parlour in Crowborough, Sussex, yesterday broke Into the room and found all five dead. The room was filled with fumes from an anthracite flre.
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    Lock icon Michael joins Sandhurst
    41 2 LONDON, Thurs. Prince Michael of Kent, 18-year-old younger son of the Duchess of Kent yesterday Joined the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst where hU elder brother, the Duke of Kent, was a cadet officer eight years ago. Reuter.
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    Lock icon More sanctions
    21 2 WASHINGTON, Thurs. The Organisation of American States voted yesterday to impose farther economic sanctions against th« Dominican Republic. Rauter
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    Now Chinese hunters take to hills...
    173 2 TOKYO. Thura. CHINESE peasants are taking to the mountains In search of wild came in an effort to «ase the country's food shortage. Peking Radio said today. "Tens of thousands of Chinese hunters are ont in the snow-covered Khingan mountain! In North-East China, la
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    Lock icon New protest on U.S. base
    49 2 LONDON, Thurs. British nuclear disarmament campaigners announced yesterday that they plan a fourhour sit-down protest outside th« Defence Ministry on Saturday against the U.S. Polaris submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. The demonstration will be led by Earl (Bertrand) Runseil, the 88-year-od philosopher Reuter.
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    Lock icon 'Force' threat alarms Dutch
    248 3 NEW YORK. Thurs. The Netherlands yesterday expressed alarm at Indonesia's open threat to use force in West Irian. In a letter to Mr. Dag Hcmmarskjoeld, the U.N. secretary-general, Mr. C. W. A. Schurmann, chief Netherlands delegate, said that his government was prepared to subject its policy
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    Lock icon Atom-plant blast victims died of concussion—
    336 3 Atom-plant blast victims died of concussion IDAHO FALLS, Thurs. rREE men killed in an explosion at the Atomic Energy Commission's national reactor testing station near here on Tuesday night died from concussion and not from radiation, an A.E.C. health officer said last night. He said this was Indicated by the
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    Lock icon Heckling in the U.N. as H Cuba charges U.S. with aggression
    805 3 UNPRECEDENTED SCENES IN SECURITY COUNCIL AS PRESIDENT FORCED TO SUSPEND DEBATE FOR FWST TIME IN HISTORY UNITED NATIONS (NEW YORK), Thursday J N PRECEDENTED demonstrations by Cubans supporting and opposing the Castro regime interrupted yesterday's Security Council hearing of
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    Lock icon Nobel man dies
    20 3 VIENNA, Thurs. Austrian physicist, the Nobel Prize winner. Professor Erwln Schroedinger has died her* aged 74. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Barry Fitzgerald dies
    61 3 DUBLIN, Thurs. Barry Fitzgerald 72, the film and stage star, died here last night. Last May he had a serious brain operation from which he made a recovery des- cribed as "remarkable" at the time. He was in poor health for most of 1959 and 1960 and
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      251 3 RADIO SINGAPORE Medium Wave 476 metres Short Wave: 62 metres from 8.00 9.00 p.m. A.M. 6.30 Good Morning; 6.32 Morning Prelude; 7.00 The News; 7.05 Melodies At Sunrise; 8.00 The News; 8.05 More Melodies At Sunrise; 6.45 Morning Star; 9.00 Close Down; 11.00 Programme Summary: 11 02 Past Masters Of
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    PORTUGUESE TEAM FOR MEETING OF HISTORIANS
    224 4 PORTUGUESE TEAM FOR MEETING OF HISTORIANS SINGAPORE, Thurs. A five-man Portuguese delegation of historians will attend an International conference of historians in Singapore later this month. Prof. K. O. Tregonning of the University of Malaya In Singapore said today that the Portuguese delegation will be led by Dr. Rego. the
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    Maugham play
    28 4 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Somerset Maugham story "Before The Party" will be staged by the Naval Base Theatre Club for three days from Jan. 19 to 21.
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    Floating Fair opens: Dr. Goh thanks Japan for her help
    877 4 SINGAPORE, Thursday JAPAN'S role in helping Sin g apore in its plans for industrial development was gratefully acknowledged by the Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, in a message to the third Japan Industry Floating Fair, which was opened
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    Now few beggars on streets
    168 4 Now few beggars on streets SINGAPORE, Thurs. The campaign to "educate" beggars, launched six months ago oy the Social Welfare Department here, was today described by a spokesman of the department as "a success." The department, he said, was making spot-checks at the favourite haunts of beggars. They are called
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    Secretarial course for Govt. staff
    72 4 SINGAPORE. Than. The Singapore Government is to introduce a commercial secretary's training coarse for its executive staff. Officers in the general executive service have been asked* to apply for the coarse in the Division of Commerce »nd Industry, Ministry of Finance. The course will last
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    ADULT STUDY CLASSES TO RE-OPEN
    235 4 SINGAPORE, Thursday. rtOUSANDS of students attending the various classes run by the Lembaga Gerakan Pelajaran Dewasa (Adult Education Board) here are advised that their classes will re-open this month. The Board, in a statement today, said that the literacy and language classes will reopen on
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    New bank opening
    47 4 New bank opening SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Japanese Consul-General In Singapore, Mr. K. Maeda will open a new branch of the Bank of Tokyo, Ltd., Singapore Office, at No. 54 Arab Street, on Saturday. A reception will be held at the premises tomorrow between 10 a.m. and noon.
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    Send-off at airport
    76 4 SINGAPORE, Thurs. More than 400 relatives and friends turned up at the Paya Lebar airport to bid farewell to two children and two nieces of multi-millionaire, Mr. Ng Quee Lam, when they left for London tonight for studies. The students Mr. Ng's eldest son, Eng Choon, 18,
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    HAD CHAP-JI-KI LOTTERY SLIPS: $4,000 FINE
    132 4 SINGAPORE, Thurs.— Two police constables on patrol in Jalan Sultan at midnight on Dec. 16, arrested a trlsharider and seized chap-ji-kee staking slips, a magistrate's court here was told today. From underneath the seat of the trlsha, the constables seized 22 rolls of documents—
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      342 4 SIR WILLIAM AT ST. JOHN HQ. 1 *1& -^bk am BJ sj WL. Ja TWO former Governors of Singapore yesterday paid •m*m Ittformal visit to the 1848 1961 new half-a-mlllion-dollar headquarters of the St. John Ambulance Associa,M fw-- tion and Brigade a t Beach B^^^b^^^^HCßsßß^ Road. They were slr Roi>ert
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      265 4 rrdJE following Is today's 7.25 pm.; from Jewelton, 1 schedule of civil aircrafts Brunei Kucning i^™ i 7 mnvpmpnts at Pava Lebar pm from P«»*ng (ML15D !h?™!+ wt«,oL«. 8M P m from KuaU Lumpur airport, Singapore: <ML173) 9 pjn. DEPARTURES BOi*C: Prom London, Dus- BOAC: To Darwin, Sydney aeldort\ Beirut,
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    HE THREW ACID TO DEFEND HIMSELF
    123 5 JOHORE, BAH R U, Thurs. Mohamed bin Haji Ja'afar, 33, of Lobok Pekan Estate. Semagar, Kota Tinggi, was today acquitted of voluntarily causing hurt to Doladi bin Kornali, with formic acid on Aug. 8, last year. The president of the Sessions Court, Tuan Syed
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    Floods at royal own: River overflows
    83 5 Floods at royal own: River overflows KUANTAN, Than. The Pahang River today overflowed its banks at Pekan. the royal town 28 miles from here, flooding parts of the town. Its main street, Jalan Ahmad, was flooded up to three feet. The market place was also flooded and more than 30
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    Parliament date
    17 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.The next meeting of Parliament will be held from Feb. 6 to 11.
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    Slain call-girl loved poetry
    467 5 SHE USED TO RECITE TO YOUTH ACCUSED OF KILLING HER, SAYS WITNESS AT INQUIRY PENANG, Thursday. A 16-year-old call-girl found stabbed in a Penang hotel on Nov. 8 last year, used to sing and recite poetry to a former vegetable seller accused of murdering her, a
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    Woman at show loses bag
    39 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— A woman last night lost a handbag while watching the variety show at Merdeka Stadium, here to mark the installation of the Yang diPertuan Agong. The police later detained a youth.
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    Bid to lure tourists —to river village
    161 5 - TANJONG MALIM, Thursday. fPHE kampong around Sungei Bil near Slim River is to be turned into a tourist centre. The Mentri Besar of Perak, Inche Sha'ari bin Piai, said today that ht would like to see people travelling between Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur
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    PICTURES OF KING: FOUR CHARGED
    134 5 ALOR STAR, Thursday. ABOUT 100 unofficial photographs of the Yang dl-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong were today produced as exhibits in a case in which four Johore men appeared on charges of Karasarl bin Saran. 21. Hamid bin Salim, 32, Wan* Sim Cheang,
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    Couple fined $2,400
    62 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Ang Yong Meng 28, and his wife, Tan Hung Tioh, 30. were fined $1,200 or six months' Jail each, when they pleaded guilty in the Sessions Cotfxt today to possessing three sacks of fireworks worth $600 on Jan. 4. The fireworks were found by
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    Softly talking
    148 5 The hotel keeper. Cheng Kee Wah. 58, said Lam checked In at about 1.25 p.m. on Nov. 6. Yip arrived at about 12 30 a.m. the next ni«ht and went to Lam's room. Lam said she was his friend and KolnK to spend the night there. "When I
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    Buddhists plan a temple
    48 5 D TAKING. Thur^. The Buddhist Society here Is nlannlng to build a $90,000 temple on a two-acre site In Upper Museum Road The socletv plans to buy the site together with a bungalow on It for $00,000 and convert this building Into a temple.
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    Soldier gets 11 forged notes in $20 change
    74 5 Soldier gets 11 forged notes in $20 change rIPING, Thurs. A soldier in the New Zealand Regiment stationed with the 28th Commonwealth Brigade here got less than half his moneys worth when he changed two $10 notes into $1 bills. When he checked the money later he found that 11
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    Re-elected
    23 5 MUAR, Thurs. Mr. Ec Kirn Kam has been reelected chairman of th« board of management of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce here.
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    New school
    24 5 BEREMBAN, Thurs. A new $140,000 King George V Primary School for 1,400 pupils has been opened at Ampangan, three miles from here.
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    Parish dinner
    27 5 KAJANO, Thurs. The Bishop of Kuala Lumpur, BLshop Dominic Vendargon, is to attend a parish dinner at the Parsonage in HllJ Street here on Sunday.
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    DOGPATCH—AND DAISY MAE—DELIGHTFUL
    331 5 DOGPATCH— AND DAISY MAE— DELIGHTFUL T DON'T know whether, like me, you're an Al Capp fan, but If you are for Daisy Mac's sake don't ml£s Paramounfs interpretation Of "LJ'l Abner". Personally I've been waiting to see my favourite Dogpatch characters Daisy Mac, Stupefying Jones and Moonbeam MoSwine in animation
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    Car theft charges dropped: 4 freed
    218 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Four youths charged with stealing a $9,000 car belonging to Dr. J. H. Newton were acquitted today when the charges against them were withdrawn. They are Mahat bin Talb, 22, Jalaluddln bin Othman 20. Abdul Aziz bin Talb. 19 all of
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    Shell be first woman engineering lecturer
    93 6 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Miss Josephine Addlson, of London, who arrives here by atr tomorrow, will be the first woman lecturer In engineering in Singapore. Miss Addison, a former lecturer at Faraday House Engineering College, London, will take up the post of assistant lecturer In the
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    New shares trading system
    438 6 SINGAPORE, Thure. PROCEDURES NOW UNDER TEST FOR CLOSER LINK BETWEEN MARKETS IN STORE AND MALAYA T<HE MALAYAN Stock Exchange is now A testing procedures to enable central trading rooms to operate both in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore and official openings on a common date are expected
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    King and Queen at variety show
    110 6 FAN DANCE AND BERSILAT HIGHLIGHT THE BIG PAGEANT r THE Yant; di-Pertoan Af*nf and his Consort were among the YIPs who watched the "Malam Cemblra at the Merdeka Stadium in Kna:a Lumpur last night to mark the Installation of the King. The second night
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    Party aims to retain all seats'
    113 6 "TELVK ANSON, Thurs^Inche Sulalman bin Bulon, president of the Lower Perak Umno and speaser ol the Perak Legislative Assembly, declared yesterday he was confident that the Alliance would retain all the 12 seats in the coming Town Council elections here. He urged the people
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    MINISTRY REJECTS PUPILS' DEMAND
    127 6 IPOH. Thursday. HHHE MINISTRY of Education has rejected the A demands of the pupils of the Nan Hwa High, School in Sitiawan, whc went on a four-hour strike on Nov. 29 last year The strike, staged by 700 pupils Including 200 girls, was In protest against
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    Doctor fined
    38 6 SINGAPORE, Thurs.— Dr. Chong Cheang Aun, of the General Hospital, Johore Bahru, who pleaded guilty to a charge of speeding (48 to 50 m.p.h.) along Dunearn Road, was fined $25 in the Traffic Court here today.
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    Found hanged
    26 6 KANGAR, Thurs.— A farmer Hew Chiaw. 44, was found hanging from a tree near his home at the 14th mile, Jalan Kaki Bukit, yesterday.
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    Lock icon Retreat from Moscow—
    1161 7 Retreat from Moscow Western Europe was at the mercy of the Nazis... Realising this Hitler ordered a lightning war on Russic before war with England ended QN the night of December 5, 1941, a group of Gei man tanks emerged from a snow-covered wood and ground to a halt in
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    DEATH
    36 8 M WmnU SIC (Mimimmm) MILLER, COLIN H. ta the Vnlted Kingdom after a protracted 1 Haass. Past President of tbe U.P.A.M. and chairman of tb* Board of Lenggeag Rubber Co., Ltd., Funeral Thursday Mb Jaaoary.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    31 8 10 Wordt lit (Minimum) MR. AND MRS. A.K. MARKANDU thank all friends and relatives for I'renntK, attendance, congratulatory messages on the occasion of their marriage oa 3.12.00 la Kuale, Lumpur.
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    The Straits Times Friday, January 6, 1961. Laos Crisis Eases
    616 8 The Straits Times Friday, January 6, 1961. Laos Crisis Eases The urgent pi-oblem in Laos is to stop the fighting, says the Secretary-General of the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation. This very sensible statement ought to reduce the tension a little, for when Seato's representatives met in Bangkok there was a'
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    Vital Crossing
    389 8 The newly completed Temerloh Bridge across the Pahang River, due to have been opened this month, has seemingly failed to stand the punishment for which it was designed. That its deck was six feet beneath the surface of the river in spate was not unexpected; it was intended
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    Rule from Above
    226 8 The idea that democracy in Nepal, having failed "from the top", is now to be introduced from the bottom by the latest monarch of the traditionally despotic Rana dynasty will raise cynical smiles elsewhere In the world— and probably in Nepal as well. That King Mahendra was
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    Lock icon Border dispute
    464 8  -  Sidney Wetland by CONGRESS CALLS FOR RECOVERY OF TERRITORY OCCUPIED BY CHINA NEW DELHI, Thurs. —Leaders of India's Ruling Congress Party which Is meeting in annual session at Bhavnagar. Western India, have urged that the country should continue to strive to "recover" Indian territory occupied by China. In
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    ONLY A BIG GOVT CAN HOPE TO BEAT BIG-TIME CRIME IN U.S.
    1258 8 ONLY A BIG GOVT CAN HOPE TO BEAT BIG-TIME CRIME IN U.S. GEORGE SHERMAN reports The equally urgent task that awaits a Kennedy solution.. CRIME will be k major concern of the new U.S. Administration. Much of it is beyond the control of individual States. It has become Big Business
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      103 8 Potent New Power Maker: THE FUEL CELL Sir Humphrey Davey, Britain'!*: great electro-rhemist, suprested cell to generate electricity in 1809. Thirty years later, one was actually made, and from time to time they were built as laboratory curiosities. Then in 1932 Cambridge inventor Francis Bacon started work on the first
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      27 8 HI This on« did not get away yk HI and there's a lot more where A;■ fc\ Pacific where fishing M (M*- BOUSTEAD'S put, you travel wite
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    RUNDOWN BID ON OFFICER: JAILED
    210 9 RUNDOWN BID ON OFFICER: JAILED SINGAPORE, Thurs. A mobile squad police officer told a district court today that a taxi-driver tried to knock him off his mo-tor-cytele after being booked for speeding. "He drove up on my right and then swung his taxi towards me. I swerved to the left
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    Disqualified
    39 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A motorist, Wong Quee Leong, who drove his car while under the influence of drink in Rochore Canal Road on Sept. 12, was fined $300 here today. He was also disqualified from driving for 16 months.
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    $2,000 bail for man on two charges
    73 9 QINOAPORE, Thurs. Wee Alk Lock pleaded not guilty In a magistrate's court here today to charges of impersonating a public servant and extortion. The charges alleged that on Tuesday afternoon, Wee Impersonated a police Inspector, carried out a search for opium In a
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    Film of visit
    29 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The Malayan Film Unit today released a film on Tengku Abdul Rahman's State visit to Canada, for screening In cinemas throughout the country.
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    World wishes the King well
    564 9 QUEEN ELIZABETH HEADS LIST OF GOODWILL MESSAGES THAT HAVE POURED IN SO FAR FROM 13 NATIONS KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. MESSAGES congratulating the Yang di-Per-iTA tuan Agong on his installation flowed in from all parts of the world today. The first message was received from Queen
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    Laos envoy arrives with crisis report
    198 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. MINUTES after the British Ambassador In Laos, Mr. John M. Addis, flew into Singapore this evening, he was whisked away from the airport in a car. Mr. Addis is here to attend the annual conference of top British diplomats and Governors In
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    2 MYSTERY KILLINGS IN S'PORE
    175 9 SINGAPORE, Thursday. "PXTRA police were posted to Kallang district J tonight following the discovery of a doublemurder there at daybreak. The two men killed wen Charlie Kam Gim Slew, 45. a taxi driver, and Yong Khee Chow, 55, a pirate taxi driver. Both men had
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    Off to check on welfare of our men in Congo
    118 9 Off to check on welfare of our men in Congo KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Brig. Tengku Osman bin Tengku Mohamed Jewa, Commander of the 2nd Federal Infantry Brigade, left here by air for the Congo this evening to check on the welfare of the Malayan troops serving there. "I want to
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    ACCUSED OF HAVING BANNED BOOKS
    133 9 ALOR STAR, Thursday. A CHINESE school student, Chong Siak Kirn, 19, A pleaded not guilty today to a charge of having f subversive documents. Chong, It was alleged, had In his house at Sungel Korok, two books published, by the Stories Monthly Magazine Agency, which
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    'C grade students press for admission
    146 9 'C grade students press for admission IT-UALA TRENGGANU. Thurs. More than 150 parents and pupils gathered at the Education Office here today demanding that the Government find accommodation for students who received "C" grades in the recent Malayan Secondary School entrance examination and were not promoted. A promise Two hundred
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    How much for coat-of-arms?
    40 9 How much for coat-of-arms? KLANG. Thurs. The Klang Town Council has written to a London firm Inquiring about the cost of designing a coat-of-arms for the council. This firm prepared the designs of the Kuala Lumpur Municipal coat-of j arms.
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    Well-known preacher dies at 68
    75 9 Well-known preacher dies at 68 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Mrs. E. Ablshcganaden, a wellknown church worker In Singapore, died suddenly at her home In Adls Road here today. She was 68. A social worker before the war. Mrs. Abisheganaden had for the past 10 years devoted all her time to preaching. Bhe
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    Court changes
    34 9 KUALA KUBU BHARU. Thursday. Haji Mahamed Talb bin Haji Mohamed Amln. from Kuala Lumpur, has taken over as magistrate here from Inche Hassan bin Hussein, who has been transferred to Kuala Lumpur
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    M.B.s visit
    29 9 SEGAMAT, Thurs. The Mentrl Besar of Johore, Dato Haji Hassan bin Haji Yunos, will visit Segamat on Saturday to meet members of the District Rural Development committee.
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    Entrance exam exemption
    48 9 KLANG, Thurs.— Graduates of the Muslim College here. Malaya's only Institute for higher Islamic studies, will now be exempted from sitting an examination for admission to the Al-Azhar University in Cairo. This was announced today by the principal of the College, Dr. Mohamed Abdul Rauf.
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    Five promoted to senior posts
    300 9 SINGAPORE. Thursday FIVE local government officers here have been promoted to superscale Grade E posts senior posts of Deputy Secretary status In the Ministries from Jan. 1. A Government statement today said that the officers were Messrs Howe Yoon Chong, Teo Kah Leor.g, Khoo Beang
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    MAURITIUS JUDGE HERE ON A SIGHTSEEING TOUR
    100 9 MAURITIUS JUDGE HERE ON A SIGHTSEEING TOUR JTUALA LUMPUR. Thnrs. A senior judge of the Mauritius Island Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Abdul Rahman Osman, 58, arrived by train from Singapore today for a three-day sightseeing tour of Malaya. The judge, who first visited Malaya in 1952. was amazed at the
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    No-hands cyclist exposed himself
    61 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs.— When stopped and told by a mobile policeman that "It Is an offence to ride a bicycle with hands off the handle bar." Ooh Kuang Seng, 17, replied by indecently exposIng himself, a court here was told today. Ooh pleaded guilty to the offence
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    Deciding your baby's sex...
    144 9 Deciding your baby's sex... WILL it be a boy or girl? Till today this remained the unanswerable question. Now in the dawn of th» SDaoe Awe, an entirely new Mil tefit— nuolear sex can decide your baby's sex Mfore it is born. The next step is to make It safe
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    New school for Segamat
    49 9 SEGAMAT, Tnurs. A new English school with classei up to Standard Six was opened today at Kampong Abdullah, one mile from here. It is run by the Oabriallt* Brothers, who are running the Singapore Boys Town. Brother Ives is in charge of the new school.
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      DULLEST YEAR FOR PEPPER BUSINESS
      262 10 DULLEST YEAR FOR PEPPER BUSINESS fHE Singapore pepper ■■•market in 1960 could be described as the dullest and the most inactive for many years. Reduced American and European buying brought down the price from its zenith in January to its lowest in October. Sarawak white was quoted at $505 per
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      One million Morris cars
      40 10 Morris Motors Ltd. announces the production of the 1,000,000 th Morris Minor of a common design the greatest British-made selling car of any class. Of the million vehicles produced, 48 per cent have been sold abroad.
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      JAPAN TRADE FACING MORE COMPETITION
      399 10 THE SINGAPORE representative of Japan Export Trade Promotion Agency (JETRO), Mr. S. Tabata, yesterday forecast a stronger competition against Japanese goods in the Malayan and other South-East Asian export markets this year. Mr. Tabata said that this situation would develop as a result of the
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      BIG INCREASE IN CEMENT PRODUCTION: IMPORTS DROP
      185 10 BIG INCREASE IN CEMENT PRODUCTION: IMPORTS DROP rpHE STEADY growth of Malaya's cement lndus- try has affected imports of this building material. Figures show that from 108,400 tons in 1958, Malaya's production went up to 189,500 tons In 1959, while Imports declined from 379,100 tons to 229,900 tons Output In
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      Thai silk goods in Malayan fashion
      158 10 Thai silk goods in Malayan fashion MR. DONALD DAVIES, after 13 years In the publicity section of the Cathay Organisation, has entered business as the proprietor of Kuala Lumpur's first Thai silk shop. It is the Thai-art in the Merlin Hotel, selling a variety of fabrics and objets dart but
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      WA GRAPES SPOILT BY HEAT WAVE
      107 10 AT least 20 per cent of West Australian grape rrowers' export crop for Singapore and Ceylon has been spoilt and lost through the six-day heat wave that hit Western Australia during Christmas week, Keith Hooper writes from Perth. The crop is the special early
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      Higher copper output in India
      57 10 India produced 369,072 tons of copper ore in the first 10 months of 1960, up nine per cent over the corresponding period of the previous year. The entire production was from the Singhbhum district of the Bihar State. Output of copper metal in the 10
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      Petrol exports to local markets
      283 10 From KEITH HOOPER, Perth IN 1959-60 Australia Imported 24.3 per cent of her crude oil requirements and petroleum products from Indonesia. Of her refined petroleum production she exported 22.1 per cent to Malaya and Singapore. Australia in addition took 11.4 per cent of her on
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      Retirement scheme for the employee
      141 10 Retirement scheme for the employee AN increasing number A of Singapore and Malayan employers are offering the benefits of group retirement and death benefit gratuity schemes to their employees, a spokesman for the Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd. said yesterday. The spokesman said that these benefits supplemented the Central
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      Singapore insurance company's profit is trebled
      203 10 Singapore insurance company's profit is trebled TWE PEOPLES Inx surance Co. of Malaya Ltd., Singapore, made a net profit of $144,231 in the year ended Sept. 30, 1960, almost three times more than in the previous period. This was disclosed by Mr. Lo Wei, managing director, in his report to
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      New British trade envoy
      53 10 Mr. LAC. Newnes has been appointed British Trade Commissioner in Singapore. He Is due to arrive today, accompanied by Mrs. Newnes. Mr. Newnes replaces Mr. a C. Btout, who left for Bombay at the end of October Before his present appointment Mr. Newne* was British Trade
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      More soap now
      29 10 Soap production In Singapore during the first nl» months of 1960 totalled 162.--200 cwt, an increase of nearly 2,000 cwt over the same period of 1959.
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    CLOSING PRICES
    38 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. b. RUBBER: 87 cents per lb. (down one and one-eighth cents). 5 p.m. unofficial close: 87 »i cents (quiet). TIN: 5390.37'j per picul (up 62 >- cents). Estimated unofficial offering 270 tons (down 20 tons).
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    127 12 MELBOURNE. Thurs. INVESTMENT shares on the Stock Exchange maintained a steady trend here today. Courtaulds gained lt>. to 11s. 6d. Moulded Products Is. 2d. to 17s. 6d. and Patenon Is. to 14s. 3d. B.H.P. eased further to 625. 6d. down Is. 3d. Base metals and oils were steady.
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    RUBBER PRICES
    217 12 JANUARY lirst grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at 87{ cents per lb. down U cents on Wednesday's close. The tone was uncertain. S.C.C.R.A. CLOSING PRICES in cents per lb., yesterday were: Int. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 87, sellers 87 3 (N); Int. 1 R.'s.S.
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    133 12 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchsnce noon prices per plcul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; UK/Continent Jan. Feb. shipments 26.. buyers, $27 sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $40 sellers, drum $43 H sellers. Pepper: quiet; no business was reported done, Muntok white $247 i and Sarawak $242' i 'both down $2.5C>.
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    TURNOVER INCREASES ON
    559 12 A STEADY SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent fHE MALAYAN share market opened on a steady note yesterday, with a selective improvement in industrials and rubber*, and tins irregular with some sellers at the higher levels There was an increased turnover. Tht market as a whole closed
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    STOCK INDICES
    384 12 MaUyan Stock Exchange: Jan. 3 J»n. 4 Industrials: 137.95 137.51 Tins: ***** 18S81 J Rubbers: 233.52 ***** Jan. 1 1958=100 view at least, an enviable air of statistical strength. "The favourable ouilook depends on two assumptions: That tnere will not be a general business recession to reduce the
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    113 12 THE Malayan Exchange Banks' AasocUUon made the following changes in Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100): New York: buying airmail T.T. 32 15/16. O.D. "33 1/16. 90 d/st 33 5/16 credit bills, 33 7/16 .rnde billsCanada: buying airmail T.T. 32 3/4. O.D. 32 7/8. 90
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    MALAYAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    917 12 BUSINESS on the Singapore section of the Malayan Stock Exchange yesterday was: Industrials: Con. Tin Smelt crds 456.; Fed. Dispensary $1.56; Fraser and Neave ords $2.03 and $2.04; Gammon $2.24, $2.25. $2.28. $2.30: Hume pref. (5) 55.; M. Cement $1.68; Metal Box $2.16 and $2.19; Robinson ords
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      292 12 NOTICES GUTHRIE k CO. LTD. SINGAPORE announce that as from Saturday 7TH JANfARV, 1961, the Office telephone number will be: "7M31" (14 LINES) and that for their Olivetti Department will be: "M7ll tt, MIXV NOTICE i The public la hereby novlfied', i that Bridge No. 1/2 on tile Ran- tau
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      1423 13 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION MALACCA APPLICATIONS are invited for admission to Further Education Classes in 1961. Classes will re-open on 9th January, 1961. 2. Prospective pupils should apply to, the following Further Education Centres between now and Bth January, 1961, from 3.00 pjn. to 6.00 pjn. daily: Malay Medium:
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      869 13 EDUCATION tt Word, SS (Him.) Box it tit. txtrm VACANCIES from Standard One to Standard Eight. Apply Principal Public Knxllah School, Johore Bahru. PAR EASTERN MUSIC School Tbe Institution for musical education. 1961 registrations will be accepted dally now. Apply Secretary l-A Kirk Terrace, Spore. MORNINQ AND EVENING Sessions. A.D.A.
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    MIGHTY MISSEL GOES UP
    125 14 MIGHTY MISSEL GOES UP CINGAPORE, Thurs Veni Vlci Stable's Mighty Missel, who was beaten narrowly In both his runs at the Penang Christmas-New Year meeting, has been promoted from Class 2 to Class 1. Three other horses Free Mist, Obedient Son and Chase Me Home— have been promoted from Class
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    Three Rings Malay's greatest ever racehorse
    708 14  - Three Rings Malay's greatest ever racehorse EPSOM JEEP RETIRED CHAMPION BEGINS NEW CAREER AS ASSISTANT STARTER'S MOUNT By WHK'H was the greatest racehorse of all time on the Malayan Turf? This perennial question is debated whenever racing men gather. Old-timers will recall the champions of the past, such great names
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    Racing in super comfort
    495 14  - Racing in super comfort CLIVE GRAHAM THIS article on racing in Malaya appeared in the Daily Express, the London newspaper, on Jan. 1. By QNE way and another, they have some crafty notions in these racing centres East of Suez. That is why the stake money average £550 per race
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    MALAYAN PUNTERS A 'PAMPERED CLASS'
    113 14 pENANG, Thurs. Malayan racegoers are a pampered class," said Mr. Lira Huck Aik, president of the Penang Turf Club. "In addition to the cheapest racing available anywhere in the world, they get all the facilities and amenities," he said. Mr. Li m was commenting on
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    New cricket series
    43 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The Malayan Sikhs Sports Council will introduce a North vs South cricket match this year. The first match will be played at Seremban in April. The annual hockey and badminton tournaments will also be played at Seremban.
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    417 14 BENAUD IS EVASIVE ON BUMPER QUERIES SYDNEY, Thursday. AUSTRALIAN Test captain Richie Benaud today A parried questions on bumpers when he returned here after leading Australia to victory in th§ Second Test against the West Indies at Melbourne, Asked about a possible "bumper war" following the deliveries by West Indians
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    235 14 Strike: Small clubs called to a special meeting f ONDON, Thujts.— The 41 Third and Fourth Division clubs ol the English Football League, whose votes can ailed the issue in the threatened soccer strike, have been called to a special meeting here'tomorrow. Mr. Joe Richards, the. League president, explained last
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    318 15 Good form in H.K. has pepped up morale By F. SALAHUDIN OINGAPORE, Thurs. Singapore Joint Services, who have just returned from a successful Rugby tour of Hong Kong, are confident that they will retain the Malaya Cup in the final at Kuala Lumpur on Jan.
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    37 15 'GUNNER' DOCHERTY AND ROBSON IN DUEL AT HIGHBURY DOCHERTY. lynch-pin of Arsenal's defence (right) in a duel with Burnley's fast and clever inside left Robson in one First Division match at Highbury. Burnley won 5—2. Reuter picture.
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    256 15 MARINES, TAN TOCK SENG IN FINE START SINGAPORE. Thursday VIARINES, the defending champions, and Tan Tock iTI Seng Hospital gained easy wins in a high-scor-ing first day of the Singapore Government Services F.A. Div. l league today. Marines slammed General Hospital 8-s and Tan Tock Seng thrashed Telephone Board tt-1.
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    21 15 TAIPING, Thurs. Tigers have won the Talping and District league hockey championship with an unbeaten record in six matches.
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    139 15 GINGAPORE. 1 hur.v Sin gapore Hockey Association* bid to organise an Under-23 League this year has received poor response. In answer to an appeal by the S.HA. president. Sir George Orhlers, to clubs and schools to send in entries, only 36 players have come forward
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    Two Asian stars to miss playoff
    251 15 But Perak expected to win IPOH, Thursday. TWO of Perak's top Asian rugger players will miss the Malaya Cup north zone playoff with Selaneor at the Kuala Lumpur padang on SaturThey are hooker Cheam Fuan 00l and standoff Abdul Asia Othman, who received ankle
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    40 15 HO B A R T (Tasmania), Thurs.— After the West Indian touring team had been dismissed for 288. the Combined XI had made 25 without loss by the close when their thre«-day match began here today.— Reuter.
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    Singapore team for Seremban
    78 15 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Singapore Indians will meet Negri Sembllan Indians in the aemi-flnal of the Bardhan trophy soccer competition at Seremban on Jan. 13. The Singapore team is: Osman Angullia, Nagamani, Hussein Mastro, All Samijan, Aman Kastawl, Daw, Kejapathy, Mohamed All, Ganesan. Suppiah, Nathan, Gurunathan Syed Osman,
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    75 15 SINGAPORE, Thura. Singapore Malays team to meet Penang Malays In the final of the Sultans' Gold Cup soccer competition at the Merdeka Stadium on Saturday at 7.30 p.m. will bt selected from: Idroa Albar, Mokthar Tabri, All Samljan, Mat moon Sudasee, Samad Abdullah, Yassln Mat,
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    35 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Selangor Women's Hockey Association will hold a trial tomorrow at the P.W.D. ground at Cheras Road In preparation for the hockey triangular at Ipoh on Jan. 29 and 30
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    216 15 SGSFA won't extend tour SINGAPORE, Thurs. Singapore Government Services F.A. has turned down a request to extend its one-week tour of Medan from Jan. 26 to Feb. 3 The S.G.S.F.A, has received a cable from Medan requesting that the team play four additional matches In Jakarta and Bandung from Feb
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    Rubber mission bid rejected
    522 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Thursday Too costly, says Khir of Senator's plan to boost the sale of natural overseas THE Minister of Commerce and Industry, Inche Mohamed Khir bin Johari, today rejected a move made in the Senate for a rubber mission to be sent overseas to boost
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    60 16 HONG KONG, Thurs. Fire swept through three bamboo yards and a settlement this morning, causing $255,000 damage to goods and property and rendering 200 squatters homeless. There were no fatalities, but three labourers were injured while engaged in salvaging bamboo poles stocked in the yards. The fire was
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    62 16 JAKARTA. Thurs. Indonesia's gold reserves continued to dwindle during the final week of 1960 while circulated currency climbed to another all-time high. Gold reserves dropped 0.41 per cent or Rp. 165 million (US$3.6 million). Currency in circulation rose to Rp- 42.809 million (U*****.31 million), an increase
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    120 16 rpHE Prime Minister, X Tengku Abdul Rahman. rave a tea-party in honour of the visiting Ceylon Malay Youth League delegation at the Residency yesterday. They came specially to attend the installation of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Picture shows the Prime Minister with members of the
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    36 16 LONDON, Thurs.— Britain's Labour (Opposition) Party today announced details of a national campaign aimed at rebuilding the movement's strength and fighting power after its year of chaotic feuding over leadership and defence issues. Reuter.
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    102 16 Fleet heads for Algeria PARLS, Thurs.— A powerful French fleet, including the 11, 000- ton aircraft carrier Lafayette, the 8,270--ton cruiser Colbert and marine commandos was heading for Algeria tonight two days before the start of voting In a crucial referendum on Algeria's future In tense Algeria itself, more than
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    34 16 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Singapore Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold its first luncheon of the year at the Garden Club, top floor, Over-sea-Chinese Bank Building, Chulia Street, on Saturday, at 1.15 p.m.
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    186 16 LEOPOLDVILLE, Thursday. ]yjR. DAG HAMMARSKJOELD, United Nations Secretary-General, who arrived here yesterday on his way from New York to Pretoria, today discussed aspects of the Congo situation with the Congolese President, Mr. Joseph Kasavubu. A United Nations spokesman said other Congolese leaders might ha.ye
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    54 16 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A sum of $3,100 was collected at the one-day Japanese flower arrangement exhibition in aid of the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital held at the Victoria Memorial Hall last month. The money had been handed to the hospital by Mrs. K. Kirn, organiser of
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    36 16 EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Florida. Thurs.— A 900-pound space capsule with recording Instruments was fired 32 miles high here today In the eighth of a series of tests of a high-speed recovery parachute. Reuter.
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    397 16 LONDON. Thurs- —Tnere was a generally cheerful atmosphere lv London stock markets today. Sentiment was helped by the sharp advance on Wall Street last night and most sections recorded gains particularly industrials. but glltedged securities remained out of the picture and tended to ease slightly
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